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 12 s. viii. JUNE 4, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 447 For example, in the scene in Shallow's orchard, where the two aged humbugs, Falstaff and Shallow, pose to each other as j to what sad dogs they were in their youth, i Silence sits in dumb contempt. Nor does he open his lips until Pistol bursts in and j announces to Falstaff that he is now j " One of the greatest men in the realm " ! i This is quite too much for Master Silence, | who sneers, " I think that Sir John Falstaff is rather a mere windy humbug." Only he does not say " windy humbug " but "I think a' be but Goodman Puff of Barson " (a local equivalent of the nature of our j later friend " Brooks of Sheffield "). But this speech, "I think a' be but Good- man Puff of Barson," is printed in every edition, early and late, of the second part of ' King Henry the Fourth ' (V. iv. 94), with | a superflous comma between " be " and j but " : I think a' be, but Goodman Puff of Barson. That misguided and unnecessary comma; somehow got itself into the first quarto, I believe, and has snuggled there ever since. APPLETON MORGAN, President of the New York Shakespeare Society. New York City. PAPER FROM STRAW. In ' N. & Q.' I S. ii. 60 (June, 1850) is a reference (though ! the full title is not given) to Matthias Koop's ' Historical account of the substances which have been used to describe events, and to con- vey ideas, from the earliest date to the inven- tion of paper.' Printed on the first useful paper manufactured solely (sic) from straw. London, 1800. It is interesting to see from a copy which has just come into my hands how well the paper has stood after a period of 120 years. The appearance is not, of course, attractive to eyes accus- j tomed to the general use of white paper, i though it is infinitely better than some we I have experienced during the past few years, j Koop's name does not appear on the title page of his book, but the address to his 1800, is signed by him in ink. It will be remembered that the appendix is printed on paper made from wood pulp. Koop took out a patent in 1800 for converting 1 used paper, and another in August of the same year, though the specification was i not enrolled. In Feb., 1801, he took out; a third patent for manufacturing paper from straw, hay, thistles, waste and refuse of -hemp and flax, &c. ROLAND AUSTIN. " DEMAGOGUE." The first ' N.E.D.' record for this word is 1648 (E 'ikon Basil.). Milton, in 1649 (EikonkL), treats it as a " goblin word " and observes that " the King by his lease cannot coine English as he could mony." The following note, communicated to me by Professor Bensly, would seem to point to a much earlier, though perhaps very restricted, use of the word in English : "Gilbert Cousin (1506-1572), canon of Nozeray and at one time Erasmus's secre- tary, collected adagia. At the end of the 1574 ed. of Erasmus's Adagia is : HAPOIMIQN STAAOFH, Gilberto Cognato lectore et interprete, quas Erasmus in suas Chiliadas non retulit : exceptis paucis, quarum uaria est lectio et expositio. Of the examples of rrapoifjiiai in this collec- tion of Cousin, No. cccclxxvi. (misprinted ccc . . .) is Ab aure reuinctos ducit. In the article on this proverb Cousin writes, " Hinc Athenienses oratores suos dij^aycayoiis & populi ductores appellant. . . " Later, after quoting from Virgil : Ille regit dictis animos, & temperat iras - he adds, " Angli dicunt, demagog, (italics in 1574) est enim drj/jLaywyelv, siverbumde verbo reddas, populum trahere." This does not occur in Cousin's collection as given in his Opera (1562). I have consulted Pierre -Andre Pidoux in " Un humaniste comtois," &c., in the " Memoires de la societe d' emulation du Jura," 8e serie, t. iv. (1910). Pidoux says that the collection of Cousin's Adagia in the 1574 ed. of Erasmus's Adagia is " la plus parfaite " and that later edd. are inter- polated. Did Cousin get his statement from Eras- mus ? I do not find that Cousin visited England." E. W. WOLF. " Much legend has collected round this fierce carnivore. . . . Pliny, unable to sift truth from falsehood, was in this matter ' an eager listener to all old woman's tales.' ^Elian added to his marvels and asserted that the wolf cannot bend its head back. . . ." 'The Cambridge Natural History,' vol. x., p. 421, 1920. On this subject the Chinese opine quite contrariwise. They say one characteristic of the wolf is its bending the head back frequently (Li Shi Chin, ' System of Materia Medica,' 1578, tome xi.). Ac- cording to Wan Shi-Chmg's ' Shi-shwoh- sin-yii-pu, 1556, tome vii., Sze-Ma I.,
 * ' Most Gracious Sovereign," dated Sept.,