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[Charles V. or VI. : he was under the protection of each], when in a playful mood, would condescend to tread upon it ! Hence the names of Barbudo, Hans with the Beard, &c."

A beautiful engraving of Vermeijen, by Jan Wierix, is No. 15 in the collection Inferioris Effigies.' It is a haft-length. The beard flows gracefully downwards out of sight. The lines at the foot of the portrait are addressed to the Emperor, and the last four seem to allude to the incident mentioned by Bryan :
 * Pictprum aliquot Celebrium Germanise

Nee minus ille sua spectacula praebuit arte

Celso conspicuus vertice grata tibi. Jussus prolixse detecta volumina barbas Ostentare suos pendula adusque pedes.

C. DEEDES. Chichester.

QUOTATION: AUTHOR AND CORRECT TEXT WANTED (10 th S. ii. 149). The correct rendering is :

Go, stranger ! track the deep,

Free, free the white sail spread ! Wave may not foam, nor wild wind sweep,

Where rest not England's dead.

This is the concluding quatrain of Mrs. Hemans's poem entitled 'England's Dead.' There are fourteen verses in all, and the whole forms, in my opinion, one of the most sublime poems ever written in the English language. CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

GODFREY HIGGINS (10 th S. ii. 184). The note on Godfrey Higgins reminds me that I have long meant to point out that he wrote a pamphlet (and I think more than one) on the management of lunatic asylums. He was a justice of the peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire, and regarded it as his duty personally to inspect certain institutions of that kind, and his visits thereto had not given him a favourable impression of the way in which they were managed. I had at one time a copy of one of these which he had given to my grand- father, who was a friend of his ; but I regret to say it is now lost, so that I cannot give its title. He also published a defence of the character of Mohammed. I point out these things because their titles do not occur in Bonn's edition of Lowndes's * Bibliographer's Manual.' EDWARD PEACOCK.

Wickentree House, Kirton-in-Lindsey.

UNCLE REMUS IN TUSCANY (10 th S. ii. 183). This is one of La Fontaine's fables, 'Le Lottp et le Renard,' book xi. fable vi. The editor of La Fontaine refers to Regnier, the modern Latin fabulist, as the original. This

fable, which is not classical, is undoubtedly founded on that of the fox and the goat, which has been told by Phsedrus. But there- is nothing about the buckets in the classical fable, and it is this circumstance of the buckets which makes the fables of Pulci, La Fontaine, and Uncle Remus the same. In a note to La Fontaine's ' Le Renard et le Bouc,' which is a version of the fable of Phsedrus, M. Walckenaer has referred to the passage quoted from the 'Morgante Maggiore' oi Pulci. E. YARDLEY.

MORLAND'S GRAVE (10 th S. ii. 49, 137). In an engraving at p. 63 in the ' Homes, Works, and Shrines of English Artists,' by F. W.. Fairholt, 1873, the spot is pointed out in the cemetery of St. James's Chapel, Hampstead Road (not "Hampstead," as stated by MR. OLIVER), where Morland was buried. Not far off is the also unmarked grave of the notorious Lord George Gordon, who, it was said, became a Jew before his death in New- gate in 1793. With regard to Morland, his- fame is engraven on his works ; with them let it remain. HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

WlLLOCK OF BORDLEY, NEAR SETTLE, YORKS

(10 th S. ii. 188). In the seventeenth century a daughter and coheir of Willock of Bordley married Thomas King, of Skellands, co. York. They are now represented by King of Chads- Hunt, co. Warwick. G. BRIGSTOCKE.

Ryde, Isle of Wight.

LATIN QUOTATIONS (10 th S. i. 188, 297, 437 ; ii. 110).

1. "Exemplis erudimur omnes aptius." This line recalls the words of the elder Seneca ('Contr.,' 9, 25, 27,; p. 411, Kiessling), "quia facilius et quid imitandum et quid vitandum sit docemur exemplo." But the sentiment is not uncommon. Cp. Seneca, Epist. 6, 5 ; 'Phsedr.,' 2, 2, 2 ; and S. Leo Magnus, Serm. 85 (83), cap. i. :

"Ad erudiendum Dei populum nulloruni est utilior forma quam martyrum. Eloquentia sita facilis ad exorandum ; sit ratio efficax ad suaden- dum ; validiora tamen sunt exempla quam verba ; et plus (v.l. plenius or planius) est opere docere quam voce."

10. 4 'Defectus natune, error naturae " (ap- plied to woman). See Aristotle, ' De Genera- tione Animalium,' 4, 6, 11, Kat Sec u

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8e Trputrr) TO OrjXv yevccrffaL /cat ;>a) appey. Sep also J. C. Scaliger, ' Exercit. de Subtil.,' cxxxu p. 455 (ed. 1612). 15 " Natura semper intendit quod esfe