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158 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vni.FEB.i9.i92i. LlDDELL AND SCOTT'S GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON (12 S. viii. 119). Your reference to the proposed new edition of this monu- mental work, together with letters in The Times on the two editors, reminds me of an amusing incident which deserves to be known to a wider public than librarians and bibliographers. I refer to the story told by Mr. Falconer Maclan, late Bodley's Librarian, in his Presidential address, in October, 1020, before a meeting of the Bibliographical Society. It appears that in the year 1871 an Oxford undergraduate, who was preparing for Classical Moderations, greatly daring; began to test the accuracy of these well- known editors, noting down at first, a few misprints ; then, by the end, of the year turning up some 300 more, and in the next year 533, and so on ! His friends tried hard to dissuade him from wasting his time over these wretched little lists of Errata, when he ought to have been working for Moderations ; but, 110, he stuck to his purpose. Naturally, he got talked about, and some years later there was a scene in the Deanery of Christ Church, when a voice about seven feet above him (Dean Liddell was standing on a sort of bench in front of the fire, and he sitting in a very low chair) offered him the editorship of the Lexicon ! Luckily he remembered in time those old lines (query where ?) : .... Condendaque Lexica mandat Damnatis poenam pro poenis omnibus ttnam. Though he was unable to accept the offer, yet these insignificant and discouraged lists, did lead to work on the Lexicon ! Query : one would like to know the year of publication of the various editions of this fine work in quarto and octavo. The second edition appeared, I believe, in 1843-5, and the eighth in 1901. J. CLARE HUDSON. Woodhall Spa. BOOKS ON EIGHTEENTH CENTURY LIFE (12 S. vii. 511 ; viii. 79). At the latter refer- ence the statement is made, or quoted, that "a book called 'Chrysal ' ' was "written conjunctively ' by the celebrated John Wilkes and a Mr. Potter, nephew to Dr. Potter, Bishop of Gloucester." Has any evidence been produced to shew that the well - known eighteenth century novel, ' Chrysal or the Adventures of a Guinea ' was not the work of Charles Johnstone ? There has never been a Bishop of Gloucester of the name of Potter. The Mr. Potter meant we may presume to be the Arch- bishop of Canterbury's second son, Thomas- Potter, M.P., and Paymaster-general, an, intimate associate of John Wilkes, whose morals he is said to have corrupted, having,, apparently, a promising pupil. EDWARD BENSLY. OLD SONG WANTED (12 S. viii. 111). This is Praed's ' I remember, I remember/ in four eight -line stanzas. It begins : I remember I remember How my childhood fleeted by. The part to which Trcllope particularly refers is in the final stanza : I was merry I was merry When my little lovers came, With a lily, or a cherry, Or a new invented game. But nowadays Praed's original lines are less familiar than the use to which they were put by a later Cambridge classic. The cat in Calverley's ' Sad Memories * soliloquizes thus : " I remember, I remember," how one night I " fleeted by," And gain'd the blessed tiles and gazed into the- cold clear sky. " I remember, I remember, how my little lov< came " ; And there, beneath the crescent moon, play'd many a little game. EDWARD BENSLY. Much Hadham, Herts. ROGER MOMPESSON (12 S. viii. 111). According to the ' Return of Members of Parliament, 1879,' Roger Mompesson, Recorder of Southampton was member for that place in the Parliament of 1698, being elected Dec. 27, 1699, in place of Sir Benjamin Newland, Knt., deceased. He also- served in the next Parliament which met Feb. 6, 1700-1, and was dissolved Nov, 11. 1701. JOHN PATCHING. TOBACCO : " BIRD'S EYE " (12 S. viii. 90). The leaves of this tobacco are not stripped of its mid-rib, but cut up intact with the central stalk, and it is the sections of these, supposed to resemble birds' eyes, that give it the name. All fine honeydews and " cuts ' are shaved into "flakes" as distinguished from "stripping" one cut through, and the other stripped in lengths. ARCHIBALD SPARKE. This is so called because of the little pupil-like bits which result from the ribs of the tobacco leaves being manufactured with the fibres. A bird's-eye pattern in drapery annotes spots. ST. SWITHIN.