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most pleasure to the diminishing number of people who still retain the old Tory point of view ; and it will doubtless prove enlightening to many who have forgotten the first principles of those who opposed such changes as the enfranchisement of women.

H. N. Coleridge's collection of 1836-6 is followed by extracts from Coleridge's contributions to Sou they 's ' Cmniona ' and Table Talk from Allsop's ' Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge,' the whole forming delightful reading. To add to the value of the volume, an excellent analytical index is included.

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EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to " The Editor of ' Notes and Queries'" Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers " at the Office, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, E.C.4.

CECIL CLARKE. Forwarded.

C. J. (Stevenson's ' The Wrong Eox '). Antici- pated ante, p. 224.

B. B. (" Lucus a non lucendo "). There is a fairly long note on this in the late Francis King's excellent book ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,' No. 1442 in the revised third edition (Whi taker & Sons, Warwick Lane).

G. H. J. (Snap-bubbles). The earliest quotation in the ' New English Dictionary ' is from J. Smith's ' Panorama of Science and Art,' 1815. The earliest figurative use is from Emerson in 1828, ' The talk has been mere soap-bubbles."

G. W. H. (Embalming the Dead). The materials and processes employed are described in the article 'Embalming' in the llth ed. of ' The Ency. Brit.,' vol. ix. Two American books on embalming are included in the bibliography appended.

E. CAHAN (Corpse Roads). The custom o^ forbidding funerals to use private roads is not confined to the Channel Islands. Much has appeared about it in ' N. & Q.' See 4 S. xi. 213, 285, 374, 433 ; xii. 96, 158 ; 5 S. x. 49, 197.

E. CAHAN (Vice-Consul at Liege, August, 1914). Mr. John Byron Dolphin filled this position when the Germans invaded Belgium. ' The Foreign Office List for 1917 ' states that he remained at his post during the siege, and did not leave for England until Sept. 8, 1914, after Li6ge had been occupied by the Germans.

SANFOEST (" Beevor " or " Bever "). The ' New- English Dictionary,' which has quotations for this word from the ' Paston Letters, 1451, to the end of the last century, shows that the word originally referred to drinking, but soon included eating. The derivation is from Old French beivre, bohre, to drink. Much about bever will be found at 7 S. ii. 306, 454. 614 j iii/ 8.