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12 s. ix. AUG. 20, i92L] NOTES AND QUERIES. 159 (12 S. vi. 111).—Many packs examined by me are as described, i.e., the Knave of Clubs and all court cards in spades face opposite to the suits. If, however, your correspondent will try a Cincinnati pack from Gibson, in Leadenhall Street, he will find all mixed up. No order in them as above.

(12 S. viii. 338, 396).—According to The Daily Chronicle of July 22, the stock of creams will not be allowed to die out, and for the future they will be employed as cavalry drum horses. It also mentions that of the team of six, two are already acting in that capacity, one being attached to the 2nd Life Guards and the other to the 9th Lancers; one had to be destroyed, and the three others will be drafted to different regiments as soon as possible.

TITLE OF BOOK WANTED (12 S. ix. 111.). The book referred to is evidently ' The Merry Order of St. Bridget,' by Margaret Anson. York : Printed for the Author's Friends. MDCCCLVII. Reprinted 1891. I am not surprised it is not catalogued at the B.M., but I am that it was considered worth reprinting. But the edition is stated to be limited to 250. A. R. A. CIGARETTE SMOKING (12 S. viii. 432; ix. 38). 'Effect of Tobacco on Men' (W. J. Gies and others in The New York Medical Journal, June 1, 1921, 809-811) is the latest article noticed, and it seems to conclude that moderate smoking is not harmful to most adults, and is helpful to some, and that the least harmful method of smoking tobacco is in cigarettes. The question here, however, is so worded that the answers are likely to be misleading, since " inhaling " is expressly excluded. No smoker myself, I have no doubt that inhaling smoke from cigarettes is injurious, not because it is from tobacco, but because it is from com- bustion with an insufficient supply of oxygen. Cigar smoke is too acrid to take way down into the lungs, but cigarette smoke can thus be inhaled ; it, in the depths of the lungs, comes into actual physical contact with the minutely divided blood, with result to be ]>a railed in a test-tube by shaking therein Mood in contact with carbonic monoxide ; thereupon the chemical constitution of the blood is said to be visibly changed, what- ever the source of the poisonous gas. This experiment I have not tried and this ex- planation I have never seen in print, but I believe them both to be true. ROCKINGHAM. Boston, Mass. AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. ix. 112). 3. The correct form of MR. FREE'S third quo- tation is : " Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me downstairs ? " The source was given among the ' Notices to Correspondents,' at 9 S. iii. 460 : " These lines occur in ' The Pannel,' I. i., taken by J. P. Kemble from Bickerstaffe's ' Tis Well it's no Worse,' and produced at Drury Lane, Nov. 28, 1788. They are also found in Debrett's ' Asylum for Fugitive Pieces,' vol. i., p. 15." A second editorial note, at 10 S. vii. 460, refers to ' The Panel ' and to Mr. Gurney Benham's ' Cassell's Book of Quotations.' 7. " The law is a ass a idiot " were Mr. Bumble's words on a well-known occasion (' Oliver Twist,' chap. 51). 8. " Bobus Higgins, Sausage-maker on the great scale," makes his first appearance, I think, in Carlyle's ' Past and Present,' Bk. i., chap. 5, ' Aristocracy of Talent.' In the last chapter of Bk. iv. he is ' Bobus of Houndsditch.' We have him again in No. vii. of ' Latter-Day Pamphlets ' : " ' Bobus of Houndsditch ' . . . Sausage-maker on the great scale." EDWARD BENSLY. 4. " Windows richly dight." Milton, ' II Penseroso.' 10. " Ah ! when shall all men's good Be each man's rule ? " <fcc. Tennyson. ' The Golden Year.' 11. *' To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne " [sic]. Spenser, ' Mother Hubbard's Tale ' i. 895. CONSTANCE RUSSELL. Swallowfield Park, Reading. on Calendar of State Papers. Foreign Series. Eliza- beth. Vol. xx. September 1585-May 1586. Edited by Sophie Crawford Lomas. (H.M. Stationery Office, 1 2s. 6d. net.) THE winter to which the Papers in this volume belong lowered heavy with that menace which broke a year or two later in the attack on England by the Spanish Armada. In August, 1585, Elizabeth had decided to support the Netherlands against Philip. Accordingly she now sent out to them English companies to garrison the towns, with Leicester as governor of the expedition and Philip Sidney and Thomas Cecil to be governors respectively of Flushing and the Brill. To the general reader the best-known event in this enterprise is the death of Sidney at the Battle of Zutphen which lies, however, a little beyond our period. The policy of Elizabeth, as usual, hampered her servants by its tortuousness, its unexpected