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CREST (12 S. iii. 387). Burke gives Free-" man (London, Wilts, Yorks) the arms, Azure, three lozenges or ; crest, a demi-lion rampant erased, holding a cross flory. The tinctures are not stated, but in most of the other branches of the family the demi-lion is either charged with a lozenge or holds one ; and the lion is gu., the lozenge arg. or or.

E. L.-W.

"FELONS AND FUGITIVE GOODS" (12 S. iii. 446). The meaning of this is illustrated by a passage in the marriage settlement of Tristram Shandy's mother :

" All that the manor and lordship of Shandy

in the county of, with all the rights, members,

and appurtenances thereof. . . .goods and chattels of felons and fugitives, felons of themselves, and put in exigent, deodands, free warrens, and all pther royalties and seignories, rights and juris- dictions, privileges, and hereditaments what- soever." ' Tristram Shandy,' vol. i. chap. xv. EDWARD BENSLY.

GROLIER CLUB (12 S. iii. 449). This celebrated society of bibliophiles was founded in New York City in January, 1884. The Club is named after Jean Grolier de Servieres, Viscount d'Agnisy, Treasurer- General of France, whose library was famous. The objects of the Club are literary study and the promotion of the arts of typesetting, printing, and binding. The founders of the Club, who have also been largely instrumental in its success, were William L. Andrews, Theodore L. De Vinne, A. W. Drake, Albert Gallup, Robert Hoe, Brayton Ives, Samuel W. Martin, E. S. Mead!, and Arthur B. Turnure. A clubhouse is maintained in New York, and contains an excellent biblio- graphical library, a lecture and reading room, and many valuable pictures and prints. By exhibitions, lectures, and the issue of specially prepared books, perfection in the art of bookmaking is encouraged. The Club has issued over sixty publications since its formation, including bronze me- dallion plaques of Hawthorne, Lowell, Whittier, Poe, and Longfellow, and two etchings, ' Grolier in the Printing House of Aldus ' and a portrait of Franklin ; among the books, an edition of the ' Philobiblion ' of Richard du Bury, and ' Catalogues of Early and Original Editions from Langland to Wither ' ; ' Bookbinding as a Fine Art,' by Robert Hoe ; ' Modern Bookbinding,' by William Matthews ; and ' Historic Printing Types,' by T. L. De Vinne. An original^ otherwise unpublished work is ' Washington Irving,' by George William Curtis, a member of the Club. Other original works written by members and published by the Club are

' The Boston Post Bill,' by R. T. H. Halsey ' American Engravers upon Copper and Steel,' by David McN. Stauffer ; ' Notable Printers of Italy during the Fifteenth Cen- tury,' by Theodore L. De Vinne ; ' Bazili- cogia : a Booke of Kings,' by H. C. Levis ; and ' Bibliographical Notes on One Hundred Books famous in English Literature,' com- piled by Henry W. Kent. The Club'a literal reprint, in the types of Wynkin de Worde, of ' The History of Helyas, Knight of the Swan,' from the unique copy in the library of the late Robert Hoe ; ' Researches concerning Jean Grolier,' by reason of its coloured reproduction of bindings ; ' The Scarlet Letter,' by reason of its coloured reproduction, by a new process, of water- colours by Bough ton, and ' The Etched Works of Whistler,' by reason of its com- pleteness, represent the utmost possibilities of bookmaking in their several spheres.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE, F.R.S.L.

FOLK-LORE : THE SPIDER : WALL-RUE (12 S. iii. 272, 395). I have noted the following incident, recorded in ' The Diary of a Russian Lady ' (p. 70) among the events of her wedding-day :

" Amidst the hurly-burly, I saw a spider that crept up my nuptial gown. That was a cheerful omen for our wedding. A French proverb says ' Araign^e du soir, grand espoir.' "

Rolland gives many variants and extensions of this in ' Faune Populaire de la France,' vol. iii. p. 241. It may suffice to quote what was garnered from Fontenay-le-Comte (Vendee) :

Araigne'e du matin ^signe de chagrin ;

Araign^e du midi signe de plaisi ;

Araign^e du tantdt signe de cadeau ;

Araignde du soir bon espoir.

Other spidery presages are treasured in M. Rolland's pages, and some are cited from ' N. & Q.' itself. The spider is of great use to the folk-leech. A red spider crawling on the collar of an Englishman at Aix-les-Bains was hailed by his countrymen as being a harbinger of wealth, and I believe the little nuisance is commonly known as the money-spider. ST. SWITHIN.

MARK ANTONY SAURIN (12 S. iii. 418). Burke's ' Landed Gentry,' 1906, gives the following information, which does not appear in all of the earlier editions. Lieut .-Col. Marc Antoine or Mark Anthony Saurin (12 S. ii. 4, 75, 474), who apparently either d. unmarried or s.p., was the youngest of the three sons of Jean Saurin, a Huguenot who settled at Geneva. The sons came to England, and Louis Saurin, D.D. (the second