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seem to require explanation. I do not quite agree with GRETA that if the work was transferred from Gale <fe Curtis to Long man, it could only have been after the date of its actual publication by the former firm. My theory is that there was no actual publication by Gale & Curtis, that the sheets were transferred to Longman before the whole of the second volume was printed off, and that some of Gale & Curtis's title- pages escaped cancellation when the sheets were taken over by Longman. A somewhat parallel case may be found in Mr. Swin- burne's book 'The Queen -Mother and Rosafcond,' 1860. To quote Mr. T. J. Wise, in his ' Bibliography of Swinburne ' :

"Upon the eye of publication, and before any but a few 'review' copies had been sent out, arrangements were made to transfer ' The Queen- Mother,' &c., to Edward Moxon, who issued the work without further delay. The sheets already prepared for Pickering were employed, but the title-page was cancelled, and replaced with a second."

I should like to add that there was no error, though there may have been an omission, on the part of Mr. Shepherd, since in the

published by that gentleman in the pages of
 * Bibliography of Coleridge,' as originally

description of 'Omniana' (8 th S. vii. 443). My authority for adding the names of Gale & Curtis was contained, to the best of my recollection, in a heap of memoranda which had been collected by Mr. Shepherd in view of a revised edition of his work, and which were temporarily placed at my disposal. It is surely inconceivable that a bibliographer, with "Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown" staring him in the face on the title-page of a book, would change, either deliberately or accidentally, the imprint into "Gale & Curtis.." What object could he have in doing so? 1 feel sure that copies with Gale & Curtis's imprint are in existence, and that Mr. Shepherd, or his informant, must have met with one.
 * X. & Q.,' no publisher's name is given in the

W. F. PfllDEAUX.

BELL-RINGING ON 13 AUGUST, 1814 (10 th S. ii. 369, 414). Probably in commemoration of the signing of peace on 1 June between France and Great Britain, Russia, Austria, .and Prussia. News travelled slowly then. I have read of bell-ringing for Waterloo in a far-off village a year after the event. HAROLD MALET, Colonel.

EPITAPHIANA (10 th S. ii. 322, 396, 474). I am grateful to W. S for so kindly correcting me. I regret that by some means or other the word south slipped into my note, as I

know quite well the stone stands in the northern portion of the burial-ground. I do not consider tape-measure accuracy is absolutely necessary in describing the posi- tion of a stone, but a general indication of where it can be found is always helpful.

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

"GALAPiNE"(10 th S. ii. 447). In Cotgrave's ' Dictionary,' ed. 1632, the word is thus given: " Gallopins : m. Vnder Cookes, or Scullions in Monasteries." R. OLIVER HESLOP.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Halliwell, in the ' Archaic Dictionary,' has this entry, which is, no doubt, to the purpose : " Gallopin. An under-cook ; a scullion. See Arch., xv. 11 ; 'Ord. and Reg.,' p. 252."

THOMAS BAYNE.

CROSS IN THE GREEK CHURCH (10 th S. ii. 469). The upper bar, usually straight, indicates the inscription commonly abbre- viated INRI; the arms were extended on the main bar ; the position of the lower bar, upon which the feet of the Sufferer were nailed, points the mind upward and raises the hopes of the believer towards the Resurrection. In many cases the ends are elaborately bordered, which possibly typifies the Eastern view of the cross as an instru- ment of honour rather than of ignominy. As a well-known hymn, translated by the Rev. J. M. Neale, expresses the thought :

O Tree of glory, Tree most fair, Ordained those Holy Limbs' to bear.

In the same hymnal may be found the varying ideas "faithful cross," "sweetest wood and sweetest iron," beside "Tree of scorn," " awful Tree," and " Cross of sorrow." Th& splendour of Moscow churches and monasteries, with golden domes surmounted y these crosses and connected by light hainwork, glittering in clear sunlight, can never be forgotten by the visitor.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

The upper cross-piece represents the title; the lower, the foot-rest. J. T. F.

Durham.

MERCURY IN TOM QUAD, OXFORD (10 th S. ii. 467). May I presume to suggest that your correspondent ALMA MATER is thinking of 3rasenose? Tuck well's 'Reminiscences of Oxford' (1900), p. 252, describes it as an 'object of curiosity long since removed," and mentions Mark Pattison's story of his ather's escapade, when, as an undergraduate, le was caught one night astride upon it by
 * he figure that once stood in the quad at