Will somebody tell me whether Newman ever really spoke or wrote words to this effect, and give, if possible, an exact quotation of them? St. Swithen.
Authors of Quotations Wanted.—Can readers of 'N. & Q.' kindly help me to trace any of the following, which may or may not be correctly cited? I have met them in reading and forgotten where, or have not yet been able to find their source:
1. L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes, c'est un episode dans celle des hommes.
I know the English form of the idea in Byron's ' Don Juan,' canto i. st. 194, but have no notion of the French author.
2. Leura Merits sont des vols qu'ils nous ont faits d'avance.
I understand this is Piron's, but where ?
3. Mon verre est petit [n'est pas grand], mais je bois dans mon verre.
4. Voltaire, quel que soil le nom dpnt on le nomme, C'est un siecle vi\ r ant, c'est un siecle fait homme.
A reference to Lamartine's ' Meditations Poetiques : xviii. Ressouvenir du Lac Leman,' appears to be incorrect, or else I have not consulted the right edition.
5. Un jour de fete,
Un jour de deuil, La vie est faite En un clin d'oeil.
Mery, but where 1
6. Les grandes douleurs sont muettes. Vauvenargues ? and where 1
7. Thanks are lost by promises delayed. Is not this from Pope 1
8. Swayed by every wind that blows (or some- thing like it).
9. Is there not a quotation to the effect that if one does a kindness a number of times to another, and refuses to do it the last time, only the refusal is remembered ? It may be English or French. EDWARD LATHAM.
LORD MAYORS. Who was Lord Mayor ol London in 1821 1 Is there any book which contains the names and history of the Lord Mayors of London from 1830 to 1840 ?
C. L. E. C.
Alton.
[John T. Thorpe was Lord Mayor in 1820-1, and Christopher Magnay in 1821-2. ' Haydn's Diet. oJ Dates' gives a list of Lord Mayors, s.v. ' Mayors of Corporations.']
STRAW-PLAITING. Will some reader kindly give me early references to the practice of
this industry in England? I desire to
ascertain when the plaiting of straw for use in
the manufacture of hats or bonnets became
a recognized industry. The earliest date of
which I have note is in James I., but doubtless
there are earlier references.
I. CHALKLEY GOULD.
BCJRNS'S LETTERS TO GEORGE THOMSON. In Willis's Current Notes, November, 1852, p. 96, I note that
the very interesting series of letters which Burns addressed to the late Geo. Thomson were sold by Mr. Nisbet at the close of the sale just completed of the library of the late Mr. C. 13. Tait. The volume was put up at 200 guineas, and after keen competition, was knocked down at 260. The pur- chaser is an English nobleman, whose name has not yet transpired ; but we are able to communicate to
our readers that there is every probability that
the volume will remain in Scotland."
I shall be glad to learn of its present where- abouts. 1 fancy most readers of ' N. & Q/ are conversant with Mr. J. Cuthbert Hadden's- book on George Thomson which appeared a few years ago.
HOBERT MURDOCH LAWRANCE.
71, Bon-Accord Street, Aberdeen.
SCOTTISH NAVAL AND MILITARY ACADEMY. Could any reader refer me to an account or history of the above Academy, which I believe was founded in Edinburgh in the year 1836, but which no longer exists? I have heard that in the Crimean War alone a hundred of its pupils fought, of whom ten died on the field.
CHARLES E. HEWITT.
FISHMONGERS' COMPANY AND THE GERMAN EMPEROR. I should be glad to be informed of the date of the account in The Times of the presentation by the Fishmongers' Com- pany of a jewelled casket to H.I.M. the German Emperor (William II.) and its approximate cost.
J. LAWRENCE-HAMILTON, M.E.C.S.
30, Sussex Square, Brighton.
THE ESSAY. Is there a separate history of the essay, or some volume in which its history is given at length ? D. M.
P. D'URTE'S 'GENESIS' is BASKISH, D'Urte's translation of the book of Genesis and part of Exodus in the " Anecdota Oxoni- ensia" has been mentioned in 'N. & Q.' (9 th S. v. 396, 442 ; viii. 378). Neither in the Oxford edition nor in my criticism thereon published in two numbers of The American Journal of Philology (Baltimore, in Maryland, 1902) was it pointed out that in xliv. 5 the words cena eguiazqui emgutuco laitic mean literally "the which (thing) he will
