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sonnets, (fee. If any of your readers could tell me the author of these and the*title of the book containing them, I should be much obliged. The merit of the poems struck me much. F. B. DOVETON.

Karsfield, Torquay.

ANGLO- HEBREW SLANG: "KYBOSH." (See ante, p. 10.) It is explained that kybosh is a slang term for eighteen-pence. I should like to be informed whether kybosh and kyebosk signify the same thing. The latter word is used by Dickens in describing a scene in Seven Dials :

"'What do you mean by hussies?' interrupts a champion of the other party, who has evinced a strong inclination to get up a branch fight on her own account. (' Hooroar,' ejaculates a pot - boy in parenthesis, ' put the kyebosk on her, Mary ! 5 ) What do you mean by hussies?' reiterates the champion." 'Sketches by Boz,' chap. v.

What is the meaning of the phrase " to put on the kyebosk " ? I think I remember the question having been asked before and that no satisfactory explanation was given, but cannot find the reference. JOHN HEBB.

[Henley and Farmer, ' Slang and its Analogues,' quote the passage and give meaning "to stop," 'silence," or "run down. J

ALLUSION IN WORDSWORTH. To whom does Wordsworth allude in 'The Warning,' a sequel

to poem xxxii., 'To upon the birth of her

firstborn child ' ?

The crown

Of Saxon liberty that Alfred wore, Alfred, dear Babe, thy great Progenitor !

F. C.

SHIPS MOVING WITHOUT SAIL OR WlND.

In the ' Life of Gar rick,' by Tom Davies, 1780, 1 find the following :

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" Mr. Pritchard, an honest, good-natured man> the husband of the great actress, had laid out a scheme to relieve infirm players. But little hopes could be expected from a projector who proposed to build a ship which could move on the water without either sails or wind." II. 305.

Was the proposal ever published: if so, when and where can I find it ?

EVERARD HOME COLBMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

BELL-RINGING AT WAKES. Were bells rung at these ? In k Memoirs of 1 J. P., Clerk of this Parish, by Mr. Pope,' but incorporated in Dean Swift's 'Works' (London, 1776 vol iv p. 212), is the following :

"I was acquainted with every sett of bells in the whole country: neither could I be prevailed upon to absent myself from wakes, being called thereunto by the harmony of the steeple."

IBAGUE.

HUME'S PORTRAIT. Can any of your readers kindly indicate the present where- abouts of the portrait of David Hume, the historian, as painted by Ramsay in 1766, of which a mezzotint was prepared and pub- lished by Martin, price 5s. each, in 1767 I _

M.

THACKERAY. Why was Thackeray's draw- ing of the Marquis of Steyne suppressed in the second and later editions of 'Vanity Fair ' ? RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

AUTHOR OF HYMN WANTED. Who is the author of the under-mentioned poem, and where can I obtain a book containing it! I am only in possession of a line or so. It

commences thus :

I was wandering and weary When my Saviour came unto me ; The days were long and dreary.

Each verse ends :

silly soul, come near Me,

My sheep should never fear Me,

1 am the Shepherd true.

There are, I think, four other verses.

ED. J. ALEXANDER.

A WALTON RELIC. In the Evening Standard a short time ago I noticed the following para- graph :

" In an old curiosity shop near Westminster is a fishing-bag formerly belonging to Izaak Walton, bearing his initials and the date 1646. It is be- lieved to have come out of one of the old houses recently demolished near the Abbey. It was filled with old letters and other papers." The relic has since changed hands, and I fortunately have had the opportunity of in- specting this unique fishing creel, which is made of stout leather and is a most interest- ing specimen of seventeenth-century work. An inscription upon it runs thus : " J. D. Anderson, 1646, from his friend Izaak Wal- ton," near which are the initials I. W. ; and upon the inside of the lid the letters again appear, as if impressed upon the leather with a hot iron. Can any of your readers throw light upon this friend of Izaak Walton, " J. D. Anderson " ? ALLAN FEA.

Calice House, Newnham, Kent.

DAME ANN COMBE. I shall feel greatly obliged for any information concerning the family of Dame Ann Combe. In the Daily Mail of 10 December, 1900, appeared the fol- lowing :

"Buried Coffin-lids revive an Old Scandal. Cor- poration workmen excavating for drainage came upon the lids two or three feet below the surface. A coat of arms was plainly visible on each lid, and one of them bore the following inscription :