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here until, at the venerable age of eighty- four years, he passed away on 7 Oct., 1903. He used often to say that he hoped to die by the side of his camera, and this wish was nearly fulfilled, for after following his craft for sixty years, he worked at it till within a few days of his death. HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

"TOTTER-OUT": " JAG " (10 S. viii. 5. 113, 294, 372). Mr. J. M. Barrie uses jag in
 * Sentimental Tommy,' 1897, p. 65 :

" Into the life of every man, and no woman, there comes a moment when he learns suddenly that he is held eligible for marriage. A girl gives him the iag, and it brings out the perspiration."

JOHN HEBB.

I apologize to MR. BAYNE : we are evi- dently speaking of usages in different quarters. The word in the United States means exclusively what I said the " head " which a man carries when " full." The reference here is not to the meaning " stir up," which seems never to have crossed the water, but to the one meaning " load." In- cidentally, I may add the choice bit of slang " hold-over," meaning the remains of a " jag " from which one is just recovering. FORREST MORGAN. Hartford, Conn.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. viii. 109). In asking for the source of the line

Beyond the Alps lies Italy,

T. E. M. perhaps had in mind this stanza from Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke's ' Beyond ' : Take courage, soul ! Hold not thy strength in vain ! With faith o'ercome the steeps Thy God hath set for thee. Beyond the Alpine summits of great pain Lieth thine Italy.

M. C. L. New York.

V. T.'a second quotation, ante, p. 428,

My heart beat wildly, and I woke, is the last line of Calverley's poem 'Vision.'

J. WILLCOCK. Lerwick.

G. H. C.'s first quotation, ante, p. 428, is a sad travesty of some lines in Scott's ' Marmion,' VI. xxv., which are as follows :

And such a yell was there, Of sudden and portentous birth, As if men fought upon the earth, And fiends in upper air.

W. C. B.

[MR. T. BAYXE and MR. A. RUSSELL also thanked for replies.]

EARLIEST BRITISH Music PUBLISHER

(10 S. viii. 369). The earliest specimen of

music printed in England was that in the

' Polychronicon ' by Wynkyn de Worde,

i 1495. Caxton published the previous edition


 * (the first), but that had a blank space left

for the notes to be put in by hand. Dr.

Dibdin stated that ho never saw a copy of

Caxton's edition with the notes supplied,

however.

The next example in a secular book (the tenth in numerical order) was in the third edition of the ' Polychronicon,' by Peter Treveris, 1527.

See R. Steele's monograph (Biblio- graphical Society). H. W. D.

ELDER-BUSH FOLK-LORE (10 S. viii. 131, 211, 314). In Groome's ' Gipsy Folk-Tales,' No. 53, occurs the passage :

"Our blessed Lord He hid in de eldon bush, an' it tell't an Him, an' He says, 'You shall always stink,' and so it always do. But de ivy let Him hide into it, and He says, ' It should be green both winter and summer.' "

Groome has the note " Noah Young's name for elder, mi-duvel's kandlo ruk ('God's stinking tree ')." ALEX. RUSSELL.

Stromness, Orkney.

BOOK-STEALING : DEGREES OF BLACK- NESS (10 S. vi. 305, 353; vii. 212, 276). The following is from " Selectse Christiani Orbis Delicise .... Per Franciscum Sweertium F. Antverpiensem. Colonise," 1608, p. 571, It is, I think, worthy of reproduction :

HENRICI RANZOVII PER-

petuum de bibliotheca sua

DECRETUM.

Quse infra scripta sunt, hunc in modum sancita

sun to, in viola teque observantor. Ranzovii, nee quisquam alius, haric possidento, Hseredes earn non dividunto, Nemini libros, codices, volumina, picturas, Ex ea auferendi, extrahendi, Aliove aspprtandi, Nisi licentia possessoris,

Facultas esto. Si quis secus fecerit ; Libros, partemve aliquam abstulerit, Extraxerit, clepserit, rapserit, Concerpserit, corruperit, Dolo malo : Illico maledictus, Perpetuo execrabilis, Semper detestabilis

Esto, maneto.

The library was apparently at Bredenberg or Bredemberg (? Bredeberg in Holstein). According to an inscription which Henriciis Ranzovius (Ranzow) caused to be placed on a sarcophagus, before his death, in a chapel at Itzehoe, he was Governor (Vices gerens), for kings Christian III., Frederic II., and