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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. JULY, WIT.

JOHN HAMILTON REYNOLDS : TOM HOOD : LONGMOBE. Are any descendants now living of John Hamilton Reynolds, the poet and friend of Keats and brother-in-law of Tom Hood ? Also, are there any descendants alive of Tom Hood and of Mr. Longmore, who married the sister of Mrs. Tom Hood ? I may say they would hear something to their advantage if they would communicate with me.

C. S. GIDDINS. 6 Martin's Lane, E.C.4.

KINGSMAN FAMILY. I am anxious to dis- cover any living representatives of the family of William Long Kingsman, M.A., D.C.L.Oxon., of Newbury, Berks. He was living, I believe, in 1804, and would then be between 60 and 70 years of age, a barrister, of Lincoln's Inn.

BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD.

The Grange Farm, Far Headingley, Leeds.

WOOD-SORREL. Can any of your readers tell me of any quotations, in either prose or verse, in which wood-sorrel is dealt with ? I want some to illustrate a lantern-slide, and have only one (not very satisfactory) in prose, and none at all in verse. The poets seem to have left this beautiful little flower alone. Please reply direct.

GEORGE SAMPSON.

Ramsdell Vicarage, Basingstoke.

BANBTJRY. Can any one tell me when and by whom these lines were written ? To Banbury came I, O profane one, Where I saw a Puritane one A-hanging of his cat on Monday For killing of a mouse on Sunday. .

A. D. T.

TOAD AT THE HEART. Can any reader explain or illustrate the following extract from the ' Diet, of Nat. Biog.,' xii. 44 ?

" His [Sir Marmaduke Constable's] tomb in Flamborough Church is described by a writer in The Gentleman' a Magazine of 1753 ....' beside it [i.e., the stone coffin or chest] is the upper part of a skeleton in stone ; the ribs project greatly and the breast is laid open, in the inner side of which appears what by tradition is held to be a toad at the heart (of which he was supposed to die), but it bears little or no resemblance of a toad.' "

The words in italics point to a curious popular or medical superstition.

W. A. C.

' SOCIETY IN LONDON.' Is it known who was the author of this entertaining volume, of which the ninth edition was published by Chatto & Windus in 1886 ?

DE V. PAYEN-PAYNE.

" DEATH'S PART." In a Mill dated Aug. 3, 1590, Thomas Blackburn of Birst- with in Nidderdale, in dividing his goods into three parts, devotes the third part " called deathe's parte unto myself." I should be glad of any information throwing light on this phrase.

C. THOMPSON WALKER, R.N.V.R.

" CHURCH DROPS." In the churchwardens' accounts of Hampsthwaite in Nidderdale for the year 1715 occurs the following cryptic entry : " For serching for the Church Drops, 3d." I shall be glad if any reader can throw light on this entry.

C. THOMPSON WALKER, R.N.V.R.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. I have been endeavouring for several mouths to learn the authorship of the following verse :

Again she spoke : " Where is my lord the

king ? "

And closing round a deeper silence seemed To hold the host. " Where is thy father,

boy ? " Nor answered but the harsh horns hardly

blown

From shore to sea ; and low before her bowed His head the prince, and all around stood dumb. I have appealed in vain to professors in half-a- dozen American colleges, to query departments of metropolitan newspapers, and to authorities on poetry. Professors at Hamilton College have suggested that ' N. & Q.' might be able to help me in this matter. If it can, I shall be very glad.

JOHN DUFFY.

143 Liberty Street, New York. [We are indebted to Mr. Herbert Schmalz for the following information: " The 'quotation' you refer to was written by a friend of mine, John Cameron Grant, as an explanation for a large picture I painted called ' Where is my Lord the King?' I r was painted to go over the fireplace of the Great Hall of BramalLHal], Cheshire, which is the finestspecimen of ' black and white ' in England. The picture is about 12 ft. long, and was hung in a centre place on the line at the Academy Exhibition of 1887. A large plate was done of it, and the engravings still sell in America."]

2. Help' me to need no aid from men That I may help such men as need.

C. M. S.

3. The triple pride

Of Eildon looks upon Strathclyde.

E. T. J.

4. The following is quoted in Dean Farrar's ' The Lord's Prayer ' (Isbister), 1893 :

" Oh 1 where is the sea ? " the fishes cried As they swam the crystal waters through ;

" We've heard, from of old, of the ocean's tide, And we long to look on the waters blue.

The wise ones tell of an infinite sea ;

Oh ! who can tell us if such there be ? " Who wrote the lines ? ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

5. Science is measurement.

C. E. H.