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In the American "Humboldt Library" edition of Huxley's * Man's Place in Nature' there is figured an anthropoid ape apparently striving to get rid of a boot put on its toot, whilst another one is running away from a man surprising them. This illustration seems to have originally accompanied a story similar to what the Chinese materia medica gives but in this edition it is not explained. Will any of your readers kindly tell me what is the story and whence did Huxley reproduce the illustration 1 KUMAGUSU MINAKATA. Mount Nachi, Kii, Japan.

JOHN GILPIN'S ROUTE. Can any reader inform me what route the famous John Gilpin would have taken in his ride from Cheapside to Edmonton and Ware, and what streets he would have traversed within the City of London? P. M.

W. GARRICKE was at Westminster School in 1798. Can any reader of * N. & Q.' help me to identify him ? G. F. R. B.

GLADSTONE ANECDOTE. Can any reader tell me where the following is to be found 1 I have read somewhere that at a dinner party it was (as prearranged) attempted by a band of youthful enthusiasts to test Mr. Glad- stone's encyclopaedic knowledge by asking his opinion on a matter with which they were quite certain he must be but superficially acquainted, and that they received, to their discomfiture, the laconic reply : "Gentlemen, I have nothing further to add to the subject, which I have dealt with exhaustively in an

article in the ." The incident sounds

thoroughly Gladstonian, and se non e ero e ben trovato. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

[There is a familiar story of the kind concerning W he well, from which this is probably taken.]

" SUE LE PONT D'AVIGNON." Who will in- dulge me by quoting at full length this song, of which so many quote the beginning \ Even in Avignon itself I failed to get a copy of it. The most I could do was to buy two pictorial postcards which gave part of the air and the usual promise of words. I have sought for more without success in ' Chan sons Pppulaires de la France,' by Louis Montjoie. ST. SWITHIN.

ORANGES. In the following is "Civil" a corruption of "Seville"?

41 The China apples, or Civil oranges, as they are usually called, differ in this from the other oranges that they be more lucid, and of a more savour U8te,"-Stedman, 'Surinam ' (1796), i. 349.

EMERITUS.

ST. MARY AXE. (9 th S. x. 425 ; xi. 110, 231.) COL. PRIDEAUX probably does not mean imply that because the Wheelwrights' was not a very ancient company, therefore the sign of the " Axe " did not exist before the year f their incorporation in 1670, for it is highly Drobable that it was known as an emblem of corporate community. As a matter of fact ,he sign is frequently mentioned in Taylor's Carriers' Cosmographie,' 1637 ; but of course, owing to COL. PPJDEAUX'S courteous cor- rection, it cannot now be said that it had its origin in the arms of that company. Whether [ am equally at fault in thinking that the chapel of Corpus Christi, or St. Mary's, in Coney Hope Lane, was known as " St. Mary Coney Hope" is, I submit, not so certain. My slight inaccuracy as to Stow's language in referring to this chapel was perhaps owing to a confusion of his statement with that which occurs in a little book by a generally ^ell-posted writer (the antiquary and book- seller William West), entitled ' Tavern Anec- dotes,' 1825, where we are told that "at the corner of Coney Hope Lane was a chapel dedicated to St. Mary de Coney Hope." It would be no reflection on Stow's uniform veracity a veracity acquired by his constant recourse to original documents to doubt whether he always necessarily refers to the places and buildings he describes in terms that were exactly in accordance with local, or even general custom ; and I think, there- fore, that this chapel of St. Mary was collo- quially known as " St. Mary Coney Hope " to distinguish it from other churches inscribed to St. Mary, especially from St. Mary Cole- church, " named after one Cole that built it," at the south end of Coney Hope Lane in Old Jewry. This church, which was destroyed in the Great Fire, and not rebuilt, stood on the site of what is now Frederick Place. The common bellman, no less than the prqfawum vulgus, would need the use of such distinc- tions. But there are other reasons for think- ing that the appellative "Axe" had its origin merely in the colloquial convenience it afforded in distinguishing one from another the several churches of St. Mary dotted about within the City gates. For, placing the axe- as- a- relic theory out of court, it cannot for a moment be supposed that allusion to it ever formed part of the church's dedication for- mula, though, at the same time, there is nothing incompatible with propriety in the
 * heir craft long before their existence as a