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the same as Levantine House (No. 56 in ' Ou
Street'), known as Levant House Chambers
" When Lord Levant quitted the countryman
this neighbourhood, in which the tradesme
still deplore him." G. E. P. A.
SCHOOLBOY LITERATURE (9 th S xi. 145). The following clever composition of a fellow pupil of mine, a Belgian, composed in th late seventies, deserves to be recorded :
Qui ce livre prendra,
Pro suis criminibus
A la Potence pendra,
Cum aliis latronibus !
Quelle douleur sera
Pro suis parentibus
De le voir en cet tat,
Pedibus pendentibus !
JOHN A. RANDOLPH.
'LYRA APOSTOLICA' (9 th S. xi. 228). Th list of writers given by MR. JOHN T PAGE i inaccurate in one particular. The following is the correct list, and I have added tht names of the colleges to which the severa writers belonged and their degrees : a. J. W. Bowden, M.A., Trinity. /?. R. H. Froude, M.A., Oriel.
7. John Keble, M.A., Oriel.
8. J. H. Newman, B.D., Oriel.
e. R. T. Wilberforce, M.A., Oriel.
f. I. Williams, B.D., Trinity.
No. 55, 'Hidden Saints,' was written by New man, and the whole of the 'Commune Ponti ficum,' Nos. 161, 162, 163, 164, and 165, wa$ written by Keble. My edition (the ninth. 1849) clearly shows this. F. DE H. L.
The identification of writers is correct, with the exception that e= Robert Wilberforce and {"Isaac Williams. See Postscript to 'Advertisement' in the current issue (1901), signed " J. H. N.," Lady Day, 1879. In the current issue No. 55 is signed S, and No. 163 7. WM. H. PEET.
On the fly-leaf of a copy of the third edi- tion, 1838, belonging to E. Thornton Codd, the key to the writers is the same as that given by MR. JOHN T. PAGE, except that the last two are reversed, viz. : t= Wilberforce. =Isaac Williams.
In my copy of the first edition, 1836, No. 55, 'Hidden Saints,' is signed 8 (Newman), and No. 163 (in the ' Commune Pontificum ') is signed 7 (Keble). J. DE BERNIERE SMITH.
" THE TIM BOBBIN " (9 th S. xi. 68). " Tim
Bobbin " was the pseudonym of John Collier,
an early writer in the Lancashire dialect,
from whose works many extracts have
been made for the ' English Dialect Diction-
ary.' His nominal occupation was as a
schoolmaster, combined, as was so usual in
his day, with various other offices, as land
surveyor, sign - painter, and etcher. Not
inaptly he has been described as the
Lancashire Hogarth. Collier died in 1786,
aged seventy-eight, and is buried, along with
his wife, in the Rochdale parish churchyard ;
the following epitaph is on their grave-
stone :
Here lies John and with him Mary,
Cheek by Jowl, and never vary ;
No wonder they so well agree :
John wants no punch, and Moll no tea.
It is exceedingly probable that the land- lord of the Clapham public - house was a Lancashire man, and an admirer of Collier. "Tim Bobbin" as a sign is but rarely met with in Lancashire now.
RICHARD LAWSON.
Urmston.
MONA (9 th S. xi. 48, 194). There is no island of the name of Mona in Denmark, but the nearest approach to the name is the island of Moen (the Maiden), with its chalk cliffs, south-east of Seeland. Another, but much smaller, is Mano, off the west coast of Jutland. Man is probably a form adopted by the Northmen as a term more congenial to them than Mona. W. R. PRIOR.
Canon Taylor (' Words and Places ') says of Mona and the Isle of Man, " Perhaps from the Welsh mon, separate, a word cognate with the Greek xovos." H. P. L.
NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS CHANGING COLOUR
,9 th S. xi. 89, 217). MR. RIMBAULT DIB-
DIN says, "Gum is bad" As one who
nakes a hobby of preserving newspaper
cuttings (on somewhat novel lines), let me
query MR. DIBDIN'S statement. A bad paper
will discolour with any adhesive, and gums
are so varied that the word is a question-
>egging epithet. I have found the greatest
onvenience with Faber's gutn, which is
ather expensive, but is excellent. It is gum,
iot dextrine, which is an abomination to the
crap-book collector. The great art is to
um the edges only. I shall be glad to get
ny wrinkles from other collectors.
J. M. BULLOCH. 118, Pall Mall.
CAP" IN THE HUNTING-FIELD (9 th S. xi.
84). " Cap " in this sense is used at
t. Peter's College, Westminster (Westminster
chool), at the annual Latin play in Decem-
r. The caps of,:Some of the scholars are
anded round among the audience for con-
tributions towards the expenses, arid the
