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at various times between 1816 and 1823 at 14, Kingsland Road, Dalston. He, however, refers in two of his 'Essays of Elia' to the former place, viz., 'The South-Sea House' and 'The New and Old Schoolmaster.' It would be most interesting to know if the house in Kingsland Eoad still exists, as the following essays were probably written there: 'The South-Sea House,' 'All Fools' Day,' 'A Quakers' Meeting,' ' The Old and New Schoolmaster,' 'My Relations,' 'Grace before Meat,' 'Dream Children,' 'Distant Corre- spondents,' and 'The Praise of Chimney - Sweeps.'

Is it not high time that tablets were placed on all the houses that still remain where Charles Lamb lived at various times'? This act of grace would only mean a matter of a few pounds, and there are surely Lamb- lovers in abundance to whom such an appeal would meet with a ready response.

S. BUTTERWORTH.

Being one of Lamb's most ardent admirers* I have carefully followed his rather numerous wanderings. In the north and north-east of London I have never heard more than three places mentioned : Lamb's Cottage, at Ed- monton ; Colebrooke Row, in Islington ; and a house one of an old row at the entrance of Dalston (not Shacklewell) Lane; but, alas ! the neighbourhood has been so altered and vulgarized that it is impossible to trace it. It would have been easy to walk about Shacklewell, as it was, and is, only five or ten minutes' walk from Dalston Lane.

MATILDA POLLARD.

Belle Vue, Bengeo.

ROCQUE'S AND HORWOOD'S MAPS OF LONDON (10 th S. iii. 187, 274). MR. COLEMAN'S state- ment that Horwood's map was published in 1794 is apparently based upon the descrip- tion in the Crace Catalogue, which is inac- curate. There are seven copies of the map in the British Museum, including two in the Crace Collection. In all these copies the sheets are marked from A to H, and num- bered 1 to 4. The A and B sheets are of various dates, B 2 being dated 1792; B 1, 1793 ; A 1, A 2, A 3, and A 4, 1794 ; and B 3 and B 4, 1795. All the other sheets, from C to H, are dated 1799. In the British Museum Map Catalogue these are properly referred to as ''London, 1792-99." In the Crace Catalogue, however, the copy (London Maps, Portfolio V.) No. 173 is stated to have been published in 1794, and the copy numbered 174 is stated to be a later edition of the above; the dates on the sheets are, however, identical. If MR. COLEMAN will refer to his

copy, he will probably see that, like all the copies in the British Museum, it is variously dated. There are some trifling discrepancies in the various copies bearing the same dates. In one of the copies in the British Museum (S. 14, 7) there is a duplicate impression of sheets A 1 and B 1 with a view at the top, seven inches deep, with cattle and figures in the foreground. In the other copies this has- been erased, and the map has been continued over the space occupied by the view. In, one of the copies in the Crace Collection- (No. 174) in sheet A 1 the figure of a phoenix has been printed over the original plate, the engraving of the map showing through. There is a copy of the second edition (1807) of the map in the British Museum, and also a copy of the fourth edition (1819), both pub- lished by W. Faden. The Guildhall Library has a copy of the map, described in the Catalogue as the third edition, published by Faden, 4 June, 1807-13. In one of the copies in the British Museum (1 Tab. 22) there is a list of subscribers. This is probably the answer to MR. ASHBRIDGE'S question oa p. 187. H. A. HARBEN.

107, Westbourne Terrace, W.

COLOSSEUM v. COLISEUM (10 th S. iii. 2G7). In my opinion the projector of that great marvel of the present day, the Coliseum, has done well to give the spelling that is akin to the pronunciation. It is thus much more likely to hit the public taste. There is a more foreign, clumsy, and archaic look about Colosseum. I use the word " marvel " not for the performances, which I have not seen, but for the astounding speed with which the place was built. One day it seemed to be an- nounced, and a few days after it seemed to- have grown up like a vast mushroom.

RALPH THOMAS.

LINES ON A MUG (10 th S. iii. 228). I have one of these two-handled mugs, with the lines quoted by MR. MARKS, which are set in a scroll and leaf border, with a spiggoted barrel at the beginning of the fourth line and an old-shaped bottle with glass at the end. On the other side of the mug is a complicated decoration : in a circle is an upright sheaf of wheat with uncut corn at back ; on the rim of the circle " In God is our trust," and on the lower part of the rim, "The Farmer's Arms." On this side are three compartments, two of them next either handle, the third at the top of the central circle, and in these compartments more of the lines on the other side are repeated. Between the compartments are circles in which are shown many articles used io