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CHILDREN'S BOOKS. I should be gratefu' to any one who could tell me anything about two books which belonged, I think, to the first quarter of last century.

One was called ' Charlie Seymour ; or, The Good Aunt and the Bad Aunt.' If I remember aright, Charlie was allowed to choose one of these aunts as his guardian, and chose the wrong one. The other book had this peculiarity, that, after getting to the middle, one turned the book upside down, and began again at the other end. It had a frontispiece of a lady with all her children being drowned while bathing in the sea, and a poem :

They had gone forth in gladness all To bathe in the dark blue sea.

G. W. E. R.

GEORGE RUSSEL, RECTOR OF SCHULL, co. CORK. I should be glad to learn the date and particulars of his marriage, and also the date of his death in 1767. The ' Diet, of Nat. Biog.,' xlix. 424, does not give the desired information. G. F. R. B.

AUTHORS WANTED. I shall be grateful if any of your correspondents can tell me where some verses are to bo found which begin :

I lay me down to sleep With little thought or care Whether my waking find Me here or there.

GLENCONNER.

[By M. Howland ' In the Hospital.' The poem is included in ' The Treasury of American Sacred Song ' (Oxford University Press), in ' The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics ' (Knowles), and in several other anthologies.]

Where could I find the following : "It is never the loving that empties the heart nor giving that empties the purse " ?

Possibly the saying should begin with : " We all could do more than we do " ; but I am not certain. WM. PERRIN.

Can you tell me the name of the author of the following lines ?

FLOWERS FORGET-ME-NOT. When to the flowers so beautiful the Father gave

a name, Back came a little blue - eyed one all timidly it

came, And standing at its Father's feet, and gazing in His

face, It said in low and trembling tones, which fear made

come apaoe, " Dear God I the name Thou gavest me, alas !

I have forgot."

And God looked down with kindliness, and said, "Forget me not!"

Hie ET UBIQUE.

ANERLEY. I am anxious to find out the- origin of the name Anerley, originally part of Penge Common, Penge being a detached parish of Battersea (US. iv. 330, 437, 497, &c.). There was a station of that name on the Croydon Railway (opened in 1839); and Churton's ' Railway Book,' in 1851, speaks of the district as " remarkable for the beauty of its scenery and the good accommodation afforded at the pretty inn and grounds." Kelly's ' Post Office Directory ' for 1859 says there is " a station adjoining Anerley hotel and tea-gardens .... but there is no place of that name." In Thome's ' Hand- book to the Environs of London ' we read that it " owes its name to a Mr. Anerley who once owned the estate." I can find no trace of this name on any of the plans, in MS. or engraved, which are before me. Most of the property in the district at that time belonged to E. R. Adams, F.S.A., who resided in Elmer Lodge, now Elmer's End (see Greenwood's * Epitome of the History of Kent,' 1838), while one portion (appa- rently that on which the station was built) was owned by a certain William Sanderson. The theory generally accepted locally as to the origin of the name is that originally there was " ainly " one house there which belonged to a Scotchman, presumably the above named. Perhaps I should add that bhe Rev. J. B. Johnston in his book on
 * Place-Names ' gives :

" Anerley (Norwood). Not in Dom. Meadow of Aner. cf. Birch's Cartularium, 910. Aneres broc See " ley " [leigh, ley, lie, ly], &c." ; 3ut, having; been in communication with him on the subject, I learn that he is now of the opinion that he may have taken too much
 * or granted.

In conclusion I should like to acknowledge- the assistance received in 1911-12 from several readers as to * Penge as a Place- Sfame.' The earliest reference appears to 3e in a charter of King Eadwig, A.D. 957 see Surrey Arch. Coll. vol. x. p. 216) ; and Place-Names ' is the worn equivalent of 1 penceat " = chief wood, the ceat being softened to die ge. S. HODGSON.
 * he derivation given in McClure's * British

Hayes Road, Bromley, Kent.

HANDLEY CROSS. Is this, the scene of Surtees's well-known novel, an entirely fictitious name, or is it any real place, and if 10, what ? Lucis.

" SWADDY." Why used the regular soldier o be called a " Swaddy " ? I occasionally leard the word when I enlisted, but never ately. PRIVATE BRADSTOW.