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 14 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.vm. JAN. 1,1021. the modern railway signalman is often .to-day still termed the " bobby." The L. and N.W.R. Police Force retained in use the tall hat until the end of the 'eighties, and were the last, I believe, to W. E. EDWABDS. LONDON IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES : POLICE UNIFORMS (12 S. vii. 431, 475). I believe an illustration, is to be found in The Illustrated London News of the year 1862, depicting a London police constable, attired in helmet and tunic, that being the earliest record I can find. The County Constabulary, however, re- tained the tall hat for a longer period ; in the West of England it survived until the end of the 'sixties, but the leathern crowns were long before discarded. The tall hat was of beaver, having side stays of iron, so con- necting the brim and crown. The so-called "swallowtail " was really a modification of the outdoor dress of the period, and it was officially described as a "dress coat." The belt was worn in combination therewith, and each constable carried an unsheaved truncheon, including the House of Commons police. The dress coat, however, was but- toned up to the neck, and the collar was of the high type still worn by the Guards when in full dress. A stock was also included in the equipment, and a song, extant in the 'sixties, ran thus : I would I were a bobby, Dressed up in bobbies' clothes, With a hi^h-crowned hat, &c. W. E. EDWABDS. Croxley Green. THE LEGITIMIST KALENDAB (12 S. vii. 471). The first issue of the Legitimist Kalendar was for the year 1894. It consisted of 32 pages, and was published by Henry & -Co., 6 Bouverie Street, London, price one shilling nett. The editor's note on the back of the cover-title-page is dated December, 1893. In this note it is stated that "the Legitimist Kalendar will be issued annually and the editor hopes to enlarge it considerably year by year." F. H. C. The fourth and last edition was that for the year 1910. It was printed for the Forget - Me - Not Royalist Club, and Messrs Phillimore, 124 Chancery Lane, W.C., were offering a few copies (issued at 10s), at 7s. Qd. net, in 1915. Amongst the contents of genealogical interest were folding pedi- grees showing the seize quart iers of the de jure sovereigns of England, the names 'of persons exempted from the various Acts of Indemnity, a list of titles still under attainder for fidelity to the Legitimist Dynasty, a list of the Ministers, &c., of the exiled Stuart sovereigns, and a list of 492 non-jurors, arranged under Dioceses ; the whole indexed. FBED. R. GALE. Crookbury, Fitzjohn Avenue, High Barnet. The last edition of this book was pub- lished in 1910. Copies can still be obtained from Phillimore & Co., Chancery Lane. G. PIEBBE FBAN^OIS GAILLABD (12S. vii. 489). This arch criminal, and his mate Pierre Victor Avril, were both guillotined at Bicetre on the morning of Saturday, Jan. 9, 1836. A graphic account of their remarkable careers and last moments is given in ' Studies of French Criminals ' by the late H. B. Irving. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. He is the subject of a very interesting article entitled 'False Poet but Genuine Assassin,' by the late H. B. Irving in The Weekly Dispatch (Aug. 20, 1920). It may be added that Gaillard's (nom-de-plume " Lacenaire ") contributions to Parisian periodical publications (verse and prose) are still sought by "morbid" collectors in France. It was also said (about thirty years ago) that some of his unpublished MSS. were sold by a relative to a London literary agent, and adaptations were pub- lished anonymously by the now extinct firms of Edwin J. Brett (of Fleet Street) and James Henderson (of Red Lion Court) in their once popular periodicals. ANDBEW DE TEBNANT. Louis NAPOLEON : POETICAL WOBKS (12 S. vii. 490). Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (King of Holland), brother of Napoleon I. and father of Napoleon III., was a "poet," and published two collections of poems. These have been sometimes attributed to the son, Napoleon III., who before becoming Em- peror of the French was known as Prince Louis Napoleon, and during his exile in England wrote works dealing with politics and occasional sonnets, songs, and epigrams. The David Bogue publication is probably a translation of a selection. Napoleon III., however, after becoming emperor published no poetical works in French. His great literary work was the ' Life of Julius Caesar. '
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