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precisely the same position, neither better nor worse. Is not that correct which is usual and clear 1 Who can miss the meaning of among others ? T. WILSON.

Harpenden.

ANTWERP CATHEDRAL (10 th S. i. 508). Has Lucis consulted Weingiirtner's * System des ohristl. Turmbaues,' Gottingen, 1860 ? I have not myself got this book, and take the reference from the valuable 'Kirchliche Kunstaltertiimer in Deutschknd ' of Dr. Heinrich Bergner (now being published in parts at Leipzig) at p. 73. See also the authorities quoted on p. 37.

WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK.

Dowanhill Gardens, Glasgow.

KING JOHN'S CHARTERS (10 th S. i. 469, 512). Could John have been at Vaudreuil (Vallis Rodolii) at the required date ? At Vaudreuil <Eure) he lay several times, notably in 1203, when he dismantled Pont-de-1'Arche, a few miles away. It was in the castle of Vaudreuil that William the Conqueror had been housed when taken away from his mother, and here an attempt was made to "burn him in." From Vaudreuil came the archers, u ki estoient de grand orgoel," who (together with those of Breteuil-sur-Iton, not far off) did much to decide the day of Hastings.

HALLIDAY SPARLING.

Paris.

' WILHELM MEISTER' (10 th S. i. 489).

1. ' Wilhelm Meister,' Traduction Complete et Nouvelle, par Mme. A. de Carlowitz, 2 vols., 1843.

2. Traduction Complete et Nouvelle, par The'ophile Gautier fils, 2 vols., 1861.

3. Traduction Nouvelle, par J. Porchat (* Les Annees de Voyage de Wilhelm Meister,' Vol. VII. des CEuvres de Goethe, translated in 10 vols., 1860-3). H. KREBS.

"HUMANUM EST ERRARE " (10 th S. i. 389,

512). I am much obliged to MR. SONNEN- SCHEIN for his very interesting answer to my -query as to the source of this phrase Since writing the query, however, I have learned that an edition of Bartlett's ' Quotations ' later than that which I had seen gives a reference to Plutarch adv. Coloten. The passage is in ch. 31 andjuns as foltows^: TO fj.lv ^yap afj.apTa.veiv Trept 86av, et KOL fifi tov, o/xws avOpwTTivov <w. It is possible, therefore, that the Latin phrase comes from an early trans- lation of Plutarch (that of Stephanus ap- peared in 1572). I can, however, supply an earlier instance of the pkrase than that which MR. SONNENSCHEIN gives from the year 1745 (in which, moreover, the order of words is

different), for in Farnaby's commentary on Terence, 'Ad.,' IV. ii. 40, published in 1651, occur the words " Humanum est errare," and they are introduced in such a way as to imply that the phrase was a stock one at the time (I take the reference from the ' Notse Vari- orum ' appended to the Delphin text).

The reference to Severus for which MR. SONNENSCHEIN asks is Ep. i. 20, and the literal rendering of the Syriac is u For that a man should sin is human." The word for "a man" is, however, an indefinite one, which would represent not avOpuTros, but TIS, if it represents any Greek word, and we may therefore fairly presume that Severus wrote TO yap d/xapTai/eii/ (riva) avdpuirivov eori, but the double meaning of a/xapTavciv is not shared by its Syriac equivalent.

E. W. B.

HUGO'S ' LES ABEILLES IMPERIALES ' (10 th S. i. 348, 391). It may interest your corre- spondent to know that English translations of the poem * Le Manteau Imperial ' appear in the following (entitled in each case * The Imperial Mantle'): 'Translations from the Poems of Victor Hugo,' by Henry Carring- ton (Walter Scott, 1887, second ed.), and 'Hugo's Lyrical Poems,' by H. L. Williams ("Bonn's Standard Library," 1887 ed.).

EDWARD LATHAM.

EPITAPHS : THEIR BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 th S. i. 44, 173, 217, 252, 334). The following are additions :

A Collection of Epitaphs and Monumental In- scriptions, Ancient and Modern. London : Printed for G. & W. B. Whittaker, &c., 1822. (Printed by C. Thurnam, Carlisle.)

The Scotch Haggis ; consisting of Anecdotes, Jests, Curious and Rare Articles of Literature : with a Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions, Original and Selected. Edinburgh, D. Webster & Son, 1822, pp. 221-304.

Elegant Extracts Poetry, Book IV., pp. 811-

872, Epigrams, Epitaphs, and other Little Pieces. No date ; about 1800 ?

The Peerage of England by Arthur Collins.

Fourth Edition, 1768.

The English Baronetage 1741.

The bibliography of epitaphs, compiled by W. G. B. Page, appended to * Curious Epi- taphs,' by W. Andrews, 1883 (see 10 th S. i. 217), does not appear in the 1899 edition.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

MAY MONUMENT (10 th S. i. 449, 497). I am much obliged to E. H. W. D. for his infor- mation on this subject. I rather suspected that something of the kind must have happened, and though I do not know who was responsible for ourying the monument, i I must say that it seems to me to have been ! a strangely ungracious as well as improper