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in existence representing him at whist with the cards in his hands. I mention this because I seem to read in MR. ABBA- HAM'S query some doubt as to the lightness which characterized meetingsatTomPayne's. I think that there is much to be said for a theory that learned men, when they unbend, are the most lively and amusing, and I believe that those who met at Tom Payne's were often regular mischievous dogs in their ways.

Has MB. ABBAHAMS seen Austin Dobson's ' The Two Paynes ' in the second series of ' Eighteenth- Century Vignettes ' ? It may be recalled also that Payne was " Frog- nalized," and this account will be found in ' The Bibliographical Decameron,' iii. 436. Some ten or twelve years ago I purchased at Puttick & Simpson's a quantity of MS. biographical papers relating to Payne, and these I still have somewhere, but cannot just at the moment find them.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187, Piccadilly, W.

The founder of Hatchard's in Piccadilly was himself an assistant to " honest Tom Payne." Some information concerning the bookseller's shop at the Upper Mews (rate, known for a time as the " Literary Coffee- house," may be found in my ' Charing Cross,'

pp. 252-3. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

PICTORIAL BLINDS (10 S. vii. 429). Blinds similar tothose mentioned by W.C.B., but too high up for me to judge of the material, were recently seen by me in actual use at a church in Vitoria. I do not know the name of the church, but of the two on the hill, it is the one that is slightly higher up, and on the right hand of the other, as you ascend from the Plaza in the direction of the third church (which in the last century was made, and still remains, a cathedral). R. JOHNSON WALKEB.

Little Holland House, Kensington, W.

These blinds were certainly being made and offered for sale as late as 1884, and it should not be a very difficult undertaking to find a considerable variety of them now. Messrs. Janes & Co., of Aldersgate Street, who were in business at Firisbury Pavement about 1876-80, and Messrs. Bell & Co., of Hollo way Road, are names of makers that occur to memory. The material was a highly glazed (? oiled) calico, and the painting was effective more than artistic One design, representing a house on fire by night, I can well remember. The most extensive use was made of them by Messrs.

E. Moses & Son, a large firm of outfitters in Aldgate, &c. ; but these, of course, only represented trade models.

ALECK ABBAHAMS.

I remember seeing blinds of this descrip- tion in a house in Norwich when I was a

hild, about 1862. They were called, I believe, " Manchester blinds," presumably because they came from that city. Nearly thirty years afterwards (in 1889) an old lady in Philadelphia showed me such a blind as a great treasure, she having brought it from England some forty years earlier, when she emigrated from Lancashire in 1848.

FREDERICK: T. HIBGAME.

ATJTHOBS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. vii. 428). VACTJUS VIATOB will find his second quotation in Tennyson's poems, in an unnamed one beginning

Of old sat Freedom on the heights ; but he has not quoted quite accurately.

STAPLETON MABTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

The passage of Macaulay's ' History ' inquired for occurs in the first chapter of the work, not far from the beginning, and closes the second of two paragraphs on the " peculiar character of the English aris- tocracy." This is the exact text :

" Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocractic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world ; a peculiarity which has lasted down to the present day, and which has pro- duced many important moral and political effects. See the edition of the ' History ' published in 1877 by Longmans in 2 vols., and there in vol. i. p. 20. THOMAS BAYNE.

[CoL. F. E. R. POLL ARD-URQU HART also sends the reference.]

The first of MB. MOBETON'S quotations, ante, p. 448, Et, toujours mecontent de ce qu'il vient de faire,

II plait a tout le monde, et ne saurait se plaire, occurs near the end of Boileau's second satire (' Sur 1' Accord difficile de la Rime et de la Raison '), which is dedicated to Moliere.

EDWABD LATHAM. [MR. J. B. WAINE WRIGHT also thanked for reply.]

CHAPEL ROYAL, SAVOY : CUBIOUS CUSTOM (10 S. vii. 429). It was formerly supposed that an orange placed near the vessel that contained wine prevented it from spoiling. In Thomas Lupton's ' Seconde Booke of Notable Things ' we find as follows :

" Wyne wyll be pleasant in taste and savour, if an orange or a lymon (stickt round about with cloaves) be hanged within the vessel that it touch