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 12 S. VI. JAN., 1920.]

NOTES AND QUERIES.

common noun untranslated with marginal note, possibly " a kind of confection." While Cornill proposed to read "wax," Cheyne considers " vine " to be the right interpre- tation, and, moreover, alleges the Hebrew phrase is parallel to the Mishnic for date syrup. ANEUBIN WILLIAMS.

Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon.

[Several other correspondents also thanked for replies.]

TINKLE STREET (12 S. v. 69, 109, 279). There is a Finkle Street in St. Bees, Cumber- land. In a deed in my possession, dated Mar. 31, 1809, the words occur, " being part of a certain estate there" (i.e., at St. Bees) " called Fennel Street, otherwise Finklo Street." The estate, now dispersed, took its name from the street.

In two earlier deeds relating to the same

property, dated June 19, 1719 and Jan. 1,

. 1739, occur the words " his estate lying in

Fennell Street," and " William Nicholson of

Fennel Street in the Township of St. Bees."

I submit that this is conclusive that Finkle means fennel, as stated in ' N. & Q.' in 1850 (1 S. i. 419).

As to the suggested derivation from " vinkel " (angle), the St. Bees street is not straight (few village streets are) but its angles are very obtuse. It is worth noting that ^Professor Skeat protested (6 S. viii. 522) "against the substitution of English / for Scandinavian v.

The problem remains : why should a common weed have given its name to a number of streets ? P. H. Fox.

Union Club, S.W.

JOHN WM. FLETCHER (12 S. v. 293, 320). The Fletcher referred to by MR. WILLIAMS was himself the saintly vicar of Madeley 1760-85, and was superintendent of Lady Huntingdon's College at Trevecca, 1768-71 ; but resigned on account of his Arminian views, which he defended in his ' Checks to Antinomianism,' published in 1771. See the
 * D.N.B.' for an account of his life.

H. G. HARRISON.

Aysgarth, Sevenoaks.

In 1757 he was ordained deacon and priest on two successive Sundays from the hands of the Bishop of Bangor in the Chapel Royal at St. James's.

After looking through Benson's life of Fletcher, the only reference I find in con- nection with Wales is as follows :

About 1768 the Countess of Huntington erected a seminary at Trevecka in Wales for the education of pious young men. She offered the office of superintendent to

Fletcher, which he accepted, and promised} to attend as regularly as possible. He says " that his duty to his own flock at Madeley would by no means admit accepting the position of Head Master."

H. T. BEDDOWS, Librarian. Shrewsbury.

GEORGE SHEPHERD (12 S. v. 295, 332). I have the pleasure of being well acquainted i with a great grandson of George Shepherd, and if I may assume this is the artist to whom your correspondent refers, I may say that* I have a number of his drawings, and have seen a great number both of his drawings ' and sketch books, invariably signed "-G. Shepheard." As many of his family are alive to-day it would not become me to offer the information which should come from them, but should your correspondent so desire, no- doubt I could refer him to the present holder of the name.

I have a tinted pen-and-ink drawing by G. S., described "at Dickenson's, Bond Street," and dated 1791 : a group around a kitchen fire, one figure marked " G. S." apparently the artist. He appears to have been a prolific worker with pencil and pen * and also in water colours in the style of that period. GEORGE GILBERT.

16 Marlboro' Street, Bolton.

TITLE OF BOOK WANTED (12 S. v. 267). I think the question regards the German novelist Ernst von Wildenbruch, who has published a most lovable story about two - young people from Tanagra and the origin of such small Tanagra busts and statuettes. Its title was, if I am not mistaken, ' The Girl Dancer from Tanagra.'

G. LANGENFELT.

Upsala, Sweden.

AUTHORS OP QUOTATIONS WANTED.

(12 S. v. 295.)

3. The quotation of Thoreau is from the Chinese in Legg's translations of the writings of Confucius and Mencius. As I have not the book at hand I cannot give the exact place.

FERRIS A. MURONS. Albany, New York.

(12 S. v. 322.)

2. MOLLOID'S quotation is by (Mrs.) Anna Laetitia Barbauld. The correct ending is

Bid me good-morning !

The lines are the conclusion of the piece with the heading 'Life,' No. 474 in 'The Oxford Book of English Verse.' The same piece,, but very much shortened is given in F. T. Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' EDWARD BENSLY.

[MRS. H. T. BARKER, MR. ARTHUR D. BROOKS and MR. WM. SELF WEEK& also thanked for replies.]