NAPOLEONIC AND OTHER RELICS IN NEW ORLEANS.-I am indebted to Miss Doris Kent, a contributor to The New Orleans Times-Picayune, writing under date Nov. 16, for the following notes:

Less than a year ago the City Association of Commerce recommended that the old French quarter, or Vieux Carré, particularly in the environs of Jackson Square, should be restored as the centre for the art life of the city.

The Women's Suffrage Party of Louisiana and the War State Thrift Campaign use as headquarters the old building erected to house the first Louisiana Bank in 1816, and in this residence Paul Charles Morphy, the world's chess champion, was born. He was the son of a Louisiana Supreme Court Justice and Mlle. De Carpentier, a beautiful Creole belle. At the age of 10 he was a chess prodigy, and when, at 13, the renowned Hungarian chess-player Lowenthal visited the city Morphy easily beat him. At 20 he entered the First American Chess Congress at New York, winning 97 out of 100 games. Later he went to Paris and London, and on his return to Boston Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Agassiz, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were guests at a great banquet given in his honour. New Orleans presented him with a set of chessmen in gold and silver. He died from a chill, when still a young man, in the house in which he was born.

The Petit Théatre de Vieux Carré embraces part of the once beautiful apartments designed by the Baronne de Pontalba, the brilliant Creole daughter of Don Almonaster y Roxas, the builder of the Cabildo, the old Spanish law court, which still exists. The lady, after jilting one of the most important citizens, left New Orleans for France, and married the Baron de Pontalba. On her husband's death, she returned to New Orleans and erected the house in Jackson Square so much admired by artists, with its exquisite wrought iron railings, bearing her monogram as the central design. She also laid out the square after a favourite garden of Marie Antoinette, which she had admired in Paris.

The old residence at 500 Chartres Street is called the battered monument to French loyalty. It was built by Nicholas Girod to shelter Napoleon in 1821, and he and his friends also constructed and fitted out a swift ship, the Seraphine, with which to rescue the Emperor from the British at St. Helena. Capt. Boissière, a famous mariner, was placed in command, assisted by Dominick You, an ex-pirate. But when

ARCHDEACON FRANCIS WRANGHAM, 17691842.-I observe at 12 S. v. 288 a reference to Archdeacon Wrangham as the supposed author of the epigram on Jowett and his garden. An odd mistake as to the Archdeacon has come recently under my notice in searching for an engraved portrait. Wrangham's portrait was painted by J. Jackson and engraved by R. Hicks, and formed a plate in Jerdan's set. Upon the plate is the designation "F.S.A." A search shows no record that Wrangham was ever a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries or that he was ever proposed. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804. The British Museum Catalogue repeats the error, which can be understood. It is well to record it in 'N. & Q.' to prevent a repetition. W. H. QUARRELL.

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reproduced as an engraving on p. 1353 in Maitland's History of London, 1760 edition. Maitland's big volumes are otherwise notable for furnishing valuable particulars regarding down-Thames London in the middle of the eighteenth century not included in the labours of other antiquaries and historians of that era. "Row," it should be addedin the Old Stepney Manor at leastgenerally implies that there are houses on one side only of the way or path. Durham Row, it must be understood, furnished quite unhindered access to Stepney churchyard and church. The "Trinity formal -cessions to St. Dunstan's were simply a saunter from the main entrance of their mansion-as is seen in the 'Diary' of Master Samuel Pepys. Mc.

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"STINTING."-The earliest occurrence of this word in the 'N.E.D.' with the meaning of the allotments of stints, that is, pasturage for a limited number of cattle, according to kind, allotted to each definite portion into which pasture or common land is divided, is 1641, and the word "stintage," with the same meaning, occurs in that year. Both words were found in use in North Yorkshire. The word was in use at a much earlier date. In a conveyance of land at West Raxen, in North Lincolnshire, dated 1439, is included vnum styntyng ac demidiam acram prati.'

W. B.

SAM PATTERSON AND BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.'-I have Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges's copy of Sam Patterson's Bibliotheca Universalis Selecta' (sale catalogue, May 8, 1786, and thirty-five following days), with his autograph (May, 1805). The worthy baronet and antiquarian wrote on the fly-leaf: Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy is classified as Medical! p. 263." This is a fact. Sam Patterson was considered by his bibliophile contemporaries a very learned auctioneer, but he was evidently unacquainted with Burton's Anatomy.' ANDREW DE TERNANT.

