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 12 S. VIII. JUNE 25, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 509 challenges Hotten's statement that this work was two years in the press. I am unable to understand why Van Schevichaven made no public protest and allowed Hotten to publish his other English books. LAWRENCE F. POWELL. Oxford. AMERICAN EDITIONS OF GRAY'S ' ELEGY.' The first American edition is now very scarce. It was published in Philadelphia in 1786, thirty -five years after the London j edition, and bears the following imprint : I " Philadelphia. Printed and sold by Robert Aitken, at Pope's Head, in Market Street,: 1786." It was issued in connexion with Blair's poem "The Grave," the two together ! in one insignificant volume, more like a | pamphlet than a book. The * Elegy ' proper I filled five small pages in the smallest type, | and was disfigured with some typographical j errors. The commonest circular would now j make a better appearance. It is highly prized and eagerly sought by collectors. I have seen but two or three copies in the last twenty-five years. The next American edition was published in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1803, and this also not separately, but with other poems of lesser note. HOWARD EDWARDS. 2026, Mt. Vernon Street, Philadelphia, U.S.A. THE RHINE REGARDED AS A FRENCH RIVER. The following lines of a eulogistic poem on the poet and fabulist Gellert, written by the learned German poet, Michael Denis, are to be found in the last volume of Gellert 's works in 10 volumes published at Leipzig in 1775, shortly after his death. They show that, in the opinion of the writer, the Rhine was as much a French river as the Po was an Italian one. The poet, says Denis, among other things, hears the children of the foreigners on the Rhine and the Po repeat his precepts in their languages* and bless Germany, to whom Heaven a Gellert gave. In the original : Und horet die Kinder der Fremden Am Rhein und am Po In ihren Zungent seine Lehren wiederholen Und Deutschland segnen, dem der Himmel Einen Gellert gab. W. H. DAVID. 46, Cambridge Road, Battersea Park, S.W.ll. DUBLIN STREET AND PLACE NAMES (see 11 S. vii. 285; xi. 416). The following changes are worthy of record : Back Lane formerly Rochelle Lane. Crow Street Dorset St., Lr. Drumcondra Rd., Lr. Essex St. W. Exchange St., Lr. Findlater's PL Herbert Park Kildare Street Kiltiernan Merrion PI. Mount Street Oakley Rd. Palmerston Rd. Rosemarv Ln. South St. George's Street Townsend Street Victoria and Al- bert Edge. Crow's Nest. Big Tree Ln. Drumcondra Ln. Smock Alley. Blind Quay. Gregg's Ln. The Doctor's Walk. Coote Street. Golden-ball. Lacy's Ln. Gallows Hill. Cullenswood Av. Bloody Fields. Longstick, Love- stokes or Wood- stock Ln. George's Ln. Loway Hill. Barrack Bdge. J. ARDAGH. t In franzosischen und italienischen Uebersetz- ungen. (Suenes. 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. HORSE-RIDING RECORDS. A reperusal of ' The Three Musketeers ' series has led me to wonder what records have been actually made by riders on a single horse, when long distances had to be covered as quickly as possible. Something would depend, of course, on the nature of the ground traversed and the question whether the horse was done up rfor good afterwards or actually fell dead at the end. I do not know the minimum of rest required for man and animal on a long journey, or the average distance that a good rider of moderate weight can do for more than one day run- ning on ground that may be called normal in its hills and surface. I believe there was a famous ride from Berlin to Vienna, but I have forgotten the details. HIPPOCLIDES. ' NECK OR NOTHING ' : AUTHOR WANTED. I shall be glad if any reader would inform me of the author of the following book : ' Neck or Nothing : A Consolatory Letter from Mr. D-nt-n to Mr. C-rll upon his being Tost in a Blanket.' Sold by Charles King in Westminster Hall, MDCCXVI. Price 4d. CLEMENT SHORTER.
 * In French and Italian translations.