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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. x. DEC. 13, 1002.

HUGUENOT SETTLEES IN IRELAND (9 th S. x. 367). See Murray's ' Handbook, Ireland,' p. 236 :

" Until of late years there were resident in Portarlington a number of descendants of French and Flemish refugees who settled here at the beginning of the sixteenth century."

I am quoting from the third edition revised. F. E. K. POLLARD-URQUHART. Castle Pollard, Westmeath.

Your correspondent will find much infor- mation in a work entitled ' The Huguenots, their Settlements, Churches, and Industries in England and Ireland,' by Samuel Smiles, of which many editions were published by Mr. Murray between 1867 and 1876. I have before referred to the large library of works on Huguenot history attached to the Hospital for poor French Protestants residing in Great Britain, in Victoria Park, South Hackney, founded in 1708 by M. de Gastignay, Master of the Hounds to King William III. when Prince of Orange.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

NOTTER (9 th S. x. 309). This, I think, is more of an Irish than a Scotch name. KANTIUS can obtain the particulars he desires by writing to Dr. J. Lane Notter, Woolston, Hants. Dr. Notter is a Master of Arts and Doctor of Medicine of Trinity College, Dublin. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Bradford.

This is not and never has been a Scottish name, and I can conceive of no name in the whole of Scottish nomenclature out of which it might have been evolved.

J. L. ANDERSON.

Edinburgh.

"THETTERIN" (9 th S. x. 386). Why the word should be thus written I do not know, but the vehicle is a ketureen, "a sort of sedan chair with the front and sides knocked out, and mounted on a gig body " (' Tom Cringle's Log,' second edition, vol. i. p. 184). The oook has many other allusions to the ketureen. P. E. MARTINEAU.

Solihull, Warwickshire.

NOTES ON BOOKS, Ac.

Lombard Studies. By the Countess Evelyn Mar-

tinengo Cesaresco. (Fisher Unwin.) So varied in character are the essays and descrip- tions to which the author of ' The Liberation of Italy' has given the title of 'Lombard Studies' that one might readily credit them with having been reprinted from periodicals in which they had previously seen the light. Concerning this we

know nothing, and are scarcely curious, since the separate chapters have atmosphere and colour enough to justify their appearance, whether for the first or second time. Having lived, presumably, in her ancestral home, the Palazzo Martinengo, situated at Salo, on the largest of the Italian lakes, our author hae set out by depicting the beauties and associations of the district, perhaps the loveliest in Northern Italy ; has then dealt with her own family, the nameoi which is conspicuous in Italian politics ; has illustrated afresh some famous stories, and has ended with an account of the modern Italian stage. On the whole, we like best the opening chapter, dealing with the beauties of the Lago di Garda. Salo itself, where the Palazzo is situated, is a spot of singular beauty, and has some claim to artistic reputation as the birthplace of Gasparo da Sal6, the predecessor of Stradivari as a maker of violins. The associations of the Lago di Garda, or Lake Benaco, begin with Virgil, extend to Goethe and to Ruskin, and are, in fact, all-embracing. Alone among the northern lakes this " has a meridional quality recalling Sicily." The fish is celebrated by Pliny, by Merlin Coccai'e, otherwise Teofilo Folengo (" il Filocco"), the maca- ronist, who dwelt in the convent of Maguzzano, and others. Its white trout were specially memor- able. Montaigne speaks in praise of the lake and its surroundings. Earthquakes are familiar enough to have lost their terrors, and when the strongly constructed house under the shadow of Benacus shook and clattered and groaned as though it were a rat in the grip of a dog, Margherita, the maid bringing in the tea-tray, did not drop it, but remarked, with a beaming face, "It's an earth- quake." Of Said, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu said that it is the finest place she ever saw : "The King of France has nothing so tine." ' Memorials of a Lombard House' is partly historical, partly genealogical. During the French invasion, 1796, the Martinenghi seem to have espoused the side of the Revolution. 'Vittoria Accoramboni' tells again the story of the ' White Devil ' as it is found in Webster, as, in a later chapter, ' Historical Rimini ' narrates afresh the story of Paolo and Francesca. Of the country depicted in ' The Lake of Iseo ' George Sand said, with supreme mastery of phrase, it is " doux et irais comme une eclogue de Virgile. We have touched on a few points only in a fascinating book. The illustrations, which are numerous and excellent, constitute a specially attractive feature. The frontispiece reproduces a design of Corot.

Christ Lore. By Fredk. Wm. Hackwood, F.R.S.L.

(Stock.)

MR. HACKWOOD'S volume is an attempt to popu- larize what is known concerning the legends, tradi- tions, myths, symbols, customs, and superstitions of the Christian Church. Aiming only, or at least principally, at the general reader or the Scripture teacher, it will probably hit its mark, and by the aid of its explanations and its illustrations many of which, even when most familiar, are quaint, curious, and interesting it will serve a useful purpose. The author is careful to explain that the subjects dealt with are treated from the legendary, and not from the Scriptural point of view, and consist only of the " traditions of men." They include the beginnings of ' Religious Art,' ' Folk- lore Beliefs,' and ' Christian Symbolism.' Mary, Virgin and Mother, is the subject of a dozen chapters, dealing, among other things, with the