SIGN PAINTING (12 S. vi. 310). The following extract from George D. Leslie's 'Our River,' p. 51, will correct and supple ment L. G. R.'s note: "It was during our stay at Wargrave this year (1875) that my friend Mr. Hodgson and I repainted Mrs. Wyatt's signboard for her the George and Dragon. I painted my side first, a regular orthodox St. George on a white horse, spearing the dragon. Hodgson was SO taken with the idea of painting a signboard that he asked me to be allowed to do the other side, to which I of course consented, and as he could only stop at Wargrave one day he managed to do it on that day; indeed it occupied him little more than a couple of hours. The idea of his composition was suggested by Signor Pellegrini, the well-known artist of Vanity Fair; the picture represented St. George, having vanquished the dragon, and dismounted from his horse, quenching his thirst in a large beaker of ale. These pictures were duly hung up soon after, and very much admired; they have since had a coat of boat varnish, and look already (1881) very old masterly. Hodgson's, which gets the sun on it, is a little faded, but mine, which faces the north towards Henley, still looks pretty fresh. "There were some paragraphs about this sign in The World, the editor of which was staying at Wargrave at the time, and one of these was printed in gold type, and presented to Mrs. Wyatt, and hangs up in the inn parlour. This is the second signboard I have painted, the first being the King Harry at St. Stephen's, near St. Albans. Miss Jekyll has painted several about the neighbourhood of Wargrave....The sign of the Swan at Pangbourne was executed by a friend of mine, Mrs. Seymour Trower, whilst she was staying on the river there, and is a great success, both in drawing and colour." Shepperton, S.O. J. J. FREEMAN. There seems o be some confusion as to the collaboration of artists which produced the sign of the George at Wargrave-onThames. Although Mr. G. D. (not G. L.) Leslie is everywhere acknowledged as being responsible for one side, the other has been attributed variously to Messrs. Broughton, Stacey Marks, and J. E. Hodgson. The last-named is given by Mr. C. G. Harper in The Old Inns of Old England,' vol. ii. of the sign appearing on pp. 176 and 177. This work devotes a special chapter to the study of inn-boards painted by artists, enumerating such names as Hogarth, G.. Morland, R. Wilson, J. C. Ibbetson, "Old" Crome, J. F. and Charles Herring, Beechey, Smirke, T. Wright of Liverpool, Opie,. D. Cox (whose Royal Oak at Bettws-y-Coed is figured on page 173), Millais, Marcus Stone, Walter Crane, Caton Woodville, &c. Hogarth's 'Man Loaded with Mischief' is one of the best-known instances. The original was Replicas or copies exist at Blewbury, Wallingford, Norwich, and on the Madingley Road, Cambs. That at Blewbury is embellished with decorative iron scroll-work. The Madingley Road sign was repainted ́ some forty years ago. F. GORDON ROE. once to be seen in Oxford Street.. 66 66 cures IMRAPEN: BADEN IN SWITZERLAND (12 S. vi. 292).-As I have made two at the Swiss Baden (1900 and 1904), and also visited it later, I can assure MR. WAINEWRIGHT that 'the Baths distinct from the town, the town being were long about a quarter of a mile above or north of the Baths. Now-a-days there are houses almost everywhere between the lower baths and the higher town, the railway station being situated a little back of the main road, and about midway between the two bits of Baden. The open-air bath described by M. de Blainville is no doubt that called the 66 Verenabad,' and reserved for the poorer class of bathers. It was roofed in in 1827, and in 1840 moved to behind the Limmathof, and entirely altered in 1871 (see Barth. Fricker, Geschichte der Stadt und Bäder zu Baden,' Aarau, 1880, p. 418). There is in the Grosse Bäder on the left bank of the Limmat or Linth. It is below the Kurhaus. The only local name at all resembling Imrapen is Im Hasel, west of the Kurhaus. Possibly a Frenchman like de Blainville mistook this name. Baden (not being very far-14 miles from Zurich with which it was connected in 1847 by the first railway built in Switzerland) was a very fashionable resort for the Swiss. Besides Fricker's big book, see David Hess, 'Die Badenfahrt' (Zurich, 1817). "OUIDA " IN PERIODICAL LITERATURE (12 S. v. 414).- Ouida, a Memoir,' by Elizabeth Lee, pp. 34-35, says : "In January, 1861, Ouida's first long novel, Granville de Vigne : a Tale of the Day,' began to appear in The New Monthly Magazine. It was it in three volumes, changing the title to Held concluded in June, 1863, when Tinsley published in Bondage.' Strathmore' was begun in The New Monthly Magazine in the following month and ran until February, 1865. Next month the first instalment of Idalia' appeared, and was concluded in the number for February, 1867......These three romances were all written for Harrison Ainsworth, the proprietor of the two periodicals mentioned." W. A. B. C. VOLTAIRE'S CANDIDE,' PART II. (12 S. For the other of the two periodicals menvi. 296, 322).