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and Mr. Robert Carson has been in business in this city for many years as a chemist. Some of these might give H. R. C. some authentic information.

CHAS. F. FOESHAW, LL.D. Baltimore House, Bradford.

1 PASSING BY ' (9 th S. xi. 489 ; xii. 12). Referring to the comment of L. H. on the number of stanzas in the pleasing madrigaj commencing "There is a lady sweet and kind," may I be permitted to direct his attention to the fact that in my large-paper copy of ' Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age,' edited by A. H. Bullen (Nimmo, 1887), there are six stanzas? They end with :

Cupid is winged and doth change, Her country so ray love doth change : But change she earth, or change she sky, Yet will I love her till I die.

HENRY GERALD HOPE. 119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

SQUARE CAP (9 th S. xii. 28). The square cap worn by Austin canons was a barretum, barretta, beretum, birretum, or birettumthe> common headgear worn nowadays by the Roman Catholic clergy. Cf. the articles 1 Augustiner ' and ' Barett ' in H. A. Miiller and Oscar Mothes's ' Archaologisches Wdrter- buch ' in the Reference Library of the British Museum. L. L. K.

BRIDGE CHANTRY IN THE WEST RIDING (9 th S. xii. 43). Reference should be made to Mr. Norrisson Scatcherd's pamphlet on the 1 Wakefield Bridge Chapel,' 1843 ; and to the 'Chantry Surveys' (Surt. Soc., 92), ii. p. 312. The chapel was described in 1355 as " newly built." In 1546 one chief "necessitie" laid upon the chaplains was " to do dy vine service in the tymes of the plage for the secke people thither to resorte, that the rest of the paro- chians may com to ther paroch church with- owte danger of infection." W. C. B.

To MR. I. GIBERNE SIEVEKING'S interesting > paper about the chapel on Wakefield Bridge may be fitly added the sorrowful and public confession of Sir Gilbert Scott :

"Designs were advertised for for the restoration of the beautiful chapel of St. Mary on Wakefield Bridge ; and I devoted myself with the greatest earnestness to the investigation of the relics of its destroyed detail. I was seconded by Mr. Burlison, then clerk of the works to the church at Chester- field, and by examining the heaps of debris in the river wall, &c., we discovered nearly everything; and I made, I believe, a very perfect design, illus- trated by beautiful drawings, the perspective views being made by my friend Mr. Johnson. My report I viewed as a masterpiece. 1 succeeded, and the work was carried out, and would have been a very

great success, but that the contractor, Mr. Cox, who had been my carver and superintendent to the Martyrs' Memorial, had a handsome offer made to him for the semi-decayed front, to set up in a park hard by. He then made an offer to execute a new front in Caen stone, in place of the weather-beaten old one, and pressed his suit so determinedly, that, in an evil hour, his offer was accepted. 1 recollect being much opposed to it ; but I am filled with wonder to think how I ever was induced to consent to it at all, as it was contrary to the very prin- ciples of my own report, in which I had quoted from Petit's book the lines beginning

Beware, lest one lost feature ye efface, &c. I never repented but once, and that is ever since." ' Personal and Professional Recollections,' pp. 101-2.

The "small two-light 'high-side' window" was not necessarily used as a beacon. A "two-light" window is merely one that is divided by a mullion up the middle.

ST. SWITHIN.

NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS CHANGING COLOUR (9 th S. xi. 89, 217, 297, 491 ; xii. 19). During the greater part of my life I have collected scraps of all sorts, and possess a large number of books compiled with the aid of " scissors and paste." For twenty years at least I have invariably used Field & Tuer's "Stickphast Paste" as the medium for fastening in my scraps, but on examining several of my largest volumes I do not find that in any case the paper appears to have perceptibly changed colour. Most of the cuttings look as fresh as they did at the time they were fastened down. I am certainly quite satisfied with my experience in the use of this paste, and should be very sorry to have to fall back upon the sticky and unpleasant gum bottle.

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"TRAVAILLER POUR LE Roi DE PRUSSE" (9 th S. xi. 289, 392, 437, 496; xii. 34). DR. KRUEGER says, "But it is anything but a proverb." In this I do not agree with him;

t, at any rate, what I said was, "proverbs or proverbial phrases as such " (9 th S. xi. 392), arid certainly admitting that the phrase is not of earlier date than 1701 no one can deny that the above is a " proverbial phrase." We need not, therefore, I think, discuss what s or is not a proverb.

I endorse DR. KRUEGER'S remark that " a genuine proverb can only be couched in the anguage of the people where it has origin- ated," and if he extends this to "proverbial phrases" (a number of people do not draw any distinction between proverbs and pro- verbial phrases, but I am quite willing to do so, although sometimes it is not such an easy matter), surely the phrase in question, although about " le roi de Prusse," originated