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animals placed back-to-back. A niblick might be a useful club in " addressing " such a fearsome beast as a wyvern.

S. A. GRUNDY-NEWMAN.

Walsall.

The word " addressed " is not an heraldic term ; it should certainly be " addorsed " (i.e., the wings " back to back ").

Several branches of the Drake family, resident in Norfolk, Bucks, Withycombe {Devon), and in Ireland, bore for their crest : A Wyvern, with wings addorsed, argent. WILFRED DRAKE.

[MR. ALFRED CHAS. JONAS also thanked for reply. J

WHITE HORSES (11 S. vii. 109, 215). Another version of the rimes quoted by MR. W. H. PEET at the latter reference is :

One white leg, ride him for your life ;

Two white legs, give him to' your wife;

Three white legs, give him to your man ;

Four white legs, sell him if you can.

In India on the contrary, among Hindus at least, four white legs are regarded as lucky, and a horse which combines with them a white blaze on the face is said to possess the pdnch kalydn, or five fortunate marks.

H. C. IRWIN. Tynan, co. Armagh.

HOMER AND ULYSSES : ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION (11 S. ii. 407, 515). At the former reference P. C. G. asked who the allegorist was who interpreted the prodigies that followed the devouring of the oxen of the Sun by Ulysses's crew so as to yield the moral that the sins of the wicked dog their steps and cry aloud against them.

I have discovered where this allegory is to be found through reading the following passages in the Appendix ' On the Wandering of Ulysses ' to Thomas Taylor's translation of ' Select Works of Porphyry ' :

" After this succeeds the allegory of the Trinacrian isle .... Homer, by attributing sense to the flesh and hides of the slain herds, mani- festly evinces that every base deed universally proclaims the iniquity of its author ; but that perjury and sacrilege are attended with the most glaring indications of guilt, and the most horrid signatures of approaching vengeance and in- evitable ruin." Pp. 252-li.

On p. 241 Taylor refers to his having phyry, and the work of an anonymous ' Greek writer, ' De Ulixis Erroribus,' to unfold the latent meaning of the wanderings of Ulysses, as narrated by Homer."
 * ' attempted, from the hints afforded by Por-

Now Porphyry, ' De Antro Nympharum,' and Plotinus, ' Enneades,' I. vi. 8, while dealing with the allegorical interpretations

of Odysseus's Wanderings, do not supply the special detail referred to. which is evidently based on a passage in ' Incerti Scriptoris Grseci Fabulse Aliquot Homericas de Ulixis Erroribus Ethice Explicate,' edited by Johannes Columbus, Lugd. Bat., 1745.

"El 5 KCU aLffdrja-iv rots Kptavi KO.I rots pivots irepidTTTeiv Taye rrjs Tronfjire cos /3oi)Xerar &AX' e/cetVo irpb TOU Travrbs delicti potXfrai, ws jrai Tracra (j.tv afoxluv 7r/mts Travraxov fioq. ryv TOV iroir) TOS irapawpiav' ij 8t T&V tiridpKuv teal iepwrvXuv ToaoiVy /xaXiara, 6V<fJ /ecu et's at/ro TO Betov ava.<ppi TO deivdv. "

Cap. ix. p. 54.

If one may judge from the Bodleian copy (formerly D. B. Monro's), which required a paper-knife, this anonymous Greek writer is not often disturbed.

WELLAND SERMON REGISTER, 1809-28 (11 S. vii. 104). I would suggest that the name appearing in the list as Nev\iv may denote Thomas Newlin, 1688-1743. See the ' D.N.B.' More than one collection of his sermons was published.

EDWARD BENSLY.

ENGLISH AND DANISH OGRE-STORIES (11 S. vii. 228). This " smelling-out " incident is very frequent. Instances may be found in Grinnell's * Blackfoot Lodge Tales ' (London, 1893), in the story of Scarf ace's search for the sun, and in that of the man who went to the Sand Hills to seek his dead wife. In the first tale Scarface is hidden by Moon under a pile of clothes. The Sun, as soon as he reaches the doorway, exclaims : smell a person." The same incident is in Pedroso's Portuguese 'Folk Tales,' No. XXVI. In Lang's Preface to Perrault s ' Popular Tales ' (p. cvi), commenting on the tale of ' Le Petit Poucet '

" L'Ogre flairoit a droite et a gauche, disant qu'il sentoit la chair fraiche. II faut, luy dit sa temme, que ce soit ce veau que je viens d'habiller que vous sentez "

the writer refers to parallels in Callaway's ' Nursery Tales of the Zulus,' Grey's ' Poly- nesian Mythology,' Petitot's 'Traditions Indiennes du Canada Nord-Ouest,' and in the ' Eumenides,.' 1. 244 (when they smell out Orestes), &c. YGREC.

PIGMENTS (11 S. vii. 169, 237). In- directly this may be of use to PEREGRINUS. There is a nice debate in the Talmud (Tractate Sabbath) as to what Isaiah in- tended in cap. iii. 16 by mesakrous eina- hyeem, one Rabbi suggesting that the Hebrew women painted the rims of their eyes with a pigment which Rashi describes as ruddle or red earth.

M. L. R. BRESLAR.