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literature. He is certainly not a German, for he writes Fahrenheit, " Fareinhet," and Hassenfratz, " Assemfratz." Points of inter- est in the work are references to the public forge at Sheffield, where the cutlers sent their steel to be hammered into plates, and his table of the melting-points of the fusible alloys for use in tempering steel. Who could the author have been ? The work is ten years prior to the anonymous treatise by Holland in Lardner's ' Cabinet Cyclo- paedia,' and two years earlier than the papers by Gill in his ' Technical Repository,' but neither of these writers appears to be acquainted with this French work, which, by the way, is not recorded in Barbier. I should be glad of any information which would settle the question of its authorship and that of the original form in which it circulated in this country.

E. WYNDHAM HULME. Sevenoaks.

JAMES INNYS was admitted to Westminster School in 1736, aged 10. I should be glad to learn anything about him. G. F. R. B.

WILLIAM IVES was admitted to West- minster School in 1724, aged 8. Any information concerning him would be of use.

G. F. R. B.

JOHN IVISON was admitted to Westminster School in 1719, aged 16. Can any corre- spondent o ' N. & Q.' help me to identify him ? A person of the same names gradu- ated B.A. at Cambridge from Emmanuel College in 1724. G. F. R. B.

ROBERT SOUTHEY'S LETTERS. 1. Who was Portugal's best dramatic writer, whom, Southey says, the Portuguese burnt to death because he was a Jew ?

2. Bampfylde's sonnets were published in 1778. Have they ever been reprinted ? Are they meritorious ?

3. Who were Probert, Whittle Harvey, and Phillpotts ?

4. Who was the Hottentot Venus ?

Any information about these forgotten worthies, referred to in Southey 's letter to Sir Henry Taylor, will be esteemed. Please reply direct. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

Percy House, South Hackney.

" SABBATH DAY'S JOURNEY." I have always heard the phrase " a Sabbath day's journey" used to denote a journey 'of great length, or one that was distasteful, or involved trouble or undue exertion. I am now informed that to use it in the above sense is wrong, as the phrase has its origin

in Judaism, and meant the longest journey permissible on the Sabbath, and therefore a short journey when compared with the ordinary day's journey, i.e., between sunrise and sunset. Can you inform me in which sense the phrase should be used ? If the latter is the correct interpretation, then how, and in what manner, came the perverted sense to be adopted ? HUGH DAVIDSON.

[The Biblical use is certainly the original sense of the expression. The ' N.B.D.' says under Sabbath-day : " Sabbath day's journey : the distance (2,000 ammoth or 'ells '=1,225 yards) which (according to Rabbinical prescription in the time of Christ) was the utmost limit of per- mitted travel on the Sabbath." The great Dic- tionary, which is famous for its analysis of the various senses of words and phrases, does not allude to the use of the expression with any other meaning ; but we have heard it employed in the opposite way mentioned by MR. DAVIDSON.]

FATHER CONNOLLY, HYMN-WRITER. I am in urgent need (for an index) of the bio- graphical particulars mentioned below, and shall be most grateful to the correspondent who has the leisure and the kindness to supply them. The subject was a priest quoted to me as simply Father Connolly sometime chaplain to a community of pious women known as Helpers of the Holy Souls, in or about London. He was a poet and wrote hymns, hitherto unpublished. In 1905 he was already dead. His Christian names, correct spelling of surname, dates of birth and death, and statement of clerical positions held by him would satisfy my present requirements. S. G. OULD.

Fort Augustus, N. B.

THEOPHILUS LEIGH, D.D. Can any one give me particulars of Theophilus Leigh, D.D., second son of Theophilus Leigh, barrister at law, of Adlestrop, co. Gloucester ? He matriculated at Trinity College, Oxford, 12 April, 1709, aged 15 ; was elected Scholar of Corpus Christi College 18 June, 1711, succeeding, it is supposed, to a Fellow- ship of that College in turn ; elected Master of Balliol College 12 May, 1726, which office he held until his death, 3 January, 1785, aged 91, having served as Vice-Chancellor of the University 1738-41.

I shall be glad to know who his mother was, and, if he married, the date and par- ticulars of his marriage and particulars of his children (if any). F. DE H. L.

BENNETT, THE LANCASHIRE MURDERER.- Who was he ? and what was the character of his crime, and its date ?

C. E. BRADSHAW.