FLEMISH (5th S. viii. 475; ix. 37.)-I must make a few remarks on W. M. M.'s rejoinder. He asks me to specify the limits of Flemish. Unfortunately I have no linguistic map at hand; but let him open Baedeker's Guide, or even ask of any casual traveller who has visited Liége, and he will assuredly find that it is the chief town of the Walloon-speaking district. On my own shelves I have only the Poésies en Patois de Liége of Simonon (1845). W. R. MORFILL. BRISBANE OF BRISBANE (5th S. viii. 208, 293, 397, 516.)-In the year 1840 there were issued the family pedigrees of Brisbane of Bishoptoun, Brisbane Macdougall of Mackerstoun, and Hay of Alderstoun, framed from authentic documents by William Fraser, printed upon two large sheets of drawing paper. T. G. S. Edinburgh. "Go To" (5th S. viii. 28, 94, 138.)-No one has pointed out, I think, that in French familiar conversation one is always hearing "Allez !" used interjectionally in the sense of defiant raillery; indeed, a vulgar Frenchman's argument, like Dogberry's, is interlarded with it at every point. VINCENT S. LEAN. Windham Club. RAFFAELLE LESS USEFUL THAN A PIN-MAKER (5th S. ix. 28, 117.)-R. R. points out that this expression was used by Tucker, Dean of Gloucester, at a meeting of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts. A very similar comparison is put by Voltaire into the mouth of the blasé Venetian nobleman Pococurante, in the novel Candide :— "Ah, voilà quatre-vingts volumes de recueils d'une académie des sciences,' s'écria Martin; il se peut qu'il y ait là du bon.' Il y en aurait,' dit Pococurante, 'si un seul des auteurs de ces fatras avait inventé seulement l'art de faire des épingles; mais il n'y a dans tous ces livres que de vains systèmes, et pas une seule chose utile.' " I fancy the above quotation was written before Tucker made the depreciatory remark concerning Raffaelle. The story of those philosophical but not exemplary young people, Candide and Cunégonde, is known to have been much read in England at the close of the last century. ing; Eng. sieve is an example. Although in German there is an exact equivalent in siebe, yet we have also seihe, a strainer, and seihen, to strain. In Icelandic sia is a strainer, used especially for a milk-strainer (Cleasby). Even in Greek we find on0w, to sift. The interesting part of the matter is that the root with an l is not found in the dictionaries, and only appears to be preserved in the common speech of the north of England. French seau, of which the Norman form is seille, only means a bucket; Lat. sitella. C. O. B. This word is common all over the north of Scotland, where it signifies the passing of milk through a fine wire sieve. The vessel in which the sieve is inserted is termed a milsie or milsey. Can this word be merely a corruption or abbreviation, which might naturally arise from hasty pronunciation, of milksieve? And may not sile be a similar corruption or diminutive of settle? for settling and sileing, which are the removing of foreign or polluting ingredients or substances, have the same end in view. This seems to have as much probability as going back to Saxon roots to find the genealogy of the word. G. S., who thinks the Scottish form of the word is sine, appears to be confusing two entirely different words. Sine, or, more correctly, Anglice (paraphrase), "Long, long ago." syne, means since or ago, e.g. Áuld lang syne,” G. S. seems to have been thinking of our Scotch word synd, which I have sometimes heard pronounced syne, which signifies to rinse or slightly wash. Kelso. But C. G. The Scottish form of this word, as given in Jamieson's Dictionary, is certainly sile, and not sine, as supposed by G. S. It is a transitive verb, signifying to strain, and derived from the SueoGothic word sil-a, colare, whence also sil, a strainer. It is also to be found in Dr. Webster (edit. 1864, by Goodrich and Porter), where the etymons are sila, Swedish and Armorican; sielen, Low German; siolaidh, Gaelic; and siol, Irish; all having the same meaning-to strain or filter. The word is rather uncommon, but still used in some districts of Scotland and perhaps in the northern parts of England, and almost invariably with reference to the straining a liquid through a sieve or colander. A. S. A. Richmond. ALBAN DORAN. 20, Lower Seymour Street, Portman Square. [Voltaire died in 1778 and Tucker in 1799.] "SILE" (5th S. viii. 26, 138, 318.)-This appears to be an interesting word. The same word is preserved in silt, a term In the sense of to familiar enough in Lincolnshire as describing the strain it can have nothing to do with A.