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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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FOREIGN TAVERN SIGNS (11 S. x. 229).
It would take some research to obtain a
complete list of foreign tavern signs in this
country, but it is probably not a very long
one. In the London district there are,
according to the ' London Directory,' five
" Kings of Prussia," and, besides these, a
" Prince of Prussia," several " Brunswicks,"
n " Duke of Wurtemberg," and a " Prince
of Hesse." The action of the proprietor of
the Barnet tavern is scarcely worth follow-
ing : it seems like importing a mere baga-
telle into the very serious quarrel we have
with Germany. In the case of signs long
established, 1 presume the licensing magis-
trates have neither the right nor the wish
to interfere. F. A. RUSSELL.
116, Arran Koad, Catford, S.E.
When a licence is first granted by the justices the licensee is asked to say what sign he wishes his house to bear, and, assum- ing that there is nothing objectionable in' the sign selected, it is put into the licence. When the licensee applies at the annual licensing meeting for the renewal of his licence, he can get his house renamed. A register of licences is kept, and a man would not be allowed to choose a sign already existing in the district. The way in which the licensing justices have jurisdiction over the names of premises under their control is that they- can refuse to grant or renew a licence if the sign chosen is, from a public point of view, objectionable.
No one can possibly tell how many German
signs exist in this country. In order to find
i this out all the registers of licences would
I have to be searched. Probably most of
the houses bearing German names will now
be renamed at the instance of the licensee.
HARRY B. POLAND. Inner Temple.
HEINE AND AMIENS CATHEDRAL : REFER- ENCE WANTED (11 S. viii. 407). I have now fo-ind the reference. It is 'Confidential Letters to August Lewald on the French Stage,' Letter 9 {'Works' [Hamburg, ' 23 vols. 1 ]. vol. xi. pp. 250-51. Translation, C. G. Leland, vol. iv. p. 255):
" When I lately stood with a friend before [the Cathedral] of Amiens, and he beheld with awe and pity that monument of giant strength in towering stone, and of dwarfish patience in minute sculpture, he asked me how it happens that we can no longer build such piles? I replied, ' Dear Alphonse, men in those days had convictions (Ueberzeugungen) ; we moderns have opinions (Meinungen), and it re- quires something more than an opinion to build such a Gothic cathedral.' "
G. H. J.
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH
ISLES : THOMAS ARNOLD (11 S. x. 227).
MR. JOHN T. PAGE may like to know that
there is another memorial to Dr. Arnold in
the parish church of Laleham, Middlesex,
where Dr. Arnold lived before he went to
Rugby, and where he always hoped to end
his days.
Dr. Arnold's son Matthew Arnold, the poet, also lived at Lnleham, and is buried in the churchyard there, beneath a hand- some monument.
S. D. CLIPPINGDALE, M.D.
REV. W. LANGBAINE, RECTOR OF TROTTON, SUSSEX (11 S. x. 190, 235). In reference to this, a local inquiry has brought me a reply from MR. JOHN J. GUY of The Oaks, Hore- ham Road, Sussex, to the effect that David Guy, landowner, Chiddingly, born 1734, married Mary Alcock, born 1742. He is said to have come from near Chichester. A Guy was owner of property at West Wittering.
Lawrence Alcock held the manor of Trot- ton, and died 1723.
J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.
COLOUR AND SOUND (11 S. x. 231). See ' Travels ' of Rev. Alban Butler during the year 1745-6, p. 65 (printed in 1803). He says :
" I had almost forgot to mention Pere Castel, a Jesuit Professor of Mathematics, a great scholar, but an opponent of the doctrine of Sir Isaac Newton, whom he informed me he has wrote against. I saw in his room the famous instru- ment invented and made by himself, that produces colours by the sound which is analogical to each colour. It is like a harpsicord set up against a wall ; when you touch a string or key, to produce a particular note, the whole instrument evidently assumes the colour that corresponds to it by analogy, which Sir Isaac Newton. .. .give us hints of, though the cause is mysterious. This instrument is not finished, and gives only three colours. The Father pretends to entertain hopes of making it complete ; though I scarcely believe he will, at least in haste."
S. M. A.
A fancied relation between the musical scale and the solar spectrum is one of those paradoxes which turn up from time to time. I have come across the following two works, which are possibly unknown to K. M. B. :
Jameson, D.D. 'Colour Music,' London, 1844, 4to.
Hughes, J. H. ' Harmonies of Tones and Colours, developed by Evolution.' 2 parts, and "A few parting words." London, 1883-5, folio (but printed in Belfast).
Both are in the British Museum.
