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 174 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i SS .ix.Aw,.K.i03i. LONDON CLUBS: BIBLIOGRAPHY (12 S. ix. 41, 89). Anent MB. DE V. PA YEN- PAYNE'S note, readers of ' N. & Q. ' may like to be reminded of references made in its pages (see 9 S. v. 354, 493 ; vi. 248) to the Queen's Concert, or, as better known, Han- over Square Booms, which became the home of the Hanover Square Club, " subse- quently called the St. George's Club, much frequented by colonials. It' was a pro- prietary club run by a Mr. Russell. In the summer of 1900 came the demolition of this historic building, when the present block of " flats " was erected. As some slight addition to the proposed complete list of London " Clubs and Coteries," I may mention the names of three other small clubs which existed about forty years ago, viz., the New Travellers in George Street, Hanover Square, the Arts and Letters in Albemarle Street, and the Gridiron in Graf ton Street. I think they have all vanished. I happen to have been a member of the first two named, as well as of the St. George's Club and its predecessor. CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club. " SHUFFLE- WING " OR " SHOVEL- WING " (12 S. ix. 129). I recognize this word as a provincial name for the hedge-sparrow (Accentor modularis), but it must be very local, for during many years' wanderings in most of our English counties I have never heard it mentioned. Macgillivray in 1840, in his ' Manual of British Ornithology,' includes " shufflewing " amongst the local names for this bird, and explains it with the remark that " at all seasons it has a peculiar shake of the wings which during the breeding period increases to a kind of flutter." This I have often observed as the bird moves from branch to branch. Presumably Mac- gillivray 's observation of this habit was made in Scotland, but there is some evidence of the use of the name " shuffle - wing " in Yorkshire and in Gloucestershire. In the former county it is known in Craven and Cleveland (see Nelson's ' Birds of Yorkshire ' ), and for Gloucestershire we have the authority of J. L. Knapp, who in 1829 published anonymously his ' Journal of a Naturalist.' He resided in the west of Gloucestershire upon the ridge road near Thornbury, and was an excellent observer. Tinder the local name " shuffle -wing " he remarks of the hedge-sparrow that " in the spring it has a low and plaintive chirp, and a peculiar shake of the wing which at all times marks this bird, more especially at the approach of the breeding season." The name ** hedge-sparrow " is really a misnomer, for the bird is no relation to the house - sparrow (Passer domesticus), which has a finch-like beak, while that of the hedge- sparrow is weak and slender like that of the warblers. In fact so long ago as 1802 it was named " hedge -warbler " by that good observer Col. Montagu, who lived at Knowle, near Kingsbridge. Although he was in the habit of noting the provincial names of the birds which he described in his ' Ornithological Dictionary,' he was unable to include " shuffle-wing " as a local name in Devonshire. It was probably never in general use, and is now almost obsolete. J. E. HARTING. Mr. H. Kirke Swann, in his ' Dictionary of English and Folk-names of British Birds ' (1913), p. 215, writes : Shuffle-wing : the HEDGE-SPARROW, so called from its peculiar shake or fluttering of the wings ; and he indicates that this name is in use in the Craven district of Yorkshire. HUGH S. GLADSTONE. t SHAKESPEARE'S SONGS (12 S. viii. 471 514). Your correspondent should procure Sir F. Bridge's ' Songs from Shakespeare,' published by Novello. These are the oldest settings. One of them, ' It was a lover,' has been arranged for two treble voices and can also be procured from Novello. Dr. Naylor's two books, mentioned by CAPTAIN JAGGARD, are most useful. Chester. JOSEPH C. BRIDGE. SAMUEL MATTHEWS (12 S. ix. 90). West, in his ' Cathedral Organists,' under the heading of * Trinity College,' says : Samuel Matthews, Mus.B. Cantab, 1828. Born 1769. Chorister in Westminster Abbey. Lay- Clerk of Winchester Cathedral. Organist of Trinity and St. John's Colleges, Cambridge, 1821. Died December 9, 1832. Buried in St. Botolph's Churchyard, Cambridge. Composer of a service in D. Arranged and published four anthems from the works of Haydn, Mozart, and others. Under the heading of * S. John's College,' West puts his appointment as " 1821 (or 22)." It seems, therefore, that he was over 50 years of age when appointed to these two positions, and probably his voice had begun to fail. This would make him serve as a lay clerk somewhere between 1790 and 1820. JOSEPH C. BRIDGE.