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from the physical) the French moral shoulc be used, if a French word must be used Moral sometimes includes firmness or courage under trying circumstances, and it is in this sense that it would be used. I have very little doubt, however, that the Professor anc I are at one in thinking that French words should not be pitchforked into English com- position without very good reason.

EDWARD LATHAM.

La morale (morality) not only exists, but is in French, as in English, one of the most important of words. Le moral exists also, and this is how it is defined by Littre :

"Moral, subs, niasc. No. 5, le moral: 1'ensemble de nos facultes morales. Le physique influe sur le moral, et le moral influe sur le physique. No. 6, fermete a supporter les perils, les fatigues, les diffi- cultes. Exemples : son moral s'est releve ; remonter le moral d'nne annee" (italics mine).

We see from the last example that to speak of the moral (not morale) of an army is perfectly good French ; and the expression is in fact frequently used by Frenchmen. It therefore seems to me that to write it in italics in English books is absolutely correct. M. HAULTMONT.

THACKERAY AND CATHERINE HAYES. (See ante, p. 64.) 'Catherine' was one of Thacke- ray's earliest productions, and originally pub- lished in Frasers Magazine more than fifty years ago. It was accompanied by whole-page illustrations from the pencil of the author. JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

ALDWYCH. (See ante, p. 138.) Much written hereon is mere gossip and guesswork, against which are these facts.

1. Mr. Parton shows that Aldewych Cross stood at the Holborn end of Drury Lane, formerly the Via Regia or King's Highway.

2. The "campo de Aldwych, : ' part of St. Giles's Fields, belonged to Holborn Manor.

3. At Domesday the king held two cottages in Holborn. So Holborn appears to be all we have on record as to the earliest known status of the Aldwj'ch, and that is far away from St. Clement Danes.

4. We have no valid record of any grant of land therein to Guthorm of East Anglia. At that time the Strand was an open shore, flooded at every tide, and fed by streams draining the higher ground of St. Giles's Fields ; one such was the Mill bourne, where Vikings might beach their galleys and live as Lithsmen or Lid wickers, rovers all. No doubt St. Clement was so named from Danes, but the higher ground was cultivated, and we have no record of any earlier village

there than the Holborn "cottages "of Domes- day, with notes of a " vineyard." Here would' be the " village."

5. In 1101 Queen Matilda founded the hospital of St. Giles without the bars of the old Temple, in the west suburb of London. The Temple was soon moved to Fleet Street, but conveyancers still kept up the old style of definition ; so Bosham's Inn and garden have- been described as without the bar of the old Temple, in the street that leads to the hospital of St. Giles. There is an Aldwick, hundred and tything, Pagham, Sussex ; and an Old- wick in Bucks ; and it is plain that the- " cottiers" of Domesday were not Danish rovers; and if they had any "village" of their own, it would not be "old" to the Saxon- residents of London city. A. HALL.

COBWEB PILLS. The following is an extract from ' Lives of Early Methodist Preachers '" (Horace Marshall &, Son, 1903). It occurs on p. 270 in a brief summary of the life of John. Pritchard, who was born in 1746 at Arthbuy,. co. Meath :

" In August, 1781, I went to Taunton, and had' For my fellow-traveller Mr. Boone. But we were both very ill of the ague. I used the cold bath, and took bark in abundance ; I walked and rode ; I tried' electricity ; but the most effectual remedy I could; find was cobweb pills."

C. T.

THORWALDSEN'S BUST OP BYRON. (See 6 th S. vi. 342.) On a recent visit to the Ambro- sian Library at Milan I copied the inscrip- tion on the pedestal of Byron's bust. It is- strange that I omitted to quote it when I gave an account of Thorwaldsen's work at the? above reference :

Byron Effigies

Quam Thorwaldsen inventor Ronchettio

Sutori sui temporis primo

Clarioribus viris ac Proceribus jucundo

Hujus F Antonius sonantis eburis magister

Bibliothecte Donavit.

RICHARD EDGCUMBE. Edgbarrow, Crowthorne, Berks.

DICKENS AND SCRIPTURE. As an addition duty for Bible texts (" Cleanliness is next
 * o the list of adventitious phrases doing
 * o godliness," <kc.), suffer me, in obedience to

3apt. Cuttle's precept, to call attention to the 'Scriptural admonition," in "the letter" (of Scripture), of "Know thyself," in 'Nicholas STickleby,' chap. xliv. PHILIP NORTH.

MISPRINTS IN THOMS'S 'STOW.' In 1842

e late Mr. Thorns published an edition of

Fohn Stow's 'Survey of London.' It con-


 * ains two rather droll misprints. The king