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NOTES- AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIIL NOV. so, 1901.

of its erection, in or about 1834, was 8,000/., and itaffords accommodation for 1,500 persons. An illustration from the architect's original drawing occurs in Brayley's * Graphic and Historical Illustrator ' for that year.

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

MAN MADE IN THE FOKM OF A CROSS (9 th S.

viii. 264). Justin Martyr says in the seventy- second chapter of his ' Apology ' :

"The human figure differs from those of

irrational animals in no respect but this, that it is erect, and hath the hands extended, and in the countenance also hath the nose reaching downward froni the forehead, by which we are able to breathe. This again shows no figure but that of the cross. "- Chevallier's translation, p. 257.

"So, too, Rhaban Maur" (Archbishop of Mayence in 847), writes Didron, "detects the form of the cross in numbers, in geometrical lines, in supernatural beings, and in human creatures " (' Christian Iconography,' i. 372).

ST. SWITHIN.

AN INEDITED SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY POEM (9 th S. viii. 418). MR. DOBELL will be glad to hear that his recognition of Cow- ley's manner in the above poem is amply justified. The poem is Cowley's, and will be found on p. 139 of the first volume of the late Mr. Grosart's "Chertsey Worthies" edi- tion of Cowley. ALFRED AINGER.

"SAWE" (9 th S. viii. 424). " Carpenter aistre de la sawe," probably carpenter a top sawyer.

RENZO TRAMAGLINO (9 th S. viii. 424). Renzo Tramaglino is the hero of Manzoni's novel 'I Promessi Sposi,' called in its English trans- lation 'The Betrothed.' E. L.

MONOLITH WITH CUP-MARKINGS IN HYDE PARK (9* h . vii. 69, 115, 195, 292).-Mr. John Ashton in his ' Hyde Park,' 1896, p. 121, says :

"In this dell is a monolith which came from Mporswater, in the parish of Liskeard, Cornwall where it was quarried on Jan. 3, 1862. One of the excavators employed in the work was accidentally killed and his death was the cause of the publica- tion of two books-' William Sandy who died by an Accident at Moorswater,' &c., and 'The Grace of manifested in the Life and Death of

mais

et and F. P.

J. H. MACMlCHAEL.

,t - ""Y." wr< > SHERIFF OF LONDON, 161, (9"> S. vii. 228, 313,413; viii. 290) -In my reply at the last reference (in the first column of D 291) the words in the parish of the Llessed Mary al's S fc Leonard at Bromley

and at Stepney in same county," are, by an error in copying, made to read "in the parishes of," &c. The word "the" is omitted before " copious annotations" in the fifth line from the end. W. I. R. V.

AMERICAN WORDS : " LINKUMFIDDLE " (9 th S. viii. 183, 267). As a boy in Scotland I remember a doggerel song which I think must have been old. It commenced thus : There was a haggis in Dunbar,

Fal de linkum feedle, Mony better, few waur,

Fal de linkum feedle.

Then followed an enumeration of the contents of the pudding which fully justified the first verse. I have a dreamy recollection that Scott in one of his novels casually refers to the famous (or infamous) haggis. DOLLAR. Neenah, Wis.

I am not sure that F. M. is correct in claim- ing an American origin for this nonsense- word. It would seem to be an invention of George Colman's. See the song in 'Inkle and Yarico,' produced at Covent Garden in 1790. There are four verses in all.

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

Portland, Oregon.

FAMILY LIKENESS (9 th S. viii. 62, 169, 268, 335, 369). In Max Miiller's ' Autobiography,' at p. 98, commencing from top line, is the following :

" Our headmaster [Dr. Nobbe] was very popular. He was a man of the old German type, powerfully built, with a large square head, very much like Luther ; and, strange to say, when, in 1839, a great Luther festival was celebrated all over Germany, he published a book in which he proved that he was a direct descendant of Luther."

I think this instance is worth recording in 'N.&Q.' M. M. L.

Costa Rica.

Dean Stanley notes a striking instance of this in * Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey,' p. 124. Speaking of a portrait of Richard II., he says :

"The original picture had almost disappeared under successive attempts at restoration. It was reserved for a distinguished artist of our own day to recover the pristine form and features : the brow and eyes still to be traced in the descendants of his line, the curling masses of hair, the large heavy eyes, the long thin nose, the short tufted hair under his smooth chin, the soft melancholy expression." In a foot note connected with " descendants of his line" the Dean adds : "The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice may be specially mentioned." ST. SWITHIN.

ST. ALICE (9 th S. viii. 404). Adelaide and Alice are said to be varieties of the same