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NOTES AND QUERIES. [u s. x. SEPT. 26,

AUTHOR WANTED. Where can I find the Bellowing line ? I fancy it is in one of Burns's poems, but I cannot trace it in his ' Works ' :

Ha'e faith in God, and He will see th' thro'.

STOPFORD.

Sydenham, Monkstown, co. Cork.

PERIODICALS PUBLISHED BY KELIGIOUS HOUSES. Can any one give me a list of these with any particulars in regard to their scope ? I am not asking for publica- tions such as ' Analecta Bollandiana,' but for periodicals like the Downside Abbey Hemi/w and Pax, the magazine published quarterly by the (now R.C.) Benedictine community at Caldey. I should be especi- ally glad to hear of American and French reviews of this kind. Are any such brought out by any religious houses of the Eastern Church ? Which is the oldest of them now in existence ? PEREGRINUS.

' THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS ' AND POSTAGE. On some of the old copies of this newspaper of fifty years ago which were addressed to one person in the Midlands the frank was one penny, on others three halfpence, on others twopence. Why was this, as there is no difference in the bulk of any one of them ?

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

[See 2 S. si. 328, 459 ; 5 S. xi. 29, xii. 10, 76.]

' THE QUAVER.' I have a fat little volume bearing this title, and the sub-title :

" or, Songster's Pocket Companion, contain- ing upwards of One Thousand of the most popular Songs, Toasts, Sentiments, and Recitations. London : Published for the Booksellers, 1854."

It was printed by " Charles Jones, Printer, London," and has a pretty good engraving of a bagpipe player as frontispiece, with a carefully done vignette of a cherub on the engraved title-page.

All this would seem to have been prefixed to an old work whose original title was ' A Choice Collection of National Songs.' The contents range from well-known lyrics of Byron, Burns, Moore, and Dibdin to the most hopeless of long-forgotten doggerel. There is a certain interest in seeing the full words of songs of which every one has ^eard the first line ; but no authors' names ara given, and, to judge from the renderings of well-known poems, the text is by no means trustworthy. Can any one tell me who made this collection, and who was the publisher ? ALLEGRO.

, 155 ; 6 S.

RENAMING LONDON STREETS. The fol- lowing changes are reported to have been, made. When did they take place ?

Bowyer Row to Ludgate Hill.

Blowbladder Lane to Butcher Hall Lane, and subsequently to King Edward Street.

Tyburn Lane to Park Lane.

New Street to Chancery Lane.

Petty France to New Broad Street.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

SKYE TERRIERS. Can any one tell me (1) where and when the known history of these dogs begins ; (2) when they were first introduced into England ; (3) whether they have become popxilar in any other country ; and (4) whether there are any native breeds in the North of Europe which resemble them ?

I should also be glad to be told of any early references to them in literature ; and, especially, to hear of instances of drawings of these dogs in the work of the well-known illustrators of books of the last century.

ST. HUBERT.

FRESCOES AT AVIGNON. Judging by Mr. Richard Le Gallienne's article on ' Avignon, Legendary and Real,' in the July number of Harpers Magazine, the frescoes by Simone Memmi(?) in Queen Jeanne's Hall of Trial in the Palace of the Popes have practically disappeared. Have any reproductions of them been preserved in any book ?

L. L. K.

FORESTS OF ARGONNE AND COMPIEGNE. The historic forest of Argonne is once more the scene of brilliant military opera- tions as it was in the September of 1792, when Dumouriez, just before the battle of Valmy, wrote to Servan :

" Verdun is taken ; I await the Prussians. The camps of Grandpr6 and Les Islettes are the Thermopylae of France."

Can any one inform me who are the owners of the soil of this forest, and of that of Compiegne ?

LATIN JINGLES. Can any one refer me to the origin of the following ?

1 . Hoc retine verbum, Frangit Deus omne superbum.

2. Quisquis amat ranam Ranam putat esse Dianam.

3. Deficit ambobus

Qui vult servire duobus.

4. Carius est carum,

Si prsegustatur amarum.

I should be glad of other examples.

HYLLARA,