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SIB JOHN SCHOBNE : ENGLISH PILGRIM- AGES (12 S. i. 3, 56, 258). Those interested in the question may see in the Victoria and Albert Museum Library a study by H. Watling on ' Master John Schorne : his Effigy in Sta-ined Glass in an Unknown Locality,' 1889 (D 304). In the quotation from John Heywood's ' The Four P.P.,' I should be pleased to know what is intended by the holy places " at Saint Matthew. . . . the Great God of Catwade. . . .at Saint Saviour's."

Was the pilgrimage to St. James in Compo stella as well known in England as in France ? In our country, many a village had a house used by the pilgrims as a hostelry and bearing the name of the saint, so that it should be possible to trace "pilgrims' roads" to Spain.

PlEBBE TUBPIN.

" LIKE THE DUTCHMAN'S ANCHOB, AT HOME " (v. sub " Parted brass-rags," 12 S. i. 317). Surely this phrase involves the same idea as that in the meaning of " Dutch " (see ' The Oxford Dictionary ' ) :

" characteristic of or attributed to the Dutch : often with an opprobrious or derisive application, largely due to the rivalry and enmity between the English and Dutch in the 17th century."

The examples given in ' The Oxford Dic- tionary ' are Dutch auction, bargain, concert, courage, gleek, nightingale, uncle, comfort, consolation, defence, feast, palate, reckoning, widow. To these I can add " Dutch tandem," heard in the West Country, which applies to a person driving a single horse with another tied to the tail of the cart. Do not the phrases " I'm a Dutchman " and " a Dutchman's breeches," also explained in ' The Oxford Dictionary,' arise from a similar application to the Hollander ?

F. BADEN FULLEB. Lincoln's Inn.

' GAME PBESEBVEBS AND BIBD PBESEB- VEBS' : MOBANT (12 S. i. 309). Reviews of this book appeared in the following papers : Scotsman, Aug. 13, 1875 ; Inverness Courier, Aug. 12, 1875 ; Academy, Aug. 21, 1875 ; BelVs Life, Aug. 28, 1875; Pall Mall Gazette, Aug. 28, 1875; Glasgow Herald, Aug. 26, 1875; Western Times, Aug. 21, 1875; Bristol Times, Sept. 2, 1875; Nature, Sept. 9, 1875 ; Land and Water, Sept. 25, 1875 ; British Mail, Oct. 30, 1875 ; Morning Post, Oct. 28, 1875 ; Sporting Gazette, Jan. 15, 1876. Major Morant was also the author of ' Profitable Rabbit Farming,' 1889 ;' Rabbits as Food Supply,' 1883 ; and ' How to Keep Laying Hens,' 1898. WM. H. PEET.

' DAVID COPPEBFIELD ' (12 S. i. 327). 1. As I remember the nursery rime to which Mrs. Micawber referred it ran :

The man in the moon Came down too soon,

And missed his way to Norwich. He came by the south, And burnt his mouth

By eating cold plum porridge.

J. O. Halliwell in his ' Nursery Rhymes of England,' printed for the Percy Society, 1842, p. 24, gives it thus :

The man in the moon,

Came tumbling down, And ask'd his way to Norwich.

He went by the south,

And burnt his mouth, With supping hot pease porridge.

7. The line " It may be for years, and it maybe for ever," occurs twice in * Kathleea Mavourneen,' asongascribedto Mrs. Crawford and set to music by F. N. Crouch. The air,. some may remember, made an excellent waltz-tune. The song runs :

Kathleen Mavourneen ! the grey dawn is breaking,.

The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill ; The lark from her light wing the bright dew i shaking ;

Kathleen Mavourneen ! what, slumbering still ? Oh ! hast thou forgotten how soon we must sever?

Oh ! hast thou forgotten this day we must part ? It may be for years, and it may be for ever ;

Oh ! why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart f

Kathleen Mavourneen ! Awake from thy slumbers,

The blue mountains glow in the sun's golden

light ;

Ah ! where is the spell that once hung on thy numbers ?

Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my night. Mavourneen, Mavourneen, my sad tears are falling,

To think that from Erin and thee I must part ! It may be for years, and it may be for ever ;

Then why art thou silent, thou voice of my heart

JOHN R. MAGBATH. Queen's College, Oxford.

1. Here is the nursery lime which dwelt in Mrs. Micawber's brain as it dwells in. mine :

The man in the moon came down too soon,

To ask his way to Norwich ; The man in the south he burnt his mouth

By eating cold plum porridge.

2. It does not appear to me that the riddle which has " the moon " for answer is less brilliant than many others which are supposed to have amused our ancestors.. Take this which is solved by " a star " : it is. more poetical than the one quoted in, ' David Copperfield,' but no less stupid :

I have a little sister, they call her peep, peep ; She wades the waters deep, deep, deep ; She climbs the mountains high, high, high ; Poor little creature, she has but one e>e.