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dionale mettono con pin ragione 1' accento, come facciamo anche noi."

In spite of Petrocchi, I thoroughly agree with Q. V. in preferring the ho, hai, <fec., and I feel as he does about tun and tat in German. I earnestly hope that purely phonetic spell- ing may never be adopted in England, as it. has been in Italy, for it must be accompanied by indifference to etymology and derivations. That this has happened in Italy may be in- ferred, I think, from the fact that this same Petrocchi's excellent dictionary gives no deri- vations. Such a thing would not be found in an English dictionary of corresponding importance. M. HAULTMONT.

JOWETT AND WHEWELL (10 th S. i. 386; ii.

275). An old Oxford don tells me that the Balliol dons were supposed to appear, one after the other, on the dais, each reciting an epi- gram. Jowett's was :

My name is Jowett.

I am the Master of this College ;

Whate'er is known, I know it ;

Whate'er I know not is not knowledge.

Then a young man named Forbes, a Scotch- man, comes next :

My name is Forbes. The Muter me absorbs, Me and many other mes, In his great Thucydides ;

the point being that Jowett made Forbes, like other young men, do his work for him.

There is another, not connected with Balliol :-

I am the Dean, and this is Mrs. Liddell, She plays the first, and I the second fiddle ; She is the Broad, I am the High ; We are the University.

J. T. F. Winterton, Doncaster.

I find what was probably the original form of the Jowett epigram in one of my note- books :

I stand first : I am Professor J-w-tt Whatever is to be known, I know it : I am the Master of this College, And what I don't know isn't knowledge.

ST. SWITHIN.

There seem to be several variants of the lines on Dr. Jowett. What I heard at college was :

My name it is Benjamin Jowett,

1 'in Master of Balliol College ;

Whatever is knowledge I know it,

And what I don't know isn't knowledge.

A. B.

BALES (10 th S. ii. 228). There were two brothers named Eeles (not Bales) at the battle of Waterloo. Both of them were captains in

the 3rd Battalion of the 95th Rifles. Charles was killed in the fight ; William lived to be colonel of the 1st Battalion of the Rifle Brigade, and died in 1837. See Dal ton's 'Roll Call ' and Siborne's * Waterloo Letters,' p. 303.

B.

Possibly some members of the Bales family of the present day could give G. F. R. B. the- necessary information. There are several clergymen and medical men bearing this uncommon name, and we have in Bradford a Mr. William Bales in practice as a dental surgeon.

The Rev. William Thomas Huxham Bales,, of Trin. Coll. Cam., B.A., was curate of Wolborough in 1835, and subsequently for many years vicar of Yealrapton.

CHAS. F. FORSHAW, LL.D.

Baltimore House, Bradford.

FIRST-FLOOR REFECTORIES (10 th S. ii. 167, 237). The refectory at lona Cathedral is built on the first or upper floor, but seems to occupy the position of a previous refectory, which formerly stood on the site. The first refectory, however, appears to have been on the ground floor, and at a later period it has been raised to the upper floor. See Mac- Gibbon and Ross, * The Ecclesiastical Archi- tecture of Scotland,' vol. iii. p. 73.

T. F. D.

ACQUA TOFANA (10 th S. ii. 269).-Garelli (physician to Charles VI. of Austria) informed- Hoffman in a letter that this poison, other- wise Acquetta di Napoli, with all the physical characters of water, was Aqua cymbalaria? in which arsenic had been dissolved. Four to six drops were fatal ('Med. Ration. Syst./ i. 198, and Mag. fiir die gcrich. Arnzeikund, ii. 473). Pius III. and Clement XIV. ar& said to have died from this poison. Sir Robert Christison, in his work on * Poisons/ gives further historical information.

MEDICULUS.

In 'Poison Romance and Poison Mysteries/ 1902 (p. 65), by C. J. S. Thompson, is an account given of acqua Tofana, a poison named after the most notorious of Italian poisoners Toffana. She compounded more than 'one preparation, all of which were proved to be simply solutions of arsenious acid. A. KATE RANCE.

[Dn. FORSHAW refers to chap. xxx. of Major Griffiths's "Mysteries of Police and Crime,' and MR. HOLDKN MAC.MK MAEL to Timbs's 'Popular Errors,' 18*;, pp. l>7tt-8.]

MANOR COURT OF EDWINSTOWE, NOTTS (10 11 * S. ii. 226). No doubt Mr. R. W. Wordsworth, Whitemoor, Perlethorpe, Notts, agent to-