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the authors in the * Anthologia Oxoniensis,' explains the G. B. as referring to George Butler. May I further inquire which is the correct identification ? It is confusing to have two with similar initials amongst the authors of an anthology, though MB. GILLMAN'S supposition anent George Booth, which corresponds with that of my private correspondent, may after all be right.

J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

LUNAR HALO AND RAIN (10 S. vi. 265, 338, 412). A Japanese encyclopaedia, ' Wakan Sansai Dzue,' by Terashima, completed 1713, reprint 1906, p. 30, has the following passage :

" A lunar halo without a star visible in it is a sign of rain. But should a star be visible in it no rain will fall. In a Chinese work, ' Wan-pau-tsiian- shu,' we read : * A solar halo foreshows rain ; a lunar halo foreshows wind ; note the point whence the ring commences to disappear, and know from that direction the wind will blow.' "

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

PICTURE OF LADY IN RED (10 S. vii. 129). To my note on this picture of Rossetti's I should like to be allowed to add that, facing p. 122 of Mr. A. G. Temple's ' The Art of Painting in the Queen's Reign,' 1897, there is a very satisfactory reproduc- tion of the work. F. G. STEPHENS.

WESTMINSTER CHANGES, 1906 (10 S. vii. 81, 122, 161). The article at p. 122 begins:

"The Millbank end of Horseferry Road remains as in the previous year, and the changes likely to take place at the other end have not begun, though a portion of Broad wood's pianoforte factory is now being utilized by the garage of the London Electro- bus Company."

As our factory was removed from Horse- ferry Road entirely in 1902, we think it should run " though a portion of ivhat was Broadwood's factory," &c.

JOHN BROAD WOOD & SONS, LTD.

WORDSWORTH ANECDOTE (10 S. v. 307). May I answer my own query under this heading ? In a letter to Prof. C. E. Norton, dated 7 Feb., 1876, Edward FitzGerald tells what he calls " a dirty little story about my Daddy " Wordsworth to wit in these words (' Letters of E. F. G.,' Macmillan, 1894, ii. p. 195) :

"Well then: about 1826, or 7, Professor Airy (now our Astronomer Royal) and his brother William called on the Daddy at Rydal. In the course of conversation Daddy mentioned that some- times when genteel Parties 'came to visit him, he contrived to slip out of the room, and down the garden walk to where 'The Party's' travelling

Carriage stood. This Carriage he would look into- to see what Books they carried with them : and he observed it was generally 'Walter Scott's.' It was Airy's brother (a very veracious man, and an admirer of Wordsworth, but, to be sure, more of Sir Walter) who told me this."

E. F. G. adds another morsel of " your old Granny's Gossip," which is too good to- be omitted here :

" I remember Hartley Coleridge telling us at Ambleside how Professor Wilson and some one else (H. C. himself perhaps) stole a leg of Mutton from Wordsworth's Larder for the fun of the Thing."

T. HUTCHINSON.

QUEEN VICTORIA OF SPAIN : NAME-DAY (10 S. vii. 30, 76, 156). MR. WAINEWRIGHT questions my accuracy in stating that the Queen of Spain assumed only one name on the occasion of her conditional baptism, and in calling her " Her Catholic Majesty."

Before writing my reply to the original query I took the precaution of inquiring as to the facts from my friend the Bishop of Nottingham, who conditionally baptized the Queen on her reception into the Catholic Church. His reply, dated 15 January, was as follows : " The Queen only took Mary in addition to her former ones [names]."

The rules given in a MS. in my possession by Monsignor Fornici, Secretary of the Congregation of Ceremonial, dated 15 Feb- ruary, 1823, for the use of cardinals, when writing to sovereigns, are as follows :

Both King and Queen of Spain are addressed as " Sacra Reale Maesta Cattolica."

Both King and Queen of Portugal as- " Sacra Reale Maesta Fedelissima."

Both Emperor and Empress of Austria a& " Sacra Imperiale Reale Maesta Apos- tolica."

The King of France, but not the Queen,, as " Sacra Reale Maesta Cristianissima."

It was Pope Innocent VIII. who gave the title of Catholic to the Kings of Spain, and the tradition and rule followed by the Roman Curia ever since form our surest guide in this matter.

HARTWELL D. GRISSELL, F.S.A..

Oxford.

SCHOOL SLANG AT ROSSALL (10 S. vii. 125)_ Since T. N. has put on record some speci- mens of school terminology at Rossall in July, 1906, it may be of interest for an older boy to go back a little further. Thirty years ago a " scanty " was a roll ; it w r as quite different from a " cob," which was a little loaf served to every boy at tea ; a master's " cob " was a loaf of a much larger pattern. " Flood " for Fleet wood was used before that time. A " bully " was a scrimmage in