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Islands, on July 16th." There is, however, i tradition of his having died at No. 19, Queen Square, Bristol. Kogers is also stated to have lived at Frenchay, near Bristol, and it is saic that his house there was purchased from som members of his family in 1788 by an Alder man Brice. The following item appears in the 'Bristol City Records': "16 March, 1704 Woodes Rogers, Junior, Mariner, is admittec to the liberties of this city for that he marriec Sarah, daughter of Sir William Whettstone Knight." Is anything known of Woodes Rogers's family? Who were his parents ; anc did he leave children 1 ? And is there any portrait of him extant 1 Any particulars relating to Woodes Rogers's life will be grate fully acknowledged. NEWTON WADE.

GEEEK- GERMAN LEXICON. What is the best Greek-German lexicon 1 One more up- to-date than even the eighth edition of the Greek -English lexicon of Liddell and Scott (the revision of which has been far from thorough) is desired. TOUCHSTONE.

INSCRIPTION. I have a fireplace on the one side of which is the following inscription : The Fire my Glittering Father is, The Earth my Mother kind. The Sea my younger brother is, But me no Man can find.

Can any of your readers tell me the origin and solutipn of this? FiTzRoGER.

METGE, A HUGUENOT. I shall feel much indebted to the reader of 'N. & Q.' who will supply me with information respecting the antecedents and career of Peter Metge, of Athlunmey, co. Meath. " He married a Miss Lyon, of the Earl of Strathmore's family," and was the father of Baron Metge, of Ath- lumney, whose wife was the youngest daughter of Marcus Lowther (he assumed the name of Crofton, and was created a baronet in June, 1758) and Catherine Crofton, sister and heiress of Sir Oliver Crofton, fifth baronet. It has been recorded that Mr. Metge was a Huguenot; but I have failed to find any reference to his name in my copies of Samuel Smiles's two interesting works : ' The Hugue- nots ' (John Murray, London, 1869) and ' The Huguenots in France ' (Strahan & Co., Lon- don, 1873). A statement defining the exact relationship of the mother of Baron Metge to the owner of Glamis Castle, so famous in Scottish history, will also be appreciated by me. It may not be out of place to mention that Glamis was one of the castles in which the murder of Duncan by Lady Mac- beth is erroneously declared to have been perpetrated and it was said to have been

the scene of another one, that of King Mal- colm II. in 1034. The property passed into the hands of the Strathmore family on the occasion of the marriage of John Lyon with a daughter of King Robert II. Sir John Lyon died in a duel with Sir James Lindsay of Crawford in 1383 :

Oh. world!

Oh, men ! what are ye, and our best designs, That we must work by crime to punish crime? And slay, as if death had but this one gate. When a few years would make their swords super- fluous ! Byron.

H. G. TOLER HOPE. 19, Narbonne Avenue, S.W.

THE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKSPEARE.

(8 th S. xii. 63, 222, 281, 413.) I WOULD venture to suggest that it is very important that a distinction should be made between perfect and imperfect copies. I believe that very few perfect copies are in existence, and I am disposed to think that the estimate of my old corre- spondent R. R. overshoots the mark. Of the four copies in the British Museum, only one the Grenville copy is entirely perfect. In the list of copies enumerated in Bohn's

sdition of Lowndes probably not more than six perfect copies are comprised. These include the Huth, Lenox, Holford, Daniel, and Devonshire copies, the last of which las the title pasted down. No. 16 in R. R.'s list, which Mr. Quaritch priced at 880?., was Mr. Ouvry's copy, and fetched 420?. at that gentleman's sale in April, 1882. I was under the impression that this was the copy sold in Mr. George Smith's sale in April, 1867, as the bindings red morocco, with Harleian tooling correspond ;

ut R. R., who doubtless speaks from per- onal knowledge, says that Mr. Smith's copy s now in the possession of Lord Aldenham.

n addition to the copies specified by R. R. '. may mention that Messrs. Ellis & Elvey, in a fine and perfect copy in red morocco, measuring nearly twelve and a half by eight nches, at the price of 460?., which seems emarkably cheap. As for imperfect copies, hey are extremely numerous ; and although t is desirable that they should be catalogued, hey stand in a different category from the >erfect specimens. A list of the latter, with heir pedigrees, would be as interesting to he bibliographer as the ' Stud-Book ' to the reeder.
 * heir General Catalogue for 1894, included

To relieve a somewhat dry subject, I will