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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[128. V. DEC., 1919

Iknown of its history prior to its being found -one Friday afternoon in August, 1912, at the

Caledonian Market, but so far as I am aware, it was never suggested that it was a forgery.

The painting was acquired by Mr. John

Glen of 34 Davies Street, Berkeley Square, but I am not aware in whose possession it now is. It was reproduced in The Daily Mail of Mar. 3, 1913. G. P.

THREE CRIPPLED, FIELD LANE (12 S. v. 292). This sign was probably invented by Dickens. There does not appear to have

ever been a tavern so named in that district, but there was at one time a Three Cocks in

'Cow Lane, and a Three Kings in Clerkenwell Close, both near to Field Lane.

T. W. TYRRELL.

EXCHANGE OF SOULS IN FICTION (12 S. v. 124, 191, 246, 279, 306). Sir A. Conan Doyle's short story, ' The Great Keinplatz Experiment,' to be found in the volume ' The Captain of the Polar Star, and Other Tales' (Longmans). R. GRIME.

ELEPHANT: OLIPHANT (12 S. v. 238, 301). I think you will find the facts to be that the origin of the name was William Olifard, who came over with William the Conqueror 'from France and then attached himself to the Scotch cause.

Later another William Olifard, when fighting at the side of his king in an unequal combat with the Saracens, refreshed him when exhausted with a draught of water from his drinking horn made of an elephant's tusk. For that the king knighted him on the field of battle, Sir William Olifaunt, which is one of the old spellings of elephant.

It will be remembered that the arms of the Lairds of Gask have two elephants for supporters. It was through the good offices of Sir Walter Scott that the fortunes of the Oliphants lost by the family alliance to the Jacobite cause were restored.

W. ELWIN OLIPHANT.

Wabern, Berne, Switzerland.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S. v. 295). 1. The lines quoted, but incorrectly so, are from A. C. Swinburne's poem "A Match," (Poems and Ballads, first series). The correct version is : If you were April's Lady, And I were lord in May, We'd throw with leaves for hours And draw for days with flowers, Till day like night were shady And night were bright like day ; If you were April's lady, And I were lord in May.

W. A. HUTCHISON.

[Several other correspondents also thanked for replies.]

THOMAS COTESMORE (12 S. v.292). 1 t afraid that my last two lines at the abo reference are a stupid mistake. The Thorr Cotesmore I was writing about, is said have died in prison in 1584. The Thorr Cotesmore to whom the passage in t ' Chetham Soc. Publ.' relates was a semina priest ordained in 1580, and sent to Engla in 1582. JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

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The Oxford EnaHsh Dictionary. (Vol. IX. S\ Th.) Sfratuv-Styx By Henry Bradley. Swe Szmikite. By C. T. Onions. '(Oxford, Clarerid Press, each 5s. net. )

THE latest section of the Dictionary completes tl immense letter S. T had been finished earlier, a so the work of Dr. Bradley and his coadjutors nearing its end. U, V, and Z, will not, imagine, be anything like so formidable to tackle W, which remains the chief task. The letter Si the interesting Preface added to Mr. Onio section informs us, extends to 2408 pages, a fi which is sufficient alone to indicate the v! superiority of the Dictionary over any other in a language. The shelter of " Academick bower which Johnson missed, has been amply justified the achievements begun by the late Sir Jan Murray at Mill Hill. The war withdrew in succ sion several members of the Dictionary Staff, a the Editor himself in the second half of 1918 ; t advance through the alphabet has been steady a successful, and the latest parts are full of exhai tive analysis, copious quotations, and new knc ledge.

Dr. Bradley has dealt with several familiar woi which have a wealth of meanings. " Strike " a "Stunt" bring his information quite up-to-da The former word is an instance of the wonder work of the Dictionary in analysing varic senses. The "strikes" the public have reason remember are so-called from the development oi nautical phrase. Dr. Johnson in his Dictions knew nothing of them. It is difficult to be si that we have missed no example in the imposi display of quotations ; but we think Matth< Arnold's "Strike leftward cries our guide" in 1 4 Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse ' would be suitable addition. " Strinel " is one of sevei words which will be quite new to the avera reader. "Strip" is a familiar word which ags illustrates the wonderful work of the Dictionai The derivation of " Stroll " is uncertain, but it m be, we learn, among the High German woi introduced in the seventeenth century by soldie Swift's "Struldbrug" is included, an arbitra invention which has sufficiently impressed itself the language to lead to " Struldhruggian " a " Struldbrugism " The quotation for " strumi in 1784 is the title of a book. A notorious instan of that disease was Dr. Johnson, and on p. 4 the life by Hawkins is a reference to ''thestrun or, as it is called, the king's-evil." " Stud ;> incluc two different nouns- "Studio" is first quoted i 1819, though we should have exppcted to find it I the eighteenth century. "Stuff" is obscure ' etymology, and is a good, honest English wo