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""" Elle 6ta son bonnet, et me dit de voir 1'efFet que la douleur avait produit sur ses cheveux. En une seule nuit, ils etaient devenus blancs comme ceux d'une femme de soixante-dix ans."

So also Lamartine, * Hist, of the Girondists, vol. ii. book ii. ch. xiv. :

" Her hair, which had been auburn on the previou evening, was in the morning white as snow." Ryde's translation (Bohn).

In the fourth line it is easy to carp al Byron's grammar, " have " being out of con- cord with "hair"; but "has," after "men's,' would have been intolerable, and the mind readily supplies "locks " before the verb.

8. A more serious violation of grammar is the notorious one, "There let him lay," in the sublime address to the ocean. This has been ridiculed, perhaps too severely, by Robert Browning in one of his later poems, the name of which I forget, relating to Byron :

There let him lay His one half -add led egg, &c.,

referring, I suppose, to the acknowledged monotony of Byron's principal characters.

Without attempting to defend what is not only a solecism, but a vulgarism, I may men- tion that Byron is by no means the only literary offender in this point. Examples abound ; one from Shelley (' Passage of the Apennines ') may be given :

A mighty mountain dim and grey,

Which between the earth and sky doth lay.

C. LAWKENCE FOED, B.A. Bath.

(To be continued.)

ITALIAN BALL GAMES. (See 9 th S. ii. 509; iii. 213.) I venture to quote from the current number of the Giornale di Erudizione (vii. 117) a few lines out of an article on the giuoco del pallone, by Prof. G. Nerucci :

"E non sia inutile aggiungere, che i vivacissimi e sudoriferi giochi, che gl' Inglesi suppongono e vantano per invenzioni nazionali, cioe, il football, il criquet, il lawntennis, il golf, or meglio goff, furono a' Greci ed ai Romani arci-cogniti, e quindi agl' Italian! posteriori, co' nomi di calcio, palla-maglia, valla-corda e palla-spagata."

Where can I find information as to the rules of the three latter games 1 Palla-viaglia, is clearly equivalent in name, at any rate to pall-mall ; and there are said to be certain analogies between palla - corda and lawn- tennis ; but I do not happen to have heard of palla-spagata. Golfists will doubtless be interested in the question. Perhaps Mr. Horace Hutchinson can tell the facts of the case. Q. V.

NEWSHAM'S FIRE-ENGINE. (See ante, p. 135.) Newsham was not the first to devise a fire-

engine fitted with an air-vessel, and so capable of delivering a continuous jet. Newsnam's patents are dated 1721 and 1725 respectively ; but in the Journal des Savans for 1675 there is a drawing and description of a fire-engine with an air-vessel, but without any indication of the inventor of that useful adjunct. The article was copied into the Philosophical Transactions, vol. xi. p. 679, in the following year. There is a very good account of early fire-engines in Ewbank's ' Hydraulics,' the third edition of which was published in 1849.

R. B. P.

PARISH AND OTHER ACCOUNTS. (See 9 th S. iv. 301, 414, 452 ; v. 63.)

Edinburgh. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Edinburgh. Vol. ii. Edinburgh (Scottish Burgh Records Society), 1871. Pp. 269-369: accounts from 1552.

Glasgow. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow. Vol. i. Glasgow (Scottish Burgh Records Society), 1876. Pp. 447-84 : accounts from 1573.

Irvine. Muniments of the Royal Burgh of Irvine. Vol. ii. Edinburgh (Ayr and Galloway Archaeo- logical Association), 1891. Pp. 239-335: accounts from 1600.

Old Aberdeen. Records of Old Aberdeen. Vol. i. Aberdeen (New Spalding Club), 1899. Pp. 213-30 : accounts from 1660.

Peebles. Charters and Documents relating to the Burgh of Peebles. Edinburgh (Scottish Burgh Re- cords Society), 1872. Pp. 410-24 : accounts from

Stirling. Extracts from the Records of the Royal Burgh of Stirling. Vol. ii. Glasgow (Sons of the Rock Society), 1889. Pp. 299-369: accounts from 1634.

See also the Miscellany of the Scottish Burgh Records Society. P. J. ANDERSON. University Library, Aberdeen.

ROBERT PALK. Since I sent some details of the life of this Governor of Fort St. George ,9 th S. iv. 446, under the heading * Mr. Kip- ing's "Lucia"'), I have come across the follqw-

ng in the ' Fort St. George Press Lists,' which may be of interest. Robert Palk was ap- pointed chaplain of Fort St. David in March, L749 ; Paymaster and Commissary in the Field, 1752; chaplain of Tellicherry, 1752. He did not goto Tellicherry, but remained Pay- master in Camp till 1753. In January, 1753, le was asked for at Bombay, arid ordered to 50 there as chaplain ; but the Government )f Fort St. George could not spare him, for le was at that time associated with Col. Stringer Lawrence in political negotiations with the Nabob of the Carnatic. In the same year he was employed by the Govern- ment of Fort St. George to negotiate with }he King of Tanjore. In the following

ear he was employed to negotiate with