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referring to Montaigne's father when he tells a story about a curious gentleman of " Estan- gourre " seems to me supported by the flimsiest evidence that was ever quoted to bolster up a guess. In the first place C. J. I. quotes not Montaigne in the original, but Florio's trans- lation, for Montaigne's English connexions. Now Florio inserted the name "Higham," and without any authority in the passage quoted. Montaigne never says that his father was an Englishman, and he is so garrulous about himself and all that was his, that it may be regarded as absolutely certain that if his father had come from East Anglia we should have found the fact set out in the essays with appropriate comments. In an admirable book by Miss Lowndes, 'Michel de Montaigne : a Biographical Study,' there is a note (p. 237) summing up investigations as to Montaigne's family by M. Malvezin :

" The English reader may be permitted a regret that M. Malvezin has not, in the course of inquiries leading into remote and complicated ramifications, come across any trace of that English cousinship referred to by the essayist."

I cannot help regretting that any one should be found to apply the epithet "Pantagrue- lian " to the education given to Montaigne by his father, unless indeed it is meant to be a phrase of honour, for underneath the fun of Rabelais there is not a little sound sense in the education that Gargantua received.

EDWARD E. MORRIS. The University, Melbourne.

H.M. BARK ENDEAVOUR (9 th S. ii. 248). As I used your columns to ask the question, What was the ultimate fate of the bark Endeavour in which Cook made his first voyage round the world ? I think it right to give the information obtained by putting the same question in the Sydney Morning Herald. The ship passed into French hands, was chris- tened La Liberte, and was wrecked leaving the harbour of Newport, Rhode Island, U.S. Sundry relics of the ship are still preserved at Newport. The date given for the wreck is 1793. EDWARD E. MORRIS.

The University, Melbourne.

BROTHERS BEARING THE SAME CHRISTIAN NAME (9 th S. i. 446 ; ii. 51, 217, 276, 535). One of the most noteworthy cases of the above-named occurrence is that of Louis XV. of France, born 15 February, 1710. His elder brother, Louis the Dauphin, Duke of Bre- tagne, was born 8 January, 1707, and died 8 March, 1712. T. C. GILMOUR.

Ottawa, Canada.

FURLY OF COLCHESTER, ESSEX (9 th S. iii. 27, 78), MR. BRENT may be interested to know

that an article on this family, with a short pedigree (commencing with John Furly, Mayor of Colchester 1638 and 1650), and copies of original letters from Johanna Furly to her son Samuel, afterwards the Rev. Samuel Furly, appeared in the Essex Review for April. It was contributed by the Rev I Dr. H. de B. Gibbins. CHAS. H. CROUCH. Nightingale Lane, Wanstead.

ROMANI "GuiLi" (9 th S. iii. 366). Prof. Knapp quotes a letter from C. G. Leland in which a rat-catcher is spoken of as singing

Jawl in the ker, my honey, to the air of " La ci darem la mano." Can MR. AXON, or any of your correspondents, give me the complete version of this " ghili " the Romani one of course, not the Italian? FRED. G. ACKERLEY.

12, Mayfield Road, Eccles.

ROLLING-PINS AS CHARMS (9 th S. iii. 245, 337, 392). The charm, of a "charm" surely consists in personal contact. People have worn many things as "charms" to drive away and keep from them evil in various forms, and some still carry a potato in the pocket : in the first place to cure, and in the second to keep themselves free from, rheu- matic attacks. These are " charms " proper, yet it may be said they are also worn for luck. Luck and charm among the " folk " have not precisely the same meaning. My neighbour has a horseshoe nailed on his stable door for luck, and to keep away some- thing indefinite in the shape of evil; and ! the glass rolling-pin still hangs to keep the luck it was supposed to bring. But it is obvious that neither the horseshoe nor the glass rolling-pin could be worn on the person as a "charm," and this is why in my first note I wrote of luck and charm as different things. If ST. SWITHIN can examine a glass rolling-pin, he will find that one of the knobs is made like the mouth of a bottle, and if filled, that it is plugged with either a cork or a wad of paper. One glass rolling-pin that I have was in one family over forty years, and is filled with salt. It is a beauti- ful specimen of the art of blowing glass in two colours, the design being elegant and ( perfect in detail. I have made inquiries why salt is always used for filling the pins to give them weight, when sand would do as well, but have gained nothing of a definite nature. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

Worksop.

A RELIC OF NAPOLEON (9 th S. iii. 3, 75, 175, 254, 373). MR. HEMS, referring to the tomb i of Napoleon at the last reference writes: \