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but no pagination. There is a device on the fifth leaf containing a portcullis surmounted by an imperial crown and the motto " Dieu et inon droit," and below the words " De bonis operibus." There are also a number of ornamental initials at the beginnings of chapters. JAMES T. PRESLEY.

JEWS AS "SCIENTISTS" AND PHYSICIANS. A friend has challenged me to mention the names of any people of Jewish race who have obtained a really high reputation in mathematical, physical, or medical studies. Can any of your readers assist me in com- piling a list? Certainly the genius of the race seems to show itself much more in litera 1 ture, finance, and art than in scientific re- search. KOM OMBO.

[We trace no such distinctions in a look through Reinach's 'History of the Israelites.' The names of Spinoza, the Herschels, and Nordau occur to us, but no other.]

years ago there appeared a little poem en- titled ' A Tennysonian Ode.' I think it was in Tait's Magazine, or it may have been in Fraser's Magazine. The first lines were : Easy, breezy cousin mine, Lightsome, brightsome Caroline.
 * TENNYSONIAN ODE.' Some fifty or sixty

It describes the tricks Caroline plays on her cousin, viz., marking him with burnt cork and the black carbon from the snuffers, and pinching his legs ; but I cannot recall the lines except the following, declaring if she would only be his :

Then reclining back I 'd say,

" Cousin, there 's the snuffer tray.

Pinch, ! pinch these legs of mine ;

Cork me, cousin Caroline." Could you let me know how I can get hold of the whole of this little ode? If so I shall feel greatly obliged. WM. C. VIVIAN.

FIELDER FAMILY OF BATH. Particulars wanted of John Fielder, of Bath, and of his wife. He had one son Charles, who was a man of considerable property and good social position in Bath, and who died about 1838 unmarried. He also had one daughter Frances, who married, firstly, Richard Martin, of Congleton, Cheshire ; and, secondly, George Reade, J.P., of Congleton. She died 13 Febru- ary, 1833, aged sixty-three, leaving issue by both marriages. ALEYN LYELL READE.

Park Corner, Blundellsands, near Liverpool.

ARUNDEL : MONCKTON : KERR. Were the swallows on the shield of Arundel derived from the same source as those in the arms of Monckton 1 ? and was the chevron with the three mullets ontheMonckton shield identical

with that of Kerr 1 I believe the Arundels had some ancient association with the village of Monckton, in the county of Somerset.

T. W. CAREY. Guernsey.

SCILLY ISLANDS. Most histories say that in 939 (some say 938) Athelstan ravaged Cornwall and conquered the isles of SciTly. What is the earliest authority for this ? I do not find it in the ' A.-S. Chronicle.'

YGREC.

'LE BON Roi DAGOBERT.' What is sup- posed to be the date of this very absurd, but very amusing song 1 As M. Gustave Masson, in his 'Lyre Franchise' ("Golden Treasury Series," 1898), gives it as "Anon.," I presume nothing is known of its authorship. M. Masson says in a note that this song " has enjoyed a greater share of popularity than almost any other, except perhaps the dirge on the death of Marl borough." The fourth, tenth, twelfth, and sixteenth verses are de- lightful. Of the two interlocutors, the king and the saint, who chaff each other like two schoolboys, is " le grand saint 6loi " the same as "Seint Eloy" of the Prologue to the 'Canterbury Tales,' dear to gentle Madame Eglentine, the prioress? I have a dim re- collection of seeing this song many years ago in a shop window in or near the Rue Saint Antoine in Paris. Where does it first appear, or what is the earliest known allusion to it ? JONATHAN BOUCHIER.

AUTHOR AND TYPESETTER. Instances are not frequent of an author setting his own work in type, but this occurred in the case of 'The Forester's Offering,' by Spencer T. Hall (" The Sherwood Forester "), published in 1841. In his preface the author says "he

has had the gratification of composing the

Prose Sketches in a twofold sense, and so saved himself, with some trifling exceptions, the trouble of writing them"; and in his preface to 'The Peak and the Plain,' pub- lished in 1853, which included some of the contents of the former volume, he says, "'The Forester's Offering' was put in type by myself the greater part of it without manuscript." The circumstance is referred to in the article upon Dr. Spencer T. Hall in the 'Diet. Nat. Biog. 1

I should be glad to know if the " Sherwood Forest Festival, in honour of those worthies who have contributed by their works to the renown of that locality," which was held at Edwinstowe on 3 November, 1841, and to an account of which no less than thirty-five pages of ' Rambles in the Country,' published by the above author in 1842 are devoted was