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 12 S. HI- MARCH 3, 1917.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Aug. 16, 1863, aged 80 years. His portrait, painted by T. F. Dicksee, was placed in the City of 'London School. The privately printed ' Reminiscences of the Public Life of Richard Lambert Jones ' (an autobio- graphy ) appeared in 1863, the year of his death. (See ' Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, Engravings, and other Works of Art belong- ing to the Corporation of the City of London. Part the First,' 1867, pp. 7, 74 ; Frederic Boase, ' Modern English Biography,' vol. ii., 1897, col. 141.) DANIEL HIPWELL.

Jones's ' Reminiscences ' were published in 1863, the volume being priced at 3s. 6d. The author was a member of the Court of Common Council of the City of London from 1819 to 1851, and took a very active part in carrying out many of the great public improvements which were effected during his term of office, and of these the book gives a full account. ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

[W. B. W. thanked for reply.]

THE REV. MICHAEL FERBEBEE (12 S. ii. 488 ; iii. 98). I have rather a detailed pedigree of the Orrell family of Turton (Lancashire) and Mobberley (Cheshire), in which the following appears :

" Hannah Orrell, daughter of Thomas Orrell of Saltersley, Mobberley, born 1746, and wife of Henry Wrigley Ferrebee, by whom were two sons, viz. : Henry Wrigley Ferre bee, { buried at Mobberley, 1788, aged 20, and Thomas Downs Ferrebee, buried at Mobberley, 1814, aged 36."

The above-named Hannah Orrell was one of a family of seventeen children, and her sisters married into the families of Wild, Whittaker, Walton, Isherwood, and Bailey respectively (vide 'History of Mobberley').

I have not the particulars of the first query, but doubtless the above reference is connected with Ms.G. W. WBIGLE Y' s family.

H. HULME.

Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire.

NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN : MORNING STAR (12 S. iii. 9, 74). In the Otchipwee (Chip- pewa or Ojibway) Dictionary of Bishop Baraga, Montreal, 1878, the word for " morning - star " is wdbanang : wdban, east ; anang, star. In the Iroquois lan- guage the word for " star " is given by Du Ponceau, Paris, 1838, as otschischtenochqua. AVERN PABDOE.

Legislative Library, Toronto.

PLOUGHING SNOW INTO THE GBOUND (12 S. iii. 90). The belief mentioned is possibly allegorical in origin, a crop of thistles being an intrinsically appropriate form of nourish- ment for the individual so ploughing.

T. F. H.

LONDON SOCIETIES FOB RELIGIOUS PUR- POSES IN 1821 (12 S. iii. 71). Henry Fisher, of the Caxton Press, Liverpool, published. a periodical for 1819, 1820, and until July,, 1821, called The Imperial Magazine. At the end of each yearly volume is inserted an article with the title ' England's Bright- est Gems, or a brief Sketch of the Anni- versaries of the Religious and Charitable Institutions held in London in the May previous.'

Owing to the total destruction of the Caxton Press by fire in January, 1821, Henry Fisher removed to London, and The Imperial Magazine was published there for some years longer, and it seems very likely this feature was continued. I may say the size of page given by your correspondent, is exactly the size of the above-mentioned' magazine. A. H. ABKLE.

Oxton, Birkenhead.

ODOURS (12 S. ii. 490). One who was with the Canadian contingent in France in the spring of 1915 told me that the gas- which the Germans first employed was distinctly pleasant, and like the scent of flowers. LAWRENCE PHILLIPS.

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A Neio English Dictionary on Historical Prin. . ciples. (Vol. IX., SI TH) Sullen Supple, By C. T. Onions. (Oxford, Clarendon Press- 2,8. Qd. net.)

THE most impressive piece of work in this section ^ is, as one might expect, the article ' Super-.' Which is to be the more admired, the arrange- ment of the huge mass of material, or the detail of that mass ? It runs to just a dozen columns,. and merits a review all to itself, including as it does compounds which have not established themselves in the language^ many of them nonce- words but represent, on its more academic and " learned " side, the living energy of the language. So used " super " comes up first in compounds of the fifteenth century. It could not fail to be a favourite adjunct in the rolling polysyllabic English of the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- turies ; and if our present literary taste tends to restrict its use as somewhat too baldly Latin, science has adopted it and much enlarged its range. Its most interesting recent development is the ever-increasing number of formations after Mr. Bernard Shaw's happy invention of " super- man" as a translation of Nietzsche's Uebermensch. . The definition of such a formation given here is " used to designate a person, animal, or thing : which markedly surpasses all others, or the generality, of its class." We should have said this was rather the sense of " giant " used as an attributive, and that by " super " was implied a new class developed by exaggeration from that denoted by the radical.