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' THE BBITISH CHBONOLOGIST.' I have recently become the possessor of the three volumes of the second edition of this work, dated 1789. It was previously unknown to me, but I have found it almost invaluable, and, with its fullness of detail as to Acts of Parliament, taxation, coronation proces- sions, votes of money, &c., so interesting that I should like to know more about it. Who was the compiler, and can it be con- sidered reliable ? MB. PIEBPOINT at 10 S. xii. 135 gives extracts from ' The Chrono- logical Historian,'- by W. Toone, 1826, which occur in my volumes, so I presume this is a later edition of my book. Toone is not mentioned in the ' D.N.B.* W. P. D. S.

" LJUS." This is the Icelandic word for " light," liuht, and Prof. Skeat derives it from Huh-, with an -sa ending instead of -t. Now Gregory the Apostle of t"be Armenians is called " Lusavoritch,'* which is said to mean " Illuminator. " I should be glad to know the quantity of the vowel u in lus-> lus-a, and whether the Armenian word, if real, has been taken into consideration when determining the etymon of ljusa. In this connexion it is noteworthy that in Old Irish an acolyte, or light -bearer, is les-boire.

ALFBED ANSCOMBE.

CHBISTOPHEB GALE, boat - builder of Whitby, was born in 1774, and died 6 April, 1846. He married Eleanor Pretty, probably in 1798 (at all events, his first child was born in 1799). I should like to obtain particulars of his baptism and marriage, but my search has hitherto been unavailing. Whitby parish register does not contain the record of the baptism.

JNO. C. HABLAND.

18, Broadway, New York.

CAXTON AND EDWABD IV. Will any reader of ' N. & Q. z kindly give informa- tion regarding a picture or pictures having for subject Caxton at his press or showing proofs to the King ? The frontispiece to Curwen's * History of Booksellers l has this for subject. The artist's name and the present locality of the picture are required.

WM. H. PEET.

[The frontispiece to Curwen represents Guten- berg, not Caxton.]

"SECOND CHAMBEB." Who was the author of the phrase " Second Chamber," now feo generally applied to the Upper House ? As it implies a subordinate position, it was probably not bestowed by a Conserva- tive. BBUTUS.

" TABNISH." - The following occurs in Bowen's 'Logic,'' chap. xiii. p. 431 (ed.

1870):-

" To adopt Bacon's expressive metaphor, it [the mind] imports into a new sphere of research the rust and tarnish contracted in the workshop wherein it has chiefly laboured."

Will any one who knows Bacon tell us where the passage occurs in his writings ? Perhaps it is a modern rendering of a Latin passage, for we do not otherwise know tarnish as a substantive before 1738. Hence the verification is of importance,

J. A. H. MUBBAY, Oxford.

SOLLY COLLECTION OF PICTURES.

(11 S. i. 107.)

IN answer to MB. W. H. CLAY'S inquiry as to the " English merchant Solly " who sold his collection to Frederick William III. at Berlin in 1821, I may say in the first place that he was an uncle of Samuel Solly the surgeon, who died in 1871.

The eldest son of Isaac Solly of London and Walthamstow, who died in 1803, was the Isaac Solly who in 1832 became the first chairman of the London and Birmingham Railway, and who died in 1853.

This Isaac was the father of the dis- tinguished surgeon Samuel Solly, F.R.S., and elder brother of Edward Solly, the picture collector, who lived in Berlin, and whose son, the late Edward Solly, F.R.S., F.S.A., of Sutton, was a frequent contributor to ' N. & Q. s and other periodicals on genea- logical and literary subjects. He was also a great book-collector, his library being sold at Sotheby's after his death in 1886.

In an account of the new Berlin Gallery which appeared in The Times on 22 Nov., 1905, particulars are given of some of the most famous pictures in the Solly Collection, and The Times correspondent writes of Edward Solly that he " was evidently one of the most remarkable collectors that ever lived, and one of those most conspicuously in advance of his time " ; also that

his collection contained a number of pictures of the first importance, belonging to schools which were universally neglected a hundred years ago, but which the historical spirit of the present day recognizes as the most interesting of any." The reason why Edward Solly was able to form one of the most remarkable collections ever made by a private individual con- sisted largely in the fact that during the time