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proclamation was again read. Then the little cortege returned to the front of our ancient Guildhall, where the proclamation was duly read a third time, after which we all took off our hats whilst ' God save the Queen ' was rendered as a solo on the fife. Three hearty cheers followed, and then the glove, its

garlands, and the pole were solemnly hoisted y a cord to the top of the Guildhall's pro- jecting Queen Elizabethan portico. There it was secured to the battlements, at a bevel, leaning over the grand old Roman thorough- fare, and there it will remain until noon on Friday next (22 July), when the (now quite obsolete) fair will close. According to tradition, however, Lammas Fair commences to-morrow (20 July). HARRY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

DENTAL COLLEGES (8 th S. xii. 508 ; 9 th S. i. 98). The Baltimore Dental College may be the oldest in the world, but Philadelphia has the most appropriately named place for a society of extractors, viz., Dental Hall. The same city rejoices in the suggestive name of the Medical Aid and Funeral Supply Company !

TRAVELLER.

Philadelphia.

CONTINENTAL ' NOTES AND QUERIES ' (9 th S. i. 28). Since my inquiry in January I have had a letter from the editor of De Navorscher. His address is No. 3, Oude Kerkstr., Utrecht. He informs me that articles are inserted in Dutch, English, French, or German.

ALFRED MOLONY.

BICYCLES IN THUNDERSTORMS (9 th S. i. 248, 350). The cases of a train, one of the safest places in thunderstorms, and a cycle, one of the most dangerous, are totally dissimilar. A conductor to protect the cycle-rider might be a fork -like branch of copper ribbon, fastened to the middle of the handle, where lamps are placed, and spreading on each side of his head. E. L. GARBETT.

" To CHI-IKE " : " CHI-IKE " (9 th S. i. 425 ; ii. 53). Is this anything more than the struggle of orthography to deal with the cockney pronunciation of cheek ? ST. SWITHIN.

" FRET " (8 th S. xii. 386, 491 ; 9 th S. i. 333). Clare, in his 'Shepherd's Calendar,' p. 26, speaks of " icicles, that fret at noon."

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

CURIOUS CHRISTIAN NAME (9 th S. i. 446 ; ii. 57). Erica is clearly the feminine of Erik, but it is possible that it may somewhere have been given in ignorance of this fact. Readers of Crabbe will remember the gardener's wife

who insisted on her daughter being christened Lonicera (honeysuckle), in spite of the parson's protest. T. WILSON.

Harpenden.

In tracing families I have met with Rimelion as a feminine baptismal name ; it runs in such Kentish alliances as Round, Amherst, &c. Can it be paralleled elsewhere ?

A. H.

THE REV. GEORGE LEWIS (9 th S. ii. 9). A clergyman of this name was appointed chaplain of St. Mary's, Fort St. George, by the Honourable East India Company in 1692, in succession to the Rev. J. Evans (afterwards Bishop of Bangor). He returned to England in 1714. FRANK PENNY, LL.M.

Fort St, George.

SOME AFRICAN NAMES OFTEN MISPRO- NOUNCED (9 th S. i. 466 ; ii. 52, 96). I am in a position to state that Lord Napier of Magdala has the accent on the "dal," i.e., that he is Lord Napier of Magdala.

CELER ET AUDAX.

MOON THROUGH COLOURED GLASS (9 th S. i.

328, 377, 393 ; ii. 13). To the list of writers who have fallen into the common error should be added Dickens, who, in describing the nocturnal visit of Jasper and Durdles to the Cathedral, writes :

" Here, the moonlight is so very bright again that the colours of the nearest stained-glass window are thrown upon their faces. The appearance of the

unconscious Durdles is ghastly enough, with a

purple band across his face, and a yellow splash upon his brow."' Edwin Drood,' oh. xii.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

MORNING (9 th S. ii. 105). I think it possible that Henrysoun uses nicht in the sense of darkness, i.e., the darkness of the preceding night. The hour expressed by the phrase "betuix midday and nicht," i.e., between darkness and noon, would vary according to the time of year. At the period of the equi- noxes it would mean 9 A.M., or thereabout". The poet would not be particular to half an hour, or even more. The statement that some of Henry soun's pieces were given as Chaucer's is incorrect. Only one of his pieces is in question, and it never was really given as Chaucer's. It was written as a sort of supple- ment to Chaucer's 'Troilus,' and on this ac- count Thynne included it as such in his collection of Chaucer's works. But it has yet to be proved that Thynne believed it to be Chaucer's, for had he done so he would hardly have retained in it so many forms and phrases that are obviously of Scottish origin. Any