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sance, or who, like Champion, were remark- able for the purity of their English, were far stronger at Douai and at St. Oraer in 1620 than they were in 1660, and Shakespeare was the one English classic which an English schoolboy abroad could read without having his religious feelings as a Catholic shocked at every word. Z.

THE USES OF ' N. & Q.' In the November and December numbers of ' N. <fe Q.' there is a wealth of antecedent ideas of repute in reference to Philip James Bailey, and in illustration of his poetic foresight. The letters of MR. WAINE WRIGHT and MR. YARDLEY imply that in the pages of ' N. & Q.' may be found the previous history of any contem- porary conception. Coincident ideas are continually occurring to writers, and the instances adduced by your correspondents are as instructive as they are interesting. Since journalism has now become an un- expected feature in one of our London schools, with Mr. William Hill as its pro- fessor, a study of the volumes of l N. <fe Q.' would admirably fortify the journalistic mind with illustrative instances. When Mr. (now Sir George) Newnes offered a prize of a clerkship of 100. a year to any person who answered ten questions a week for three months, Mr. Arthur Pearson now himself an enterprising journalistic proprietor made journeys from nis home to the nearest library (which was in Bedford) to obtain the infor- mation for his answers. Mr. Pearson won the prize. To do this he travelled on a bicycle 2,000 miles in collecting the required information. If he had only known it, the volumes of c N. & Q.' might have furnished him with all he needed to know and much more. G. J. HOLYOAKE.

"APPENDICITIS." This now too familiar word finds no place in ' N.E.D.,' vol. i. p. 401, in the part published about September, 1885 (see 'Appendix,' 3. Biol, on p. 402); but 'Appendicitis,' with its definition, occurs s.v. " -itis," suffix, in vol. v. p. 524, published 1 January, 1901, the word having come, pre- sumably, into use in the interval.

C. P. PHINN.

Watford.

[In the 'List of New Books ' in the Athenceum of 16 November, 1895, occurs one by G. Barling entitled On Appendicitis, &c.,' published at 2s.]

" ABLE-BODIED WINE." Sir G. F. Bowen, in his pamphlet on Ithaca (third edition, 1854, 70 pp.), at p. 24 says the red wine of the island is an 4i able-bodied wine." This seems to be a unique application of the word. The

modern Greek version made from this third edition has iroXvfyopas, which is applied to a strong wine, according to Scarlatos Byzan- tios, as able to stand much water. In its more literal sense it is very close to " able- bodied." Perhaps the author's acquaintance with the native language made him uncon- sciously write "able-bodied." In any case, it must be an error due to partial unconscious- ness, unless some justification for its use can be found. E. H. BROMBY.

University, Melbourne.

CONTEMPORARY CHRONICLES. How history is made ! I venture to think that the follow- ing, from the police reports of the Daily Telegraph of Tuesday, 16 December, 1902, is too good to be lost. Evidence in an assault case at Marylebone : "Police Constable Bar- low stated that about eleven on Sunday night he was passing Horace Street, Maryle- bone the historic Cato Bay, the seat of the Chartists' movement," &c. Italics mine : a delicious example of a confusion in the worthy officer's mind between Tiger Bay, at the other extremity of the metropolis, the abortive attempt at insurrection of April, 1848, and the conspiracy hatched in a stable in Cato Street (now Horace Street), Edgware Road, to murder Lord Harrowby and other Cabinet ministers, for which Thistlewood and his gang were deservedly executed in 1820. Is this efficient P.C. an alumnus of the Board school 1 GNOMON.

Temple.

LlPSIUS REFERRED TO BY SlR THOMAS

BROWNE :

"And since the learned Lipsius hath made some doubt even of the cross of St. Andrew (since some martyrological histories deliver his death by the general name of a cross, and Hippolytus will have him suffer by the sword), we should have enough to make out the received cross of that martyr." ' The Garden of Cyrus,' chap. i. p. 86, in Dr. Greenhill's edition of ' Hydriotaphia ' and ' The Garden of Cyrus ' (Macmillan, 1896).

In the explanatory notes added in this edition to the latter discourse, for which Mr. Edward H. Marshall is chiefly responsible, the passage in Lipsius has not been identified, while in the 'Index of Authors quoted or referred to ' " Lipsius, Justus ? " is given. There can be no doubt as to the identity of " the learned Lipsius " to whom Sir Thomas Browne is referring. See Lipsius, ' De Cruce,' lib. i. cap. vii. (pp. 1162, 1163, in vol. iii. of his ' Opera Omnia,' Wesel, 1675).

EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia.

FOIGARD IN 'THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM.' Twelve years ago I expressed the opinion in