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Don Juan's Life in London,' with 31 coloured engravings by Atkinson in the two volumes (sometimes fewer plates), first pub- lished in 1821 and 1822. Occasionally, these two volumes come up separately for sale, and appear to be complete in themselves. I have come across two other books illus- trated by Williams, published in 1823: J. Mitford's ' Adventures of Johnny New- come in the Navy,' and ' My Cousin in the Army ; or, Johnny Newcome on the Peace Establishment.' The first is, I believe, partly illustrated by T. Rowlandson, and the second wholly by Williams.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

RIMES ON ST. THOMAS'S DAY (12 S. iii. 9, 96). The folk-lore of the Provencal calendar (very different from that of Northern France) regulates farm-work and forecasts the weather from many saints days. St. Thomas, Dec. 21, has several rimes :

A Sant Toumas Coui toun pan, lavo ti drap

(bake your bread, wash your clothes), prob- ably in view of approaching Christmas festivities.

Per Sant Toumas Li jour soun fort bas

(the days are very low) also,

la jour creisson de la bouco au nas (the days increase by the length from your mouth to your nose). The increase of the day is noted on other saints' days, e.g., on St. Lucy's Day, Dec. 13, corresponding to the 24th O.S., thus showing that the rime is ancient :

Li jour aumenton d'un saut de clusso (the days increase by the hop of a brood- hen). But on New Year's Day

Li jour creisson d6u ped d'un can ("by a dog's foot," whatever length that may be). EDWARD NICHOLSON.

Nice.

THE NAMING OF LOCOMOTIVES (12 S. iii. 23, 76). The locomotives in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, have for many years borne names of distinguished soldiers " Lord Napier," " Lord Roberts," " Lord Kitchener " ; and of persons especially con- nected with the manufacture of war material

" Shrapnel " (after Major-General Shrap- nel, R.A., the inventor of the spherical case 'lot, as our present shrapnel shell was first

ailed) and " Boxer " (after Col. E. M.

oxer, R.A., Superintendent of the Royal

aboratory from 1855 to 1870, whose im- provements in the manufacture of ammuni- tion were of great value).

Most people of to-day, if told that Shrapnel' was a man, would reply, to the same effect as a soldier did some years ago, that " quarantine's a disease, not a place."

More recently, I believe, locomotives - have been named after war ships which have come prominently to notice, e.g., " Arethusa," " Undaunted," and " in- vincible."

There used to be a " Norman Ramsay " Captain R.H.A., killed at Waterloo but vandalism has triumphed. The name has- gone. J. H. LESLIE.

A LOST POEM BY KIPLING (12 S. ii. 409,. 475, 495 ; iii. 34). The Bookman (New York), vol. xxxix. No. 1 (March, 1914), pp. 26-9 r contains ' A Note on the Foreloper,' by J. De Lancey Ferguson.

During a journey to the Orient in 1892,. Kipling wrote eight letters of travel, which were published in the London Times and the New York Sun. ' The Foreloper ' was used as the heading of the seventh letter,, which appeared in the New York Sun, Nov. 27, 1892, under the caption ' What Rudyard Kipling saw on his way back from Japan, with something about Out- land Adventurers and the Boom Spirit of the Great West.' The letter was also pub- lished in the London Times, Nov. 23, 1892, but without the poem as a heading, under* the title ' Captains Courageous.'

(MRS.) L. S. LIVINGSTON,

Assistant Librarian..

The Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, Cambridge, Mass.

POEMS BY LOBD CHESTERFIELD (12 S.. iii. 68, 119). Two of Chesterfield's poems, ' Advice to a Lady in Autumn,' 30 lines,, beginning :

Asses' milk, half a pint, take at seven, or before, and ' On Lord Islay's Garden at Whitton on. Hounslow Heath,' 15 lines, beginning :

Old Islay, to show his fine delicate taste, are included in Locker-Lampson's ' Lyra- Elegant iarum,' pp. 108, 109, in the edition of 1891, as well as the four -line epigram beginning :

Immortal Newton never spoke.

The " excellent lines " written by Chester- field in conjunction with Lord Bath " on_ Miss Lepell " are mentioned in a note, but withheld because of the change in taste and manners.

According to Sir Sidney Lee's ' Life of Chesterfield ' in the ' D.N.B.,'

"unauthorized collections of his witticisms in> prose and verse were made before his death in*