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Galignani's shop still exists, or did a fe months ago, in the Rue de Rivoli, though I think that it is not in the building in which it was when I first remember it.

ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

HYMN BY GLADSTONE (11 S. vi. 449 vii. 34, 74). Two stanzas from Mr. Glad stone's poem ' Holy Communion ' were reproduced in The Daily Chronicle of 27 June 1898. It was there stated that the poem was " published for the first time in its entirety in Good Words for July" (not June), 1898.

I may add that a translation into Latin of the hymn (No. 236, A. and M.) " Hark, my soul ! it is the Lord," appeared in The Church Times of 27 May, 1898. It was senl by the Rev. J. M. Rodwell, who made the following interesting statement concerning it :

" The original copy, which I possess, in Mr. Gladstone's handwriting, and signed W. E. G., was given to my sister-in-law, Lady Martin, on the day of Bishop Selwyn's funeral at Lichfield, when Mr. Gladstone and Sir W. Martin (late C.J. of New Zealand) were two of the pall-bearers."

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED (US. vii. 70). (3) RALPH CARR, STEWARD 1795. S. Ralph of Whickham, co. Durham, arm. Christ Church, matric. 12 May, 1785, aged 17, B.A. 1789; Merton Coll., M.A. 1792, of Stannington, Northumberland, and Barrowpoint Hill. Middlesex: barrister-at- law, Middle Temple, 1796. Died 5 March, 1837, aged 67.

(4) THOMAS CARTER, STEWARD 1794. S. Thomas of London, arm. Christ Church, matrio. 3 June. 1779. aged 18 ; B.A. 1783, M.A. 1786; of Edgecott, Northants ; M.P. Tarn worth 1796-1802, Callington 1807-10. Died 10 June, 1835. See * Alumni West. ' 410.

VICARS OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST, LITTLE MISSENDEN (11 S. vi. 209. 278; vii. 69). Frederick Edward Pegus, s. Peter of Green- wich, Kent, gentleman. St. John's Coll., Oxon, matric. 25 June, 1817, aged 18 B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825. Died curate of Little Missenden, 27 March, 1848. See Robinson, 191- A. R. BAYLEY.

BACCARAT (11 S. vii. 67). If the name comes from a place, it is more likely from the French town of Baccarat than from Germany. See 7 S. xi. 488 ; xii. 75, 151, 191, 237. F. JESSEL,

"NOTCH" (11 S. vi. 366, 427, 470 p vii. 52, 98). When I spoke of the sticks of "pillo' cosher," notched now to show where they are to be divided into the pilules cochees of olden times, I was speaking of what I know and have seen. I doubt not that, even in these enlightened times, any elderly charwoman would easily get a penny- worth of this pill from some back-street pharmacy, and show how it should be warmed on the hob and fashioned into pills..

EDWARD NICHOLSON. Cros de Cagnes, near Nice.

One lives and learns. My experience of the drug trade extends over more than fifty years, and has been as varied as most men's, yet I have never met with Pil. Cochice in the form described by MR. POTTS. More curious still, only one of the many pharmacists in business of whom I have inquired since my previous reply appeared has done so, and that was fifty years ago- "in an old-fashioned place in Shropshire." Two other friends have seen it in out-of- the-way places in short, thick bars, not notched ; nobody else of all those I have questioned has ever met with or heard of it except in mass or in pills of the ordi- nary kind ; and all alike agree that it is only in mass or pills that it is now sold.

MR. POTTS says there is no connexion between the PiL Coccice (or Cochice) of the old pharmacopoeias and the popular ' pill-a-cosher." If he means between the two names, he is certainly wrong ; if between he two things, he may be either right or wrong, for "pill-a-cosher," or " crosher " ,the forms are as various as the substance), may mean any one of several different pills, all of which appear in the pharmacist's receipt books as " Pil. Cochiae," or " Pil. & Cochia," or under some such name. Rouse says Pil. Cochice is PiL Coloc. Co., and several London pharmacists have offered ne this. Others have formulae of their >wn (as is common with unofficial prepara- ions) ; one or two have understood that ' pil. aloes cum sapone " was meant. But f MR. POTTS is, like myself, a practical >harmacist, he will know how easily a ubstitute takes the name of the genuine irticle. It is certain that the popular and he official name were formerly applied to he same pill. Rennie (1837), under * Pil. Coloc. Co.,' says, "Old name, Pill Coche" ; inder * Pil. Cocciae ' he refers to this.

I confess I cannot see how the derivation f a name so old as this from a custom once ommon in England (supposing it to have