Your correspondent assumes a meaning 'ADESTE FIDELES' (12 S. v. 292, 329).-In for this syllable which is not borne out in The Evangelical Magazine for December, one of the examples he gives, viz., Stepney, 1802, is printed an English version of the old form of which name was Stebon-Adeste Fideles,' which is not amongst the heath-vide Statutes relating to this parish. W. S. B. H.

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lines is quoted. Sheridan, as one would
naturally expect, refers to "the well-
known epigram of Martial." Indeed, Mar-
tial's couplet is so well known that one
would not be surprised to find an English
translation or adaptation earlier than that
produced by CAPT. JAGGARD.
EDWARD BENSLY.
[Several other correspondents also thanked for
replies.]

ALLEYNE OR ALLEN (12 S. v. 291).7. Reynold admitted 1715, aged 15. He was fifth son of Thomas Alleyne of the parish of St. James in the Island of Barbados, came of age on Jan. 23, 1720, when he inherited the plantation of Mount Alleyne under his father's will; married a daughter and co-heir of Lawrence Price, and left two daughters and co-heirs. In the floor of Christ Church in the said island I have seen a blue armorial slab, the inscription describing him as of Mount Alleyne, Esq., and recording his death on June 30, 1749, aged 49.

4. John, admitted 1715, aged 13. Sixth son of the above Thomas, matriculated from Queen's College, Oxford, Oct. 10, 1718, aged 16, came of age on Jan. 1, 1722, was of Rock Hill Plantation, and died in London in October, 1737. He married, firstly, a daughter and co-heir of General Henry Peers, and, secondly, Mary, daughter of Abel Alleyne.

2. Abel, admitted 1730, aged 8. Probably second son of Abel Alleyne of Mount Stanfast Plantation, Barbados, and of Boston, Mass., by Mary Woodbridge. He died young.

6. John, admitted 1749, aged 16. Probably fifth son of above Abel Alleyne [Henry Timothy, the sixth son, died 1808, aged 73]. | He married Miss Elizabeth Ferguson, and left an only son, John, and four daughters.

5. John, admitted 1736, aged 11. Sir John Gay Alleyne, born April 28, 1724, was created a Baronet in 1769. In 1798, when he made his will, he was residing in Westminster.

8. William may be of above family, but I lack dates for identification.

3. Bernard does not occur in the pedigree. V. L. OLIVER.

Abel and Reynold Alleyne (or Allen) were evidently members of the family of that name, first settled near Grantham, in Lincolnshire, some of whom in the midseventeenth century migrated to Barbados, where representatives of the family were living up to a short time ago. These names are of frequent recurrence in this family. An interesting article by MR. E. B. DE COLEPEPER, on a curious circumstance connected

[C. H. M. also thanked for reply.] PANNAG (12 S. v. 294).-The word occurs only in Ezekiel xxvii, 17. The A.V. takes it as a place-name along with Minnith, mentioned just before. The R.V.M. has "perhaps a kind of confection." The text of Ezekiel has suffered badly in transmission, and it is possible that some other word was meant. Donag, "wax," has been proposed. Ancient Hebrew was, of course, written with no indication of short vowels, and the unpointed text has simply png. Assuming that these consonants and the Massoretic pronunciation pannag are correct, there seems much to be urged in favour of connecting the word with the Latin panicum, "panic grass "—a word for "millet." The suggestion was, I believe, first made by the late Dr. Redpath in his Westminster Commentary on Ezekiel. The chapter in Ezekiel where png occurs is very interesting, as showing the prophet's knowledge of geographical details. He is speaking of the commerce of Tyre. H. F. B. COMPSTON. Bredwardine Vicarage, Hereford.

The short article in Murray's Illustrated Bible Dictionary gives all that need be said about it. Its identification is purely conjectural, as the term occurs only in Ezekiel xxvii, 17. Comparison with Genesis lxiii. 11, suggest some spice grown in Palestine and exported to Tyre, an opinion favoured by LXX. kaoía. The Sanscrit pannaga denotes an aromatic plant. The Syriac version suggests millet, Latin panicum. R.V. has a marginal note, perhaps a kind of confection," and the Targum and the book Zohar cited in Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon suggests a kind of sweet pastry." Gesenius says that "other opinions are given in Celsius, Hierobot, ii. 73." Pannag may be a placename used to denote wheat or some other product of the place, as we name port and sherry from Oporto and Xeres. But no such place appears to be known. J. T. F.

Winterton, Doncaster.

Dr. Robert Young, in his exhaustive Analytical Bible Concordance, gives "sweet" as English equivalent to the Hebrew.

