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FOREIGN JOURNALS IN THE U.S. (11 S. iv. 466, 514 ; v. 53). The querist may not be so sceptical about the number of German newspapers if he will consider this method, which I suppose to be peculiar to the U.S. and Canada, viz., in various centres of popu- lation organizations print " patent -insides " that is, newspapers nearly complete, whose inside pages at least are covered with items of general interest and widespread advertisements ; any desired number of these sheets are sent away to printers, who fill in the blank spaces with local news and advertisements, and thus often on a sur- prisingly small subscription list are able to publish a pretentious local newspaper. Doubtless a hotbed for such " plate- work " is Philadelphia, which is within easy distance of many old and rich towns in which a principal language is " Pennsylvania Dutch " ; this is about as much like classical German as is Yiddish, but it would be called " German " in any census. This method of " patent -insides " may account for other figures in the list given.

ROCKINGHAM. Boston, Mass.

[Partly printed newspapers are sometimes localized in the same way in England.]

There is no need to question the correct- ness of the number of German papers pub- lished in the United State?, viz., 632. By the census just taken the population of the States amounted to 91,000,000, of whom it may be safely assumed 25 million are of German and Austrian extraction ; and another 8 million Irish, though I have heard the number of the latter put as high as 1 1 million. After a time the Germans often adopt the plan of englishing their names : thus Schonberg becomes Belmont, and Grau, Gray. Take them all through, they are lay far the most intelligent and best edu- cated element in the country. Hence it is no wonder there are daily papers with a wide circulation published in their lan- guage in New York (two), Philadelphia (two), St. Louis, Chicago, Milwaukee, and all the principal centres. In certain parts, as in Pennsylvania, the German spoken by Ame- rican-born citizens is of a very old-fashioned and debased type, but even these can perfectly understand their own literary language. N. W. HILL.

Xew York.

FOREIGNERS ACCOMPANYING WILLIAM III. (11 S. v. 70). A note on the Oley family of Shotley Bridge is at 6 S. iii. 17.

W. C. B.

"VICUGNA" AND 'THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ' (11 S. v. 48). This form is obviously absurd. After writing n to denote gn, the insertion of g before it really turns it into vicuggna ! In my ' Etym. Diet.' I give the old spellings as vicuna in English, and vicuna in Spanish, and quote from Acosta the statement that the word is of Peruvian origin.

WALTER W. SKEAT.

TRUSSEL FAMILY (11 S. v. 50). William Trussell or Trussel (Baron Trussell, fl. 1327), son of Edmund Trussel of Peat ling in Leicestershire and Cubblesdon in Stafford- shire, was an adherent of Thomas of Lan- caster ; fought at Boroughbridge, 1322, and fled to France on Lancaster's fall ; returned with Isabella, 1326 ; tried and sentenced the elder Despenser to be hanged ; as Procurator of Parliament renounced allegiance to Edward II. at Berkeley, 1327 ; had for a time commission of Oyer and Terminer ; was sent on various foreign missions to Rome, Spain and Portugal, France, and Flanders ; granted lordship of Bergues, 1331. It is probable that it was his son William who was admiral of the fleet west and north of the Thames in 1339 and 1343. See ' D.N.B.,' Ivii. 270. A. R. BAYLEY.

LAMB OR LAMBE (11 S. v. 66). The Lamb or Lambe of ' The Anti- Jacobin ' and ' English Bards and Scotch Reviewers' is not the gentle Elia, as MR. W. H. PEET supposes, but the Hon. George Lambe, a son of Lord Melbourne.

The second line quoted from ' English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ' is not quite correctly given. It runs thus : By Jeffrey's heart, or Lambe's Bosotian head. WALTER B. KINGSFORD.

United University Club.

[ DIEGO also thanked for reply.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. v. 28). I hope your correspondent MR. A. J. IKIN may be more fortunate in gaining information in regard to " Old Wisharf s Grave " (not Wiscard's, I think) than I was when, some year or two ago, I addressed a query thereanent, and got no reply at all. I can, however, furnish him with a little more of the text, or something like it, than is contained in his query, and that may perhaps help him.

The story (intended to illustrate the physical deterioration of the human race) runs thus : Hodge, a sexton, goes to the churchyard to dig a grave. In the course