not mention the whiskers. At the present day it is generally believed that the whiskers of a tiger, when taken with food, are a slow and deadly poison. They are also valued as an amulet. The whiskers of a tiger or leopard, mixed with nail parings, come sacred root or grass, and red lead, are hung round the throats of young children immediately after birth to ward off the Evil Eye and the attacks of demons. Hence, when a tiger is killed, and made over to coolies for transport to camp, the head shikari carefully counts the hairs of the whiskers and the nails of the animal, lest they may be appropriated by the bearers. W. CROOKE.

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Philip DoddridGE, D.D. (see sub John Conder, D.D.,' 11 S. xii. 479).-Presumably the nineteen pages of manuscript bound up with John Conder's lectures are of a lecture delivered by Dr. Doddridge, taken by one of his students. I cannot find that the doctor published anything relating to the Characters of English Writers,' but he may have lectured on such a subject. Many of his students studied shorthand, and might easily have transcribed their notes of his lectures afterwards. There are in existence (at Northampton, I believe) nine manuscript octavo volumes of Dr. Doddridge's lectures which were transcribed in this way by certain of his students. They were acquired by my friend the late Mr. John Taylor many years ago, and are fully described in his "History of Northampton Castle Hill Church, now Doddridge, and its Pastorate, 1674-1895, from original documents and contemporary records," &c. (1896). JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

SONG WANTED (11 S. xii. 503).-MR. COOLIDGE will find the poem in full in the 'Book of Poetry about Oxford' (Macmillan, I think, red binding: there is a sister Cambridge one). I have the reference at chambers, and if no one else does will send the exact page, &c., later. H. COHEN.

THE WATER OF THE NILE (11 S. xii. 443, 510; 12 S. i. 18). Having lived for many years by a great and muddy river-the IrrawaddyI may record the universal belief, alike of Burmese, Indians, and Europeans, that water drawn from the centre of the river, or any part where the current is swift, is perfectly wholesome, no matter how muddy it may be. It is stagnant water that is dangerous. I was also informed once by a medical officer of my acquaintance that no

bacteria can live in a strong current, and that it was known that two miles of strong current were fatal to them. This was in answer to an official objection of mine to placing a cholera camp on an island. H. F.-H.

CHURCHES USED FOR THE ELECTION OF MUNICIPAL OFFICERS (11 S. xii. 360, 404, 430, 470, 511).-The following paragraph from The Public Advertiser of Saturday, Jan. 28, 1769, shows that this custom prevailed in London during the eighteenth century :—

"Yesterday a Wardmote was held at St. Bride's Church for an election of an Alderman for the Ward of Farringdon Without, and there being no Gentleman was declared duly elected to the Office.” candidate to oppose John Wilkes, Esq., that Another paragraph from the same newsof Tuesday, May 1, 1770, shows that paper the Aldermen of the period made free use of the churches ::

"Mr. Alderman Wilkes yesterday held a with loudest acclamations, and every part of the Wardmote at St. Bride's Church....received church was crowded with people. Before business began Mr. Wilkes made a short speech of thanks to his constituents.....'

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

THOMAS GRIFFIN TARPLEY (11 S. xii. 482; 12 S. i. 12).—Some records of this gentleman can, I believe, be found at the Public Record Office. Doubtless he would have been a claimant for compensation of losses sustained in the American Revolution. A complete index of American Loyalists' claims is on the shelves, and among the names are those of Thomas and William Tarpley, Virginia. The memorials to the Commissioners appointed for examining into the claims of the Loyalists often disclose much information. If Dr. Tarpley held a commission in the American Loyalist army, records of himself and family might also be found. An index of such officers, giving dates of births, marriages, &c., might be consulted with advantage.

A. H. MACLEAN.

Notes on Books.

A Bibliography of Unfinished Books in the English Language, with Annotations. By Albert R. Corns and Archibald Sparke. (Quaritch, 108. 6d. net.)

COURAGE is a quality much needed at the present day, and the two contributors to N. & Q.' whose names figure on the title-page of this volume must possess it in abundance, or they would never have ventured on the attempt to supply a record of all the authors who have set pen to paper in English, and failed to finish the works they had begun. Were they haunted by no fear lest they themselves should but add one more example for some bibliographer of a later day?

Mr. Sparke contributes a somewhat slight but pleasant Introduction, which draws attention to the more picturesque or pathetic associations connected with some of these unfinished productions. In many cases failure was due to the fact that the work had been planned on too vast a scale for the physical powers of the author or even for the span of working life allotted to man, Buckle's History of Civilization' and Macaulay's 'History of England being the outstanding examples of this; in others, such as Thackeray with Denis Duval' and Dickens with Edwin Drood,' the pen suddenly dropped from the hand of a writer who might reasonably have expected to "finish that stint."

