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 ii s. vii. JAN. 4, 1913.] XOTKS AND QUERIES.

Restoration, by a Government appointment in Dublin Castle. So Sir Winston's son John went to school at the Dublin Schoolhouse. in Schoolhouse Lane. His favourite clas- sical work is said to have been Vegetius's ciation of a great British general, who was An Englishman, with the city in which Wellington and Wolseley were born, is worthy of record. I quote from ' North Dublin City and Environs,' by Rev. Bro. Dillon Cosgrave, O.C.C., B.A., published in 1909. WILLIAM MACABTHUR.
 * Epitome Rei Militarist -The early asso-

Dublin.

MECHANICAL PIANO BEFORE 1868. Ma- dame L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone in her chatty book ' In the Courts of Memory (London, 1912), describing her stay at Corn- pi egne in 1868 as the guest of the Emperor and Empress of the French, has the following note about machine-made music at a dance :

" Looking for a substitute for Waldteufe [the pianist], a clever chamberlain discovered the ' Debaiii piano ' (mechanical piano). You remember I had one in my youth.... How I vised to love to grind out all the beautiful music those ugly boxes contained ! And how I used to wonder that those common wooden slides could repi'oduce such perfect imitations of the real thing."

The machine was worked by turning a crank.

Programmes with dangling pencils are also mentioned. The lady was at school at Cam- bridge, Massachusetts, in 1856.

L. L. K.

" THE SPORT OF KINGS." The phrase " the sport of kings " is often ascribed to Jorrocks. This is hardly correct.

In a poem entitled ' The Chace,' written by William Somerville, the Warwickshire poet, in 1735, occur the following lines : My hoarse-sounding horn Invites thee to the chace, the sport of kings.

DANIEL HIPWELL.

SCOTT : A CURIOSITY IN QUOTATION. One of the most characteristic and striking among Scott's " anonymous " chapter-head- ings is that which stands over chap, xxxiv. of ' Old Mortality ':

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife ! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life

Is worth an age without a name. It is one of the commonplaces of quotation, and is usually given for illustrative purposes with more or less accuracy. What must be, however, a singular slip of memory occurs

in the account of the author which is given by Mr. L. Maclean Watt in his recently published book on ' Scottish Life and Poetry.' The critic makes a false start with the stanza, and closes with the phrase " an age without an aim." Had a shorthand reporter been at work, one would have considered this droll and interesting as a phonetic aberra- tion ; it is a queer anomaly in a deliberately constructed volume. THOMAS BAYNE.

" PUT UP THIS, 'TWILL BE THINE ANOTHER DAY." (See 11 S. i. 164.) H. C. Hart's interpretation (Arden ed.) of this phrase ('Love's Labour's Lost,' IV. i. 120, 190 Globe) as meaning " It will be your turn another day," receives further confirmation from four examples of this idiom that I have noted. In these examples there is associated with the main idea of awaiting one's turn the further idea of desisting from immediate speech until that time. The Princess's words to Rosaline carry the same thought. " Never mind about this now ; you're going to have your turn later, when," the Princess implies. " unless I am greatly mistaken, you '11 hear from your lover." Fol. Peace, Us mine own i' faith ; I ha't' .... 'A Mad World, My Masters,' Middleton, III. iii., p. 381 (A. Dyce ed.).

Mat. 'Twill be thy own ;

I say no more : peace, hark !

remove thyself.

' A Mad World, My Masters,' Middleton, I. i., p. 337 (A. Dyceed.).

Luce. I protest, mistress

Cab. 'Twill be your oivn one time or other. Walter !

' Wit without Money,' Beaumont and Fletcher, III. i. 3.

Sir Vaughan. The same hand still, it is your owne another day, M. Horace, admonitions is good meate. ' Sa tiro-Mast ix,' Dekker,

Bang's " Materialien " edition, 1. 2007, p. 58.

M. P. T.

Ann Arbor, Mich.

ANTIQUITY OF THE " TIED-HOUSE."- Much complaint has been heard of late years in regard to the working of the tied- louse system affecting licensed premises, [t is, however, much older than is generally thought, as there was advertised in The Daily Coumnt for 27 Dec., 1726, to be let on lease,

' A Handsome Corner Public House, in N-\v- Belton-Street, St. Giles's. .. .just empty, wrll situated, and free from the Bondage of any ^articular Brewer."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.