In my note (p. 16) on Cardinia Listeri, which takes its name, as to species, from Dr. Lister, for the word "makes," at line 9, should be read "marks," since the C. Listeri marks the particular rocks spoken of, and the presence of this fossil therein enables the geologist to trace them. CHURCHDOWN. THE STREATFEILD AND LARKING MSS. (5th S. iii. 447, 492.)—There are few things so much wanted, in the way of county history, as this one of Kent, and it is much to be regretted that Mr. Godfrey-Faussett is obliged to relinquish his task. But what was to be expected if the county is to have full justice done to it? A. J., numbered by him 15 and 20. I am willing SIR WALTER SCOTT AND THE SEPTUAGINT (5th WARREN has answered me. It is true he did not state, totidem verbis, that Prior Aymer (I beg pardon for Aylmer) and Friar Tuck spoke defective Latin, but I think he said what was equivalent, viz., that Scott made " queer mistakes in his Greek and Latin," and that it was "a shame to show him up"; the sole instances of the "queer mistakes" brought forward being words used by the two disputants, lapides pro pane condonantes There is but one remedy, the modern plan of co- iis, and ossa ejus perfringam. With respect to operation; and I have long been convinced that the learning of the priests of the Middle Ages, the histories of the future will be compiled in no there always existed, no doubt, a body of educated other way. And why not this one? It surely monks, who, in the seclusion of the monasteries, would be possible for fifty or sixty gentlemen, with cultivated letters, and did the intellectual work of just sufficient leisure and quite sufficient ability, their time; but there was also a class of inferior to complete the work between them, under the priests, having a mere smattering of knowledge, of guidance of Mr. Godfrey-Faussett as editor-in-whom the deboshed Tuck was, perhaps, an extreme chief. I don't think anything would please me better than to be a member of a Kentish History Club for arranging the existing materials; and I shall be very much surprised if I don't hear through "N. & Q." that the idea has struck other people. WALTHEOF. ELIZABETH HAMILTON (4th S. xi. 522; xii. 55, 133, 216.) There is a short notice of Miss Hamilton in the Record of Unitarian Worthies, now being published as a monthly supplement to The Christian Freeman. The notice occurs in the number for this month (August), and in it mention is made of a work not included in my list, Education; or, a Journal of Errors, a "pretty and engaging story... doubtless printed from the life, in a recollection of her time spent with her scholars." Benger's Life of Elizabeth Hamilton | and the Monthly Magazine, 1816, are referred to as authorities. F. A. EDWARDS. DIGHTON'S LONDON CHARACTERS (5th S. iii. 387, 452.)—With reference to these caricatures, I beg to say I possess a copy (probably reprints from the original plates) in 2 vols.; one contains forty plates, the other forty-six. A great many of them are named either in pencil or ink. The names in my copy agree with the lists already given, except in the case of Nos. 14 and 18, No. 14 being in my copy named "Richard Thornton," a wellknown rich but eccentric merchant; No. 18, Mr. J. Curtis (not Mr. Tim. Curtis)-both these were brothers of Sir W. Curtis. My portrait does not agree with the description I have had of Mr. Timothy, and therefore it is more likely to be J. Curtis. My copy, although containing so many of the characters, is evidently not perfect, as I cannot find among them two already in the list of 66 specimen; the sensual Prior, who denounces him Junior United Service Club. "THAT GREAT HOUSE IN LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS" (5th S. iv. 68, 133.)—I think the person referred to was Mr. Thomas Bradshaw, who had made a considerable fortune by forage contracts, and, being very useful to the Minister, was made Secretary of the Treasury in 1766, and gratified with a pension of 1,500l. for his own life and that of his sons. He then took the house in Lincoln's Inn Fields which Henley, Lord Northington, had previously resided in, and which he gave up on ceasing to be Lord Chancellor in 1766. There were then four members of the House of Lords residing in Lincoln's Inn Fields-the Duke of Newcastle, Baron Camden, Viscount Montague, and the Earl of Northington. A brief account of Mr. Bradshaw will be found in the Royal Register, 1782, vol. vii. EDWARD SOLLY. p. 4. THE LONDON DIALECT (5th S. iii. 469, 515.)-A large proportion of your readers will object, I think, to Jerry Sneak as the typical Cockney. What I desire to discover is the first exemplar of the smart slangy humour and south-eastern dialect which culminated in Sam Weller. That immortal worthy, like other great characters of fiction, was developed from humbler prototypes, as any one may see who has an opportunity of looking through a collection of the caricatures of the first quarter of the present century. How far back in the preceding century can the same ideal be traced? With the "fat and greasy citizens" of the earlier dramatists my query has nothing to do. SPERIEND. BISHOP HALL'S "SATIRES" (5th S. iii. 505; iv. 16.)