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NOTES:-Gabriel Peignot, 521-Tête-à-Tête Portraits, 522 -Burton's Anatomy,' 523-Epitaphiana-Dr. Edmond Halley, 526-St. Thomas's Day Custom-"Going agooding' Windsor Uniform P. W. Trepo'penOxford Circus-" Herero": its Pronunciation-American Civil War, 527. QUERIES:-"From pillar to post"-Descendants of the Plantagenets, 528-Authors of Quotations Wanted"Humanitas"-Roll of Carlaverock-Messiah-Name of the Lord-De Quincey and Swedenborg-Soubise, Black Page, 529- The Complete Drill Serjeant'- Macdonell-The Groatie Buckie-The Lincoln Imp-Heralds' Visitations, Northamptonshire - Mrs. FitzherbertEnigma by C. J. Fox-Death-birds in Scotland and Ireland-John Dyer, Poet, 530.

REPLIES:-Catalogues of MSS.-Punch, the Beverage, 531
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Robert Emmet, and Major Sirr's Papers, 534-Toby's
Dog-The Author of Whitefriars,' 535-Staines Bridge
James Butler, Duke of Ormond-Pig: Swine: Hog-
'The Morning Star' Dorset Place-name: Ryme
Intrinseca - Tailor in Dresden China, 536-Baines
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Notices to Correspondents.

Hotes.

GABRIEL PEIGNOT.

APPARENTLY the best collection of the writings of Gabriel Peignot is that in the Wigan Public Library. It is noteworthy that the Lancashire mining town should have been more successful than the British Museum, and apparently also more successful than the Bibliothèque Nationale at Paris, in gathering together the rare and curious books and pamphlets of this learned and entertaining French bibliographer. Amiable in his character, modest in his claims, he is charming by reason of his out-of-the-way erudition and pleasant style. Many of his books and opuscules were printed in restricted editions. Mr. Henry Tennyson Folkard has reprinted, mainly from the excellent Wigan catalogue, a bibliographical note about Gabriel Peignot, who wrote on a wide variety of topics, such as eccentric wills, the origin of the week, the luxury of Cleopatra in her festivities with Julius Cæsar and Marc Antony, July as a fatal month, the history of parchment, the laws of Howel the good, and many other subjects remote from the busy life of every day.

Mr. Folkard prints some verses written by Peignot in his old age:

Le sort que me départ ta volonté suprême Etre puissant et bon, comble tous mes souhaits, Et, maître de choisir, j'aurais choisi le même: Je te rends, ô mon Dieu, grâce pour tes bienfaits. Des livres à mon goût, dans mon coin si modeste, Remplissent mes rayons: un humble coffre-fort Suffit à mes besoins, les pauvres ont le reste ; Mais ma bibliothèque est mon plus cher trésor. Sain de corps et d'esprit, j'ai des amis sincères ; L'étude me distrait sans jamais me lasser; Comptant du jour natal beaucoup d'anniversaires, Je vois, saus nul regret, mon terme s'avancer. Convive passager au banquet de la vie, Je sais qu'il faut bientôt au monde dire adieu; A renaître en ton sein ta bonté me convie, Et mon cœur en nourrit l'espérance, ô mon Dieu ! To these sentiments of the old savant I have tried to give an English dress in the following lines:

The sort allotted by Thy will,
Great God, my wishes all fulfil.

I should have picked it out by choice;
I thank Thee, God, with heart and voice.
My modest little nook of home,
Where 'mid my darling books I roam,
Some coin; the poor may have the rest-
* My books the treasure I love best.
Sound mind and body; friends I admire,
Study-but not enough to tire.

What birthdays since I first drew breath!
Regretless now, I wait for death.

A passing guest in Life's great hall,
I take a kindly leave of all,

And nurse the hope within my breast

To live again in God's own rest.

Amongst my own books is a copy of the Predicatoriana,' at the end of which there are two tracts which look as if they might also be from the pen of Peignot, but they are not mentioned by Mr. Folkard. I therefore name them, as some reader of 'N. & Q.' The first is: be able to give further information.

may

[Colophon] Dijon, imp. de Frantin, 1841, 8vo, "Le Songe du Petit Père Andre. [Signed] Ebéniste

pp. 8.

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Besançon pour la fête patronale d'une des paroisses Panégyrique de Sainte Madeleine prononcé à de cette ville, par M. Belon, prêtre, Docteur en Théologie [No place or date], 8vo, pp. 38." The first pages are occupied by a notice of M. Belon, whose sermon in praise of the Magdalen, it is said, caused the ecclesiastical authorities to prohibit his pulpit oratory for some years. He died shortly before the Revolution, according to this notice.

WILLIAM E. A. Axon. [We owned ourselves not very long ago a considerable collection of Peignot's works, many of them rare.]

Vol. XX. (1788).

(See ante, pp. 241, 342, 462.)

Wife.-Duke of York and 251. P. 103, The Martinet and the Divorced Matron. and Lady Wallace.

......

252. P. 152, Lord Promise and Mrs. A...rch...r.

and Mrs. Archer.

253. P. 200, The Dastardly Mariner and the Exported Wanton.-...... and ...... 254. P. 248, A Son of the Muses and a Daughter of Pleasure.-Arthur Murphy and

......

255. P. 295, The Unsuccessful Lover and the St. Giles's Beauty....... and 256. P. 343, The Constitutional President and the Juvenile Brunette.......and...... 257. P. 397, The Dapper Peer and the Obscure Beauty.......and......

258. P. 440, Old Nauticus and the Fair American.and

259. P. 487, The Insect and the Reptile. and 260. P. 535, Tancred and Sigismunda. George Holman and Miss Hughes. 261. P. 589, Parson Pasquin and Mrs. D.......-Rev. Sir Henry Bate Dudley and Mrs. Dodswell.

and

272. P. 483, 273. P. 531,

240. P. 201, The Fortunate Fortune Hunter and the diminutive Hunchback.

......

- ......

241. P. 249, The Gallant Sea Captain and the Irish

Adventuress....... and

The Old Seducer and the Young Milliner.......and......

Becky and the Little Major.-Mrs. Wells and Major John Scott. Mercator and Lucinda.-..............and................. The Treacherous Guest and the Ungrateful Wife. Francis William Sykes and Mrs. Parslow.