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young writer on the English press, and that, like other phrases which now have a news- paper currency, such as "That goes without saying," &c., it properly belongs, not to lite- rature, but to " journalese."

W. F. PRIDEAUX. Vizzavona, Corsica.

W. MILLER, ENGRAVER (10 th S. i. 247). The view of Hornby Castle is to be found in the fourth volume of Baines's ' History of Lancashire,' published by Fisher & Co. in 1836. W. D. MACRAY.

The engraving of Hornby Castle is in 'Lancashire Illustrated,' vol. i. p. 132, pub- lished by Peter Jackson, late Fisher, Son & Co., London. A, H. ARKLE.

CHELSEA PHYSIC GARDEN (10 th S. i. 227, 270). As a sequel to the information already given on this subject I may add what ap- peared in the City Press of 1 April, which I think should be recorded in ' N. & Q.' :

"The Old Cedars at Chelsea. The removal of the last of the four cedars in the Chelsea Physic Gardens has recently been effected, says the Gar- dener's Magazine, owing to its having become so covered with a destructive fungus as to be a menace to its neighbours. The tree has been completely dead for quite six years, and the committee of management, being fully alive to its historical in- terest, resolved to leave it standing as long as pos- sible. Lately it has been covered with a highly infectious fungus, which would soon have spread to the healthy trees near. The wood of the cedar is care fully preserved, but the trunk, though it mea- sured 13 ft. round the base, is entirely rotten, and would before long have become dangerous, and injured the trees near whenever it collapsed. It was only when the retention of this interesting relic the first cedar of Lebanon planted in Englanc became a source of danger to the rest of the garden that the committee of management sanctioned its removal."

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

IMMORTALITY or ANIMALS (10 th S. i. 169 256). Those who take interest in the ques tion itself should read Dr. Ludwig Biichner 'Kraft und Stoff,' last chapter but one, ' Die Thierseele.' G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

THE MIMES OF HERONDAS (10 th S. i. 68, 216) Scholars in England who write to ' N. & Q. will probably have anticipated anything tha an Antipodean student of the classics coulc contribute in answer to MR. R, J. WALKER' question. Still, it may be worth while t mention that the whole external evidence fo the date of Herondas (Herodas?) has been brought together in a convenient form b 1 Otto Crusius in his edition of the ' Mimes (Leipsic, second ed., 1894). The most im

ortant of the " testimonia " there cited is hat of Pliny the Younger, " Callimachum ne vel Heroden vel si quid his melius tenere redebam" ('Epp.,' iv. 3, 3). Pliny must lave died while Herodes Attlcus was still a hild. The idea that Herodas was mentioned >y Hipponax as a contemporary is now known o have arisen from a misreading.

The internal evidence is a much more com- plex question. As it is concerned with iialect, vocabulary, metre, and literary and listorical allusion, it could not be adequately reated except at a length unsuited to the mges of ' N. & Q.' One may say confidently, lowever, that the great weight of scholarly authority favours, on internal grounds, the view that the poet flourished in the reign of that the king mentioned in the thirtieth verse of the first Mime is Euergetes. I do not know whether Prof. Robinson Ellis still inclines to the singular theory that the Greek poet mitated Catullus and perhaps Vergil.
 * he third Ptolemy. It seems pretty certain

ALEX. LEEPER,

Trinity College, Melbourne University.

ENGRAVINGS (10 th S. i. 309). The engravers referred to were not named Black. The well- known brothers S. and N. Buck are the ngravers. E. B R.

POPE AND GERMAN LITERATURE (10 th S. i. 209). About twenty years ago a German scholar, Mr. S. Levy, collected some parallel passages in the works of Alexander Pope and Goethe, which seemed to indicate that the latter had been influenced by the former. The results were published under the title ' Einige Parallelen zu Goethe aus Pope ' in the Goethe - Jahrbuch, vol. v. pp. 344, 345 (Frankfurt a/M., 1884). In Eckermann's 'Gesprache mit Goethe,' vol. i., Goethe dis- cusses Lord Byron at some length, and on p. 142 he briefly compares Byron and Pope. CHARLES BUNDY WILSON.

The State University of Iowa, Iowa City.

DEAN'S YARD, WESTMINSTER, No. 17 (9 th B. xii. 265). This prebendal house never belonged to the Bishopric of Gloucester, as MR. HARLAND-OXLEY seems to imply. Dr. Monk, who was appointed both a Canon of VVestminster and Bishop of Gloucester in 1830, did not succeed to the occupation of this house (then known as No. 13) until after the death of Canon H. H. Edwards in September, 1846. On Dr. Monk's death, in June, 1856, it became, under the provisions of 3 & 4 Viet., c. 113, sec. 30, and an order in Council dated 22 April, 1856, the Eectory House of St. Margaret's, and Dr. Cureton>