-May not the word "Iland," in "th' Iland congée," be inland? In As You Like It, Orlando says to Rosalind, when she is dwelling in disguise in the forest, "Your accent is something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling," and Rosalind replies, ". . . An old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an in-land man," &c. "Inland" would thus be equivalent to "polite." ARTHUR BATEMAN. "Or some more straight-laced juror of the rest Impanel'd of an Holyfax inquest.” Bk. iv. Sat. i. Can the allusion be here to the Halifax law, which condemned thieves to decapitation in such a summary manner after a jury had been summoned, and hence, I suppose, the wishing a foe at Halifax? There is also the alliterative line in the Thieves' Litany: * "From Hell, Hull, and Halifax, Good Lord, deliver us." The last execution took place in 1650. Hall died in 1656. JOHN PICKFORD, Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Bishop M.A. Ancient Stone Crosses of England. By Alfred Rimmer. (Virtue, Spalding & Co.) THESE chapters on crosses, originally issued in another form, the writer has collected together in one volume, and illustrated them admirably with engravings on wood. We are disposed, however, to think that a third revision of the letter-press will find a considerable accession of emendations. For example, although Mr. Rimmer states, in his chapter on Eleanor Crosses, that Waltham Cross" has been excellently imitated on a much larger scale in the Westminster Crimean Cross, near the Abbey," we confess to seeing no resemblance whatever between the two structures. Again, we had thought that the idea that "the Cross" (at Charing) "gave the name to the locality, having been erected for the 'beloved queen' (chère reine)," had long since been exploded. Earth to Earth: a Plea for a Change in the System of the Burial of our Dead. By Francis Seymour Haden, F.R.C.S. (Macmillan & Co.) Fire-Burial among our Germanic Forefathers. By Karl Blind. (Longmans & Co.) MR. HADEN'S three letters, now published together, must tend to the accomplishment of the wholesome change which he advocates with energy and common sense. Mr. Karl Blind's work is an historical chapter which really exhausts the subject, and is full of interest. With both should be bound up Sir Henry Thompson's Cremation, published some time since by H. S. King & Co. Prehistoric Traditions and Customs in connexion with Sun and Serpent Worship. By John S. Phené, LL.D., &c. (Hardwicke.) The Serpent Myths of Ancient Egypt. By W. R. Cooper, F.R.S.L. (Same publisher.) DR. PHENE's book is a reprint from the Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute. It is profusely illustrated, as the subject required, and it abounds with matter which will be new to most readers, and will attract all. Mr. Cooper's Serpent Myths is a comparative history of those myths, compiled from the Ritual of the Dead,' Egyptian Inscriptions, Papyri, and Monuments in the British and Continental Museums." It was originally read before the same Institute as Dr. Phené's paper, and, like the latter, it contains the discussion which followed the reading, and, in Mr. Cooper's case, notes and remarks by some of the most learned Egyptologers. The subject recommends itself, and in each case it is competently treated. Polybiblion. Août. (Paris, aux Bureaux.) THERE is a good article in this number on "Recent Works on Hagiology," but the most remarkable passage in a periodical which assumes to be more orthodoxChristian than most others, is the following:-"La haine nation, dans la guerre et dans la paix!" We thought de l'étranger est la seule meilleure sauvegarde d'une the command had been, "Love one another," foreigners included. The above melancholy maxim is signed "J. Gouethal." He is much to be pitied. THE Rev. Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, by permission of Mr. Luttrell, of Dunster Castle, has been enabled to lay bare the ground-plot of the Cistercian Abbey of St. relics of a cruciform minster of a severe type, dating Mary-le-Cliff, Old Cleeve. Mr. Walcott has found the from the thirteenth century, 161 ft. in length, with a short eastern arm; two chapels in each wing of the transept, and a nave of five bays, with traces of the rood-loft, the substructure of the ritual choir-stalls, and portions of encaustic pavement still in place. The whole supervision. Visitors are now admitted, as at Fountains site will be fenced in, and has been placed under regular Abbey, under proper restrictions. WE record here, for all future time, that "the second attempt of Captain Webb to swim across the Channel has been crowned with success, after a display of indomitable courage and extraordinary powers of endurance. At four minutes to 1 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon Captain Webb dived from the steps at the head of the Admiralty Pier, Dover, and at 41 minutes past 10 o'clock yesterday morning he touched the sands on the French coast, about a couple of hundred yards to the west of the pier at Calais, having remained in the water, without even touching a boat on his way, no less than 21 hours."