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 118 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s VIL AU. 7, 1920, (12 S. vii. 48). J. A. was a Miss Jessie Anderson, daughter of a naval officer and a resident at Stoke in 1870. She afterwards married a Paymaster named Autridge, and died some twenty-five years since. The book was probably printed in Devonport by Couch or Clarke. HENRY SHAPCOTE. 10 Guthlaxton Street, Leicester. This book was undoubtedly written by Anderson, and issued by Messrs. Parker of Oxford and London in November, 1870. The author was at Stoke Damerel at the time, which is a suburb, and the mother parish, of Devonport. But the directories of Devonshire show no Anderson living at Devonport at the time, and the Clergy List only reveals one clergyman in Devonshire named Anderson, the Rev. William Dyer Anderson, Vicar of Milton Damerel near Holsworthy. There is some reason for believing a lady to have been the writer : for the correspondence about the issue of the book is in a feminine hand, and she offers to write to possible purchasers, nearly half of whom are ladies. Mr. C. J. Parker, the present head of the firm, kindly states that the firm printed the book at Oxford, but ws agent for distribution, rather than actual publisher. None of the existing ledgers gives the Christian name of the author. FAMA. ' STALKY & Co.,' BY RUDYARD KIPLING, (12 S. vi. 334 ; vii. 57). One of the Stalky stories appearing in the (? American) periodical turned upon an escapade of cattle-running. It seems never to have been reprinted. D. L. GALBREATH. FUNERAL PARLOUR (12 S. vi. 272. 316 ; vii. 37). The funeral parlour has been an insti- tution in the large cities of the United States for years. I have had personal know- ledge of this in three cities. The funeral parlour is a room or suite of rooms main- tained by the undertaker ior holding mor- tuary services, when it would be incon- venient, for any reason, to have such services at the residence of the deceased. One instance will suffice. A veteran of the War for the Union died recently. He had many friends, he had been a Post Com- mander in the Grand Army of the Republic. At the time of his death he was living in a modest apartment, not much larger than that occupied by Mr. Dick, as related by David Copperfieid, and so it w r as that the iuneral parlour was opened as the place where not only his army comrades but his friends in civil life might meet and pay the; last tribute of respect. Among the mourners- I was one, because with him 1 had worn the- blue of the United States Army. N. New York. DIOCESAN CALENDARS AND GAZETTES- (12 S. vi. 296 ; vii. 19). The first Calendar- for the Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol was published in 1859. The first number* of The Gloucester Diocesan Gazette is dated January, 1906. An advertisement in the- Calendar mentioned above shows that No. 1 of The Parish Mac/azin-?, edited by the Rev. J. Erskine Clarke, vicar of St. Michael's,, Derbv, was published January, 1859, by H. G" Heald, Ludgate Hill. ROLAND AUSTIN. "To TRASH FOR OVERTOPPING" (12 S. vi. 143). When 1 was in Barbados, the- word " trash " was in ordinary use in all sugar plantations ; but there it referred to- the dry or dead leaves from the sugar cane and not to overtopping, and it has nothing, to do with too luxurious tropical growth,, as MR. F. JESSEL says is the case in Queens- land. As the cane ripens the leaves dry and naturally fall to the ground. These dead leaves are gathered and used to protect the- young canes from the heat of the sun, and when eventually this "trash" rots, it naturally forms a manureal fertiliser, thus assisting and fertilising the land. The " trash " therefore is never lost, but always' of use. The young canes are planted in November arid December and are " trashed " Irom March onwards, as fast as the old canes are cut, when the " trash " is heaped up into big bundles and carried to the different fields on the heads of the negroes. OSCAR BERRY. Monument House, Monument Street, E.G. HERALDRY OF FISHES (12 S. vii. 29, 52). The following articles on the subject under notice may be useful to your correspondent if he is not already acquainted w r ith them : ' Fish Heraldry,' published in The Field of Jan. 4, 1902, and ' Heraldic Fish ' in The Globe of Nov. 28, 1905. A few years earlier, namely in February and March, 1898, two articles on ' Sportive Heraldry ' appeared in Country Life, in the second of which (Mar. 5, p. 280) will be found half a column of perti- nent observations including instances of fishes introduced on shields involving a pun on the owners' names, as salmon, roach, and' tench. J. E. HARTING.
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