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 us. VIIL SEPT. 6, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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S. PENNINGTON (11 S. viii. 130). The following works by the same author are in the Reading-Room in the British Museum :

'Letters on different Subjects. .. .amongst -which are interspers'd the adventures of Alphonso after the destruction of Lisbon,' by the Author of ' An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters ' (signed S. P., i.e. Lady Sarah Pennington), 2nd edit., 4 vols., London, 1767.

' An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters, in a letter to Miss Pennington ' (signed in MS., S. Pennington), London, 1761. 2nd edit., London, 1761. 3rd edit, (corrected), London, 1761. 5th edit, (corrected by the Author), London, 1770 ; and other editions entitled ' In- structions for a Young Lady,' London, 1773 ; ' The Young Lady's Parental Monitor,' &c., London, 1790 ; and ' A Mother's Advice to her Absent Daughters, with an Additional Letter on the Itfanagement ... .of Infant Children,' 8th edit., London, 1817.

The author would probably be Sarah, daughter of Jno. Moore of Somerset, who married Sir Joseph Pennington. 4th Bart. She died, 1783, at Fulmer, Middlesex, and had three daughters, viz., Jane, Margaret, and Catharine. E. PENNINGTON.

LANCASHIRE SOBRIQUETS (11 S. viii. 125). May I venture to correct ST. SWITHJN ? A Rochdale man is never called a " Bulldog," "but has long been described as a " Rachda Felly." The word was often used by " Tim Bobbin " (John Collier) as a synonym for a man in his ' View of the Lancashire Dialect,' first published in 1746 : for ex- ample, " I met a fattish Felley in a blackish Wigs," " A good deed, Tummus, that wur no ill Felly." A very humorous pamphlet which went through several editions was written by Oliver Ormerod of Rochdale, entitled :

" O ful, tru, un partikler okewnt o' bwoth wnt aw seed.... we gooin to Th' Greyt Eggshibisun e Lundun. . . .kontaining loikewoise a Dikshun- ayre. . . .forthoose ar noan fur' larn't,be O Felley iro Rachdi."

This was published in 1851, and is now scarce.

As a modern example of the use of the word, I may mention that, going along a Tlochdale street a week or two ago, I saw r a small child (four or five years old) perched on the top of a wall. As I approached him he called out, " Hey, felley, lift me down." I lifted him down.

Has the sobriquet of Bury been recorded ? They were called " Bury Muffs."

HENRY FISHWICK.

May be added " Bury Muffs " ; also " Ros- rsendale Potballs," of whom I am one.

HENRY GRAY. Acton.

SEVEN SPRINGS, COBERLEY (US. viii. 148). The letters T. S. E. are the initials of a well-known writer of Greek and Latin verse, Thomas Saunders Evans, formerly Canon of Durham and Professor of Greek in the Uni- versity. A small volume of his composi- tions, with a memoir, has been published by the Cambridge University Press.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The initials of Canon T. S. Evans, pre- viously a master .in Rugby School, were very familiar at the foot of " fair copies " of Latin and Greek translations at Cam- bridge some years ago ; and I think many of his compositions are to be found in ' Sabrinae Corolla. ' G. C. MOORE SMITH.

FRITH, SILHOUETTE ARTIST (11 S. viii. 149). I have a silhouette of my maternal grandmother by Frith. The likeness was taken in Limerick, and probably only a few years before her death, which occurred in July, 1848. I believe that in those days silhouette artists used to move about from town to town, so perhaps it may be by the same Mr. Frith who was afterwards in Scot- land. ALFRED MOLONY.

48, Dartmouth Park Hill, N.W.

I have a silhouette by this artist signed "Frith, 1848." He was then in Glasgow. He drew caricatures also, one being a large cartoon in ridicule of a popular Glasgow preacher. G. W. C.

" THE COMMON DAMN'D SHUN HIS SOCIETY " (US. viii. 126). It is strange indeed that one of the most " splendid passages " from a poem once so popular as Blair's * Grave ' should have been so generally forgotten. It is noticeable that Blair's argument against suicide, though evidently written with Hamlet's soliloquies in mind, runs on different lines. He refers to no definite divine prohibition (is there one ?), nor, except by implication, in the lines

Those only are the brave who keep their ground, And keep it to the last,

to the cowardice of the act. He bases the argument on the double ground of natural instinct and a sense of duty, clenching it with a strong affirmation of the impiety of rushing " in a rage "

Into the presence of our Judge ; As if we challenged Him to do his worst, I write, however, to ask whether there ever W 7 as ground for speaking of suicide as peculiarly " our island's shame," as he does. Chambers says that suicide is much commoner in Protestant than in Catholic countries, but states that