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NOTES AND QUERIES. tio i " s. i. JUNE 25, uo*.
others, including the newest and best autho-
rity, Smith's ' Cyclopaedia of Names," 1895,
have Anahuac. I have never heard this
name pronounced by Spaniards, but I fancy
that in most other Mexican names which I
have heard ending in c the final syllable was
accented, e.g., in the name of the last Aztec
emperor, Guatem6c, and in the numerous
place-names ending in -tepee, such as Chapul-
tepec, Tehuantepec, &c.
JAMES PLATT, Jun.
ANTWERP CATHEDRAL. (See 9 th S. ix. 289, 352, 433.) May I shortly repeat my query ? for the replies, although interesting, in no way touch it.
I have read (where I cannot tell) that, owing to the falling of the towers of this cathedral, the present one is built on a foun- dation of hides, and the second tower was not proceeded with, owing to the attraction or pull of the completed one. I have referred to Fergusson, Murray, Baedeker, and Motley, but without result, and yet I have read this somewhere. Can any one help me and give me the reference, and say if correct?
Lucis.
SUPERVISUM CORPUS. Is there any means of arriving at a verdict of the cause of death where the body of the deceased has vanished, as in the recent case where a man fell into a disused mine, or where a body is completely incinerated by a fire or by falling into molten metal, or where a man is lost at sea ? In the last case the Probate Court may allow pre- sumption of death. In the other cases it is said that magistrates must act if a body cannot be produced. But how ?
STANLEY B. ATKINSON.
Inner Temple.
THE EVIL EYE. Can any of the readers of
- N. & Q.' tell me whether the superstition of
the evil eye was ever prevalent in England ? According to a recent writer on the subject it is still widely believed in and guarded against in Italy, and especially in Malta. One wonders if it ever prevailed in the British Isles. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.
[It is still prevalent in some out-of-the-way English places, as any good guide to folk-lore will show. A case at Uxbridge in 1900 is recorded P S. v. 285, and a Scotch instance at 9 th S. xi. 208. .See the General Indexes under 'Folk-lore- Evil eye.']
WATTS'S HYMNS. In Isaac Watts's ' Hymns and Spiritual Songs ' there are three books of lyrics. The first comprises hymns set to given texts of Scripture; the second pre- sents such as illustrate some doctrine, bein^ (in the author's words) "of mere human
composure"; and the third is a collection of
pieces for use at the Communion service. In
his 'Treasury of Sacred Song' (1890) the late
Prof. Palgrave seems to have mixed two of
these hymns for the sake of reaching a satis-
factory unit. The poem he numbers cxcv. in
his anthology opens with the first stanza of
Watts's I. xviii., and continues with the
second and third of II. iii., by which the
poem is ostensibly completed. Did Watts
make any such readjustment of these hymns?
or is the composite product merely the result
of editorial ingenuity ? THOMAS BAYNE.
BARONIAL FAMILY OF SOMERVILLE. The Dublin Evening Mail of 1 June, referring to Sir Henry Moore Jackson, who is to be Governor of Trinidad, states :
"It was during his early years at Sura so at least the story goes that a sunburnt man in a tattered white linen suit called upon him in some distress, and aroused his interest to such a degree that the Governor chartered a small sailing boat to take him to an island which he had indicated. Asked later who the man was, Sir Henry said he declared himself to be Hugh Somerville, twentieth baron of a creation of 1430, whose line was supposed to have become extinct with the death of Aubrey John, nineteenth Lord Somerville, in 1870."
Can any of your readers give any informa- tion as to who this Hugh Somerville was, where he went, or what became of him ]
S. A. B.
"THERE'S NOT A CRIME," &c. Can you or any of your correspondents kindly tell me the name of the author and the poem in which the following lines occur 1
There 's not a crime
But takes its proper change out still in crime When once rung on the counter of the world.
EVELINE PORTSMOUTH.
CLASSIC AND TRANSLATOR. The following verse is from the English translation of a classic author. Wanted, the name of the author and of the translator: There are only two secrets a man cannot keep : One when he's in love, t'other when he's drunk
deep ; For these facts are so proved by his tongue or his
eyes,
That we see it more plainly the more he denies. RESERVE OF OFFICERS.
"RIDING TAILOR" AT ASTLEY'S IN 1815. He is mentioned in an old diary. Have his antics been described in any contemporary paper 1 L. L. K.
NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN PRONUNCIATION. What is the reason of the difference in speech between the people of the North of England and the people of the South ? How
