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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ 12 s.vi. MAY 22,1920.

merchants of Liverpool, by whose means he hopes to obtain preferment in the church of England, to which he is willing to conform : his pamphlet is dedicated to the Mayor, Aldermen, &c., of Liver- pool.''

What was Harris's Christian name, and how did he come by his Spanish nationality ? What was the title of his pamphlet ?

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. I shall be much obliged if you can let me know which are the best books on the following subjects (for advanced study) :

1. General History of International Law with special reference to the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

2. Foreign relations of the principal civilized States from 1848 to 1878.

3. Present rules of Internationa] Law, including the subjects of Nationality, Jurisdiction, and Domicile.

4. Problems, disputed points and proposed changes in International Law.

5. Political Philosophy, including the general theory of Law and Government and Political Economy, so far as it bears upon International Law.

P. V. NARASTJ. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

EMERSON'S ' ENGLISH TRAITS ' (See 12 S. v. 234, 275 ; vi. 9, 73). I should be grateful for elucidations or references explaining any of this third batch of puzzles from the above work. References given here to pages and lines follow the " World's Classics " Edition. Phrases in brackets are my own :

1. P. 85, 1. 10. The decided sympathy of his compatriots is engaged to back up Mr. Crump's whim by statutes, and chancellors, and horse- guards. [Who is Mr. Crump ?]

2. P. 80, 1. 12. Mr. Coleridge is said to have given public thanks to God, at the close of a lecture, that he had defended him from being able to utter a single sentence in the French language. [Any evidence for this statement ?]

3. P. 86, 1. 33. Lord Chatham goes for liberty, and no taxation without representation for that is British law : but not a hob-nail shall they dare make in America, but buy their nails in England for that also is British law. [Did Chatham make any definite reference to hobnails in any of his speeches ?]

4. P. 88, 1. 7. It was said of Louis XIV, that his gait and air were becoming enough in so great a monarch, yet would have been ridiculous in another man. [Author wanted].

5. P. 89, 1. 1. "Though Britain, according to Bishop Berkeley's idea, were surrounded by a wall of brass ten thousand cubits in height, still she would as far excel the rest of the world" [etc. Emerson is here quoting the last sentence of Wm. Spence's " Tract on Corn," (1807) ; but can any one give the reference for the idea of Bishop Berkeley's to which Spence alludes?]

6. P. 91, 1. 7. One of their [English] recent writers speaks, in reference to a private and

scholastic life, of " the grave moral deterioration; which follows an empty exchequer." [Author of' quotation wanted. " Recent " implies shortly before 1857.]

7. P. 94, 1. 31. Eight hundred years ago^ commerce had made it rich, and it was recorded,. " England is the richest of all the northern, nations." The Norman historians recite, that " in 1067, William carried with him into Nor- mandy, from England, more gold and silver than, had ever before been seen in Gaul." [References- for quotations wanted.]

8. P. 97, 1. 35. Sir Edward Boynton, at Spic- Park, at Cadenham, on a precipice of incomparable prospect, built a house like a long barn, which had not a window on the prospect side. [Who was Sir E. Boynton ? Where is " Spic Park, at Cadenham"? Any authority for the story?].

9. P. 99, 1. 4. A nation [should not be] a tent of caterpillars. [What is the meaning of " tent " in this phrase ?]

10. P. 105, 1. 26. Pepys tell us, in writing of an Earl of Oxford in 1666, that the honour had now remained in that name and blood six hundred years. [I cannot find any such passage in Pepys.]

11. P. 106, 1. 10. The English are those " barbarians " of Jamblichus, who " are stable- in their manners, and firmly continue to employ the same words, which also are dear to the gods." [Where is this passage in Jamblichus '?]

12. P. 106, 1. 20. The crags of Argyle, the- kail of Cornwall, the downs of Devon, the iron of '. Wales, the clays of Stafford. [What is the meaning of " kail " in this passage 'i The context suggests that here it is a geological and not a. horticultural term.]

13. P. 110, 1. 25. The economist of 1855 who- asks, " Of what use are the lords ? " may learn of; Franklin to ask, " Of what use is a baby ? " [Did Franklin ever ask this second question ? I- have heard it assigned to Faraday-]

14. P. Ill, 1. 20. Howard and Spenserian, libraries. [What is, or was, the " Spenserian " library ? The context implies that it is the- library of some noble family : is it a mis-spelt reference to the Spencers' library at Althorp ?]

15. P. 112, 1. 24. Penshurst still shines for us,, and its Christmas revels, " where logs not burn,, but men." [Source of quotation wanted-]

16. P. 113, 1. 10. [In the reign of Charles II] prostitutes taken from the theatres were made Duchesses. [Any examples of this ? Nell Gwyn was an actress, but was not made a Duchess.]

17. P. 113, 1. 17. Pepys can tell the beggarly shifts to which the King was reduced, who could- not find paper at his council table. . . and the linen-draper and the stationer were out of pocket, and refusing to trust him, and the baker will not bring bread any longer. [Where is the mention, of these incidents to be found in Pepys ?]

18. P. 114, 1. 12. [To illustrate the financial straits of the English nobility, Emerson writes] of an old man wheeled in his chair from room to> room, whilst his chambers are exhibited to the visitor for money. [What lord was this ? The date must be before 1857.]

19. P. 115, 1. 21. Sir Philip Sidney in his letter- to his brother, and Milton and Evelyn, gave- plain and hearty counsel [concerning training for public affairs.] [The reference to Evelyn is presumably to his pamphlet, ' Public Employment and an Active Life, etc.' But where can I find-