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 ii s. x. DEC. 19, 1914.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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WALTER BAGEHOT : PRONUNCIATION OF NAME (11 S. x. 289, 336, 377). The correct pronunciation of the name Bagehot is possibly not a very vital matter, but as information was asked in ' N. & Q.,' it is material that the reply should be correct. M.D. (ante, p. 336) says, in reply to the query :

" The widow of this distinguished man, who resides in Kensington, pronounces the name with the g soft, and with the t sounded " ;

and your correspondent ante, p. 377, says :

" M.D.'s testimony at the second reference, on the evidcncexjf Mrs. Walter Bagehot, should be -conclusive."

But is M.D.'s statement "on the evidence of Mrs. Walter Bagehot " ? Is it not merely M.D.'s statement of what his belief is'? As a connexion of the family, I dispute M.D.'s statement, and I have before me a letter from Mrs. Bagehot's sister in which she says :

" We pronounce Bagehot as Badge-ott not a soft g certainly, and not too pronounced an ott. My sister has two houses, Herds Hill, near Lang- port, a charming place, and 4, Melbury Road, Kensington, a detached house with garden."

But Mrs. Bagehot resides principally at Langport, not Kensington. In the interests of accuracy, I trust you will insert this.

Hie ET UBIQTJE. Reepham, Norfolk.

INSECTIVOROUS PLANTS (11 S. x. 450). The description of the sundew by Leo Grindon which is asked for will probably be that given in his ' Manchester Flora,' 1859, pp. 153-4, which is very remarkable, especially when compared with similar descriptions in other botanical works, in its perfectly accurate, and yet apparently free use of untechnical language. He refers also to his ' Manchester Walks and Wild- Flowers,' chap. x. CHARLES MADELEY.

Warringtoi?.

[Miss IDA M. ROPER and MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE also thanked for replies.]

" BOCHES " (11 S. x. 367, 416, 454). The meaning of " boches " is very likely " round- heads, bullet - heads." The reference to me that the game of bowls is called " boccia " in Italian. I have played it several times with friends from Bologna. The word means also " bud," "bottle," "alembic," and "blister," evidently many things of globular shape. " swelling " (the same as one of the meanings of " botch " in English). L. L. K.
 * ' boche " in the patois of Marseilles reminds
 * ' Boccio," on the other hand, means a

SCOTS GUARDS : REGIMENTAL HISTORIES (11 S. x. 447). Your contributor in saying that " no catalogue of military histories has ever been printed " has evidently overlooked the excellent military catalogue issued by Francis Edwards, the bookseller of 83, High Street, Marylebone, W., in 1908. This catalogue runs to 648 closely printed pages. The recent Class List, No. 6, of the Bolton Public Libraries, on ' Sociology,' gives thir- teen pages on military history and science, mentioning 165 books ; while ' Tha Records and Badges of the British Army,' by H. M. Chichester and G. Surges-Short (Gale & Polden, 1900), gives a list of the published regimental histories under the various regi- ments. ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

There is no regular history of the Scots Guards. Two or three companies were formed in Scotland under the command of the Earl of Linlithgow in 1660 ; these com- panies were added to from time to time, and in the earliest list of the Scots military establishment, dated 1678, we find them referred to as " His Majesties Foote Guard." In 1713 the regiment received the title of the 3rd Foot Guards. King William IV. gave them the title of " Scots Fusilier Guards," and Queen Victoria in 1877 was graciously pleased to restore to the regiment its ancient title of " Scots Guards." Chichester and Burges-Short in their ' Records and Badges of the British Army ' give an excellent outline of the records of this regiment.

James Clark, referred to in the note by MRS. COPE, was not a Guardsman, but formerly a sergeant of the 21st Regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers. It was of this, his own regiment, he wrote ' A Historical Record of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, 1678-1885.' The book was published by Banks & Co. of Edinburgh in the latter year (1885). This regiment was referred to in the Scots list of 1678 as "The Foote regiment commanded by ye Earle of Marre," and must not be confounded with the Scots Guards when they bore the title of Scots Fusilier Guards. " The Royal Scots Fusiliers " were formerly known as " the 21st (Royal North British Fusiliers) Regiment of Foot," and under this title their ' Historical Record ' was published by Parker for the War Office in 1849.

MRS. COPE is also wrong in stating that " no catalogue of military histories has ever been printed." The lists of official military books appearing with the advertisements in The Monthly Army List almost invariably contain the records and histories of the regi- ments issued by or for the Government. The