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 9* s. VL OCT. 20, i9oo.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 313 the statue of an ancient gladiator which o erected near the Piazza Navona, on whose pedestal it was the practice to post lampoons 'To sandwich" is derived indirectly from the_Earl of Sandwich, who invented a repast which enabled him to dispense with regular meals when at cards. ISAAC TAYLOR. EARLY MENTIONS OF A LIFT (7th S. x. 85, 8th S. x. 412, 465; xL 154).—In Literature of 1 September appeared a communication stating that the French novelist Paul de Kock foretold the invention of the modern lift or elevator. The following passage occurs in 'L'Arnant de la Lune.' part li. chap. vii.,a novel which was published about 1835, "nearly thirty years before the lift was invented " :— "'Madame Boursicqff?' dit Felicia, en passant devant la loge du concierge, loge vitree de tons les cdtes, ce qui lui donne 1'aspect 3'une lanterne. '"Au cinquieme, 1'escalier a gauche, au fond de la cour. " ' La Comtesae de Boursicoff logo un peu haut!' dit Isidore, en hochant la tete. "' A present,' repond Bouchonnier, ' Ics apparte- ments sont aussi beaux, auasi bien d^cores au cin- quieme qu'au premier. Us ont ensuite 1'avantage d'ayoir une plus belle vue. Je crois meme que maintenant la mode est de Be loger haut.' "' C'est t n'"-.-liien, mais alors on devrait faire monter les visiles qua Ton recoil en ballon ou en panier, comme dans leg mines.' "' II est probable, vu 1'etat de progres dans lequel nous vivons, que Ton s'occupera de cela, et dans quelques annees on aura trouvl une m^canique qui remplacera les escaliers car 1'escalier est terriblement rococo !' " ' Et fatiguant,' dit Isidore, qui suivait Felicia et son cousin." "Unquestionably," the correspondent adds, "the hydraulic elevator is as plainly indi- cated here as the Crystal Palace of 1851 was foreshadowed by Chaucer's ' Palace made of glass'" ; but the contributions already given in ' N. & Q.' at the references stated aljove show that lifts were known and used, even in France, long before the days of Paul de Kock. DUNHEVED. WALTON (9th S. vi. 230).—A descriptive genealogy of this family appears in Joseph C. Martmdale's ' History of the Townships of By berry and Moreland, in Philadelphia, Pa., from their Earliest Settlement by the Whites, to the Present Time,' Philadelphia, 1867. May I quote the opening lines ?— "The name of Walton frequently occurs in Besse's 'Account of the Sufferings of Friends in England.' The first of that name who came to America were four brothers, Nathaniel, Thomas, Daniel, and William, who arrived at Newcastle early in 1675. They ascended the Delaware River, and settled in Byoerry, on land now owned by George Dehaven. The lineal descendants of the four brothers are all named, each family being described separately. The list is brought up to (about) 1850. Martindale's and Besse's books are in the British Museum Library. As they may be out of reach of B. B., I should be pleased, on receipt of a private letter, to forward a few extracts. HERBERT B. CLAYTON. 39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kennington Lane. The name only occurs once in Besse_'s (not Bess's) ' Sufferings of the Quakers,' viz., in connexion with Bishop Auckland, co. Durham, where there are still Friends of that name. Walton,of Philadelphia, U.S., is well known among inhabitants of the Quaker city. Possibly some of your readers may not know Joseph Besse's great work. It is a large repository of names of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. NORMAN PENNEY. Friends' Institute, Bishopsgate. 'THE COMPLETE ANGLER' (9th S. vi. 103. 249).—I cannot say why the proverb printed in italics in the copy which I refer to of the 'Complete Angler,' Major's second edition, 1824, is not printed in a similar manner in recent editions, nor do I know why the name is printed Isaac Walton, instead of Izaak. The latter seems to be his sponsorial appellation, and is thus printed in a facsimile of his autograph. The name is spelt in a similar manner in part ii. of the ' Complete Angler'—or, to speak by the card, Compleat Angler.' There is a very fine edition of Walton's Lives,' published by Major in 1825, "em- aellished " in a similar manner, and, as it is ntended as a companion volume to the edition )f the ' Complete Angler,' it ought not to >e divorced from it. This has several times seen reprinted. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. CORPSE ON SHIPBOARD (9th S. yi. 246).—In 862 I was on board an English steamer M HUH i from London to a south-western port n France. It was towards the back end of In' year, and the weather was so bad that we were detained several days in the Channel. Chose of my few fellow - passengers (all Trench) not hopelessly sick beguiled the INK', in a sheltered corner behind the funnel, >y card - playing. Hard by was a long jacking case, which a very stout foreigner .ppeared to make entirely his own. With lutspread rug, he lolled comfortably thereon whilst manipulating the cards. On the ivening of the third day, the wind having ubsided somewhat, one of the crew, afte