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in 'a dit sou vent que le systeme de Goldsmith 6tait d'obliger jusqu'au point de se mettre exactement dans la position de 1'indigent qu'il avait secouru ; et quand on lui reprochait ces libe>alites impru- dentes, par lesquelles il se substituait a lad^tresse <l'un inconnu, il se contentait de repondre: J'ai des ressources, mpi, et ce malheureux n'avait de ressources que moi ! "

John. Forster commenting on this says : " 1 do not find evidence of his having known him (Goldsmith) at all." Sir Herbert Croft, however, was fairly intimate with Gold- smith's real greatest friend, Dr. Johnson, and contributed the biography of Young to -the ' Lives of the Poets.'

ANDREW DE MERNANT.

36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W.

BOOK-TITLE Mis -TRANSLATED. In a lec- ture on 'The Course of English Thought since the First Day of Hostilities,' delivered at Lyons on Empire Day, 1918, M. Maurice Barres, of the Academie Fran9aise, devoted a good deal of his attention to Mr. H. G. Wells's book -Mr. Britling Sees It Through, which he translates 'M. Britling commence 4 voir clair.' I do not know how the title should be translated. Would ' M. Britling mene la chose jusqu' a la fin ' give the sense ? JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

" TENETT-ROSEE. " Is this a child's fan- ciful name for the syringa, or a dialect

M. N. O.

SELBORNE CHURCH BELLS. In Gilbert White's ' Antiquities of Selborne,' Letter 4, appears the following :

" The old bells, three hi number, loud and out of tune, were taken down in 1735, and cast into four ; to which Sir Simeon Stuart, the grand- father of the present baronet, added a fifth at his own expense ; and, bestowing it in the name of his favourite daughter Mrs. Mary Stuart, caused it to be cast with the following motto round it:

Clara puella dedit, dixitque mini esto Maria : Illius et laudes nomen ad astra sono.

The day of the arrival of this tuneable peal was observed as a high festival by the village, and rendered more joyous, by an order from the donor, that the treble bell should be fixed bottom upward in the ground, and filled with punch, of which all present were permitted to partake."

Can any one tell me if this bell is still rung at Selborne, and if there are any records oj: l>ells at other places " baptized " with punch, or anything of a similar nature ?

RUSSELL MARKLAND.

"YFFY." Among the Bridgwater Cor- poration MSS. there is a parchment on the <lorse of which are written some verses in .English. The first part relates to Doomsday,

the second to the B.V.M. After the former is written :

holy holy holy holy yffy yffy. The four words holy are enclosed in a rectangle with a sign like a modern printed capital E at the end.

At the close of the hymn on the Virgin appears the line :

holy holy & yfy yffy holy yffy Holi. A clue to the source of the word may be found in the fact that the parchment contains a lease of the Church of Llangeullo in the diocese of St. David's [A.D. 1471]. Can any one suggest the meaning ?

T. BRUCE DILKS Bridgwater.

"NEW EXCHANGE," LONDON. Can any reader tell me where the " New Exchange " in London was situated ? Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, writing from Andrianople in 1717, describes her bazaar there, and compares it with ''the new Exchange in London." In Mr. Moy Thomas's ^1861) edition of the Letters, a footnote is printed giving the name "Exeter Change"; but this note is initialled " W," and is therefore taken from Lord Wharncliff's edition of 1837.

I am anxious to learn (1) where the build- ing was ; (2) when the name was changed to "Exeter Change"; (3) when it was demolished, if it is no longer standing.

HILDA CHATWIN.

LEASE FOR 99 YEARS. What is the origin of leases being granted for ninety-nine years?

J. J. W.

DICKENS REFERENCE WANTED. Could any reader assist me to find the following passage, with Chapter if possible, in Dickens ? 1 quote from memory :

"The pwettiest little cart that ever was upon

wheels: painted wed Two servants widing a

quarter of a mile behind. The people thought we were the Post, and came out to meet us. Glowious ! Glowious! "

The speaker is a lord. H. J.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. 1. Can any reader of ' N. & Q.' say who wrote the following, and where it can be found ?

" To labour and be content with what a man hath is a sweet life. It is the mind that maketh good or ill, wretch or happy, rich or poor."

DAPHNAIDA.

2. Where can I put my hand on lines which (roughly remembered) run somewhat as follows : And ever at my back 1 hear Time's hurrying footsteps drawing near.

R. A. II.