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WALLER, FLEET STREET BOOKSELLER. In 1864 there was in Fleet Street a book seller, Mr. Waller. I should like to be pu into communication with his representative for historical purposes.

DAVID Ross McCoRD. The McCord National Museum,

Temple Grove, Montreal.

PHILIP VAN MARNIX. Can any of you readers who are interested in the study o Dutch literature give me chapter and vers for allusions (by contemporary Englisl writers) to ' The Bee-hive of the Holj Roman Church ' whether to the origina or to the translation of George Gilpin, o which the first edition appeared in 1579 ? H. LATIMER JACKSON, D.D. Christ's College, Cambridge.

JAPANESE " CASTERA." On p. 457 of Lord Redesdale's ' Memories ' (London 1915) a note says : " Sponge cake Castera so called because the recipe was receiver from Spain Castile." Is it not more pro bable that this castera is a corruption o: casero = home - made ? " Pan casero ' means " household, or home-made, bread ' in Castilla to this day. The word may have been introduced by Catholic missionarie from Spain, as the epithet of a feminine word for some kind of a cake, and the t inserted to suit some Japanese euphonic prejudice. It appears that the Portuguese for " bread," pad, from Latin pane, is still used in Japan as the name of European broad. EDWARD S. DODGSON.

Albert House, Bath.

DUTCH THERMOMETER OR BAROMETER. I have sometimes seen in Holland a glass vessel which I supposed to be a barometer. I asked Mr. van Santen, the manager of the Oude Doelen Hotel at the Hague, where I could get one, and he at once gave me one, as a parting gift. It is a glass vessel in the shape of half a pear, about nine inches long, and nearly four across. The flat side is intended to rest against a wall while the thing is suspended by a ring at the top. From the front rises a sort of upright spout or tube graduated by lines and figures from 1 at the bottom to 13 near the top. It can be charged with water by carefully pouring through the spout. Mine is about half full of water, which is continually rising and falling in the graduated tube. It forms a very sensitive thermometer, the heat, as of the hand applied, at once driving the water higher up into the tube by the expansion of the air within. On the

removal of the hand the water immediately* falls ; and so, with the changes of tempera- ture in the places wherein it hangs, it rises- and falls with a spirit thermometer hung beside it, though not at a uniform rate, as if barometric pressure had something to do with its indications.

I shall be glad of any information about this thing, e.g., what it is called in Holland, when invented and by whom, how to be charged with water, and of what use it is or is supposed to be. J. T. F.

Winterton, Lines.

' THE PIRATES,' OPERA BY JAMES COBB AND STEPHEN STORAGE. The above opera was produced with great success at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, in 1792. But though the libretti of such operas were- usually published, yet in this case, so far as I can learn, only the words of the songs, &c. r were printed. Is it possible to obtain the dialogue, &c., as written by Dr. Cobb,. without which the lyrics have little sig- nificance ? LIONEL E. SALT. 24 South Audley Street, W.I.

WILLATJME. I should be glad to ascertain the date and other particulars of the marriage of David Willaume of Tingrith, Bedfordshire, and to obtain any information relating to his three sons : Edward, who graduated M.A. at Cambridge from Trin. 3oll. in 1770 ; Charles, who graduated B.A. Tom the same college in 1761 ; and John,, who graduated M.A., also from the same allege, in 1767. G. F. R. B.

Moss OP FAMILY. Information will be- welcomed on the Irish or other branches of he Mossop family. Reply direct to

WILLIAM MACARTHUR. 79 Talbot Street, Dublin.

FORSTER OF HANSLOPE, BUCKS. The writer will be much obliged to any one who will give him any information as to the-

rigin and progeny of this family, living;

here in 1660. WALTER BARTON.

W. KNIVETON : IRISH STIPPLE ENGRAV- INGS. I possess a pair of stipple engravings f Irish landscapes views of Muckish and l^ugh Foyle, co. Donegal. The engraver was a W. Kniveton. Particulars concern- ng him will oblige. ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

' LLEWELYN ' AND ' LLEWELYN'S HEIR.' iVho were the authors of ' Llewelyn,' a tal& f Cambria in four cantos, Calcutta, 1838,. nd ' Llewelyn's Heir,' 3 vols., 12mo, 1846 ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.