11 S. X. AUG. 29, 1914.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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GOETHE : SOURCE OF QUOTATION WANTED
Where in Goethe's works is the followin
quotation to be found? " If you call a bac
thing bad, you do little ; if you call a gooc
thing good, you do much."
DOROTHY V. WHITE. Ivy Bank, Beckenham, Kent.
SEPULCHRAL SLABS IN HAMPSTHWAITE CHURCH, NIDDRRDALE. In the south pore! of Hampsthwaite Church, Nidderdale, are preserved a number of ancient sepulchra slabs, discovered during the restoration o the church in 1821 and 1901.
One of these slabs is ornamented by two triangles inscribed to a depth of nearlj half an inch.
Another slab bears five deep holes aboul two inches in diameter four of them placed as if they formed the corners of a square whilst the fifth is cut in the centre.
It has been suggested that these form rude representations of the Trinity and the Five Wounds respectively. I should be glad to learn if this is their true significance.
CARL T. WALKER. Mottingham, Kent.
' THE HARLEQUIN.' When did this comic or humorous paper cease to exist ?
I have two numbers : vol. i. Nos. 2 and 3, dated respectively 1 and 8 April, 1893, price Id. The drawing of the title-page is signed " C. H. Falcon." Each number con- tains a double-page cartoon with the same signature. They are strongly anti-Glad- stone, Harcourt, &c. Others of the wood- cuts are signed variously " Hal Hurst," "quicun (?)," "Fred Pegram," "Harry Astel," " Cynicus," " Starr W.," "CO Murray." Presumably the first number appeared on 25 March, 1893.
ROBERT PIERPOINT.
" LE SINISTRE." Any one who has corre- sponded with a French fire insurance agency knows this term the technical expression for damage done by fire. What is its exact meaning and history in this connexion ? Is the word used at all as a substantive otherwise ? Is it used to cover juiy sort of damage for which insurance may be paid ? Is the term ancient or modern ? [f ancient, how far back can examples be traced ? I know " sinister " as a Latin word, and its meanings. HYLLARA.
STATUE OF CHARLES I. AT CHARIKG CROSS.
t have had occasion recently to study the history of the statue of King Charles at Charing Cross. I have always been
under the impression that to-day it does not
occupy its original site, but I see it stated
in a usually well-informed journal that,
though its railings have been removed, its
position has never been changed.
On examining various pictures of the statue made in pre-camera days one would come to the conchision that the King has changed his site not only once, but several times.
What are the actual facts ? Does he ride just where he always has ridden since his erection after the Restoration, or has he been moved in any way ? Also, when were the railings removed, and why ?
WlLMOT CORFIELD.
[References to the history of this statue will be found at 5 S. iii. 348 ; iv. 34, 158 ; 10 S. xii. 225, 397 ; 11 S. i. 194. At the last one MB. ALECK ABRAHAMS comments on the position of the statue and the date of removal of the posts.]
OLD ETONIANS. I shall be grateful for information regarding any of the following : (1) Dalby, Henry, admitted 25 Jan., 175*, left 1758. (2) Dalrvmple, John, admitted 13 Jan., 1762, left 1766. (3) Dampier, John, admitted 27 April, 1756, left 1756. (4) Darby, John, admitted 30 Jan., 1764, left 1764. (5) Davis, John, admitted 24 May, 1757, left 1758. (6) Davis, Richard, admitted 24 May, 1757, left 1761. (7) Davis, Mark, admitted 4 Sept., 1762, left 1772. (8) Dawson, Edward, admitted 25 April, 1761, left 1765. (9) Dawson, Joseph, ad- mitted 11 Sept., 1762, left 1768. (10) Dayroles, Thomas Philip, admitted 23 June, 1763, left 1768. (11) Dealtry, James, ad- mitted 2 May, 1758, left 1761. (12) De- ancey, Stephen, admitted 13 Sept., 1761, eft 1766. R. A. A.-L.
EDWARD AKAM. I have before me as I write a very neatly executed volume in nanuscript covering xi and 519 small folio Dages, furnished with frontispiece, title-page, jreface, contents, head -lines, and indeed, n every respect, ready for the printer, ranscribe the title-page: "A Moral and "hilosophical Treatise concerning the Origin f Man : the Immortality of the Soul : and he Nature of Death. In Opposition to icepticism. Argumentum ad Judicium. By Edward Akam. London. 1852."
Does any reader know of this Edward Akam who in his Preface refers to his natural languor arid feebleness of health " of his descendants, if any t
CHARLES HIGHAM. i, Grove Lane, Camberwell, S.E.
