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 12 s. viii. APRIL 2, i92L] NOTES AND QUERIES. 277 " COMLIES " AND " CONY BAGS " (12 S. .viii. 231). Comlie is the name given by the Tamil coolies in Ceylon to the brown "blanket they wear to protect their head and shoulders in bad weather. E. B. MILLER. Stafford. I take Comlies to be the soldiers equivalent .of Kumal, Hindustani for blanket, but cony bags, beats me. J. S. CARDINAL DE ROHAN CHABOT (12 S. viii. 110, 178). He is the subject of chap. xxxv. of ' Victor Hugo : a Life related -by one who has witnessed it,' by Madame Hugo (Authorized English translation, Lon- don, W. H. Allen, MDCCCLXIII.). Almost immediately after being ordained priest he officiated at the funeral of Victor Hugo's mother. He received the poet and his wife with much kindness, but did not forget his rank as a nobleman. Mme. Hugo says : " The duke's bed chamber bore no resemblance 'to his cell : it was furnished with every luxury. It opened on a kind of boudoir drawing- room. : the table and piano were covered with volumes oL sacred music, richly bound, and all bearing ' the following inscriptions in letters of gold : ' Sa Seigneurie le due de Rohan Chabot, due de Monbazon, due de Beaumont. Prince de Leon, "Pair de France.' In front of the piano hung the duke's portrait, painted by Gerard, in the full ^uniform of a red musketeer. These words were inlaid in the wood : ' S. A. le Prince de Leon.' "... .the duke led Victor into a large and rich Gothic chamber, the windows of which over looked the Seine. This room was still further distinguished by the fact of its having been once -occupied by the Duke of Larochefoucault, the author of the ' Maxims.' " Madame Hugo does not deal with his subsequent career and rap id t promotion as .a churchman. ANDREW DE TEBNANT. 36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W. ERRORS IN CARLYLE'S ' FRENCH REVOLU- TION' (12 S. viii. 105). Carlyle's ' Mira- 1 beau' (1837), has this : " Thxis the old naturalist Bunion, who, at the .age of 63 (what is called ' the St. Martin's summer of incipient dotage and new myrtle garlands,' which visits some men) went ransacking the country for a young wife, had very nearly got this identical Sophie ; but did get another, known as Madame de Buffon, well known to Philip Egalite, having turned out ill. Sophie de Ruffey Joved wise men, but not at that extremely ad- vanced period of life." Earlier in this essay are two allusions to .Surinam as a place of punishment for Mirabeau. There are also several refer - ences to " swallowing formulas." The ' N.E.D.' under "formula" shows Carlyle's error. THOMAS FLINT. HUNTING SONGS : CHAWORTH MUSTERS (12 S. viii. 231). It is tolerably clear that there are certainly two if not three distinct books. I possess one entitled ' Book of Hunting Songs and Sport, collected by Mrs. Chaworth Musters, and dedicated to the Rt. Hon. Earl Ferrers, M.F.H.' It is dated 1885 and printed by R. Allen & Son, Not- tingham, but there is no publisher's name on the title-page. Probably it is a later edition of this book that was published in 1888 in London by Allibone. Facing the title-page is a photograph of " Mr. Meynell's hounds crossing the Soar, Feb. 24, 1800," reproduced from an old print by Mr. Rolles- ton's permission. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. SIR HANS SLOANE'S BLOOMSBURY HOUSE (12 S. viii. 211). According to Mr. Beres- ford Chancellor's ' History of the Squares of London,' Sir Hans Sloane's house stood on the south side of Bloomsbury Square at the corner of Southampton Street. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. Having occasion to consult the Sloane Correspondence at the British Museum I took the opportunity of examining some of the directions on the back sheets of the letters for the year 1727. The majority are addressed to Sir Hans either " Royal Society, London," or " at his house in Blooms- bury Square" ; one "by Bloomsbury Square"; another "nigh Bloomsbury Square " ; two dated respectively Oct. 24, 1727 and Feb. 26, 1728 "at his house in King Street, Bloomsbury," while Edmund (Gilson) Bishop of London writing from Fulham Palace on Oct. 4, 1727, imploring the baronet to come to his ailing child, is addressed " at his house in Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury." I fear this but adds to the confusion. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. 1 Essex 1 Court, Temple. The following is from Cunningham's 'Handbook of London,' 1850, under ' Bloomsbury Square, frequently called Southampton Square ' : " Eminent Inhabitants. Sir Hans Sloane in 1696, ' at the corner [I know not which] of Southampton Street next Bloomsbury Square,' for in this way Bay the naturalist writes to him in that year. Another correspondent writing to him in 1704 directs his letter to Sloane at his house at the corner of Southampton Square, Blooms - bury." Is R. B. thinking of Montague House purchased for the first collection of Museum exhibits, where Sloane does not appear to have resided ? WALTER E. GAWTHORP.