-S. sylfine deposit left by the tide on "warp" lands. filth, soil, a word with cognate forms in most Silt is a valuable word, as we have no other which European languages. Its root must rather be sought in the first two letters si, and the l be describes the dregs left by water-straining. E. H. J. regarded as a secondary element, probably indicating a diminutive form. Such a root is widely THE FIELDFARE (5th S. viii. 286, 354, 376, 478.) extended with the signification of sifting or strain--The belief that the fieldfare is a migrant seems to have been accepted in Chaucer's time from the proverbial phrase, "Farewell, feldefare!" in Rom. of Rose, 5513, and Troil. and Cres., iii. 861, which Tyrwhitt could not understand. In 4 Hen. IV.: "Juratores presentant quod Johes Helyar injuste 'traxit sanguinem' de Valentino Mory"; and again, in 7 Hen. IV.: "Presentant quod Robtus Stonhurst injuste et contra pacem 'traxit sanguinem' cum una Rakestel de Simone Coffyn." "Item quod Johna uxor Johis Lambe pacemtraxit sanguinem' de Alicia uxore DRAYTON (5th S. ix. 87.)-The name Drayton Thome Cheseman cum pugillo suo ad insultum Windham Club. VINCENT S. LEAN. is one of those curious evidences of the succession of races which abound in our land. The first syllable is British, signifying “town." Tre (pronounced dra), or, as it often for the sake of euphony becomes, dre, enters into the formation of the names of many places in the Principality. Every Drayton, therefore, may be looked upon as an ancient British town which was in existence when the Saxons came, who, not perhaps exactly understanding the meaning of the term dre, called the place Dra-ton. There is a similar curious instance in the name of a parish in Cumberland-Torpenhow-where there is a hill called Torpenhow Hill, concerning which Hutchinson, in his History of Cumberland, ii. 353, says: Every syllable of which word, in the several languages of the people which successively did inhabit the place, doth signify after a sort the same thing." "The Britons call a hill pen. The Saxons succeeding them called the place Tor-pen, i.e. pinnacle pen. They who came next Torpen-how, that is the 'how or hill Torpen.'" Hutchinson also gives two other probable derivations, which I will only refer your readers to. W. F. MARSII JACKSON. AKARIS OR AKARIUS FAMILY (5th S. ix. 49.)-I am sorry that I am quite unable to answer IDONEA'S queries except as regards one item. The supreme authority for grants of manors at any period is the Patent Roll, and that is to be seen at the Public Record Office. HERMENTRUDE. OFFICE OF THE STRACHY (5th S. ix. 68.)-I presume . refers to the well-known passage in Twelfth Night, Act ii. sc. 5. I believe the word is now generally received as meaning the general, or military governor of the place, from σrpárnyos, strategy, stratgy, stratchy, strachy. If your correspondent will turn to Charles Knight's Pictorial Edition of Shakspeare, he will find in a note on the place nearly as much information as it is possible to collect on the point. Halliwell notices the word, but imperfectly. W. T. M. Nearly all to be said on this noted and almost desperate Shakspearian crux may be found in voce "Strachy" in the Glossary (vol. ix. p. 419) of Dyce's Shakespeare, second edition, 1867. HORATIO. "TRA. SA." (5th S. ix. 68) is an abbreviation for "traxit sanguinem." In the Court Rolls of the Manor of Titsey such entries as the following occur frequently, although not in an abbreviated form. contra ipsius Johannis." Titsey Place. G. L. G. AN OLD WORK ON GEOMETRY (5th S. ix. 67.)— The work inquired for by B. H. J. is— "Practical Geometry; Or a New and Easy Method of Treating that Art, whereby the Practice of it is render'd plain and familiar, and the Student is directed in the most easy manner thro' the several Parts and Progressions of it. Translated from the French of Monsieur The Fourth Edition. Illustrated with S. Le Clerc. Wherein, besides the several Eighty Copper-Plates. Geometrical Figures, are contain'd many Examples of Landskips, Pieces of Architecture, Perspective, Draughts of Figures, Ruins, &c. London, Printed for T. Bowles, Print and Map-seller in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Bowles, Print and Map-seller, at the Black Horse, Cornhill. MDCCXLII." This title-page is taken from the copy in the Educational Library at the South Kensington Museum. R. O. Y. FANS (5th S. ix. 88.)