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ANDREW LANG, PINDAR, AND MR. G. O SMITH. According to the writer of ' Th< Poetry of Games ' in The Times Literary Supplement of 16 July, Pindar "shirked all the sporting details and invariablj behaved, as Mr. Andrew Lang once observed, 'as i one were offered five pounds to celebrate Mr. G. O Smith, and then wrote an ode on Hephaestus.' "

When and where did Andrew Lang make this observation ? JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

SIR PHILIP HOWARD. The Corporation of Carlisle possesses certain portraits which that the inhabitants may the better see them, have been recently removed to the Arl Gallery. One of these is said to be that oi Sir Philip Howard, 'K.G., M.P. for Carlisle 1661-81. I am not able to consult any books upon knights, and shall, therefore, be glad to know if he was really a Knight of the Garter. It is not impossible, but Chester, in the note on his burial in Westminster Abbey, does not say that he was one.

DIEGO.

BEV. H. SALVIN. I am anxious to obtain information regarding the above, who wrote an interesting account of his stay on the west coast of South America while acting as chaplain of H.M.S. Cambridge. The title of the book i$ ' Journal written on board H.M.S. Cambridge from Jan., 1824, to May, 1827,' " By the Rev. H. S., Chaplain," and it was privately printed at Newcastle in 1829. If there are any known descendants of the author, I should like to communicate with them. E. HAVILAND HILLMAN, F.S.G. 4, Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.

ACROSTICS. Between the years 1865 and 1870 five books of ' Double Acrostics in Prose and Verse ' were edited by A. E. H., and published by Mr. Thomas Bosworth or by Mr. John Camden Hotten. I have the ' Key ' to the Second Series. Can any reader kindly tell me if it is possible to obtain the other ' Keys ' ? I.

SAINTS' DAY CUSTOMS. (a) Was it usual in the seventeenth century to bleed horses on St. Stephen's Day ? (6) Was St. Patrick's Day a special holiday for servants in England ?

SUMPTUARY LAWS. I should be glad of particulars concerning English sump- tuary laws and edicts. In particular, were any enforced during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, as was the case in France under Louis XIV. ?

B ON A. F. BOURGEOIS.

1. ' POEMS WRITTEN FOR A CHILD,' BY Two FRIENDS. This book was published by Strahan & Co., 1869. Who were the authors ?

2. ' THE PAMELA MAGAZINE.' When was this published, and by whom ?

WM. H. PEET.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. On Founder's Day at Dr. Barnardo's Girls' Village Home on 4 July the Archbishop of Armagh said in his speech :

" Two ladies were watching a potter, and said how tired the working foot on the wheel must be. Slowly he raised his patient eyes,

With homely wit inspired : ' No, ma'am, it 's not the foot that kicks,

It 's the one that stands that 's tired.' I wish any one who knows where these lines came from would kindly tell me, and I would gratefully remit the postage."

Perhaps ' N. & Q.' could furnish the inforniation required.

J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Kectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

I should feel deeply obliged if any of your readers would kindly tell me who is the author of some lines called ' At the Sign of the Heart.' They begin :

But art Thou come, dear Saviour ?

Hath Thy love Thus made Thee stoop and leave

Thy throne above,

Thy lofty heavens, and thus Thyself to dress In dust to visit mortals ?

S. J. CRAWFORD. College House, Esplanade, Madras.

Who is the author, and who is the subject, of the following liries ?

A dreamer of the common dreams,

A fisher in familiar streams,

He chased the transitory gleams

That all pursue ; And on his lips the eternal themes

Again were new. The words seem applicable to Burns, and verses are in the same metre as that of Wordsworth's three poems on Bums.

MATTHEW HUGHES.

CAPT. RICHARD HILL AND THE SIEGE or DERRY. In a letter written by my great- grandfather John Hill, dated Barnhill (co. barlow), I Nov., 1821, there occurs the ollowing :

" This medal, struck in commemoration of the oint crossing of King William the 3rd and his onsort Queen Mary, was given me, being eldest on, by my father Edward Hill, Esq., long a resi- ent in the County of Carlow. He got it from is father Richard Hill, who died in Carlow a half' ay Captain of horse by commission under the "ing the medal records, and at whose coronation