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When he became a bishop did he accept the " episcopate " of Hull ] W. C. B.

'D.N.B.' AND 'INDEX AND EPITOME.' John Harrison (1579-1656) did not build Kirkgate in Leeds, but he built New Street or New Kirkgate, a narrow road leading to St. John's Church, now merged in New Briggate. He did not remove the Leeds Grammar School to its present site, but he removed it to North Street, whence it was removed to its present site in 1859. The 'D.N.B.' states that Harrison was the son of John Harrison by Grace, daughter of William Kitchingman, and married the daughter of Henry Marton. That statement I believe is inaccurate, Thoresby, in his ' Ducatus,' states that Harrison was the son of John Harrison and Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Marton, and married Elizabeth Foxcroft, of Halifax, who died sp., 5 May, 1631. I know no reason for doubting the accuracy of Thoresby's state- ment, for John Harrison (the father) mentioned in his will " Elizabeth, now my wife," and Elizabeth the wife of John Harrison (the son) was buried at Leeds, 7 May, 1631. See 'Leeds Registers' (Thoresby Society).

John Nalson was not born in 1638. He was baptized 2 August, 1637, at Holbeck Chapel, Leeds, of which his father was minister. See ' Leeds Registers ' (Thoresby Society, vol. iii. p. 217).

Ralph Thoresby did not, apparently, belong to the same family as Archbishop Thoresby (Thoresby Society, ix. 112). To say that he was inaccurate is an unjust accusation. His faults were chiefly those of his time, and were not remarkable. I may add that I have had a long and extensive experience in testing Thoresby's statements as editor of the Leeds parish church registers. The Thoresby Society, founded in 1889, took its name from him.

G. D. LUMB.

_ CICERO'S BUSTS. The following curious circumstance seems worth resuscitation in these columns. It is taken from a book entitled ' Schola Medicinre Universalis Nova,' by William Rowley, M.D. (for whom see the 'D.N.B.'), published in London in 1794, and occurs in a supplement containing an Eng- lish translation dated 179G, on p. ix:

" The antique bust of Cicero, in my possession, is a chef d'feucre of art, as to anatomical accuracy. What is remarkable [is], that on the side of the cheek in the antique Cicero at Oxford, the wart is on the right cheek, just on the inferior margin of the os malce, or cheek bone ; that sculpture shews the great orator younger than mine. In the face of my antique, just in the same spot, wherein the cicer, or rather excrescence, appears prominent in the

Oxford statue, is a circular indentation in mine, a* though the excrescence had been extirpated, and the part after the removal had formed an hollow. They both correspond as to the situation of the wart, only that in the Oxford it remains pro- tuberatiug beyond the skin ; in my bust of Cicero it seems to have been removed. The bust, I have, could not have been finished long before the great orator's cruel death ; the expression in the face is striking and corresponds with some antique seals of which I had impressions. The face, the pomum Adanii, the muscles of the neck, the clavicles, superior parts of the breasts, &c., are all ex- quisitely delineated and finished with the most expressive strokes of art. There are but three antique busts of Cicero extant in Europe except that which I possess, which I procured in an extra- ordinary manner."

He does not relate the "extraordinary manner" ; but perhaps this is not much loss, as he seems to have been the kind of man. whose "geese are all swans."

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

' BEYOND THE CHURCH.' (See 6 th S. iv. 427 ; v. 16.) This anonymous novel, which was published in 1866, in three volumes, by Messrs. Hurst & Blackett, was not written by Frederick William Robinson, as stated in Halkett and Laing's 'Dictionary,' but by Thomas Goodwin, B.A., chaplain of Christ Church, Oxford, 1861-3. Under the pen- name of "Thornley Grant," Mr. Goodwin had previously written another novel, called ' The Mpated Farm ' (1 vol., 1861). With his own name he issued during 1859-66 some- small books on the arts of illumination, mural decoration, and polychrome; also 'A. Life of Fra Angelico da Fiesole.'

ITA TESTOR.

"MUNGOOSE": ITS ETYMOLOGY. This word is treated curiously in our dictionaries. The best authorities, Skeat and Yule, mention only two of the many Indian forms, viz., Telugu mangisu,emd Hindustani and Mahratti mangiis. Further, although to the student it would seem that mangusis the exact phonetic- equivalent of the English mungoose, and that the Telugu form could never have yielded ours, yet the authorities are agreed that mungoose is Telugu. Why is this ? As Dr. Bradley must shortly deal with this term, it may not be amiss if I add a few more native Indian synonyms. The two above both con- tain a sibilant, and so do the Konkani name for the animal, mungasa, and one of its- Canarese names, nmngisi. In the Dravidian family of languages there are a number of interesting local forms which show, instead of the sibilant, a liquid. Thus in KittePs. ' Kannada Dictionary ' (Mangalore, 1894) 1 find mungali, munguli, mungili, munguri. In Maenner's 'Tulu Dictionary' (Mangalore,