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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. DEC. 21, 1901.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (London, Henry G. Bohn, 1852). Talks with girls and boys intersperse the narratives. The preface is dated 15 July, 1851.

W. G. BOSWELL-STONE. Oxford.

"PLAY THE GOAT" (9 th S. viii. 302). Not merely to frolic foolishly, but also to lead a dissolute life, in allusion to a characteristic of the goat species. An old proverb says " An old goat is never the more reverend for his beard," meaning that an old sinner is the worst of all sinners. Pan and the satyrs were represented as goat-footed to indicate their dissolute propensities.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

" KELL " OR " KELD "=A SPRING OF WATER (9 th S. viii. 305, 374).-The words fall and fald, signifying well, are constantly met with in every part of Yorkshire, par ticularly in Craven and the North Riding. We have Keldholme, in the parish of Kirkby Moorside; the Craven Keld, on the road from Burnsall to Pateley Bridge, which marks the boundary between Craven and Nidderdale ; Kelbrook, near Thornton in Craven ; and other Kelbrooks, Kelburns, and Kellhouses in profusion. In the neighbouring counties of Westmoreland and Cumberland we have Salkeld, Thorkell and Threlkeld (turles = holes), both as place- names and family names.

CHARLES A. FEDERER. Bradford.

NEEDLE PEDLARS (9 th S. viii. 105, 229) There is one ditty I used to hear when I was an apprentice (1833-9) in Nottingham : Oh ! don't you know the muffin man

And don't you know his name? Oh ! don't you know the muffin man

W ho lives in Byard Lane ? There was a second verse which began U h yes, I know the muffin man," &c., and told his name, which an old man's memory does not retain. Byard Lane was a small street running out of Bridlesmith Gate, close to where my master's shop was situated, and so I had frequent opportunity of hearing his tuneful advertisement. T S NT

New York.

STAUNTON, WORCESTERSHIRE (9 th S viii 383) -I presume this heading is a mistake for Staunton, Gloucestershire. A branch of the Dean Forest Whittingtons were livin- here in the seventeenth century. MR HAW KINS should consult the Transactions of the Gloucestershire Archaeological Society (I am not sure of its precise title), which will give him full information as to the parish of

Staunton. I remember one long paper in particular on that subject.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS. Town Hall, Cardiff.

CUCKLAND (9 th S. viii. 384). -Probably the surname is derived from the name of a locality. Cuck, an abbreviation of Cuckham, from Cwichelm, a Saxon name, would give Cwichelm's or Cuckam's land i.e., Cuckland. JOHN RADCLIFFE.

SONG WANTED (9 th S. viii. 364). I think that the song-book asked for by GNOMON is " The Universal Songster ; or, Museum of Mirth, forming the most complete, extensive, and valu- able collection of Ancient and Modern Songs in the English Language. Vol. i. London : Printed by John Fairbairn, Broadway, Lud- gate Hill ; Simpkin & Marshall, Stationers' Court; and Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, Paternoster Row, 1825." We have the above first volume at home. ROBERT RAYNER.

Herne Hill, S.E.

RENZO TRAMAGLINO (9 th S. viii. 424, 448). Renzo Tramaglino, quoted by Paolo Valera in his pamphlet entitled ' La Regina Vittoria,' in the passage relative to King William IV. of England, is not a real personage. He is simply the hero of the famous novel ' I Pro- rnessi Sposi'C The Affianced'), by the celebrated Italian writer Alessandro Manzoni, of Milan. The two betrothed, who, after so many mis- fortunes and adventures, inarry at the end of the beautiful book are Lucia Mondella and Renzo Tramaglino.

BARON ALBERT LUMBROSO, D.L., Director of the Revue Napoleonienne.

Frascati, Italy.

A SPANISH BIBLIOPHILE (9 th S. viii. 342). I was present when the late Dr. R. C. Christie read his account of Morante to the Man- chester Literary Club. It had the usual characteristics of his work fulness, accu- racy, and restraint. It was printed in the club papers in 1883, and is to be included in the volume of the 'Selected Essays' of Mr. Christie which another friend, Dr. W. A. Shaw, is editing. Mr. Christie's library, which includes books from the collection of the Marquis de Morante, becomes the pro- perty of Owens College, Manchester.

WILLIAM E. A. AXON.

CROSDILL (9 th S. viii. 124). The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. xcv. 1825, p. 382, has "York- shire : Lately, aged 74, John Crosdill, esq., the celebrated performer on the violoncello. He performed at the Coronation both of his late and present Majesty." The 'Dictionary of