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-chap. xxxv. of his ' Natural History ' tells the anecdote of Nealces painting a horse and also of Protogenes delineating a dog. Plutarch's ' Of Fortune ' gives the credit to Nealces, according to some texts. Dio Chrysostom is quoted as telling the story of Ape les. Surely three painters did not each throw a sponge at a picture with such astonishing results. THOMAS FLINT.

Brooklyn, N.Y.

" MOTHER or DEAD DOGS " (10 S. v. 509 ; vi. 32, 95). It does not seem to me that the answer to the query about Carlyle's use of the phrase " Mother of dead dogs " has been given in any adequate way. The first use of the phrase which I have found so far is in his essay on Count Cagliostro. Then occur two instances in ' The French Revolution.' In a letter to Emerson in 1859 he used the same familiar phrase without quotation marks. But when did he use it for the first time ? ,and was he quoting himself ?

THOMAS FLINT.

BADGES OF THE CITY GUILDS (10 S. vii. .347). As a member of six livery companies, I may say that it is the custom for a Master <or, as he is sometimes called, Prime Warden) to wear a badge as Master, also a Past Master's badge when out of office ; but it is not the custom to wear a Past Master's badge except at a meeting of one's own company. JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

CHARTERS TO CITY GUILDS (10 S. vii. .347). King James gave certain rights to "' the Mayor and Commonalty, and Citizens of our City of London," &c., which are duly -set forth in a curious 12mo volume with the following title-page :

" Charters of the City of London, Which have been granted by the King's and Queens of England, .Since the Conquest. Taken Verbatim out of the Records, exactly translated into English, with Notes explaining ancient Words and Terms, &c. By J. E. Printed at the Looking-Glass, over against ,St. Magnus Church, London Bridge. 1745." But in a long legal rigmarole of several pages there is, I think, no particular allu- sion to any City company, the gilds being understood in the word " Commonalty."

In Herbert's ' Twelve Great Companies,' 1834, is a small engraving representing the livery dress of the time of the first James, taken from illuminations in the border of ,a second charter granted to the Leather- sellers by James I., the first having been received at the hands of Henry VI. (see pp. 63-4). James I. in the eleventh year of^his reign recited and confirmed the whole >of the charters of the predecessors of the

then Mercers, but without any extension of privileges (p. 227). In August, 1605, a notice on the Grocers' Company's journals declares

" that the new charter was read to the company in English by the clerk, when the whole of them with one voyce and free consent gave greate approbation and allowance thereof." //>., p. 314.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

I do not know of any list of charters granted in the reign of James I., but I think that Mr. C. Welch, the late Librarian of the Guildhall Library, published a small bibliography of the City companies.

JAS. CURTIS, F.S.A.

"THE OLD HIGHLANDER" (10 S. vii. 47, 92, 115, 137). A Highlander of oak stands in the doorway of one of the shops in St. Heliers, Jersey. It is stated to be a magni- ficent specimen of a full-sized 42nd Black Watch Highlander. Tradition has it that it was originally the figurehead of a man-o'- war wrecked off the island of Alderney. It has been in the possession of a series of tobacconists for seventy odd years, and is now, or was until recently, owned by Mr. J. F. Belford, of St. Heliers. An illustra- tion of this " dummy Highlander " appeared in The Daily Graphic of 22 Sept., 1905.

On 31 Dec., 1720, was opened a shop at 20, Coventry Street, London, at the sign of " The Highlander, Thistle, and Crown," by David Wishart. This shop was a favourite resort of the Jacobites, and is thought to be the first whereat a figure of a Highlander was

E laced. The figures have now become rare, ut there was a very fine example in Bridge Street, Westminster, in 1899. See The Builder, 22 July of that year.

The Tottenham Court Road figure was illustrated in The Daily Graphic of 8 Sept., 1905, and in Lloyds Weekly News of 6 Jan. last. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

Wanstead

Two OLD PROVERBS (10 S. vii. 407). As to " Toujours perdrix " see IS Inter - mediaire, vols. xxxiii., xxxiv., and possibly xxxv.

According to one of the correspondents of that journal, a November number of L 'Illustration for 1853 contains a story to the effect that once, when Louis XIV. was staying at Fontainebleau, Pere Letellier reproached him for his conjugal infidelity, whereupon Louis gave orders that his rever- nce should have woodcocks, and only wood- cocks, given him to eat. Though the priest was very fond of these birds, he soon tired of them, and lamented : " ' Toujours des