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fo St. Paul,' 1873, p. 86), who says that they were finished by John James, Surveyor at Westminster Abbey, 1725-46, and " Wren's name should be disconnected from them." This is clear enough, but Mrs. E. T. Murray Smith ('The Roll Call of Westminster Abbey,' 1903, p. 322) names " Dickenson " as being finally responsible for their completion.

Yet another claimant for the honour i suggested in ' Nollekens and his Times ' (1895, p. 166), where J. T. Smith quotes " Old Gayfere, the Abbey Mason," aa having said to Nollekens : "I believe I told you that I carried the rods when Fleetcraft measured the last work at the North Tower when the Abbey was finished." For " North Tower," of course, read West Towers. The date of the work is beyond question.

Hollar's excellent engraving of the Western face (1654?) clearly shows that the South- western Tower was alone unfinished ; for the others restoration only was necessary, and this is all Wren intended should be done. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

TRADE-MABKS : THEIR ANTIQUITY. In the case of Southern v. How, in the King's Bench, Mr. Justice Doderidge said that ' 22 Eliz. an Action upon the Case was brought in the Common Pleas by a Clothier, that whereas he had gained great Reputation for the making of his Cloth, by reason whereof he had great Utterance to his great benefit and profit, and that he used to set his Mark to his Cloth, whereby it should be known to be his Cloth : And another Clothier, perceiving it, used the same Mark to his ill-made Cloth on purpose to deceive him, and it was resolved that the Action did well lie."

" Deceive " should be defraud. See Sir John Popham's Reports, Addition, 2nd ed., 1682, p. 144.

Hence it appears that a man's property in his own trade-mark was recognized as earty as the year 1580, though I think the textbooks do not assign so early a date. RICHARD H. THORNTON.

36, Upper Bedford Place, W.C.

" THE SARACEN'S HEAD," SNOW HILL. This old hotel, immortalized by Dickens in ' Nicholas Nickleby ' and also by the fact that Lord Nelson slept there when on his way to join the Navy, finally closed its doors on Saturday the 3rd inst. The original building was pulled down some years ago, and the present building erected close to the site. Anything more unlike the inn as Dickens knew it could hardly have been built, and I well remember the keen disappointment I felt when this modern

London hotel was pointed out to me as its successor. A letter written from it in 1780, and describing the burning of Newgate by the Gordon rioters, refers, to it as " the most comfortable and commodious inn in the City of London." It flourished for some years after its rebuild- ing, but of late, owing to the demand for more up-to-date hotels, it had fallen on evil days. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

ENGLAND IN LONDON. 1 learn from Shelton's translations of ' Don Quixote ' (Part II. chap. Ivii.) that it was a popular error in Spain to believe that the lesser contained the greater. A note attached to- some verses of the " witty and wanton Atisidora "

Mayst thqu false accounted be From Seville to Marchena, From Granada to Loia, From London to England- remarks :

" Though these verses were made on purpose to- be absurd, yet sure the author here fell into the common absurdity that I have known many of his countrymen do, which is that England is in Lon- don, and not vice versa."

Charles Jarvis evaded the passage when he- wrote

May thy disgrace Fill ev'ry place, Thy falsehood ne'er be hid, But round the world Be toss'd and hurl'd From Seville to Madrid.

Shelton's version of the romance, though less elegant than his, has a compensating quaintness ; but neither explains Sancho's difficulty as to the meaning of the Spanish cry " ' St. Jaques, and shut [or, close] Spain/ Is" Spain open, trow, so that it needed to be shut ? or what ceremony is this ? "

ST. SWITHIN.

COLERIDGE AND OPIUM. The June num- ber of The Canadian Magazine (Toronto) has an article by S. T. Wood on the tragedy of Coleridge's life, with facsimiles of letters- from S. T. C. to the chemist in Tottenham Court Road from whom Coleridge obtained a supply of opium during his residence with the Gillmans at Highgate. These letters were preserved by Miss Dunn, daughter of the chemist. Miss Dunn became the wife of the Rev. W. H. Morris, a clergyman stationed near Toronto, and the notes which reveal the surreptitious purchase of drugs are at the present time in the pos- session of the family of one of the clergy- man's daughters by a former marriage.