Catechu, called in Malay "Penang," and in
Javanese "Jambi." This nut is believed by the
natives to strengthen the stomach and preserve
the teeth, and, when chewed with the betel leaf
and mixed with a little shell lime, gives the saliva
a red colour, which it imparts to the lips and
gums. The betel, or areca palm, is grown in
many parts of the East Indies and Eastern Archi-
pelago, from the Red Sea to the Pacific Ocean, but
it is most abundant in the Straits of Malacca,
Sumatra, Java, and Ceylon. Betel boxes are
usually made of metal, and are something like
tobacco boxes. A good many are exported from
this country to the Straits of Malacca.
See
Balfour's Cyclopædia of India.

E. L. M. EVANS,
Lt.-Col. Madras Staff Corps.

LUTHER (5th S. iii. 486.)--MR. SWIFTE'S (to whom I would wish many happy returns of the day) etymology of Luther is a very interesting one. May I venture to rescue his reputation in this ninety-ninth hour from such a slur as a false quantity? "Et filî verbo," &c., is an easy and salutary change.

Hatherly Place, Cheltenham.

H. S. SKIPTON.

therefore, think that every scrap of information that bears upon this case should be placed upon record for future use. On these grounds I forward for preservation in "N. & Q." the following letter to the Standard, which I think well worthy of reprinting for the curious information it contains:

"Sir, In replication to the questionable inquisitiveness of Laicus,' I take this opportunity of making a few remarks relative to the family connexions of the late Mrs. Ryves.

mother, as the daughter of Henry Frederick, Duke of "The claim of this lady to Royal birth through her Cumberland, was in no degree affected by her marriage, and as such an assumption of legitimacy is not raised on the part of her children, the public have no right to pry into the family pedigree of Mr. Ryves. As he is still living, and other members of his family, such a procedure is, to say the least, in very bad taste, but I will afford the following information:

"

of Ranston, and Mrs. Ryves, some time located in the 'Anthony Thomas Ryves is the son of Captain Ryves, Lambeth Road; and they had one other child, a daughter, who married Mr. James Covernton, of Toronto, Upper Canada. Mr. Ryves had an elder half-brother, Colonel Peter Ryves, and a half-sister, Mrs. Darbyshire.

Mr.

"Captain Ryves died comparatively young. Coombe (Dr. Syntax), then an old man, came to lodge with Mrs. Ryves, and having no children he took an interest in young Anthony, who became his protégé and pupil. As to any 'inducements,' beyond mere personal predilection, a fertile imagination can alone conjecture.

"Mrs. Ryves and her sister, the late Mrs. Harris, were co-heiresses of a large property under the will of John Wolsey, and she is interred in his family grave, now the only one standing in the churchyard of St. Mary-leStrand. At her death her two children were well pro

vided for.

"As to the omission of the name of Mrs. Britannia

Jenes Brock, some time deceased, the younger sister of the claimant for Royalty,' in all legal proceedings, that was in consequence of Mrs. Ryves being the eldest sur Olive, and the whole of the rights, titles, and interests viving representative of the lady called the 'Princess being hers alone, both by the laws of primogeniture and bequest. If Mrs. Ryves had succeeded, Mrs. Brock would only have needed to produce the certificate of her birth, and her relationship to Royalty would have entitled her to a maintenance. I will add that the 'Appeal for Royalty' was the reprint of a number of articles that appeared at various dates in the columns of the Morning Post, about 1848, and were not written by Mr. Ryvesas stated-or any of the family.—I am, &c.,

"ONE OF THE FAMILY."

[Many similar replies have been sent.] MILTON'S "RATHE PRIMROSE" (5th S. iii. 448; iv. 18, 36.)-See the many instances of the use of the word in Richardson's Dictionary, s. v. Rather is the comparative earlier, sooner. T. J. A. BEAUMARIS CASTLE (5th S. iii. 504.)-The letter from Major-Gen. Jones to Captain Wray, extracted from the Monthly Magazine, of Aug. 1806, Standard has not written the date on it, but from Unfortunately, whoever cut this out of the by your correspondent K. P. D. E., has been pub-advertisements on the back it would seem to have lished more than once. It appears on p. 399 of Parry's Royal Progresses in Wales, a well-known book. The writer of the letter was "Col. Jones the Regicide," who has formed the subject of more than one query in "N. & Q."

Croeswylan, Oswestry.

