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linia, a line. The Ober-Procuror of the Holy Synod, Mr. Pobiedonostsev, bears a name worthy of a Crusader (jKtbieda, victory ; nosets, bearer). Drahomirov would be " dear to the world " (draho for doroyo, dear ; mn\ world). It is scarcely necessary to state that many of Russia's ablest men are of foreign ex- traction, near or remote, a fact in the history of our own and other countries. Such names as Witte, Gripenberg, Rennenkampf, and Bilderling proclaim their Teutonic origin.

FRANCIS P. MARCHANT. Streatham Common.

COLOSSEUM v. COLISEUM. As this word is constantly coming before the public with reference to a noted place of amusement, the following extract from Merivale's 'History of Rome under the Empire ' may prove illus- trative of the correct orthography. The date seemingly is A.D. 79 :

"The name of Colosseum, popularly attached to it, and improperly written Coliseum, first occurs in the works of our countryman Bede in the seventh century. Its origin is not accurately known, and is referred by some to the gigantic size of the build- ing, by others, with more probability, to the colossus of Nero, which was planted before its entrance. The name of Flavian was dropped perhaps on the fall of the dynasty by which it was raised, and the late designation may have come into use as early as the age of the Antonines." Chap. Ix.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

THE LEI^ARRAGAN VERB. The Royal Academy of Sciences of Holland was good enough to publish last August at Amsterdam that part of my 'Analytical and Quotational Synopsis of the Verb used in Leicarraga's New Testament of 1571, in French Jfleuscara,' which includes the 286 forms occurring in the Epistles of St. Paul to the Ephesians and the Thessalonians. I am glad to have this opportunity of doing my duty by pointing out two corrections to be made on p. 8, for the benefit of any reader who may happen to peruse the offprint, viz., 1. 15, read "r. s.," not " r. i. s." ; 1. 32, read " 35," not " 5." On p. 9, 1. 18, after "sera" insert " bon." In another part of the same immense work, published in the Revue de Linguistique, tome xxxi. (Paris, 1898), one must read on p. 131, 1. 3, " l c pers.," not " 2 C pers. " ; tome xxxvi., p. 323, 1. 17, in the definition of eTzeaquiagu, read " pi. l c ," not " s. l e ." To any one acquainted with Baskish the quotations will have sufficed already to show that a misprint escaped my attention in the defini- tions which are hereby rectified. The afore- said offprint may be had from Messrs. Parker & Son, 27, Broad Street, Oxford.

E. S. DODGSON.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S EPITAPH. (See ante, p. 149.) In the ' Posthumous Works of Sir Thomas Browne,' edited by Owen Brig- stocke, M.P., and published in 1712, there is a transcript of the epitaph upon Sir Thomas Browne's monument in St. Peter's, Mancroft, Norwich ; and in his Life, by Simon Wilkin (183G), are descriptions of the epitaphs of Sir Thomas Browne (ob. 1682); his widow, Dame Dorothy Browne (ob. 1685) ; their son, Dr. Edward Browne (ob. 1708) ; and their grand- son, Dr. Thomas Browne (ob. 1710).

In an Appendix to 'Religio Medici' ("Golden Treasury" Series, 1892) is an ex- planation of the quaint inscription found in 1840 upon Sir Thomas Browne's coffin-lid, which is now to be seen, with his portrait, in the vestry of St. Peter's, Mancroft, and which reads as follows :

Amplissimus Vir

Dns Thomas Browne Miles, Medicinse

DC Annos Nat us 77 Denatus 19 Die

mensis Octobris, Anno Dni 1682, hoc

loculo indormiens, Corporis Spagy-

rici pulvere, plumbum in aurum

Convertit.

I may add that it is proposed to erect a bronze statue of Sir Thomas Browne at Norwich, for which a subscription list is open. G. R. BRIGSTOCKE.

Ryde, I.W.

HENRY BALLOWE. This learned gentle- man, who taught Dr. Johnson a good deal of law, is the subject of a painstaking article in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' His will is as follows :

"July the 4, 1782. This is my last Will and Testament. I give to my Lord Camden all my Books and Manuscripts ; to my servant Bakky, seperate from her husband, 400?. : to my servant Molly, 200/. ; to Mrs. Watson, 10W. All the rest and residue of my estate I give to Mr. R[ichard] Stevenson, and make my L' 1 Camden and him my executors. I give to Mr. Graves 20 for opening my body."

As he was a great lawyer, he, of course, forgot to sign his will or to have it wit- nessed, so two married ladies had to be called to identify the handwriting. They bore the curious names of Greenback Gemisson and Cassandra Sinnett. The will is in P.C.C. 340, Gostling. In his note in Boswell's ' Life of Johnson ' Malone wrongly calls him " Thomas Ballow."

GORDON GOODWIN.

PILLION. Probably few people can now remember the use of the pillion. G. W., an old man of eighty-nine, told me recently that when he was a lad, and lived at Southorpe, near Northorpe, in North Lincolnshire, the women were still accustomed "to ride pillion" when they went to Kirton-in-Lindsey. G. W.