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THE GREAT EASTERN, THE FIRST OF THE LEVIATHANS (11 S. viii. 506; ix. 55, 116,

158). Those interested in this subject should

read ' Dio.ries of Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart.,' Kegan Paul & Co., 1892. The history of the vessel is traced therein from the time of the inception of the enterprise by the famous engineer Brunei, with whom the chairman of the Great Western Railway was on terms of closest intimacy.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenseum Club.

GLADSTONE'S INVOLVED SENTENCES (US. ix. 190, 273). If the querist will con- sult the following authorities, he will find ample material on Gladstone as an orator : (1) Sir Wemyss Reid's ' Life,' p. 502 (chap, xii., by H. W. Lucy) ; (2) Sir E. W. Hamil- ton's "'Monograph,' p.' 1 (a good aper$u) ; (3) Justin McCarthy's ' Story of Gladstone's Life,' p. 384 (chap, xxxiii., a fine apprecia- tion) ; (4) Viscount Bryce's ' Studies in Contemporary Biography,' p. 426 (a discri- minating yet eulogistic estimate).

J. B. MCGOVERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

VOLTAIRE ON THE JEWISH PEOPLE (US.

Pyrrb ' De Bossuet,' where he says :

"Bossuet dans sa pre"tendue Histoire uni-

verselle, qui n'est que celle de quatre a cinq peuples, et surtout de la petite nation juive, ou ignored, ou ]ustement me"prise du reste de la terre, a laquelle pourtant il rapporte tous les e"ve"nemens, et pour laquelle il dit que tout a 6te"

HERTHA HAMILTON.

" A FACT IS A LIE AND A HALF " (11 S. IX. 170, 217). This expression was common enough when I was a boy in the fifties and sixties, in the North Riding. Generally used in heated argument, it meant, I think, that to allege as a fact what was known not to be a fact was more than an ordinary lie.

H. R.

Moss, AN ACTOR (11 S. ix. 249). A portrait of " Mr. Moss, Comedian, as ' Caleb,' " is included in John Kay's ' Ori- ginal Portraits/ of which the latest edition is 1887, 2 vols.

MAJOR-GENERAL MILLER (11 S. ix. 249). A portrait of Major-General George Murray Miller, 1829, is in Mackenzie's ' Historical Records of the 79th Cameron Highlanders,' 1887. W. B. H.

REV. JOHN RIGBY, D.D. (11 S. ix. 229). I would hazard the suggestion that the subject of this query was a son of Edward Rigby, 1747-1821, author of ' Letters from France in 1789,' issued in 1880, and edited by Lady Eastlake. See 'D.N.B.' Edward Rigby was the father of Lady Eastlake, and the son of Dr. John Rigby and his wife, nee Sarah Taylor, of the famous Norwich family of that name. See ' Three Genera- tions of Englishwomen,' by Janet Ross, new edition, 1893, p. 21.

WM. H. PEET.

THE RED BULL THEATRE (11 S. ix. 150, 212). In the Transactions of the New Shak- spere Society, 10 April, 1885, is a reprint of some ' Documents relating to the Players at the Red Bull, Clerkenwell, and the Cockpit in Drury Lane,' c. 1610-23, which throw some light upon matters connected with the stage in the reign of James I.

TOM JONES.

REVERSED ENGRAVINGS (11 S. ix. 189, 253). In the British Museum (Print Room) there are three copies of Villamena's en- graving known as ' The Soldier turned Ink- Seller,' one of which is reversed. A wood- cut of the same, also reversed, is seen in Magasin Pittoresque, iii. 232, Paris, c. 1835.

In vol. i. p. 348 of the same periodical there is a reversed woodcut of Sustermans's second portrait of Galileo ; and in Brew- ster's ' Martyrs of Science ' (London, Chatto & Windus, 1874) there is another reversed portrait of him. It is hard to say from what original this was made, but that it is reversed is clear, as it shows the characteristic mole on the right cheek, instead of the left.

J. J. FAHIE.

LOMBARD STREET BANKERS (11 S. ix. 230, 272). If MR. ABRAHAMS will refer to the account of Martin's bank ("The Grass- hopper" in Lombard Street ) in Mr. Hilton Price's ' Handbook of London Bankers,' Chatto, 1876, I think he will find some information bearing on his query, although the name of Evance is not mentioned.

T. W. TYRRELL.

"OVER END " = STRAIGHT TIP (11 S. ix. 146, 234). There is another use of this expression current in East Yorkshire, mean- ing the very opposite of " straight up," and equivalent to " head over heels," or, as I suppose it should be, " heels over head." A man is said to knock another " taail cover end." E. L. H. TEW.

Upham Rectory, Hants.