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36 Somerleyton Road, Brixton, S.W.

PENTECOST AS A CHRISTIAN NAME.-In 1868 (4 S. i. 568) a contributor wrote that usage of the above was especially frequent in the time of Queen Elizabeth. An instance a hundred years later is in Leicestershire and Rutland Notes and Queries, ii. 309, in the parish register of Belgrave: "1705, Oct. 9. Pentecost Hastings was buried."

W. B. H.

Queries.

We must request correspondents desiring information on family matters of only private interest in order that answers may be sent to them direct. to affix their names and addresses to their queries,

EMERSON'S ENGLISH TRAITS.' (See 12 S. v. 234, 275).-I should be grateful for elucidations or references explaining any of this second batch of puzzles from the above work. References given here to pages and lines follow the "World's Classics Edition. Phrases in brackets are my own:

1. P. 41, 1. 9. [The English] think, with Henri Quatre, that manly exercises are the foundation of that elevation of mind which gives one nature ascendancy over another; or, with the Arabs, that the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life. [Can any source be suggested for reference to Henri IV. would be from Sully's either of these two references. I thought the Memoirs,' but I have not yet discovered it.]

2. P. 41, 1. 31. These men have written the game-books of all countries, as Hawker, Scrope, Murray, Herbert, Maxwell, Cumming, and a host of travellers. [I can identify four of these as authors of game-books; but can any one tell me and what are the titles of their chief works?] what Murray or what Maxwell wrote such books,

3. P. 43, 1. 33. The Phoenician, the Celt, and the Goth, had already got in [i.e., into Britain before the Romans]. [Are there any traces of Phoenician settlements in Britain or is Emerson misrepresenting the trading relationships? Was there ever any Gothic incursion, or is this reference due to confusion with the Goidelic Celts ?]

4. P. 50, 1. 23. [Napoleon's remark] "that he had noticed that Providence always favoured the heaviest battalion." [A familiar quotation, but can any one give me an authoritative reference for it?]

5. P. 51, 1. 6. Lord Collingwood was accus tomed to tell his men, that, if they could fire three could resist them; and, from constant practice, well-directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel they came to do it in three minutes and a half. [Any reference? I cannot find it in Collingwood's Correspondence and Memoirs.']

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6. P. 53, l. 1. "To show capacity," a FrenchNo," said an Englishman, man described as the end of a speech in debate : but to set your shoulder at the wheel-to advance the business." [Any reference for either remark?] 7. P. 55, 1. 35. The Mark-Lane Express. [Is this still published? What is, or was, its nature ?]

8. P. 57, 1. 36. Sir Samuel Romilly's expedient

for clearing the arrears of business in Chancery, his court. [Did Romilly ever make any such was the Chancellor's staying away entirely from suggestion ?]

9. P. 58, 1. 22. It is the maxim of their

economists," that the greater part in value of the wealth now existing in England has been produced by human hands within the last twelve months.' [Is this a verbatim quotation from some writer on economics before 1856 ?]

10. P. 59, 1. 9. The Danish poet Ohlenschlager complains, that who writes in Danish, writes to two hundred readers. [Did Ohlenschlager make this complaint? Its substance is flatly contradicted by Laing's Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark' (1852), where, at p. 353, Laing states that the Danish language escaped being divided into two languages, as happened in Germany, and that Danish, like English, "is essentially the same in the mouth of prince or peasant."]

11. P. 64, 1. 39. Mr. Cobbett attributes the huge popularity of Perceval, Prime Minister in 1810, to the fact that he was wont to go to church, every Sunday, with a large quarto gilt prayerbook under one arm, his wife hanging on the other, and followed by a long brood of children. [Does Is his this appear in any of Cobbett's works? statement about Perceval true ?]

12. P. 65, 1. 37. The barons say, "Nolumus mutari." [What was the historical occasion of this refusal?]

13. P. 65, 1. 40. Bacon told them, "Time was the right reformer ";....Canning, to "advance with the times habit ; and Wellington, that was ten times nature.' [References desired for all three quotations.]

14. P. 69, 1. 23. The Northman Guttorm said to King Olaf: "It is royal work to fulfil royal words.' [Reference desired.]

15. P. 69, 1. 35. Even Lord Chesterfield,.... when he came to define a gentleman, declared that truth made his distinction. [Reference desired.]

