I have a copy of the sequel, of which the dedication is correctly given by AYEAHR. The title, which I give below, shows that it was not a privately printed issue, but was published for sale by the most noted juvenile bookseller of the day :

"A Sequel to The Comic Adventures, of | Old Mother Hubbard, and | her Dog, | By | another Hand. London. | Published Feb 1st 1807, by J. Harris, Juvenile Library, corner of St. Paul's Church Yard. and C. Knight, Windsor."

In my copy, which is coloured, the text and illustrations are engraved on copper. With regard to the "Old Mother Hubbard" tradition which was utilized by Spenser, attention may be invited to Prof. J. W. Hales's very interesting article in The Athenæum for 24 Feb., 1883 (No. 2887, p. 248), which suggests that the story may be derived from the legend of the dog-saint Hubert. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

CORNISH AND OTHER APPARITIONS (10 S. ix. 325, 392; x. 35, 51).—The full story of the South Petherwin-or, more correctly, the Botathen-ghost, summarized at the last reference by W. P. CA., the authorship of which has been commonly, but erroneously attributed to Defoe, was related by me at 8 S. viii. 221, 349. ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

IRISH REBELLION OF 1798: CROTTY (10 S. ix. 510). As the fate of Crotty was that of hundreds in 1798, I fear that, unless some more definite data be given, Y. T. has a difficult task before him. Crotty may have been one of those "chiefs " referred to in the autobiographical sketch of General F. R. Chesney quoted in his 'Life' (8vo, London, 1893), p. 44, who were

"taken by the patrols in the vicinity of Newry, and executed in the presence of all the troops. They were offered pardon on condition of giving some intelligence required by Government, which they declined, and died too bravely for such a

cause."

If Crotty by any action or misfortune was distinguished above his fellows, it is singular that he is not mentioned by Maxwell, who was a native of those parts, and vividly remembered many of the incidents of the rebellion, the above executions amongst others.

Capt. Chesney's MS. Autobiography, now in the British Museum, makes no mention of Crotty; nor does his name occur in Madden, Teeling, or McSkimmin, the three principal authorities for the " Rising in the North."

As the Mourne Infantry under Capt. Chesney-as far as I can ascertain-served

only in parts of Down and Louth, this narrows the scope of inquiry, and I would suggest that Y. T. should consult, if he can, the files of Gordon's Newry Chronicle of that date. JOHN S. CRONE.

Kensal Lodge, N.W.

HARVEY'S BIRTHPLACE (10 S. x. 9).— John Aubrey, who was at Harvey's funeral, says:

William Harvey, M.D., natus at Folkestone in Kent: borne at the house which is now the posthouse, a faire stone-built house, which he gave to Caius College in Cambridge, with some lands there: vide his will. His brother Eliab would have given any money or exchange for it, because 'twas his father's and they all borne there; but the Doctor (truly) thought his memory would better be preserved this way, for his brother has left noble seates, and about 3000 li. per annum, at least.

"Hemsted in Essex towards Audeley End: ibi sepultus Dr Harvey."

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Aubrey mentions his white marble statue in the Library at the Physitians' Colledge," and continues :—

"Dr Harvey added (or was very bountifull in contributing to) a noble building of Roman archipillasters) at the Physitians' College aforesaid, viz. tecture (of rustique worke, with Corinthian a great parlour (or a kind of Convocation-house') for the Fellowes to meet in, belowe; and a library, above......All these remembrances and building was destroyed by the generall fire." See Mr. Andrew Clark's edition of Aubrey's 'Brief Lives,' 1898, i. 295-7.

A. R. BAYLEY.

KING'S SILVER: LINCOLN COLLEGE (10 S. X. 47).-" King's silver was a payment made to the king for liberty to compromise the fictitious and amicable suit which ended in a Fine (or Final Concord), and established This was a common method of conveying the title of a purchaser or donee of property. lands, and was also used for effecting transfers, by gift or sale, of advowsons and Church property. The "King's Silver Books for certain years exist at the Record Office, but some are not now legible. From these, or, if they are not available, from the Feet of Fines, or the Books of Entries of Fines, for Oxfordshire it may be possible to get a record of the actual transactions in respect of which the sums referred to were payable for the churches of Lincoln College. R. S. B.

The royal borough of Woodstock contained the parish of Long Combe, and from the fact of the manor and honour of the former having continued in the Crown until the reign of Queen Anne, all Fines were necessarily payable to the Clerk of the King's Silver,

an officer belonging to the Court of Common Pleas,

"to whom every Fine is brought, after it hath been with the Custos Brevium [i.e., the principal clerk of the Common Pleas], and by whom the effect of the Writ of Covenant is entred in a Paper-Book, and according to that Note, all the Fines of that Term are also recorded in the Rolls of the Court, and his Entry is in this Form: He putteth the Shire over the Margin, and then saith: A.B. Dat Domino Regi dimidium Marcæ' (or more according to the value) pro licentia Concordandi C. cum C.D. pro talibus terris in tali villa, et habet Chirographum per pacem admissum,' &c."

