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 us. iv. JULY 22,1911.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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" I BELIEVE IN HUMAN KINDNESS." 1

shall be glad to learn who is the author of the sacred song commencing,

I believe in human kindness

Large amid the sons of men, Nobler far in willing blindness

Than in censure's keenest ken. I believe in self-denial, &c.

In one place I find it attributed to Norman MacLeod, but in an American scholarly compilation I find it attributed to John S. B. Monsell.

It is not found in any edition of MacLeod's works, nor his ' Life ' ; nor is it mentioned in Julian's * Dictionary of Hymnology ' under either name, nor in the index of first lines. WALTER, WALSH.

Dundee.

ST. HUGH AND " THE HOLY NUT." St. Hugh of Lincoln, I am sorry to say, used to swear, and his favourite adjuration was " By the holy nut." Was this nut vegetable or animal, a slang term for head ?

ST. SWITHIN.

CARACCIOLO FAMILY. Where can I find the pedigree and history of the Caracciolo family of Naples ? Their titles were Dukes of S. Arpino and S. Teodoro.

MABY TERESA FORTESCUE.

Sprydoncote, Exeter.

M'CLELLAND FAMILY. 1. What is the

difference between M'Clelland ending with d and without d?

2. Are the M'Clellands of Ulster the same stock as those of Kirkcudbright ?

3. Who was the ancestor of the M'Clel- land family ?

4. What is the origin of the name ?

B. G.

VATICAN FRESCOES. Will any of your readers kindly throw some light on the following words, found on a set of old engrav- ings of frescoes in the Vatican ? " lo. Jacobus de Rubeis Formis, Romas ad Tern- plum Pacis."

A mere translation is not what I want.

THETA.

EMERSON IN ENGLAND. In his ' English Traits ' Emerson relates that he stayed at a house in Russell Square in 1833. Was not that the same year that Heine paid England a visit ? I should like to know, if possible, where that house stands.

By the way, could not something be done to mark the spots where such immortals as Voltaire, Rousseau, Benjamin Franklin, and Heine spent some time in England ?

Heine and Franklin both stayed in Craven Street. The matter is deserving of con- sideration. M. L. R. BRESLAR. Percy House, South Hackney.

ASTRJEA : ITALIAN PROVERB. On the monument to Sir Edward Denny (died 1599 or 1600) in Waltham Abbey occur these words :

"If ye times (more happily flourishing under gratipus Astrsea) had been aunswearable to his Heroicall designes, w th out all doubt he could not but have had (accordinge to ye strange Italian proverbe) his beake greater than his wings."

1. Does Astrsea here mean Queen Eliza- beth ?

2. What is the Italian proverb referred to ? Is it still in use ? And what is its sense ?

G.

[Astrsea was one of the poetical names applied to Elizabeth. Sir John Davies wrote in her honour a series of twenty-six acrostics entitled * Hymns of Astrsea.']

SENIOR WRANGLERS : SENIOR CLASSICS. Of the seventeen Colleges at the Univer- sity of Cambridge, beginning with Peter- house, founded in 1257, and ending with Downing, established in 1800, it is in- teresting to note that sixteen have produced Senior Wranglers at some time since 1748, the date of the first competition.

Two of the Colleges, however, are far in the van of successes, St. John's heading the list with the substantial total of 53 Senior Wranglers, and Trinity being an excellent second with 49. Caius is third with 13, immediately followed by Queens' with 9 ; Peterhouse ranks fifth with 8, while Christ's and Pembroke each have to be credited with half a dozen. Corpus ranks eighth on the list with 4, and Magdalene ninth with 3. Jesus, Sidney, and St. Catherine's have two each ; while the remaining four Colleges Clare, Emmanuel, King's, and Trinity Hall have one apiece.

Although this competition is now a thing of the past, at any rate under its old name, yet a certain interest will always be attached to it as one of the oldest of such examinations. A writer in The Cornhill Magazine has said that " the College, the tutor, even the bed- maker, or ' gyp ' of the Senior Wrangler, had a momentary share of his glory."

I think it would therefore be instructive as well as interesting to know the names of the schools that have produced such scholars, and I shall be much obliged if any reader of ' N. & Q.' will give me the information required, or at least the name of the school which heads the list. I believe