charm may be deemed of sufficient moment to merit a record in 'N. & Q.' The hill was widened several years ago for L.C.C. tramway purposes, and the " Huntsmen's Lodge swept away, I believe, at the same time. The kennels, however, have remained until now, picturesque, though battered relics of more picturesque days. When, by whom, and under what circumstances were they built? As they gave their name to the hill, they must in their time have been of some local note. WILMOT CORFIELD. HORACE SMITH'S VERSES ON SURNAMES. -In several books on surnames there are quotations from a humorous poem by Horace Smith, e.g.: Mr. Metcalf ran off on meeting a cow With pale Mr. Turnbull behind him. I should be glad to know where the E. W. original can be found. means of a chandelier in the form of a long flexible tube suspended from the ceiling, communicating at the end with a burner designed with much taste, being a Cupid grasping a torch with one hand and holding the tube with the other." In 1807 the experiment of lighting the stage with gas was tried by Winsor, who in that year lighted Pall Mall with gas, the first street in London that was so illuminated. Byron may well have seen some of these experiments before he left England for Italy in 1816. Turning to the last paragraph of MR. FISHWICK'S question, I may observe that on 6 Aug., 1817, the Lyceum bill announced that the gas lights will this evening be introduced over the whole stage," and so successful was the experiment that on the 8th of the following September a manifesto was issued to the effect that the improvement of the Publick Accommodation; and this evening a new and brilliant mode of illuminating the audience part of the theatre by means of Gas Lights will be submitted to the observation and, it is respectfully hoped, to the approbation of the visitors of the English Opera House." This method of illumination did not, however, appear to find much favour with the public at the Lyceum, for on the opening | night, of the season of 1823 an advertise"twelve elegant new ment announced that cut glass chandeliers have been added and are to be lighted with WAX," the last word being emphasized in capital letters as special attraction. WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. "The complete success which, after a trial of several weeks, has attended the experiment of lighting the stage by gas, has induced the proprietor of this theatre still further to consult It must, I think, have been at Covent Garden Theatre, and in May, 1821, that Lord Byron and a good many other people first saw a theatre illuminated by gas. My authority for this statement is a very excellent and informing article entitled "The Night Lights of Old London,' which appeared in The Builder in April, 1879. It is there stated that "in 1819 Messrs. Taylor and Martineau erected an apparatus at Apothecaries' Hall for making oil gas, and in May, 1821, the Whitechapel and Bow Works adopted the invention, as did also Covent Garden Theatre, Whitbread's Brewery, and the Argyll Rooms." It was clearly very successful, for it was proved in evidence given before a Royal Commission in the following year that the Chartered Gas Company, one of the three then in existence in London, supplied 8,586 houses and 172 public buildings, including seven theatres. Whether But long before that date the Moravian refugee, Mr. F. A. Winzer, or Winsor, had been enthusiastically extolling the wonders of gas-lighting, and he is said to have fitted up the Lyceum Theatre and lectured there on the merits of the new invention. or not these lectures and experiments of Winsor's were really given at the Lyceum Theatre on the site of Wellington Street, as this statement would imply, seems to a place me rather doubtful. There was known as the Athenian Lyceum at No. 22, Piccadilly, and as it was at that place that, according to a contemporary programme, a facsimile of which is now before me, a Mr. Hyde lectured on 8 March, 1808, and other dates, on The Danger of Gas Lights,' with a Grand Display of Philosophical Experiments and Illustrations," by which he prove "the insalubrity of proposed to Carbonated Hydrogen Gas and the Fallacy of the pretended Inventor's Assertions," it 66 seems highly probable that it was at the same institution that Winsor had given his lectures, and not at the famous theatre of that name. It would be interesting if this small point could be cleared up. ALAN STEWART. In a note on the career of Mark Lonsdale, John Britton mentions a benefit