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having a shop at 131, Cheapside, Penton Street being perhaps the address of his .factory. The firm of Longman &, Broderip was eventually merged into that of Collard & Collard, which still flourishes. See the notice of F. W. Uollard in the 'Dictionary of National Biography.' Your correspondent can consult Longman's specification at the Patent Office, 25, Southampton Buildings, ^Chancery Lane, at the Science Library, South Kensington, or at the British Museum. If the specification is still in print, he can purchase a copy at the Patent Office, price $d. post free. II. B. P.

MR. MOXHAY, LEICESTER SQUARE SHOWMAN <10 th S. iii. 307, 357, 395). Some thirty years ago, when Mr. Albert Grant's laying out and beautifying of Leicester Square had just been accomplished, and its custody handed over to the Metropolitan Board of Works, The Graphic, (4 July, 1874) published two illustrations, one depicting ' The Square in 1753,' and the other tures the centre of the square is seen enclosed and prettily laid out, the principal ornament in the former picture being the statue of George II., and that in the latter the statue of Shakespeare. From the letterpress which accompanied the pictures I gather that Mr. Wyld's "Great Globe" was set up in the enclosure in 1851, and that "a few years later a legal decision compelled its removal." In that the "Great Globe" occupied the square "for about ten years."
 * The Square in 1874.' In both of these pic-
 * Old and New London' (iii. 171) it is stated

Probably many interesting particulars -could be obtained from a perusal of Tom Taylor's ' Leicester Square : its Associations and its Worthies' (Bickers Son). It was lengthily reviewed in The Illustrated London Jfews of 5 September, 1874. From a copy of this review in my possession I gather that the book contains a chapter on 'The Shows of the Square,' including Wyld's "Great Globe" and Burford's Panorama.

Barker and Burford's Panorama was not erected in the centre of the square, but occupied premises in the north-east corner. Here the first panorama was produced by Robert Barker in the year 1794. Timbs ('Curiosities of London') gives an account of this under ' Panoramas,' whence I gain the information that

"Robert Barker was succeeded by his son, Henry Aston Barker, on whose retirement John Burford, Jiis pupil, became painter and proprietor, and was succeeded in 1823 by his son, Robert Burford, the .present [1855] proprietor."

In ' The Picture of London for 1803 ' (p. 218) as the following paragraph :

"Mr. Barker's Panorama is constantly open in Leicester Square, and may be fairly entitled the triumph of perspective. The inventor and proprietor, Mr. Barker, has at different times exhibited views of great cities, of naval engagements, &c., &c., in which the illusion is so complete that the spectator may fairly imagine he is present at the display of the real scenery. The price of admission is one shilling."

In Leigh's 'New Picture of London' (1839) it is referred to as " Burford's Panorama," and in The Literary World of 22 June, 1839, a description is given of Mr. Burford's new panorama of "the Harbour of Malta during the embarkation of the Queen Dowager of England." JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

SPENSER'S 'EPITHALAMION' (10 th S. iii. 246, 412). The spelling meant by dore is not deer, but dere, the usual Elizabethan form of deer. The right reading in the second line is certainly "use to towre"; not used. The verb towre refers, as suggested, to the deer. It can hardly mean " to roam about," as I believe that no such sense of towre was then known. There is no authority for "rear their stately heads." It simply means " to ascend on high," as in Shakespeare.

I have proved that confusion in writing between e and o was very common in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. In the present case it is settled by the metre.

The reading use is that in Todd's edition. WALTER W. SKEAT.

" WRONG SIDE OF THE BED" (10 th S. iii. 409). There is an old saying which declares that it is lucky to get out of bed on the right side, so that per contra it is an act of ill- omen to leave it on the other side. A testy, cross-grained temper is attributed, therefore, to its owner having got out of bed the wrong or left side :

You rise on your right side to-day, marry.

Marston, ' What You Will,' 1607. You rose o' your right side. Beaumont and Fletcher, ' Women Pleased.' J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

MARY MASTERS (10 th S. iii. 404). The Mrs. Masters who died at Brook, in Kent, 27 Sept., 1759, most probably is Elizabeth, the widow of Streynsham Master (sic), of Brook, in the parish of Wingham, Kent, who died 22 June, 1724, aged forty-three, and to his memory his widow placed a tablet in the Brook chantry chapel, on the north side of the chancel of Wingham Church. The inscrip- tion is printed in Arch. Cantiana, vol. vi. p. 283. He was only son of James Master (sic), of East Langdon, