BEEHIVE HOUSES (7th S. iv. 203, 369).-Such huts I have just seen on the borders of the Shiel river, in Argyllshire. One was in course of construction. I saw this finished in the six days that I remained in the neighbourhood-walls and roof all of thick turf and shaped like an elongated beehive."

HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

CHINA PLATES (7th S. iv. 227, 334).-The communication from R. N. reminds me that I have a china bowl of the same kind as he describes, which was given to me some years ago by my uncle's widow. She died about seven years ago, at the age of ninety, and she told me it was the only piece she had of a tea-set which was made for her uncle (who was in the navy) when he was in China. The bowl is of plain white china, with a coat of arms and crest painted on it.

HENRY DRAKE.

HISTORY ALL AWRY (7th S. iv. 221, 289). do not wish to make any rejoinder to MR. RYE'S reply to my criticisms of his account of the Walpoles. Indeed, his reply is no reply at all.

I only wish to assure the readers of 'N. & Q.' that before I wrote I had not even heard of MR. RYE's article in the Norfolk Antiquarian Magazine on the Walpole pedigree.

I may be allowed to add that more than three months ago I gave privately the same positive H. S. WALPOLE.

denial to MR. RYE. Stagbury, Surrey.

there was a learned controversy on this curious
topic. Some one at last took it into his head to
examine the child and the tooth, and then it was
made out that the tooth had been artificially covered
over with a thin leaf of gold. Even then it was not
sure that the child had been born with any tooth at
all. Fontenelle concluded, so far as I remember,
"On écrivit les dissertations; et puis, on consulta
l'orfèvre." This story was called to my mind by
MR. VYVYAN's question.
Amiens he saw above one of the entrances to the
He says that at
Law Courts buildings "Salle des orores." He in-
quired in these columns about the meaning of the
word orores, and he did get explanations. I do
not know the word orores-no Frenchman would
understand it; and I wonder that a word could be
placed over an entrance to law courts buildings of
any country that should not be intelligible to the
people. Such inscriptions are generally devised to
have a meaning, and a very plain one, and not to
be puzzles. MR. VYVYAN says he asked many
French friends. Why did he not ask the porter of
the building? I never was at Amiens, and I have
seen neither the Palais de Justice nor the inscrip-
tion; but I strongly suspect that where MR. VYVYAN
"there must be "Salle
has read "Salle des orores
des ordres," and that it probably refers to the "pro-
cédure des ordres et contributions," to use a legal
term. See 'Code de Procédure Civile,' part i.
liv. v. titre quatorzième, "Del' Ordre." See also
the general index to 'Les Codes Français,' s.v.

Ordre."

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Will your correspondent A. H. kindly state in which of Cicero's works he has met with "the form oror, whence the plural orores"? No such form is given in any Latin dictionary that I have been able ORORES (7th S. iv. 247, 358).—I am obliged to to consult. Oreur, herald, is given in Roquefort's MR. H. DRAKE and A. H. for their replies. TheyGlossaire de la Langue Romane. Is this of any have given some elucidation to the meaning of the use to your querist at the first reference? word, but I am still at a loss to know why no French dictionary, and no Frenchman with whom I am acquainted, has given or has heard of the word. A. H. says "Cicero has the word oror, whence the plural orores." I wish he would kindly tell me where in Cicero this is found. I have hunted in every Latin Dictionary, but have failed to find the word.

EDWARD R. VYVYAN.

Fontenelle has told somewhere a nice and suggestive story. Towards the end of the sixteenth or in the beginning of the seventeenth century a report was heard of a child born with a gold tooth. Physicians and students engaged in natural philosophy took the matter into consideration, and immediately undertook to explain the phenomenon. Of course they did not agree, and

F. C. BIRKBECK TERRY. STRONNAY (7th S. iv. 327).—Is not this Stornoway? The transposition of the r presents no difficulty, I think. JULIAN MARSHALL.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (7th S. iv. 269).

