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the pictures for Ainsworth's ' Star Chamber, then appearing in the Home Companion, a paper which was, I believe, promoted by Robert Kemp Philp, proprietor and editor oi Diogenes. HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

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THE IRON DUKE AND THE DUKE OF WEL- LINGTON (9 th S. ix. 466). MR. HENRY HOPE seems to be under a strange misapprehension. The title of "Iron Duke" was popularly bestowed on Arthur, Duke of Wellington, many years before the launching of the " large ship " at Liverpool. In my boyhood there was a fine old " three-decker " named "The Duke of Wellington." She was a wooden ship. When ironclads were intro- duced into the Royal Navy the old "Duke of Wellington " was put up in ordinary, and her substitute, being an iron ship (of sorts), was wittily and, as I think, appropriately named "The Iron Duke," in commemoration of that distinguished general whose memory Englishmen will always delight to honour. RICHARD EDGCUMBE.

LADY NOTTINGHAM (9 th S. ix. 128, 213, 455). The correspondents who have noticed the communication I made on this lady's alleged extraordinary feat of maternity in becoming the mother of thirty children give cases of other ladies said to have surpassed her, one having had thirty-nine and the other forty- one children, but neither of them attempts to substantiate the facts. During how many years is childbearing possible for a woman in England ? Thirty? Would medical authority admit the possibility of the above number of children being produced in that period ? In the case of a person in the position of Lady Nottingham, it should be possible to sub- stantiate the fact if it is a fact by the dates of the births of the thirty children.

E. F. D. C.

"PLOUGHING HIS LONELY FURROW" (9 th S. ix. 485). W. B. H. thinks Lord Rosebery borrowed this idea from Mortimer Collins. I doubt it. Lord Rosebery used the phrase in July, 1901. Bradley's 'Owen Glyndwr' had, I believe, just appeared. In that book Hotspur's saying before the battle of Shrews- bury is given, " I perceive my plough is now drawing to its last furrow." Lord Rosebery probably adapted this striking remark to his own purpose. A. H. B.

WESTMINSTER CITY MOTTO (9 th S. ix. 485). When the search for a motto first began the Town Clerk of Westminster asked me to obtain an Anglo-Saxon motto for con- sideration by the Council. The Rev. Prof.

W. W. Skeat suggested line 658 of ' Beowulf,' " Hafa and geheald husa selest " (" Have thou and preserve the best of houses "), an allusion to the founding of Westminster Abbey by Edward the Confessor. The Rawlinsonian Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, Dr. Earle, suggested "Seaxnacyne-cynrenes ende- mel" ("The final monument of the Saxon dynasty "). Neither of these, however, found favour with the Council.

EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

TENNIS : ORIGIN OF THE NAME (9 th S ix. 27, 75, 153, 238, 272, 418, 454). I thought I had made my position clear in this discussion, had apologized to the shade of M. Littre, and made my peace with him. I can only repeat that I have found no evidence that tennis- players ever used the word " tenez " as we say " play ! " at cricket, unless the solitary, unsupported "accipe" is to be taken as proof, which does not satisfy me. As to PROF. SKEAT'S polite reference to me, conceived with all his well-known genial courtesy, I do not think it needs an answer. I have never- hinted a suggestion that " tenez is not the

imperative plural of tenir." His reference,

therefore, seems quite unfounded and super- fluous. JULIAN MARSHALL.

QUOTATION ATTRIBUTED TO COVENTRY PAT- MORE (9 th S. ix. 467T 515). The passage in 'The Dynamiters' quoted by Miss HUDSON refers to a poem of Coventry Patmore's called 'The Circles.' It will be found on p. 215 of the 1878 edition of ' Amelia.'

BASIL CHAMPNEYS.

CIGARETTE -SMOKING (9 th S. ix. 308). In your note to MR. WILLIAM ANDREWS'S query you state that Mr. Laurence Oliphant was the first notable person to smoke cigarettes in the streets of London. A great many people give to Carlo Pellegrini the credit of introducing the insinuating cigarette into England. At all events, Pellegrini ("Ape " of Vanity Fair) takes an important place among the popularizers of the cigarette, for the great caricaturist and his little roll of tobacco were inseparable. CHARLES HIATT.

SHAKESPEARE v. BACON (9 th S. ix. 245, 414). MR. WATSON, quoting Wordsworth, main- tains in this controversy that "the most singular thing is that in all the writings of Bacon there is not one allusion to Shake- speare," and that this " is surely a proof that Bacon had nothing to do with Shakespeare's plays." The argument appears to me to be ill the other way. If Shakespeare were Bacon's mask, is it likely that Bacon would mention Shakespeare as the author of the