King's silver itself is described by Cowel in his Interpreter,' 1701, as being

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'properly that Money due to the King in the Court of Common Pleas pro licentia concordandi,

in respect of a License then granted to any Man for

passing a Fine."-Vol. vi. fol. 39 and 43.

J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

My error "Earl of Dartmouth" was the result of oversight. I now find that my only "good company is Stow's 'Survey,' Strype's ed., Book I. p. 77.

I am satisfied as to Col. Thomas King.
W. L. RUTTON.

MILL AT GOSPORT, HANTS (10 S. x. 68).Your correspondent might find assistance in locating this mill from the (apparently) accurate description of the immediate neighbourhood, in or before 1854, contained in Besant and Rice's 'By Celia's Arbour,' which I have just re-read with enjoyment. By which of the writers the scene is described I know not; but it is evidently drawn from personal and (I may call it) affectionate recollection and intimacy.

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is not fair to outward view." The opening

lines of the sonnet run thus :

It must be so-my infant love must find In my own breast a cradle and a grave. Both contributions were included by Derwent Coleridge in his edition of his brother's poems, published in 1851. It is quite possible that an exhaustive search through the various annuals which appeared during Hartley Coleridge's literary activity might result in the discovery of more verses.

S. BUTTERWORTH.

"T" WIFE BAZAAR" (10 S. ix. 207, 416). -There is an article of some length on wifeselling in the Daily Mail of 1 March, 1899. It is quoted, along with extracts from other newspapers, by Prof. Knapp in the notes to his edition of The Romany Rye,' p. 384. ALEX. RUSSELL.

Stromness, Orkney.

CONSTABLES AND LIEUTENANTS OF THE TOWER OF LONDON (10 S. ix. 61, 161, 243, 390, 490; x. 70).-I thank MR. BEAVEN for his courteous admission, and for his amendments, which, so far as supported by evidence, tend to the completeness of the catalogue. I have little to add. 'D.N.B.' has Penington or Pennington." I do not know where the name is found with one n (possibly an autograph ?), for in Cal. S. P. Dom.,' Heylin's Help,' Whitelock, Overall's Index to Remembrancia,' and all else at hand I find two n's.

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MAN IN THE ALMANAC (10 S. ix. 408, 475; 56).—An interesting instance of the use of this expression occurs in Johnson's account of Capt. Edward England, History of the Pirates,' vol. i. p. 123 (London, T. Woodward, 1726). In narrating Capt. ship, after the fight at the island of Juanna Mackra's adventures on board England's

the author says:—

"A Fellow with a terrible Pair of Whiskers, and a Wooden Leg, being stuck round with Pistols, like the Man in the Almanack with Darts, comes swearing and vapouring upon the Quarter-Deck, and Asks in a Damning Manner, which was Captain Mackra."

The story is the more interesting in that the one-legged pirate, as pointed out in a recently published book on 'The Malabar Pirates,' is undoubtedly the prototype of Stevenson's John Silver in Treasure Island.' That worthy, it will be remembered, had served first with England, then with Flint.' He had moreover sailed in the Cassandra (the ship taken from Capt. Mackra), and had been at the taking of the Viceroy of the Indies (i.e., of Goa), who was captured in a Portuguese ship of 70 guns which the pirates found dismasted at the island of Mascarine, near Mauritius. This was one of the most famous prizes in the annals of piracy, it being asserted by Johnson that there was on board, "in the single article of Diamonds, to the value of between three and four millions of Dollars." T. F. D.

DOLLS IN MAGIC (10 S. ix. 168).-The practice of employing images of wax, or sometimes of clay, with pins, needles, or thorns stuck into them, for the purpose of causing the death of a person supposed to be an enemy, is one of the commonest

criminal acts recorded of magicians. The Duchess of Gloucester's endeavour to kill Henry VI., whether the story be true or false, has found a place in history. We are told also that the life of Pope Urban VI. was attempted in a similar manner. The earliest instance, however, that occurs to me is Egyptian. There was a plot to kill Rameses III. in this way. The practice is heard of at Inverness in the earlier part of the eighteenth century; and I have been informed that similar acts of perfidy were practised at a much later time among the North American Indians.

I shall be glad to learn of any having been discovered in Great Britain during the last century.

K. P. D. E.

Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

The Seven against Thebes of Eschylus. Edited by T. G. Tucker, Litt.D. (Cambridge, University Press.)

