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Trinity College, one of the colleges of the Jniversity of Melbourne, celebrated its ilver jubilee by a banquet, and the menu ards supplied to the guests contained quo- ations from English classics appropriate to he several dishes. They were of a humor- ous character, and some of them may be 1 bought worthy of a place in ' N. & Q.' Here
 * ,re a few extracts :

Poissons.

Filet de Merlan & la Joinville. It is whiting time.

Entries.
 * Merry Wives,' III. iii.

Filet de Boeuf Henri Quatre. My grandsire was an Englishman.

' King John,' V. iv. R6ts.

Faisan d'Ecosse. Sweet bird, nae mair.

Burns, 'Song.' Flanquin des Cailles. Quail to remember.

4 Cymbeline,' V. v. Releves.

Jambonneaux de Poulet en Belle Vue. Sweet Ham-let.

' Hamlet,' III. iv. Entremets. Glace Nesselrode. You stand, silent and cold.

Browning, ' Strafford,' IV. i. Dessert.

Some sign of good desert. ' Two Gentlemen of Verona,' III. ii. The lazy gossip of the port.

' Enoch Arden.' Coffee. And see what comfort it affords our end.

Pope, ' Moral Essays,' iii. Cigars. Pleasures that once were pains.

Browning, ' Paracelsus.' Q. E. D.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- nation on family matters of only private interest io affix their names and addresses to their queries, 'n order that the answers may be addressed to
 * hem direct.

'CUPID'S GAEDEN.' I thought this poem called dialectally ' Cubit's Garden ') was by lie Dorsetshire poet the Rev. W. Barnes ; but I have not been able to find it in any Bdition of his works accessible to me. It ends, [ think, with the noted lines :

Let thee and I go our own way,

And we '11 let she go shizn.

shall be obliged to any reader of ' N. & Q.' vho will inform me as to its author and ublication. Please reply direct.

J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford.

VERLAINE. Whence does the Academy take its version of the 'Chanson' of which the first words are " Le ciel," which seems inferior to that which for the ninth line, in place of the weak

Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, la vie est la, has

Un murmure vient de la bas, and then goes on differently for the seven other lines to the end ? D.

RICHARD HEBER, THE BOOK COLLECTOR. Does any portrait of this celebrity exist ; and, if so, where ? GEORGE REDWAY.

TREACLE BIBLE. Though I received answer and references as to spelling of " triacle " in the Bible of 1568, 1 have received no reply as to Prologue of St. Basil the Great in the same volume. May I, therefore, repeat the query 1 Was this Prologue usually bound up with Bibles of this date? If an unusual inter- polation, can any reader account for it ? It is apparently of the same date as the Bible. KATE S. LEGER.

Swanwick, Southampton.

" GALLOCK-HAND." In West Yorkshire this is still in common use for "the left hand." What is the etymology of '; gallock"? The common view is that gallock is the same word as Fr. gauche, both being derived from an old French *galc representing a Frankish *walki. But it is impossible to connect gallock with gauche, as it appears from the French dialects that gauche represents, not an older *galc, but an older *ganche. See Boucoiran, ' Diet, des Idiomes Meridionaux ' (1898) : " Gancheu, tortu, de travers," also " Gauche, de travers, faible." A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

FRENCH POET. What was the name of the French poet who wrote ' Dans 1'Eglise,' in which the following lines occur 1 ? I only quote from memory, and should be glad to be corrected if wrong :

Soyez comme 1'oiseau, pos pour un instant

Sur les rameaux si fre"les : Qui sent trembler la branche, mais qui chant pourtant,

Sachant qu'il a des ailes.

R. HALL.

REDGAUNTLET ' : " TRANCES." What is the meaning of this word in ' Wandering Willie's Tale' in ' Redgauntlet,' Letter XIJ "So saying, he led the way out through halls and trances that were weel kend to my gudesire." I should suppose that it is a misprint for entrances," but for the circumstance that it "trances "in three different editions the