-The Liverpool Art Club held a special exhibition of 176 fans in the clubhouse in the late autumn of last year (1877). An interesting and instructive introduction to the catalogue was contributed by Mr. G. A. Audsley, of Liverpool. The Wyatt collection of 148 fans, given to the nation by the late Sir M. Digby Wyatt and Lady Wyatt, a short time prior to the death of the former, is exhibited at the South Kensington Museum. Each fan is separately described by a label mounted with it. The collection consists of English, French, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Chinese, and Japanese fans. South Kensington Museum. GEORGE WALLIS. [It is announced that an exhibition of fans and a competition in the art of fan-making are about to be held in the City, under the auspices of the Fan-Makers' Company-a guild founded in 1709, under a charter granted by Queen Anne, and which it is understood a vigorous attempt is now being made to resuscitate.] EDWARD HYDE, EARL OF CLARENDON HYDE OF DINTON (5th S. viii. 409; ix. 16, 99.)-Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (vide Banks's Dormant and Extinct Baronage, vol. iii. pp. 193 and 638, edit. of 1809), was son of Henry Hyde, of Pyrton and Dinton, co. Wilts, who married Mary, dau. and heiress of Edw. Langford, of Trowbridge (vide Hutchins's Dorset, vol. ii. p. 494, 2nd ed., 1803). He was third son of Lawrence Hyde, of West Hatche (vide Sir R. C. Hoare's Wilts, and also E. Kite's Brasses of Wilts, Tisbury Church), who was third son of Robert Hyde, of Norbury and Hyde, Cheshire (Inq. p. m., 22 Hen. VIII.), for whose pedigree to time of King Henry III. vide Ormerod's Cheshire, vol. iii. p. 394. Besides the family located at Dinton, as mentioned above, there were also Hydes of Denton, Lancashire (vide Baines's Hist. of Lancashire, vol. iii. p. 167). Univ. Coll., Durham. H. BARRY HYDE. THE WINDSOR SENTINEL AND ST. PAUL'S (5th S. ix. 87, 114.)-The story mentioned by T. W. C., called "The Thirteenth Chime: a Legend of Old London," originally appeared in the Illuminated Magazine, about the year 1843 or 1844-I think in either the third or fourth volume of that periodical, which was issued in quarto form, and was edited by Douglas Jerrold. It was illustrated by John Leech and Kenny Meadows, and, though well got up and conducted, its career was a very short one-to the best of my recollection, only running over two years. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge. FELICE BALLARIN, OF CHIOGGIA (5th S. ix. 49.) -I spent a long summer day at Chioggia (pronounced Chioza) in 1875, exploring the place, and observing the folk and their ways; and I saw and heard nothing of Felice Ballarin or any other rhapsodist. True, I did not ask about Felice, for I had forgotten Mr. Goodall's graceful picture; but a brilliant Sunday afternoon was just the time when he might have been expected to appear. As to Tasso, Byron says somewhere that in his time there were only three gondoliers who could recite him. I heard of one gondolier who could do so in 1875, and only one. MR. BOUCHIER asks whether English fishermen and costermongers would care to hear Milton or Spenser recited. Certainly they would not; for, if they are "worldlings," they prefer beer; and, if they are devout, they probably go to some philistine preacher who knows no more of Milton and Spenser than they do. But I can testify that in Yorkshire, at least, the fisher folk will listen to verse with interest, and even enthusiasm, if it be written in their own dialect. Let me add that Chioggia is a pleasant and primitive place; rude, indeed, but not unworthy of its renown as the scene of the famous war of Chioggia. The old white zendale of Venice is still worn there by the women; and, on Sundays at least, there are two sights to see- -the christening of the babies, who are all brought to church in glass cases like so many wax dolls, and the toilet of the maidens, which is innocently performed in public. In all the side streets are long rows of girls, lying prone on their backs at every doorstep, their bare brown feet extending over the stones, their heads on their mothers' laps; the mother, meanwhile, combing out her daughter's thick black tresses, and-well, giving them that minute inspection which there is not time for during the week. A. J. M. SOLOMON GRILDRIG "THE MINIATURE" (5th S. ix. 87.)-A short account of the Miniature is printed in Mr. Maxwell Lyte's History of Eton College, pp. 350-51, 384, where it is stated that "Stratford Canning (now Lord Stratford de Redcliffe) was the working editor." The magazine was pecuniarily a failure, but its owners were relieved from all anxiety on this point through the purchase of the unsold copies by Mr. John Murray. This circumstance is said by Mr. Maxwell Lyte to have introduced that publisher to George Canning, the cousin of the principal editor of the magazine. With Canning's assistance Murray took a fresh start in business, and by the aid of Canning's friends, many of whom were writers in the Miniature, he was enabled to set on foot the Quarterly Review. W. P. COURTNEY. 15, Queen Anne's Gate. BREAD AND SALT (5th S. ix. 48.)-In the North Riding, twenty or thirty years ago, a roll of new bread, a pinch of table salt, and a new silver groat or fourpenny piece were offered to every baby on its first visit to a friend's house. This gift was certainly made more than once to me, and I recollect seeing it made to other babies. The groat was reserved for its proper owner, but the nurse who carried that owner appropriated the bread and salt, and was also gratified with a half-crown or so, the tribute of those to whom she unveiled for the first time that miracle of nature, the British infant. The same custom, I believe, prevailed among the poor, except that the groat was omitted. Does it prevail still, in any rank of life? A. J. M. FRENCH PROVERB (5th S. viii. 406, 516.)-Cotgrave, edit. 1611, renders this proverb somewhat differently, "Nulle maison sans passion': Pro. 'No house without some humour,'" meaning, in British India. Mr. Stobart's judgment of the founder of Islam seems to strike the balance fairly between exaggerations on either side. Mr. Rhys Davids is one of a small band of Buddhist scholars in this country, which has lost a mighty athlete produced by so competent a specialist is therefore a comby the lamented death of Prof. Childers. The manual pilation of a far higher than the average calibre. The subject is a most perplexing one, from its superficial likenesses to Christianity. Buddhist monasteries, Buddhist rosaries, even a Buddhist Pope, so to speak, all combine which "ignores the existence of God." The English to puzzle the Christian student of a religious system Roman Catholic Bishop of Clifton, who is stated to have been leading the recitation of the rosary at the Vatican when Pius IX. was in articulo mortis, was doubtless far from thinking how a similar function might be at that moment in progress among the snows of Ladakh or on the shores of the Yellow Sea. Yet it is not necessary to suppose that either was derived from the other, for Prof. Monier Williams points out in a recently published letter that in each case similar causes probably produced like effects. It is calculated that there are at least 200,000 Buddhists in European Russia, so that, independently of its importance as a factor in the politics of the Far East, the subject is well worthy of study by Europeans. Those who have not leisure for the larger works of Spence Hardy, Alabaster, &c., may with confidence take Mr. Rhys Davids for their guide to the general features of this remarkable religious system. But we should like to understand how Mr. Rhys Davids reconciles in his mind the apparent antinomy, which AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. ix. 108.)The Tutor of Truth, 3 vols., 12mo., 1779.-The author was Samuel Jackson Pratt. An obituary notice in the Gentleman's Magazine for Oct., 1814, gives a full account of his life and literary career, which closed at Birmingham on Oct. 4 of that year. As a poet, novelist, and dramatic author he was one of the most prolific writers of his day. In his early works he assumed the name of Courtney Melmoth. It is said that "no man who ever attained public distinction was more exempt from envy." However this may be, it is certain that Mr. Pratt met with a most unfriendly critic in the compiler of Literary Memoirs of Living Authors, 1798, who, after three pages of sarcasm, finishes by saying that "if he ever wrote for fame, he seems mightily to have mistaken the means of obtaining his object." W. H. ALLNUTT. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. ix. we feel unable to reconcile, in his account of Nirvana, 108.) "In the glow of thy splendour." The above is a very poor translation of some extremely "Scendi propizia Col tuo splendore, O bella Venere, NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Non-Christian Religious Systems-Islam. By J. W. H. Stobart, B.A., Principal, La Martinière College, Lucknow.