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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vi. SEPT. 21, ma.

DOUBLE MEANINGS (11 S. vi. 167). German journalese uses selten in the same I call it stupid way. For a German of normal intellect and education " das Wetter 1st in Salzburg selten schon " means that it mostly rains there ; but in our newspapers " eine selten schone Gelegenheit " is equi- valent to an exceedingly fine opportunity. Such phrases are only good for oracles and other institutions and persons that want to shuffle out of responsibilities.

G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

DEDICATION OF NONCONFORMIST CHAPELS (US. vi. 131, 192). Trinity Chapel, Grove Street, Liverpool, a Wesleyan place of worship, dates from about 1860, and the dedication cannot, I should say, have been due in any degree to sympathy with the Anglican revival in the Church of England ; if it were, it must have been quite uncon- sciously so. St. John's Chapel, Prince's Park, Liverpool (again Wesleyan), was built a few years later. These are the earliest dedications of Wesleyan chapels I remember to have heard of. C. C. B.

SIR WALTER RALEGH'S DESCENDANTS (US. vi. 191). Sir Walter's younger son, Carew Ralegh (1605-66), married Philippa W T eston, " the rich widow of Sir Anthony Ashley/' By her he had Philip, of London and Tenchley in Surrey (who in 1695 was stated to have four sons Walter, Carew, and two others), and three daughters (Le Neve, ' Knights,' 74). Carew's daughter Anne married Sir Philip Tyrrell of Castle- thorpe (Wood, ' Athense Oxon.,' ed. Bliss, ii. 244).

CHARLES KEENE : ARTICLE BY GEORGE MOORE (11 S. vi. 190). See Mr. Moore's book ' Modern Painting ' (1893), pp. 213-19, the paper entitled ' A Great Artist.'

A. R. BAYLEY.

WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT (11 S. iv. 603, 522; v. 75, 274, 313, 452). Another variant of the Rat-Money-broker story for which see US. iv. 504 and v. 313 is given in E. B. Cowell's ' The Jataka,' 1905, vol. i.. No. 4, under the heading ' Cullaka- Sehi- Jataka ' (" A young man picks up a dead mouse, which he sells, and works up this capital till he becomes rich"). To it is appended this note :

" The whole Jataka, in an abbreviated form, forms the story of the Mouse Merchant at pages 33, 34, of the first volume of Tawney's translations of the ' Katha Sarit Sagara.' See also ' Kalilah and Dimnah,' chap, xviii."

The late Moncure D. Conway, in his ' Pilgrimage to the Wise Men of the East/ 1906, p. Ill, speaks thus :

" The familiar London folk-tale of Whittmgton and his Cat, which I once traced through many parts of the world, originated in a Buddhist parable whose moral was the base ingratitude of man to the animals that befriended him. The cat, having ingeniously made the fortune of a poor peasant, is cast aside to perish in wretched- ness. This lesson against ingratitude faintly reappears in the early versions of ' Puss in Boots,' but has entirely disappeared in the story of Whittington, in which the cat is supplanted by the Providence which watches over the specula- tions of the pious and loyal British merchant."

Acquainted with many an Indian tale anent man's ingratitude to his animal benefactors as I am, I have never met such a Buddhist parable of the benevolent cat as is mentioned by Conway without naming authority. Can any of your readers inform me where the story is recorded ?

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan.

"ACCORDING TO COCKER" (11 S. vi. 90, 176). The Arithmetic which gave rise to this saying was published after Cocker's death ; and Prof. A. De Morgan, in his ' Arithmetical Books,' 1847, shows that it was a forgery. Nevertheless, Dr. Brewer and everybody else completely ignore De Morgan's article.

References can be made to 4 S. viii. 256 ; 7 S. iv. 341, 543 ; and 10 S. vii. 386; also to The City Press, 17 and 24 Aug.. 1872.

RALPH THOMAS.

HENRY HUNT PIPER (11 S. vi. 129, 176, 216). I have had the following courteous letter from the Librarian of Dr. Williams's Library (Gordon Square, London, W.C.) r dated 5 Sept. :

" There is no doubt about the Rev. Hunt Piper's authorship of the revised Common Prayer published by Pickering in 1852. It is fully reviewed in The Christian Reformer for Axigust,

1852, but is there treated as anonymous. A second edition (also anonymous) was published in the same year by E. T. Whitfield, who was at that time doing most of the Unitarian publishing.

" In an account of the anniversary services at Banbury in The Christian Reformer for September,

1853, allusion is made to the ' Prayer-book pre- pared by Mr. Piper, and adopted by the congre- gation towards the close of last year.'

" Finally, we have in our possession a copy of the first edition, formerly in the possession of Mr. Alfred W. Worthington, a perfectly reliable authority and a contemporary of Mr. Piper's, with a note in his handwriting on the title-page, ' by Rev. Henry Hunt Piper.' "

This evidence, together with the state- ment by Mr. Basil Pickering (son of the