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 10 s. VIIL JULY is, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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While gentle Zephyrs play in prosp'rous Gales ; Arid Fortune's Favour fills the swelling Sails : But would forsake the Ship, and make the Shoar, When the Winds whistle, and the Tempests roar?

It is to be found in Matthew Prior's poem ' Henry and Emma,' fourth speech of Emma, 11. 3-8. R. A. POTTS.

Cox's ORANGE PIPPINS (10 S. vii. 508). Dr. Robert Hogg's ' Fruit Manual ' says :

''This excellent variety was raised at Colnbrook Lawn, near Slough, Bxicks, by a Mr. Cox, who was formerly a brewer at Bermondsey, and who retired to Colnbrook Lawn, where he devoted the remain- ing years of his life to gardening pursuits. The apple originated in 1830, and is said to have been from a pip of Ribston pippin."

' GARD. CHBON.'

[MR. ROBERT WALTERS also thanked for reply.]

' LINCOLNSHIRE FAMILY'S CHEQUERED HISTORY ' : WALSH FAMILY (10 S. vii. 349, 497). I should not call ' The History and Fate of Sacrilege ' " an almost forgotten book." Many a man knows of it " in the deep of his heart," but refrains from chatter- ing about it, for very good and charitable reasons. Perhaps nobody who owns two acres of land, to say nothing of the cow, could feel quite sure that he was clear of the guilt on which Sir Henry Spelman chose to enlarge. An edition of the work, with an introductory essay, was published by Joseph Masters in 1846, and I am not quite sure that it has not been recently reprinted. I believe that my copy of the 1846 issue cost 11., second-hand. A former owner has written on the half-title page :

"This is not a book for anybody to see, there being very objectionable parts in it in the Intro- ductory Essay chiefly. It contains, however, some startling facts."

Messrs. Neale and Webb were, I believe, the " Two Priests " who were answerable for the essay and for the editing of Masters' reprint. ST. SWITHIN.

LOWE AND WRIGHT (10 S. vii. 489). The address of Viscountess Sherbrooke is Sherbrooke, Whyteleaf, Surrey.

WM. JAGGARD.

"WAX AND CURNELS " (10 S. vii. 267,

338, 497). My mother, a Bristol woman, born in 1807, always used to speak of " waxen kernels." The spelling is mine. The explanation is hers : " Kernels under the jaw, of the consistency of pack-wax." This last word, which has varieties of form and spelling, is explained in the ' Dialect Dictionary ' sub voce ' Pax- wax.'

V.H.I.L.I.C.I.V.

MUSICAL GENIUS : is IT HEREDITARY ? (10 S. vii. 170, 236, 433.) MR. BRESLAR'S reply is not entirely free from inaccuracies. Braham had three sons on the stage (Charles, Augustus, and Hamilton), but his daughter was certainly never an actress, or a public performer of any kind, and she married the Earl of Waldegrave, not the Duke of St. Albans.

Then the authors of the ' Rejected Ad- dresses ' were not Albert and Horace Smith, but James and Horace Smith.

WM. DOUGLAS.

125, Helix Road, Brixtoii Hill.

GOOD KING WENCESLAUS ( 10 S. vii. 426). The whole text of our Christmas carol about King Wenceslaus rendered last year into Cech by Prof. Zeithammer, and edited in the first verse by MR. MARCHANT, has already been translated into Cech, and printed, together with the English original, by Dr. Jos. Kalousek in the Bohemian " Zeit- schrift," Casopis Musea Kralovstvi Ceskeho of 1900 (at Prague). It may perhaps be worth while to compare this earlier rendering of the first verse, which is a literal prose translation (in eight lines) :

Dobry kral Vaclav vyhledl veil

Ve svatek sv. Stepana

Kdy snih lezel kol kolem

Hluboky, sypky a rovny

Jasne svitil mesic te noci

Avsak mraz byl kruty,

Kdyz chudy clovek prisel pred zraky,

Sbiraje zimni topivo.

The English original of this carol, as shown by Prof. Morfill and the late Sir John Stainer, was first written by J. Mason Neale, and based upon a mediaeval Latin legend of S. Wenceslaus (cf. the quoted Casopis, pp. 113-18). H. K.

THE " GOLDEN ANGEL " IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD (10 S. vii. 470). The fourth

edition of Dr. Howell's ' History of the

Monarchs of England ' was " printed by Abel Swalle, and Sold by James Adamson, at the Angel and Crown in St. Paul's Churchyard, 1694." WM. NORMAN.

Plumstead.

ADMIRAL CHRIST EPITAPH (10 S. vi. 425, 517 ; vii. 38, 475). The supposed similarity of this epitaph and Tennyson's ' Crossing the Bar ' was the subject of criticism, in which Prof. Kynaston took part, reported in The Durham University Journal, 1893, x. 116, to which I alluded at 10 S. vi. 517. According to a recent newspaper paragraph, Miss Edith Milner sent a copy of the Selby verses to Tennyson, who was " much struck