-Times of Thursday, Aug. 26, 1875. QUEEN ANNE'S STATUE.-There is great dispute as to the ownership, but in this instance it is a case of repudiation on the part of those, whether Government or Dean and Chapter, to whom its care may generally be supposed to be confided. It seems to be forgotten that, so recently as in Dean Milman's time, one arm of the Queen was replaced. Dr. Simpson can perhaps say who paid the cost of this operation. ST. SEPULCHRE'S CHURCH.-The restoration of the tower of this church has just been completed from the designs of Mr. W. P. Griffith. It is much to be regretted that Mr. Griffith's counsel did not prevail that the niche, containing a statue of Sir John Popham, should be reinstated in the porch. We yet hope that the authorities will see fit to revert to the original design, and that the oriel window, which has been substituted, will be removed. THE Archiepiscopal Library, Lambeth Palace, will be closed for the recess for six weeks from the 30th of August. MESSRS. FREDERICK WARNE & Co. announce for immediate publication, in one volume, Historical Sketches: Lincoln, Stanton, and Grant. By Major E. R. Jones, American Consul, Newcastle-on-Tyne. Also a new edition of Walsh's Domestic Medicine and Surgery. - AUTHORS AND QUOTATIONS WANTED.- And friend from friend is snatched forlorn ; The above appeared in a letter written in the year 1822 Philadelphia. "Could we but crush that ever-craving Lust A thousand Lives in those for whom we die," &c. Quoted in Charles Kingsley's Westminster Sermons, p. 24. G. J. COOPER. "And when with envy Time transported H. A. B. "The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, H. J. "Don't you remember the first time I met you?" CLARISSA C. LAMANT. Notices to Correspondents. E. B. O.-The passage is, no doubt, that in Mr. Cobbett's Taking Leave of his Countrymen (1817), which runs thus:-"They" (the labouring classes) are called now-a-days by them" (the country gentlemen) "the peasantry. This is a new term so applied to Englishmen. It is a French word, which, in its literal sense, means country folk. But, in the sense in which it is used in France, and Flanders, and Germany, it means not only country people or country folks, but also a distinct and degraded class of persons, who have no pretensions to look upon themselves, in any case, as belonging to the same society or community as the gentry." A word used by Shakspeare, Milton, Goldsmith, and others, could not be justly called a new term in Cobbett's time, even with the application he gives it. B. K.-"A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind" is a line in the prologue which Garrick wrote and spoke, on behalf of the Drury Lane Theatrical Fund, before the play The Wonder was acted, in which he appeared, for the last time on the stage, Monday, June 10, 1776. In the last edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations the line is said to be from Garrick's "prologue on quitting the stage," but this is not quite correct; the farewell address with reference to that event was in prose, and was spoken after the play. G. R.-In an article on St. Alban's Abbey last week, speaking of the paintings on the western faces of the five Norman piers west of the screen, the Saturday Review states that the dedications of the altars, which these paintings indicate, "have been unravelled by the patient labour" of our correspondent, Mr. Ridgway Lloyd. Perhaps Mr. Lloyd will kindly favour us with a note on the subject. MR. F. RULE writes, with reference to Sir Richard Phillips (5th S. iv. 95, 136):-"My_authority for the words in parentheses was Francis Espinasse, Esq., of Shooter's Hill, Woolwich, to whom I must refer your correspondent OLPHAR HÁMST." P. S. recommends the correspondent who asks for a list of works which treat of German influence on English literature to consult Buckle's Common-place Book, the index will show where. Also Crabb Robinson's Diary, which contains a good deal on the subject. St. STEPHEN'S, BRISTOL.-A correspondent asks whether there is any proof that the beautiful and elaborate Corinthian reredos, carved in solid Spanish mahogany, and now standing in St. Stephen's Church, Bristol, is the work of Grinling Gibbons. The reredos is now offered for sale. MISS BROUGHAM.-"What will Mrs. Grundy say?" is a question frequently asked by Farmer Ashfield's wife in Morton's comedy of Speed the Plough. It passed from the stage into popular phraseology. A. J. 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