night at the Lyceum Theatre, the programme being made up of Lonsdale's moving panorama of Egyptiaca, taken from Denon's Antiquities of Egypt,' and of recitations and songs given by himself and three friends. Winsor, one of the pioneers of gas, lighted "This [he says] was in the year 1802; and the the Lyceum Theatre with gas experi- event is memorable, as the house was lighted mentally in 1803. Further advance with by gas, being, I believe, the first time that valuable the new illuminant was made in the follow-light was employed within the walls of a theatre." Autobiography,' i. 101. ing year. In its issue of 2 July, 1804, The Times announced : "Sir Joseph Banks, ever indefatigable in examining and promoting useful discoveries, went last Thursday evening, for the second time, with a large party of his noble and scientific friends, to the Lyceum, to witness the incredible effects of smoke; the whole Theatre was light with the same, in a novel and pleasing manner; the arch of lights above the stage had a very striking effect, and from the English grate on the stage (which may be fixed in every room) issued a very brilliant and fanciful light....The noble and learned visitors....expressed the liveliest satisfaction." From this time the use of gas rapidly developed and spread, and by 1821, the date mentioned by your correspondent, the sight of a gas-lit theatre can scarcely have been a rarity. H. D. ELLIS. All the theatres in London, except the Haymarket, were probably lighted by gas before 1821, as the Lyceum was lit by gas as an experiment in 1803, and gas was introduced generally through London 18141820. The Theatre Royal, Glasgow, was illuminated with gas 18 Sept., 1818; the advertisement of this said that gas never till then had been seen in any theatre in the Kingdom. FREDERIC BOASE. Gas must have been in use in the London theatres as early as 1819. In that year it was introduced at the Theatre Royal, Cheltenham, and on a play-bill of that theatre, dated 22 May, 1819, is the following announcement : "Mr. Crisp has directed his close attention to the general improvement of the Theatre, which is now LIGHTED with GAS upon an enlarged scale, after the most approved plan of the London Theatres." Gloucester. ROLAND AUSTIN. It would be interesting to know if there is any corroboration of this very early date. The Gas Company of London only obtained its charter in 1810, but Murdoch had lighted part of the factory of Messrs. Bolton & Watt in Soho in 1798, so that Britton's date does not seem to be altogether impossible. MARGARET LAVINGTON. [MR. J. ARDAGH and MR. R. A. POTTS also thanked for replies.] "STAR-YPOINTING": THE SECOND FOLIO OF THE SHAKESPEARE PLAYS (11 S. vii. 456), -At the risk of another harmless Baconian bomb from your correspondent I venture to supply some of the guidance SIR E. D. LAWRENCE seeks, although a few of his questions appear to be already answered on p. 496 of my Shakespeare Bibliography ' : There are six imprint variants in the second edition of Shakespeare,' 1632, all of which may be seen in the Lenox Public Library, at New York. A copy of No. 1 in list given, CotesSmethwick imprint, was purchased at auction by the late Mr. Quaritch in 1887, another by Messrs Leighton in 1907. A copy of No. 2 in list, Cotes-Aspley imprint, was bought at auction in 1893 by Mr. B. F. Stevens, and another with this variant by Messrs. Sotheran in 1894. A third of Charlecote, was purchased at auction by copy, formerly belonging to John Lucy Mr. B. F. Stevens in 1907. A fourth copy was bought by Mr. Quaritch in 1907. Of No. 3 in list, Cotes-Hawkins imprint, two copies appeared at auction in 1903, one in 1904, one in 1905, and one in 1907-five in all. Of No. 4 in list, Cotes-Meighen imprint, a copy was bought in 1890 at auction by Mr. Tregaskis, a second in 1902 by Mr. B. F. Stevens, and another in 1907 by one named Ryley. Of No. 5, Cotes-Allot imprint, the copies are too plentiful to enumerate. "" towards the extremity of St. George's In The Dickensian for June there is an article about St. George's Gallery with an illustration of the performance, which appeared in The Illustrated London News, 28 May, 1853. Is there an illustration of the building in existence ? J. ARDAGH. Dublin. internal evidence it seems probable that her version of the story was the later one; e.g., the monster into which the prince was transformed in Hawkesworth is merely a combination of a wolf and a goat; in the French version he assumes far more fearful proportions, and is compounded of six animals. It is unlikely that any author or translator would diminish the terrifying attributes of a monster, though he might well add to them. The attempted violation of the heroine by the prince in the English version becomes a proposal of marriage in the French; and though this watering down might well be made for the benefit of les enfans," a converse fortifying for English adult readers seems less probable. 