-Buddhism. By T. W. Rhys Davids, Barrister-at-Law, late of the Ceylon Civil Service. (S.P.C.K. Depositories.) We have here two more instalments of the useful series in course of publication by the venerable society. Mr. Stobart's volume on Islam does not profess to be anything more than a compilation from the best known authorities. The subject chosen by Mr. Stobart is a most interesting one at the present crisis, whether we turn our eyes to Turkey, Persia, or British India, and we should have been glad to have had some touches of personal experience of Mahometanism in our Indian Empire from one who must have a certain familiarity with it. From a philosophical point of view the Shia sect is the most interesting division of Islam, and it is also the only one in which there has been a development in the direction of asceticism-a point not noticed by Mr. Stobart, though it was very ably treated in the Home and Foreign Review during its short but brilliant career. The Wahabee reform, to which the Principal of La Martinière does draw the attention of his readers, is one of no little importance as a source of occasional outbursts of fanaticism as being a moral condition and yet implying, he admits, the cessation of individual existence. Both works are provided with suitable maps, which cannot fail to add to their utility, but why is the map illustrating Buddhism bound into its volume upside down? Can this be a feature of hitherto unknown Buddhist ritual? The Reform of Convocation (Rivingtons) is the title of a speech delivered at the Lichfield Diocesan Conference of 1877 by one who, whether as Dean of the diocese or as having been elected Prolocutor of Canterbury in four successive Convocations, is entitled to a respectful hearing. Dean Bickersteth's views embody perhaps the minimum of reform which is likely to be acceptable to those who think that Convocation exists for other than merely ornamental purposes.-Prototypography (Toronto. Copp, Clark & Co.) is the somewhat startling heading of an historical sketch of early Continental and English printing, contributed to the Canadian Institute Caxton Celebration by Dr. Scadding, Canon of the Cathedral Church of St. James, Toronto. The works of the Aldine, Elzevir, Plantin, and other great presses are briefly passed in review, but the author takes no note either of the Veronese press, which certainly had native printers as early as 1472, or of the Italian claim for the invention of the art by Panfilo Castaldi of Feltre.-Mr. Alfred Dawson, F.R.A.S., in a Theory of Gravity and of the Solar Process (Pickering), is not satisfied apparently with the fact that gravitation has been "invented," and that the "verbal statement of the law is left, a grand mysterious postulate," but wishes to probe the mystery, and solve the difficulties which surround it. We are willing to grant the "materiality of matter," and to admit a doubt as to the materiality of the "magnetic fluid," but after having made these allowances we still find ourselves enveloped in a certain nebula of doubt as to what we have learned from Mr. Dawson's laboriously constructed hypotheses.-Dr. Spencer T. Hall, M.A., sends us a handy guide to Pendle Hill and its Surroundings (Simpkin, Marshall & Co.), in which he tells the story of that "very great high hill," which George Fox climbed in 1652, being "moved of the Lord to go up to the top of it," and thereafter "to declare Truth in a paper to the priests and professors."-Mr. | John S. Storr, in a pamphlet on Russia as It Is (Trübner & Co.), asks the pertinent questions, "Why go to Russia? Why write anything about it?" He himself furnishes us with the answer that, in his case at least, "both of these desires were irresistible." As he confesses to thinking Mr. Gladstone "restless and emotional," and Lord Beaconsfield a "special-pleading novelist, devoid of statesmanship," we are hardly surprised that he should sum up the situation in the words, "Everywhere is darkness, distrust, falsehood-leading to chaos." QUEEN KATHARINE DE VALOIS.