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 u s. vi. <>T. 26, 1912.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

The rendering by Thomas Ashe is also excellent, except that it contains an un- fortunate rime in the first quatrain.

SAMUEL WADDINGTON.

15, Cambridge Street, W.

There are several English translations of this beautiful sonnet, but none so good as the one you quote. Ashe translated it, and Longfellow, neither of them very success- fully. I once tried my own hand upon it, but modesty forbids me to think (or at any rate to say) that I succeeded any better. If DR. IVRUEGER cares to see these versions, I shall be glad to copy them for him.

C. C. B.-

REFERENCES IN ' MARIUS THE EPICU- REAN ' (US. vi. 189).!. The source for this is the ' Historia Augusta,' where it is mentioned in two of the lives attributed to Julius Capitolinus, namely, ' Antoninus Pius,' 12, 5, and ' Marcus Antoninus Philo- sophus,' 7, 3.

2. " Numen inest " is a quotation from Ovid, ' Fasti,' iii. 296 ; Pater's " shadowy grove of ilex " is the " lucus. . . .niger ilicis umbra " of the preceding line.

6. " Violets, a cake dipped in wine. . . . " See ; Fasti,' ii. 39,

inque mero mollita Ceres viokeque solute.

For the words immediately before, " But

the dead genii were satisfied with little,"

cf. ' Fasti,' ii. 535, " parva petunt manes."

EDWARD BENSLY.

LORD TRURO'S UNIVERSAL INFORMATION BUREAU (US. vi. 251). I have a circular or printed " slip " which, I think, concerns Lord Truro's Information Office. My im- pression is that I received it about twenty- five years ago. It runs :

" The Knowledge and Information Office 19, Southampton St., Bloomsbury Sq., London, W.C. Particulars and Prospectuses in all Lan- guages, Post Free.

" Questions on any conceivable subject, great and small, and in every language, Answered frequently by next post.

" A single ordinary question requiring little labour or research Is. with stamp for reply.

" But if difficult, requiring special knowledge, or taking time, a higher fee is assessed. All fees are fixed by an independent assessor, and can be ascertained beforehand.

" Foreign letters and documents rapidly trans- lated.

" This Office is now acknowledged by hundreds of Testimonials to be the Great Centre for Infor- mation of every kind. Its Correspondents and Staff comprise the most accomplished persons in every branch of knowledge in all parts of the

world ; and the Office has not once since its establishment failed to answer any enquiry where it was practicable to do so.

" The Secretary."

I once sent a question to the Knowledge and Information Office, viz., " What is the length of a Dutch ell ? " Perhaps I said, " as used at The Hague." To my query I added, " It is not a metre." The reply was to the effect that the Information Office could not find that it was anything but an equivalent to a metre. This I knew to be wrong, as I had bought things at The Hague, where the more fashionable shops sold by the metre, and others little visited by strangers sold by the ell.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

BARNARD FAMILY (US. v. 508 ;vi. 197). I think MR. ANDREWS will find sufficient evi- dence in the will of John Barnard of Peters- field, gent., proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, and registered "17 Ply- mouth," to justify the identification of that testator with the original owner of the Bible in question. PERCEVAL LUCAS.

28, Orchard Street, W.

MAIDENS' GARLANDS (11 S. vi. 251). Five of these were still hanging in the north aisle of the church at Asliford-in-the-Water when I visited it in 1902. The subject is fully dealt with on pp. 86-8 of ' Lore and Legend of the English Church ' (Tyack), and also on pp. 205-7 of ' Church Folk- lore ' (Vaux), 2nd ed., 1902, where reference is made to a statement in ' N. & Q.' for 22 Nov., 1873 (4 S. xii. 406), of the then existence of the custom at Abbots Ann, near Andover. A. C. C.

Perhaps MR. PERCY SMITH has recollections of reading New Shakspere Society's Trans., Series I. pt. xii., 1888, p. 180, where a list is given of Derbyshire "Garlands" by Dr, Furnivall and Dr. Cox. I do not know if the space of ' N. & Q.' should be taken up to tabulate these, but if it may, I append the localities :

Alverston.

Ashford (5).

Ashover (still there).

Bolsover.

Eyam (still).

Fairfleld.

Glossop.

Heauor.

Hope.

Matlock (6 in vestry).

Meltor.

Mugginton.

Tissington.

Trusley (1).

Hallam, West (many). Winfteld, South (1).

Hayfield.

The date of publication (1888) must be taken

into consideration now (1912).

S. L. PETTY.

[Is Meltor correct, or is Mellor intended ?]