PROF. TUCKER's edition of 'The Seven against Thebes' appears in the form we associate with Jebb's 'Sophocles': Greek text on one page, English prose translation on the facing page, and below first critical and then textual notes. It is

the best possible arrangement for study, and Prof. Tucker's work is of a quality which deserves the compliment of ranking with the best Cambridge scholarship. He follows, we are glad to find, the tendency to believe in the Medicean MS. which is the chief source of Eschylean text, and explain it where possible, instead of indulging in wildly ingenious conjecture. He dissents in the Introduction from Wecklein, and in the matter of "Geschmack" mentioned he will win the suffrages of most scholars. He has that cultivation and sense of poetry without which high degrees are often gained, but which is necessary to control the sense of assurance gained by the expert. He has, of course, a great advantage in being able to consult the excellent work on the play of previous scholars, such as Dr. Arthur Sidgwick and Dr. Verrall. His own contributions to the subject show a wide range of erudition, and good judgment. We are at once surprised and pleased to see a special annotated section at the end devoted to the Scholia of the Medicean. From their mistakes as well as their correct conclusions much may be learnt, as from Servius on Virgil. The presence of English parallels-a page of which from Dr. Leeper is also added in an Appendix is satisfactory, though there is less danger than there was in the

days of Paley of forgetting that Eschylus is a poet as well as a difficult Greek author. As the Preface says regarding the edition, "Its object is the conscientious interpretation of the 'Septem' as a work of dramatic art and a monument of Greek literature. To this aim all else is subordinate."

This is an excellent aim, and the notes are sufficient as regards matters of language and usage. We wish,, however, that there was a list of as λeyóμeva at the end a list we have made invariably in our own studies of all the Greek

dramatists.

The editor's treatment of the text may be exhibited in the speech of Eteocles in which he says (1.257): "I vow to the country's guardian gods, whether they watch the fields or keep eye upon the mast, Διρκής τε πηγαῖς, οὐδ ̓ ἀπ ̓ Ἰσμηνὸν λέγω, that if good befall and the realm be saved, men shall steep the hearths of the gods in blood of sheep," &c. The second half of the line we have ing now given varies only from the MS. by changing left in Greek has been often emended. The readToun vou into 'lounvov, following Abresch, and means "nor do I rule Ismenus out," i.e., "I vow to Dirce's streams, and Ismenus no less." This seems to us quite satisfactory, and far superior, at any rate, toxudar' 'Iouevo leyw (Weil's Teubner text), υδατί τ ̓ Ἰσμηνοῦ λέγω (Sidgwick, Oxford Classical Text"), and various wilder conjectures. Prof. Tucker himself once conjectured λovrρá T' 'Iouevoû, as he notes, but has now no doubt of the true correction. Dr. Verrall's Baotian form ovdara is also very near the MS., but unexampled in Greek literature. In 1. 265 πολεμίων ἐσθήματα is the ancient days the raiment of the foe was a valuable subject of a valuable note, pointing out that in part of the spoil, and that the very word "robe means booty. Cf. German Raub, and A.-S. reáf= clothing, spoil, plunder, as Prof. Skeat says in his Dictionary. We think that Prof. Tucker has fairly established a claim in these and other passages for a consideration of his views.

The English translation is spirited and abounds in picturesque touches, as befits the occasion. Our only comment here is that the sentences are occasionally more broken up than is necessary, with the result of something like paraphrase instead of translation.

IN The Cornhill Magazine Mr. W. E. Norris has an amusing short story 'The Missing Links,' a comedy of marriage engagements. Mr. H. W. Lucy's continuation of his Sixty Years in the Wilderness' is full of interest, and shows the spirit and firmness with which he encountered various set-backs in his career. The article has many pleasant touches. Miss Virginia Stephen reviews A Week in the White House with Theodore Roosevelt,' indicating the virtues which have endeared the President to the American People. He is "an alert machine, efficient in all its parts," possessed of a remarkable sympathy, and his very limitations are those which appeal to the ordinary man. Mr. Bernard Capes has an amusing article on 'Bad Relations.' He makes pretty play with the old contention that no person could have been exactly what he was in real life or fiction with any other name than his own. The mother-in-law is a byword for discord, but the slander is much older than Mr. Capes seems to imagine. He explains that

"the real bad relation, good people, is-as you might have known long ago if you had not wilfully courted your Own obsession-the uncle." In England's Neglect of Mathematics' Prof. G. H. Bryan refers to applications of mathematics which usually go by other names, He talks of the Cambridge Wranglers; but when he suggests that the success of Kelvin shows the efficiency of the old Tripos, he must know that he is overstating things in a way which will not deceive the expert. Old Deeside its Songs aud Stories,' is an admirable last article by the late A. I. Shand, the notice of whom by the editor of The Cornhill might have been longer. Mr. C. S. Buxton tells the story of 'Ruskin College' at Oxford, an institution which would be more attractive if it produced less of the priggish element.