The book is arranged as an Author Index, works being entered under the name or pseudonym of the author or editor. Where the work is without any indication of authorship it is placed under the first word of the title. Supplementary notes have been added under many entries, as, for instance, Diderot, E. A. Freeman, and Raleigh.

We are told concerning Solomon that "he spake of trees from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall," and Messrs. Corns and Sparke are equally comprehensive in their scheme-especially as regards the hyssop-including everything from unfinished encyclopædias or biographical dictionaries in several volumes to fourpage poetical tracts at a penny each, such as Thomas Whittle's Light in a Dark Lantern.'

There are, however, some very noticeable omissions. Thus, for example, Tyrrell's Christianity at the Cross-roads is not mentioned. Among our English classics Jane Austen does not appear in the alphabet; nor Keats, though he is mentioned in the Introduction; nor Shelley, except as the author of the unfinished Essay on Christianity. Again, the notice under Byron refers not to Don Juan,' as might have been expected this is not even mentioned-but to an edition of the poet projected and partly carried out by Henley, which should surely have been indexed under Henley's name. The same remark would apply to Sala's unfinished edition of Lamb's letters. It would probably have been a good plan to make a separate alphabet of unfinished editions and translations. No doubt these and other examples we could mention were excluded upon some principle, but that principle should certainly have been explained, and also, we may add, justified.

The volume before us is printed in good clear type, but it is inevitable that in thousands

of bibliographical descriptions and proper names some slips should occur. Thus the references under Doyle and Drayton to "N. & Q.,' 85, 5,

P.95," and "85, 5, p. 96," should be to 8 S. 5, 95, and 8 S. 5, 96. Berkenhont on p. 22 should be Berkenhout; and on p. 25, s.v. Bible: Psalms,' Harne should be Horne. In the List of Authorities Consulted' Wood's Athenæ Oxoni

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enses is printed" Oxoniensis," and similarly under the author's name. 'The Virgin Mary misrepresented by the Roman Church p. 176 rightly attributed to Dr. John Patrick, but under Virgin Mary' the reader is referred to Simon Patrick. Both brothers were troversialists. Two entries under Virgil are unfortunate: The Enid [sic] of Virgil translated into Scottish verse by Garvin [Gawin] Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld,' and "The Enid [sic]; in English hexameters, rendered foot for foot, for [by] W. Grist."

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In spite of imperfections the work tains a very large number of rather obscure items, which it would be troublesome to hunt up for oneself, and the student who may chance to be in need of them may well be grateful to the compilers.

THE Fortnightly Review gives a good deal of space to literature, but we confess we found the productions in question rather thin. Thus Mr. Walter Sichel's Byron as a War Poet' praises without much discernment, neither allowing for Byron's rhetorical gift, which makes him apt to write brilliantly on any subject-not specially upon war-nor pointing out where he follows the fashion of the day which demanded of poetry a certain flash and speed, nor comparing him with the contemporaries nearest akin to him. Mr. W. W. Crotch on Dickens and the War' treats. an untoward subject with that futility which is apt to dog the ways of admirers, and befalls the admirers of Dickens more conspicuously than most. Anatole France as Saviour of Society' is a title by which Mr. J. H. Harley does injustice to an interesting essay, for his views are better restrained and justified than the reader might expect. Mr. Arthur Waugh writes with sympathy and good judgment on Stephen Phillips; and Mr. Arthur A. Baumann has a good study of Dr. Johnson, the point of it being to show how much more thorough a cynic Johnson was than most of us remembered. There seems, however, a little exaggeration about declaring that the worthy doctor's "sane and stimulating cynicism... will outwear the world," and hoping it will be "the dominant intellectual note of the century which lies before us." So much for literature; the articles on the war and on the political and economic problems connected with it are what constitute the real value of the number.

THE first Nineteenth Century of the new year has much to recommend it to readers' attention, though little in the way of curious or literary interest. Cap. R. W. Hallows contributes a set of letters to and from one A. C. Stanhope, cousin of the Lord Chesterfield of the Letters,' and son of the man who succeeded to the title. These, tied up in a packet, fell out of a volume of sermons which was about to be thrown away with other volumes of the same kind as litter; none of them has been printed before. It cannot be said that their intrinsic value is very great,

yet they contribute their quota to one's understanding both of Chesterfield and of the current notions of the period. A. C. Stanhope was a tolerably unamiable person, with the most extraordinary ideas about diet and the bringing up of a child. Mrs. Randolph writes about Fanny Nisbet -Nelson's wife. Mr. Moreton Frewen brings to an end his Memories of Melton Mowbray,' which again include some good stories, and Mr. W. H. Mallock begins an analysis of Current Theories of Democracy,' suggestive, at any rate, and comprehensive. The rest of the number if we except Dr. R. H. Murray's discussion of Hoche's Expedition to Ireland in 1796-deals with actualities. We may mention that Mr. S. P. B. Mais, in an article which strikes us as the most valuable we have yet had from his pen, describes A Public School after Eighteen Months of War' (it is only seventeen as yet, by the way, and could hardly have been that when the pages were written), and that Lady Wolseley's paper on 'Women's Work on the Land,' and Mr. Percy Hurd's Impressions of Champagne and Lorraine,' while addressed to present emergencies, have both considerable permanent interest.

