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Now in the Suffolk dialect the word " salamander" is used at the present day to signify a sounding blow. Is it possible that the custom of striking any child who saw a salamander was general throughout Europe in the Middle Ages, and that the blow is remembered when the superstition has been long forgotten ? I shall be glad of any information bearing, however remotely, on this subject. MARMADU.KE PICKTHALL.

AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED. Where can I find in their first form the lines, And Cotfcle, not he whom Alfred made famous, But Joseph of Bristol, the brother of Amos ?

In Byron's ' Poetical Works ' (one- volume edition), Mr. E. Hartley Coleridge at p. 94, in notes on 'English Bards and Scotch Reviewers,' refers us to the 'Poetry of the Anti- Jacob in,' but I cannot find the lines there that is, in the well-known volume of poetry selected from that journal. Some years ago, I believe, DR. L. M. GRIFFITHS of Clifton asked ' N. & Q.' readers for the reference, but did not get it.

CHARLES WELLS. 134, Cromwell Road, Bristol.

Could any of your readers inform me where I shall find these quotations ?

1. Earth is less fragrant now, and heaven more sweet.

2. But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

HEINE.

From which of R. L. Stevenson's books is the following ?

" To know what you prefer, instead of saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive."

G. M. T.

GEORGE WOODBERRY was born in 1792. He entered the 10th Foot (North Lincoln- shires) as ensign about 1808. In 1813 he obtained a cornetcy in the 18th Hussars, becoming a lieutenant the following year. He died at Lisbon, 1819, and every search at the time for his relatives was made without avail. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' give any help ? I know his ' Journal.'

HAROLD MALET, Col.

Racketts, Hythe, Southampton.

ANDREW TURNBULL OF TWEEDMOUTH.

What is known of this individual, said to have been of local prominence in the middle of the eighteenth century ? Was there ever a Turnbull family of long standing at Tweedmouth, and how far can it be claimed

that that place as a North of England geo- graphic expression is synonymous with the town or city of Berwick-on-Tweed, the latter place standing between Scotland and Eng- land, and yet not belonging to either of those countries, owing to some mandatory compromise in the dark ages ?

J. G. CUPPLES. Brookline, Mass.

DAY : FREEMAN : PYKE. In the search for data relating to these families (see ante, p. 164), particularly the two latter, in or near Greenwich, 1725-1800, the two entries following, of voters, were found by Mr. R. J. Beevor in the ' Poll for Knights of the Shire to Represent the County of Kent, July, 1802 ' :

" James Pike, of Deptford." " Lucas Freeman, of Deptford."

The register of christenings at St. James's, Clerkenwell (p. 214), shows :

" 1734, June 20. Charles, s. of Charles and Freeman Lee ; born 19 June."

The italics are mine. It is interesting to see this implied relationship between the families of Freeman and Lee, when we have already found connexion between Freeman and Pyke, and between Lee and Pyke.

John Day and Ellinor Jones were married at St. James's, Clerkenwell, 17 April, 1666 (cf. ' Harl. Soc. Registers,' vol. xiii. p. 124). We have found Pyke related both to Jones and to Day.

Further facts would be welcomed

EUGENE F. MoPiKE.

135, Park Row, Chicago.

SHEFFIELD CUTLERY IN 1820. An anonymous work, published by Lheure of Paris, 1820, 16mo (in eights), 128 pp., contains information as to the Sheffield practice of tempering steel which could, probably, not be found elsewhere. The work is entitled ' Manuel de 1'Ouvrier en Fer,' but the running title is ' Manuel du Coute- lier.' In the preface it is stated that the work had been a prodigious success in Eng- land, which would lead one to conclude that an English original had existed previous to 1820, but of this original I can find no trace. Possibly copies were circulated in MS. The only English work at all answering to the above description is Kingsbury on ' Razors,' which ran through numerous editions, but this work, though utilized by the writer, is certainly not the work in ques- tion. The writer appears to be a Frenchman long resident in England, if one may judge by his intimate acquaintance with English