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care, although they were seen by reflected light only. Nevertheless, Michael Angelo and other sculptors of the Renaissance did not illustrate this noble law. O.

In the third of Frederick Denison Maurice 1 lectures on 'Learning and Working,' de- livered in 1854, these words occcur :

" The sense of responsibility which led the Greek to be as diligent in working out that part of the statue which would be hidden by the wall of the temple as that part which would be exposed to the eye, because the gods would look upon both, seems to have departed from Christendom, which should cherish it most. The flimsy texture which cannot instantly be discovered the carelessness which will only cause some boiler to explode in a distant ocean, where no one will hear who has perished is considered no outrage upon the modern morality."

This passage may be of some use for illus- tration of the quotation from Longfellow's poem ' The Builders.' At a later period some one lectured on 'Stucco and Veneer' to inculcate sound morality. F. JARRATT.

COTTISWOLD (9 th S. xii. 506). The Cots wold games are mentioned in the ' Merry Wives of Windsor ' (I. i.), where Slender asks Page :

How does your fallow greyhound, sir?

I heard say he was outrun at Cotsole. A full description of the amusements, accom- panied with quotations from old authors and illustrations, will be found in Charabers's ' Book of Days,' i. 712. For horse-racing at Cotswold in 1677 and 1682, see 2 nd S. ii. 418 and for ' The Cotswold Sports,' 3 rd S. ix. 80 100, 128, 185, 355. There is no place named Cotswold excepting that in Gloucestershire.

EVBRARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

WILLIAM STEPHENS, PRESIDENT OF GEORGIA (10* S. i. 144, 216).-The Rev. E. B. James, vicar of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, was a very old friend of mine. On his death his widow consulted me as to the mode of issuing his Letters, Archaeological and Historical, relating to the Isle of Wight,' chiefly con- tributions to local papers. I suggested their being placed in the hands of some London house willing to undertake their publication Mrs. James, who died some few years ago at Shankhn Isle of Wight, was a sister of Sir Arthur Charles. JOHN PICK FORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

m LECHE FAMILY (10 th S. i. 207, 274, 293). An interesting genealogy of a family of Leche can be compiled from the lists of York freemen published by the Surtees Society. Ihe entries show incidentally the hereditary character of the profession betokened in the name, for no fewer than eight generations

were successively members of the York Guild of Barber - Surgeons. The registers of St. Michael le Belfrey have several entries relative to the family, and no doubt a search in other city registers would throw consider- able light upon the family history. In the later entries the name is generally spelt Leach, Leech, or Leache.

GEORGE A. AUDEN.

MELANCHOLY (10 th S. i. 148, 212). See also Cicero, 'De Div.,' i. 37, and Aul. Gellius, xviii. 7, " quse ptXayxoXia. dicitur ; non parvis nee abjectis ingeniis accidere."

G. T. SHERBORN.

Twickenham.

EPITAPHS : THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 th S. i. 44, 173, 217, 252). To MR. MAC-MICHAEL'S list may be added T. Webb's ' A New Selec- tion of Epitaphs,' 1775, of which there is a copy in the British Museum.

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

At the end of the ' Book of Blunders,' by David Macrae (published by J. S. Doidge, Douglas, n.d.), is 'A Chapter of Queer Epi- taphs,' pp. 91-116. I may also add 'Into the Silent Land : Epitaphs, Quaint, Curious, Historic,' copied chiefly from tombstones by E. M. T. (London, Simpkin & Marshall ; and Bakewell, A. E. Cokayne, n.d.).

ERNEST B. SAVAGE.

St. Thomas, Douglas.

JAPANESE MONKEYS (9 th S. xi. 9, 76, 430, 517; xii. 237). Kitamura's 'Kiyu Shoran,' ed. Tokyo, 1882, torn. vii. fol. 18 b, quoting the ' Mottomo-no-S6shi,' written in the seven- teenth century, says :

" At Awataguchi, Kyoto, exists the so - called ' Temple of the Three Monkeys,' in which stand the 'Non-Speaking' Monkey, covering the mouth with his paws, and the attendant ' Non-Seeing' and ' Non-Hearing' Monkeys. These statues were carved by Dengyo Daishi [who first introduced to Japan the Tendai sect of Buddhism, 767-822 A.D.], and a tradition attached to that of the ' Non-Speaking' Monkey is that if any one engaged in a lawsuit should temporarily keep it in his house he would infallibly succeed in his case.''

It is almost needless to observe that this uperstition originated in the Blue-Faced Vadjra's inculcation of the safety of the non- speaking party (see 9 th S. xi. 430).

KUMAGUSU MlNAKATA. Mount Nachi, Kii, Japan.

SAMUEL HAYNES (10 th S. i. 269). The author of ' A Memoir of Richard Haines : lis Ancestry and Posterity,' privately printed L899, on p. 137 says that the seventh Earl of Bridgewater married Charlotte Catherine