a French Abbe before the Revolution?

W. FRASER.

Tor-Mohun.

_What Day is it at our Antipodes?_--Perhaps you can give me a satisfactory
answer to the following question, a reply to which I have not yet been able
to procure.

I write this at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, July 12; at our Antipodes it is, of
course, 11 a.m.: but is it 11 a.m. on Tuesday, July 12, or on Wednesday,
July 13? And whichever it is, what is the reason for its being so? for it
seems to me that the solution of the question must be perfectly arbitrary.

H.

"_Spendthrift._"--In Lord John Russell's _Memorials of Charles James Fox_,
vol. i. p. 43., there is a letter addressed to Mr. Richard Fitzpatrick, in
which Mr. Fox asks "if he was in England when Lord Carlisle's _Spendthrift_
came out." And at the foot of the same page there is a note in which it is
stated that this "was probably some periodical paper of 1767."

My object in writing the above is for the purpose of asking what
publication the _Spendthrift_ really was, and where it can be purchased or
seen?

W. W.

Malta.

_Second Growth of Grass._--The second growth of grass is known by different
names in different localities. In some it is called _fog_, in others
_after-math_ and _after-grass_. The former name is common about Uxbridge,
and the latter about Stoke Pogis, in Buckinghamshire. In Hertfordshire it
is {103} called _hugga-mabuff_; I am not certain that this is the correct
spelling of the name, never having seen it either in writing or print. In
Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire the name _eddish_ prevails, I am told,
and hence _eddish cheese_, made from the milk of cows which have grazed
_eddish_. Can any of your correspondents add to the above names, or throw a
light upon their origin?

R. W. F.

Bath.

_The Laird of Brodie._--Can any of your correspondents explain what James
V. of Scotland means in his celebrated ballad when he says:

"I thocht you were a gentleman,
At least the Laird of Brodie."

According to the literal meaning, it would seem that the Laird of Brodie
was something less than a gentleman? Could his majesty intend to satirise
the alleged royal descent of Brodie from Bruidhie, the son of Billi, king
of the Picts (see James' _Critical Essay_), by insinuating that the "Picts"
and their descendants were not entitled to be ranked as "Generosi?"

I. H. B.

_Mrs. Tighe, Author of "Psyche."_--There is a monument in Inistioge
churchyard, co. Kilkenny, to the mem