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tain, which takes one outside the city limits, and, partly by the highway having the same name, through the suburb or district called " Cote des Xeiges," lying on the western slope of the beautiful Mount Royal that gives dis- tinction as well as name to the city, and is justly her pride. By this road one approaches also the main entrance to the French Catholic " Cote des Xeiges Cemetery /'adjoining on its opposite side the English "Mount Royal Cemetery." On the Cote des Xeiges road are several old churches and other religious build- ings, and though with no aid to memory I cannot be sure of their names, I think at least one of them church or convent has the Notre Dame appellation, and thus might naturally come to be spoken of as " Notre Dame des Xeiges."

However this may be, it is plain to one at all familiar with Montreal that in writing of "Sainte Xotre-Dame '' having " son trone sur notre Mont Royal," whence she "descend

chaque soir en sa Ville-Marie," " ville

au collier de neige,"the Canadian poet quoted refers to the Cote des Xeiges.

Whether or not the title phrase of this poem had precedence, the same designation which Kipling applied to all Canada (and thereby gave that country great offence) may easily have been suggested to his mind during a visit to Montreal and her Cote des Xeiges.

As to the name, I have been told that, pro- bably from the direction of neighbouring hill-slopes, the section is noted for its excep- tionally deep snows. M. C. L.

New York.

The Congregation for the reform of the Breviary under Benedict XIV. reported : '

" Lectipnes secundi nocturni, quse hac die usque modo recitatae sunt, immutandas sane esse existi- matur. De ea solemnitate, quse hac die celebratur, eiusque institutions causa, habentur, ait Baronius in ' Martyrologio Romano,' vetera monumenta et MSS. . Huiusmodi autem monumenta et MSS. nee unquam vidimus, nee fortasse unquam videbimus. Miran- dum profecto est, ait Baillet, non adhuc tanti miraculi et tarn mirabilis historic auctoreru inuo- tuisse : insuper quod tarn novum tamque stupendum prodigium spatio annorum fere mille et amplius profundo sepultum silentio iacuerit, nee usquam inveniri potuerit, prreterquam in breviario et in Catalogo Petri de Natalibus lib. 7, cap. 21." ' Ana- lecta,' p. 915.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

READE (10 th S. i. 329). The 'D.X.B.,' vol. xlvii. p. 361, under Robert Reade (d. 1415), Dominican friar, and bishop suc- cessively of Carlisle and Chichester, says, " There does not seem to be any evidence as to whether he was related to his predecessor, William Rede or Reade"; and on p. 376, under the latter name (d. 1385), it says :

"A William Read, who was archdeacon of Chichester 1398-1411, chancellor in 1407, and treasurer in 1411, may have been a relative of William Rede the bishop, or perhaps more probably of Robert Reade."

Bishop William, a native of the diocese of Exeter, built the beautiful library of Merton College, Oxon, of which he was Fellow, and to him the diocese of Chichester is indebted for the preservation of the early records relating to the see. The next three bishops were Thomas Rushoke, Richard Metford, and Robert Waldby. Then, in 1397, we find Robert Rede a bishop of Chichester, who occupied the see during the reign of Henry IV. His register is the earliest of those that remain, and testifies to the zeal with which he endeavoured to suppress the doctrines of Wyclif and the Lollards.

A. R. BAYLEY.

Lives of both the Bishops of Chichester so named William (1368-85) and Robert (1397- 1417) are given in 'D.X.B.,' the former much more fully than the latter. Additional information can be found in the late Dean Stephens's ' Memorials of the See of Chichester,' 119 and 124. So far the autho- rities have found no evidence as to any family kinship between these two eminent prelates. The William Read mentioned by your correspondent was Archdeacon of Chichester 1398-1411, and held other offices. The ' D.X.B.' biographer thinks that he may probably have been a relative of Bishop Roberfc Reade. C. DEEDES.

Chichester.

" STAT CRUX BUM VOLVITUR ORBIS " (10 th S. i. 309). This is the motto of the Carthusian monks, who make the famous Chartreuse liqueur. Mr. Ch. Chaille-Long, the writer of an article entitled ' A Visit to the Monastery of the Grande Chartreuse,' in the Catholic World for October, 1894, tells us that the motto and the arms of the Carthusians were composed by the " Reverend Father," or General of the Order, Dom Martin, in 1233. The accuracy of this statement may be verified by the assertion of Helyot in his ' Histoire des Ordres Religieux,' vol. vii. cap. lii. p. 401, 2, which runs as follows :

"Dom Martin, onzieme general de cet Ordre [des Chartreux], lui donna pour simbole une croix pos6e sur un monde, avec cette devise, stat crux dnm volvitur orbis."

This motto was at one time the cognizance of an Anglican sisterhood founded by the late Dr. Xeale, who unquestionably pirated the same. It is of interest to note that in the same locality there is established the great