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NOTES AND QUERIES. uis.xi. FEB. 27,

number of London Catholic churches, of which I may mention the two I have at- tended last, viz., St. James's, Spanish Place, and St. Patrick's, Soho Square.

It would be interesting to know when the erroneous punctuation of the Latin first came into being. The Book of Common Prayer translates from the Latin with the correct punctuation, which has still survived in a large number of recent Latin Missals which I have looked at. HABMATOPEGOS.

The following anecdote is somewhat similar to that told by MR. G. H. JOHNSON, ante, p. 49, though it does not concern punctuation.

In or about 1866 there was a small riot in Oxford a " bread " riot, I think. The mayor was alarmed, and telegraphed to London to the effect that the city was in a state of riot, adding : "If we want soldiers, can we have them ? " Somehow possibly by a telegraph clerk the " if " was omitted. The response was a company or so of Guards, who, I believe, were billeted in the Corn Exchange, and had a pleasant visit. If I remember rightly, they saw the sights under the care of Canon Jenkins.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

There lies at my elbow a little work, ' Stops ; or, How to Punctuate,' by Paul Allardyce (T. Fisher Unwin), the perusal of which should prove of value in this con- nexion. There are several pages dealing with the use and abuse of the comma.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

ROLLS OF HONOUR (US. xi. 127). The suggestion made by your correspondent that a record should be made of periodicals in which lists of this kind occur is, in my opinion, very important. Lists of those who have volunteered from the staffs of our public libraries have appeared in The Library Association Record, The Library Assistant, The Library World, and The Librarian. H. TAPLEY-SOPER.

City Library, Exeter.

The following list is supplementary to the one given ante, p. 127 :

Artists. Journal of the Imperial Arts League, January.

Book Trade. Bookseller, 5 Sept., 1914; in pro gress. Publisher)? Circular, 12 Sept. ; in progress.

Fine-Art Trade. 1 Year's Art,' 1915.

Librarians and Library Assistants. Librarian October, 1914 ; in progress.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.B.S.L.

"WANGLE" (11 S. xi. 65, 115, 135). I lad not come across this word rntil it was mentioned in ' N. & Q.,' but on the two bllowirg days after I read the query about it, the word curiously enough was used in speakirg to me.

In the first case, it was in reference to seeirg a third person about a certain matter., my interlocutor saying to me, " I will see lim and have a wangle about it."

On the next cccasion, seme work having

to be done by a particular date, a man said

to me about it, " I shall wargle through

somehow." In both cases " wargle " meant

' arrargement " cr "arrange."

W. B. S.

" JACOB LARWOOD " (11 S. xi. 31, 111). '. have a publication of Hotten's dated 1870,. n which the " History of Signboards, &c. r 3y Jacob Larwood and John Camden rlotten," is advertised as ready " this day." JOHN T. PAGE.

jivttz 0n Itoofes.

Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. New Series-* Vol. VII. Part IV. (Liverpool, 21 A, Alfred Street.)

THE first article, ' The Crime of Harbouring- Gypsies,' is by Mr. David MacRitchie, who was- so fortunate as to purchase a document on the- subject at the dispersion of the Castle Menzies: MSS. at Edinburgh on the 19th of March last. ' A melancholy interest attached to the sale,, as it marked ' the end of an auld sang ' the extinction, in the male line, of a Highland family of long and honourable standing." However,, there is this advantage : investigators have now an opportunity of examining documents they never would have had while these were in the charter room at Castle Menzirs. The MS- secured by Mr. MacRitchie serves to define, if only in a minor degree, the position occupied by gipsies in Scotland in the reign of James VI.

Under the title ' Rebekka Demeter ' Herr- Miskow gives an account of his visit to the gipsies at Broust in April, 1911. Rebekka, the leader,, was a woman of nearly fifty, with a beautifully formed face, and knew how to use her small vocabulary of Danish and German to the best advantage. She died in hospital at Goteborg,. 14 June, 1914. To the account the Rev. F. G. Ackerley has added a vocabulary.

Mr. Gilliat -Smith has an article on ' The Dialect of the Drindaris.' In June, 1913, the " Affairs of Egypt " called him into the Bulgarian Dob- rudza, the land to be taken over a few months later by ihe Rumanians. He found that the language of the Drindaris was altogether unknown to him, and decided to learn it. He inquired whether there were any members of the tribe to- be found in Varna, and learned that there were- about ten men, nmsicians. He hired one, and" was soon able to collect enough material for a^