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respectively, were allowed only 10,000?. and 5,000. In the case of the latter only 1,000?. was at first granted, but it was subsequently increased to the larger sum. The minute precision with which the values of the estates were calculated to pence and farthings irresistibly recalls the comment of Mr. Mantalini on the bill presented to him. ALFRED B. BEAVEN. Leamington.

See N. Tindal's * History of England ' (Rapin), 1743, vol. iv. pt. ii. (1747), pp. 643-4.

There is a printed copy of the inventory of the real and personal estate of Sir J. Jacob- sen in the British Museum Library.

LIONEL SCHANK.

BUCKLE'S ' HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION ' (10 S. xii. 328). The critique in question could not have appeared in The Fortnightly, for Buckle's last volume was published in 1861, and The Fortnightly did not come into existence till 1865. Buckle's book was censured more or less severely, in general or in detail, by Darwin, Macaulay, Bagehot, Matthew Arnold, Masson, Mark Pattison, George Eliot, Sir Leslie Stephen, Gladstone, Grant Allen, Froude, Lord Morley, and Prof. Saintsbury. Probably no tribunal so hete- rogeneous has ever been so unanimous.

W. A. H.

Perhaps the critique inquired after may refer to a series of articles by Prof. Masson on ' Mr. Buckle's Doctrine as to the Scotch and their History,* which appeared in Mac- millan's Magazine for July, August, and September, 1861. The articles are respect- ively headed: (1) 'Mr. Buckle's General Thesis and Early Scottish History,'- p. 177 ; (2) ' The Weasel Wars of Scotland and the Scottish Reformation, 1 p. 309 ; (3) ' Scot- land in the Seventeenth Century, 1 p. 370. WALTER SCOTT.

"THE DOG AND POT" (10 S. xii. 244, 298). Apparently the article in The Daily Graphic of 13 Sept., 1905, referred to on p. 298, was taken from Larwood and Hotten's ' History of Signboards,' in which (6th ed., pp. 443-4) is more than a page about the sign of "The Dog's Head in the Pot." Larwood and Hotten say inter alia that "this sign is sometimes called the Dog and Crock, as in the Blackfriars' Road; at Michelmouth, Komsey, Hants, and elsewhere. In the western counties the word 'crock' is indiscriminately applied to iron or earthen pots. From the latter application comes the term * crockery ware,' " Touching the quotation from the Rev. E. Johnson's translation of the ' Colloquies '

of Erasmus (ante, p. 245), may I inquire whether "at the Bar" is a fairly correct translation of "ad abacum rationalem," which is the original phrase in TrrwxoTrAov- o-tot (Franciscan!) ? I quote from ' Des. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia,' Lugd. Batav. et Roterod., 1664, p. 308. Abacus, a "side- board" or "buffet," might perhaps mean a "bar" (at an inn); but what is the exact meaning of rationalis ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MECHANICAL ROAD CARRIAGES (10 S. xi. 305, 374, 431, 498; xii. 31, 96, 158). A decidedly earlier newspaper reference to a mechanical road carriage than those of 1742 and 1759, supplied by your corre- spondents, and to a vehicle which was not only an " auto," but a " taxi " to apply the slang of to-day is to be found in the following advertisement, which appeared in The, Daily Courant of 13 Jan., 1711 :

" To give Notice, That at the 7 Stars under the Piazzas in Covent Garden is to be seen a Chariot in which a Man may Travel without Horses, the like never made nor seen before in England ; it will go 5 or 6 Miles an Hour, and Measure the Miles as it goes ; it will turn or go back, and go up Hill as easy as on level Ground. Perform'd by Christopher Hoi turn, the first Author of Alarum for a Pocket- Watch. Where Attendance is given from 10 in the Morning till 8 at Night."

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

LONDON TAVERNS IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (10 S. xii. 127, 190, 254). I can vouch for the accuracy in location of " The Cock," as stated by SIR HARRY B. POLAND and MR. WM. DOUGLAS. In the same row stood a hairdresser's and Prosser's Oyster Bar. It may be recalled that the old sign of " The Cock " was stolen, and, I think, afterwards recovered.

Whilst on an interesting topic, it may be permissible to refer to "The London" restaurant over, or adjoining, Messrs. Patrtridge & Cooper's premises at the opposite corner of Chancery Lane. My impression is that this place closed its doors before its much more ancient and famous neighbour was demolished.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

MATTHEW ARNOLD, SHELLEY, KEATS, AND THE YEW (10 S. xii. 287, 336). In the lines from ' Endymion ' from which I. M. L. takes the Keats quotation, Peona is rallying her brother upon his dejection, and with gentle ridicule is giving a supposed summary of his narrated dream, so as to turn it into a commonplace love -sick tale, unworthily