Canon Cheyne throws light on the import and misusage of the term in his summarisable observations thereon in Encyclopædia Biblica vol. 3. He declared the A.V. had taken it as a place-name, and R.V. treated it as a

common noun untranslated with marginal Fletcher, which he accepted, and promised note, possibly" a kind of confection." While to attend as regularly as possible. He says Cornill proposed to read "wax," Cheyne" that his duty to his own flock at Madeley considers vine" to be the right interpre- would by no means admit accepting the tation, and, moreover, alleges the Hebrew position of Head Master." phrase is parallel to the Mishnic for date syrup. ANEURIN WILLIAMS. Menai View, North Road, Carnarvon. [Several other correspondents also thanked for replies.j

FINKLE STREET (12 S. v. 69, 109, 279).There is a Finkle Street in St. Bees, Cumber: land. In a deed in my possession, dated Mar. 31, 1809, the words occur, being part of a certain estate there" (i.e., at St. Bees) "called Fennel Street, otherwise Finkle Street." The estate, now dispersed, took its name from the street.

In two earlier deeds relating to the same property, dated June 19, 1719 and Jan. 1, 1739, occur the words "his estate lying in Fennell Street," and "William Nicholson of Fennel Street in the Township of St. Bees." I submit that this is conclusive that Finkle means fennel, as stated in N. & Q.' in 1850 (1 S. i. 419).

As to the suggested derivation from vinkel" (angle), the St. Bees street is not straight (few village streets are)—but its angles are very obtuse. It is worth noting that Professor Skeat protested (6 S. viii. 522) against the substitution of English f for Scandinavian v.

The problem remains: why should a
Comon weed have given its name to
Lurcher of streets ?
P. H. Fox,

Union Club, S.W.

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Shrewsbury.

H. T. BEDDOWS, Librarian.

GEORGE SHEPHERD (12 S. v. 295, 332).-— I have the pleasure of being well acquainted with a great grandson of George Shepherd, and if I may assume this is the artist to whom your correspondent refers, I may say that I have a number of his drawings, and have seen a great number both of his drawings and sketch books, invariably signed "G. Shepheard." As many of his family are alive to-day it would not become me to offer the information which should come from them, but should your correspondent so desire, nodoubt I could refer him to the present holder

of the name.

I have a tinted pen-and-ink drawing by G. S., described "at Dickenson's, Bond Street," and dated 1791: a group around a kitchen fire, one figure marked "G. S."apparently the artist. He appears to have been a prolific worker with pencil and pen and also in water colours in the style of that period. GEORGE GILBERT.

16 Marlboro' Street, Bolton.

TITLE OF BOOK WANTED (12 S. v. 267).— I think the question regards the German novelist Ernst von Wildenbruch, who has published a most lovable story about two young people from Tanagra and the origin of such small Tanagra busts and statuettes. Its title was, if I am not. mistaken, The

Upsala, Sweden.

G. LANGENFELT.

JOHN WM. FLETCHER (12 S. v. 293, 320). Girl Dancer from Tanagra.' The Fletcher referred to by MR. WILLIAMS was himself the saintly vicar of Madeley 1760-85, and was superintendent of Lady Huntingdon's College at Trevecca, 1768-71; but resigned on account of his Arminian views, which he defended in his 'Checks to Antinomianism,' published in 1771. See the 'D.N.B.' for an account of his life.

Aysgarth, Sevenoaks.

H. G. HARRISON.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.-
(12 S. v. 295.)

the

Chinese in Legg's translations of the writings of 3. The quotation of Thoreau is from Confucius and Mencius. As I have not the book at hand I cannot give the exact place. PERRIS A. MURONS.

Albany, New York.

(12 S. v. 322.) Laetitia Barbauld. The correct ending is 2. MOLLOID'S quotation is by (Mrs.) Anna

Bid me good-morning! The lines are the conclusion of the piece with the heading Life,' No. 474 in 'The Oxford Book of English Verse.' The same piece, but very much shortened is given in F. T. Palgrave's Golden Treasury.' EDWARD BENSLY.

[MRS. H. T. BARKER, MR. ARTHUR D. BROOKS and MR. WM. SELF WEEKS also thanked for replies.]

COORG STATE: STRANGE TALE OF Α

PRINCESS (12 S. v. 264, 296).—I am very much obliged to LADY RUSSELL for giving the correct story, fuller details of which will be found in " Lady Login's Recollections," -which I published in October, 1916 (Smith, Elder & Co., now merged in Mr. John Murray, Albemarle Street). My cousin, Mrs. Gardley, is still in existence, and has a son to follow her! I remember my uncle, Colonel John Campbell, well, and all the distress in the family at his disappearance, and the details of it, though only a child at

the time.

