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 318 NOTES AND QUERIES. p* a. VL OCT. 20, 1900. mon married Peribcea, and had Ajax by her. He also says that Telamon had Teucer by Hesione. Teucer is represented as a bastard in the ' Iliad,' book viii. line 284. I thought it wrong that the Greek warrior Ajax should refer to the Latin wind Aquilo : but Milton in one of his juvenile poems makes a similar mistake:— For since grim Aquilo, his charioteer, By boisterous rape the Athenian damsel got. Ovid, in telling the story, rightly mentions the Greek wind Boreas as the ravisher. Shakspeare might have learnt more of Homer than he has done from Ovid, for much of the 'Iliad ' is contained in book xiii. of the 'Metamorphoses.' E. YAEDLEY. CATALOGUE OF FIRST BOOK AUCTION IN ENGLAND (9th S. vi. 86,156).—The first printed catalogue issued by an English bookseller bears the date of 1570. It was published by Andrew Maunsell, and the books described are chiefly theological. Another part. was promised, which was to contain poetry, the drama, histories, &c., but so far this part is unknown. I believe that in the past ten years—or perhaps fifteen—only two copies nave been sold at auction in London. Both of these I bought at comparatively low prices, and one is now in the Horary of the Grolier Club of New York. I forget what I did with the other. A. J. BOWDEN. New York. ANNK OP AUSTRIA (9th S. vi. 209).—Anne Mary Mauri tia, wife of Louis XIII. and mother of Louis XIV.,'kings of France, was the daughter of Philip III., King of Spain (Austrian line), great-grandson of Philip the Fair, Archduke of Austria and Count of Bur- gundy, and Joanna, daughter and heiress of Ferdinand, King of Castile. Her mother Margaret was the daughter of Charles, Arch- duke of Styria, and great-granddaughter of the aforementioned Philip and Joanna. The above shows that she was descended through her parents from the house of Hapsburg. JOHN RADCLIFFE. NURSERY STORIES, c. 1830-40 (9th S. vi. 105).—I await with anxious sympathy the identification desired by MR. PHILIP NORTH. My memory, revived by his, can recall the plot of the story to which he specially refers. I agree with him that the magical "next morning" was the "de- licious part." As I think of it now it was like a springtide waking in free country air after being long pent up and worried in town. " Delicious" is the very word. I believe that a later generation than ours had the story served up to it in a coloured shilling toybook by Routledge, Warne & Co., or some other sagacious caterer. ST. SWTTHIN. THE VOLCANIC ERUPTION AT KRAKATOA. (9th S. vi. 185, 232).—I am away from my books, but I know that Mr. Swinburne splendidly utilized the remarkable sunsets and afterglows of the autumn of 1883 in a memorial tribute to Victor Hugo. _ The volume containing this strong and impas- sioned lyric appeared while readers had still a fresh recollection of the unusual and re- markable phenomena in question. Mr. Swinburne's glowing imagery is a splendid example of the purely poetical as distinct from the scientific method. THOMAS BAYNE. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9th S. vi. l&O, 259).— Where'er you walk cool gales shall fan the glade, Trees where you sit shall crowd into a shade; Where'er you tread the blushing flowers shall rise, And all things flourish where you turn your eyes. Thinking you would be inundated with replies as to the authorship of the above quatrain, I refrained from replying; but as MB. GEOROE MAR- SHALL and PROF. SKSAT both fail in their attempts, I may say that the lines are Pope's, and are to be found in his ' Summer : a Pastoral;' which contains ninety-two decasyllabic lines, of which 73, 74, 75, and 76 comprise the quotation. The poem alluded to is dedicated to Dr. Garth, and was written by Pope at the age of sixteen; this was in 1704. It was first printed in 1709, in the sixth volume of Tonson's' Miscellanies.' In Charles Cowden Clarke's edition of Pope's 'Works' (Edinburgh, William P. Nimmo, 1868), which contains a life of Pope, there is the following passage: "His 'Pastorals' having been handed about in MS., and shown to such reputed judges as Lord Halifax, Lord Somers, Garth, Congreve, &c., were at last in 1709 printed," &c. CIIAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D. gtiwrilrottra*. NOTES ON BOOKS, Ac. The Oxford English Dictitmo.ru. Edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray.—Vol. V. Input—Invalid. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) THE promised double section of the letter I appears duly under Dr. Murray's personal supervision, bringing approximately the close of the words beginning with in, which, it is needless to say, are numerous. It includes all English compounds of the prefixes inter, intra, and intro, a general analysis of each group being given under each prefix. These analyses constitute one of the most interesting and useful features in the work, and occupy some eight columns. The adverb interchangeably, described as now rare, but formerly frequent in the wording of legal contracts, is supplied with abundant illus- trations of use. An instance of its employment which is a favourite of our own, but which we do