44 had Madame de Beaumont's version in her On the fan-shaped amphora (pottery) from Camirus, Rhodes (Thetis and Peleus), Encyclopædia Britannica,' ninth edition, is an illustration of a fable of a man being bitten by a dragon or serpent on following the path of desire. Is not the proverbially sharp serpent's tooth a more striking symbol than the magic ring? Where may this legend be found? H. BROTHERTON. Burnley. the MAGIC RING (11 S. vii. 430).-The reference quoted in 5 S. iii. 194 is misleading. The ring discussed in the ninth volume of the Royal Society of Literature's Transactions is not the ring alluded to by George Eliot. THE RED HAND OF ULSTER: CLASPED That paper treats of the recognition of a HANDS ON JEWISH TOMBSTONES (11 S. vii. long-absent husband or lover by the familiar 189, 275, 334, 373, 434).-MAJOR BALDOCK device of a ring dropped into the cup from at the last reference mentions "the clasped which his lady drank. The tale in 'The hands" in the Hackney Cemetery as Adventurer' is by Dr. John Hawkesworth, crest or badge of the Cohen family." It and occupies three numbers (13-20 Jan., may interest him to know that this symbol 1753). It agrees in all essential points with is borrowed from the ancient Temple serthat told by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont vices, still retained on holydays when in her Magasin des Enfans,' the date of the "Cohanim " ascend the dais before which I cannot exactly determine; the the Ark, and, extending their hands "Nouvelle Edition" in the B.M. has no date, under their taleisim (praying cloaks), and is marked in the Catalogue"? 1760." "bless the people.' I believe the practice According to a French biographical dic- of carving these emblems on tombstones tionary, the author came to England shortly has been abandoned altogether; at least, after the publication of her first book, which I have not observed any in Plashet or appeared in 1748, and continued to live here Willesden cemeteries. for the greater part of her life. From M. L. R. BRESLAR, STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES: "OFFRS." (11 S. vii. 443).—I am sorry MR. PAGE, when copying the inscription on the pedestal in front of Regency Square, Brighton, did not protest against the contraction of the word officers to "Offrs." I have from time to time called the attention of my friends to this, and one and all agree that such a contraction ought not to appear on a public monument, and that it is in very bad taste. 66 Inner Temple. HARRY B. POLAND. TOWN-PLANNING " (11 S. vii. 447).—By a curious coincidence the same morning's mail brought me two papers, in one of which the latest number of N. & Q. SIR J. A. H. MURRAY'S question about town - planning was asked, while the other, a German newspaper-which I am sending to the Editor-had an article about the right way to combine house and garden, with the heading, Haus and GartenPlanung.' This with the verb planen in an architectural sense (to design) was new to me, though "der Plan eines Hauses, einer Stadt," "Stadtplan," Hausplan" are quite common. Probably this use has as yet remained confined to professional literature. As the author refers to Prof. Muthesius as his master, and to Lichtwark, perhaps some brethren of the 'N. & Q.' community who are architects will be good enough to search in the works of the writers mentioned. I have no doubt that the incomparable storehouse of the B.M. Library contains them. G. KRUEGER. Berlin. 93 66 "In the same churchyard is to be seen the worst travesty of an epitaph I have met with yet, founded on what are among the most hackneyed of all graveyard rhymes, which occur, in a comparatively correct form, in the same churchyard, over William Harvey, 1756, thus : Farewell vain World, I've had enough of thee, And Valies't not what thou Can'st Say of me; Thy Smiles I court not, nor thy frowns I fear, My days are past, my head liest quiet here. What faults you saw in me take Care to shun, Look but at home, enough is to be done. The travesty occurs on a headstone to is exactly reproduced below. Phillis Robinson, dated as recently as 1866, and Its fearful and wonderful rendering possibly is due to the circumstance that it was chiselled from memory by an extremely illiterate man :— Farewell vain world I've had enough of the, DICKENS: PLACES MENTIONED IN THE UNCOMMERCIAL TRAVELLER' (11 S. vii. 249, 434).