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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 8 . in. JAN. 20, 1917.

getting their baits out a great way by cast- ing with a forked stick. A loop on the line was placed on one prong of the fork. Stand- ing turned sideways or almost back to the water, the angler first gets a gentle pen- dulum-like swing on the weight hanging from the fork, and then gives a strong sweeping swing, and the baited line and " ledger " flies out to the desired spot. Of recent years anglers, who disdain hand- lining, are able to make much longer casts " from the reel," i.e., the line is wound on a reel fastened to the butt end of the rod : the weighted line is wound so that the weight is hanging a foot or more from the end of the rod, impetus is imparted by a gentle swing, and then, by a strong sweep of the rod, the line released, and the weight, which may be a quarter of a pound or more, is sent out even to a distance of one hundred yards or more the average would be not half that. I am referring to tournament casting, which has become a game sui generis. The "requisite" cast, as Mr. Harris well puts it, for practical fishing is generally from a quarter to half the "records cast'' made at casting tournaments. In The Fishing Gazette I have records of over one hundred and twenty yards cast from the reel with weight, and over fifty yards with the salmon fly. R. B. MARSTON.

Surrey Lodge, Denmark Hill, S.E.

Will you permit me to thank MR. HARRIS for his amusing reply at the last reference, especially as it throws fresh light ' on Job xl. 25 et seq. I had the passage down for reference myself, as one of the few satirical pieces of Hebrew poetry in the Bible. MR. HARRIS confirms me in my original judg- ment of it. He will be interested to know that there do exist " ideographs " of rod- fishing in the streams of Egypt. They are shown in the plates of Wilkinson's ' Ancient Egyptians ' ? I never contended for more than catching small fish with a rod and line. Deep-sea fishing and, its methods were of secondary importance in the problem I was asked to resolve, and I think I have settled that point. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

j AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. ii. 509; iii. 38). " God is on the side of the big battalions." Frederick the Great seems to have a good title to the authorship of this saying. Zeller, the historian of Greek philosophy, in his work on ' Frederick the Great as Philosopher' (p. 219), referring to the ' (Euvres de Frederic,' xviii. 186, 188, says that in a letter to the Duchess of Gotha, about 1757, he writes that,' as regards

Providence, he cannot shake off the preju- dice that in .war God is on the side of the big battalions, which at present are in the enemy's camp. Carlyle gives the date of this letter as May 8,' 1760, and assigns the " real ownership " of the saying to Frederick, quoting the original French : " Dieu est pour- les gros escadrons " (' History of Fried- rich II.,' Bk. XIX. chap. viii. vol. v. p. 606, ed. 1865). ADECTO.

BUTLER'S 'ANALOGY': BIBLIOGRAPHY (12 S. ii. 369). The following references may be of use to your correspondent :

1830. The Writings of Bishop Butler. Quarterly Review. No. 85, pp. 182-215.

1830. [Review of 'The Analogy.'] Quarterly Christian Spectator (Newhaven, U.S.A.), ii. pp. 694-719.

1841-2. [Review of 'The Analogy.'] Methodist Quarterly Review xxiii. pp. 566-91 ; xxiv., pp. 305- 309.

1849. [Review of, The Analogy.'] Christian Review, xix. pp. 391-407.

1852. 'The Analogy'. ..With Analytical Introduc- tion. By a Member of the University of Oxford.

1855. Bishop Butler's Ethical Discourses. Edited,., with an introductory essay [pp. 5-41 J on the Author's Life and Writings, by Joseph C. Passmore. Philadelphia.

[1856.] 'The Analogy.'... With a copious analysis. By Joseph Angus. Another edition was published in 1881.

1859. Essay on the sceptical tendency of Butler's ' Analogy.' By S. S. Hennell. Reviewed British Quarterly Review (1863), xxxviii. pp. 97-125.

1874. Bxitler's ' Analogy ' r its strength and its weakness Westminster Review, cii. pp. 1-24.

1876. History of English Thought in the Eigh- teenth Century. By Leslie Stephen. 2 vols. Butler's ' Analogy,' vol. i. pp. 278-308. At same pages of the 1881 and 1902 editions.

1876. The method of Butler's 'Analogy.' Church Quarterly Review, i. pp. 337-62.

1881. 'Butler. By W. Lucas Collins. ' The Analogy.' pp. 103-53.

1889. Bishop Butler.. ..With an examination of ' The Analogy.' By TVR. Pynchon. New York.

1892. Horse Sabbaticae. By Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. Series 2, pp. 297-314.

1908. The Romanes Lecture, 1908. The optimism- of Butler's 'Analogy.' By Henry Seott Holland.

ROLAND AUSTIN.

DISRAELI AND EMPIRE (12 S. ii. 508). It is the fact that Disraeli's last speech in the House of Commons, delivered on Aug. 11, 1876, in a debate on the Bulgarian Atrocities, concluded with the word " Empire." The final sentences are reported as follows :

"What our duty is at this critical moment is to maintain the Empire of England. Nor will we ever agree to any step, though it ma obtain for a moment comparative quiet and a false prosperity, that hazards the existence of that Empire." Hansard, 3rd Series, vol ccxxxi. cols. 1146, 1147.