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property of Lord Monteagle. Could thii have been the same place?

A. DENTON CHENEY.

' A PRETTY WOMAN ' : ' No ACTRESS ' : k THE EDEN ROSE.' Could you tell me where two sketches called ' A Pretty Woman ' and ' No Actress' are to be found also 'The Eden Rose,' by Susan Phillips ? SPHINX.

THE ATHENJE UM INSTITUTE FOR AUTHORS AND MEN OF SCIENCE. What was the history of this body, a full advertisement of which appears in 1 st S. vii. 227 ? It had Disraeli and Lord Goderich (now Marquis of Ripon) among its vice-presidents, and Bayle Bernard, J. B. Buckstone, Thornton Hunt, George Henry Lewes, Cyrus Redding, and Angus B. Reach among its business directors; but it would seem almost of sinister significance that its treasurer was Sir John Dean Paul, and its bankers his firm of Strahan, Paul, Paul & Bates. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

HIUNG-NU OR HUNS. These people, who in the third century B.C. occupied the district between the Great Wall of China and the Caspian Sea, broke up under pressure from Chinese invaders somewhere aoout 100 A.D. They are supposed by some to be the pro- genitors of the Huns. Is there any hint in Chinese records of any considerable body of Hiung-nu at the time of their dispersal making their way into Further India or the Malay Peninsula 1 If this were so, then it might explain the considerable migration of Poly- nesians from their original continental home, which I place tentatively, with Fornander, at about the end of the first century A.D. Apparently a branch of the same race invaded India about 450 A.D. If this invasion ex- tended to the Malay Peninsula, we have an explanation of the Malagasy migration, which I am inclined, for linguistic reasons, to place about that period.

What is known of the movements east- ward and southward of these Hiung-nu or Huns? FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

Care of British Vice-Consul, Libau, Russia.

INEEN DUBH. Can J. B. S., Manchester (see 8 th S. vi. 68), or any one else give the reference to the Four Masters in which mention is made of Ineen Dubh?

F. C. W.

EDITIONS, c. 1600. (See ante, p. 151.) It is desirable to know how many copies made an ordinary edition in the time of Shake- speare. We should be helped in judging con- cerning the paucity of books within his reach, especially if we can learn in what places,

public or private, he could resort to book col- lections in London. The copies in the 1623 edition of his plays are set down as 250, and the price at 20s. Was this number common ? Were many books of higher price ?

JAMES D. BUTLER. Madison, Wis.

ST. AGNES, HADDINGTON. Can any one give me information, or say where information may be got, about a place called St. Agnes in Haddington, Scotland ? It is mentioned in Black's * General Atlas of the World ' (Edin- burgh, 1857), plate 10 ; in J. G. Bartholo- mew's ' Atlas of Scotland ' (Edinburgh, 1895), plate 21 ; and in the Ordnance Survey of Scotland, sheet 33. F. C. W.

LINCOLNSHIRE SAYINGS. In North Lincoln- shire the sons and daughters of the soil use the comparison "as awkward as a ground- toad "aivkivard meaning stubborn, sulky, ill to deal with. I am also informed that a cer- tain woman who used to be very healthy was " as strong as a little ground-toad." Now in what way does a ground-toad differ from the ordinary reptile 1 It is to be noticed that a man who has an inelegant seat in the saddle, riding with his knees too high and too for- ward, is compared with "a toad on a shovel " ; while a woman who is too smartly dressed for her age or her appearance runs the risk of being likened to " a toad dressed in muslin " ; but in these two phrases "ground-toad " is never used. B. L. R. C.

E. W., TRANSLATOR OF ' THEODORE ; OR, THE PERUVIANS.' In the Bodleian Library there is a book entitled: "Theodore; or, the Peruvians. From the French of Pigault le Brun. By E. W. London : Printed for B. Crosby and Co. No. 4, Stationers-Court, Ludgate - street. 1808." Who was E. W. ? Is he known as the author of any other book ? E. S. DODGSON.

Oxford.

" PASSAGIUM BEATI JOHANNIS." G. Servois, n a paper on the loans received by St. Louis .n Palestine and Africa, in the Bibliotheque -le lEcole des Chartes (Fourth Series, vol. iv., 1858, 113-31), equates "in passagio beati Johannis" with "le 24 juin" (loc. cit., 116, 124). Is he justified in this particularity 1 ? 3u Cange says that this passagium might be n June or (and) July, and (by possibility) even in August. Q- V-

MUHAMMED OR MOHAMMED ? How are the different vocalization Mohammed and the abnormal spelling Mahomet to be ac- counted for, instead of Muhammed, which