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 12 8. 1. JUNE 3, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Her first appearance in London was made as Juliet at the Royalty Theatre in Dean Street in July, 1865, her performance being witnessed by a scanty audience, including two or three theatrical reporters or critics, whom it profoundly impressed .... As a tragedian she has had no English rival during the last half of this century. Her Juliet was perfect, and her Isabella had marvellous earnestness and beauty. In Julia also she has not been surpassed."

When a small boy I saw her in London as Lady Teazle in ' The School for Scandal ' in the summer of 1878. Joseph Knight says, " In comedy she was self-conscious, and spoilt her effects by over-acting," and, naturally, I am not competent to criticize her performance, but its memory remains with me to this day. In the famous scene where she is discovered in Joseph Surface's room owing to the fall of the screen, no more haunting picture of innocent shame and contrite sorrow was ever revealed by a woman's face. HORACE BLEACKLEY.

Clement Scott, in ' The Drama of Yesterday and To-day' (1899), vol. ii. pp. 220-30, gives the true story of Adelaide Neilson, " written by a friend who knew her from childhood." William Winter, the dramatic critic and a personal friend, also tells her story in ' Shadows of the Stage ' (1892-5), vol. ii. ; while his critical estimate of her acting as Imogen and as Juliet in vol. i. contains some striking pen pictures.

To the list of portraits from the American Library Association Index, ante, p. 372, should be added : Scott, ' Drama of Yesterday and To-day '

(1899), vol. i. p. 410, four photographs. Winter, ' Other Days ' (New York, 1908),

p. 284.

Winter, ' The Wallet of Time ' (New York, 1913), vol. i. (as Imogen, from an un- published photograph in the collection of the author). HUGH HARTING.

SUSSEX WINDMILLS (12 S. i. 326). The mill mentioned by P. D. M. was destroyed on March 28 last. Mr. A. S. Cooke, in his ' Off the Beaten Track in Sussex ' (Hove, 1911), at pp. 224-5 writes as follows :

"Windmills in Sussex are mostly of three patterns. First, tower-mills substantially built of brick or stone, octagonal or round, and generally

&S T ^ e y are verv picturesque by reason of a railed plattorm, supported on brackets at the first floor. Usually crowned with what may be termed a spiked helmet of copper, they stand 'bravely up, with a military air about them, reminiscent of mediaeval watch-towers

" The second type is the hooded or ' bonnet ' mill, like that on the Down at Rottingdean. In both these types only the cap or hood revolves, by means

of the graceful and clever contrivance of a fan- wheel, thus keeping the sails in ' the eye of the wind' automatically.

" The third, and perhaps the most usual shape, are called 'Smock mills, because they resemble- the once almost universal and, happily, still familiar garment or overall worn by country folk

" If it were standing now, you could see from Kingston Hill the mill in which Richard, King of the Romans, younger brother to Henry the Third, took refuge at the battle of Lewes, barring the door and defending it awhile. At length, amid derisive cries he surrendered to Sir John Bevis.' r

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

LEITNER (12 S. i. 48, 133, 336). During the years 1893 and 1894 I saw a great deal of Dr. G. W. Leitner, who often called upon. me in Fleet Street when on his way to and from the India Office, and I visited him and his wife at the Oriental Institute and Mosque^ at Wo king ; and I never heard the slightest hint that " Leitner " was not his real name.. I have refreshed my memory by turning up an article, ' Recollections of a Great Lin- guist,' which I wrote in The Liverpool Daily- Post (April 14, 1899) just after his death. So far as I know, the best contemporary account of this wonderful Hungarian and his works appeared in an obscure weekly iiv 1893. This article begins : " Gottlieb William Leitner, LL.D., Barrister-at-Law, is almost another Mezzofanti. He reads r writes, and speaks twenty-five languages." HY. HARRISON.

" To BOX HARRY " (v. sub " To box the-- jeives some illustration from a passage in. }hat rather notorious book ' The English Spy,' by Bernard Blackmantle, London,. L826, where it accompanies a plate of ' The Bagmen's Banquet at the Bell Inn, Chelten- ham ' :
 * ox," 12 S. i. 307). This expression re-

'" Who takes port ? ' inquired the chairman. ' I must sherry directly after dinner, gentlemen,' said 1 one. * What,' retorted the company, * boxing the- wine bin ! committing treason by making a sovereign go farther than he is required by law. Fine him,. Mr. Chairman.'"

At 9 S. ix. 449, a correspondent suggested a meaning of " box Harry " analogous to the ancient phrase " dining with Duke Humphrey." W. B. H.

DRIDEN : DRYDEN (12 S. i. 269). ' Pa- tronymica Britannica,' by M. A. Lower,. gives the following account of the supposed origin of this name :

" As in the oldest records the name is spelt Dreyden, Driden, &c., it is fair to presume that it is of local origin, although the place itself ia not ascertained. Mr. Arthur, in his ' Etymological- Dictionary of Family and Christian Names,"