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identified, and I should be glad if anj reader could assist me in discovering Marat's place of abode. It is possible that when he lived in Church Street the houses were not numbered, the practice of numbering not having obtained before 1760, and it wat a long time before it became general ; bu there were various ways by which houses were distinguished. Dr. Cabanes, in his in teresting brochure 'Marat Inconnu,' draws the inference that Marat's address in Soho, " un des quartiers elegants de la Cite," testifies that the medical practitioner Marat must have enjoyed a certain reputation among our neighbours on the other side of the Channel.

JOHN HEBB.

MACLEAN. Can any of your readers kindly say if the Alexander Maclean mentioned in Bancroft's * History of the United States ' as the active agent of Governor Martin, of Caro- ina, in raising a regiment among the High- landers settled in that colony during the American War of 1775, is identical with an officer of that name who married a Margaret Dubois in New York or Wilmington? Can any reader say where a copy of a book can be seen entitled 'Record of the Family of Louis Dubois, who emigrated from France in 1660 ' (Philadelphia, privately printed, 1860) 1 ALASDAIR MACGILLEAN.

DUMAS ON CATS AND DOGS. Will some one kindly oblige me with the reference to the passage wherein one of the two Dumas compares the character, habits, <fcc., of cats with those of dogs, very much to the dis- advantage of the latter? L. L. K.

"THAT POWER THAT KINDLY SPREAD THE CLOUDS." Who is the author of the following lines ?

That power that kindly spread the clouds, The signal of impending showers, To warn the wandering linnet to the shade, Beheld without concern expiring Greece.

W. H. PEERS. 96, Cottenham Street, C.-on-M., Manchester.

QUARTERINGS. At 5 th S. vi. 312 a reply from the late MR. EDMUND M. BOYLE respect- ing a query about ' Seize Quartiers ' appears, in which he writes, in answer to a corre- spondent styling himself INQUIRER, thus : "If INQUIRER cared, I could show him many pedigrees exhibitingseize quartiers and a book attempting 4,056 [st'cV' This wonderful num- ber, I take it, must be a slip of the pen for 4,096, the number of a person's direct ancestors in the twelfth generation. Can any one give me an idea where I could gain particulars now of these "many pedigrees exhibiting

seize quartiers," i.e, set out as such ? for pedi- grees almost invariably concern themselves with exhibiting a long line of descent in one family, not extending far from those of the family who come in the direct line of descent. Has any one information as to what became of MR. BOYLE'S genealogical collections after his death ; or could you assist me in any way to learn the titles of those books or tables of pedigrees in which the seize quartiers of the latest descendant of the family were made such a prominent feature ?

I should be specially interested in learning something more about the pedigree "attempt- ing to show 4,056 [or 4 096] " direct ancestors. Any further information about these tables of seize quartiers will greatly oblige. In this remote part of the world one's only hope for securing copies of literary curiosities of this sort is in knowing exactly all possible par- ticulars of what is sought for before instruct- ing any dealer or collector to endeavour to procure it. JOSEPH COLEMAN.

Hampton Street, Goodwood, South Australia.

GRAH AM =APPELBEY. Extract from Regis- ter of Marriages at St. Peter's Church, Corn- hill, London :

' 1706, 1 September, John Graham, of Sunbury, co. Middlesex, and Ruth Appelbey, of St. Stephen's, Coleman Street, London."

Can any reader give me, by letter, informa- tion regarding these two persons 1

A. W. GRAHAM, Col. 67, Gipsy Hill, S.E.

"LIMERICKS" OR " LEARICKS " ? The May number of Pearsons Magazine ends with a short paper by Miss Carolyn Wells, entitled

Limericks.' She begins by asking how that name has been given to a five-line stanza, which (as some one has said) has been made rnmortal by a young lady who rode on a >iger. But where lias this playful little poem 3een called a " limerick " ? The first and only time that I saw this term before reading the article in question, I thought it was a mere misprint for learick bad writers and rash compositors have between them achieved greater changes than ea into ime. As for earick\ or rather learic, I think I am the nventor of the term. I used it in print in February, 1898, as a visitor to the British Museum can see at p. 87 of the twenty -sixth 7 olurne of the Irish Monthly :

"A learic. is not a lyric as pronounced by one of hat nation who joke with deefficulty, but it is a ame \ve have invented for a single-stanza poem lodelled on the form of the ' Book of Nonsense,' or which Mr. Edward Lear has got perhaps more ame than he deserved."

'he Academy (29 July, 1899) and Truth. put