A. R.

MRS. RYVES AND MRS. HARRIS (5th S. iii. 5, 34, 400, 408.)-I am one of those who believe that the last has not yet been heard of the Ryves claim to Royal honours; and,

been in December, 1871. I have, I think, before
heard the name of Mrs. Brock in connexion with
this matter as the second of the two daughters of
Mrs. Serres.

But who is Mrs. Ryves's sister Mrs. Harris ?
Have we more scions of Royalty living among us
than we are aware of?
TRUE BLUE.

FIRE! (5th S. iv. 1.)-It is a well-known fact that, when the business of the Honourable East

GERMAN (CHILDREN'S) STORIES (5th S. iv. 8.)Z. W. will find all he requires in Grimm's Fairy Tales, Warne & Co., London.

E. LEATON BLenkinsopp.

ROYAL AND PAUPER LATINISTS (5th S. iii. 468.) -In Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, London, 1804, printed for Caddell & Davies, vol. iv. p. 109, under Marguerite De Valois, first wife to Henry IV., is the following passage :

"Marguerite, who understood Latin, on seeing a poor man lying on a dunghill, exclaimed, 'Pauper ubique jacet.' The man, to her astonishment, replied :—

"In thalamis hâc nocte tuis, regina, jacerem Si verum hoc esset: Pauper ubique jacet.' Marguerite ill-humouredly retorted:

The meaning of orts, according to Johnson, is "refuse, things thrown away," and he adds, "obsolete." Alas! why obsolete? How expressive the word! how difficult to replace it! and how strikingly used by Dr. Young in the following passage, to my mind superior to the two quotations instanced by Johnson from Shakspeare! Let the readers of "N. & Q." judge :"Ere man has measured half his weary stage, His luxuries have left him no reserve, No maiden relishes, unbroacht delights; On cold serv'd repetition he subsists, And in the tasteless present chews the pastDisgusted chews, and scarce can swallow down. Like lavish ancestors, his earlier years Have disinherited his future hours, Which starve on orts and glean their former field." DAVID WOTHERSPOON.

will find a "lively pourtraiture" of him in Josiah SIR W. BRERETON (5th S. iii. 489.)—MR. WEBB Ricraft's Survey of England's Champions, 1647.

JAMES ROBERTS BROWN.

CAERLAVEROCK (5th S. iii. 469.)—

"The Castle [of Caerlaverock] is said to have been originally founded in the sixth century by Lewarch-Ogg, son of Lewarch-Hen, a famous British poet, and after him to have been called Caer-Lewarch-Ogg, which in the Gaelic signified the city or fortress of Lewarch-Ogg." -Grose's Antiquities, i. 159.

These heroes were descendants of the illustrious line of Coel Godhebog, a Cumbrian prince, who settled in Annandale about A.D. 300. About 560 lived the senior of the two, who was both poet and soldier; he is believed to have composed A Lament for Urien, which is considered genuine. The name of his forts survives in "Castle Lywar" in Eskdale, and "Caer Laurie" in the Lothians. The good family of Laurie in Nithsdale has the same origin. These details are from Mr. McDowall's excellent History of Dumfries. All relating to these mythical personages, however, must be taken with much salt. A. FERGUSSON, Lt.-Col.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, in the County of Southampton. By the Rev. Gilbert White, M.A. The Standard Edition, by E. T. Bennett, thoroughly Revised with additional Notes by James Edmund Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., Author of A Handbook of British Birds, &c. Illustrated with Engravings by Thomas Bewick, Harvey, and others. (Bickers & Son.)

IT was a happy day for all naturalists and lovers of delightful books when the Rev. Gilbert White took up his residence in his native village of Selborne. We were going to call him the Jaques of Woolmer Forest, but he who found tongues in trees and good in everything around his Hampshire retreat, had nothing of the melancholy in his constitution. It is a day scarcely less deserving to be marked with a white stone when a judicious bookseller brings out a new edition of this popular English classic, fittingly illustrated, and superintended by one able, in well-chosen notes, to bring the results of modern science to bear upon the careful observations of its author. Such an edition is the one now before us. It has been superANCIENT CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOUNTS (5th S. intended by a Fellow of the Linnæan and Zooloiii. 468.)-Several are in print, e.g., those of Lud-gical Societies, well known as an ornithologist, and low, 1540-1600, and St. Michael, Cornhill, 14571563, Camd. Soc., 1869; Leverton, 1492-1612, Archæologia, xli.; St. Margaret Pattens, The

every page of the book furnishes evidence of the pains he has taken to harmonize the information of his author with the advances which have been

made in the study of natural history since 1788, when White's book was given to the world. The illustrations by Bewick, Harvey, and others, add greatly to the value of the book; and if it were possible to add to the popularity of White's Selborne, such a consummation might be looked for from the appearance of this useful and handsome edition of it.

