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this ? Then has " Heron " any connexion with Sir Henry Vane ? Or is there any heraldic explanation of the names ? I have not by me the arms of the Vanes or of Cromwell. J. WELLCOCK.

Lerwick, Shetland.

GEROXOMO. Is anything known of Gro- nomo, said to have been of the household of James IT., and to have built or lived at Luddington House, Egham, Surrey ?

FREDERIC TURNER.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED.

1. THE NONSENSE CLUB. According to Mr. C. B. Phillimore's edition of ' Alumni Westmonasterienses ' (1852), p. 328, this Club was composed of William Cowper, Geo. Colman, Robert Lloyd, Bonnell Thorn- ton, Joseph Hill, and two other Westminster men. Who were these two others ?

2. LORD BARRY. In Stanley's ' Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey ' (1868),

. 420, the following quotation occurs : " I ave placed Lord Barry." says Cecil, " at the Dean's at Westminster." Can any correspondent give me the reference to the authority from which this quotation is taken ? "

3. THE REV. THOMAS JACKSON, D.D., CANON RESIDENTIARY OF ST. PAUL'S. When and whom did he marry ? The ' Diet, of Nat. Biog.,' xxix. 90, does not give this in- formation. In ' Alumni Oxonienses ' he is described as the son of John Jackson of Chancery Lane, but in the list of the candi- dates for election into St. Peter's College, Westminster, his father is styled Henry Jackson of London. Is it possible to obtain the correct particulars of his parentage ?

G. F. R. B.

LONDRES : LONDON : LONDINIUM. It is very interesting to know how we got the h into Thames (see PROF. SKEAT'S note, ante, p. 45); but how did the French get the r into Londres ? D. O.

CASANOVA. I have a copy of the ' Lettere della Nobil Donna Silvia Belegno alia Nobil Donzella Laura Guzzoni,' which in Melzi's ' Dizionario di op. anonimi e pseudonimi,' s.v. Belegno (vol. i. 120), is said to be by Casanova. In my .copy A2 in the first part, and B 1 in the second part, are wanting, having apparently been cut out. Have other copies the same defect ? Or, if not, what did these leaves contain ?

J. F. R.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

Subdued to what it worked in.

I have a vague recollection of having seen

this, but cannot recall where, except that

a " dyer's hand " occurs in connexion with it.

G. M. H. PLAYFAIR.

[And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

Shakespeare, Sonnet CXI.]

1. Cor ad cor loquitur (Cardinal Newman's

motto.)

2. Intus si recte, ne labora.

3. Kuhn ist das Miihen, herrlich der Lohn.

4. That most perfect of antiques They call the Genius of the Vatican, Which seems too beauteous to endure itself In this mixed world.

5. Ihr Anblick giebt den Engeln Stiirke.

[Goethe's 'Eaust' : Prolog im Himmel.]

6. Till books, and schools, and courts, and

honours seem The far-off echo of a sickly dream.

7. Je suis venu trop tard dans un'monde trop

vieux.

8. Sur 1'Hymette j'ai eVeille les abeilles.

9. The scent of violets hidden in the grass. [The smell of violets hidden in the green.

Tennyson's ' Dream of Fair Women. J

10. Quis Deus, incertum : est Deus, or QuisDeus,

incertum : habitat Deus.

11. Je souffre ; il est trop tard ; le monde s'est

fait vieux ;

Une immense esperance a traverse la terre ; Malgre nous vers le ciel il faut lever les yeux.

12. Malgre moi 1'infini me tourmente.

13. Lay myself upon the knees

Of Doom, and take mine everlasting ease. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose.

F. F. H.

[Other versions are supplied at 7 S. vi. 469 ; vii. 98 ; 8 S. x. 273 ; but the authorship is doubtful. J

I should be glad to know who is the author of the following lines, and where they are to be found :

The East bent low and bowed her head

In silence and disdain ;

She heard the legions thunder past,

Then plunged in thought again.

It seems that they are not in ' The Light of Asia,' and are not by Matthew Arnold.

A. B. G.
 * The lines run thus :

The East bow'd low before the blast

In patient, deep disdain ;

She let the legions thunder past,

And plunged in thought again. They are part of a well-known passage in Matthew Arnold's ' Obermann Once More.']