THE January Cornhill starts with the first two chapters of a work by Charles Kingsley, being the MS. of a novel entitled A Tutor's Story,' left by him unfinished, and recently discovered among his papers, and now revised and completed by his daughter, Lucas Malet. It promises well. There is a certain vigour in sheer well-doing about Kingsley's characters which has an actual literary value, and is refreshingly different from the two or three literary attitudes which have grown conventional in Edwardian and Georgian times. The lame youth from Cambridge in the year 1829, with a "Radi'cal " acquaintance on the one hand and a wicked young sprig of nobility to reform on the other every one able to talk, and drawn with the centre of gravity in the right place, whatever else may be wrong, after the straightforward Kingsley fashion -ought to provide readers of The Cornhill with some good hours.

Mr. Boyd Cable is good in his war sketch, A Benevolent Neutral.' Sir Herbert Maxwell's An Angler's Dilemma,' after a few pleasant pages upon angling in general, relates a solitary piscatorial adventure in the River Minnick on an April morning some fourteen years ago. A Curious Chapter in Wellington's Life,' by Dr. Fitchett, is concerned with the correspondence between the Duke and "Miss J." It is, perhaps, -the most interesting paper in the number, and does better justice to both the correspondents than has always been done. Sir Henry Lucy in Across the Walnuts and the Wine' tells two or three first-rate after-dinner stories, winding up with a good description of the immemorial challenging of the King's keys at the gate of the Bloody Tower. Miss Sellers's 'Montenegro,' and Judge Parry's Daniel O'Connell-Counsellor,'

must also be mentioned. The latter has an abundance of amusing detail.

ON the south wall of the loggia before the church of San Martino at Florence is a neglected fresco by a Florentine master of the late fifteenth century, representing the Annunciation. was ascribed by Crowe and Cavalcaselle to Filippino Lippi, but Mr. Herbert P. Horne was the first to attribute it to the master to whom, from

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the characteristic animation of the figures, it rightly belongs, namely, Sandro Botticelli. In the January number of The Burlington Magazine Mr. Giovanni Poggi confirms this attribution by documentary evidence, fixes the date of the picture as 1481, and expresses the opinion that its condition is not so bad as has been thought, and that the retouches might be successfully removed. Two reproductions accompany the article. Mr. J. D. Beazley gives some photographs of a red figured Attic hydria of 480 B.C., which is now in the Hermitage at Petrograd, and the paintings on which represent the story of Achilles and Polyxena. The designs are admirable. Mr. Campbell Dodgson describes some rare woodcuts of the early Flemish and German schools, belonging to the 'Genealogy of the Emperor Maximilian, and now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Sir Martin Conway notices the first part of the publication of Raphael's drawings edited by Dr. Oscar Fischel of Berlin-a series unfortunately cut short by the war. This instalment contains early, and therefore very interesting drawings, and some beautiful specimens are reproduced. Dr. Ananda Coomaraswamy contributes article on 'Buddhist Primitives (Sculpture).' Strictly speaking, there are no such things as Buddhist primitives, early Buddhism being a puritanical creed, and by its logic averse from every manifestation of the body, and therefore from beauty and art. Among the works reproduced is the beautiful Yakshini or dryad on the gateway of the Sanchi Stupa (early second century B.C.). Dr. Squire Sprigge sends the first instalment of an article on Art and Medicine,' in which he points out the almost inevitable vagueness of most of the historical accounts of disease that have come down to us. The description by Thucydides, for example, of the plague at Athens, leaves it quite uncertain what that plague really was. Such pictures, on the other hand, as Rubens's representation of St. Ignatius's miracle in casting out a devil from a young girl, or the picture in the cloisters of San Marco at Florence of St. Anthony extending the consolations of religion to a plague-stricken youth-these are most definite and valuable records of pathological observation. It is surprising what a number of representations of disease we have in our picture galleries.

Notices to Correspondents.

STRATFORD-ON-AVON.-Forwarded to G. F. R. B. L. L. K. ("The 'Gad Whip' in Lincolnshire).A description of the gad-whip ceremony at Caistor will be found at 9 S. viii. 285, and at the end of it references to earlier communications.

L. N.-"La belle Corisande" was the name by (1554-1620), was known. She was for about 8 years which Diane d'Andouins, Comtesse de Gramont the mistress of Henry of Navarre, and their correspondence is extant. Mélisande suggests MaeterIt was not linck's play 'Pelléas et Mélisande.

an uncommon name in the Middle Ages, and was borne, for example, by the daughter and heiress of Baldwin II., King of Jerusalem, who married Fulk of Anjou.

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