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book, issued by Marcus Ward & Co., London, entitled ' The Anchor : The Haven,' by the author of 'Morning and Night Watches.' Scripture texts with appropriate pieces of poetry were given for every morning for a, month. In the inverted order the evening was similarly provided for. Each of the portions (morning and evening) of the booklet numbered 75 pp. respectively. U.

WATER SHOES FOB WALKING ON THE WATER : GEORGE F. PARRATT (11 S. ii. 485 ; iii. 77). The initial letter F. should be inserted before Parratt. The exhibition of (ante, p. 77) took place, I think, at least 25 years ago.
 * ' life-saving " inventions of which I wrote

I think that the s.s. Castalia, in her early days running between England and France, ceased to be a small pox hospital several years ago. In my note I ought to have made it plain that Parratt was not the in- ventor of the indiarubber boat with the stocking legs. His only invention, exhibited on the occasion referred to, was the pontoon life-boat, which drifted helplessly away and was towed back by an ordinary life-boat, which was in attendance.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

PHIPPS OR PHIP FAMILY (11 S. iii. 49). According to Coates, in his ' History of Reading,' a token was issued by Thomas Phipps (see p 460), " A man dipping candles, Thomas Phipps of Redding 1652 T. P -E." ; and at p. 445 there is an account of Sir Constantine Phipps, stating " there is a tradition that he was born at Reading."

R. J. FYNMORE.

LEA WILSON'S COLLECTION or BIBLES {11 S. iii. 88). Mr. Lea Wilson printed a limited number of copies of his " Collection of Bibles " for presentation to his friends. If I remember aright, 150 copies in all were printed, some of which were offered for sale. I have no note of his collection having ever been dispersed, and cannot tell what has become of it. Of the three editions of the Psalms mentioned in the query, that printed At Middelburg in 1599 finds a place in Cotton's " Editions of the Bible," but is there only named as being in the Lea Wilson col- lection. The two Scottish editions, by Rabon of Aberdeen and Hart of Edinburgh, appear among " Books printed in Scotland before 1700," but the author, Mr. Aldis, Apparently derives his information from the Lea Wilson catalogue, and does not state where copies of them may now be found.

S. S. W.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iii. 147). The " Scot " of MR. W. E. WILSON'S first quotation must, I think, be George Buchanan, the work referred to being his ' De Jure Regni apud Scotos ' (1579). With regard to the " Jesuit " here meant, Juan Mariana's ' De Rege et Regis Institutione ' (1599) seems to have gained great notoriety (Hallam, ' Literature of Europe,' Part II. chap. iv. section ii. 37).

EDWARD BENSLY.

The Jesuit was probably Juan Mariana (1536-1624) and the Scot John Knox (1505- 1572), but I regret I do not know who is the author of the lines.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

But his little daughter whispered,

As she took his icy hand, 44 Isn't God upon the ocean,

Just the same as on the land ? "

These lines form one of the six stanzas of a poem called ' The Tempest,' by James T. Fields. DAVID SALMON.

Swansea.

There are various versions of the lines quoted by G. C., which are attributed to Philemon Holland. See ' A Translator Generall ' in Mr. Charles Whibley's ' Literary Portraits,' p. 157:

"The translator's son informs the world that Plutarch's ' Morals ' all fell upon paper from one quill, while Aubrey prefers to believe that it was the Livy which was thus honoured. Whichever be the truth, the story is found in all the books of anec- dotes, further embellished with a quatrain, more curious than accomplished. Thus it runs :

4 This booke I wrote with one poore Pen

Made of a grey Goose Quill ; A Pen I found it us'd before, A Pen I leave it still.' "

Fuller, * Worthies of England,' ' Warwick- shire,' writes :

" Many of his books he wrote with one pen, whereof he himself thus pleasantly versified : 4 With one poor pen I writ this book,

Made of a grey goose quill ; A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still.' "

For conflicting accounts of the after history of this pen Mr. Whibley's entertaining essay may be consulted. EDWARD BENSLY.

[MR. W. NORMAN and MR. J. T. PAGE also thanked for replies.]

"LET US GO HENCE, MY SONGS " (11 S.

iii. 128). This is the opening of ' A Leave- taking,' by Swinburne, * Poems and Ballads,' Book I. p. 60 (ed. 1873).

REGINALD HEWITT. Selkirk.

[S. W. also refers to Swinburne.]