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 las. vm. JUNE 25, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 511 '-' FOOLPROOF." What does this mean ? j PRINTING OF REGISTERS. 1. Have the In The Daily Chronicle of Jan. 22, 1921, registers of Youghal Island been printed ? under the heading * Drawing Room Cinema,' 2. Have the registers of St. James, Duke's the writer of the paragraph says : " When j Place, London, been printed ? perfected the machine will be fireproof and foolproof and will do away with the semi- darkness of the picture palace and the distant screen." M. A. E. E. COPE. SUN-DIALS.-! Does any reader know of example of the familiar motto reading rrr, , . , , . Horas non numero nisi et serenas, making J Z*LgS&*ZZ ! : a* hendecasyllable , I surmise, th! is not liable to be affected by what, in the inquiry : usual form, without et, to be by a medieval on the Welsh railway accident of Jan. 26, was ; Latinist, who thought nisi could be an called " " human ^ failure." Perhaps the formation vaguely influenced by RELAPSES INTO SAVAGE LIFE, I shall iambus, for which there is no classical warrant. j should be g l ad to know if any instance exists of the amended form. 2 - Wil1 some one kindly recommend a feel obliged for references to cases in which I trustworthy book, of reasonable price, on people of the lower culture, after experience sun-dials ? I want, not pretty pictures or of civilized life, have reverted to their word-painting about country gardens, but original state of savagery. A story, written, definite lists and classification of the varieties. I think, by Grant Allen, described how an * have come across many magazine articles African negro, who had been educated in of very little .value. H. K. ST. J. S. Europe, on his return to his native land Pm - w r> p word " nnlse " sionifv references to cases of this class. i f ?? d ~ g? d r f ults f llowed lts use ', Was v I this what is known to-day as a vegetarian (diet? In * Bailey's Dictionary' the word ALEXANDER M. McLEOD was admitted is confined to " all sorts of grain contained in shells, husks, or cods, as beans, peas, &c." Thomas Dyce says "the common name for rice, wheat and other vegetable food." Sir William Smith, in his ' Diction - ary of the Bible,' inclines to the idea that " probably the term denotes uncooked Attorney-General grains o f any kind, whether barley, wheat, or vetches, Ac." It is. said that was to Westminster School in 1807, and n 1847 was Inspector -General of the Police in Jamaica. Particulars of his parentage and the date of his death are wanted. G. F. R. B. IHOMAS of ^orth MACferUiRE, Carolina. He appears to have, . . been admitted to Gray s Inn, Nov. 14, 1754, i con victs in France are fed mainlv on haricots, but not to have been called there. When and where was he called to the Bar ? In- formation about his career, especially in America, is desired. G. F. R. B. 1 DR. JOHN MISAUBIN died April 20, 1734. Was he ever married, and did he leave any children ? There is a short notice of him in the "D.N.B.' xxxviii. 51, but it does not contain the desired information. G. F. R. B.

IHE SURNAME MAYALL. An old friend .tells me that about fifty years ago an article appeared in Chambers' s Journal or Household Words giving lengthy particulars of the Mayalls in France. Can any reader kindly supply the reference ? ARTHUR MAYALL. 3. church stm-t. Southport. ! ! It wou ld be interesting to' know the opinions of readers of ' N. &. Q.' y- y^ GLENNY. 1 - Barkipg ' Essex ' WILD HORSES. Is it a fact that when a I number of wild horses are attacked they arrange themselves in a circle, heads at the j centre, and repel their enemy by kicking i with their hind-legs ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN. FOXES AND LAMBS. Do foxes kill lambs ? ALFRED S. E. ACKERMANN. HOP-PICKING SONGS. Particulars (dates, &c.) of these are desired especially of those which appeared in Punch in Keene or ' Du Maurier's time. J. ARDAGH.
 * which we call kidney beans.