The India Office, which has a library and archives, could have informed any inquirer that the Princess's daughter still draws her pension! We were brought up together by my mother, and I was her chief bridesmaid at her wedding. E. DALHOUSIE LOGIN.

a man is often happier in his diversions than in his the larger share in any selection, we cannot do set task, and, if Landor's prose naturally occupies without the verse also. The Latin poems, which rank high in that form of scholarly recreation, are not likely to attract the present unclassical age, nor has the long poem of Gebir' a host of readers today. But the brief epigrams, reminding us of the gems of the Palatine Anthology, are surely immortal. We do not call them "the work of a very nobly-gifted amateur in poetry." We call them successes of the first rank fit to be compared with the best things that professionals have done in that quatrain as there is in a longer poem, but, if it is line. There may be not so much merit in a perfect in its way, who wants a cameo to be a bust or a statue? Having made this protest, we readily assent to all Mr. Bailey's acute judgments of Landor's prose. Often it represents Landor speaking, though the voice is another's; but so noble a voice deserves an 66 easy access to the hearer's grace."

The really odd contrast is that between the serenity of Landor's writing, and the abrupt Wissett Grange, Halesworth. violence of his behaviour, which Dickens took for his Mr. Boythorn in Bleak House.' If Landor's CHARLES LAMB AT THE EAST INDIA"mind was too statuesque for drama," his way of HOUSE (12 S. v. 287).-Jacob Bosanquet sympathies were warm, and warmly exhibited, and bursting out in actual life was very different. His was first appointed a director of the East his taste in authors was occasionally odd. It India House on Aug. 22, 1782, and was still seems pure perversity for any poet to dislike Plato acting in that capacity on Lamb's retire- and to applaud the wisdom and genius of Cicero, ment, in 1825. The other names mentioned who was not in the least original or impassioned, in the Essay are fictitious. My authority for and without his model style would have sunk into deserved neglect. Landor's tribute to Shakespeare the statement is The East India Directory pleases us much better, but he was as Mr. Bailey S. BUTTERWORTH. happily remarks, "much more like Milton."

for 1826.

Notes on Books.

A Day-Book of Landor. Chosen by John Bailey
(Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2s. net.)
FEW enthusiasts, we think, would be so wedded to
the products of a single author as to wish to read a
selection from him every day in the year. But a
"Day-Book offers a convenient form for ample
quotations, and a spice of variety, when, as in
Landor's case, the writer is distinguished alike in
verse and prose. Landor, too, is somewhat outside
the ordinary run of authors and not commonly
thumbed by the average reader. Yet he is
excellent reading, and his prediction "I shall dine
late; but the dining-room will be well lighted, the
guests few and select," has long since, we think,
been verified among judicious tasters of English.
We thank Mr. Bailey, who is well known as a
critic of English poetry, for giving us the oppor-
tunity to revive our pleasure in a master of letters.
He says that Landor has been very fortunate in
his editors and critics. The "Golden Treasury'
volume is, indeed, admirable, and the Imaginary
Conversations' have long since been made accessible
to readers of slender purses-e.g., in the "Scott
Library." But there is still no one volume edition
of the poems such as we hope to see published with
an account of Landor's frequent revisions. Mr.
Bailey remarks that he himself made a distinction
between "poetry" which "was always my amuse-
ment," and "prose my study and business." But

The range of the Imaginary Conversations' is surprisingly wide, and without going deep into the speculation which worries many a modern soul, they are full of sound lessons in art and experience of life. In remarking that "authors should never be seen by authors, and little by other people Landor is echoing the wisdom of Johnson. We are reminded, as we look through the little book, of many sayings that are not new to the world of letters; but Landor had no need to wish those away who anticipated or followed him in a particular thought. In his life he avoided all competitions; he need not have done so, for his style of writing-clear, monumental, dignified-satisfies the most rigorous judges, and he can say more in a sentence than most critics. Witness the remark he gives to Porson about Spenser. "There is scarcely a poet of the same eminence, whom I have found so delightful to read in, or so tedious to read through."

The edition we notice has a paper cover: that in cloth would, we think, be preferable.

Ireland in Fiction. By Stephen J. Brown, S.J.
(Maunsel & Co., Ltd., 10s. 6d. net.)
WHEN the first edition of Ireland in Fiction '
was destroyed by fire in 1916, those fortunate
possessors of the few copies which survived the
catastrophe were able to forge ahead in their
studies of Irish life as seen through the coloured
glasses of a novelist's spectacles. Those students,
however, who were less lucky, have now in their
hands a second edition of this useful compilation,
in which much new material has been incor-
porated. The volume before us is something