" Can any of your readers inform
me whether it is in the same work that the title of "Love's Last
Shift" is translated by "Le dernier Chemise de l'Amour?" if not, in
what other book is it?
H.C. DE ST. CROIX.
_Cheshire-round_.--"W.P.A." asks the meaning of the above phrase, and
where it is described.
_Why is an Earwig called a "Coach-bell?"_--Your correspondents,
although both kind and learned, do not appear to have given any
satisfactory answer to my former query--why a lady-bird is called
Bishop Barnaby? Probably there will be less difficulty in answering
another entomological question--Why do the country-people in the south
of Scotland call an earwig a "coach-bell?" The name "earwig" itself is
sufficiently puzzling, but "coach-bell" seems, if possible, still more
utterly unintelligible.
LEGOUR.
_Chrysopolis_.--Chrysopolis is the Latin name for the town of Parma,
also for that of Scutari, in Turkey. Is the etymological connection of
the two names accidental? and how did either of them come to be called
the "Golden City?"
R.M.M.
_Pimlico_.--In Aubrey's _Surrey_, he mentions that he went to
a _Pimlico_ Garden, somewhere on Bankside. Can any of your
correspondents inform me of the derivation of the word "Pimlico,"
and why that portion of land now built on near to Buckingham House,
through which the road now runs to Chelsea, is called Pimlico?
R.
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