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hent." The word, now much vised by illite rate people in America, is a variant of unto Thus Phaer writes : B iii, " Onto the temple great of angry Pallas " ; B iv, " Onto thi cruel shore : ' ; C ii, " Onto Bytias she it raught.'' RICHARD H. THORNTON.

WE must request correspondents desiring in formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

POETS' BIRTHPLACES. I should be gratefu for information as to the place of birth o: the following poets. Some few of the names are in the ' D.N.B.,' but without mention oJ where they were born.

1. Henry Tubbe. Mentioned in ' N. & Q. of 19 Sept. last, in a review of Tine Old Bindings.'

2. A. J. Hollingsworth. ' The Poetical Works of the late A. J. Hollingsworth,' with a biographical sketch and portrait, were pub- lished, I believe, by Saunders & Otley, Conduit Street, c. 1850-58, and were re- viewed by The Observer : " The poetry of this mysterious author is extremely forcible and energetic, abounding in satire, but full of intense thought."

3. John Clavel, poet and highwayman, 1603-42. Mentioned in 'D.N.B.'

4. C. J. Crutwell, author of ' lo Triumphe ' (Pickering, 1842). Is he Charles James Cruttwell, barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, and father of Charles Thomas ( rut t well, historian of Boman literature ?

5. Joseph Palmer, formerly Budworth, 1756-1815, author of ' Windermere,' &c. Mentioned in ' D.N.B.'

6. Thomas, 1st Marquis of Wharton, 1648- 1715, author of ' Lilli-Bullero.' Mentioned in ' D.N.B.'

7. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, 1834-94, 4th son of Lord Barham. Men- tioned in ' D.N.B.'

8. John Poole, 1786-1872, author of ' Paul Pry.' Mentioned in ' D.N.B.'

9. Henry Reynolds, fl. 1630. Friend of Michael Dray ton and author of ' Narcissus.' Mentioned in 'D.N.B.'

10. R. M. Beverley, author of 'The Redan' (1856).

11. Wentworth Chatterton. Many of his poems appear in vol. iii. of The Biographical (iinl Imperial Magazine, 1790.

12. The Rev. Richard Wilton, author of ' Wood Notes,' 1873.

R. M. INGERSLEY.

AMERICAN SLANG : " NIXIE," " C2K,' " HUSKY." In Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's ' Perch of the Devil ' I notice nixie used frequently for " no." The book is con- cerned with an American mining town, and I presume that the word is current in mining slang. I do not remember it in the mining dialect of Mark Twain and Bret Harte, and it does not appear in Mr. R. H. Thornton's admirable 'American Glossary.' Is it recent in origin ? I presume that it is only an enlarged form of nix, which, the picturesque language of Joseph Knight reminded his friends, means " nothing." Nixies in the U.S. mean, according to the ' N.E.D.,' postal matter which cannot be forwarded because it is not properly ad- dressed. Could this special use have led to the simpler meaning ? Miners are full of strange metaphor, and one remembers the lingo of billiards and cards used in Mark Twain's ' Innocents at Home ' by people who wished to say simply that they did not understand what was said. For in- stance, " You 've banked your ball outside the string " means " I fail to comprehend your remark."

C2K I have seen used as " I am curious to know." How old is this abbreviation ? It belongs to a somewhat puerile form of humour which has had more devotees in America than in this country.

Husky is familiar to readers of Jack London's stories as a dog used for haulage in the snowy regions of the Yukon. The N.E.D.' calls the word a corruption of " Eskimo," but adds that this is " sup- posed." But this authority does not men- tion husky as " rough and sturdy," which s recorded by Mr. Thornton from The New York Evening Post of 1910. Could not this be the derivation ? and was nob the adjective urrent in the United States at an earlier date ? The dogs used are not, I believe, ntirely of Eskimo origin. E. VALDES.

ST. RICHARD OF ANDRIA. In the article on the diocese of Andria in the ' Catholic Jncyclopaedia ' Dr. John J. a'Beckett writes ,hat tradition assigns to this see " an Englishman, St. Richard, chosen by Pope Gelasius I., about 492." He goes on :

" The name, however, of Richard is genuine, as a Richard of Andria was present at the Eleventh (Ecumenical Ckmncil (Third Lateran, 1179) held under Pope Alexander III."

Is there any evidence that this later Richard was English ? He translated the relics of SS. Erasmus and Pontianus to his athedral in 1196.