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 9 th S. X. AUG. 9, 1902.]

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Mr. Wiffen lias also a note on Lady Elinor Butler and Miss Ponsonby, who, as Words- worth well expressed it, "had retired into notoriety." But I need not transcribe it, as their romantic friendship and life in the Vale of Llangollen are known to every tourist in North Wales. See Wordsworth's ' Miscel- laneous Sonnets,' ix.

COMESTOR OXONIENSIS.

" THE MAN IN THE STREET." A corre- spondent of the Spectator of 26 July gives a quotation from the ' Greville Memoirs ' which snows that Greville uses the phrase "the man in the street " in his account of the Reform agitation of 1831. The correspondent says :

" It should be noted that Greville a.;d Mr. Balfour when speaking of ' the man in the street ' regard that shadowy personality from different points of view. Mr. Balfour cited him as a type of mere ignorance, Greville as a type of ignorance laying claim to omniscience."

Is any earlier instance of the use of this phrase known ]

GREVILLE WALPOLE, M.A., LL.D. [Quoted from Emerson (1860) at 9 th S. ii. 131.]

" COBURG." This word appears in the 'H.E.D.' as the name of a dress material for ladies, once so popular that 1 have known a draper to style his shop "Coburg House," but now, I think, out of commerce. It denotes also a bun-shaped loaf with a crosswise de- pression on the convex surface, to be seen in nearly all bakers' shops, and has done so for perhaps sixty years or more ; but Dr. Murray ignores this use of the word, although he notices another pistorial term for a loaf of a different shape a "cottage loaf," or, shortly, a " cottage." F. ADAMS.

"ARISING OUT OF." Those who attend the Strangers' Gallery of the House of Commons are aware that in very recent times indeed the practice has arisen, and has now become almost invariable, even among those who ought to know better, of prefacing supple- mentary questions by the un-English and ridiculous words, "Arising out of that ques- tion, I wish to ask." An excellent and amus- ing article by Mr. Michael Macdonagh on the Prime Minister in a strong number of the Fortnightly Review introduces the phrase to literature : " Forty years later the Times, arising out of the resignation of Pitt in 1801, ridiculed a contemporary." This quotation shows that not only does the practice of one member of the House "come off" on to another, but that the usual, though absurd practice of the House itself affects " the Gallery." There is, by the way, another error

in this entertaining article namely, the mis- spelling (" Packingham ") of the name -.of the brothers-in-law of the Duke of Wellington. The general who was one of them met with mishap in the United States when command- ing the best troops of the army from the Peninsula, which even Waterloo did not cause bo be forgotten, and the name of Pakenham is unfortunately still notorious in English history. A. O. O.

WE must request correspondents 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.

LONGFELLOW. In 1868 H. W. Longfellow and his family visited this country and the Lake District of Cumberland and Westmor- land. Can you or any of your readers tell me the name of the vessel in which they came over from America ? I am anxious to know as I have a small plan in pencil of the berths of the vessel occupied by the poet and his family, drawn by himself. It was given by Longfellow to Richard Chorley, who was then clerk at the Crown Hotel, Bowness, where the great American stayed for some days, and by Richard Chorley given to the writer.

RAWDON B. LEE.

"FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE WERE QUES- TIONED." The following lines I once met with in a sermon by Wilberforce, and now quote from memory, perhaps imperfectly :

Faith, Hope, and Love were questioned Of future glory which religion taught. Now Faith believed it firmly to be true, And Hope expected so to find it, too. Love answered with a conscious glow : "Believe ! expect ! I know it to be so."

I shall be glad to have my version corrected and to know the name of the author.

W. F. G. S.

CARDINAL ALLEN. Any reference to the above will oblige. He is said to have been related to Wartons of Warton Hall, Lanes, 1598. Were they connected with Anthony Warton, born 1581 at Walton, Lanes ?

A. C. H.

[The life of Cardinal Allen in the'D.N.B.' ex- tends to nearly fifteen columns. There is a shorter account in ' Chambers's Encyclopaedia.']

LINES IN PURCELL. Can any reader identify the following verses and the play from which they are taken ? They occur in a late seven- teenth-century MS. headed " The Musick in the Play," ana the initials H. P. (presumably