-Just after having finished the reply at the second reference, I find in tioned at above reference, see p. 32 of Miss Lee's 'Memoir.' "Dr. W. Francis Ainsworth, Larousse's Grande Encyclopédie,' iii. 258-59 an account of two Imitations and Con-medical attendant, and to him the girl a cousin of Harrison Ainsworth, was their tinuations of Voltaire's satiric chef d'œuvre which are ascribed to him and fully answer your correspondent's inquiry. As stated, the first Suite, ou Seconde Partie de Candide' est une curiosité bibliographique aujourd'hui à peu près introuvable." would be too long to quote the two accounts. I can only refer to Larousse. H. KREBS. It duced Ouida to Ainsworth, who was at that confided her attempts at stories. He introtime editing Bentley's Miscellany. She sub mitted some of the stories to him; he at once recognised their merit, and eagerly accepted them for his magazine. The first, entitled 'Dashwood's Drag; or, The Derby and what came of it' appeared in the Miscellany FOLK-LORE: THE DANGERS OF CROSSING for April and May, 1859, and she contributed (11 S. xii. 451; 12 S. i. 238).-In Pliny's stories to each succeeding number up to "Natural History,' bk. viii., chap. lxxxiii. | July, 1862 : all of them were signed ‘Ouida.' (vol. ii. p. 353, in Bohn's "Classical Library")....Ouida s stories formed one of the chief we read :attractions of the Miscellany in those years. In 1867, fourteen of the stories were published in a volume entitled 'Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, and other Novelettes.' "In whatever country it [the shrew-mouse] exists, it always dies immediately if it goes across the rut made by a wheel." Bostock remarks thereon that, according to Cuvier : "Elle ne périt point parcequ'elle a traversé une ornière, quoique souvent elle puisse y être écrasée. C'est un des quadrupèdes que l'on tue le plus aisement par un coup léger.' The Japanese of yore believed in the danger of being crossed, and held it dangerous to let a person pass between a man and wife or two relations or friends. This superstition is said to have originated in a Buddhist Indian legend, which is this : "When the Titanic King Râhu fell in the combat with the god Indra, every time the latter cut off the former's head or limbs, instantly they were restored to his body. Now, Sachi, the wife of Indra, gathered and halved the flowers of blue lotus, arrayed them into two rows, and passed betwixt them. Indra understood her meaning, severed Râhu's limbs anew, threw them into right and left, and walked between them, which made them unable to return to the Titanic body, so that Râhu was for ever no more (Jinten Ainô Shô,' 1532, tom. iii.). KUMAGUSU MINAKATA. F. J. HYTCH.. Notes on Books. Four Americans. By Henry Augustin Beers. · For "I heard Colonel Higginson say, in a lecture at Concord, that if a few drops of redder blood could have been added to Hawthorne's style, he would have been the foremost imaginative writer of his slip for the 'Odyssey'] were unable to speak A Manual of the Bengali Language. By T. J. Anderson. (Cambridge University Press, 78. 6d. -aloud until they had drunk blood. Instinctively, net.) then, one seeks to infuse more red corpuscles into thy somewhat anaemic veins of these tales and romances, But does one? How can one, indeed, "seek' to do anything of the kind? The last sentence as it stands, means nothing; and its futility is made the more conspicuous by the words "instinctively and then." If it be replied that the writer's general intention is easily to be conjectured, we agree: but we also submit that this is-we had almost said is par excellence-bad writing; that it produces weariness and a sense of obscurity in the reader, and, finally, that it does injustice to the good things the writer has to say. Having relieved our mind of this complaint, we gladly go on to attest that we found in each of In 'Roosevelt these essays much to interest us. as a Man of Letters' there are one or two good Our author stories and some sound criticisms. "seeks for comparisons with other men of letters who were at once big sportsmen and big writers," and pitches on Charles Kingsley for the purpose. "Roosevelt was not a clergyman," as he truly observes—and, in several other respects contrasts between the two men have to be admitted before On the whole the comparison can be reached. we think that the suggestion more original than convincing. Fifty years of Hawthorne' and 'A Pilgrim in Concord transport us into a most pleasant atmosphere. Concord' with all it stands for, has the charm-so rare in America that there it gains a doubled value-of the land where it is always afternoon. Prof. Beers conveys this gracefully and well. At the end of the latter essay is a paragraph which we hope he may some day elaborate, on Emerson as a poet. In the present writer's view a good deal more than is commonly allowed by his critics should be claimed for Emerson in the character of a poet-and a good deal less in the character of a philosopher. A Wordlet about Whitman' is by no means to be neglected. In a few paragraphs Prof. Beers sets forth enough sober truth about Whitman to guide an unsophisticated reader up to the right standpoint for judging him. THIS is the first volume of the series of “Cambridge Guides to Modern Languages." It is a well-planned manual, which would enable anyone who has practice in the learning of languages to get a good initial grip of Bengali without the assistance of a teacher. Dr. Anderson incites the student to diligence by an attractive Introduction. we are inclined to ask why the translations of the "specimens" provided have not been printed side by side with the text? The series, which here makes so good a beginning, should prove of great service. Notices to Correspondents. EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publishers" at the Office, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4.; corrected proofs to the Athenæum Press, 11 and 13 Bream's Buildings, E.C.4. 