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 90 NOTES AND QUERIES. [11s.v11.1m=.1.191s. A Sn.xwoniu's THREAD.-In one of his ‘ Rambler’ papers Johnson says tlvli, _lf hampered by t-imidity, “ the mechamst will be afraid to assert, before hardy contradic- tion, the possibility of tearmg down bulwarks with a silkworm`s thread.’ I can under- stand the hesitation more than the fact (if it be one), and should be grateful  some “ mechanist ” would give me a little light. C. B. WHEELER. Cnonnna MONUMENT, Snsrrrsm. -_I shall be obliged if any one can tell me if there are any particulars extant of those who are buried under t-his monument. 34, Pier Road, Erith, Kent. “ EDITION ” AND “ IM1>nEssIoN."-Why, and how far, do publishers distinguish between these two words? In themselves they surely bear the same meaning. I am led to put the query by the following, printed on the verso of a leaflet advertising a volume of poems by Villiam Emest Henley, New York, 1909:- “First edition, printed January, 1813; second edition, printed March, 1898: thirdedition printed Se tember, l89%; fourth edition, printed January, MIR): fifth edition printed December, 1901; sixth impression, printed August, 1903" ; and so on, to the “eleventh impression, printed January, 1909.” Wh§ the change after the “ fifth edition ” 'P very edition is an impression, and every impression an edition. It seems to me a simple case of literary Eedantry. J. B. MCGOVEBN. St. Step en’s Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. [The use of these two words was recommended in the Report of the Committee of the Publishers' Association of Great Britain and Ireland, 1898, as will be seen by the following extract:- “ (3) Impression, Edition. Reissue -That for bibliographical purposes definite meanings should be attached to these words when used on a title page. and the following are recommended :- “ Impression.~A number of copies printed at any one time. When a, book is reprinted without change it should be called a new impression, to distinguish it from an edition as defined below. “Edifi¢m.-An impression in which the matter has undergone some change. or for which the type has been reset. “_Resssue.-A republication at a different price, or in a different crm, of part of an impression which has already been placed on the market ..... "' Fzfteenlh lmpre/mon (Third Edihbn).-This would indicate that the book had been prinwd fifteen times, and that in the course of those fifteen x| ions it had been revised or altered twice.” gr Pparticulars will be found, .¢.v. “title {5ages,"_in oward Oollins`s ‘ Authors’ and Printers’ leticnaryf “ Fourth Edition (Fifth Impressiorlg by Horace Hart, Controller of the Oxfo University Press ” (Frowde, l9l2).] YONGE or CAYNTON, co. Ssnor.-I am engaged in preparing for publication a full pedigree of the above family, and am anxious to be put into communication- (l) With the descendants, if any, of William Yonge of Shifnal, Salop, surgeon, living in 1816. A (2) Vith the relations of General Gus- tavus Nigel Kingscote Yonge, who died in 1894. (3) With the descendants in America of Francis Yonge of Carolina, some of whom corresponded with the English members of the family some few years back. G. R. Y. RADCLIFFE. l, Mitre Court Buildings, Temple, E.C. REFERENGES or QUOTATIONS VAN'rnn.- 1. “ I hate the French, because they are all slaves, and wear wooden shoes.” 2. The saying attributed to the great Earl of Chatham, that “ the wind might blow through an Englishmans house, but the King of England could not enter it without consent” (see 6 S. viii. 448). It was ludi- crously perverted in 1880 by Senator John J. Ingalls of Kansas as follows :- “ Mr. President, there in an old sayin that an Englishman’s house is his castle, and I think some oratnr ...... said that, though the winds of heaven might whistle around an Englishmanscottage, the Ki§tz78f1England could not.”-Congremonal ecard. D Rrcnsnn H. THORNTON. Scnormrnsunn AND WmBLsnoN.-In his monograph on Schopenhauer Mr. Vallace states :- “ In 151). after spending six weeks in sightseein in London, his rents started for a four in En lang and Scotland, Igavin Arthur for three montiis in charge of n. Rev. Mr. ‘Lancaster at Wimbledon.” In this boarding-school, at the same time, were two nephews of Lord Nelson. Can any one tell us whereabouts this school was situated, whether any famous men were educated there subsequently, and at what date it was discontinued ? M. L. R. Bnnsmn. AU'rHon. Wsnnrn.-Can any reader of ‘ N. 8; Q.’ tell me the author of the following coupletf The speakers are evidently a dying wife and her husband :- Immatura peris.--Tu, fortunstior, annos Vive tuos, conjux optime, vive meos. BnAsrn.ss’s Mousa.-In vol. i. of his ‘Life of Carlyle’ Froude writes: “He made his enemies fear him, if only like Braeidas’s mouse.” What is the allusion here ? Anrnun Gays.