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 316 NOTES AND QUERIES. GIOVANNI SBOGABKO ' (12 S. viii. 268). I read a French novel with the above title in a bound volume of a Parisian magazine (published about 1827-28) in an old library in a country mansion in the north of France when a boy. I forget the namo of the magazine now, and French periodical publi- cations of the period are poorly represented in the British Museum. If it is not by the Vicomte d'Arlincourt, it is by one of his imitators. The Vicomte> who died in 1856, was exceedingly prolific as a novelist, and contributed serial tales to nearly all the Parisian periodicals of the day. Not half were subsequently reissued in volume form. His best novel w r as ' Le Solitaire,' which travelled all over the civilized world as an opera by Carafa (Marquis Carafa de Colo- brano), who before achieving success as a composer followed Prince Murat (King of Naples) as " chef d'escadron " in Napoleon's Russian campaign of 1812. ANDREW DE TERN ANT. 36, Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W. " NOTHING BUT THEIR EYES TO WEEP i WITH" (12 S. viii. 228). Can any of your American correspondents say whether there : is any good ground for attributing the ; saying as to " leaving the people nothing but their eyes to weep with," to General Sheridan or General Sherman ? I have seen it attributed to Sherman, in connexion with his famous march through Georgia, and to Sheridan. Some time ago I tried to find out whether there was any ground for this, but could find nothing. My search was doubtless not exhaustive, but if we ! have no better evidence than the Deutsche Politik or Busch, I think we may acquit the American Generals. AGAMJS. THE LORD'S PRAYER IN THE GIPSY OR ROMANY LANGUAGE (12 S. viii. 250, 297). The following is taken from ' The Dialect of the English Gypsies,' by B. C. Smart and H. T. Crofton, p. 225: " Moro Dad, so see adre mi Duvelesko keri, te wel teero kralisow ; Too zee be kedo adre chik, jaw see adre mi Duvelesko keri. Del j mendi kova diwus moro diwusZy mauro ; j ta /ordel mendi moro wafedo-kerimus, pensa ] mendi fordels yon ta kairs wafedo aposh mendi, ta lei mendi kek adre wafedo-kerimus. Jaw keressa te righer mendi avri wafedo. Jaw see ta jaw see." It should be noted that " Hallowed be Thy Name " is omitted from this version. HELLIER GOSSELIN. Ben^eo Hall, Hertford. PEACOCK'S FEATHERS (12 S. vi. 334; vii. 137, 277, 477 ; viii. 37). I remember, forty years ago, seeing young farm labourers in Mid-Devon wearing these in their hats on Sundays and any other occasion requiring their best clothes. W. CURZON YEO. 10, Beaumont Avenue, Richmond, Surrey. CIDER AND RHEUMATISM (12 S. viii. 267). In Monsieur L. Lemery's ' Treatise of ... Foods. . . also of Drinkables, &c.,' translated by D. Hay, M.D. (3rd edn. 1745), Part III., chapter iv. is entitled " Of Cyder," and at p. 349 it is written : " Cyder is good and wholesome Liquor enough, provided it be us'd with Moderation ; and it may be said, that in general it is better for Health, than Wine, because its spirits are not so impetuous, nor so much agitated, as those of Wine ; and are besides detain' d and moderated by a great quantity of viscous Phlegm, which still contributes to make this Liquor moistning and cooling. We know by Experience that most of those who drink nothing but this Liquor, are stronger, hailer, and look better than those that drink Wine ; of which my Lord Bacon gives us a notable Example ; he mentions Eight old People, some of which were near a Hundred Years old, and others Were an Hundred and upwards. These old People, says he, had drank nothing else but Cyder, all their Life Time, and weje so strong at this Age, that they danc'd and hopp'd about, like young Men." Monsieur Lemery was Physician to the King of France, and the Doctor Regent of the Faculty of Physic in the Academy Royal of Sciences, which Academy approved his work, as also did Monsieur de Farcy, Dean and Doctor Regent of the Faculty of Physic in the University of Paris. His experience may therefore be taken as reliable, so far as it goes. To what passage in Bacon's works does he refer ? Perhaps the poem by John Philips (1676-1709), ' Cyder,' published in 1708, might throw some light on Mr. Ackermann's query, but it is not easily accessible to me at present. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT. From ' A Treatise of Fruit Trees,' printed by Henry Hall, printer to the University, Oxford, 1657 (second edition), I have copied the following : " Cider more healthy than other Liquor. Cider is more conducing to health and long-life than Beere and Ale (though these are also good liquors, especially for some Persons) for Cider is a cleare Liquor without dreggs, and does not only not leave any dreggs in the body, of its own substance, but it hath a property to cleanse the body, and carry downe superfluities and hurtful humours in the body, which are as the seeds of many distempers and diseases. That it is very much conducing to