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 248 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vm. MAKCH 26,1021, likely to be Nicholas Chorier's own coin- position indeed, I think they are found J3efore his time, though I cannot lay hands upon the volume. (It need scarcely be mentioned that "life, intelligence, spirit, income " are unskilful additions by the beauty specialist, for these are not " qualities " making for beauty ; there are other minor alterations, as well as the reduction from thirty to twenty-seven, in the modern adaptation.) S. G. MEDICAL VALUE OF NAIL-CUTTING. 4 X. & Q.' has paid some attention to finger- nail folk-lore ; but perhaps the following items culled from Wilfred Thomason Gren- f ells' 'A Labrador Doctor' are a new intro- duction to our pages : " I never gets sea boils," one old salt told me the other day. " ' How is that ? ' I asked. " ' Oh, I always cuts my nails on a Monday, so 1 never has any.' (p. 143)." A simple cure for asthma (p. 145) : " consists merely of taking the tips of all one's finger-nails carefully allowed to grow long and cutting them of with sharp scissors." ST. SWITHIN. VICISSITUDES OF BOOKS. Many editions of books have suffered from flood or flame and one was once lost for a month through some railway trucks (bearing an old label) being "mislaid" but the following in- stance is certainly a very unusual one. According to ' The Dictionary of National Biography ' (xxviii. 218), the second edition of David Hume's ' Philosophical Essays ' was kept back by the publisher, Millar, in 1751, "on account of the earthquakes" which at the beginning of that year had aroused a temporary wave of superstition. K. B. Upton. HENBY MOLLE. I lately (12 S. vii. 386, 387) gave some account of John Mole or Molle and his son Henry Mo lie. I now find (Rev. Dr. T. A. Walker's ' Admissions to Peterhouse,' p. 682) that, included in a manuscript collection of church music pre- . sented to Peterhouse by Dr. John Jebb in 1856, are the following works of one Henry Molle : " Services : (1) Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis D minor ; (2) Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis r> minor (full : 4 voc.) ; (3) Litany ; (4) Latin Litany ; (5) Latin Te Deum : no Jubilate. " Anthems : ' Great and marvellous.' " Dr. Walker describes Molle as " probably Organist or of the choir of Peterhouse during the Mastership of Bishop Co sin " [1634- 1660] ; but he tells me that this is a mere- suggestion made to him, and that the com- poser may well have been the Henry Molle of whom I wrote, who was Fellow of King's and from 1639 to 1650 Public Orator. If this identification is correct, we see Henry Molle as not only a Latin scholar,, and a writer of light English verse but a composer of church music, and a churchman, probably of the school of Laud. G. C. MOORE SMITH.. Sheffield. C turns, WE must request correspondents desiring in*- Formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries,, in order that answers may be sent to them direct. BAMFYLDE MOORE CAREW. (See 2 S- iii. 4 ; iv. 330, 401, 522 ; 12 S. viii. 56, 133, sub 'Weekly Miscellany'.) The idea that Mr. or Mrs. Goadby wrote some of the early editions of the Life of this eccentric Devonian, is not by any means new, as may be seen by referring to 4 S. ii. 522. The writer of the letter there printed (T. P., of Tiver- ton) mentions ' Timperley's Dictionary of Printers and Printing ' as asserting " Robert Goadby of Sherborne. . . .to have been the author of the ' Life of Bampfylde Moore Carew.' v T. P. himself says that he had " heard that it was written by Mrs. Goadby from the relation of Bampfylde Moore Carew himself." I have just had the opportunity of ex- amining copies of the two editions described by J. P. O., Oct. 24, 1857, and F. S. Q.,. Nov. 14, 1857, reckoned by MR. J. PAUL DE CASTRO as really the third and fourth. The copies I have seen and noted are in the "Davidson" Collection at the Ply- mouth Institution ; and the one that is described by F.S.Q. is reckoned as the first edition. At the same time a close examination of it confirms the contention of MR. DE CASTRO that there were earlier ones. In this, whose title-page asserts " The whole taken from his own mouth," there is an address " To the Reader " written in the name and the person of B. M. Carew, and signed in his full name. He begins by say- ing that it " will" be expected some Account should be given of the Motives of the Author notwithstanding