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' THE ORDER OF A CAMPE ' : HARL. MS. In Grose's ' Military Antiquities,' 1786, vol. i. p. 233, it is stated that in the Harl. MSS. there is a document, No. 4685, en- titled " The order of a campe or Army Royall, with the Dutie of every Officer belonging to the same, per B. Con. Mtlit. 1518." Harl. MS. 4685 is not the right number. Can any information be given as to what the right number is ? J. H. LESLIE.

IBBETSON, IBBERSON, OB IBBESON. Can any reader, learned in the matter, give me the meaning and origin of this surname, variously spelt as -above ?

I have noticed that people bearing this name appear, in many cases, to be natives of Yorkshire or Derbyshire, or are the descendants of people who lived there originally. W. IBBERSON.

Mallon Road, Goodmayes, Essex.

[Is not the first form at any rate a variant of Ibbotson = son of Isabel ?]

PRONUNCIATION OF " CATRIONA." I have heard the name of Stevenson's ' Catriona ' pronounced at onetime Kat-ree'-na, at another time Kat-ri-o '-na. Can any reader say which, or if either, is correct ? STUDENT.

' THE WORKING-MAN'S WAY IN THE

WORLD ' : CHARLES MANBY SMITH.

(12 S. i. 468; ii. 16.)

MR. MAXWELL PRIDEAUX in his reply proves that MR. W. E. A. AXON was not quite correct when he stated in ' N. & Q.' in February, 1869, that the above book was published in 1854. MR. AXON was a con- tributor to these pages for many years, and a good bibliographer; therefore" it is but justice to his memory to say that he was not far out in the date he assigned to an anonymous volume without a date on its title-page. That title-page ran as follows :

The

Working-Man's Way in the World :

being the Autobiography

of a Journeyman Prhater.

London :

William and Frederick G. Cash, (successors to Charles Gilpin,) 5, Bishopsgate Street Without.

A list of ' Books Lately Published ' printed on the inside of the front cover includes as Xo. 7 ' The Working-Man's Way in the World,' the price being 5s. The British Museum Catalogue gives 1853 as the year of publication ; so ' Curiosities of London Life,' which is dated 1853, must have followed it very quickly.

MR. PRIDEAUX may be pleased to know that the B.M. Catalogue records that a Dutch translation of the ' Curiosities of London Life ' appeared at Leyden in 1862, under the title " Merkwaardigbeden uit het Londensche Volksleven. . . .Naar het Engelsch . . . . door C. M. Mensing."

Though Charles Manby Smith wrote another book on London, entitled ' The Little World of London ; or Pictures in little of London Life,' 1857, 8vo, he was not a Londoner ; for in the first pages of ' The Working-Man's Waj* ' he says that he was

" born on the banks of the Exe, in a pleasant town not a score of miles from the capital of Devon."

There is much to interest readers of ' N. & Q.' in his Autobiography. He says that when ho was 13 the family removed to Bristol, and he had to begin work as a " printer's devil " :

" Into a printing-office, then, at the age of thirteen years and three months, I entered, in the character of a devil, a term which, though now [c. 1850] it is going out of use, and indeed among printers is gone out of use, was not at that tune [c. 1820] an unapt designation." P. 6.

After completing his apprenticeship he sought work in London as a compositor, but, not being successful, decided to try his fortune in Paris. Through Galignani he got a situation as a compositor, and was first employed in setting up a portion of a cheap edition of Scott's ' Woodstock,' which had not yet, Smith states, been published in London, the compositors in Paris working from proof-sheets with corrections on them. This edition was in English, and intended for sale on the Continent.

Smith, during his stay in Paris, studied French diligently, and was still working in a printing office when the " three glorious days of July," 1830, drove Charles X. from his throne. Smith gives a good description of what he saw during these three eventful days. He decided to return to England, and on Aug. 10 set out for Bristol.

England, however, was then in a very unsettled state, owing to the agitation for Reform, and a year after his return home Smith found himself again a witness of an outburst of popular fury. This was directed against Sir Charles Wetherell, Recorder of