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 474 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s.ix. DEC. 10,1021. avenue unexplored," made current, I fancy, by the Prime Minister, and now a hardy daily. A neologism from the United States is the word " reaction," used in a special sense. Mr. Wilson Harris's article, quoted above, begins, " Americans love to talk of getting someone's reaction on a given subject," and, in the same issue of The Daily News, Miss Rose Macaulay has, " It is the story of her own reactions to life," -and " What they think of the present-day intelligent English novel. . . may be gathered mainly from their own reaction to it." It is no good trying to play Mrs. Partington to these importations. If they supply a " felt Want," they will drop into rank and cease to irritate by over-obtrusiveness. ERNEST WEEKLEY. University College, Nottingham. DR. ROBERT GORDON, "Com, GOPPAGH" (12 S. ix. 408). May I partly answer my own query by quoting from The Dublin University Magazine (March, 1840 ; xv. 311) a letter signed " Glenstyachey " and " Thon Dhu " to " Anthony Poplar," touch- ing Coul Goppagh, three of whose poems are printed in the same issue ? He has, for a year or two, fallen into a lethargy, and has been living in a kind of half cave, half cottage, half dwelling on the coast under the cliffs of Portmuck. He is never seen in daylight, and only rarely by the night patrol of the coast- guard, when he sometimes appears, flitting by them like the ghost of a departed mariner, with a long spectral pipe, from which a spiritual cloud flies ever and anon over the waves in the moonlight. We paid him a visit on New Year's Day, and found him sitting on the rocks at the eastern side of the island, and after spend- ing a day or two in his retreat, and in smoking with him round the cliffs at night, left him, as we can testify, in utter ignorance to the throne of our Sovereign Lady Victoria. How long his fit may last were hard to say, though when he pleases to come among the ongoings of men, there is no easier man in the world. On leaving, he presented us as a great favour with a large paper of negro-head the real snuff : on open- ing which we found written thereon, and much defaced, the above rhymes. Pray let him know nothing of the matter. Of course I cannot say how far this description is to be taken literally. J. M. BULLOCH. 37, Bedford Square, W.C.I. "BUCKHEEN" (12 S. ix. 430). This word, usually written " buckeen," is Anglo- Irish for boicin or buicin, diminutive of boc, genitive buic, a he-goat. The word is intended to convey the notion of " rakish fellow " or " cad." N. POWLETT. Colonel. VERBALIZED SURNAMES (12 S. ix. 370, 432). From the lists of these grahamize should certainly not be omitted. Sir James Graham, it may be remembered, opened suspected political letters and made use of the information thus obtained. I have some wafers of this period (1844), which are humorously lettered " By kind per- mission of Sir James Graham." F. H. H. GUILLEMARD. PRINCIPAL LONDON COFFEE-HOUSES AND TAVERNS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. 1. The Orange (12 S. ix. 435). I am obliged to MR. BLEACKLEY for his note, but this Haymarket coffee-house in fact ap- peared in the first list at 12 S. vi. 126 ; that the lists have grown by accretion will suffi- ciently account for the oversight. But I have gladly incorporated his additional matter in my extended MS. lists, and I may add in confirmation o*f Henry Angelo's statement (cited by Mr. Bleackley in his article on Casanova at 11 S. v. 123) that the Orange was " crowded with foreigners and dancing masters " the remark of Roach in 1793 that it was " chiefly used by opera dancers." A sketch of the exterior of the Orange Coffee-house may be seen in Miss Hill's ' The House in St. Martin's Street ' (1907), pp. 100-4. J. PAUL DE CASTRO. 2. The Fountain (12 S. vi. 61 ; vii. 465). There is confusion in MR. DE CASTRO'S reference to the two hostelries of this name at 12 S. vii. 465. The reference of 1708 should be to the house standing in the parish of St. Anne and St. Agnes, and that of 1733 to the house which stood in Bartholo- mew Lane in another part of the city. Again, at 12 S. vi. 61, the earlier of the two Fountains, known also as the " Mourn- ing Bush," is described as " situate near unto Ludgate," whereas Aldersgate is in- tended. The existence of this house, known originally as the " Mermaid," can be traced back to about the year 1530.* WM. McMuRRAY. SURNAMES AS CHRISTIAN NAMES (12 S. ix. 370, 437). Douglas, daughter of William Levereage of Whelock, Cheshire, born 1603, was married to James Carrington, Bugs- worth Hall, Derbyshire. She had a brother named Savage Leversage. A. CARRINGTON. Northam, N. Devon. the " Lord Baglan."
 * It still exists as a tavern under the name of