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chapter on pure Americanisms inserted by -way of introducing the subtilities of his immortal ' Biglow Papers ' these introduc- tory words a glittering array of examples, each example traced, with the complete searching patience of the real scholar of real genius, right to the mouths, so to speak, and to the printed writings in poetry and prose, of the Englishmen actually breathing English air in Queen Elizabeth's time or earlier truly a mortal cannot help tiring at moments of the ever-bewailing spirit in the matter of American expressions on the part of the latter-day Englishman. Surely the English-speaking Anglo-Saxon Yankee who first came to the eastern shores of America, wending his way by cart and stream to the Pacific, sprang direct from the loins of a sturdy gang of Englishers of that period, and surely the latter were un- adulterated Englishers, their English pure English. But may be, to guess from his two names, personal and patronymic, MR. OWEN here is a combination of Welsh and f3cot, and consequently, by reason of racial instinct, somewhat blind to inherited early Anglo- Saxonisms that take their root in ancient England. J. G. CUPPLES.

Brookline, Massachusetts.

I suggest for ticky, a name for the three- penny piece, an origin from " tizzy," and a reference to Skeat's dictionary under the words " tester," " testy," and " tetchy." I make the suggestion with an apology to Prof. Skeat, who does not consider that the last word has any connexion with the former two. FRANK PENNY.

CLIPPINGDALE (10 S. vi. 151, 237, 472). Samuel Dodd Clippingdale, M.R.C.S. in 1834 (who I believe is still living), was the father of the original querist. DR. S. D. CLIPPINGDALE THE YOUNGER has privately printed a very concise and well-certified family history of his people, who are re- markable as having been Middlesex folks continuously for three centuries, and for their long association with the Thames. Many of the family are buried in a vault at St. Matthias's, Poplar.

FRED. HITCHIN-KEMP. 6, Beechfield Road, Catforcl, S.E.

T. CHIPPENDALE, UPHOLSTERER : W. CHIPPENDALE (10 S. vi. 447). Frederick Litchfield in his ' History of Furniture ' (1892) says :

" Thomas Chippendale appears to have succeeded "his father a chairmaker and to have carried on a large and successful business in St. Martin's Lane,

which was, at that time, an important art centre, and close to the newly founded Royal Academy."

Chippendale published ' The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director,' the same authority adds,

" not, as stated in the introduction to the Catalogue to the South Kensington Museum, in 1769, but some years previously, as is testified by a copy of the third edition of the work, which is in the writer's possession, and bears date 1762, the first edition having appeared in 1754 and the second in 1759." Part of the title-page of the third edition runs as follows :

" Thomas Chippendale, Cabinet- Maker and Up- holster, in St. Martin's Lane, London. Printed tor the Author, and sold at his House in St. Martin's Lane ; also by T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt in the Strand. M.D.C.C.LXII."

A cutting I possess from a recent issue of The Cabinet- Maker records :

" Chippendale whose furniture now commands such extraordinary prices was originally an estate carpenter at Nostell Priory, near Wakefield, the residence of Lord and Lady St. Oswald. Noswell Priory is a comparatively modern mansion, so named as it stands upon the site of an ancient priory of Augustine canons. It contains some of Chippen- dale s best work."

Mr. K. Warren Clouston in his ' Chippen- dale Period in English Furniture' (1897) remarks :

"The Thomas Chippendale who is famous all the world over was born in Worcestershire, but beyond that nothing is known of his personal history." As MR. JOHN Hess correctly writes, the dates of his birth and death have not been ascer- tained, but " George Smith, Upholsterer to his Majesty," in 1826, alludes to him as the "elder Mr. Chippendale," and fixes the approximate date of his son and name- sake's death by stating that

"Thomas Chippendale (lately deceased), though possessing great taste and ability as a draughtsman and designer, was known only to a few."

The first edition of Chippendale's book was published at 31. IBs. 6d., and it con- tained 160 copperplate illustrations. It was dedicated to Prince William Henry, and the second to the Earl of Northumber- land. HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

Chippendale dwelt at the sign of " The Chair "probably meaning the " Covered Chair." or " Sedan "in St. Martin's Lane, afterwards No. 60, long before 1806. In the advertisement, in 1756, of his second edition of 'The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director,' he desires "All Commissions for Household Furniture, or Drawing thereof, to be sent to the Cabinet and Upholstery Warehouse, at the Chair in St. Martin's