·

POOR-JOHN (cl. 442). Your correspon-
dent will find a reply to his query in
Shakespeare's Tempest, Act ii., Sc. 2:
"What have we here? a man or a fish?
dead or alive?
fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell: a
kind of not of the newest Poor-john."

a

The name is also found in Sir J. Har-
rington's writings: "Poor-john and apple-
pies are all our fare."

It is said to have been applied to hake-
fish dried and salted, or as some think, to
the herring.
W. J. HARLING.

J. H. LESLIE.

SKIPPING: "LA GRANDE CORDE" (cl.
317, 356).-In my boyhood I suffered
from chilblains in my feet the first winter
which I spent at a boarding-school away from
home. I was advised to learn to skip, and
to practise it as cure for and prevention of
chilblains. I did so, and found it most
effectual; and all my life I have never been
without a skipping-rope, and never omitted
to use it if I felt my feet itching; and never
found it fail to produce the desired effect.
I am now in my eighty-third year, and

used it a few times last winter.

BAILEY'S DICTIONARY
A fish he smells like

INN SIGNS:

KING

A. D. T.
EDWARD VII
(cxlix. 117).-It may be interesting to
record that the King Edward VII Hotel,
at Tibshelf, Derbyshire, was opened as a
fully licensed house by the Derbyshire Pub-
lic House Trust Co., Ltd., in February,

1906.

A. L. Cox.
LADY
GORDON,
HENRIETTA
WAITING (cl. 424).-There is an ac-
count of this lady in the D.N.B.' Gilbert
Blakhall's Brieffe Narration' is "Dedi-
cated to Madame de Gordon... now
Dame d' Attour to Madame," pp. xxix.
xliii., and cf. pp. 196, 197.

"

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
NDRE CHENIER (cl. 390).-A portrait
in Lebom

Revue de Hollande for July, August and
September, 1916.

France (1898) and in Petit de Julleville
'Histoire de la langue et de la littérature
française,' vol. vi. The latter book devotes
twenty-eight pages to him. There is an
article on Chénier by C. Kramer in the

<<

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.
(cl. 400).-
Mistakes in N. and Q.' cannot be al-
lowed to go unnoticed. Queed " is not by
the late Richard Harding Davis as sugges-
ted by Mr. Gould, but by Henry Sydnor
Harrison.
A. J. H.

AUTHOR WANTED

6

(cl. 443). The lines
(which are somewhat inaccurately
are from The Devil's Walk,' by
quoted)
Southey. The first three stanzas are as
follows:-
From his brimstone bed at break of day
A walking the Devil is gone,

:-

To look at his snug little farm of the World,
And see how his stock went on.
Over the hill and over the dale,
And he went over the plain;

And backward and forward he swish'd his

tail

As a gentleman swishes a cane.

How then was the Devil drest?
Oh, he was in his Sunday's best,
His coat was red and his breeches were blue,
And there was a hole where his tail came
through.

At one time there was some controversy as
to the authorship of the Devil's Walk,' as
to which I would refer CICERO to the

66

Advertisement in the Oxford Southey (Fitz-
gerald's Edition).

Etc., etc.

66

It is said to be a joint composition of
Southey and Coleridge, with The Devil's
Thoughts' as title. In its original form it
was contributed to the Morning Post, Sept. 6,
1799-but in 1830 it was published as by
Richard Porson, with the title of The
which
IN Devil's Walk,'
I have in a
book
<
entitled Poet's Wit and Humour,' selected
by W. H. Wills.

·

MURIEL HAMILTON-SCOTT.
9, Queen's Gate Gardens, S.W.7.

The lines quoted (not quite correctly) are
from 'The Devil's Walk,' by Richard
Porson. The poem is printed in Poet's Wit
and Humour, selected by W. H. Wills, pp.
Porson wrote it at the house of Dr. Vincent
179-181. A footnote explains that Professor

G. KENNETH Strugnell.
The lines should be:-
And pray how was the Devil drest?
Oh! he was in his Sunday's best,
His coat was red and his breeches were blue,
With a little hole behind, where his tail
came through.

رو

His host gave him the subject, and this
amusing jeu d'esprit was the result. The foot-
note states that
with
The Devil's Walk,'
additions, has been claimed also for Coleridge
and Southey.
R. W. B.

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Causland, who became his wife; and we find
him turning from the navy to law, and from
the law to journalism. His little book-
Poems,' by Edward C. Pinkney-was pub-
lished at Baltimore by Joseph Robinson in
1825. Two years before he had published
anonymously Rodolph,' a Fragment,' a poeti-
cal tale of the Byronic type. As editor of The
Marylander, Pinkney continued to display, the
most fiery inclination, and there is a long
account of his quarrel with Stephen Simpson
and John Neal, journalists of opposite politics.
But his health was breaking rapidly and not
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lander-surprisingly placed in the hands of 80
youthful and wayward an editor-he died.
His poems had been admired; he himself had
become a centre of varied interest, yet care
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ising and keeping vivid a man's memory
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very grave is unmarked by any monument.

Edward Coote Pinkney's life was a brief one,
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notes to bring into the Muses' service, he haps the invitation to comparison with pas-
could echo daintily tone and measure belong- sages in other poets is almost too insistent
ing to the century behind his day and its chief and occasionally a note is trivial. The most
singers. His limitations may be seen by con- is made that can be made of indications of
trasting him in two respects with Keats; first Pinkney's studies in literature. We noticed
with Keat's relative impermeability to con- with interest that there is reason to think he
temporary influence, and secondly, with read Mme. du Deffand. It is a curious in-
Keats's strength in prose. Pinkney, as his stance of the greater remoteness from English
editors allow, was an undistinguished prose- life and custom to which America has drawn
writer; and defect here argues some native since Pinkney's day, that whereas in a story
defect in genius. Nevertheless, both for in--he could present the lawyer's proverbial fee
trinsic merit in no common degree, and be- of six-and-eightpence as a matter of course,
cause of his position as the first American his editor appends to the record of the sum
poet-true poet, though not great, no mere the note:- Six shillings and eightpence
versifier-he deserved to be edited completely ($1.60) seems to have no special significance."
before this, and Mr. Mabbott and Mr. Plead-
well have done real service to American
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he left-whether published or unpublished,
and all of the prose that is not of a merely
ephemeral political import. It is somewhat
surprising that so little remains in the way
of letters, and so little in general in the way
of record of his life. He was the son of an
important diplomatist of Maryland, who, in
1802, the year of Edward's birth in London,
was one of the commissioners busied in ad-
justing United States claims under the Jay
Treaty of 1794. Edward's elder brother,
Charles, was for some time at Eton, and Ed-
ward was brought up in England-though at
what school is not known-till he was nine
years of age. He entered the United States
Navy in 1815, and resigned in 1824. His naval
career is chiefly remarkable for resistances,
disputes and imminence of duels. He was a
brave youth, and an honourable one, but
clearly something of a storm-centre, though

how he came to be so the material at com-
mand is not intimate enough to show. There
was an unsuccessful love-affair, during these
years, which inspired his finest poem. Then
came his falling in love with Georgina Mc-

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