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likely refers to his undergraduate days. Roger Cotes, the first Plumian Professor of Astronomy at Cambridge, commenced the erection of the observatory over the King's Gate at Trinity, but he died in 1716, before it was completed. The observatory was dis- mantled in 1797. Sir Isaac Newton's rooms were in the staircase next the gateway. He was the giver of an astronomical clock. Can it be that he had a hand iu erecting the barometer in question ?

THOMAS SOUTHWELL. Norwich.

"EMBARRAS DBS RICHESSES." Can any of your readers inform me who and what is the Harlequin referred to by Sir Walter Scott in

chap. xi. of 'The Antiquary' 1 ' that

he frequently experienced, on such occasions, what Harlequin calls I'embarras des richesses " ? (See also the preface to the first number of 'Jtf. & Q.,' Nov. 3, 1849.)

Scott also uses the French phrase in 'The Heart of Mid-Lothian,' chap, xii., but with- out mentioning "Harlequin " " It was what the French call," &c. EDWARD LATHAM.

61, Friends Road, East Croydon.

[Presumably a character in the Abbe d'Allainval's play so entitled which appeared 1726.]

TOBACCO : OLD BOOK. I have a book having the following title-page :

" Tabacologia | Hoc est, | Tabaci, j Seu | Nico- tianae | descriptio | Medico-Cheirurgico - Pharma- ceutica | Vel | Eius preparatio et usus in omnibus Corporis human! incommodis ; una cum varijs Tabacum adulterandi rationibus, et accurata signorum quibus eius bonitas dignosci potest, annotatione. | Per | Johannem Neandrum Brema- num | Philosophum et Medicum | Lugdvni Bata- vorum | Ex Officina Isaac! Elzeviri. | Jurati Academic | Typographi. | ClO.lQ.CXXII/'

Can any one give me an account of the book 1 ? Is the work rare? Is my copy a first edition ? Who is the author, and where can I find a sketch of his life 1

FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN.

537, Western Avenue, Albany, N.Y.

[This is the first Elzevir edition of Neander. A second edition appeared in 1626 from the same press. See Willem's ' Les Elzevier,' Nos. 204 and 257, where a full account is given. For Neander himself, a German physician, born at Brema in 1596, deceased in the second half of the seventeenth century, see the ' Nouvelle Biographic Generale ' of Dr. Hoefer. The book is not common in either edition, but can be met with occasionally for ten or twelve shillings.]

SPANISH BADGE. What does the following badge commemorate ? A small Maltese cross in gold, 1 in. wide, enamelled on both sides, one in opaque white and inscribed CHESTE 3 DE DICIEMBRE 1838, the reverse in trans-

lucent red and inscribed INIESTA 6 DE DICIEMB. 1838 ; in the arms of the cross is intertwined a laurel wreath, enamelled green. Cheste and Iniesta are the names of towns in the south-east of Spain. C.

Edinburgh.

"ALL TEARS ARE VAIN." Who is the author of the following lines 1

All tears are vain, I cannot now recall thee.

Gone is thy loving voice, thy kindly face ; Gone from the home whore I so dearly loved thee,

Where none again can ever fill thy place.

ALICE.

SHAKESPEARE AND- JONSON. Have the two following passages from Shakespeare and Jonson been noted or commented upon any- ' where ? One is from ' The Merry Wives of Windsor,' Act II. sc. i. :

Prevent, or go thou. Like Sir Actaeon he, with Ringwood at thy heels.

The other is from Jonson's masque of ' The Satyr': *

Better not Actaeon had ;

The bow was Phoebe's, and the horn

By Orion often worn :

The dog of Sparta breed, and good

As can ring within a wood ;

Thence his name is : you shall try

How he hunteth instantly.

May the name of Ringwood refer to some particular dog with which the poets were both familiar, and supply evidence of their intimacy, or was the name of such common occurrence that it might have been used accidentally by both ?

' The Satyr ' was produced in March, 1603. The line quoted from ' The Merry Wives ' does not occur in the first quarto of that play published in 11>02, but it is generally admitted that the quarto was either a mangled version of the original, with numerous omissions, or that many lines were subsequently added.

E. F. B.

HUGUENOT SETTLERS IN IRELAND. I should be glad to know of any books or other sources likely to afford information as to many Huguenot and other French families who settled in Ireland during the seventeenth century. ARTHUR GROVES.

11, Parkhurst Road, New Southgate.

WEALEMEFNA. For many years I have used one of these measures, which is specially useful for ascertaining the distance between places on a map. The instrument when run along the course of a road, for instance, records the distance in feet and inches, which, the scale of the map being known, at once admits of translation into miles, &c. On its