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amongst the Spindles,' and it formed No. 2 of his series of " Weekly Volumes." The book is thus described in a list of works issued by Charles Knight bound up with a later volume :

" ' Mind amongst the Spindles ' : a selection from The Lowell Offering. With introduction by Charles Knight. ' We believe that great good may be effected by a knowledge diffused in every building throughout the land where there is a mule or a loom, of what the factory girls of Lowell have done to exhibit the cheering influences of " Mind amongst the Spindles." C. Knight.' "

It is more than fifty years since I read the book, but I always firmly believed that it was the genuine production of factory operatives, a,nd I have no doubt that my belief restec upon the authority of Charles Knight.

Fv. B. P.

" SUCK-BOTTLE " : " FEEDING-BOTTLE " (10 S. viii. 190, 256). The glass "baby- bottle " described by V.H.I.L.I.C.I.V. and ST. SWITHIN was the successor of an earthen- ware vessel of similar shape and construction which, if I remember rightly, was known as the " pap-boat " among Yorkshire nurses.

F. JARRATT.

Latham's ' Dictionary ' under ' Sucking- bottle ' gives a quotation from Locke.

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

Babies' bottles are sometimes of earthen- ware. I was lately in a country house where two or three are preserved as old- time relics. I imagine that they are fifty or sixty years old, but they may be older. They are flattened, and taper towards each end. The filling hole is at the top, I think. A nephew of mine, whose powers of suction rival those of Mr. Weller, takes his milk from one of more modern form, which is filled at what I may term the " tail," .present-day hygienic science demanding that babies' bottles should be cleansed by pouring a strong current of water through them. L. E. E. K.

" THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN " '{10 S. viii. 290). This was in allusion to the Antipodes, and was a sign probably put up originally by an Australian. When Chris- topher Brown wrote his ' Tavern Anecdotes,' 1825, the sign was " observable," he says, "" on the road to Greenwich. It is a repre- entation of the globe, with a man walking on the lower part " (see p. 54). There is still or was, so late as 1896 a tavern called " The Australian " in Milner Street ^No. 29), Chelsea ; while in another instance I have met with " The Kangaroo."

Another curious " World " sign, besides the " World's End " and the " Hercules Pillars," was the " Help me through the World," known also as " The Struggler," an instance of which occurred on the sign of a public-house in White Hart Yard. Which White Hart Yard my notes fail to record, but in the window was depicted a man struggling through the terrestrial globe with the legend beneath, " Pray help me through the World," which recalls the inscription beneath the sign of a house where porter was sold, the sign being Britannia, with the legend beneath " Pray Sup-port(h)er."

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

A good account of this public-house sign, with its Dutch analogue " De Verkeerde Wereld," is to be found in Larwood and Hotten's ' History of Signboards.'

S. D. CLIPPINGDALE.

TOTTENHAM CHURCHYARD, MIDDLESEX (10 S. viii. 247). There must have been many Alavoine interments at Tottenham. The very first members of this particular family in England (for others of the name are found at Canterbury and elsewhere) were buried there. These were the brothers Samuel and Daniel Alavoine, who had be- longed to St. Quentin, or it may be to Pont- ruel, in Picardy. Daniel died in 1727, but Samuel survived till 1746, dying (a typical instance of Huguenot longevity) at the age of 95. They were silk weavers, and flourished in the days when the Spitalfields industry was prosperous and profitable, and they both left large families ; but nevertheless their descendants are, to the best of my belief, extinct in the male line.

Of the De la Haizes there were four brothers, Moses, Thomas, Peter, and Charles, all, I believe, buried at Tottenham. Moses (d. 1748) married a daughter of the above Daniel Alavoine, and Philip De la Haize who, as appears from the monument now so sadly ruined, claimed for arms, Or, a saltire engrailed gules between three ermine spots, on a chief gules three escallops was their son. He died at Tottenham, 20 Nov., 1769, aged 61. His will (P.C.C. 374 Bogg), in which he desires a new ledger to be placed on the family tombstone, is an instructive and interesting one for the student of Huguenot family history, as, apart from the important legacies, the list of beneficiaries is of unusual ength, and many names are given in con- nexion with a large distribution of guinea rings.