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 i2S. VIIT. MAY 14. 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 393 not mention cheese, but note the purchase of " calves mawes," which would be used for renneting milk, and indicates cheese production. These two extracts from house- hold accounts seem to show that household cheese production was fairly constant in | Norfolk, and the varying prices quoted may | indicate not only difference in size but a j variation in type. R HsrDOBB WALLACE. G. A. COOKE AND HIS COUNTY ITINERA- RIES. At various dates in the early years of the nineteenth century a series of Topo- graphical Descriptions of (I believe) the counties of England query, of Great Bri- tain was published. Each county was dealt with separately. No dates of publication seem to be given, but internal evidence in two or three that I have access to shows that the third edition saw the light between the census taken in 1821 and that of 1831. They are small pocket volumes, about 6| X 3 inches, and running into a little over 300 pages. I cannot find any reference to them in the bibliographical lists at my command. According to the ' D.N.B.' some Cookes flourished about that period, one or more of whom were celebrated as engravers, but j they appear to have no connexion with the compiler of these books. Can any reader help me to find informa- tion on his personality, the extent of his work in this way, and what other good work he took in hand and accomplished? W. S. B. H. AUTHOR WANTED. From what poem are the following lines taken and who is the author ? " Straight is the path of duty ; Curved is the line of beauty. Follow the first and thou shalt see The second ever follow thee." W. H. GINGELL. [MR. EUGENE .CEESDALE, at 6 S. viii. 219, answered a like query thus :-- " The proper rendering of the lines ... is : " Straight is the line of duty ; Curved is the line of beauty ; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see The curved line ever follow thee. "They were written by William Maccall, author of 'Elements of Individuality,' &c., and a 'per- sonal friend of Thomas Carl vie."} AUTHOR WANTED. Who was the author of tne following lines, and what is the incident j to which they refer ? '* A luncheon-party and a lie Must make it very hard to die." CAREW MILDMAY. Hdtel d'Atlits, Boufarit, Algeria. "COR AD COR LOQUITUR." (11 S. v. 129, 237.) AT the second reference the late WM. H, PEET quoted a passage from Ward's Life of Cardinal Newman to the effect that Newman himself did not know where this saying was to be found and would have been glad to know. In the great letter (ccxxix.) on the office of a Bishop which St. Francis de Sales wrote to the Archbishop of Bourges in 1604,. the words occur in French. They are part of the Saint's earnest exhortation on preach- ing, in the division ' De la forme, c'est a, dire comme il faut prescher.' He says : Le souverain artifice c'est de n' avoir point d'artifice. II faut que nos paroles soyent en- flammees, non pas par des cris et actions des- mesurees, mais par 1'affection interieure ; il faut qu'elles sortent du cceur plus que de la bouche. On a beau dire, mais le cceur parle au coeur, et la langue ne parle qu'aux oreilles. This is taken from the complete edition of the ' (Euvres ' of St. Francis de Sales, edited by the Nuns of the Visitation at Annecy, tome xii., p. 321. An editorial note at the beginning of the letter remarks : On s'est longtemps demande si cette Lettre, dont 1'Autographe est actuellement introuvable,. a ete redigee en francais ou en latin. Aucun doute serieux ne nous parait possible ; elle a certainement ete ecrite en fran^ais, car les deli- cates nuances du style de notre Saint que Ton retrouvent ici trahissent manifestement un texte original. This seems to imply the existence of a Latin version. Where would this be found ? And is it likely that it came into Newman's hands ? PEBEGRINUS. MARY RUSSELL MITFORD'S LOTTERY PRIZE : 1799 (12 S. viii. 350). Surely there can be no doubt that the amount of the lottery prize won by Miss Mitford was 20,000. In her Life by Mr. W. J. Roberts is given her own circumstantial description of the event, and she says : The whole affair was a secret between us, and my father, whenever he got me to himself, talked over our future 20,000 pounds just like Alnaschar over his basket of eggs. Meanwhile time passed on, and one Sunday a face I had forgotten, but my father had not, made its appearance. It was the clerk of the lottery-office. An express had just arrived announcing that No. 2,224 had been drawn a prize of 20,000 pounds and he had hastened to communicate the good news. The child had insisted upon No. 2,224 as " cast up it made ten," and the day she chose it was her tenth birthday. CONSTANCE RUSSELL.