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on p. 260, aiid the "novel" of * Amazon ta 3 begins on the following page and continues to the end. There are a frontispiece and seven " cuts " on copper.

The old folk-story quoted by Walpole occurs on pp. 9-14. The animal, however, was not a mule, but a camel, and the seren- dipity of the eldest prince was displayed in his discovery that it had but one eye. The two others found out, one that the camel was lame, and the other that he had a tooth less than he should have. They also dis- covered some other wonderful things about the animal, which are not so easily quotable in *N. & Q.' They show, however, that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was anticipated by nearly a couple of centuries. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

JINRIKSHAS (8 th S. viii. 325). A corre- spondent, replying to a writer who thought that the " pousse-pousse " was a Japanese " native " production, explained that it was invented in Yokohama by an Englishman, and had spread thence to Africa, India, and many other parts of the world. It was, however, a rediscovery, not an original in- vention. Many examples of such carriages, in each of which a lady is seated and drawn and pushed by her two footmen, will be found in the views of Versailles executed early in the eighteenth century by the en- graver J. Rigaud. A collection of his work, including these views, was published in London, Paris, and Strasbourg in 1780.

EMILIA F. S. DILKE.

" CHAPERONED BY HER FATHER " (9 th S. xii. 245, 370). SIMPLICISSIMUS seems to me to stray somewhat from the point in his series of questions. My view simply was, and is, that to apply the verb to a male is inaccurate, a notion confirmed by such authorities as the 'N.E.D.' and 'Standard ' and ' Century' dic- tionaries. Chaperone (s.) is now universally regarded as obsolete. The 'N.E.D.' says thereof, "English writers often erroneously spell it chaperone, apparently under the sup- position that it requires a feminine termina- tion." I myself have, in earlier days, fallen under the critic's lash through the inference. I still stick to my guns that there is a French ring about the word which invites employ- ment of a more English-sounding substitute, such as "escort." As MR. WAINEWRIGHT quotes from 'N.ED.,' the word is "affected." Better avoid it, say I and others. CECIL CLARKE.

Authors' Club.

THE " SHIP" HOTEL, GREENWICH (9 th S. xii. 306, 375, 415). Curious how such discrepan- cies should occur. One note says it was in

the south-west, and the other north-west, of Greenwich Hospital. The plan of the Hos-

Eital in Hasted's 'History of Kent,' edited y H. H. Drake, 1886, I think clearly shows that the north-west was intended.

The notes by AYEAHR are very correct and fully to be depended upon. A more patient and indefatigable searcher into facts I never came across. His long association with Dept- ford, Greenwich, and neighbourhood makes his notes more valuable.

CHAS. G. SMITHERS. 47, Darnley Road, N.E.

CHARLES KEMBLE (9 th S. xii. 349, 392). An account of this dinner, at which he was present, will be found in vol. ii. chap. iii. of Planche's ' Recollections and Reflections,' together with the song in full, which is there represented as one of three stanzas of ten lines each.

Whatever other versions of the song there may be elsewhere, this was probably the original one, and the one actually sung by Balfe at the dinner, Planche's version of it being, it is reasonable to presume, taken from a copy circulated at the dinner, and retained by him as a memento of the occasion.

ANTHONY TUCKER.

Royal Rock Hotel, Rock Ferry.

DANTE PORTRAIT (9 th S. xi. 388, 510 ; xii. 109). I see from the November Bookman that the painting in Mr. J. Morris-Moore's collection, which my memory doubtfully attributed to Giorgione at p. 109 of the present volume of ' N. <fe Q.,' is ascribed to Raphael Sanzio by those who know more about the matter than I do. Raphael is believed to have copied it from the portrait in the Bargello. The Bookman has bestowed a boon on Dante students. ST. SWITHIN.

BERKSHIRE AND OXFORDSHIRE PARISH REGISTERS (9 th S. xii. 388). A reference to Dr. Marshall's 'List of Printed Parish Registers,' published by the Parish Register Society, will show A. L. C. that the registers he mentions have not been printed.

G. S. P.

"LOADBERRY" (9 th S. xii. 366). In Ed- mondston's 'Etymological Glossary of the Shetland and Orkney Dialect ' (Black, 1866) this word is spelt " Lodberrie," and is defined as "a kind of enclosed wharf common in Lerwick." In Jakobsen's ' Dialect and Place Names of Shetland ' (Lerwick, Manson, 1897) it is stated that the name " Lodberri " is the old Norse hladberg, meaning "loading rock," a rock at which boats usually lie to be loaded and unloaded.