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I860; ' Ballads and Songs,' 1863; ' La Bell France,' 1868; and 'The Peoples of th World,' 1870. Her daughter, Marie Adelaide married in 1896 to F. S. Lowndes, M.A., ha published 'Life and Letters of Charlott Elizabeth, Princess Palatine,' 1889; and conjunction with Miss Shedlock, 'Pages from lie Journals and Correspondence of Edmonc uad Jules de Goncourt,' 1894.

RICHD. WELFORD.

Miss Parkes was the daughter of Josep] Parkes, of Warwick, who practised as solicitor at Birmingham. He removed t( London 1830, and was Taxing Master to th( Court of Exchequer from 1847 until his death 11 Aug., 1865. She married Mr. Belloc in 1868 For list of her works see Allibone's ' Die tionary of British and American Authors.' JOHN RADCLIFFE.

TREVIS FAMILY (9 th S. iii. 148). I have lately met with Trewvas, which it has been suggested to me might possibly be a corrup tion of the Cornish Trevaze. Might no Trevis be affiliated to the same stock, or tc Trevisa (or Trevissa) of Cornwall and Devon shire? Has MR. O. HARRY ever come across Travis as a variant of Travers; and can he oblige me by quoting authority for the state ments that the family of Trevis was " noble ' (? armigerous), and that it " went under ' after 1688? GUALTERULUS.

There are notes of a Sussex manor namec Treve or Trevar in ' N. & Q.,' 5 th S. ix. 47, 135

W. C. B.

ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY: * ZULEIKA' (9 th S. iii. 129). Zuleika is an Eastern name, and the marvel of Peru is a Western flower. It is true the minstrel's native land is not indi- cated in the song, but clearly it was one of which the flower also is a native. Probably the rose- red kama-lata, or love's creeper j(Ipomeea), is meant. It is widely distributed in the East, and one of its many names is the iflower of night. It belongs to the order Con- lyolvulacese. Or perhaps the flower intended is the tuberose, of which Moore (quoted by Friend) speaks :

The tuberose, with her silvery light,

That in the gardens of Malay Is called the Mistress of the Night, So like a bride, scented and bright,

She comes out when the sun 's away.

the night-flowering jessamine (Nyctanthes) nay also be suggested; or, seeing that refer- nce is made in the poem to "the violet ale of the nightingale," the so-called dame's r iolet or night violet (Hesjjeris matronalis). this, perhaps, is coming too near home;

and, after all, the poet may merely have been indulging his fancy, or have been haunted by a reminiscence of the ancient Nyctilopa, the fabled flower that shone through the dark- ness.

It is true that the marvel of Peru blooms in the open air in Europe. Gerard grew it in his garden, and notes that in hot weather it flowered at night " vntill eight of the clocke next morning," but that " the aire being tem- perat " the flowers remained open the whole day, and closed at night. Phillips, in his 'Flora Historica/ quotes some very pretty verses to the belle de nuit from Constant Dubos, which I shall be glad to copy for MR. BOUCHIER if he does not know them.

C. C. B.

The writer probably means the same plant as that which occurs in the once familiar song " Believe me, if all," &c. Near the close of this are the lines :

Like the night - blowing cereus which sheds its

perfume, And opens its blossoms 'midst darkness and gloom.

The cereus is one of the Cactacese. The Cereus grandiftorus is the night - flowering cactus, which opens after nightfall, and perishes before morning.

ED. MARSHALL, F.S.A.

The violets and nightingales, to which the young lady was to be introduced, seem to indicate a European, even an English, desti- nation. We have among us the thornapple and the evening primrose and others, for which see Kerner and Oliver's ' Natural History of Plants,' ii. 212.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

RECOVERY OF A DROWNED BODY (9 th S. ii. 26). .aniile Souvestre, 'Les Derniers Bre-
 * ons,' vol. i. part i. chap. iii. iii. p. 90 :

"Cependant il en est quelques-unes [supersti- ions] particulieres aux Tregorrois : tel est 1 usage eligieux suivi par eux lorsqu ils recherchent le corps .'un noye". Dans ce cas, toute la famille s'assemble n deuil; un pain noir est apporW; on y fixe un ierge allume, et on 1'abandpnne aux vagues. Le oigt de Dieu conduira le pain au lieu mSme ou git e cadavre du mort, et sa famille, ainsi avertie, ourra 1'ensevelir dans une terre sainte."

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

MR. SIDNEY LEE'S ' LIFE OF SHAKESPEARE ' 9 th S. iii. 42, 118). The value of the teston fas originally twelve pence. It was first oined in 1543. Le Blanc says : "The new species of coins struck by Louis XII. ere called testons, because the head of the lonarch was represented upon them. It is not asy to conjecture why that name was now adopted y Henry, in preference to that of shilling, wrn'ch