-MR. SCHARF explained the drawings on the screen referred to ante, p. 121, which were made by him from the remains when the box was first opened. He described the bones as much destroyed on the upper surfaces by the action of quicklime. The front of the skull was entirely wanting. No vestige of the body remained. All the ribs and vertebræ had been removed, and the collar-bones and those of the neck rested immediately on the hips. The arms were complete, although the bones of the fore arms were turned round the reverse way. The feet were perfect, and the muscles of the legs remained undisturbed and were remarkably well preserved. A large quantity of cere cloth had been gathered together round the lower extremities. The bed of the lead on which the remains lay was composed of debris of the coffin, fragments of bone, and the cere cloth more or less acted upon by the lime. One rib alone-the uppermost-was found, and all the teeth had disappeared. Although dried and mummified at the period when seen by Fuller, Pepys, and Dart, the appearance of the remains was now entirely altered by exposure to damp during ninety-nine years in the depository adjoining the Percy Vault in St. Nicholas's Chapel. Judging from the measurement of the bones, Queen Katharine of Valois must have been remarkably tall. [The above would have been appended to our first Note had it not reached us at too late an hour.] RELICS OF FIRE WORSHIP IN SCOTLAND.-A few days ago I cut the following from the Daily News:-"On the last day of the year, old style, which falls on January 12, the tival of The Clavie' takes place at Burghead, a fishing village near Forres. On a headland in that village still stands an old Roman altar, locally called the 'Douro.' On the evening of January 12 a large tar-barrel is set on fire and carried by one of the fishermen round the town, while the assembled folks shout and halloa. If the man who carries the barrel falls it is an evil omen. The man with the lighted barrel having gone with it round the town carries it up to the top of the hill, and places it on the Douro. More fuel is immediately added. The sparks as they fly upwards are supposed to be witches and evil spirits leaving the town. The people therefore shout at and curse them as they disappear in vacancy. When the burning tar-barrel falls in pieces the fisherwives rush in and endeavour to get a lighted bit of wood from its remains. With this light the fire on the cottage hearth is at once kindled, and it is considered lucky to keep in this flame all the rest of the year. The charcoal of the Clavie is collected and put in Lits up the chimney, to prevent the witches and evil spirits coming into the house. The Douro (ie. the Roman altar) is covered with a thick layer of tar from the fires that are annually lighted upon it. Close to the Douro' is a very ancient Roman well, and, close to the well, several rude but curious Roman sculptures can be seen let into a garden wall." H. A. W. 6 WORDSWORTH'S PORTMANTEAU.-I transcribe the following item word for word from a catalogue of books and curiosities just received. It is difficult to realize the kind of collector whose 188. 6d. will be forthcoming:"7. An old Portmanteau (shabby) formerly the Poet Wordsworth's, with name inside and date 1820. Small size, 18s. 6d." HORATIO. ACCORDING to the Report just issued the English Dialect Society have made arrangements for work with reference to Cheshire, Cumberland, and Somersetshire. Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. CORRESPONDENTS generally are requested to send their communications as letters-not by book post. SETH WAIT ("Douglas Queries.")-Have you not been anticipated by our correspondents (5th S. viii. 471)? Possibly you might be able to supplement by a short note the information there given. F. ROSENTHAL (Hanover.) — Many thanks. Please send another copy, and run your pen through the notes, making other necessary corrections in the margin. UNEDA will, on consideration, see that his query concerning a "great mathematician" may possibly refer to a gentleman still living. The portrait was that of Elizabeth, Duchess of Devonshire. L. H.-The chronogram on Queen Elizabeth, indicating the year of her death, MDCIII., is- "My Day Is Closed In Immortality." W. F. R.-Dunnage loose substances laid on the bottom of a ship as a bed for heavy goods (Stormonth's Eng. Dict.). J. M. "Arma amens capio, nec sat rationis in armis." Eneid, ii. 314. D. F. (Hammersmith.)-The usage referred to is directed by the Rubric in the Marriage Service. J. M. (Perth.)-Please let your notes be as brief as possible. H. R. M.-Ye Gentlemen of England is altered from an old ballad by Martin Parker in the Pepys collection. SENEX ("Heraldry," ante, p. 108.)-We have a letter for you. HORATIO.-"Lycidas " too late. W. F.-Constrained to decline-with thanks. R. S. KILGOUR.-Answer not enclosed. ERKATA.-P. 111, col. 2, 1. 16 from top, read Arwystl Gloff ab Seithenyn. P. 114, col. 2, 1. 29 from top, for "Bucks," read Berks. P. 115, col. 1, 1. 14 from bottom, for " argillaceous state," read argillaceous slate. NOTICE. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries ""-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. |