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Cardinal Newman. The statue of Newman (ante, p. 213), as I remember it, was between the Brompton Oratory and the new extension of the Kensington galleries. It was refused by Oxford, and a newspaper suggestion was made at the time it was going begging for a site, that it should be placed on a compara- tively open space near the " Ivy Bush " in Hagley Road, Edgbaston, close to the Oratory where the Cardinal lived and died.

Robert Clive. To the statues in course of preparation should be added one to the hero of Plassey. Funds have been raised chiefly by the efforts of Lord Curzon, and it will be erected on the steps near the India Office leading to St. James's Park. A replica will go to Calcutta. There is already what the ex- Viceroy terms a " mason's effigy " of Clive outside one of the public buildings in Whitehall.

Outram (10 S. ix. 482). Calcutta possesses a superb equestrian statue of Sir James Outram by J. H. Foley, R.A., which was unveiled in 1874. I am told that before being sent to India it was placed in a promi- nent position in London, and that a serious attempt was made to keep it permanently there. I should be obliged if any one could let me know whereabouts in London, if my informant is correct, it stood. The informa- tion is desired for the purpose of an historical work on Calcutta that I am preparing.

Marble Arch and Hyde Park Corner Statuary. I have read of allegorical figures being in course of preparation for the sum- mits of these arches. These should be added to the list of memorials to come.

Joseph Chamberlain. Near the Gresham Street end of Mason's Avenue, leading from Coleman Street to Gresham Street, are a series of medallions of public men of about five-and-twenty years ago, one of which is of Mr. Chamberlain. I do not know if such memorials, come within the scope of MR. PAGE'S notes.

Trafalgar Square. I remember reading of a movement to remove all the statues (except that of Nelson), and replace them by allegorical statuary emblematic of naval victories. The idea seems to me a most fascinating one. The square so treated would be enormously improved. The change would also relegate the indifferent statues now occupying the finest site in London to positions more suited to them, and afford an opportunity for the exhibition of the beautiful Gordon statue under less absurd conditions. It is dwarfed at present by its surroundings. WILMOT CORFIELD. Calcutta Historical Society.

MR. HARLAND-OXLEY tells us (ante, p. 291) that the statue of the Duke of Cumberland once in Cavendish Square was the work of John Cheere. Does he by chance mean Sir Henry Cheere, to whom Redgrave attri- butes this work ? Who was John Cheere ? HAROLD MALET, Col.

May I again say " Thank you " to MR. HARLAND-OXLEY for his kindly, practical help ? I have duly noted his correction respecting the Eldon School, and may add that an engraving of the school appeared in The literary World of 23 May, 1840.

By an accident I have, I find, missed recording the statue of Mrs. Siddons as Tragedy by Chevalliaud on Paddington Green. This is noteworthy as being the first statue of a player erected in London. It was unveiled by the late Sir Henry Irving on 14 June, 1897. JOHN T. PAGE.

"PRESBYTER INCENSATUS " (10 S. x. 328). I should guess that the word meant is insensatus, i.e. foolish. Though it is not in Ducange, I am sure I have met with it in late Latin ; and it is noted by Lewis and Short. The adverb insensate, foolishly, occurs in the Vulgate version of Wisdom xii. 23. Compare Ital. insensato, Fr. insense. W T ALTER W. SKEAT.

COMMODORE CHAMBERLAIN (10 S. x. 329). The officer referred to, Peter Chamberlen, flourished in the time of Queen Anne, not of William and Mary, and, if of Jewish lineage which seems highly improbable was of a family that had been Protestant for more than a hundred years. He was the grandson of Peter Chamberlen (1601-83), who was the great-grandson of William Chamberlen, a French Protestant who settled in England in the reign of Elizabeth ('D.N.B.'). There is a short memoir of the Commodore in Charnock's ' Biog. Nav.,' iii. 244, where the name is misspelt Chamberlain. He was first cousin of Sir Hovenden Walker.

J. K. LATJGHTON.

[The extracts from Charriock sent by MR. D. MURRAY have been forwarded to MR. SOLOMONS.]

GREEKS AND NATURE (10 S. x. 330). The inquiry is rather vague. Virgil, for instance, has a sense of yearning and mystery in nature which Horace entirely lacks. In the ' Phsedrus.' the scene of which is by the banks of the Ilissus, in beautiful country, Socrates is represented as saying that " trees and country places have nothing to teach me, but men in the city have.'* An excellent article indicating the faint