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 9<" S. IV. Sept. 2, '99.] 187 NOTES AND QUERIES. Quoits, We must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. Trice, French Caricaturist. — In my possession is an interesting oblong octavo album, in black cloth, gilt edges, containing sixteen blue (Silurian) cardboard leaves on which are mounted, within double red-line borders, thirty-two photographs, each about 5| by 3§ inches, of clever caricature portraits, apparently drawn from life, of certain noted male and female visitors at Nice and Monte Carlo in 1880. These photographs have the respective names, as below, written there- under in gold-bronze ink on the mounts. Most, if not all, of the original sketches in pencil from which they were taken—probably to a reduced size—were signed " Trice," and two of them had in addition thereon, " Nice, 1880." The artist was evidently a bold and rapid draughtsman, and these sketches must represent (as one may judge from the numbers thereon) but a portion of his work at those fashionable resorts. The names to the portraits are as follows :— Baron de Nervo. On the original sketch the artist has written " Mon coeur n'a pas cet age !—B" de Nervo." Comte de Lonjumeau. Griffero. Theo(f.). Mm° Soubise. Valentine Biron (f.). Cointe d'Hauterive. William (f.). William. Clomenil(f.). Loe. Prince de Rohan. Waschttei'r. Aline d'Hont(f.). Carl des Perrieres. Marie Gray. Zichi. Drouard (f.). On the body, representing a doll, are the words " Je dis papa ot Manman " (tic). Borromeo. Caroline. Therese. Marie Verne. Prince Furstemberg. Comtesse Putger. Kadoudja (f.). Mika(f.). Choppi. Represented as running from Nice to Monte Carlo. Gaelan de Montclin. Fancine Delaroche (f.). Nameless. A man with his body, legs, and feet represented as a bird standing with one set of claws on a package labelled " Bijoux " and the other on a bag labelled " Ecus 100,000." Nameless. A man with the letters "ouse" visible on his cap, running, and holding in his right hand a letter addressed "Monsieur Trice, London House." Nameless. A man riding one of the then recently introduced high bicycles. Several of these names are probably mere sobriquets, and to make clear that some of those of females bear such relation, which would otherwise be obscure to many of the readers of this query, I have added (f.) to the same. The book, although in a perfect state, has no sort of title, nor does the name of any former owner appear. I should be glad to have particulars both as to the artist and the persons represented; as well as to be in- formed for what purpose these caricatures were made, and whether similar albums were issued for sale, &c. W. I. R. V. "Elixir Vit^e" in Fiction.—One of the most interesting chapters in the history of romance would De that on the elixir of life. On this subject I am acquainted with the following works: Godwin's ' St. Leon,' Lytton's 'Strange Story' and ' Zanoni,' Ainsworth's ' Auriol,' Dumas's ' Memoirs of a Physician,' Haggard's ' She' (though the rejuvenating principle in this case be a refining fire, I think it may be included). On allied subjects : ' Frankenstein,' ' The Wandering Jew,' ' Phra the Phoenician,' 'Valdar the Oft-born.' Perhaps I should have included in first list Crawford's ' With the Immortals.' I should be glad of any additions to this meagre catalogue of works on what I shall call ' The Elixir of Life in Prose Fiction'.' Thomas Auld. " As SURE AS THERE IS A HIP ON A GOAT." —In 6th S. vi. 234 a correspondent uses this phrase. What are the origin and the mean- ing, and where may I find the earliest instance of its use ? J. Holden McMichael. "Scandal about Queen Elizabeth."—It is supposed that a certain Mr. Rickman of a Hampshire family married a natural daughter of Queen Elizabeth by the Earl of Leicester— Mrs. Anne Rickman, nde Dudley. I should be pleased to have any evidence as to the truth of this statement. P. D. Lucas. 42, Dyke Road, Brighton. [You are not likely to find what you seek.] Bishops of Greenland or Gardar.— Through the kindness of a friend I have been furnished with a list of the above. It differs considerably from the lists in Torfseus and Crantz — especially between 1370 and 1418. According to the Vatican MSS. there were, including titulars, thirty-two instead of seventeen bishops. Can any reader of