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name a variant of Frisby, which is not a very uncommon surname. There can be little doubt that it is derived from the place-name Frisby, which occurs twice in Leicestershire, viz., in Frisby-on-the-Wreake, and again further south, near Billesdon. Both places are well within the Danish district, and -bys are scattered thickly in their neighbourhood. The form Frisbie can never have been cor- rectly applied to either, but it may in a sur- name have been developed from the original form. C. C. B.

If we compare Frisbie, or Frisby, with its congeners Friesthorpe, Frieston, and Friston, with Normanby and Norman ton, Frankby and Frankton, Danby, Denby, and Danthorpe, Ingleby, Inglethorpe, Ingleton, and Engleton, Saxby, Saxthorpe, and Saxton, the significa- tion is obvious ; and the comparison serves incidentally to show the diversity of the races Frisians, Northmen, Franks, Danes, Angles, and Saxons which at one time or another made their home in the Northern, Eastern, and East-Midland counties of England.

HY. HAEEISON.

FEENCH POET (9 th S. iii. 267). These are the last four lines of a poem entitled ' Dans

1'Eglise de ' which is to be found near the

end of ' Les Chants du Crepuscule,' by Victor Hugo. The lines run as follows : Soyez comme 1'oiseau pose pour un instant

Sur des rameaux trop freles, Qui sent plier la branche et qui chante pourtant, Sachant qu'il a des ailes.

T. P. AEMSTEONG.

[Many other replies are acknowledged from J. B. , W. D. C., 0. A. S., &c.]

PEOCESS FOE EEMOVING PAINT (9 th S. iii. 308).

" Wet the place with naphtha, repeating as often as is required, but frequently one application will dissolve the paint. As soon as it is softened rub the surface clean." 'Scientific American Cyclo- paedia,' p. 113.

J. P. S.

Paris.

ME. W. H. SETH-SMITH would do well to write to such technical papers as the Build- ing Neius when requiring information of this kind. The preparation referred to is the electric paint remover, supplied by Messrs. George Farmiloe & Co., 34, St. John Street, Smithfield, E.C. HAEEY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

KOLLING-PINS AS CHASMS (9 th S. iii. 245, 337). If, as ME. THOS. RATCLIFFE says, these glass rolling-pins were, as a rule, "given for luck," it is evident that they were regarded

as " charms " to bring good fortune. The use of them in the making of festal cates indicates that they were deemed capable ol transmitting their virtue. I did not kno\v that it was possible to take advantage oi their hollowness in the way mentioned by your correspondent. I suppose one of the knobs at either end was really the head of a stopper. ST. SWITHIN.

NAPOLEONIC BEOADSIDE (9 th S. iii. 147). I have in my possession thirteen Napoleonic broadsides of a very similar character. The titles of some of them are as follows, frorr which the contents may be judged :

Bob Rousem's Epistle to Bonypart.

The French in a Fog.

The Genius of Britain. To the tune of the Mar seilles Hymn.

Another Confirmation of the Tender Mercies o Bonaparte in Egypt. Selected by his old frienc John Bull.

Freedom and Loyalty.

The Duke of Shoreditch ; or, Barlow's Ghost. - Barlow was a shopkeeper in Shoreditch.

They are chiefly printed and sold by James Asperne, at the sign of the " Bible, Crown, am Constitution," No. 32, Cornhill, at Id. each 6s. the 100, or 9d. per dozen.

EVEEAED HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

This broadside will be found in 'Englisl Caricature and Satire on Napoleon I.,' bj John Ashton (Chat to & Windus, 1884), bu there is no information given beyond th< fact that it "was published by Ackermann 101, Strand, on December 1, 1813."

HENEY GEEALD HOPE. I

Clapham, S.W.

THOMAS CAMPBELL'S ' WALLACE ' (9 th S. iii 168). This poem is in the " Chandos Classics with the line as quoted in 'N. & Q/: For his lance was not shivered on helmet or shield.! At the end of the 'Prefatory Memoir' o! Campbell in this series the editor writes :

"To this collection of his poems we have adde< his 'Lines on Marie Antoinette,' 'The Dirge o Wallace,' and one or two other poems publishei in the New Monthly Magazine."

KICHD. WELFORD. I

So long ago as January, 1874, a correspond ' ent of ' N. & Q.' (5 th S. i. 85) stated he hac in his possession an autograph letter fron Thomas Campbell, giving his reason foi; not including in an edition of his collected works his lines on the death of Willian Wallace. It appears that Campbell was fear ful of being unjustly accused of borrowing from Wolfe's 'Burial of Sir John Moore; This explains the cause of ' The Dirge o