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NAPOLEON'S " GUARD." Will some o your correspondents give me information as to the composition of the famous "Guard" ? I presume that it was, like the Roman " legio," a small army in itself comprising horse, foot, and artillery. But on what principle were the regiments forming it selected ? One reads of the 8th Hussars of the Guard, or the 5th Cuirassiers (or what- ever number it may be) of the Guard. Also, when, or in what circumstances, was the " Young Guard " enrolled ?

E. L. H. TEW. Upham Rectory.

" AS SURE AS GOD MADE LITTLE APPLES."

I recently heard this saying twice in the same week in the Manchester district. Is the expression modern and local, or com- paratively well established in our literature ? Are there many variants of the same idea extant ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.

Percy House, South Hackney.

BENJAMIN DEAN WYATT. I should be glad to ascertain the full dates of his birth and death. Who was his mother ? Was he ever married ? The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' Ixiii. 180, does not give the desired infor- mation. G. F. R. B.

" OLD CLEM " : ' GREAT EXPECTATIONS.' The allusion to " Old Clem " by ST. S WITHIN (ante, p. 196) leads me to ask, Are the words of the song to which Dickens refers in chap, xii of 'Great Expectations' obtainable ? It will be remembered that " Joe used to hum fragments of (a song) at the forge, of which the burden was Old Clem." If any one can supply the actual words of this ditty, I shall be grateful.

JOHN T. PAGE.

CHELVEY CHURCH, SOMERSET. In ' In- cised and Sepulchral Slabs of N.W. Somer- setshire,' by R. W. Paul, 1882, it is said :

"In a window on the north side of the nave are the following arms in painted glass, viz., Arg., between 3 leopards' heads gu., on a bar sable, a crescent or, impaling Gu., 3 bars arg. within a bordure of the last."

I should be glad to know what families these arms represent. D. K. T.

WOOD ENGRAVING AND PROCESS BLOCK. Is it possible to tell definitely whether an illustration is from an engraved woodblock direct, or from an electro facsimile of the block, or from a process block ? The last, I understand, can only be printed on glazed or " plate " paper. E. N. G.

SPURRING BOOK - PLATE. Who was Richard .^Eneas Spurring, to whom the following book-plate belonged ? Azure, a Calvary cross (3 steps) or Crest, an arm in armour embowed, holding a falchion.

ARTHUR STEPHENS DYER. 207, Kingston Road, Teddington.

F. KNIBBEL, OR KNIBBER, OR KNIBBE, is the signature on an old painting in my possession. Any information regarding the artist is kindly requested.

C. SWYNNERTON.

LIGHTFOOT OF BIRMINGHAM. Can any- body afford me information concerning John Lightfoot, who was buried in a vault of St. Bartholomew's, Birmingham, 17 Octo- ber, 1810, aged 71 years ? I wish to dis- cover when he settled in Birmingham, who was his father, and what was the maiden name of his wife (Anchoret). Any infor- mation concerning him or his family will be welcome. MARY L. PENDERED.

AXFORD FAMILY. I wish to discover whether there was an Isaac Axford, Court milliner, in Maddox Street, Bond Street, in the early part of the nineteenth century ; and, if so, what relation he was to the Isaac Axford who married Hannah Lightfoot in 1753 and Mary Bartlett in 1759, finally settling in Warminster. Was he any rela- tion of Oliver Axford, a silk merchant living in Sloane Square about 1830 ?

MARY L. PENDERED.

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCHOOL-BOOK. I should be glad to be enabled to identify a Dook, of which I have what is evidently the nain portion, pp. 5 to 194 inclusive, but neither the title-page nor conclusion. The size is 12mo, and I put the date of issue at about 1775, though it may well be earlier. The work was obviously intended for a chool-book, and the above portion contains chapters, or headings, numbered II. to DLL, all printed in double column, English n the first column, and Latin equivalent in )he second, with a wood engraving, one- ng each heading. These illustrations -are of an interesting, and almost cyclopaedic, character, depicting as they do often more than a dozen of the objects described, or the use of which is indicated, in the English and L,atin text underneath. The range of sub- u ects treated is too long to give in detail, >ut includes the earth and its products, natural history, trades and occupations, arts and sciences, amusements, and matters
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