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 12 s. ix. OCT. is, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 313 " bucked." Some that he laid down, and rolled upon the Duke (Ibid., p. 196). Arda Viraf. . . after drinking a powerful narcotic, laid down to sleep wrapped in pure white linen (' Persia ' (' Story of the Nations ' series), by S. G. W. Benjamin, lately United States Minister to Persia, 3rd ed., 1891, p. 175). Then cunningly laid in wait where she would come alone, and swiftly. . . killed her. (' A Young Man's Year,' by Anthony Hope, Nelson and Sons, no date, chap, xxx., p. 386). Passengers are frequently caught snatching up packages laying on the platform and trucks (The Times, Feb. 23, 1920, p. 7, s.v. ' Increasing Thefts on Railways '). His body will lay in state in the. City Hall (The Daily Mail, Continental Edition, March 21, 1920, in the account of the shooting of Mr. McCurtain, Lord Mayor of Cork). ROBERT PIERPOINT. R. HENRY NEWELL (" ORPHEUS C. KERR") (12 S. ix. 273). He was born in New York City on Dec. 13, 1836. I have no record of his death. At any rate he was alive in 1 900 according to Applet on' s * Ameri- can 'Cyclopedia,' the last edition of which, in the British Museum, bears the date of that year. As MR. ANEURIN WILLIAMS may probably be aware, he married the celebrated Adah Isaacs Minken, of " Mazeppa " fame, in New York on Oct. 5, 1861, and divorced her four years later. WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. "SHALL" AND " WlLL " IN A.V. (12 S. ix. 271). The marginal note at 1 St. Peter iv. 8, is one of the few contained in the A.V. -of 1611, and not of the many added in 1769 by Dr. Blayney whose references are often pointless, and whose grammar is strangely at fault in 1 Cor. iv. 9. " Shall," the undoubted rendering in St. James v. 20, defines the result of love's action ; " will " the intention. Love is ready to conceal rather than to proclaim a neighbour's faults ; and the cultivation of this spirit will automatically bury the -charitable person's own sins. The am- biguity in the meaning of the verb and the reference of the noun is probably deliberate in St. Peter. Proverbs x. 12, supports " will " ; St. James " shall." W. E. B. "FLOREAT ETONA!" (12 S. ix. Ill, 153, 234, 277). I find that the inscription on the engraving of Lady Butler's picture s " 58th," not " 5th," as I have stated, reads, r nor " 52nd " as has been "suggested. HUGH S. GLADSTONE. COUNTESS HANSKA'S LETTERS TO BALZAC (12 S. iv. 327). At this reference I inserted M. Brunetiere's query as to the existence and whereabouts of these letters, but with- out any reply. Since then I have purchased a volume of Balzac's letters to the Countess, containing 156 such letters, which is evi- dently the first volume only, as M. Brunetiere says 248 were published in 1899, while not one from the Countess to Balzac has as yet seen the light. Balzac's letters in my copy range from 1833 to 1842, and in a footnote to the first, dated January, 1833, it is stated that : Madame Hanska, nee Comtesse Eveline Rzewuska, qui avait alors vingt-six ou vingt-huit ans . . . avait adresse, chez 1'editeur Gosselin, a Balzac alors age de trente-trois ans une lettre signee L'Etrangere, qui lui fut remise le 28 fevrier 1832. D'autres suivirent ; celle du 7 novembre se tenninait ainsi : " Un mot de vous, dans La Quotidienne, me donnera 1'assurance que vous avez re<ju ma lettre, et que je puis vous ecrire sans crainte. Signez-le : A. L'E. .. . H. de B." Cet accuse de reception parut dans La Quotidienne du 9 decembre. Ainsi fut in- augure le systeme de la " Petite correspondance," et du meme coup, cette correspondance entre le grand homme et celle qui devait, dix-sept ans apres, en 1850, devenir sa femme. Again one is led to ask : What became of her letters ? I am led to believe that they were subsequently burned, from a line in the fifth letter from Balzac under date June 1, 1833, in which he observes : Vous aurez quelque regret de m'avoir dit de b ruler vos lettres. If this request was obeyed, and if the letters were autobiographically as fascinat- ing as those from Balzac, French literature is all the poorer for their loss. J. B. McGovERN. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. PETTY FRANCE (12 S. viii. 407, 452, 477 ; ix. 95, 197, 238). An old map of London dated 1790 which I have gives the street as Pettit France. C. C. WOOLLARD. 68, St. Michaels Road, Aldershot, Hants. MUSTARD FAMILY (12 S. ix. 211, 254, 295). This was a well-known surname not many years since, and may be so still, in or near Manningtree, Essex. W. B. H. SKELDERAND SKELDERGATE(12S. ix. 272). Arnold J. Cooley's * English Dictionary ' (1861) gives " Skelder a vagrant (obsolete)." Perhaps Skeldergate at York may have been a resort in medieval times 'for persons of that description. G.