If all who admired his wit and learning would do as
much in proportion to their means, Mr. Croker might
covering them with a tombstone.
build a church over poor Prout's remains, instead of
AN OLD FRIEND.

[We shall be happy to receive further contributions.] INQUIRER writes:-"I observe frequently in the papers a baronetcy described as "Tilson Marsh, Bart.,' or 'Marsh Tilson, Bart.,' and I find no information in Burke or Debrett as to its existence or creation. Can any of your readers enlighten me on this point?"

Notices to Correspondents.

Restormel: a Legend of Piers Gaveston; The Patriot Priest; and other Verses. By the Author of The Vale of Lanherne, &c. (Longmans & Co.) Restormel possesses two leading merits. The writer D. A.-When the English papers recorded the death feels what Wordsworth and Emerson have tried to of M. Léon Laya, they also stated that his father was impress on their readers, that there is a poetry in things; the author of a drama L'Ami des Loix, and that in that and he embraces a good deal of reality in a few words. piece the words, "Des lois et non du sang," caused such He is not one who writes poetry without deserving the excitement, that the revolutionary authorities closed the name of "poet." The author of Restormel is now no house. Not having read this drama we cannot speak on novice in the composition of poetry. His Poems of our own authority. But here is better authority still, Later Years, Memories, The Vale of Lanherne, &c., are and it gives to M. Joseph Chénier what had been attri more than encouraging. The first canto of the present buted to the elder Laya. In the notice on Chénier volume describes in felicitous language the neighbour-prefixed to his Charles IX., in the collection of "Chefshood of Lostwithiel. The "In Memoriam" verses on d'oeuvre Tragiques," published by Firmin Didot, 1855, Enrico Tuzzoli reproduce with much interest and pathos are these words, in reference to Joseph Chénier's Caius the eventful and heroic life of the patriot priest of whom Gracchus :-" Ún hémistiche fameux de cette tragédie, Garibaldi said, "The good priests are not all dead." des lois et non du sang, était applaudi avec d'autant plus Through the Woods. A Volume of Original Poems. By de transport, que le public y trouvait nettement formulée Agnes R. Howell. (London, Hamilton, Adams & Co.; la profession de foi de Marie Joseph, qui ne voulait dans Norwich, Fletcher & Son.) la Révolution que ce qu'elle avait de juste et de généreux.”

THE author of Sybelle's Dream, and other Poems is once
more before the public, and with her previous success.
The varied character of the metre and measure evinces
a careful study of the art of poetry by the writer. The
poetic vein has been reached as well. The mixed tones
of sad and pleasant thought which pervade the volume
have produced a book suitable alike for the mourner,
the invalid, and the general reader. Not a few of the
poems are chaste, bright, and attractive. "The Fight
for the Banners" is worthy of special notice.
The New Shaksperian Dictionary of Quotations, with
marginal Classification and References. By G. Somers
Bellamy. (Charing Cross Publishing Company.)
DODD's Beauties of Shakespeare is not a book to be des-
pised, and it has been followed by various other works
devoted to quotations from the National Poet; but Mr.
Bellamy's excels them in arrangement and usefulness.
It must have cost him great time and labour, and we
trust this outlay will be amply repaid him by an exten-
sive public patronage.

MONCEAUX.-Burke certainly uttered the words, "What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!" But a century and a half earlier, Sir Harbottle Grimston, in his Sirena Christiana, had used the same idea, and gave to it this expression, "Quid umbras, fumos, fungos, sequimur?"

Duke of Richmond, married Sir T. Charles Bunbury in
1762; and secondly, in 1781, the Hon. George Napier.
The first husband died at a very advanced age in 1821.
For other details see the journals of the period.

Z.-Lady Sarah Lennox, fourth daughter of the second

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FATHER PROUT.-I see in the Times a letter from Mr. Dillon Croker asking for further contributions for a memorial tablet to his father's old friend, Francis Mahoney. Will you take charge of the enclosed trifle

Rome.

E. T.-A fac-simile edition of the original work was published by the late John Camden Hotten. W. R. is referred to Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, under the word "Majesty."

F. W. F.-Yes, with pleasure.

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