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Timbs gives the height of the column as 145ft. (5 in.; statue and plinth, 17ft. = 162ft. Gin. In Murray's 'Handbook' the figures appear as Column, 145 ft., and statue, 17 ft. high. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

In The Illustrated London News of 21 October, 1843, p. 265, there is a full- page view of the Nelson column, in which, by the way, the lions on the pedestals are shown in situ, and on the following page the dimensions are given as follows :

Feet.

Steps 7

Pedestal 37

Column 105

Tambour ... ... 7

Statue

156 17

Total 173

On p. 332 of the same volume there is another full-page view, showing the column surrounded by scaffolding, with the statue in position. Before the statue was raised it was exhibited in the square, and there is a drawing of it in The Illustrated London News for 4 November, 1843, p. 289. As the subject is of some interest just now, perhaps I may be allowed to add to my answer that there is a view of the statue, with some patriotic verses, in the above journal for 29 October, 1842, p. 392 ; and in the issue for 10 September of the same year, p. 284, there will be found a woodcut representing the state of the work at that time. There is a fine engraving of the square, with the column in prominent position, in The Art Journal for April, 1850, p. 126, where, as in The Illustrated Xeus, the artist has anticipated the arrival of the lions. Some references to the column may be found in the Report of a Select Committee of the House of Commons, ordered to be printed 27 July, 1840 (No. 548). The Highgate Literary and Scientific Society possesses a cleverly executed model of the column sur- rounded by scaffolding, the work, I believe, of the late Mr. Bodkin, J.P., when a young man. R. B. P.

THEATRE, PARKGATE (10 th S. iii. 289, 355, 597). May I add one or two small points to the replies already given ? Drury Lane was in Parkgate. It has been a memory only ior the last sixty years, but its former situa- tion was pointed out to me by an old fisher- man a few days ago. As noted by one of jour correspondents, the site of the theatre is now covered by the class-room of Mostyn School. Ryley's cottage still remains, and is

known by the name. It is at the extreme north of Parkgate, is detached, and presents quite a quaint appearance. The roof is pyramidal, and at present the entire struc- ture chimney-stacks, roof, and cottage is covered with whitewash. MR. ABRAHAMS will find a deal about llyley, and incidentally about the Parkgate Theatre, on pp. 261-78 of "Twixt Mersey and Dee,' by the late Mrs. Hilda Gamlin, a former correspondent of 4 N. &, Q.' There was a regular ferry service between Parkgate and the Flintshire coast, which will explain the printing of the playbills at Holy well. J. H. K.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Principal Navigation, Voyages, Traffiijites, and

Discovcnet of the English Nation. By Richard

Hakluyt. Vol. XII. (Glasgow, MacLehose &

Sons.) HalduytiiA Posfhumns ; or, Ptirchas his Pilgrimex.

By Samuel Purchas, B.D. Vols. III. and IV.

(Same publishers.)

SUBSCRIBERS have not had long to wait for the con- cluding volume of this noble edition of Hakluyt. This is the more satisfactory, since the volume in question, consisting mainly of index, is indispensable to the complete utilization of its predecessors. It is scarcely possible offhand to do full justice to an index. One may see almost at a glance that it is comprehensive or the reverse. The knowledge how far it is complete and trustworthy, supplied with adequate cross-references and the like, is only obtained with constant use. That now fur- nished occupies 346 pages (or about the average contents of an octavo volume). A better idea of its dimensions may be obtained from the fact that Sir Francis Drake alone tills a column and a half, and has one hundred and twenty references. It is, moreover, far from being the longest article. A useful feature at the end is a separate index to ships. Familiar enough are the names of many of them as the Defiance, somewhile Drake's flagship : Sir Richard Greuville's immortal Revenge ; Frobisher's Bear and Sir Robert Dudley's Bear's Whelp ; Thomas Cavendish's Desire ; and Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Delight. Some of the names are quaint enough as the Earwig. The illustrations consist of a plan of Westminster, 1593, by John Norden ; a plan of London, 1573, from a copy of the ' Civitates Orbis Terrarum'; and a facsimile of a letter from Richard Hakluyt to Sir Francis Wal- singham, 1 April, 1584, of highest interest.

The remainder of the volume is occupied by a communication by which we were at first misled. This is an essay on ' The English Voyages of the Sixteenth Century ' by Walter Raleih, whom for a single moment we mistook for his illustrious namesake and predecessor. This concise and well- written contribution forms an admirable introduc- tion to the study of Hakluyt. In some hundred and twenty pages Prof. Raleigh supplies a key to the unity of purpose in the great work of Hakluyt, disentangling and separating the single thread of interest running through all the pilgrimages ; show-