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ie situation and continuity of the school >r schools known as Miss Salmon's (at which " The Matchless Orinda " was educated), Samuel Morland's, and the Hackney School under the head-masterships of the several Newcomes.

If any readers possess information bearing on the point in question, I should be glad if they would communicate the same, either to ' N. & Q.' or to me direct. Information about pupils of Newcome's School, the records of which are unfortunately lost, will be equally welcome.

Newcoroe's School apparently became defunct when the building was demolished early in the nineteenth century, in order to secure a site of the required size for the London Orphan Asylum, part of the latter building being now known as the Congress Hall of the Salvation Army.

T. ALDRED Chief Librarian.

Hackney Public Libraries.

SIR DONALD STEWART'S AFGHAN ADVEN- TURE. A reviewer in The Times Literary Supplement of Jan. 20 says " there are good military authorities " who hold that Sir Donald Stewart's march from Kandahar to Kabul was " more memorable " than Lord Roberts's march from Kabul to Kandahar, though the 4i latter dwells in all men's memories, whereas the former is well-nigh forgotten." The late Sir Charles Euan- Smith is cited as one of these " good military authorities." Who are the others ?

J. M. BULLOCH. 123 Pall Mall, S.W.

CHIMNEY-SWEEPS : '' LUCIFER " MATCH FACTORIES. I should be glad if any medical correspondent could refer me to any recent publications giving the latest avail- able data as to the prevalence of chimney- sweeps' cancer among chimney-sweeps, and as to sickness and mortality among the manufacturing hands in lucifer match factories. Can it be shown that the latter has now been overcome ? R. K. H.

THE MASS : A FAMOUS ENGLISHMAN'S CHANGE OF VIEW. Can you indicate in what author's writings may be found an assertion, concerning some one famous in English literature, to the effect that, when sojourning abroad, he thought at first with surprise and scorn of the congregations assisting at Mass " to see a priest bow and wipe a cup "but that after a time observa- tion and experience led him to realize that there is much more than that to be found in

the Blessed Sacrament ? I have a notion that Carlyle was the person referred to, but I am now unable to locate the passage, as a long time has passed since it came under my eye, and my memory serves me but im- perfectly. J. FRANK BUXTON. 21 Farndon Road, Oxford.

THE EIGHTEEN SEVENTIES : ' PINAFORE ' AND TENNIS. What was the date of the production of * H.M.S. Pinafore ' by Gilbert and Sullivan ? My recollection is that it appeared about 1878, but Madame de Hegermaim-Liridencrone, in her book ' In the Courts of Memory,' speaks (p. 374) ol having sung " some of the songs from the ' Pinafore,' " on board a German man-of-war lying at Cuba in the spring of 1873.

Also, when was lawn tennis first played ?

1 think it was about 1877, but the same lady mentions (p. 384) " tennis, a new game," as being played at Johannisberg by Prince Metternich in July, 1874.

' In the Courts of Memory ' consists of " contemporary letters," and the extracts referred to occur, the one in a letter written from Cuba in 1873, and the other in a letter written from Germany in July, 1874.

E. M. MACPHAIL.

Madras.

" TERRA RODATA." Isaac Taylor, in his 'Words and Places' (p. 329 of the 1885 edition), defines the word " royd," so well known to students of West Yorkshire place- names, as " land that has been ridded of trees," and states that it is represented in Low Latin by terra rodala. I have consulted Ducange and Spelman, and gone through several collections of ancient charters, but so far have not had the good fortune to come across the expression. I believe that it must occur somewhere, otherwise Isaac Taj^lor would not have quoted it. I should be^much obliged to any of your readers who would furnish me with a reference to some passage in which the expression is to be found. C. J. BATTERSBY.

Sheffield.

" PEDESTRES." What is known of the author of " A Pedestrian Tour of Thirteen Hundred and Forty-Seven Miles through England and Wales, by Pedestres and Sir Clavileno Woodenpeg, Knight of Snowdon,"

2 vols. (Saunders & Otley, 1836) ? The book is a whimsical and learned narrative of a journey supposed to be taken by a man with a wooden leg and a walking-stick.

ARTHUR BOWES.