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NOTES -AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. AUG. 10, 1901.

paragraph concerning Hone before he com- menced the funeral service. Will some one kindly identify J. S. EJ

I may say I am sorry to learn Mr. French s 1 Walks in Abney Park ' is out of print. I obtained my copy direct from the author in 1891. The articles which make up the book appeared in the Evangelical Magazine during 1882. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

LEIGH HUNT (9 th S. viii. 64). Is not the question dealt with at some length in the late Mrs. Alexander Ireland's 'The Life of Jane Welsh Carlyle"? The librarian of the Manchester Free Library would settle this point in answer to a letter. Carlyle's ' Memo- randa' upon Leigh Hunt appeared in Mac- millan's Magazine, July, 1862. Hunt was near to the Carlyles when they settled at Chelsea in 1834. See ' D.N.B.,' s.v. ' Carlyle.'

ARTHUR MAYALL.

Mr. Thomas Archer, in his notice of Hunt in Mr. Miles's ' Poets and Poetry of the Cen- tury,' vol. ii., says that Jane Welsh Carlyle was the Jenny of the rondeau, and that the incident occurred after she had heard Hunt read his sonnet 'On a Lock of Milton's Hair':

It lies before me there, and my own breath

Stirs its thin outer threads.

C. C. B.

A HULL SAYING (9 th S. vii. 445, viii. 52). The use of the late Mr. Travis's name in this saying was not due, I think, to any excessive severity on his part. He was the first stipen- diary magistrate of the town ; novelty and convenience soon suggested the emphatic neologism. But to complete the account, it should be added that those who, under Mr. Travis, were said to have been "travised," under his successor, Mr. Twiss, were "twisted." A HULL ATTORNEY OF 1870.

DESIGNATION OF FOREIGNERS IN MEXICO (9 th S. vii. 389, 496 ; viii. 21). Gringo figura- tively and familiarly means Greek in Spanish. In Spanish America this word is used to designate foreigners, especially Englishmen, on account of their language being unintel- ligible to the natives i.e., it is Greek to them. The first definition of the word is accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy, the second is an Americanism.

Gabacho (not Guabacho) is derived from Gabas, the name of a river in the Pyrenees, familiarly a Frenchman. The word is used in this sense not only in Spanish America, but also in Spain, and accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy.

Cachupino, from Portuguese Cachopo, a child. It is used in Spain to designate a Spaniard who settles in America, and hence its use in Mexico. This is also accepted by the Royal Spanish Academy. M. M. H.

Costa Rica.

" BOUZINGOT" (9 th S. iv. 266). George Sand, in her admirable study of Parisian student life ' Horace,' has the following description of the bousingot, or revolutionary student e'tudiant emeutier as he was called in the time of Charles X. :

"II y avait une classe d'etudiants, que nous autres (etudiants un peu aristocratiques, je 1'avoue) nous appelions, sans dedain toutefois, Etudiants d'estaminet. Elle se composa inyariablement de la plupart des etudiants de premiere annee, enfants fraichement arrives de province, a qui Paris faisait tourner la tete, et qui croyaient tout d'un coup se faire hommes en fumant a se rendre malades, et en battant le pave du matin au soir, la casquette sur 1'oreille ; car 1'etudiant de premiere annee a rare- ment un chapeau. Des la seconde ann^e, 1'^tudiant en general devient plus grave "et plus naturel. II est tout a fait retire" de ce genre de vie, a la trois- ieme. C'est alors qu'il va au parterre des Italiens, et qu'il commence k s'habiller commetout le monde. Mais un certain nombre de jeunes gens reste attache* a ces habitudes de flanerie, de billard, d'intermin- ables fumeries a I'estaminet, ou de promenades par ban des bruyantes au jardin de Luxembourg. En un mot, ceux-lk font, de la recreation que les autres se permettent sobrement, le fond et 1'habitude de la vie. II est tout naturel que leurs manieres, leurs idees, et jusqu'a leurs traits, au lieu de se former, restent dans une sorte d'enfance vagabonde et de- braillee, dans laquelle il faut se garder de les encourager, quoiqu'elle a certainement ses dou- ceurs et meme sa poesie. Ceux-la se trouvent toujours naturellement tout porte"s aux 6meutes. Les plus jeunes y vont pour voir, d'autres y vont pour agir ; et dans ce temps-la, presque toujours tous s'y jetaient un instant et s'en retiraient vite apres avoir donne et reQU quelques bons coups. Cela ne changeait pas la face des affaires, et la seule modification que ces tentatives aient apport^e, c'est un redoublement de frayeur chez les bouti- quiers, et de cruaut6 brutale chez les agents de police."

The term bousingot was applied to these students, and Leon Gozlan in the Constitu- tionnel adopted it in derision as a generic name for the romantic school of which Victor Hugo and Gerard de Nerval were then the principal exponents. The word bousingot means literally the flat cap worn by sailors.

JOHN HEBB.

SCOTT QUERY (9 th S. vii. 510 ; viii. 48). In ' The Milleres^ Tale,' 1. 582, Aldine edition, the word is given as " very trot." This Dr. Morris explained in the glossary as u quick trot"; an idea more in keeping with both circumstances related than the explanation at the last reference. ARTHUR MAYALL. [See 9 th S. vii. 83, 257,1