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i ane, announce more modestly the abodes of i nip the tailor and Snob the cobbler, The i literate are thus enabled to judge at a glance diere they are likely to get what they may jequire. It is asserted that some time ago there existed a signboard such as I have ] nentioned in one of the smaller streets of the i aetropolis,exhibiting a lifelike group of pretty, -< rell-dressed cherubs, with bonny bright eyes, <urly locks, and a strong family likeness, underneath which stood an explanatory inti- mation in Russ, " Sikh diel master," importing t hat a " skilled hand at making these" resided within. Inquisitive dames, upon entering, discovered that the advertiser was a tailor or the ninth part of a man, according to popular adage and that his announcement jtpplied merely to the little coats and jackets in which the dear children who figured, on his signboard were arrayed. H. E. M.

St. Petersburg.

We must request co-respondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

POEM ON THE SWALLOW. I want to know the name of the author of a little poem on the swallow, beginning

Twittering swallow, fluttering swallow, Art come back again ?

and ending

Nought for answer can we get, But twitter, twitter, twitter, twet !

It goes back before 1850, as it is included in the Scottish School - book Association's ' Readings in Prose and Verse,' No. IV., pub- lished about 1845. I have not seen it (nor several of the other pieces in the same collec- tion) elsewhere. Unfortunately, authors' names are not given. J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

PETER SHAW, M.D., was editor of Boyle's works, and Physician in Ordinary to George II. and George III. Sir Benjamin Brodie, in his autobiography, speaks of a first cousin of this Dr. Peter Shaw, who bore the same name, as having been the father of his (Sir Benjamin Brodie's) grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Brodie, wife of Alexander Brodie, of Brewer Street. This great-grandfather of Sir Benjamin Brodie is understood to "have come of a staunch Jacobite family " ; to have " lost all his property in consequence of his devotion to the Jacobite cause "; and to have " married as his second wife a Miss Antrobus."

Can any one kindly give me certain in* formation as to whether this Dr. Shaw was a relation of the Sir John Shaw who was made a baronet as a reward for his services to Charles II. 1 ARTHUR DENMAN.

1, Hare Court, Temple, E.C.

PARODY ON l TOM BOWLING.'' Poor Jack Stoker ' is the title of a parody on the nautical song 'Tom Bowling,' a song well known to old students of the R.N.E. College. Can any of your readers kindly inform me where I can obtain a copy 1 CYCLOPS.

[Have you consulted Mr. Walter Hamilton's collection of parodies ?]

POEM. Can any of your readers give me information about a poem of five verses, printed on a single slieet, and published about 1677 ? The title runs ' A Song upon the Praise of Chloris her Dull Eye.' The second verse, which I quote below, recalls a well-known piece by Matthew Arnold : Oh never thinke, that for your Wound, There can a Remedy be Found, When looks so Unconcern'd do prove, They are not Mortalls she must love.

C. H. D. E.

MCLENNAN'S ' KINSHIP IN ANCIENT GREECE.' I have recently bought this pamphlet of McLennan's. It is a cutting from a magazine from p. 569 to p. 588, but it bears neither the name of a magazine nor a date. Will a reader of ' K & Q.' kindly give me this information ? H. GAIDOZ.

22, Rue Servandoni, Paris.

SYMBOLISM OF COLOURS. Some references to this subject, and especially to the sym- bolism of blue and red, are desired. Ruskin probably has something to the purpose.

[See 5 th S. v. 166, 315.]

GALFRIDUS WIBERN. A seal of brass with this name and apparently a rod or broom made of twigs in the centre was lately found in Dublin. From the shape of lettering, &c., it appears earlier than temp. Edward I. Can your correspondents trace the owner's name, which is not Anglo-Irish 1 W. F.

INIGO LOPEZ DE MENDOZA, MARQUES DE SANTILLANA. Would any of your con- tributors tell me if there be any Spanish history, &c., in the English vernacular, con- taining full particulars of the ancient family of Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Marques de Santillana, or Tendilla, or Toledo, son of John II. of Castile, and successors? The marquis was living during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. Also, is there any