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Our loss in^ him will be less irreparable if a | This may possibly put MR. NEWALL on the

right track. If he cannot easily meet with this book and will let me know, I will try to help him further; but I may be unsuccessful.

JONATHAN BOUCHIER. Ropley, Alresford, Hants.

thousand of us pigmies are moved to cast each

his two mites into the ' H.E.D.' treasury. No

work of Elzevir or Foulis is so immaculate

in typography as ' H.E.D.,' yet under Con- structive 4 I note a blunder which would

make Daniel Webster turn over in his coffin. . n, ,,

That great expounder had affirmed of some- " r m T g l. * rasers Magazine vol. xx.

thing, "It has no express warrant in the \^'\ 5 fV ' fchl? k yr correspondent will

Constitution." But 'HjS.D.' prints an instead | ^^, h f T'! J^^A , a tale there

of no, reversing the meaning, as a similar

mistake nullified the seventh Commandment

in " the Wicked Bible." DR. HALL did not find Badger and Buckeye

wanting in vol. i., but I look in vain for

Hoosier, a word of the selfsame class. Why

this partiality to Wisconsin and Ohio, and the cold shoulder turned on Indiana, not the youngest or least populous of the three 1 Hoosier was a well-known book title in 1871, and long before in everybody's mouth.

'H.E.D' aims to show the earliest use of I ' Her Majesty leaving Buckingham Palace y - words, and for its superiority m that endea- 3. 'Marshal Soult's State Carriage': 4. 'Her vour is worth all it costs. Its earliest date, Majesty's State Carriage '; 5. ' The Procession however, tor caret is 1725, but -in 1588 Shake- approaching Westminster Abbey ': 6 'Her speare had used caret no doubt giving it Majesty leaving her Private Apartments in birth into our tongue through Holofernes, Westminster Abbey,' with full-length wood- the schoolmaster, whom that vocable best befitted. It were idle to seek for caret in earlier school-books, for they were Latin. It is a a7ra Aeyo^ei/ov in Shakespeare. Regarding cigar, the following shows that

Legend of Becket.'

THOS. RAYNER. Moss Side, Manchester.

CORONATION OF QUEEN VICTORIA (9 th S. vii. 346). I have the little book mentioned. Its title is " Peter Parley's Visit to London during the Coronation of Queen Victoria Published by Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, 1839," but 1838 appears on the cloth binding. There are 116 pages, with the following page plates : 1. 'The Coronation of Queen Victoria 1

weed to have been earlier in popular use than any H.E.D.' citation :

41 Bye-Laws of the town of Newburyport, 1785 : voted and ordered, that any person who shall be found smoaking any pipe or segar in the streets, lanes, or alleys, or on the wharves of the said town, from and after the second Tuesday of October next, shall forfeit and pay the sum of two shillings for every such offence."

cut of the Queen on the title- page, and a curious woodcut of a steam omnibus going at full speed at the end of the book. The plates are plain lithographs, by Madeley, of Welling- ton Street, Strand, and I do not think they would be printed in colours; perhaps those remembered by MR. PICKFORD were coloured by hand. This book is one which Peter Parley (S. G. Goodrich) includes in his list of spurious imitations of his writings given in Alii bone's 'Dictionary.' I have never met with another copy. W. B. H.

If Mr. Carnegie would place 'H.E.D.' in DURATION OF LIFE IN SEEDS (9 th S. vii.

each of his libraries, every remaining copy 328 )-- -As a farmer I have observed in autumn

would be snapped up in a trice by other y ou?g daisy plants germinating in cakes of

" see that their last cattle dung dropped several months before.

libraries, which would chance of getting the work was vanishing. JAMES D. BUTLER. Madison, Wis.

' THE TROTH OF GILBERT A BECKETT' (9 th S. vii. 349). MR. WILLIAM NEWALL does not say if this is in verse or prose. If it is verse, may I suggest, without being certain, that he may perhaps find it in 'Lays and Ballads from English History,' by S. M., 12mo [1845], in the London Library Catalogue, 1888? If this is the same book that I remember in my schooldays, I think it con- tained, besides the ballad in question, ballads on the Black Prince and King John of France, and on Robert the Bruce's heart and Douglas.

Grass seeds also pass through cattle uninjured if not chewed. In Aberdeenshire, in well-culti- vated land, daisies appear only in old pasture at intervals of six and seven years; and in most cases the seeds from which they spring have lain dormant four and five years, and I believe they lie dormant many years. In old pastures the lines of drains and old ditches that have been filled up can be detected after half a century by the absence of daisies, which were more abundant before the intro- duction of grass and clover seeds than now. Of course daisies have grown and shed their seed several times on the other parts of the field in the course of the time mentioned. Potash manures favour grasses and clovers,