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the first English view postcard made its appearance. The ordinary postcard is stated to have been invented in 1869.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

"LE FURMAGER" (9 th S. x. 129). There is no doubt that the meaning is cheese mer- chant, though the modern French fronuiger means maker as well as seller of cheese. In the ' Lexicon Manuale ' of Maigne d'Arnis I find : " Fromagerius. Qwi caseos vendit ; marchand defromages, olim fourmagier (Anno 1 406)." It is not in populous cities that cheese is made for trade purposes, and though I have witnessed the making of cheese at a small farm nine miles from Bristol, I doubt if Bristol itself was " ever noted for its cheese industry " ; but by reason of its high rank as a commercial city, second only to London prior to the eighteenth century, its situation in both Gloucestershire and Somerset, as well as its proximity to Wiltshire, it might well be an emporium for the famous cheese of those counties. F. ADAMS.

115, Albany Road, Camberwell.

" COMICALLY " (9 th S. ix. 285, 370) We say familiarly, quite in the same way, "Ich fiihlte mich so komisch, ich glaubte, ich miisste sterben " ; and I think that your " funny " is riot far from a similar sense-development.

G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

GREEK EPIGRAM (9 th S. ix. 147, 273, 331, 372, 454). There is another Greek epigram which is similar in idea to those already quoted :

T/3tS lV 0.1 Xu/KTCS' (TV <$ 6V/ fJ-LO. TCUS T/H(7t TttVTCUS

TevvrjOys, i'v' ey/ocr' at Xapires Xa/aira.

'Anth. P.,'ix. 515.

With this may be compared the following Latin epigram, at one time supposed to be by Ausonius, which is to be found among rejected pieces on p. 424 of Peiper's ' Ausonius ' and on p. 100 of vol. v. of Baehrens's ' Poetse Latini Minores': Tres fuerant Charites, sed, dum mea Lesbia vixit,

Quattuor. At periit ; tres numerantur item. Baehrens gives ut for "at" in the pentameter.

Finally one may compare the epigrams in which Sappho is called a tenth muse (' Anth. P.,'ix. 506; Ausonius, 'Epig.,' li. ( = xxxii.). EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, S. Australia.

EPISCOPAL COLLEGE OF ST. EDWARD (9 th S. x. 129) Possibly the book-plabe- referred to by MR. MARSHALL is that of St. Edward's College, a Roman Catholic institution at Evertou, Liverpool. It was formerly called

" The Episcopal College of St. Edward," and was, I believe, the residence of the Catholic bishops of Liverpool for some years.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

The book-plate probably belongs to St. Ed- ward's College at Everton, Liverpool. It is a Roman Catholic college, conducted by seculars. Alexander Goss, D.D., the second R.C. Bishop of Liverpool (1856-72), resided at the college for many years. I think that the institution was founded about 1840. THOS. WHITE.

Liverpool.

HOUR OF SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE (9 th S. ix. 67, 155, 317 ; x. 77). In the year 1627 James Beeson, of Deal, in Kent, was presented to the Archdeacon of Canterbury for not receiving the communion at Easter. 'His explanation was

" that he intended to have received the com- munion in the parish church of Deal on Easter Day last past, and to that end about nine of the clock in the forenoon of the same day repaired towards the said church ; byt being informed by some which he met coming therefrom, that the cojnmunion was near done, he returned, and so received not then nor since. '' Vol. for years 1625-27.

From this it would seem that the service probably began at eight in the morning.

ARTHUR HUSSEY. Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

The following entry in one of the 'Assembly Books ' of Yarmouth is of interest in this connexion :

"August 10, 15 Eliz. 1573. That Sir James the minister shall begin his morning prayers from Allhallows until Candlemas Day at five o'clock winter and summer, on pain of l'2d. to be deducted from his wages for every neglect."

JAMES HOOPER.

Norwich.'

RACE OF THE GYBBINS (9 th S. x. 87). Rowe, in his ' Perambulation of Dartmoor,' gives the following account of this race of savages, taken from Fuller's ' Worthies of England ':

" I have read of an England beyond Wales : but the Gubbings land is a Scythia within England, and they pure heathens therein. It lyeth near Brent Tor in the edge of Dartmore. It is reported that some 200 years since, two strumpets, being with child, fled hither to hide themselves, to whom certain lewd fellows resorted, and this was their first original. They are a peculiar of their own making, exempt from Bishop, Archdeacon, and all Authority, either ecclesiastical or civil. They live in Cotts (rather Holes than Houses) like swine, having all in common, multiplied, without marriage, into many hundreds ; their language is the drosse of the dregs of vulgar Devonian ; and the more learned a man is, the worse he can understand them. Daring our civil wars, no Souldiers were chartered amongst them. Their wealth consisted in other men's goods, and they live by stealing the