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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. i. APRIL 15, 1916.

c ROMOLA.' I should be grateful for light on any of the following points in this book :

1. " Athens, or Setine, as the sailors call it " (chap, vi.)- I cannot find the latter name anywhere ; is it still in use ?

2. "It was the fashion of old, when an ox was led out to sacrifice to Jupiter, to chalk the dark spots, and give the offering a false show of unblemished whiteness " (chap. xxv.). What classical author gives this pious fraud ?

3. " Piero accepted it very much as that proverbial bear that dreams of pears might accept an exceedingly mellow ' swan-egg ' ' (chap, xxviii.). Is this a reference to some old nursery rime ?

4. Were the prophetesses Camilla Rucellai and the Suora Maddalena (chap, xxxvi.) historic persons ?

5. Where can I get information about the Company of San Jacopo del Popolo (chap, xlii.), and the Companies of Discipline (chap, xliii.) ?

6 "play the part of Capo d'Oca,

who went out to the tournament blowing his trumpets, and returned with them in a bag." Where can I find him ?

7. Where is there an account of the estab- lishment of the Scotch Archers as the royal bodyguard at the French Court ? Scott says in ' Quentin purward ' that they were enrolled in the reign of Charles VI.

C. B. WHEELER.

MENDELSSOHN'S ' SONGS WITHOUT WORDS ' : A RECENT ARTICLE. I am in search of an article on ' Mendelssohn's " Songs without Words " ' which appeared in a periodical about fifteen or eighteen months ago. A specimen copy was sent to me, and, lying about, was destroyed by a charwoman. I do not remember the name of the periodical, whether it was a new

Cirnal or a new volume of an old one. It i no cover, might cost a copper or two, and was about the size of The Saturday Review. As far as I remember, it was a literary paper. The article described each of the songs, and gave a characteristic heading for each.

(Dr.) A. D. STEWART. 48 Kent Road, Glasgow.

PORTRAIT WANTED. Portrait of a lady playing a guitar, by Buck; probably sold by auction at 5 Hammersmith Terrace, between January and March, 1885. In- formation as to its present whereabouts would be thankfully received by

S. MARTIN.

Public Library, Ravenscourt Park, W.

ANNE CLIFFORD, COUNTESS OF CUMBER- LAND, and successively Countess of Dorset and Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery. As a lineal descendant of Anne Clifford, and being engagod in collecting any notes of interest in regard to her, I shall be grateful to any reader for details of interest relating to her ; for information as to copies or extracts of her diary, or as to objects of interest, such as plate or jewellery, belonging to her, or any matters relating to her father and mother, the Earl and Countess of Cum- berland.

ARTHUR F. G. LEVESON-GOWER.

Athenaeum Club.

AUTHORS WANTED. Will some corre- spondent tell me where the following poem of three stanzas can be found ? The first stanza is :

AMINE'S SONG.

Softly, oh, softly glide,

Gentle music, thou silver tide,

Bearing, the lull'd air along.

This leaf from the rose of song.

To its port in his soul let it float, The frail, but the fragrant boat : Bear it, soft air, along.

It may occur in one of Lord Lytton's novels.

EDMUND GILES LODER. Leonardslee, Horsham, Sussex.

1. When Duty whispers low, "Thou must,"

The youth replies, " I can."

2. Die to the old, live to the new,

Grow young with each to-morrow, Or drag with thee, till life shall end, A lengthening chain of sorrow.

These latter lines are said to be a translation from Goethe by the late Prof. J. S. Blackie, but I have been unable to trace them in Goethe. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

[1. Emerson, 'Voluntaries,' III. (Bell's edition, 1900, vol. iii. p. 434.)

2. This seems to be a somewhat paraphrastic rendering of

Und so langTdu das nicht hast, Dieses : Stirb und Werde ! Bist du nur ein triiber Gast Auf der dunklen Erde. ' West-ostlicher Divan, I. Selige Sehnsucht.']

HOBY : : POULETT, c. 1600. Who was Sir Edward Hoby, who married Elizabeth, daughter of William Poulett, third Marquis of Winchester (Collins' s ' Peerage ')? The only Sir Edward Hoby I know of as living then was the famous Sir Edward of Bisham (1560-1616), who married (1) Margaret Carey, daughter of Lord Hunsdon ; (2) Ca- therine, daughter of Sir John Danvers, and whose natural son, Peregrine, succeeded him at Bisham. Sir Edward married Margaret