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 52 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9*s.iv.j,tly15,'99. been said two hundred years, earlier, by La Rochefoucauld: "Dans les premieres passions, les femmes aiment l'amant; dans les autres, elles aiment l'amour." The second part ("Mon mariage avec mon cent-troisieme amour") pales to nothing beside such a confession as that made by the Earl of Rochester to Bishop Burnet, in which the poet stated, among other things, that for four entire years he had lived in partial, varying to complete, intoxication. George Marshall. Softon Park, Liverpool. A Martyr Bishop of Armagh (9th S. ii. 525; iii. 371, 454).—I am obliged to my kinsman and namesake, Mr. J. H. McQovern, for his correction. The " slip " was due to a culpable neglect of what should be ' N. <fc O.'s' second motto, "Verify quotations," thougn it in no way lessens the force of my point. The interests of accuracy were unluckily ignored, while, however, those of truth were left unimpaired. But then ' N. & Q.' is nothing if not accurate, and I repeat my obligation to Mr. McGovern for the correction. One word only in palliation of my error. The quotation was made from Mr. McGovern's excellent 'Historical Notices of the Mac- Gauran or McGovern Clan' (1890), the second part of which consists of a chronological arrangement of facts after the manner of the 'Four Masters,' and contains (ad an. 1593) the passage I excerpted. This arrange- ment misled me, notwithstanding the warn- ing note appended to it:— "O'Donovan's 'Four Masters'; also Conncllan's ' Four Masters,' 'The Annals of Loch Ce,' ' Calendar of State Papers, Ireland,' temp. Elizabeth and James, Gilbert's ' Contemporary History of Affairs in Ire- land,' and other reliable sources have been consulted and quoted in an abbreviated form." We now know the passage lies in Mac- Geoghegan's 'History'; but had initials de- noting the source been placed opposite each year I had been spared the blunder ; the omission, however, is accounted for by the fact that the. whole book is (as the author has since intimated to me) purely elementary, and the first instalment of a larger and more exhaustive work. Let us hope that Mr. McGovern will soon find leisure to produce what will be hailed as a boon by the descend , ants of a somewhat noteworthy clan, his com- petency for which he has more than oaee demonstrated in the pages of ' N. <fc Q.' J. B. McGovern. St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester. Storm Family (9th S. iii. 488).—Tiie 'Index to Heirs at Law,' " Next of Kin," letter S., by S. H. Preston, 27, Chancery Lane, would probably givo the information. In Supplement to Chambers's ' Index,' by S. H. Preston, I find David and Elizabeth Storm and Henrietta (or Cilliers) Storm are entered as being inquired for. K. St. C. F. Charade (9th S. iii. 187, 237, 296, 331, 473). —Is not the solution of this " eye-sore " ? Horace Wm. Newland. Sir Walter Scott: 'Guy Mannering' (9th S. iii. 188, 429, 493).—Is this of any interest? My father, a Nithsdale man, a member of a musical family, had neither good ear nor singing voice; though for reading and speaking his voice was pleasant, most certainly not harsh. I have heard him say that any attempt of his to sing always brought the criticism from his mother that he was " timmer-tuned, and tempered like the beetle"; the beetle being the wooden mallet used in a wooden bowl for mashing potatoes. E. J. Dalziel. Portrait of Tom Paine (9th S. iii. 285, 391). —I have three old engraved half-length portraits of Tom Paine—the largest 11 in. by 9 in., Sharp sc, published by E. Truelove, 240, Strand ; another 5i in. by 4 in., from the picture by Peel of Philadelphia, in the possession of T. B. Hollis, Esq., P. Maguire sculp. The other is an oval, engraved by Mackenzie from a miniature by H. Richards, published 31 March, 1800, by G. Cawthorne, British Library, Strand, London. Jas. B. Morris. Eastbourne. Goethe (9th S. iii. 480).—The original pas- sage from Goethe sought by W. I. occurs in Goethe's ' Gespriiche mit Eckermann '—con- versations with Eckermann during the last decennium of Goethe's life, 1823-1832, which were originally printed in 1835, and have been since frequently reprinted, the most recent edition being that of H. Diintzer, 3 vols., Leipzig, 1899, published by Brockhaus. H. Krebs. W. I. will find the passage of which he is in quost in 'Conversations with Eckermann,' p. 5*2 (" Bohn's Standard Library," 1874). R. M. Spence, D.D. "Puts nowt up to mean nowt" (9th S. iii. 485).—This seems to be a curious double use, closely analogous to the puzzle provided for beginners in the learning of French of the opposite meanings of " aucun," " rien," and " jamais," though, of course, in the folk-speech of Derbyshire "nowt," as exemplified by Mr. Ratcliffe, is not accom- panied by any such indication of its positive