The Nineteenth Century this month is an exceptionally interesting number, and has several articles well worth perusal. Sir Edward Sullivan has an ingenious defence of Shakespeare's mistakes in geography, showing that the waterways of Lombardy were much used, and that Bohemia had a seacoast. Miss Rose Bradley has a pretty travel article on The Month of Mary,' as the Basques, like other Roman Catholics, call May. Mr. H. H. Statham, one of the most accomplished critics of our day, has an outspoken paper on Art at the Franco-British Exhibition.' The Chase of the Wild Red Deer on Exmoor,' which begins this week, is the subject of an ingenious apologia by Mr. R. A. Sanders. Mrs. Frederic Harrison is just beginning to be interesting on the Bastille when the article stops. What can be said in six pages or so on such a subject? Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Spy,' by Mr. A. J. Eagleston, is an amusing piece of literary history. When the two poets were in Somerset, they spoke of a spy, whose existence has been doubted. His existence is now proved by official documents in the Home Office records. It was not the presence of Thelwall, a notorious democrat, that led to suspicion, but it was actually supposed that the Wordsworths were French, and spies. Sir F. C. Burnand has in Un Peu de Pickwick à la Française' an amusing and instructive account of a truncated portion of Pickwick' as rendered in the Journal pour Tous.

IN The Fortnightly the best article is one on 'David Masson' by Mr. R. S. Rait, a well-informed personal tribute. 'Sweated Industries,' by Mr. G. R. Askwith, is important, as coming from a most competent authority. He considers that as minimum wages exist on all sides, and in some measure in nearly every trade, the difficulties alleged concerning their establishment are overrated. Prof. Churton Collins's address on "The Literary Indebtedness of England to France' is a counterpart to M. Yves Guyot's address published last month. We notice that the Professor uses without inverted commas the phrase "the White City," invented, we believe, by the Daily Mail for the Franco-British Exhibition. Mrs. Billington-Greig writes an able article on The Sex-disability and Adult Suffrage.' Mr. T. H. S. Escott gossips agreeably on Court and Crowd at Exeter Hall,' incidentally suggesting that "Brooks of Sheffield" in David Copperfield' was a reminiscence of a Brooks who in 1822 promoted the idea of "an unsectarian building for religious and scientific societies." A striking short story by Tourguénieff, 'The Dog,' concludes the number, and reads well in the version of Margaret Gough.

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The Burlington Magazine opens with an important editorial article on The Preservation of Ancient Buildings.' We hope that the Royal Commission announced to report on the subject will suggest something definite. It is absurd that a Government grant in aid of inspectors should be denied when public money is freely spent on less desirable objects. A Chief Inspector ought to be appointed at a reasonable salary, who would give his time and talents to the care of ancient monuments, and come down heavily on owners and local authorities who neglected their duties. Mr. Cecil H. Smith has an interesting article on a supposed 'Bronze Bust of Commodus,' found in the Tiber, and now belonging to Mr. George Salting. Not many people will recognize, unless they know history, Marcus Aurelius "the author of the ' 'Reflections.' "The original best to adopt that in common use, viz., Meditatitle is awkward for English, but surely it would be tions." The article is admirable alike in its connoisseurship and historical setting. Mr. Roger Fry has an amply illustrated article on English IlluClub,' a splendid show which deserves the best of minated Manuscripts at the Burlington Fine-Arts critical recognition. Mr. G. F. Hill has a good article, also illustrated, on the medallist Lysippus; while Prof. Holmes writes on Some Constable Puzzles' which have been illuminated by Mr. Algernon Graves's invaluable work on the British Institution. The Notes this month include the newly discovered name of Pisanello, which is Vasari. The cracks in the ceiling of the Sistine Antonio Pisano-not Vittore, as was gathered from Chapel were, it is pointed out by Sir Hubert von Herkomer in My School and My Gospel,' in some that he did this to persuade the Pope that he was cases painted by Michelangelo! It is suggested blundering with his material. Mr. A. H. Maude is not satisfied with this explanation, and thinks the trick was a mere caprice on Michelangelo's part. Under Art in America' Prof. Holmes notices Rembrandt's portrait of himself (1658) and three pictures by Van Dyck. These four pictures are reproduced, and, being all splendid examples of two masters, are acquisitions calculated to make any collector envious.

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W. G. RICHARDS.-Forwarded.

R. HEMMING.-("Ticknor and Yankee ").- You summarized this at 10 S. v. 111, in the discussion on Jan Kees."

CORRIGENDA.-P. 87, col. 1, 1. 5, for "Pheilippides" read Philippides.-P. 91, col. 1, 1. 19, for "casuality" read causality.

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