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exhibitions of bellicose effervescence, but for the culture and pursuit of Art in her highest and most ennobled forms.' The incident took place a good many years ago, but, so nearly as I re- member, those were very much his exact words. In schoolboy slang Sykes was a very ' big pot ' both in dress and manner.

'* As a matter of fact, I was the last pupil in the Sheffield School of Art whose work Godfrey Sykes ever supervised. He was intent in kindly pointing out the shortcomings in a study I had taken to him for supervision at the very moment the clock struck nine upon the eve of his departure to London. That was the hour the School closed. So presently afterwards we all grouped in the big Elementary Boom and presented him with an inscribed silver crayon-holder, as well as some other little tokens of remembrance. Then final adieus were mutually and regretfully said. The next day this singularly endowed and gifted artist left for South Kensington Museum, where, having distinctly made his mark in designing and superintending the execution of much splendid decorative work, he passed over, all too early, to the great majority."

HABBY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

i, 52 ANGLO-INDIAN TERM (10 S. x. 448). In Booking through recent volumes of ' N. & Q.' I have come across MB. PLATT'S query, which, I find, has not been answered. There is, as far as I am aware, no legend or historical fact con- nected with the term " shal^am-zai, n applied jocularly to the natives of Cashmere. Their partiality for turnips is, I believe, real. I have heard many Pathans speak of them as " sh&lghaxn-Khor,** i.e. turnip- eaters.

I do not see, however, why it should be spoken of as an " Anglo-Indian n term. What have Anglo -Indians to do with it ? V. CHATTOPADHYAYA.

51, La dbroke Road, W.

CHAUCEB: NAMES OF CHABACTERS IN 'THE SQUIBE'S TALE 2 (11 S. i. 50). Had your correspondent consulted my Notes, he need not have asked the questions. In the Preface to my edition of ' The Prioresses Tale, 2 &c., and again in my edition of Chaucer's works, I explain how Col. Yule proved that Cambuscan is one of the many varieties of Chinghis Khan which in Tartar meant " Great Khan n or " great king 22 ; also, that Camballo was certainly suggested by Cambaluc, which was not really a man's name, but the old name of Pekin, for Kaan-baligh, i.e., " city of the Khan. 22

As to Algarsif and Elpheta, we must wait till we know more about Chaucer's sources. Mere guessing is more mischievous than helpful. WALTEB W. SKEAT.

" COMPOSTELA " (10 S. xii. 27). Rogue Barcia in his comprehensive ' Diccionario Etimologico * .(Madrid, 1880-83, 5 vols.) only quotes the following derivation from " Mon- lau " : " Compostela, i.e. Eufonizacion 6 corrupcion del Latin Campus stellse, 6 Campo de la estrella, porque la luz de una estrella, sefialo en un campo el lugar donde estaba el cuerpo del apostol Santiago." The Spanish name of the Apostle James (the patron saint of Spain) has four different forms, viz., Jacobo, Santiago, Jaime, and Diego. H. KBEBS.

ROBINSON CBUSOE'S LITEBABY DESCEND- ANTS (10 S. xii. 7, 79, 417 ; 11 S. i. 73). In this connexion mention may perhaps be made of ' The Life and Adventures of Miss Robinson Crusoe, 2 a serial contributed by Douglas Jerrold to the eleventh volume of Punch. This narrative sometimes errone- ously referred to as ' The Female Robinson Crusoe, 2 notably in the ' Life of Douglas Jerrold ? has not hitherto been reprinted, but will form part of a volume on ' Douglas Jerrold and " Punch ' 2 ' on which I am at present engaged. WALTEB JEBROLD.

Hampton-on-Thames.

THOMAS DE CONINGSBY (10 S. xii. 509). The lines

Thomas Connigesby And his wife Tiffany, &c.

are quoted in Noble's ' Continuation of Granger's Biographical History of England,' iii. 46. They are said to have been written by a " rude rhymer " or " ancient bard,' 2 as he is called in the index, and to have been composed on Coningsby's return home from captivity. No further information is vouchsafed. It would seem as if Banks had taken his account from Noble.

W. SCOTT.

SIB C. W. STRICKLAND AND TOM BBOWN (11 S. i. 64). All the statements concerning the late Sir Charles Strickland and ' Tom Brown's Schooldays 2, in the newspaper cutting given at the above reference are mythical. Sir Charles was not in the School House, and was four years younger than A. P. Stanley. As to the " characters " in the book, Tom Hughes always said that Dr. Arnold was the only portrait. The famous fight was an incident in which the book follows the fact more closely than in others. Both the combatants are still living,, and one of the seconds. The other second was Tom Hughes himself. For almost all that can be said on the subject of the inci-