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impossible to determine the word. When probable sources yield no result, possible ones may well be considered. Roketless (roket, a gown) may be mentioned ; it is not unlike recetless, proposed by Ten Brink.

A. C. W.

" FIVE O'CLOCK TEA " : WHEN INTRODUCED (9 th S. vi. 446 ; vii. 13, 96). The Westminster Gazette of 23 January (p. 2) quotes a speech of Mr. Gladstone, made shortly after the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837, in which, speaking of her gracious Majesty, he said, "and has, over her evening tea, discussed the probability of Whig or Tory ascendency." At what hour did Great Anna, whom three realms obeyed, take tea 1

E. S. DODGSON.

DR. JOHNSON (9 th S. vii. 88). In Boswell's ' Life,' under year 1777, is inserted a letter from Johnson to Boswell, in which he says of the latter's wife, " I hope she knows my name, and does not call me Johnston}' Boswell adds a note that Johnson is the English formation, "Johnston the Scotch. My illus- trious friend observed that many North Britons pronounced his name in their own way." V. R.

MOTTO FOR LAUNDRY PORCH (9 th S. vii. 68). If a Greek motto is desired, Nausicaa will perhaps provide two or three to choose from. I would suggest the last four words of these lines ('Odyssey,' vi. 60, 61) : KOU Se croi O.TJTU eoiKe, /zero, Trpwrotcriv edi/Ta /3ovX.as /3ov\tvtv KaBapa \po with the slight change,

OTTWS KaOapa XP' Or, if Latin is preferred, may I venture, after long disuse of the Gradus, a paraphrase of a common proverb, "Ne coram populo tegmina toda laves"? A. T. M.

The best motto which occurs to my mind would be " Out, damned spot ! out, I say !" but perhaps this would be too plain for some neighbourhoods. John Wesley's line in his sermon, " Cleanliness is indeed next to godli- ness," might be appropriate. Perhaps neater still would be Gay's lines :

In beauty faults conspicuous grow, The smallest speck is seen on snow.

W. H. QUARRELL.

May I suggest as a Scriptural motto for a laundry porch, " Wash and be clean " (2 Kings v. 13)? Dean Buckland chose these words as the text of his sermon at Westminster Abbey on the day of thanks- giving for the cessation of the cholera in

1849, and his selection of them gave offence bo some timid folk ; but the choice was a happy one, and the words are, I think, equally suitable to C. J. B.'s purpose.

J. A. J. HOUSDEN. Canonbury.

The inscription over the Pump Room at Bath might serve : "AOLO-TOV fjitv vSwp. It is taken from Pindar's ' Olymp.,' I. i., and means " Water is best." ARTHUR MAYALL.

ROYAL STANDARD (9 th S. vii. 108). If evidence based upon observation be per- mitted, there appears to be no reason why one should not assert that when a standard is " broken " it is unfurled after being hoisted. The flag is made into a bundle and held in that form by the cord attached to the lower cornei 1, which cord is then looped so that the bundle can be loosened and opened out, from the deck of the vessel or any other convenient point, by a slight pull on the cord. This leaves the cord attached to the upper corner free to do the work of hoisting and holding, and the flag is in its place ready to be un- furled at the desired moment. The verb " to break " in this connexion is used in the same figurative sense as when one speaks of the day breaking, or of a bud breaking into flower. ARTHUR MAYALL.

A flag is " broken " when it is run up to the truck or peak, as the case may be, in a roll, and unfurled when in position.

HERBERT MAXWELL.

D'AUVERGNE FAMILY (9 th S. vii. 68, 117). I do not know whether your correspondent seeks information concerning the original French family (the "elder" branch, of which that noble old warrior Marshal Turenne was the most illustrious member), or the Jersey family, the " cadet " branch. With regard to the latter, I fear little historical evi- dence exists. In the l D.N.B.' there is a life of Edward D'Auvergne, military historian, chaplain to the Scots Guards, 1691, who, belonging to the Jersey branch of the D'Auvergne family, claimed descent from a cadet of the last reigning Due de Bouillon. With respect to the old stock, La Tour d'Auvergne, I could furnish the names of several works ; amongst others the ' Histoire Genealogique de le Maison d'Auvergne, justified par Chartres, Titres, Histoires Anciennes, et autres Preuves Authentiques,' par EtienneBaluze, Paris, 1708 (which work was suppressed immediately after publication by order of the French king). The latest work, I believe, published concerning the family is entitled 'Notes sur le Dernier Due de Bouillon,