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eluding Queen Elizabeth, Southampton, Essex, Rutland, Bacon, Shaxper (an actor), &c. In the introduction the author claims his " discovery " of Rutland's authorship to be mainly original, although he admits having been put on the track of it by a previous writer, Alvor, author of a pamphlet ' Das neue Shakespeare-evangelium.'

M. A. M. M.

I think MB. LYNN will find the book about which lie inquires in Dr. Bleibtreu's ' Der wahre Shakespeare.' The book appeared, I think, in 1906, and a review of it by Prof. Dowden was printed in The Standard for 6 December, 1906. P. A. MCELWAINE.

I have a newspaper cutting of 22 May, 1 909, wherein it is stated that " a new candidate has been put in the field by M. Celestin Demblou, a Belgian author, who is endeavouring to convince the world that the works attributed to Shakespeare were really written by ' Lord Roger Manners of Rutland.' "

R. J. FYNMOBE.

[MR. H. DAVEY and MK. H. KREBS also refer to Dr. Bleibtreu.]

TENNYSON'S " FLOWER IN THE CRANNIED WALL" (11 S. iii. 167). In an edition of Tennyson's ' Poetical Works ' published by Messrs. Harper Brothers, New York, and dated 1870, the little poem " Flower in the crannied wall " is printed among a number of "Miscellaneous Poems" collected from various sources. This would seem to indicate a somewhat earlier date of issue for the poem than that named 011 the title-page. In Mr. R. F. Sharp's 'Dictionary of English Authors,' Under Tennyson's Works, 'The Holy Grail ' is mentioned as dated in 1870, but as really issued the previous year. It will thus appear that 1869 was the year when "Flower in the crannied wall" was first printed. W. S. S.

" CACKLING CLOUTS " : " CARPILLIONS " : "GAINSHOT": " HUNNIN' PIN":

"KlNCHEE": "SUFFLEE" (11 S. iii. 168,

213). "Cackling clouts." MR. WARRACK may perhaps arrive at an understanding of the meaning of " cackling clouts " by remembering the line " Like baby-clouts a-dryin'," used by Burns in ' The Ordination.' " Carpillions." Only the fact of being a Scot, who may be expected to know something of his mother-tongue, can be my excuse for intruding on ground already occu- pied by PROF. SKEAT. " Carpillions " un- doubtedly means " rags," but the prefix car, as in curJiandit (i.e tf left-handed), gives it

the force of " disused rags " or " rags thrown aside . ' ' There is, however, another use of t ha word, as has been pointed out, in which it means "cushions." "Worn-out cushions stuffed with rags " is, I think, the meaning in the latter application.

" G ainshot." The place at the side of a stream or river whence water is drawn oS into the mill-race.

" Hunnin' pin." A wooden pin, or some- times a large nail, driven into the rafter of a house for the purpose of affording a hand- hold. " Hunnin' ' is unknown to me. I suspect it to be a provincialism for hannin\ i.e., " a pin for catching hold of with the hand."

" Kinchie." " Childish " or " like a child." Connected with the slang word kinchin, a child. SCOTUS.

" Sufflee." Jamieson's ' Dictionary (Donaldson, 1887) gives : " Surfle, a trim- ming, edging, or embroidery ; the edge or trimming of a gown." As the manufacturer referred to may have made such a trimming as an edging for gowns, the words sufflee and surfte, though varying in form, may be synonymous, or one a corruption of the other-

TOM JONES.

" NEVER SWAP HORSES WHEN CROSSING- THE STREAM" (11 S. iii. 269). In Elford Eveleigh Treffry's edition (1907) of ' Stokes' Cyclopaedia of Familiar Quotations,' " It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river " is given as having been uttered by Lincoln in reply to the National Union* League on 9 June, 1864 just at the date he was being chosen as Presidential candi- date a second time. This, however, is not the usually accepted version ; and it would be interesting to have the original, with the- immediate context, from some authorita- tive contemporary report. POLITICIAN.

HERTFORD STREET (11 S. iii. 209). What is the evidence that this street was known? in the eighteenth century as Garrick Street ?

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

FRENCH AMBASSADORS IN LONDON (11 Si iii. 309). The inquiry made by F. DEH. L. for the names of French Ambassadors in London for the period mentioned should be addressed. to M. le Ministere des Affaires etrangeres- (Division des Archives), Paris, who will no- doubt most courteously supply the informr.- tion desired. G. BLACKER MORGAN.