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city in 1538 ; but finding themselves unequal to the task of organizing a government that should be both civil and religious, they re- called Calvin in 1541. Though temporarily reconciled to him, they resisted the estab- lishment of his Consistorial Court during fifteen years. Calvin's power having become predominant, they were finally expelled in 1555, two years after the execution of Ser- vetus. N. W. HILL.

New York.

AUTHOBS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. viii. 269). The German lines sought are by Theodor Fontane (1819-98), and the piece is entitled ' Lied des James Monmouth.' The third line should run :

Und den letzten Kuss auf das schwarze Geriist. M. PEABTBEE.

The lines quoted by A. M., ante, p. 327, are by W. E. Henley, and will be found in ' A Book of Verses,' published by D. Nutt in 1888. They are quoted by Stevenson at the end of 'A Christmas Sermon,' and the entire sentence runs thus : The sun,

Closing his benediction,

Sinks, and the darkening air

Thrills with a sense of the triumphing night

Night, with her train of stars

And her great gift of sleep.

A. R. WALLEB.

The lines about which A. M. inquires are from Henley's ' Margaritse Sorori.'

C. C. B.

A letter signed H. R. C. S. in The West- minster Gazette of 18 October stated that the lines

I have wandered,

I have pondered,

inquired for ante, p. 327, " will be found in one of the 'Punch's Pocket-Books,' I think in the late fifties." J. R. FITZGEBALD.

CAEBLEON'S first quotation (ante, p. 347),

I would all men were free, &c., is from ' Don Juan,' canto ix. 25. His second,

Pinnacled dim in the intense inane, is from Shelley's ' Prometheus Unbound,' Act III. last line. H. K. ST. J. S.

The verses quoted by MB. BLAIKIE MUB- DOCH, ante, p. 347, are from Wordsworth's splendid 'Lines written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, July '13, 1798.' The poem was first printed in, and with Cole- ridge's ' Rime of the Ancyent Marinere ' made up the chief glory of, the ' Lyrical

Ballads,' though its beauties were quite un- recognized by the literary critics of the day. It appears to have appealed strongly tc Charles Lamb, who, in a letter to Southey about two months after its publication, expressed the opinion that the poem was " one of the finest written."

S. BTJTTEBWOBTH.

[Several correspondents thanked for replies.]

"DiABOLo": "LoBio" (10 S. viii. 287) The following is from The Kentish Exprest of 12 October :

" In view of the fact that ' Diabolo ' is all th< rage just now, it may be of interest to recall tn< fact that sixty years ago the game was played n Kent. The veteran Kent cricketer Mr. R. A. di Lasaux has played it fairly regularly for tha number of years, and many an interesting gam he has had with Lord Harris over a net. Mr. dj Lasaux still has in his possession bobbins whicl were bought in London in 1847. They are large than the modern ones, and are made of wood.'

R. J. FYNMOBE.

Sandgate.

ROTHEBHITHE (10 S. viii. 166, 316). am glad that PBOF. SKEAT confirms m; suggestion regarding the derivation of thi place-name. I wrote at a distance frori my books, while on a holiday on the riyei but I had not arrived at my conclusioi without evidence. In addition to Rothei field in Sussex, there is Rotherham i Yorkshire, and also the Scottish name c Rutherford, which would be analogous t Oxford, or the Cowford of King Edgar' charter of 951.

With reference to MB. EDWABD SMITH' interpretation, I may observe that JEthered Hythe, which was afterwards contracte< into Edred's Hythe, was not Rotherhith( but, as we are told by Stow, the Rip Regince, or Queenhithe, which gave its nam to one of the London wards. Queenhith is said to derive its name from Quee: Eleanor, the wife of Henry II., to whor it was given by her son John, though ther is an old legend that another Eleanor, th queen of Edward I., sank into the groun at Charing Cross, and rose again alive a Queenhithe. It cannot, of course, be state with certainty that the eponymus of Edred' Hythe was ^Ethelred or ^Ethered, the " du gentis Merciorum," who married the Lad ^Ethelfleed, King Alfred's daughter ; but i seems probable, as in 886 Alfred statione this ealdorman within the walls of Londo to hold the line of the Thames against th Danes, and the position of Queenhithe mad it an important strategic point.

W. F. PBIDEAUX.