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 138 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s vn. AUG. u, 1920. movement of reactionffollowing the destruction of Atheism and Christianity, both at the same time vanquished and exterminated." Pike was the author of the ' Ritual of the Southern Jurisdiction of the U.S.' H. P. HART. The Vicarage, Ixworth, Bury St, Edmunds. Albert Pike was an American writer of great knowledge and spiritual insight in matters relating to the mystic side of Free- masonry. His principal work was ' Morals and Dogma.' Born, 1809 : died 1891. The statement that he was connected with Lucifer worship is probably a stupid slander. ARTHUR BOWES. PROPOSED MUSEUM OF ARTS, 1787 (12 S. vii. 104). Thirty years before Cumberland suggested establishing a collection of casts for the use of students, Charles Lennox, third Duke of Richmond started, what Horace Walpole calls " a grand seigneural design," namely a school for the study of painting and sculpture in his own house at the end of Privy Gardens, Whitehall. Here, in a spacious gallery, was a fine collec- tion of casts from the best antiques, under the superintendence of Cipriani and Wilton the sculptor who attended on Saturdays to give instruction. All artists and any students above twelve were admitted gratis. Many who entered became afterwards well- known in the world. I)uke of Richmond by Boyle, Earl of Bur- lington was burnt to the ground in 1791, and on its site is Richmond Terrace. William Parry, who was one of the students, made a clever drawing of the Gallery with portraits. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Reading. ^^;r! SAILORS' CHANTIES (12 S. vii. 48, 95, 114). In ' English Folk Chanteys.' collected by Cecil J. Sharp (London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd., 1914), there is a valuable introduction with examples. The notes at the end are also of great interest. H. P. HART. The Vicarage, Ixworth, Bury St. Edmunds. S. C. will find valuable information and "a full selection of chanties, words and music, in a volume ' Songs of Sea Labour,' by Frank T. Bullen and^W. F. Arnold, formerly published by the Orpheus Music Publishing Co., and now by Swan & Co., 312 Regent Street, W., n.d., but 1914. J. H. K. WILD BOAR IN HERALDRY (12 S. vi. 189 r 238). Ono Ranzan, the Japanese naturalist of the eighteenth century, states that: " In gloomy dales there occur some long- drawn tracks available for human passage ; these- are the nightly paths of the wild boar, whence the name Shishimichi (Wild Boar's Route). Frequently along these passages one observes- big, trees decorticated by friction and spots of fresb earth turned up by whom unknown. The true explanation is that the wild boar uses to- daub its body with resin and earth in order to harden its skin"' Jutei Honzo .Kdmoku Keimd,'' torn, xlvii. That the Chinese hold the same opinion is evident from the following passage : "The wild boar well defends itself against arrows by gathering the resin of pines, spreading- it on sand and mud, and besmearing its own. body with the mixture." Li Shi-Chin, ' System of > Materia Medical,' 1578, torn. li. KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan. DELANE'S JOURNAL OF HIS VISIT TCN AMERICA (12 S. vi. 285). I have just received your number of June 12. It is perhaps unnecessary to suggest that some of Mr. Delane's fellow-passengers imposed, upon his credulity in giving him the im- pression (see p. 287) that " Southerners ' evidently considered "nigger ditties " to be their national airs," and in inducing him to believe that ' Poor Uncle Ned ' was- " sung at Webster's funeral as a dirge." CHARLES E. STRATTON. 70 State Street, Boston, Mass. "EVERY BULLET HAS ITS BILLET" (12 S.. vii. 109). Gascoigne's ' Fruites of Warre' xvii, c. 1575, " Every bullet hath a lighting place." Wesley's Journal, June 6, 1765, "He never received one wound. So true is the odd saying of King William, that ' every bullet has its billet.' " Dickens's 'Pickwick,' xix. 1837, "It is an established axiom that ' every bullet has its billet.' ' A. R. BAYLEY. The following is taken from Benhaoi's ' Book of Quotations ' "Every bullet has its- billet." Saying attributed to William III. Gascoigne " Fruits of War ' [ut supra]. King William was of an opinion, an' please your Honour, quoth Trim, that every thing^ was predestined for us in this world ; inso- much that he would often say to his soldiers "every ball had its billet." Sterne, 'Tris- tram Shandy/ (1759-60), vol. 8, Ch. 19.... ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
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