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SUBJECT INDEX PUBLISHED, [For classified articles see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, BOOKS RECENTLY CHRISTIAN NAMES, EDITORIAL, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, OBITUARY, PLACE-NAMES, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKESPEARIANA, SONGS AND BALLADS and SURNAMES.] Altar tables, changes in shape and dimensions of, 251, 275 Althorp, Spencers' library at, 228, 276 Amber, its prophylactic properties, 271, 297, 318, 339 Anathema cup, 1500-1, origin of the name, 150, 198 Anglo-French 'De Sanctis': St. Bethone in Animal-lover, an eighteenth-century, 78 Anne, Queen, statue on Hotel Russell of, 6 Anonymous Works: 'Apology for the Life of the Rt. Hon. W. E. 'New Bath Guide' (Anstey, 1766), 37 'Rhymes from the Cobbler's Lapstone,'1886, 'Whole Duty of Man,' 1657, 38, 71 Anthem, "Lord for Thy tender mercy's sake," 23 Antiquaries of London, admission of women to Antoninus, routes between London and York in Apple-trees, wassailing and " balderbash," 111 Army and Navy, official scale of comparative Army List, English, of 1740, 17, 42, 70, 184, 223, Arnott (Margaret) = William Nairne, 274 slip for the 'Odyssey'] were unable to speak A Manual of the Bengali Language. By T. J. -aloud until they had drunk blood. Instinctively, Anderson. (Cambridge University Press, 78. 6d. then, one seeks to infuse more red corpuscles into net.) thy somewhat anaemic veins of these tales and romances. But does one? How can one, indeed, "seek" to do anything of the kind? The last sentence as it stands, means nothing; and its futility is made the more conspicuous by the words "instinctively, and " then." If it be replied that the writer's general intention is easily to be conjectured, we agree: but we also submit that this is-we had almost said is par excellence-bad writing; that it -produces weariness and a sense of obscurity in the reader, and, finally, that it does injustice to the good things the writer has to say. Having relieved our mind of this complaint, we gladly go on to attest that we found in each of these essays much to interest us. In 'Roosevelt as a Man of Letters' there are one or two good stories and some sound criticisms. Our author "seeks for comparisons with other men of letters who were at once big sportsmen and big writers," and pitches on Charles Kingsley for the purpose. "Roosevelt was not a clergyman," as he truly observes-and, in several other respects contrasts between the two men have to be admitted before the comparison can be reached. On the whole we think that the suggestion more original than convincing. Fifty years of Hawthorne' and 'A Pilgrim in Concord' transport us into a most pleasant atmosphere. Concord' with all it stands for, has the charm-so rare in America that there it gains a doubled value-of the land where it is always afternoon. Prof. Beers conveys this gracefully and well. At the end of the latter essay is a paragraph which we hope he may some day elaborate, on Emerson as a poet, In the present writer's view a good deal more than is commonly allowed by his Critics should be claimed for Emerson in the character of a poet-and a good deal less in the character of a philosopher. A Wordlet about Whitman' is by no means to be neglected. In a few paragraphs Prof. Beers sets forth enough sober truth about Whitman to guide an unsophisticated reader up to the right standpoint for judging him. A Guide to the Castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Part 1. The Keep; Part II. The Black gate Museum and Heron Pit. By Parker Brewis. (Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) WE are glad to draw the attention of our readers to this guide, which is a very careful piece of work, THIS is the first volume of the series of "Cambridge Guides to Modern Languages. It is a well-planned manual, which would enable anyone who has practice in the learning of languages to get a good initial grip of Bengali without the assistance of a teacher. Dr. Anderson incites the student to diligence by an attractive Introduction. we are inclined to ask why the translations of the 'specimens" provided have not been printed side by side with the text? The series, which here makes so good a beginning, should prove of great service. Notices to Correspondents. EDITORIAL Communications should be addressed to The Editor of Notes and Queries ""--Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publishers" at the Office, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4.; corrected proofs to the Athenæum Press, 11 and 13 Bream's Buildings, E.C.4. 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