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the name and character for his own, " Tear 'em the Son of Gore 'am " and it will be noted that the spelling of the name here is accepted since, and not that which was used by Scott figured as the author of a political writing. This is shown in the following advertisement, which appeared in The General Advertiser of 29 Jan., 1749/50 :
 * that adopted by The Times and always

The Printer of Old-England, I gives Notice,

That the Sixpenny Pamphlet of Tear'em the Son -of Gore'am, published with some stupid Variations by Tim. Hallifax in Fleet-Street, is an incorrect Piracy of Old-England, Jan. 20, and a wretched Catch-penny foisted on the Public, for which that ,-notorious Person will be made a public Example, to deter -others from the like infamous Depreda-

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will incur, if detected vending it after this Notice, the same prosecution with the principal Pirate ; and the Magazines are advertised not to meddle with it. In order to stifle a Report, industriously pro- pagated, of the genuine Paper's being out of Print, the Public are hereby assured that due care will be 'taken to answer their demands, at J. Purser's, in Red-Lion-Court, Fleet-Street, Price 2d. each.

ALFRED F. BOBBINS. " DAMAGE " : " FIGURE " : " FIGURE IT OUT." I do not know when ready -reckoners came into general use, but I have early remembrances of business transactions in buying and selling, when, after looking the object over, the buyer asked, " What 's the damage ? " or " What 's the figure ? " In other cases the buyer, looking over a miscel- laneous lot, asked the question, and received the reply, " I '11 figure it out " a process which often took a considerable time before there was mutual satisfaction with agreement as to price. Both " damage " and " figure " are still often heard, but " figure it out " appears to be gone.

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. The frontispiece of the following pamphlet contains a por- trait of George Cruikshank which I believe has hitherto not been identified :

" The Radical Chiefs : a mock Heroick. Em- bellished with a suitable caricature by Mr. Cruik- shank London, published by William Turner,

Stationer to his Majesty, 69, Cheapside, and sold by all Booksellers. Printed by G. Hazard, 50, Beech Street. 1821."

The " caricature " is a large folding frontis- piece by I. B. Cruikshank, entitled ' The Revolutinary Association.' Hone is seated at a table in front of a guillotine ; on his right is George Cruikshank, smoking, and e xpectorating into a crown reversed marked
 * ' spittoon." He is looking at a paper

' Black Designs," at the same time remark- ing, " Damn all things." His right arm

encircles a huge pencil bearing the maker's name " Brookman & Langdon," and resting on a paper marked " Anarchy." A little to the left in the foreground is a piece of board marked " Gunpowder in Boxwood." There are in the design portraits of Carlyle, Wooler, Cam Hobhouse, and many others. ALECK ABRAHAMS. 39, Hillmarton Road, N.

" INMATECY." The earliest quotation for this word in ' H.E.D.' is one of 1830, and then in a literary connexion ; but a decidedly earlier one, giving it as a word of obviously everyday use, is to be found in the following advertisement in The Morning Post of 13 June, 1807, which seems worth giving in full as an invitation for what in these times are euphoniously termed " paying guests " :

" Inmatecy in the Country. A respectable private Family, residing in the vicinity of a cheerful Country Town, twelve miles Westward of London, where the accommodation would be found most eligible in all respects, and the Residence itself, in point of pleasantness and extent, undeniable, are desirous, with a view of adding to the present Society, of receiving one or two Ladies of respect- ability, as Inmates, and to be considered as forming part of the family. No objection to an elderly Gentleman without incumbrance. It is wished the engagement to be for a permanency, the object not being to obtain high terms ; the present oppor- tunity therefore might be peculiarly desirable for a young Lady under Guardianship, in want of a com- fortable and respectable home. Letters addressed to A. B., No. 6, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, will be forwarded to the Advertiser, and any further particulars communicated or an inter- view had."

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

H. C. WATSON ON PHRENOLOGY. The notice of Hewett Cottrell Watson in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' duly mentions his interest in the theories of Spurzheim. Amongst my tracts is an anony- mous essay by this distinguished botanist which is worth noting :

"Strictures on Anti-Phrenology in two letters to Macvey Napier, Esq., and P. M. Roget, M.D., being an exposure of the article called 'Phrenology recently published in the ' Encyclopaedia Britan- nica.' London : Printed for private distribution. Oct. 1838." 8vo, pp. 31.

My copy formerly belonged to the late Mr. Peter Bylands, M.P., who has recorded on it that it was given him by the author, Hewett C. Watson.

Mr. Watson printed some other matter relating to phrenology, including a syllabus of twelve lectures.

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

Manchester.