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120 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9» s. vm. A™. 10, woi.
with Atlantic greyhounds, locomotive steam Omarians, this book is gratefully dedicated."
engines, and first steam ships to cross the Mr. Dole's " Foreword " occupies eight pages,
Atlantic, the following account of the record after which comes the poem, without Fitz-
yoyageof an Atlantic "flyer,"which appeared Gerald's introduction or notes. The dimen-
in the Bail;/ Telegraph, dated Thursday, sions of this volume are phenomenal.5 The
18 July, may be given :— bound volume measures '/gin high by />ojn.
" Yesterday the Hamburg-American line steamer broad ; the pages measure "/& in. by "/« '"•
Deutschland arrived at Plymouth, after having The full dimensions of the print, measured
excelled all previous best performances, and again on a full page of the introduction, are'/io »'•
lowered the Atlantic record for the eastward \a&- by s/io in. (square). The text has evidently
sage. Her present voyage from New York has been been set up in type and photographed down
accomplished in five days eleven hoursfiveminutes, on to a steel or copper plate, but it is difficult
an average speed of 23'51 knots having been main-
tained. Sandy Hook was passed at, "2.10 I'.JI. to imagine how the printing off was done.
(7.10 r.M. Greenwich time) on the 11th inst., and by The book is quite legible under the micro-
noon the next day 479 miles had been logged. The scope with a 1 in. or l'/» in. objective and " A "
following twenty-four hours saw IV57 miles covered, eyepieces, the paper having taken the ink
the greatest distance ever run in one day on the witn great clearness, and it is seldom one has
eastward voyage. On the 14th there was a fresh
westerly wind, and the Deutscliland ran 531 miles. to go to the context to make out any indi-
In a light south-westerly wind 514 miles was done vidual word. There are, 1 understand, in
the next day, whilst on the Kith the log showed existence seven copies of the original type-
550 miles, flic remaining distance to Plymouth printed edition taken before reduction
was 401 miles, making a total of H,US2 mile*. The
Deutschland, which Drought (>7<i passengers, 7li"> EmvA itn H KIION-ALLEK.
bags of mails and specie, value S"_1). !!•."> dollar*, lias
done the voyage from New York to Plymouth in '• VKIUIUM."— liy writ dated at Kcmiington,
five days seven hours thirty-eight minutes, but that !) Oct., 1243, the guardians of the bishopric
was when running on the northern route, which of Winchester received orders :—
is exactly a hundred miles shorter than the trip "(^uod in castro nostro Winlonie suinmitateni
which ended yesterday. On that, occasion, how-
ever, the average speed was 23'32 knots. This has veirii de camera Rosainunde plnmbo coopcriri
several times been exceeded by the Deutschland, faciatis."—' Roles Gascons' (18S5), No. 1902.
which on her last passage crossed the Atlantic at I do not find the word in Du Cange, nor in
23-38 knots." Mr. Trice Martin's small glossary.
H. J. B. O. O. H.
THE SMALLEST BOOK EVEK PUBLISHED.— LEADEN HOOKS.—The enclosed cutting from
The publication of this curiosity of literature the Coventry Standard of 5 July is interesting
ought not to pass unnoticed in tiie pages of as showing' the ages of leaden roofs. The
' N . & Q . ' It is aversion of the 'Buba'iyat' great thickness of some of the lead formerly
of. Omar Khayyam, consisting of the fourth used may be noticed by the depth of the
FitzGerald edition, with an introduction workmen's marks occasionally found on
specially written for it by Mr. Nathan Has- roofs, which would penetrate the sheets
kell Dole, editor of the Boston Variorum used in modern times :—
edition. It was issued by Mr. Charles Hardy " In making preliminary arrangements for the
Meigs, of Cleveland, Ohio, in a limited edition restoration of the roof of Holy Trinity Church,
of fifty - seven copies, printed upon Japan Coventry, Mr. H. IV. Chattaway, the architect,
found several ancient inscriptions, which are inter-
paper and bound in paper boards. Each esting as denoting the age of the lead used on the
copy is numbered and signed by Mr. Meigs, roof. The following are the inscriptions: Arch-
and the plates from which it was printed deacon's chapel.—'These two roofes were repayred
have been destroyed. The volume consists in the year 1658. P., T. B.' North chancel aisle.
of forty-eight pages, and the title-page —' This roof was repayrod Anno Salvtis, 1666.
Thomas Bewle, plumber." Marler's Chapel. — A
reads:— similar inscription to above, but the plumber's
" Rubaiyat | of | Omar Khayyam | of Naishapur. name is here spelt ' Bewley.' South aisle.—' This
| Rendered into English Verse by | Edward Fitz- roof was rebuilt Anno Domini 1728. Dr. Kimberley,
Gerald. | With an Introduction by I Nathan Has- vicar ; Thomas Lowke, Win. Bosworth, John Hill,
keUDole. J Cleveland, Ohio.U.S.A. | Charles Hardy Simon Villers, churchwardens; Thos. Uewley,
Meigs. | M.C.M." plumber.'"
W. H. QlTARKELL
On the back of the title is the usual copy-
right notice, and "Printed by the Burrows A "WICKED" PRAYER BOOK. — There art!
Brothers Co. at the Imperial Press, Cleveland, several varieties of the 'Wicked Bible." It
Ohio, 1900," and opposite is the dedication, may not be without interest to note a
"To the Honorable John Hay, Poet and remarkable misprint in an edition of the
Statesman, Lover of Omar and beloved of Anglican Prayer Book. The issue, it should