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UNICORN'S HORN AT THE TOWER OF LON- DON. Mundy says that the so-called uni- corn's horn which he saw at the Tower in 1634 was " estimated att 18 or 20000 pounds Sterlinge." But in 1649 the " unicornes homes " in the " Lower Jewell House " are only valued at 600Z. ( Archceologia, xv. 274). Where can I find any other reference to the horn seen by Mundy ? R. C. TEMPLE.

AUTHORS' NAMES WANTED.

1. In 1806 was published " The Speculum, in two dialogues [in verse] addressed to the author of the ' Pursuits of Literature.' ' Of this only Dialogue 1. actually appeared. The author is given on the title-page as W. A. B b. Who was he ?

2. In 1839 came out ' A Treatise on Whist,' second part, the laws, by Des Chapelles. Can any one say what was the Christian name of the author? Was this a pseudonym ?

3. George's ' Model Drawing Book ' was issued in parts between the years 1856-9 ; it ceased publication with part ix. What George was this ?

4. Who was " Quis," a pseudonym used by the author of ' Floreat Etona,' published in Oxford in 1841 ?

5. 'A Complete System of Geography, English and French, was issued from Reading in 1811 under the authorship of Pictet and Saint Quentin. What were their Christian names ? ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

" DRAY (? OR BRAY) ALIAS BROKER. SOMERSET." This place is mentioned in an old will of 1605. The Post Office Guid gives no town or village with such a name Could " Dray " have been used, as an abbreviated form, for Draycot, and was the latter place ever known as Broker 1

QUIEN SABE.

BEWICK'S EARLY ENGRAVED WOOD BLOCKS. In the memoir of Thomas Bewick in Mackenzie's account of Newcastle-upon Tyne, p. 584, it is stated that Bewick's early engraved woodblocks, which he hac executed for Thomas Saint and his succes sors, were purchased, together with the res of their printing stock, from E. and W. Hall

ne ware

executors of John Hail, last surviving part of the firm of Hall & Elliott, by Edw; Walker, and that Mr. Walker presented th collection of woodblocks to Messrs. Wilson of York. Can any light be thrown on Mr Walker's relations with Messrs. Wilson t< account for his having made them a presen of the blocks V WHITE LINE.

THE ' HYMN OF HATE.' In The Daily 'elegraph of 24 Aug., 1915, Sir Ray Lankester rote that the ' Hymn of Hate ' originally erved to express the hatred of " Germans " or their tyrant Prussia. If this is so, ll any one kindly inform me

1. Who composed the original ?

2. Where I can find the original German ext within the resources of the British Museum Library ?

3. Where 1 can find the third stanza of Ernst Lissauer's modern ' Hymn of Hate ' against England ? Stanzas i. and ii. ap-

eared in The Times of 30 Nov., 1914.

C. W. SPALL.

CLIVEDEN HOUSE. Gallant and gay in Cliveden's proud alcove, The bower of wanton Shrewsbury and love, in the third of Pope's Moral Essays,' refers lam. In a note to this in Dr. Arbuthnot's edition of Pope's works it is stated that a duel was fought at Cliveden House between lim and the Earl of Shrewsbury, Talbot, when the Countess of Shrewsbury, " it is said," held their horses, dressed as a page. Can you give me the authority for this story ?
 * o George Villiers, second Duke of Bucking-

In a letter by Miss Mary Russell Mitford about 1840 I read that the original house at Cliveden, built by the first Duke of Bucking- ham, has been destroyed by fire ; but she adds, " The terrace where the duel took place exists as it was."

Does any picture exist of the original house ? The present house was, I believe, built by Barry for the Duke of Sutherland

ENQUIRER.

EDGAR ALLAN POE. John Allan, a native of Irvine, Ayrshire, was the foster-father of Poe. In Irvine there were several families of Poes contemporary with Allan. It is a tradition here that Poe's father was related to the Poes of Irvine, and that this accounted for Allan's interest in the poet. I should be glad of reference to any accounts of the Poe genealogy, and of John Allan's life in Rich- mond, Virginia. Does any one know of a portrait of John Allan ? R. M. HOGG.

Bank Street School, Irvine, Ayrshire.

'THE NORMAN PEOPLE.' Who was the compiler of the work entitled ' The Norman People and their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States '(1874, 8vo) ?

Dr. Round, in The Ancestor (1902), showed the book to be untrustworthy. Many