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I regret that I cannot inform the querist of the place where the Rev. Wm. Butler officiated. All I know on this point is that it was within a very few miles of Dorchester.

I mav sav that I have always heard the Rev. Wm/ Butler referred to as " Billy Butler the Sporting Parson " ; also that I have in my possession a copy of a print of him in hunting costume, holding a hunting- crop in his hand. R. VATJGHAN GOWER. Ferndale Lodge, Tun bridge Wells.

HALDANE (10 S. x. 347). In Scotland the first syllable of the name of the present Secretary for War is pronounced alterna- tively as in " hall " or in " Hal." Tradition almost invariably employs the pronunciation as in " hall " to the name of a well-known Scottish divine of the first half of the nine- teenth century, Robert Haldane, Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews (1820-54).

W. B.

EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA (10 S. x. 326). It is \vorth recording that there are lists of nearly 1,500 emigrants sailing from Liver- pool for transatlantic colonies for the years 1697 to 1707. These lists are in certain volumes of the Corporation records, and an account of them by John Elton is given in vol. xvii. (N.S.) of the Transactions of the Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire.

R. S. B.

SCOTS GREYS : HISTORY or THE REGIMENT (10 S. x. 347). There is, I think, no full history of the Scots Greys. The best is the ' History of the 2nd Dragoons : The Royal Scots Greys, " Second to None," ' by Lieut. - Col. Percy Groves (W. & A. K. Johnston), 1893, with plate illustrations by Payne. This was one of the parts in Messrs. John- ston's series "Illustrated Histories of the Scottish Regiments" (No. 2), and is now, unfortunately, out of print. The work gives in one of the appendices a list of the officers (with brief personal notes) who served at the battle of Waterloo. Historical sketches of the regiment are to be found in various service publications, all more or less inade- quate ; but your Pennsylvanian correspon- dent might consult Chichester and Short's ' Records and Badges of Every Regiment and Corps in the British Army' (Gale & Polden), where accurate notes, though brief, will be found ; also ' The British Army : its Regimental Records, Badges, Devices, &c.,' by Major Lawrence-Archer (Bell), where the notes are good, but even briefer.

G. M. FRASER.

Public Library, Aberdeen.

An official illustrated history was published' in 1840, the compiler being R. Cannon, with the title ' Historical Record of the Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons, now the Second, or Royal North British Dragoons,, commonly called the Scots Greys [1681- 1839].'

A concise and useful account in tabular form will be found in R. Trimen's 'The Regiments of the British Army, Chronologic- ally Arranged,' published in 1878.

AYEAHR.

It may be well to note that the regiment was originally known as the Royal Regiment of Scots Dragoons. Mr. Chichester in ' Records and Badges ' states that " in a MS. Army List of 1736, preserved at the War Office, it first appears as the Royal North British Dragoons, a title retained down to the Crimean days."

Its present title is the 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys). G. YARROW BALDOCK.

If MR. J. J. STEWART consults ' The Waterloo Roll Call,' by C. H. Dalton, he will doubtless find officers of the regiment he inquires about.

(Mrs.) HAUTENVILLE COPE.

THE GLAMIS MYSTERY (10 S. x. 241, 311). In Mrs. Oliphant's short story ' The Secret Chamber,' which appeared in Black- wood in 1876, the secret of Glamis is not a " monster " of any kind, but the apparition of a wicked ancestor, a magician who by supernatural arts stilt survives to be the curse of his house. The tale, short as it is. is a good example of Mrs. Oliphant's peculiar power in the higher kind of ghost-storv.

C. C. B.

SHAKESPEARE'S EPITAPH (10 S. x. 346). In considering the relation of " living art " to Shakespeare's " wit," it should be borne in mind that in Elizabethan days " wit " was not uncommonly used to denote what we should now include under the term " wisdom." In Sonnet CXL., for example, which begins " Be wise as thou art cruel," Shakespeare himself writes :

If I might teach thee wit, better it were, Though not to love, yet, love, to tell me so. And Butler, in ' Miscellaneous Thoughts/ summarily intimates that

All wit does but avert men from the road In which things vulgarly are understood, And force mistake and ignorance to own A better sense than commonly is known. Thus a man's wit, and Shakespeare's wit above all, in this large and comprehensive--