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but really pickled) with all his clothes on, including a neatly knotted tie. Adam Leyel wrote a paper about it which was published in 1722 (in the Acta Literaria Sueciae) under the title 'Narratio accurata de cadavero huma'no in f odina Guprimontana ante duos annos reperto.' Father Outhier saw it in 1736 or 1737 and recorded the fact in his Journal d'un voyage au Nord (Paris, 1744), stating that "nous ne vimes qu'un corps tout noir, fort desseche et fort defigure, qui exhaloit une odeur cadavereuse. " Numerous learned disquisitions have since been pub- lished about the case in German and other Swedish periodicals and books. The legend has been dealt with in novels, both grave and gay, in poetry, and in illustrated and other papers, in one as recently as 1902 (Der Bergmann von Falun}. According to a writer in the Bayreuther Blatter (1905), Richard Wagner had a "scheme " for an opera under the title 'Die Bergwerke zu Falun.' L. L. K.

" GORMANIC." What is the origin of this pet word of Mrs. Bulwer Lytton ? In 1829, and again in 1833, it occurs in her letters : " They [my letters ] would bring 200Z. or 300Z. if published under the following fitting and gormanic title, ' Letters from the Wife of a highly talented Man to a Sublime Friend ' " ; and "I do not pretend to the gormanic agonised feelings of a mother." Was there a notorious Gorman of the period ?

G. G. L.

SURNAME OF PHILIP II. OF SPAIN. Bacon, in his essay, ' Of Prophecies, ' speak- ing of the Spanish Armada remarks, "the King of Spain's surname, as they say, is Norway."

What did the saying mean ?

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

' ANGLESEY HOUSE, DRUBY LANE. Could any reader give me information regarding the exact site of Anglesey House, Drury Lane, also the date when it was demolished. It belonged, in the reign of Charles II., to Arthur Annesley, Earl of Anglesey, Lord Privy Seal, and I have always understood that it stood at the corner of Bow Street and Drury Lane. At the time of the Monmouth Rebellion Lord Anglesey's house was searched for the fugitive Duke. There "his house "in Drury Lane."
 * are many letters of his extant, dated from

GERARD THARP, Lieut. -Col. Wick Street House, Stroud.

AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED.

Whose are the following lines, and whence taken, quoted in chap. xi. of Dr. Tylor's ' Primitive Culture ' ? Bis duo sunt homines ; manes, caro, spiritus, umbra,

Quatuor ista loci bis duo suscipient Terra tegit carnem, tumulum circumvolat umbra;

Orcus habet manes, spiritus astra petit. The source is not mentioned, but the style and idea appear to suggest a late period of Latin literature. MAUDE ASHURST BIGGS.

FATHERS OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1901-1920.

(8 S. ii. 327 ; iii. 34 ; iv. 249, 418 ; vi. 78 ;

9 S. viii. 147; xii. 33; 10 S. vii. 486;

12 S. vii. 192.)

THE list of Fathers of the House of Commons was completed at 10 S. vii. 486 to the point in May, 1907, when Sir Henry Campbell- Bannerman, at that date Prime Minister, succeeded Mr. George Henry Finch, M.P. for Rutland. On Sir Henry's death in April, 1908, the honourable distinction was acquired by the late Sir John Kennaway, who had sat continuously for East Devon from April, 1870 ; and, when he in turn withdrew from parliamentary life at the dissolution of January, 1910, Mr. Thomas Burt, with an unbroken membership for Morpeth from 1874, took the place. Mr. Burt did not offer himself at the general election of December, 1918, and he has been succeeded in the "Fatherhood" by Mr. Thomas Power O'Connor, first returned for Galway in April, 1880, and chosen for a division of Liverpool at the general election of 1885, having been thus on unbroken parliamentary service for over forty years. The next on the list for unbroken service is Mr. Francis Bingham Mildmay, who has sat without an intermission for the Totnes Division of Devonshire since its insertion by the Redistribution Act of 1885 ; as Mr. Walter Long, earliest elected for North Wilts in 1880, has had various gaps in his parliamentary career, and Mr. James William Lowther, the Speaker, who first entered the House of Commons for Rutland in August, 1883, failed to secure election aq. the dissolution of 1885 for the Penrith Division of Cumberland, which seat he won at the succeeding dissolution of 1886 and has held ever since.

Among retired members of the House of Commons who dats from much earlier years