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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.
W. H. RIEHL IN ENGLISH. Could any of your readers oblige me by giving the full English title of a translation of W. H. Riehl's ' Culturgeschichtliche Novellen,' done by Prof. S. Mendel before 1890 ? Have any other English translations of the same author's works been published ?
MADAME AIGUESPASSES. 2A, Rue de Berlin, Ixelles, Brussels.
GARIBALDI. Can any one refer me to the poem of which the following verse is part ?
For the shame of Asprpmonte,
And the stain of Montana's sod, But forered the links of the curse that broke From our bursting hearts to God.
G. W. E. R.
RAILWAY ON THE THAMES EMBANKMENT. Could any of your readers enlighten me as to the earlier projects for the Thames Embankment, and a railway line to be con- structed on it ? I have found in private papers a reference to an audience granted by the Prince Consort, in the very early fifties, to a Belgian gentleman who submitted " un pro jet de rue de fer le long de la Tamise." It might be interesting to find this old " pro jet." OXSHOTT.
[Some earlier suggestions respecting the Embank- ment were noticed at 10 S. viii. 103, 166, 193.]
LEECH'S ETCHINGS ON STEEL. In the summer of 1865 a limited number of copies were issued of ' One Hundred and Seventy Designs and Etchings by John Leech,' on India paper, on large folio mounts. The etchings contained in the two volumes of this work were derived from various sources
- Adventures of Mr. Ledbury,' ' The Mar-
chioness of Brinvilliers,' ' The Porcelain Tower,' 'Colin Clink,' 'The Scattergood Family,' ' Stanley Thorn,' ' Aspen Court,' and a few other works ; and also from various short stories which appeared in Bentley's Miscellany.
The list of plates which is prefixed to the work does not (except in a few instances, and then frequently incorrectly) give, the name of the book or story with which the plates were associated. Nevertheless, out of the 170 etchings the origin of 169 has been
arrived at. One illustration, however, has
so far escaped identification with its source,
viz., plate 52, ' An Irish Love Adventure '
(a man bolting for his life, another man just
knocked down, two,. women and a man in
the middle of the plate).
Perhaps some admirer of Leech's work may be able to supply the reference. It is not to be found in Mr. Frith's ' Life of Leech,' or in Mr. Kitton's or Dr. Brown's notes re- garding him. R. B.
Upton.
[The story, but not the plate, is to be found in Bentley's Miscellany, vol. ix. pp. 241-54. The engraving was completed perhaps too late for insertion.]
KNOCKING OFF A PRIEST'S BONNET. About 1493 Langlands of that ilk killed a priest of Melrose in the vicinity of Hawick. Tradition adds that, seeing the enormity of his crime, Langlands hastily rode to Holy- rood and successfully asked pardon of King James for " knocking off a priest's bonnet." When the clerk was writing out the pardon, Langlands bribed him to insert the statement that when the bonnet was knocked off, the priest's head was in it. Are similar traditions extant elsewhere ? G. W N.
Oxford.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.. I shall be much obliged if some of your learned readers will help me to answer the following questions.
1. " To contemplate the spectacle of life with appropriate emotions" has been called the poet's true aim by William Wordsworth. Where ?
2. "To possess one's soul": Where may, this expression occur ?
3. " Nothing is more rare in any man than an act of his own " has been said by Emerson. Where ?
4. " Even the gods cannot alter the past" is said to occur in the Gnomic aphorisms of the Greeks. How runs the original expression ?
5. Where does Gautier refer to one of those " pour qui le moride visible existe " ?
6. Is the i)hrase " a lack of appreciation " a quotation ?
M. M. Berlin.
your souls."
[2. " In your patience possess ye
Like xxi. 19, Authorized Version.]
Luke
THE REVOLUTION SOCIETY. I shall be grateful if any of your readers can tell me if the records of this Society exist, and where I can consult them. It was a social Whig club, which had its origin in the reign of William III. Its principles were personal and political freedom and liberty of con- science, which it termed the rights of man