In 'Sermons Preached in a Religious House,' 1869,
vol. i. p. 316, the quotation in inverted commas is :-
Our homes are here too narrow,
Our work lies far apart,
We scarce share joy or sorrow
With the dearest of our heart:
There will be room above,
In our great Father's Hall,
To live with those we love,
Through the best time of all,

ED. MARSHALL.

now,

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

Annals of the English Stage from Thomas Betterton to
Edmund Kean. By Dr. Doran, F.S.A. Edited and
revised by Robert W. Lowe. 3 vols. (Nimmo.)
To readers of N. & Q.' the works of Dr. Doran, with
their pleasant blending of antiquarian information and
social gossip, are well known. To a portion of them it
will be good news that the scarcest and the most popular
of these, the Annals of the Stage,' first published under
the characteristic title of Their Majesties' Servants,'
has now been reissued in an édition de luxe. During
many years this work, which has been greatly in request
with book illustrators, has been at a fancy price. It is
in an absolutely sumptuous form, brought within
reach of the reading public. Editor of N. & Q.' as he
was, Dr. Doran was not fully sensible to the truth of the
motto, "Always verify your quotations," which should
follow that famous and historic utterance of Capt.
Cuttle which now stands in solitary dignity on the title-
page. His work, accordingly, pleasant as it is to read,
is not wholly trustworthy. Its shortcomings in this
respect have been remedied by Mr. Robert W. Lowe,
one of the youngest and the most erudite of students of
stage history. With the minute and conscientious
fidelity of a herald, Mr. Lowe has gone over the pages of
Their Majesties' Servants,' verifying quotations, supply-
ing references, and regulating and, if needs be, correct-
ing impetuosities of statement. This task Mr. Lowe has
discharged with commendable industry and acumen.
His notes are condensed and to the point. They appear
few and unobtrusive; they are, in fact, numerous and
important. We would fain have had them more, since,
large as is the amount of information Dr. Doran supplies,
it is far from exhaustive. New materials have of late
been brought within reach of the stage historian, and
information supplementary to that Dr. Doran has sup-
plied, especially with reference to the earliest actors,
would be welcome. A general index at the close of the
work is, moreover, preferable to the three indexes which
are affixed to the respective volumes.

Meanwhile, the new edition has a decidedly antiquarian flavour. Its superb copper-plate portraits of actors, after designs by Gainsborough, Reynolds, Zoffany, &c., some of them drawn from curious and recondite quarters, and executed in the highest style of art, are what will commend the book to general approval. Even more precious than these, however, are the woodcuts on Japanese paper which serve for headpieces. Whence some of them were drawn is a matter of curiosity. Few of those best acquainted with the literature of the stage can have been aware of the existence of many of these designs. To the first chapter is prefixed a beautifully executed design of the Bear Garden. Successive chapters are headed by the Swan Theatre as it appeared in 1614; the Globe, sixteenth century; the Fortune, sixteenth century; the Lincoln's Inn Fields, 1714; two views of the Duke's Theatre, Dorset Garden, 1662. Following designs present Colley Cibber, D'Avenant, Mrs. Centlivre, Steele, Barton Booth, Peg Woffington, and innumerable other Theatres such as the old Haymarket, Drury Lane, the Theatres Royal, Edinburgh, Dublin, Ipswich, Norwich, &c., are given; and there are reproductions of pit checks, Milward's benefit ticket, drawn by Hogarth, and numerous other objects of no less interest. Difficult indeed is it to conceive a book of this class deserving higher praise or appealing to a larger public. It is pleasant to see an old favourite in so lovely and artistic a dress, and not less pleasant to think that the work is wholly English, and in design and execution owes nothing to a foreign source.

actors.

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of the Catholic Revival in the Sixteenth Century,'
THE Quarterly Review for October, in its consideration
gives high praise to Father Paul, the fragile ascetic
student, the bibliotheca ambulans, who wrote the history
of the Council of Trent, and at the same time to the
Society of Jesus, whose establishment it credits with
being one of the capital facts in the history of the
world." The importance of the Council of Trent is apt
to be too much forgotten in these days, and the reviewer
has done well in emphasizing it. In the story of the life
of Count Beust we are brought face to face with men
whose very names are a history in themselves-the
"Citizen King." Louis Philippe, carving at his own
dinner table, and carving badly; John of Saxony
angering Bismarck's royal master at Berlin as the very
man whom he could not scold; Napoleon III., "un-
prepared for war" when Beust would have had him let
slip the dogs, and we watch the dramatic struggle for
German supremacy between Berlin and Vienna, decided
at Sadowa.
makes October its time of 'Roses, and has a suggestive
Among calmer subjects the Quarterly
article on Dairy Produce,' a topic involving questions of
no little importance to those who, when they ask for
milk, butter, or cheese, would like to be able to think
that they get it-but cannot. The article on the 'Suez
Canal and the Egyptian Question' takes a very favour-
able view of the French position on that question, and
thinks that we may shortly find ourselves obliged to
adopt what it states as the French policy in Egypt.

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