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After the Act of Union in 1707, Queen Anne's three realms were, undoubtedly, Great Britain, France, and Ireland. 'The Rape of the Lock,' " an heroi-comical poem," was published in 1712. Another line of Pope's,

Yet ne'er looks forward farther than his nose, was the subject of a little conversation between Boswell and Johnson just after they had left the house of Lord Monboddo (Hebrides, Aug. 21) :

" I objected to the last phrase, as being low. Johnson : ' Sir, it is intended to be low : it is satire. The expression is debased to debase the cha- racter.

Perhaps the answer to THIN. COLL., CAMB.'S query might be : The word " obey " is intended to be hyperbolical ; it is an heroi- comical poem. The expression is satirical to satirize the shadowy claim to the crown of France. B. B.

In spite of the facts that ' The Rape of the Lock ' appeared in its first form in the ' Miscellanies ' published by Lintot in 1712, and that the Parliamentary union between England arid Scotland was achieved in 1707, I think there can be little doubt that Pope alludes to the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland in this line.

A. R. BAYLEY.

This expression means England, Scotland, and Ireland. On p. 38 of vol. iv of that interesting novel * The History of Two Orphans,' by William Toldervy (London, 1756). your correspondent will read : " (for he had been cured of that cursed distemper gaming, in the very gay kingdom of Ireland). 1 " Until the end of the eighteenth century such a term would be usual.

E. S. DODGSON.

THE Two RYHOPES, co. DURHAM (12 S. i. 49, 98). I am afraid I did not make the query about the two Ryhopes as clear as it ought to have been.

Durham historians quote two Ryhopes as forming part of King Athelstan's grant, yet describe the two places as one.

Stranger still, Bishop Pudsey's ' Survey ' of the county, some two hundred years later than Athelstan, refers to one Ryhope, yet mention is made of the two Birdens and Tunstall.

Do any of your readers agree that one of these Saxon tuns was one of the two Ryhopes, or can they account for their riot being included in the Athelstan grant ?

A. E. OUGHTRED.

Castle Eden.

STICKING-PLASTER PORTRAITS (12 S. L 109). We possess several silhouettes of ancestors, but they do not appear to have been cut out in black court-plaster. Cer- tainly the artist who deftly executed one's portrait at the old " Polytechnic " in Regent Street, say fifty years ago, did not employ that method. Maybe Thackeray used the expression in a playful fashion.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

I recollect small square photographs, a little larger than an ordinary postage stamp,, with adhesive gum at the back of them, being in use in Norwich about fifty years ago. It was the custom with some people at that time to affix the photograph to the end of a letter, instead of a signature, and I saw such a letter only a year or so ago.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

10 Essex Street, Norwich.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL: BUSING (12 S. i. 62). I beg to correct a slight error here. There is- no canton of Rapperschwyl, nor was there ever one. At the time referred to Rap- perschwyl was a " Schirmort " (Protectorate),, together with Gersau and Engelberg.

D. L. GALBREATH.

Montreux.

' OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEFENCE OF GREAT BRITAIN' (12 S. i. 90). ' A Bio- graphical Dictionary of Living Authors,' 1816, has:

' Glenie, James, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., formerly an officer in the Royal Artillery and Engineers. This gentleman, a native of Scotland, born about 1747, is one of the ablest mathematicians of the present day, and is said to have put to rest, in a paper read bei'ore the Royal Society in 1811, the long celebrated problem respecting the quadrature of the circle, the impossibility of which he there demonstrated. He is the author of some papers in the Phil. Trans., and of. the following works t ' History of Gunnery,' 8vo. 1770 ; * The Doctrine of Universal Comparison and General Proportion,' 4to, 1739 ; ' The Antecedent**! Calculus, or Geometrical Method of Reasoning without any consideration of motion or velocity, applicable to every purpose to which fluxions have been or can be applied,' 4to, 1703 ; Observations on Construction,' 8vo, 1793 ; ' Observations on the Defence of Great Britain and its Principal Dock- yards,' 8vo, 1807."

W. B. H.

The only details I can add to those already known are that the above book by James- Glenie was published in London and is 8vo in size. It is mentioned in ' D.N.B, r and Watt's " Bibliotheca Britannica.'

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.