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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. x. JULY 4,

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS " WANTED. I should be extremely obliged if any of your readers could give me the reference to these lines, written some time ago :

Gigantic daughter of the West, \Ve drink to thee across the Flood.

Hands all round 1 God the tyrant's cause confound, And the great name of England, round and round.

J. C. W.

[The lines seem an imperfect reminiscence of Tennyson's ' Hands All Round.']

The very law that moulds a tear,

And bids it trickle from its source That law preserves the earth a sphere, And guides the planets in their course.

HENRY SAMUEL BBANDRETH Haddon House, Weybridge, Surrey. [The authorship of these lines was inquired for in the First Series of 'N. & Q,,' and at 1 S. xi. 394 ESTE (Samuel Timmins of Birmingham) stated that they came from " Mr. Rogers' beautiful ' Lines on a Tear.' " He gave the following as their correct form :

The very law which moulds a tear,

And bids it trickle from its source, That law preserves the earth its sphere, And guides the planets in their course. The last verse of ' On a Tear,' p. ISlJof the beauti- fully illustrated ' Poems by Samuel Rogers,' 1834, reads, however, in the first line "That very law," and in the third " a sphere."]

AD YE BALDWIN OF SLOUCH, 1764. Is anything known of the above ? He was de- scribed in the will of Nathaniel Jenner of Widhill, Wilts, as "of Slough, Innholder." R. J. FYNMORE.

PALM THE BOOKSELLER, SHOT BY NAPO- LEON. Has any biography ever been pub- lished of J. P. Palm, the German bookseller, who was shot by Napoleon's orders at Braunau on 26 Aug., 1806 ?

In ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia ' for 1908 it is recorded that Johann Philipp Palm was a bookseller of Nuremberg, who has acquired historic celebrity as a victim of Napoleonic tyranny for publishing or circu- lating a pamphlet entitled ' Germany in its Deepest Humiliation,' which indignantly referred to the conduct of the French troops in Bavaria- There is also an account in 'The Encyclo- paedia Britannica ' (1011) on the same subject. It mentions that Palm was born 17 Nov., 176S, and that he married the daughter of the bookseller Stein, and adds that a life-size bronze statue was erected to his memory in Braunau in 1866, and on the centenary of his birth (1868) numerous patriotic meetings were held in Bavaria.

There is also a reference to Palm in William M. Sloane's ' Life of Napoleon Bona- parte,' vol. ii. chap, xxxiv. p. 270. The author mentions

that Palm met death with the fortitude of a martyr, conscious that his blood was the seed of patriots."

The only other reference I have come acros s is to be found in a note of Sir George Tre- velyan's ' Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay,' chap. xii. vol. ii. p. 251, and is an amusing account of a speech of Thomas Campbell's at a literary dinner. Campbell had auda- ciously proposed the health of the Emperor Napoleon at a time when it was anathema in England. Despite the groans with which the toast was received, Campbell explained that he admitted the Emperor was a tyrant, a monster, and, indeed, a foe to England and to the human race ; yet that, in spite of all these faults, the Emperor was entitled to their gratitude on the simple ground that he had once shot a bookseller ; and thus Campbell changed the groans of his audience into cheers.

It is rather curious that there does not appear to be any reference to this unfortu- nate bookseller in any volume of ' N. & Q.' at least. I can find no entry of the name Palm in the ten General Indexes. Nor can I trace any allusion to him in The Athenaeum, either in 1866 or on his centenary in 1868. Any information on this interest- ing topic would be welcomed.

F. C. WHITE.

ORIENTAL NAMES MENTIONED BY GRAY. Can any one suggest a source for the follow- ing Oriental (or pseudo-Oriental) names mentioned by Gray in an unpublished letter to Walpole : Miradolin, the Vizier-azem, the Angel Israphiel, Abubekir, the Demon Negidher, the evil Tagot, the bowers of Admoim ? Also for the name Sarag, used by Gray as an equivalent for Cambridge ? PAGET TOYNBEE.

Fiveways, Burnham, Bucks.

WANLESS. Information is desired by the undersigned as to the use of the name Wanless, Wanlass, or Wanlys, and its etymology. It is used in Westmorland as the name of a house, and in Yorkshire is applied to two farms. In at least one other case in the same neighbourhood it is the name of an estate (?), farm (?), or field (?).

The only reference I can find is in a ' Dialect Dictionary,' where it is explained as "a surprise." A. C. A.

fit is also known as a personal name : v. 4 S. i. .14:5. J