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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vm. NOV. so, 1907.

SCHOOL FOB THE INDIGENT BLIND. The first School was erected on land facing the Obelisk on the south side of "The Circus," St. George's Fields, allotted and granted to the charity by the City Corporation. In July, 1811, the building was sufficiently advanced to receive the resident pupils, who were removed thereto from premises (also the property of the City of London) leased since 1800, and known as the " Spa " and " Dog and Duck," St. George's Fields. In a room of the latter the institution is supposed to have had its origin in 1799. From what source can reliable information be obtained of date and extent of ground acquired (leasehold or freehold), time taken in building, and architect employed in designing the School ? I can find no work on the School from its inception in 1799 to 1815 inclusive, and its early records are missing. Will any reader kindly enlighten me ? J. E. D. HILL,

Ex-Chairman of the Corporation.

St. George's Circus, South wark, S.E.

' AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I am anxious to know who was the author of the following lines :

man ! hold thee on in courage of soul Through the stormy shades of thy worldly way,

And the billows of cloud that around thee roll Shall sleep in the light of a wondrous day.

K. P. D. E.

Who wrote these two sets of lines ?

1. And such a yell was there

Of sudden and discordant mirth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper heaven.

2. Morn, evening came ; the ocean smiled,

The calm wave rolled in gold to shore, As though it ne'er had men beguiled, And never would beguile him more.

1 have been told that the second set were greatly admired by the poet Campbell.

G. H. C.

1. The other was for me, ""

This patience is for you ; Change when ye list let see,

For I have ta'en a new. Patience with a good will

Is easy to fulfil.

2. My heart beat wildly, and I woke, and lo !

it was a dream.

V. T.

SAMPLERS IN FRANCE. Rousseau, in ' Emile,' mentions the case of a little girl who learned to work letters with her needle before she could read. Does this imply that in France, as in England, samplers

were used in the education of girls ? Are any specimens of samplers preserved in French museums ? CA. JE.

REV. EDWARD FITZGERALD, c. 1718 : REV. JAMES MCGREGOR. Can any one tell me where Fitzgerald, a Dissenting Ulster minister, lived or studied before coming to New England in 1718 ?

Where also was the Rev. James McGregor of Aghadowey, Ireland, born ?

C. K. BOLTON.

Shirley, Mass.

CARLYLE'S ' FRENCH REVOLUTION.' In the chapter entitled ' The Night of Spurs ' there is a description of " deft patriots springing out of bed ; alertly in shirt or shift, sticking up each his farthing candle, or penurious oil-cruse, till all glitters and glimmers." In the French translation of Regnault and Roche one finds the words " in shirt or shift " rendered by " hommes et femmes en chemise." Is it a certainty that Carlyle meant this ? In the United States " shift," is very rarely used for a woman's garment, but the colloquial " shimmy " for " chemise " is common. Not one American reader in ten would understand by " shirt or shift " anything more than an alliterative phrase implying, perhaps, a longer or shorter garment, or have any knowledge of " shift " as clothing, except in a literary way.

In the chapter entitled ' Mumbo-Jumbo * occurs this sentence : "In red shirts and smocks, as assassins and faction of the stranger, they flit along there ; red baleful phantasmagory toward the land of phan- toms." The French version runs " vetus de chemises rouges longues et flottantes." This batch of prisoners was composed of men and women. Did Carlyle mean to indicate this by " shirts and smocks " ? It seems probable, as is further shown by another sentence from ' The Night of Spurs ' : " Mortals, we say, still only in breeches, in under petticoat, tumble out barrels and lumber," &c. T. F.

Brooklyn, N.Y.

WALDMULLER, 1383. Information is de- sired as to the above inscription on a very old painting. The name and date have been executed in the same tones as have been used in the picture.

SAMUEL H. MORETON. Christchurch, New Zealand.

THE MINOR INNS OF COURT. I have been endeavouring to trace the Admission Registers of the minor Inns of Court, and