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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. SEPT. 21, 1907. tion; but her sudden death occurred while the letter was crossing the Atlantic, and I have received no answer from, her representatives.

Who was the "late writer"?

, Major.

The following is quoted in 'My Confidences,' by Locker-Lampson:—

Who wrote these lines?

Can any of your readers complete the following lines, which were written some years ago about Gladstone, and say where they first appeared and who wrote them?

F. D.

—What is the meaning of the word "resist" in connexion with old china, or rather with old pottery of fine quality? There appears to be nothing definite as to that which is "resist" and that which is not, and collectors seem to be very uncertain about it.

—An American correspondent desires information as to the above. He married Hannah Murdoch in Philadelphia 26 April, 1770. He is reported to have been a colonel in the British army.

ST. ANTHONY'S BREAD. When visiting he new Roman Catholic Cathedral in West- minster the other day, I saw an inscription ver a collection-box which rather puzzled me. It was " St. Anthony's Bread." Can any of your correspondents tell me the meaning of this ? BBUTTJS.

MBS. QUENTIN. A friend of mine has surchased a water-colour drawing of this ady, dated 1822 ; he is told that she is "in ome way connected with the Georgian era ,nd its notabilities," and has asked me to aid him in identifying her. This I am un- able to do, but perhaps some reader of N. & Q.' will kindly give the benefit of his knowledge. Please address direct.

GEOBGE GILBEBT. Wentworth House, Keymer, Sussex.

UMBEB BIBD. In Lydgate's ' Reson and Sensuallyte,' ed. Dr. E. Sieper (E.E.T.S.). 1. 1241-3, there occurs :

Of Cynetys ful grete novmbre, Makyng in maner of an ovmbre, With her wynges ay flykeryng, &c.

Though the side-notes (not by the editor) say " cygnets like a halo," the glossary gives

Oumbre, s., the umber bird [Scopus umbrella], 1242."

If this be the correct rendering, I should like to know what bird is meant ; for a " popular " dictionary before me gives " umbre " as Scopus ardetta, a South African bird, and " umbrella-bird " as Cephalopterus ornatus, from Peru. From the " Notes " it appears that the passage is an addition of Lydgate to the French original.

By the way, the editor should have seen that a quotation from " Goethe's verse," p. 60, appeared correctly, for it reads

Hangen und bangen In schwebender Fein

(for Langen und bangen). On p. 97 " good Arcite " (' Knt. T.') reads " good ticite."

H. P. L.

E. A. LUTYENS, PAINTEB. I shall be glad if some readers will inform me through your columns what is known of E. A. Lutyens as an artist in oil painting, and whether any of his work was hung, and, if so, when and where. Where can be found the best biographical account or notice of him and his work, and a list of his paintings ? When and where was he born, and when and where did he die ? W. DUKE.

[Is the first initial clear ? Many works by Charles Augustus Henry Lutyens have been exhibited at the R.A., the earliest in 1862. See Mr. Graves's ' Royal Academy of Arts.']