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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. VIL JUNE 7, 1913.

UNICORN'S HORN. I have always under- stood that the unicorn, was a fabulous animal. Can, therefore, any of your readers tell me what horn was mistaken for a unicorn's horn hy Benvenuto Cellini in the following extract from his memoirs, chap. xii. ?

" He [Pope Clement VII.] then commanded each of us to draw a design for setting an unicorn's horn, the most beautiful that ever was seen, which had cost 17,000 ducats."

G. A. WOODROFFE PHILLIPS.

[The unicorn and its horn are discussed at 8 S. xi. 422, 493; xii. 31 ; 9 S. v. 314, 427 ; vi. 10, 74, 193.]

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. 1. PECH ONSLOW was admitted to West- minster School 25 Feb., 1817. I should be glad to ascertain his parentage and the date of his death.

2. JOHN PANCHAUD was admitted to West- minster School 12 April, 1787. Any informa- tion concerning his parentage and career is desired.

3. JOHN TOWNSHEND PASCA was admitted to Westminster School 11 April, 1817. Par- ticulars of his parentage and career are wanted.

4. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE PAYTON was admitted to Westminster School 16 Feb., 1780. Can any correspondent of ' N. & Q.' help me to identify him ? G. F. K. B.

MYLESS, ESSEX. Can any reader of is situated ? This place-name occurs in the following extracts from The Gentleman's Magazine for 1788 :
 * N. & Q.' inform me where Myless, co. Essex,

Ft. ii. p. 835, Sept. Births." Sept. 19. Lady of Francis Ford, esq., of Myless, co. Essex, a son."

Pt. ii. p. 1030, Nov. Deaths. " Oct. 30. At Myless, co. Essex, Master Francis Ford, youngest son of Francis F. esq."

I have consulted Lewis's ' Topographical Dictionary,' as well as various Gazetteers of the British Isles, without success.

H. A. F.

PICTURES OF THE DEITY IN CHURCHES. Dr. John Gumming in his readings on the book of Exodus (chap, xx.), after expressing the wish that there should be no pictures of the Deity in our churches, observed that it is remarkable

" that in the early Church this was so much felt, that when a great divine saw upon a curtain a picture of our Lord he rent it in pieces." Who was the divine ?

STAPLETON MARTIN. The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED. Where can I find the following lines ? Men are only boys grown tall ; Hearts don't change much after all.

J. F. J.

Minneapolis.

" CORK FEVER." In a serial story ' The Gold Magnet,' by Annesley Kenealy, pub- lished in Yes or No, September, 1912, I noticed the following passage from chap, xxii.:

" West Africa was an Al sort of place for a reckless man who wanted to go to pot. There was ' cork fever ' to fear in a case like this. Talbot had never been a chap with a fondness for the whisky bottle. But who knows? A few weeks of that sort of game on the Coast might finish the business, and there'd be nothing but a skeleton to dispose of, and a few boxes of ' kit ' to send home. '

Is the phrase " cork fever " of frequent or habitual use among Colonials and Anglo- Indians in reference to one who has taken to heavy drinking ?

HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane.

WILLIAM HONE. (US. vii. 327.)

THE following letter of William Hone is sufficiently interesting to justify publication in these pages. It forms part of a collection of letters and papers that were not made use of in the preparation of the biography offered to the public last year.

22, Belvidere Place, Southwark,

3 June, 1826.

MY DEAR SIR, Misfortune and ill report usually go together, and you cannot therefore, I imagine, be ignorant, that I am, at least, in deep trouble. Now [? How] it has been occasioned many will presume to know better than myself of such knowledge, or of any of the manifold conjectures concerning me, I am uninformed, and desire to remain so, but of this I do, with truth, assure you, that if I have life and faculties, 1 shall be able to show I have derived nothing but sorrow to myself, and have done nothing for wnich any one may blush when he recollects that he at any time beiriended me. In my present situation I do not expect the world to alter its usual course, but I dp hope there may be a few, who, if they cannot afford me their open countenance, will in some degree continue their private favor, and I am mistaken if I may not regard you as one of that "few" for, though we have seldom met, yet, when we have, it has been with intimacy, and I have met you as often as any, of that small number, whom I could esteem as friends. I say this because it is natural for you to suppose that I might have seen others more