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REV. THOMAS AND JOSEPH DELAFIELD (11 S. iii. 347, 412; iv. 296). My know- ledge of the MSS. on sale by Hayes goes no further than his catalogue. I notice that he describes them as "by Joseph Delafield," except that on ' Immortality,' which is " by T. Delafield." No dates are given. A curious extract from one of the Bodl. MSS. is printed at 9 S. i. 320. W. C. B.

LORD BEAUCHAMP (11 S. iv. 170). The paper in the Philos. Trans, for 1741, pp. 870- 871, is the first of several accounts of a " Fireball." It was seen from " the Mount in Kensington Gardens," and the explosion was heard by Lord Beauchamp (11 December, 1741). It is a very juvenile production, the composition of George Seymour, born in September, 1725, who " as son and heir of a titular earl was himself generally known as Viscount Beau- champ " ('Complete Peerage,' ed. G. E. C., iv. 227, vii. 180). W. P. COURTNEY.

THE CUCKOO AND ITS CALL (11 S. iii. 486 ; iv. 30, 75, 96, 135, 195, 258). If the frosts of October do not render a reference to the blithe new-comer out of date, it may be mentioned that Dekker commences his ' Guls Hornbook ' thus : "I sing (like the cuckooe in June) to bee laugh t at : if there- fore I make a scurvy noise, and that my tunes sound unmusically . . . . "

MR. E. MARSTON has already referred (ante, p. 31) to the fact that in June the cuckoo changes its tune.

P. A. McELWAINE.

JANE AUSTEN'S 'PERSUASION' (11 S. iv.

288). 1. "The harp was bringing."

Is not this merely an example (perhaps an extension) of the usage to be found in " the house was building," " the tea was making," &c.? 4. Miss Larolles is a character in Miss Burner's ' Cecilia,' first appearing in Book I. chap. iii. This query was answered at 10 S. vi. 91.

Is not " the feelings of an Emma towards her Henry," in chap. xii. of ' Persuasion,' a reference to Prior's poem * Henry and Emma ' ? EDWARD BENSLY.

1. " Bringing in the carriage." Do we not sometimes find sentences like this ? " The house was building " instead of " being built." NORTH MIDLAND.

2. A specific from buttercups has been used for raising blisters, and a cosmetic made from cowslips removes freckles. These are old remedies. About the time ' Persuasion '

was published, Coleridge wrote : "I can so far command myself as to check the intolera- ble itching by a mixture of goulard and rose- water," ' Letters,' ii. 692 (1818). In this instance the name is taken from the manu- facturer, Thomas Goulard (see 'N.E.D.').

TOM JONES.

Gowland's Lotion is an old cosmetic wash which had once a great vogue, but is not much heard of now. C. C. B.

An author respected by my grandmother, and not altogether disregarded by me, Dr. Thomas J. Graham, writer of ' Modern Domestic Medicine,' enables me to answer the second of MR. HILL'S queries. The mention of Gow^land took me at once to- p. 14, where it is stated " Gowland's Lotion is a solution of sublimate [of mercury] in an emulsion of bitter almonds." It is evident that this has nothing to do with buttercups.

ST. SWITHIN.

[MR. A. R. BAYLEY and W. C. B. also thanked for replies.]

THE GRAND KHAIBAR (11 S. iv. 290).

The Daily Journal paragraph of 1725 was probably a " skit," and may have been. intended as a preliminary advertisement for the ' Ode to the Grand Khaibar,' pub- lished in 1726, of which only two copies are known to exist in England. The ' Ode ' consists of twenty-seven verses, and was reprinted in full by Mr. John T. Thorp in ' Masonic Papers,' iii. 1904. W. B. H.

P. G. D. asks : "Is anything known of the history of this apparently pseudo- Masonic body ? " MR. A. M. BROADLEY put almost the same question in ' N. & Q.' in August, 1908, but did not evoke any response. He made it perfectly clear, however, that the Grand Khaibar was not a " pseudo-Masonic body," and he men- tioned the publication in 1726 of an ode by George Roberts, who threw ridicule on the Freemasons and their lodges.

T. H. BARROW.

HAMILTON KERBY (11 S. iv. 230, 279). See his pedigree in my ' History of the Island of Antigua,' ii. 120. V. L. OLIVER.

STREET NOMENCLATURE (11 S. iv. 187, 236). The Rev. Dr. MacCready, Howth, co. Dublin, published a little work on Dublin nomenclature. It contains rules of re- search, and deductions, which may be applied to other cities.

WILLIAM MACARTHUR. Dublin.