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NOTES AND QUERIES,

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celebrat le premier et troisieme jour de Mai dans sa maison qu'elle leur donna, et qui est aujourd hui 1'Hutel de Ville. Les prix que 1' Academic distribue a present sont une Amaranthe d'or, une Violette, une Eglantine, et un Soucy d'argent. Au reste c'est au gout que M. de Basville a pour les Belles Lettres que cette Academic doit sa nouvelle forme."-Pp. 298-9.

"Vis-a-vis, a main droite en entrant dans la meme salle [une grande salle basse & main gauche en entrant, dans la Maison de Ville de Toulouse, et appellee le grand Consist oire], est une statue de marbre blanc qui represente Dame Clemence Isaure, qui donna sa maison h la Ville et fonda les Jeux Floraux. Elle est dans une niche au dessus d'une des portes, et sous ses pieds est une inscription. "- P. 333.

" En haut de la salle, qui est a gauche en entrant, sont les portraits des Capitouls, et au dessus de la porte d'entree est un tableau ou sont representez Dame Clemence Isaure, et les Jeux Floraux de Toulouse, sous la figure d'une femme couchee qui tient un bouquet de soucy, et a derriere elle deux enfans qui jouent des instrumens. Dans le lointain est la ville de Toulouse. Ce tableau est d'une beaute parfaite." P. 334.

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

Tower House, New Hampton.

" YORKER "=" TICE" (9 th S. viii. 284).-Not being a cricketer, I cannot say whether a verb "to tice " was commonly used in days gone by in respect of the delivery of a " lob." But I like to recall, and ME. MAYALL may be amused to hear, one instance of the use. A schoolfellow and friend, long since dead, noted in his day both as cricketer and punster, rendered the Homeric rto-aro Aw/?^v "he ticed up a lob." C. B. MOUNT.

In reply to MR. MAYALL'S query, I may say that many years before "yorker" was heard of, "tice" was the name of an inviting lob. The term would be used by the bowler, not the batsman ; e.g., " Didn't I tice 'e nicely 1 " I have heard many times from the bowler at country cricket when the batsman was either bowled or stumped or had hit up an easy catch. H. P. L.

LORD DONORE (9 th S. viii. 64, 114). I am obliged to MR. SOUTHAM and G. E. C. for their courteous replies to my query. I had considered the possibility of Lord Docwra of Culmore being the mysterious Lord Donore, but was obliged to reject the idea for these reasons: The Parliament sat in July 1634. Henry, first Lord Docwra, died in 1631 ; he therefore could not have sat in it. Theodore, the second Lord Docwra, was born in 1620, and being then a youth of fourteen, he could not have sat. There does not appear to be any mistake in the dates of the death of the first lord or the birth of the second, so I fear the spook Donore has not

yet been traced to a flesh-and-blood embodi- ment. Perhaps, also, some day the many mysteries and contradictions that confuse and perplex the student of early Irish dignities will be cleared away, and the so- called feudal peerages critically and judicially treated. Lynch deals with them as an advocate upholding a theory and trying to prove a case, and his arguments and con- clusions cannot be accepted as final.

SIGMA TAU. Hobart.

NAPOLEON'S LIBRARY (9 th S. viii. 145, 189, 293). In reply to my own query at the first reference, and as addenda to the interesting communications since furnished to 'N. & Q.,' the following seem worthy of record in these columns. MR. PIERPOINT very kindly informs me that he possesses a 12mo volume inside the cover of which is written in pencil " from the library of Napoleon I. at St. j Helena," and bearing the title

Antoin Perezi J. C.

S. C. & R. Majest. Consiliarii,

in Academia Lovaniensi

Juris Civilis Antecessoris

Institutiones

Imperiales Erotematibus

Distinctse,

Editio decima.

Amstelodami :

Apud Danielem Elzevirium.

CIOIOCLXIX.

" I do not suggest," MR. PIERPOINT adds, "that the inscription proves that the book came from that library ; it is only an anony- mous assertion." However, prcesumptio stat that it had belonged to Napoleon ir, as was probably the fact, the library was sold after its owner's death. The subject-matter of the book would also go far to strengthen the assertion, seeing that the Emperor was well known to have been a devourer of out- of-the-way and un considered trifles.

Quite accidentally I recently came across a passage in Bishop Sumner's 'Life' (1876, p. 75) which, though referring to the Em- peror's Elba library, deserves insertion under the above heading :

"As librarian [at Carl ton House] he was also much interested in 1822 in making a careful exami- nation of a number of books which were returned from Elba after Napoleon's death. A library had been sent out from England to Napoleon during his stay at Elba, and on his death these books were sent back. By the King's [George IV ] desire. Mr. Sumner looked through all the volumes, and selected those in which Napoleon had made any annotation. Some of the books were very much marked ; ' Ossian ' seemed to have been an especial favourite with him, and in one of the volumes there was a parallel drawn between himself and