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les plus complets de ces barons de fer des premiers temps de la f^odalite". C'est encore lui que, pendant les belles nuits d'automne, on entend partir, a grand bruit d'hommes, de chevaux, de chiens et de cors, pour chasser a travers les airs jusqu'aux ruines du chateau de Bury, ou se fait la halte et d'oto il revient ensuite a Montfrault. Les memes bruits qui se sont fait entendre au depart continuent pendant tout le temps de la chasse a^rienne, sans que 1'on puisse apercevoir ni chevaux, ni chiens, ni chasseurs."' Blois et ses Environs,' par L. de la Saussaye, pp. 308-9.

ST. SWITHIN.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CHRISTMAS. (Continued from 8 th S. xii. 502.) For the Christmas King, see 'Records of Lincoln's Inn,' vol. i., 1 898 ; for the Boy-Bishop, Christmas Subtleties, Christmas Plays, Carrying the Plough, &c., see 'Durham Abbey Account Rolls,' vol. i. (Surtees Society) ; for the Nativity Plays, see the various books on Miracle Plays.

Bishop Andrewes, ' Sermons of the Nativitie, preached vpon Christmasse Day,' (17) in his Sermons,' third edition, folio, London, 1635, pp. 1-169.

Henry Greenwood, M.A., 'The Blessed'st Birth that ever was : or, the Blessed Birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,' preacfied at the Fleet (on St. Luke ii. 10, 11), 25 Dec., 1627 ('N. & Q.,' 5 th S. iii. 255).

Christmas under the Commonwealth. See notes in ' N. & Q.,' 4 th S. ii. 597 : 5 th S. ii. 501 ; also under John Spalding in 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' liii. 310 a.

W. Stukeley, ' A Philosophical Hymn on Christ- mas Day,' inscribed to Lady Hardwick, written 1736, printed 1749, and afterwards in the British Magazine (Stukeley's ' Diaries,' i. 57).

Christmas in India, 1823, in Bishop Heber's ' Journal,' 1856, i. 45.

' The Christmas Log, a Tale of a Fireside,' 12mo., 1846.

'A Rural Christmas,' in the Church Times, 23 Dec., 1897, p. 765.

' A Christmas in Clare,' in Temple Bar, November, 1898.

' Christmas at Bethlehem,' by J. J. Tissot, in the Century Magazine, December, 1898.

ANCIENT CUSTOMS AT QUEEN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD. The following interesting para- graph, descriptive of ancient customs and relics of antiquity at this college, is extracted from the Oxford Times of Saturday, 26 Nov., and seems worth preservation :

"Oxfordshire Architectural and Historical Society. This society assembled at Queen's College, on Thursday week, and was received by the Pro- vost in the hall. Dr. Magrath gave an interesting account of the foundation and history of the college, and the college plate, which includes several curio- sities, was displayed on the high table. One of the most interesting' pieces is the horn presented by Robert Eglesfield, the founder of the college. It is handsomely mounted in gold or silver-gilt, and is not to be confounded with the clarion by which the members of the college are nightly summoned to dinner, and was the gift of Sir Joseph Williamson.

Among the drinking cups which were exhibited was one furnished with a whistle, to be blown when inside ? in order that the user may regulate the quantity he drinks. The fine collection of portraits in the hall' was described, the one having special attraction being that of Queen Philippa, wife of Edward III., from whom the college received its name. The Provost explained that the patroness of the college was the queen consort, and when the reigning king was unmarried, the queert dowager remained the patron. The students apparently did not anticipate a queen regnant, and therefore it was doubtful who the patroness was now. Reference was made to the boar's head ceremony, and the needle and thread presented to the visitors dining in college on New Year's Day. It was explained that the expression 'Be thrifty' was used in its original, sense, 'Be prosperous, and not as an in- junction to exercise thrift and economy in the mending of garments, as might be supposed. Another curious custom was also mentioned. It seems that the college pays the sum of one penny every three months for each resident in the college to the vicar of St. Peter-in-the-East. The custom, it was explained, arose at the time the college chapel was founded, the payment being made as a set-off against the loss of income to the vicar owing to the with- drawal of the members of the college from the services at St. Peter-in-the-East. Among other interesting matters which claimed the attention of the members of the society was the portrait of Henry V., said by some antiquaries to be the oldest picture of an English monarch extant. It finds a place in the Common Room."
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Queen's College, Oxford, was founded in 1 340 by Robert de Eglesfield, rector of Brough, Westmoreland, and confessor to Queen Philippa. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newboume Rectory, Woodbridge.

COMPOUND WORDS IN POETRY. Among the translations of the versatile Leigh Hunt are to be found some verses which are, perhaps, worth quoting under this heading, They are given as " from the 'Anthology ' >r : Lofty-brow-flourishers,

Nose-in-beard-wallowers, Bag-and-beard-nourishers, Dish-and-all-swallowers, Old-cloak-investitors,

Barefoot-lookfashioners, Night-private-feasteaters,

Craft-lucubrationers ;

Youth-cheaters, word-catchers, vaingloryosophers, Such are such seekers of virtue, philosophers.

THOMAS AULD.

Belfast.

HEREDITARY ODOUR. In an old note-book I have the following sentence from George Eliot's 'Felix Holt,' marked by an inter- rogation, significant of much doubt as to the existence of the thing indicated by (my) italics : "Moral vulgarity cleaved to him like an hereditary odour} 1 But I have just seen an item credited, without date, to the Newcastle Chronicle, that, if correct, seems singularly to