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letter came from his own mouth, in my company at Lord Ossory's table ; which my Lord remembers very well."

Mrs. Macdonald would seem to have retranslated the passage from the French of Musset Pathay, who in his life of Rousseau (ed. 1821, vol. i. p. 114; p. 253 of the " Nouvelle Edition " in one vol., 1827) gives the passage thus :

"Bites a M me de Boufflers que la seule plaisan- -terie que je me sois permise relativement a la pre- tendue lettre du Roi de Prusse, fut faite par moi a la table de Lord Ossery."

This mistranslation by Musset Pathay was -commented on by J. H. Burton in his life of Hume (vol. ii. p. 322, note). It is unfor- tunate that Mrs. Macdonald should have given further currency to it, and should have largely based on it her view of Hume's conduct. J. F. R.

Godalming.

' DON QUIXOTE ' IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. {See 9 S. xii. 147.) It may not be super- fluous to note the following extract from chap. viii. of ' Two Treatises of Government ' fey John Locke (p. 92 in the edition of London, MDCCCXXI.) : "And if Don Quixote had taught his squire to govern with supreme authority, our author no doubt could have made a most loyal subject in Sancho Pancha's island." E. S. DODGSON.

POSSESSIVE CASE OF NOUNS ENDING IN S. This subject (see ante, p. 60) is gone into thoroughly in Mr. F. Howard Collins's use to IGNORAMUS. IPSE.
 * Author and Printer,' and this may be of

" MOCOCK " : ITS MEANING. In De Peyster's ' Miscellanies,' 1888, p. 37, there is an amusing song, ' The Maple Sugar Makers,' in which the following verse occurs :

In kettles we will boil it, on fires between the

rocks, And lest the snow should spoil it, there tramp it in

mococks.

A-sug'ring I will go, &c.

I am rather surprised to find that in Schele de Vere's ' Americanisms ' this term mocock is defined as meaning a cake of maple sugar. It is well known in Canada as the technical name for the boxes in which the sugar is packed. They are made of birch bark, and hold about thirty pounds each. The word is from the language of the Odjibwa Indians. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

C. F. BLACKBURN. In 1897 I wrote three articles about his biography (8 S. xii.), and said I knew nothing about his father.

It has just been pointed out to me that the death of the latter is recorded in The Gentle- man's Magazine for April, 1843, p. 441. He married one of the daughters of Charles Rivington, the publisher, of St. Paul's Churchyard. C. Blackburn left a widow with a young family, of whom C. F. Black- burn was one. RALPH THOMAS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

JOHN NEWBERY'S PORTRAIT. Will some reader tell me where I can get a likeness of John Newbery, the bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, who died in 1767 ?

A. LE BLANC NEWBERY.

27 and 28, Charterhouse Square, E.C.

SONG ON RAILWAY TRAVELLING. When I was a boy, some sixty years ago, there was a street song very much in vogue relating to third-class railway travelling. One line, I remember, ran

In the pig-pens open and free. Can any reader help me to trace it ? THOS. CATLING,

late of Lloyd's News.

ERASMUS'S APE. In at least three of his works, ' The Diamond Necklace,' ' The French Revolution ' (chapter entitled ' The Equal Diet '), and ' Cromwell,' Thomas Carlyle alluded to a story about the ape of Erasmus imitating his master shaving. He evidently got the anecdote from Musaeus's ' Dumb Love,' which he translated. What was the source of the information of Musseus about the legend ? Careful reading of biographies of Erasmus and diligent study of his writings have thrown no light upon the question. T. F.

Brooklyn, N.Y.

RICHARD HARMAN was Sheriff of Norwich 1626 ; Mayor in 1639 ; M.P. for Castle Rising April-May, 1640, and for Norwich Nov., 1640, until his death about 1646. He was one of the Commissioners for Norfolk in the Scandalous Ministers Act, 1642 ; subscribed to the League and Covenant 6 June, 1643 ; and on the Committee for Norwich for raising and maintaining the New Model, 15 Feb., 1645. The writ for filling his seat was issued 7 Dec., 1646, when the well-known Serjeant Erasmus Earle