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1 .however perfectly the task were executed,
- give the truth, for the charm of ' Old King
Cole ' depends entirely like the beauty of great hymns upon the pauses. The com- plicated chorus quoted by Miss MOOYAART lacks the simplicity dear to admirers of the legendary song. D.
AUTHORS or QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 247).
To possess one's soul.
Are the following lines relevant ?
And see all sights from pole to pole,
And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul
Before we die. Matthew Arnold, ' A Southern Night,' st. 18.
V. W. DOWELL.
I am glad to see the French version of " 'Tis Love, 'tis love," &c., referred to (10 S. x. 368, 497), as I think this must be the original. As far as I can remember its burden from hearing it in the sixties, it was something as follows, but I cannot be sure that this is correct :
C'est 1'Amour, 1'Amour, 1' Amour, Qui fait le moiide se tourner, Lt chaque jour, a son tour, Le monde se tourne & 1'Amour.
The tune was the same as that used for the English version, and the accent in singing, was, of course, always on the second syllable
of " Amour." J. FOSTER PALMER.
8, Royal Avenue, S.W.
'Tis Love, 'tis Love, that makes the world go round. Surely this is quoted in ' Alice,' either in Wonderland, or through the Looking -Glass.
G. W. E. R.
The lines sought by K. P. D. E. (10 S. x. 468),
Two men look out through the same bars : One sees the mud, and one the stars,
occur in a little book called ' A Cluster of <Juiet Thoughts,' published by the Religious
'Tract Society. They were written by the Rev. Frederick Langbridge, a clergyman of the Irish Episcopal Church, residing, I believe, at Limerick. W. S R.
THE ' PROMPTORIUM ' (10 S. x. 488).
The E.E.T.S. has lately issued this volume (No. CII. of its Extra Series), edited by the Rev. A. L. Mayhew, and published, as usual, by Messrs. Kegan Paul & Co. It is not a reprint of Way's edition, the text being from the Sylkestede MS. of Winchester "Cathedral, with about two hundred pages -ofjvaluable philological notes by the editor.
H. P. L.
The Periodical for September, 1908,
p. 268, has the following note :
" Mr. Frowde has become joint publisher to the Early English Text Society, which is including in its extra series 'The Promptorium Parvulorum,' the first English-Latin Dictionary, c. 1440 A.D., edited from the manuscript in the Chapter Library at Winchester, with introduction, notes, and glos- saries, by A. L. Mayhew, M.A."
The December issue notes the publication of the book by the Oxford Press at a guinea net. It will be seen that a different manu- script has been selected for editing, the Camden Society's issue having been edited from the Harleian MSS., with readings from other MSS. ROLAND AUSTIN.
Gloucester Public Library.
[MB. W. R. B. PBIDEAUX and Q. V. also thanked for replies.]
ITALIAN GENEALOGY (10 S. x. 449). There is no Italian equivalent to Burke or Debrett in the sense of being exhaustive as regards all existing titles. An ' Annuario della Nobilta Italiana ' has been published annually at Pisa since 1879 ; and there is Count Litta's ' Celebri Famiglie Italiane,' 11 vols., Milan and Turin, 1819-99, the Second Series of which (Turin, 1902) is now in progress. RUVIGNY.
There is a little book published year by year called ' Annuario della Nobilta Italiana,' Bari, Direzione del Oiornale Araldico e dell' ' Annuario della Nobilta Italiana,' Via Piccinni, 115. The issue of 1893, which I have before me, was the fif- teenth. I bought it at Hoepli's in Milan in 1893, price, I think, 10 lire or about. Fronting the title-page is a portrait of the founder of the book, viz., Comm. G. B. di Crollalanza, who died at Pisa 8 March, 1892. His son Goffredo di Crollalanza, with the same address at Bari, was responsible for the 1893 ' Annuario.'
There is not much of old genealogy in the book, but probably the direttore could give the information asked for.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
For Neapolitan aristocracy consult C. Padiglione's ' La Nobilta Napoletana,' Napoli, 1880, also ' Discorsi delle Famiglie Nobili del Regno di Napoli,' by Carlo de Sellis, 4 vols., Napoli, 1654-1701. Both the foregoing are to be found in the B.M.
For a tolerably full bibliography of books and manuscripts on Neapolitan families see Gatfield's ' Guide to Heraldry andJGenea- logy,' 1892, pp. 595-6. A. L. HUMPHREYS.
187, Piccadilly, W.
