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the fact should be stated. As for the various sizes of octavo, &c., indicated by the prefixes demy, crown, &c., reference might be usefully made to a correspondence on the sizes of books that is now being carried on in the current issues of The Publishers' Circular.

2. The dimensions should be measured from the title-page, but if any leaves are exceptionally large, the fact might be stated. No measurements should be taken from the cover, which, bjbliographically speaking, is Oxtraneous to the book.

3. From a bibliographical point of view, measurements from a bound and cut copy are almost useless, but if given at all, they should be taken from the tallest obtainable copy, as approximating most closely to the size of the book in its original state.

4. Any abbreviation for uncut depends on the fancy of the writer. So far as I am aware, none is recognized among bibliographers.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

Your querist will find answers in ' Aggra- vating Ladies,' by Olphar Hamst.

KALPH THOMAS.

" BEATING THE BOUNDS " (10 th S. iii. 209). In April, 1904, the bounds of the parish of St. John's and St. John's Without, Lewes, were " trodden." A period of between thirteen and fourteen years had elapsed since the custom was last observed. The distance covered was about twenty-four miles, and the time taken was eleven hours. At one point the boundary passes through a culvert, which one of the party negotiated, and they also had to climb down the side of a chalk pit. JOHN PATCHING.

This old custom survives to-day at Tissing- ton, in Derbyshire ; in the parish of Whit- well, on the borders of Derbyshire ; at Dun- stable ; and at Leighton Buzzard, in Bed- fordshire. For " Perambulation Day " in Kipon, in 1481 and 1830, see 'Ripon Chapter Acts,' Surtees Soc., 337 and note (8 th S. iii. 447). The custom is also still observed in the parish of St. Andrew's, Undershaft, in the City of London ; by the Watermen's Company ; and at the Tower of London. It was announced in 1900 that "beating the bounds " was observed in that year in West- minster, "probably for the last time," but one cannot say whether this is really the case. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

ANCHORITES' DENS (10 th S. iii. 128, 234). There is a very curious example of one of these dwellings in the parish of Foremark, co. Derby, on a backwater of the Trent, not far from Repton, called Anchor Church, and

of it there is a whole- page lithograph ^ in Bigsby's ' History of Repton,' accompanied by a long description. The author imagines that it was a retreat as far back as 625. There is a large engraving of it by Vivares after T. Smith of Derby, 1754.

There is also the well-known hermitage at Wark worth, co. Northumberland, on the Coquet, but concerning it so much has been written, both in prose and poetry, as to render it quite classic ground.

JOHN PICKFORD M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

WILLESDEN FAMILIES (10 th S. iii. 208). A copy of the inscription on the tomb of Richard Paine, J.P., who died in 1606, aged ninety -five, and Margaret his wife, who died in 1595, will be found in 3 rd S. vi. 247.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

TOM TAYLOR ON WHEWELL (10 th S. iii. 189). This ballad is printed in ' British Ballads, Old and New,' selected and edited by George Barnett Smith, published by Cassell & Co. in 1886. ARTHUR HUSSEY.

Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

'REBECCA,' A NOVEL (10 th S. iii. 128, 176). It will probably be disappointing to MR. DODGSON to see two replies to his query that do not give him the information for which he asks. In Hookham's 'Circulating Library Catalogue," 8vo, pp. 484, with a list of 4,000 novels, printed about 1849, 1 find the follow- ing entries: "'Rebecca,' 3 vols., 15s.; 'Re- becca; or, the Victim of Duplicity,' 2 vols., 8s." This is curious, because MR. DODGSON says he bought only two volumes.

Neither of these novels is in Watt's ' Biblio- theca Britannica,' the British Museum, nor the Bodleian. In the latter library one would not expect to find them ; it is a class of book they are not rich in like the British Museum, where I find '"Frederic and Caroline; or, the Fitzmorris Family,' a novel in 2 vols., by the author of ' Rebecca,' ' Judith,' 'Miriam,' &c. London, the Minerva Press, 1800." The dedication to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales- is signed E. M. F. This book was only ac- quired in 1858. I do not find the others in the British Museum, though Watt has 'Miriam,' by the author of 'Frederic,' <fcc., 1801.

In ' Frederic ' I happened to turn up the- following paragraph in vol. ii. p. 294 :

"Lionel Dixon changed his name to take posses- sion of the O'Niel estate, yet contaminated the ancient blood of his House by marrying an obscure citizen's daughter, the daughter of Alderman Mid- dleton, grocer and tea-dealer, Fleet Street. And