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standing the thousands of names that Mr. Algernon Graves has chronicled, that of Paul Braddon is not among them, so that he never had a picture in any of the London exhibitions.

In 1825 water-colour art was not so common as it is now. Among sources not generally accessible, I have looked at the ' Catalogue of Water- Colour Drawings of Dr.- John Percy, F.R.S.,' sold by Christies in 1890 a most extensive list of water-colour artists arranged in alphabetical order. Braddon' s name is not among them. Neither is he in John Pye's ' Patronage of British Art,' 1845, a book full of information ; but the index is defective, only a few of the names of the numerous artists mentioned being in it. There is no example of Braddon at South Kensington.

Further, in reply to MB. CANN HUGHES' s question, there is no exhaustive history of water-colour art. Such a work would be invaluable, provided it gave coloured repro- ductions of the most representative works.

The term " drawing " was quite right in the origin of the art, but the drawings have long since given place to pictures, so that it would now be more correct to talk of water-colour pictures,

Perhaps Braddon was an architect, for architects are frequently artists too, as in the case of Ambrose Poynter, father of the President of the R.A. I may also instance Mr. R. Phene Spiers, an example of whose work as an artist is also to be seen at the S.K.M. in the water-colour gallery.

RALPH THOMAS.

SHAKESPEARE'S UNNOTED COMPLIMENT TO ELIZABETH (10 S. ix. 125, 178). I think I have now traced the contemporary " com- pliment to the beauty and grace of Eliza- beth's reading and speaking of her formal speeches to the public," for a precise reference to which DR. FURNIVALL inquired. It is to be found in the following extract from The Athenceum review of 7 March, 1903, of the ' Camden Miscellany ' (vol. x.) in the Royal Historical Society's Publica- tions (Third Series). In the journal of Sir Roger Wilbraham, " who was Solicitor- General in Ireland during the last years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth and Master of Requests in that of James I.," there is a report of

" the very eloquent speech delivered by the queen

to her last Parliament on December 19th, IfiOl

The occasion of this address is graphically de- scribed by Wilbraham, and it would seem to have been a spontaneous and unexpected harangue at the conclusion of the official proceedings. As to the

manner of its delivery, Wilbraham remarks that 'the grace of pronunciation and of her apt and refined words so lernedlie composed did ravish the sense of the herers with such admiracion as every new sentence made me half forget the precedents/ this being the writer's excuse for an imperfect report."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

SNAKES DRINKING MILK (10 S. x. 265, 316, 335, 377). In ' Three Generations of Englishwomen ' there is the following ac- count of Lady. Duff Gordon, when a girl,, by Miss Marianne North :

" Then she had a tame snake She used to carry-

her pet about with her, wound round her arm, and it would put its slender head out at the wrist- hole, and lap milk out of the palm of her hand with, its little forked tongue."

S. B.

UNITED STATES : SOCIAL LIFE IN THE- SOUTH (10 S. x. 248). The querist's illus- tration is unfortunate : Robert E. Lee's- education was chiefly acquired at the Military Academy at West Point, and in the field as an engineer and a fighter. Thereby he got an unusual share of the- substantial qualities of a man and of a commander, but few of the graces of a carpet knight. ROCKINGHAM.

Boston, U.S.

SPECIAL JURISDICTION (10 S. x. 368). Can R. B. or any other of your contributors quote the authority of The Times for the assertion that the Lancaster magistrates- have this special jurisdiction ? Mr. Holden, our oldest local lawyer here (over eighty years of age), never heard of any such

{provision, nor can I learn anything of it ocally. T. CANN HUGHES,

Town Clerk and Public Prosecutor. Lancaster.

The jurisdiction of the Justices of Gaol! Delivery for the Liberty of Peterborough is dealt with in Mr. Gaches's ' History of the Liberty of Peterborough,' 1905,. reviewed a year or so ago in ' N. & Q.'

R. S. B.

[The review 7 appeared at 10 S. v. 478. ]

STAMMERING (10 S. x. 367). My twin sons have been almost cured of nervous stammering by being trained to speak in slow, subdued tones or semi-whispers. I do not know whether the idea is original ;. but if unaware of it, your correspondent may be glad to hear of such a simple remedy..

WM. JAG CARD. 139, Canning Street, Liverpool.