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NOTES AND QUERIES, in s. vm. SEPT. 27, 1913.

'THE MASK ' (11 S. viii. 29, 97, 155). This periodical, published in 1869, was chiefly the work of Leopold Lewis, author of 'The Bells,' and Alfred Thompson, the latter doing all the illustrations.

Another Mask was brought out in 1879 by Thompson, who was again the artist. There were verses by Clement Scott, a sporting article every week by Capt. Hawley Smart, entitled ' Chops and Stakes,' as well as a column on fashion, gossip, and general frivolity, headed ' Powder and Patches,' by myself. The price of the paper was 3d., and it had coloured cartoons. It ran from 10 May to 27 Aug. a short career of sixteen weeks. A complete set of this little journal is now difficult to meet with. J. ASHBY-STERRY.

SOAP BUBBLES (11 S. viii. 208). I have photographs of four paintings on this sub- ject, all of the seventeenth century: (1) by Van Mieris (Aja Museum) ; (2) by Gerard Dow (Turin Gallery) ; (3) by Van Slingeland (Uffizi, Florence) ; (4) by Pierre Mignard (? Louvre or Luxembourg, Paris).

In the National Museum, Amsterdam (Van der Hoop Gallery), there is a picture, No. 1619A, < Blowing Bubbles,' by Adriaen Van der Werff ( 1659-1 722). J. J. FAHIE.

CAMBRIDGE : ELY : HULL (US. vii. 128). On p. 55 of 'The Norfolk Anthology,' edited by J. O. Halliwell, a very small edition of which was printed for private circulation in 1852, some closely parallel lines on Norwich are printed " from a manuscript of the fifteenth century, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge " : Haec sunt Norwycus, panis ordeus, halpeny-pykys, Clausus posticus, domus Habrahge, dyrt quoque

vicus, Flynt valles, rede thek, cuntatis optima sunt hsec.

OLD NOVEL WANTED (11 S. viii. 167). For " Mockbeggars Hall" see the 'N.E.D.' under 'Mock,' f5. In the illustrated edition of J. R. Green's ' Short History of the English People,' vol. iii. p. 966, a cut is given from a Roxburghe Ballad of " The Map of Mock -Beggar Hall, with his situation in the spacious country called Anywhere." The following explanation is on p. Ivii. :

" At the close of Elizabeth's reign, and through out the reign of James I. and the early years of Charles, there was much complaining in the rural districts because the nobles and gentry flocked up to London, leaving their country houses empty and neglected, so that where in former times there had been feasting for rich and poor alike, a beggar could not now get a crust of bread. To the houses thus deserted was given the nickname of 'Mock- beggar Hall.'"

EDWARD BENSLY.

BEARDMORE AT KHARTUM (11 S. viii. 188). According to the obituary published by the Institution of Civil Engineers, Nathaniel Beardmore, the author of the well-known 'Manual of Hydrology' (London, 1862), had visited several foreign countries, but evidently had never been out of Europe. He gives a full list of the sources from which he obtained his data for compiling the description of the River Nile, but does not mention among them any personal observa- tions. L. L. K.

RABEL'S DROPS (US. viii. 167). A de- scription of Rabell's remedies will be found in " Pharmacopoeia Bateana ; or, Bate's Dispensatory. Edited by William Salmon. London. 1700." Rabell's name appears on the title-page of this book, and in Section VI. of the Preface Rabell's " Styptick Drops " are alluded to as having been added to the recipes found in the original volume by G. Bate. A description of the manufacture and use of this remedy is found in the same volume, Lib. I. chap, x., under ' Sal Styp- ticum Rabelli.' Elsewhere he is referred to as " Monsieur " Rabell.

William Salmon, alluded to above, was a famous empiric and irregular practitioner, who established himself near the gates of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and lived upon fees from patients who could not gain admis- sion. He is alluded to not too flatteringly in Garth's ' Dispensary.' He took a part in the controversy with the doctors which raged about 1698 and earlier. See the caricature in the British Museum, No. 1032 (1670), of ' The Infallible Mountebank or Quack Doctor ' and the verses beneath, which well show the feeling exhibited towarda quacks a few years before Mrs. Behn wrote the lines quoted. But quackery continued, needless to say, and in Gent. Mag., August, 1748, there is a long list of current quack remedies. There are chapters on the same subject also in Sydney's ' Eighteenth Cen- tury,' Ashton's ' Eighteenth Century Waifs,' and Lawrence Lewis's reprint of the Spec- tator advertisements, 1909. Rabell had dis- appeared before then, and his name does not appear in these later authorities to which I refer. A. L. HUMPHREYS.

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"SEEN THROUGH GLASS" (US. viii. 230). There is nothing in the legal point at all. Any one's evidence is accepted who sees the act done, whether with or without the aid of spectacles or glass in any form,, or with the naked eye.