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ne sais quels lambeaux qui me soutenoient a peine."

In the preface (p. 25 of the same volume) he says :

"Smarra est le nom primitif du mauvais esprit auquel les anciens rapportoient le triste phenomene du cauchemar. Le nieme mot exprime encore la meme ide dans la plupart des dialectes slavs, chez les peuples de la terre qui sont le plus sujets a cette affreusemaladie."

2. 'The Confessional of the Black Peni- tents' is the second or sub title of 'The Italian,' by Mrs. Ann Radcliffe, and it is evidently to this novel that Theophile Gautier alludes. By the way, I think Messrs. Routledge & Sons intend to publish a new edition of this (as also of others of Mrs. Radcliffe's novels) shortly in their series of " Half-forgotten Books."

3. This I had not succeeded in tracing, and only now refer to it so as to complete the answer to the question in the pages of ME. DE V. PAYEN- PAYNE, tells me that Malipiero (1 Malipieri) is the name of a character in Victor Hugo's drama of ' Angelo.'
 * N. & Q.' The propounder of the question,

EDWAED LATHAM.

JEWS AND ETERNAL PUNISHMENT (9 th S. x. 229, 334; xi. 153; xii. 10). The story of Jamasp (or Hasib) in the ' Thousand and One Nights' includes those of Bulookiya and Janshah. It is not translated by Lane, but will be found in the translations of Lamb, Payne, and Burton.

I 'Bulookiya' is obviously based chiefly on Talmudic traditions, and contains a ter- rible description of hell, too long to quote here, but very similar to another, spoken by Rabbi Moses, at the commencement of Act II. sc. iii. of Kenealy's 'New Pantomime ' I; ('Poetical Works,' vol. ii. pp. 206-8, not in earlier editions). Kenealy was well read in Jewish as well as other little-known litera- ture, but^ seldom quotes his authorities. In one of his works he alludes incidentally to Joshua having murdered Moses in the moun- tains of Nebo, in order to make himself the leader of the Israelites ; but I have never been able to discover his authority for the statement. W. F. KIRBY.

BYFIELD HOUSE, BARNES (9 th S. xii. 108). I was among the crowded audience recently at MR. PHILIP NORMAN'S most interesting lecture on ' Old London ' at Hammersmith, and consequently think he must have com- municated enough enthusiasm and solicitude to his attentive listeners to warrant the hope that the "old-fashioned house," with its "charming garden," of which he speaks, will be preserved, especially as it has a decided

local history. It was probably inhabited for many years by Mr. Edward Byfield, who died in 1774. He was one of the parish benefactors, and the house was called after him. A Mr. Watts who once occupied the house kept a young gentlemen's school, and died there. It was afterwards occupied by a Mrs. Cooper, who also died there. After her came the Hon. E. B. Wrottesley, brother of Lord Wrottesley. He left, and then Mr. Alexander Nesbitt took the house, where he has been for a great many years. This, probably all that is known of the building, will be found in 'A History of the Parish of Barnes,' by John Eustace Anderson, 1900, which was printed for private circulation.

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.

A Mr. Byfield lived there many years ago, and dying, bequeathed a sum of money to the poor of Barnes parish, a fact chronicled, with other minute particulars of date of bequest, its form and value, upon the black board containing the list of the almsgivers of the parish, on the west interior wall of the church (southern corner). Of the house there is little to tell, except that the generous old Mr. Byfield lived and died there. He now lies in Barnes Churchyard (see the parish register). The newspaper paragraph referred to by MR. NORMAN may have been one I contributed to the local paper in 1901. Mr. Byfield, rest his soul ! was a rara avis, but not, so far as I know, a celebrity.

W. J. DIXON.

Lonsdale Road, Barnes.

LONG LEASE (9 th S. xii. 25, 134). I noted an advertisement (Yorkshire Post, 27 August, 1898) for the sale of two leasehold properties in the north of England. To one of them, described as "The Blagill Estate" (par, Alston, Cumberland), was added a statement that it was "held for a term of 1,000 years commencing in 1611. The lord's rent is 10s. lOjd."

The other property, called "The Ayle Estate" (par. Kirkhaugh, Northumberland), was said to be " held for a term of 999 years, commencing in 1669. The lord's rent is lls. 4c?., and 14s. for boon days." The ques- tion of long leases has, 1 think, been dis- cussed in 4 N. & Q.' on previous occasions. A term for 999 years seems common all over England. It would be interesting to find out when it was first introduced. Has it any legal significance as against 1,000 years 1

T. M. FALLOW.

Coatham, Redcar.

COLERIDGE AS A TRANSLATOR (9 th S. xii. 26). The editor of ' Schiller's Historical Dramas >