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 12 S. VII. JULY 17, 1920.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 59- NINETY-NINE YEAP, LEASES (12 S. vii. g). MB. HEBBRUCK will probably obtain most of the information he requires from Williams' s ' Principles of the Law of Real Property,' pt. iv. chap. 1 ' Of a Term of Years.' (Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd.) J. P. DE C. LORE or THE CANE (12 S. vi., 252, 302). When I was a lad my school-mates quite believed that to rub the hand with an onion cut into halves would cause the cane to split in the master's hand and injure his hand as well and at the same time deaden the pain in the hand of the offender, and some of the lads regularly came to school with a split onion in the pocket. THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop. FOLK-LORE OF THE ELDER (12 S. VI. 259, 301 ; vii. 27). The Rollright stones on the border between Oxfordshire and Warwick- shire have long been known in folk-lore. Witches held Sabbaths here, and but recently a young farmer assured me that no gate leading to the stones could be kept securely fastened Here among other mysteries an elder tree grew which bled when cut. J. HARVEY BLOOM CHENEY HAMILTON (US. xi. 300; 12 S. vii. 12, s. Pinnock) of St. Jago de la Vega in the Island of Jamaica, clerk of H.M. Supreme Court. Will dated Oct. 19, 1765. My father James H. 20 gs. Slaves and a moiety of estate called Prospect which were my wife's portion to my wife Mary and son Duke Augustus H. at 21. Wife Mary now in London. Proved May 3, 1771 [P. C. C. 209 Trevor]. As testator evidently died under middle age, he may well have -been at Westminster School in 1745. V. L. OLIVER. Sunninghill. " NOR DID FLY FOR IT " (12 S. vii. 6). At Northampton Summer Assizes, 1865, on the trial of a police officer for a serious crime of violence, where the prisoner had escaped from custody whilst under remand by magistrates, and been re-captured, Lord Chief Baron Pollock, in summing up, stated that he recollected when it was customary on the northern circuit to ask juries the question, " whether the prisoner had fled from justice." W. B. H. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. (12 S. vi. 296.) 2. These lines are by Thomas TjWhytehead, Fellow of St. John's College, Camb. The poem is entitled 'The Second Day' and is printed in his 'Poetical Remains and Letters,' 1877, -p. 236. The stanza asked for runs : This world I deem But a beautiful dream Of the shadows that are not what they seem ; Where visions rise, Giving dim surmise Of the things that shall meet our waking eyes. GIFFORD H. JOHNSON. (12 S. vi. 336.) 1. This is the first stanza of a poemTentitled author, Dr. Carruth. pi. STOREY. Percy Terrace, Gosforth, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Discovery in Greek Lands : a Sketch of the Prin- cipal Excavations and Discoveries of the last Fijly Years. By F. H. Marshall. (Cambridge University Press, 8s.f6c7.~net.) IT is something of a feat to have made a sketch of the present condition of archa3ological research in Greek lands in a small book, set in large type, of no more than 111 pages, if we omit the bibliography and index. As the writer says, the specialist in Archaeology will look elsewhere for information, but, being asked to recommend a book as a start for the general reader, he might do much worse than place this before him. Of the seven chapters the first four give a summary account of the prehistoric and historic periods of Greek archaeology in their chronological order as illustrated by the divers finds. The others deal with the work and the finds con- nected with temple sites, and with the great centres of Greek life ; and describe a few isolated discoveries of special importance. Inevitably, the omissions first strike the reader who has a mind not entirely blank on the subject of recent excavations in Greece. The writer offers no remarks on details like the double axes at Knossos ; or on pre-historic hypaethral temples ; or in fact on anything connected with the deeply interesting question of the Minoan religion, except that he says that a side-light is cast upon it by the discovery of a series of objects in faience from which he has selected for illustration the " snake-goddess " holding her snakes aloft. These particular omissions are no doubt the result of a decision to avoid all disputed topics ; a decision which we approve in itself, though we think that some indication of the nature of issues still under discussion would have added to the interest of this sketch and that not least to those for whom the subject is new. In general, for the choice of points to emphasize and use as examples we have nothing but praise. The illustrations supply several photographs of sites, as well as three or four " restorations " from
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