-I cannot find an essay entitled 'The Noble Savage' in 'The Uncommercial Traveller,' although a paper under that title is entered in the general index to All the Year Round (vol. v. p. 424). But on turning up the reference I fail to discover any mention of St. George's Gallery. Will your corre. spondent give the reference to the volume and page of All the Year Round where the article to which he alludes first appeared? I think it very probable that St. George's Gallery was a name given to the building originally erected in 1842 to serve the pur. pose of a Chinese exhibition. According to The Illustrated London News (6 Aug., 1842, "the left hand p. 204), the building stood on side of the inclined plane extending from Hyde Park Corner to Knightsbridge, and 66 towards the extremity of St. George's In The Dickensian for June there is an article about St. George's Gallery with an illustration of the performance, which appeared in The Illustrated London News, 28 May, 1853. Is there an illustration of the building in existence? J. ARDAGH. Dublin. AUTHOR OF QUOTATION WANTED (11 S. vii. 489).—“There is a great deal of human nature in man." Is not this from Judge Haliburton's 'Sam Slick' ? C. L. S. The late Roman Catholic Bishop of Birmingham, Dr. Ullathorne, was fond of saying, "There is a great deal of human nature in most of us,' but whether it was a quotation or an original remark I do not know. ARNOLD H. MATHEW. Ethelbert Lodge, Bromley, Kent. internal evidence it seems probable that her version of the story was the later one; e.g., the monster into which the prince was transformed in Hawkesworth is merely a combination of a wolf and a goat; in the French version he assumes far more fearful proportions, and is compounded of six animals. It is unlikely that any author or translator would diminish the terrifying attributes of a monster, though he might well add to them. The attempted violation of the heroine by the prince in the English version becomes a proposal of marriage in the French; and though this watering down might well be made for the benefit of les enfans," a converse fortifying for English adult readers seems less probable. had Madame de Beaumont's version in her On the fan-shaped amphora (pottery) from Camirus, Rhodes (Thetis and Peleus), Encyclopædia Britannica,' ninth edition, is an illustration of a fable of a man being bitten by a dragon or serpent on following the path of desire. Is not the proverbially sharp serpent's tooth a more striking symbol than the magic ring? Where may this legend be found? H. BROTHERTON. Burnley. the MAGIC RING (11 S. vii. 430).-The reference quoted in 5 S. iii. 194 is misleading. The ring discussed in the ninth volume of the Royal Society of Literature's Transactions is not the ring alluded to by George Eliot. THE RED HAND OF ULSTER CLASPED That paper treats of the recognition of a HANDS ON JEWISH TOMBSTONES (11 S. vii. long-absent husband or lover by the familiar 189, 275, 334, 373, 434).—MAJOR BALDOCK device of a ring dropped into the cup from at the last reference mentions "the clasped which his lady drank. The tale in The hands" in the Hackney Cemetery as Adventurer' is by Dr. John Hawkesworth, crest or badge of the Cohen family." It and occupies three numbers (13-20 Jan., may interest him to know that this symbol 1753). It agrees in all essential points with is borrowed from the ancient Temple serthat told by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont vices, still retained on holydays when in her 'Magasin des Enfans,' the date of the "Cohanim " ascend the dais before which I cannot exactly determine; the the Ark, and, extending their hands "Nouvelle Edition" in the B.M. has no date, under their 66 taleisim (praying cloaks), and is marked in the Catalogue"? 1760." "bless the people." I believe the practice According to a French biographical dic- of carving these emblems on tombstones tionary, the author came to England shortly has been abandoned altogether; at least, after the publication of her first book, which I have not observed any in Plashet or appeared in 1748, and continued to live here Willesden cemeteries. for the greater part of her life. From M. L. R. BRESLAR, |