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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. iv. AUG. 10, wu.

The following is from ' Nouveau Larousse Illustre,' no date, recently published, vol. v., s.v. Mac-mahon :

" II prit d'assaut la tour de Malakof (3 sept.}, et, ayant reeu du mareehal P^lissier 1'avis de s'exposer moins sur une position qui sernblait intenable, il repondit par le mot famoux : ' J'y ! suis, j'y reste ! ' '

If one may assume that the correspondent j of La Presse was correct, and that there was only one message sent to Pelissier, the " mot fameux" appears to be open to sus- picion of having been made by some one after the event. Is there any contemporary evidence that MacMahon sent the " mot " to his superior officer '!

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

WASHINGTON IRVING' s 'SKETCH-BOOK' (US. iv. 109, 129, 148). The sources of three of the o notations asked for are as follows :

1. In the service of mankind to be A guardian god below. James Thomson, ' Sophonieba,' Act II. sc. i.

4. I never heard

Of any true affection but 'twas nipt, &c.

Thomas Middleton, ' Blurt, Master Constable,' Act 111. sc. i.

5. Though your body be confined, &c.

Beaumont and Fletcher, ' The False One,' Act I. sc. ii.

M. A. M. MACALISTER.

2. The history of the " old poem," under its refrain " Halloo ! my fancie, whither wilt thou go ? " has been set out at 2 S. i. 511 ; ii. 57, 98, 138 ; 3 S. ix. 493. W. C. B.

TWINS AND SECOND SIGHT (11 S. iii. 469 ; iv. 54). The late Frederic W. H. Myers in his ' Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death,' 1903, vol. i. p. 272, speaks of a butler named James I Carroll, who has had

" another psychical experience, not visual a feeling of extreme exhaustion and sadness, coupled with the idea of his twin-brother, on the first day of his distant twin-brother's fatal ill- ness ; and again just before the receipt of a tele- gram summcning him to the death-bed. It is an interesting observation based by Gurney on his analysis of relationships in telepathic cases that the link of twinship seems markedly to facili- tate this kind of communication, [Foot-note.] Cf. the case of Mrs. Storie. . . .and the cases given by Mr. P. Galton, ( Enquiries into Human Faculty,' pp. 22fi-231, of consentaneous thought and action on the part of twins, which he attri- butes to a specially close similarity of constitu- tion."

Whether or not fully convinced of the existence of such a close similarity of con- stitution between twins, Japanese parents,

at least in this part, take scrupulous care to feed and dress twins with exactly the same articles a slight disparity in the colours of shoestrings being believed to prove inimical or even fatal to the inferior party. KUMAGTISU MINAKATA.

Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

SIEGE OF DERBY (11 S. iii. 369, 457). SCOTTJS apparently follows Macaulay's brilliant but inaccurate account of the break- ing of the boom. The great historian makes- no reference to the services rendered by the long-boat of H.M.S. Swallow :

" The Mount joy was accompanied by the long- boat of the Swallow, ' well barricadoed and armed with seamen to cut the bcome,'. . . .and the hoat- swain's mate, who had the command of the boat/,, cut the boom." Iteid's 'History of the Presby- terian Church in Ireland.'

See also The London Gazette, No. 2478. ALEX. LEEPER. Trinity College, Melbourne University.

DEER-LEAPS (US. iv. 89, 138). About 17 miles west cf Selkirk, on the high ground between the valleys of Ettrick and Yarrow, stand two grey whinstones 28 feet apart,, and termed the " Hartleap." They are said to mark the leap of the last hart shot in Ettrick forest by Andrew Telfer, hunts- man to King James IV. W. E. WILSON.

Hawick.

ST. HUGH AND " THE HOLY NUT" (11 S. iv. 69). i s no t the meaning of this expression explained by the following stanza from Sequence VII. by Adam of St. Victor,
 * Nativitas Domini ' ?

Nux est Christus, cortex nucis Circa camera pcena crucis, Testa corpus osseum. Carne tecta Deltas FA Christ i suavitas Signatur per nucleum.

Wrangham's translation runs thus : Christ th-i n>it, its hull His passion, Closing round His human fashion, And His bony frame its shell, The incarnate Deity And Christ's tender sympathy In the kerne! mark ye well.

C. S. TAYLOR, .Banwell Vicarage, Somerset.

CAMPBELL'S ' NAPOLEON AND THE ENG- LISH SAILOR' (US. iv. 107). In Moxon's 1851 edition of the 'Poetical Works.' (edited by the Rev. W. A. Hill), p. 394, Campbell's note runs as follows :

" This anecdote has been published in several public journals, both French and English. My belief in it's authenticity was confirmed by an