16. P. 70, 1. 28. Madame de Stael says, that the English irritated Napoleon, mainly, because they have found out how to unite success with honesty. [Reference desired.]

17. P. 71, 14. On the King's birthday.. Latimer gave Henry VIII. a copy of the Vulgate, with a mark at the passage: Whoremongers and adulterers God will judge "; and....the King passed it over. [Is this story true? Any authoritative reference for it?]

18. P. 73, 1. 13. English wit comes afterwardswhich the French denote as esprit d'escalier. [Is the originator of this phrase known ?]

19. Pp. 73 and 74. [Can any one give me the names of the central figures in two stories told by Emerson to illustrate our hard-headedness: (a) of a man who deposited 1001. note in a sealed box in the Dublin Bank for six months, and advertised unsuccessfully for any somnambulist, mesmerizer, medium, &c., to win the note by telling him its number; (b) of a good Sir John (sic Emerson) who was hopelessly perplexed by hearing both sides of a case stated by counsel, and exclaimed: "So help me God! I will never listen to evidence again "?]

20. P. 74, 1. 8. I knew a very worthy man-a magistrate, I believe he was, in the town of Derby....Mr. B. [In December, 1847, Emerson spent two nights at Derby with a Mr. W. Birch. Was he a magistrate? Is there any corroboration of Emerson's story that Mr. B. interrupted an opera by protesting that a bridge on the stage was unsafe?]

21. P. 75, 1. 32. "Ils s'amusaient tristement,

selon la coutume de leur pays," said Froissart

[of the English]. [Reference desired.]

22. P. 77, 1. 24. Wellington said of the young coxcombs of the Life Guards delicately brought up, "but the puppies fight well"; and Nelson

24. P. 78, 1. 9. At Naples they [i.e., the hardheaded English] put St. Januarius' blood in an alembic. [The story of St. Januarius is familiar; but have Englishmen ever attempted to analyse the contents of the phial believed to contain his blood?]

25. P. 78, 1. 11. They saw a hole into the head of the " win king Virgin," to know why she winks. [I should be particularly glad to track down this win king Virgin ; she has baffled many a learned friend of mine.]

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26. P. 78, 1. 19. [Englishmen] translate and send to Bentley the arcanum bribed and bullied away from shuddering Brahmins. [Would this be more likely to refer to Rev. Richard Bentley the scholar (1662-1742), or to Rev. Richard Bentley the publisher of Bentley's Miscellany' (1794-1871), or to Samuel Bentley the antiquary (1785-1868) ?]

27. P. 78, 1. 34. What was said two hundred years ago, of one particular Oxford scholar: "He was a very bold man, uttered anything that came into his mind, not only among his companions, but in public coffee-houses, and would often speak his mind of particular persons then accidentally present, without examining the company he several times threatened to be kicked and beaten." was in; for which he was often reprimanded, and [Reference desired.]

(Rev.) R. FLETCHER.

Buckland, Faringdon, Berks.

HIDDEN NAMES IN DEDICATIONS, &C., TO ELIZABETHAN BOOKS.-I would be obliged to anyone who can give me the name of any work on this subject.

Eastry, Kent.

W.. H.. M. GRIMSHAW.

BRAMBLE.-Can any of your readers kindly inform me what is the origin of the surname Bramble, and in what county it is known? I should be very grateful for any information. P. BRAMBLE.

Caister on Sea, Great Yarmouth.

HUTTON.-Richard Hutton" of Lincoln's Inn, Gentleman," made a will 20 Oct., 1721 P.C.C. 235 Richmond], proved 15 Nov., 1725, in favour, among others, of Charity his sister, wife of Simon Michell [b. 1676, Member of the Middle Temple, 1704, of Lincoln's Inn, 22 Oct., 1714, d. 30 Aug., 1750, buried, Portrait and M.I. at St. John's, Clerkenwell, of which he was a benefactor]. Charity was b. circa 1669 and d. 2 March, 1745. Richard Hutton was not a member of Lincoln's Inn. He leaves a legacy of 10l. to his godson Francis, son of the deceased William Taylor "heretofore my Fellow Clerk in the Home Circuit." What was the parentage and ancestry of Richard and Charity Hutton?

H. PIRIE-GORDON.