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SIGNS OF OLD LONDON. (See 11 S. i. 402, 465 ; ii. 64, 426 ; iv. 226 ; v. 4, 77, 286, 416.) I subjoin the first part of a list of London signs referred to by Mr. F. J. Britten in the alphabetical list of ' Former Clock and Watchmakers ' appended to the second edition of his valuable work ' Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers,' issued in 1904. It will be readily under- stood that while the majority of the refer- ences enumerated by Britten refer to clock - makers' signs, some few others have crept in, and have been incorporated in my list :

Blue Boar, Holborn, 1686.

Ring and Pearl, Bishopsgate Street, near the

Southsea House (1775-94). Sugar Loaf, Paternoster Row, next Cheapside,

1731.

Peacock, Lothbury, c. 1682. Spring Clock, East Smithfield, near Hermitage

Bridge, c. 1696.

Black Boy, Gracechurch Street, 1691. Dial, Exchange Alley, 1722. Dial, Clement's Lane, Lombard Street, 1705. " Starre in Fenchurch Streete," 1664. " Three Flower-de-Luces in Cheapside," 1692. " Black-a-Moors Head in Cheapside," 1706. Golden Spread Eagle, without Aldgate, 1692. Eagle and Pearl, Great Suffolk Street, near the

Haymarket, 1775.

Bolt and Tun, Lombard Street, 1683. Golden Lyon (sic), Fleet Street, 1680. " Minute Dyall in Fanchurch Streete," 1698. Green Dragon, Cheapside, 1687. ' Lilly House, against Strand Bridge," c. 1766. " Black-moors Head and Dial, Minories," 1690

(&c.).

Dial and Crown, near Essex Street, Strand, 1696. King's Head, near the Pump in Chancery Lane.

1695.

WILLIAM MCMTTRRAY. (To be continued.)

DOUBLE MEANINGS. A striking instance of the ambiguous meaning of certain English phrases, probably correct in themselves, was afforded at the dinner given by his fellow- journalists to Sir Edward T. Cook at the Hotel Cecil on 26 July, with Lord Morley in the chair. According to The Times report on the following day, the concluding sentence in the speech of the guest of the evening was as follows : " Those were opportunities which a journalist who re- spected his calling rarely prized." As the context showed, Sir Edward Cook meant that they were greatly prized, but by itself the sentence would surely be taken by most readers to mean exactly the reverse.

There may be equally striking instances of the use by eminent men of phrases which could well be accepted in opposite senses. J. LAND FEAR LUCAS.

WE must request correspcndents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

'MEMOIRS OF SCRIBLERUS.'

THE ELWIN-COURTHOPE EDITION of Pope's ' Works,' the standard modern edition, prints the ' Memoirs of Scriblerus ' according to the version of Bishop Warburton's edition of 1751. These two contain only fourteen chapters, omitting chaps, xiv. and xv. of the earlier editions, which have sixteen or seventeen chapters (see below). No further information concerning earlier editions is afforded by the editors' notes than is contained in the following sentence (Elwin-Courthope, vol. x. p. 272) :

" All the evidence, internal and external, seems to point to the fact that the Memoirs were com- posed during the sittings of the Club, and that when the first book was completed it was put aside perhaps because it was not thought worth while to publish them till Pope included them in the octavo edition of his Works, published by Dodsley in 1742."

The statement, however, is incorrect. There were not less than three editions in 1741 ; and at least two appeared in 1742. They may be listed thus : a. The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, in Prose.

Vol. II. London : Printed for J. and P.

Knapton, C. Bathurst, and R. Dodsley.

M.DCC.XLI.

Folio ; pagination irregular ; Memoirs

occupy pp. 1-70, followed by an unnumbered

leaf of ' Contents.' 6. The Works, &c. (Worded like a.)

Quarto ; pagination irregular ; Memoirs

occupy pp. 1-75, followed by ' Contents '

(pp. unnumbered).

c. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works,

and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus. By Mr. Pope. Dublin : Printed by and for George Faulkner. M.DCC.XLI.

Small duodecimo.

The two editions of 1742 are bound up with editions of the Fourth Book of ' The Dunciad :

d. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq ; Vol. Ill.

Part II. Containing the Dunciad, Book IV. and the Memoirs of Scriblerus. Never before Printed. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, and Sold by T. Cooper, MDCCXIJI.

Small octa. o ; poem occupies pp. 1-60 ; Appendix, 61-84 ; Memoirs, 1-128 ; a leaf, 261-[262], containing a list of ' Pieces of Scriblerus ' on recto and ' Advertisement ' on verso. Memoirs have no table of ' Contents ' ; leaf D8, pp. 63 (misnumbered 61)-64, is a cancel.