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NOTES AND QUERIES. [n s. xn. NOV. 6, 1915.

PRUSSIAN BLUE (11 S. xii. 320). Prussian blues are a particular description of peas. Those and Marrowfats were in my early days considered the best varieties of that vegetable. Wat. DOUGLAS.

Le contexte suggere un legume, et meme plus exactement un chou. Tous ceux qui sont familiars avec la redoutable cuisine germanique ont reconnu le chou rouge qui, ainsi que le chou-rave et la choucroute, revenait chaque jour avec la fidelite des constellations. Quant a la coloration bleue indiquee, c'est effectivement celle dont s'approche le plus le ton de ce legume, d'un violet bleuatre qui tend plus encore vers le bleu apres la cuisson. PIERRE TURPIN.

JOSEPH STURGE (11 S. xii. 338) was a Quaker who settled in Birmingham, 1822 ; was an Alderman, 1835 ; strongly supported the Anti-Slavery Movement ;" went to the West Indies for evidence, and was heard by a Committee of the House of Commons. He later joined the Ant i- Corn Law League and stood for Parliament, but did not get in. There is a statue to him, erected at Five Ways, Edgbaston, Birmingham, and in- augurated by the borough members, William Scholefield and John Bright. I believe the statue was the work of Peter Hollins, a local sculptor. See ' Dictionary National Bio- graphy,' s.v. ' Sturge.' ALFRED GWYTHER.

Windhani Club.

FRANCE AND ENGLAND QUARTERLY (11 S. x. 281, 336, 396, 417, 458, 510; xi. 50, 74, 96, 138, 177, 232 ; xii. 284). Will MR. GAL- BREATH be kind enough to tell me where I can find the article by Dr. J. H. Round that he refers to at the last reference ? I have made a search for it at the British Museum, but although kindly offered expert assistance, I could find no such publication as * Peerage and Pedigree.' J. S. UDAL, F.S.A.

MRS. SAMUEL FOOTE (US. xii. 260, 307, 347). My authority for the supposed marriage of Samuel Foote, the actor, to " a gentlewoman of Worcester " in 1741 was HORACE BLEACKLEY.
 * Lives of the Players/ John -Gait, i. 293.

BOOKWORMS (11 S. xii. 138, 185, 208, 268, 308, 330). M. PIERRE TURPIN inquires whether there is an essential oil obtained from cedar- wood. I believe the expensive oil used by watchmakers is extracted from Lebanon wood at least so I understood my father when I was a lad, and he was engaged in the repairing of timepieces.

M. L. R. BRESLAR.

"I DON'T THINK" (11 S. xii. 321). This phrase, at the end of a sentence, came into vogue some years ago, largely owing to a song, so styled, which was sung bv the "Follies." '

It also occurs in ' The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green,' by Cuthbert Bede, published in 1854. In the account of the- town and gown row at Oxford in chap. iv. a lumbering bargeman refers to Mr. Verdant Green as follows : " Here 's a pretty blank f I don't think" But of course the * Pickwick' quotation cited by URLLAD is considerably older, as * Pickwick ' was published in 1836. I have not succeeded in tracing an earlier use of the expression.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

' THE NORMAN PEOPLE ' (US. xii. 302). As to the authorship of this work, Mr. W. Smith Ellis in a paper on the Pelham family (Genealogist, iv. 225) gave his reasons for thinking that the work was probably written by a Mr. E. Avenel.

J. H. ROUND.

AUTHORS WANTED (11 S. xii. 341). The lines quoted by READER, which really run as follows :

He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch ! Cold and' yet cheerful ; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some,

are to be found in ' The Winter Evening r (Book IV.) of Cowper's ' Task,' commencing with the twelfth line.

JOHN A. BELLCHAMBERS. [Several other correspondents have kindly pro- vided this reference.]

PROF. DE VERICOUR (11 S. xii. 280). I possess a book by the above, which so ait inscription on the paper cover tells me was presented by the author on 30 May, 1838, to an aunt of mine, who was thenv leaving Paris for America, and had doubtless attended these or other lectures by him. A MS. note at the end of the preface (the preface being dated 15 May, 1838) confirms this opinion of mine. The work is entitled : ' Milton et la Poesie ^pique, Cours professe a 1'Athenee Royal de Paris par M. Raymond de Vericour.' (Paris, by Delaunay ; London, by Bailliere, 219, Regent Street ; Oxford, by J. H. Parker ; and Cambridge, by J. & J. J. Deighton.) The book includes twelve lectures, and fills viii-f-423 large 8vo. pp. The names of English publishers on the title- page would seem to show that the author- was then known (or hoped to become known )> in England. W. A. B. COOLIDGE.

Grindelwald.