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in 1881, Palmer; in 1904, Lewis; in 1907, Fogg. Of the Howe family a meeting was proposed for U.S. and Canada, and it is said 8,000 were expected.

In Scotland was there not a Buchanan Society or Club also one for the clan Lindsay ?

I also remember hearing of the Bassetts and Ellises or Evanses having family meet- ings. R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

The great Smith banquet will be found referred to at 1 S. x. 463.

A banquet by members of the King family apparently took place on May 29, 1703. This was referred to by MB. DANIEL HIPWELL at 7 S. vii. 488. A photographic reproduction of the card of admission to the latter was given in The English Illustrated Magazine (p. 88) for April, 1901. I took descriptions of the seventeen coats of arms with which the card was ornamented. These are at the service of your correspondent, if desired.

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF EUROPEAN TRAVEL : WUNDERER (12 S. i. 301). Near the end of his interesting account of J. D. Wunderer's diary, MR. MALCOLM LETTS quotes the traveller's re- flection on the storm, " He who cannot pray, let him go to sea ; he will learn God's might and power and His unspeakable majesty." The first part of this was a proverbial saying.

No. 2785 in Binder's ' Novus Thesaurus Adagiorum Latinorum ' is

Qui nescit orare, vadat ad mare. This is taken from O. W. Schonheirn's ' Proverbia illustrate et applicata in usum Juventutis illustris,' Leipzig, 1728.

In J. J. Grynaeus's ' Adagia,' 1629, p. 776, the saying is found in the form

Qui nescit orare, ascendat mare. It is one of forty-two proverbs which are given at the end of the book and described as " turbam quandam proverbiorum e mediis triviis petitam."

The story of the Lapp wizard selling mariners winds in a knotted rope is a curious parallel to the passage in the ' Odyssey,' x. 19 sqq., where Odysseus receives from JEolus a bag of winds fastened by a silver cord. In the elaborate German commentary of Ameis (10th ed., 1895) there is a bare

in them ; but the late Prof. J. E. B. Mayor, in his commentary on ' The Narrative of Odysseus,' 1873, pp. 132, 133, has a characteristic and delightful note, in which he draws on Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Suidas, Tzetzes's commentary on Lycophron, Hippocrates, Apollonius of Tyana, G^rvase of Tilbury, and other authorities. Burton might have swelled the list :

" And nothing so familiar (if we may beleeue those relations of Saxo Gramma t. Olaus Magnus, Damianus A. Goes) as for Witches and Sorcerers, in Lapland, Lituania, and all ouer Scandia, to sell winds to Mariners, & cause tempests, which Marcus Paulus the Venetian relates likewise of the Tartars." ' Anatomy of Melancholy,' 2nd ed., 1624, part. i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subs. 2.

EDWARD BENSLY.""

BOOKWORMS : REMEDIES AGAINST THEM (11 S. xii. 138, 185, 208, 268, 308, 330, 370 ; 12 S. i. 414). Correspondents interested in this subject could not do better than read ' Les Insectes ennemis des livres : leurs mceurs Moyens de les detruire,' by C. Houlbert, Docteur-es-Sciences. which was published by Picard & Fils at Paris in 1903. It is quite an exhaustive study of the subject, and contains an 8-page bibliography.

More recently Mr. William B. Reinick, Chief of the Department of Public Documents in the Free Library of Philadelphia, has published an interesting brochure on ' Insects destructive to Books.' This was originally printed in The American Journal of Phar- macy, and the first part of it was reprinted in The English Mechanic for March 24, 1911. THOMAS WM. HUCK.

38 King's Road, Willesden Green, N.W.

' KING EDWARD III.' : HERALDIC AL- LUSION (12 S. i. 366,438). The suggestion of an heraldic allusion fails to alletiate the in- trinsic absurdity of this expression in its context. And it seems plain that what is meant is what is called in the next line " those milk-white messengers of time " : to wit, Audley's grey locks. Accordingly, I think we must take " wings " to be simply a misprint for " strings," as was long ago suggested by Delius.

Even with this correction, the conceit is a poor thing. Nor is it the author's own. It appears to be borrowed from a religious poem by William Hunnis, printed, with the title ' Gray Heares,' in Farr's ' Select Poetry of the Reign of Q. Elizabeth,' pp. 158-9, and beginning,

These heares of age are messengers, Which bidde me fast, repent, and pray :

mention of the fact that the Lapps gave where " messengers of age " corresponds to seamen bags and skins with winds enclosed' "messengers of time" in our play. The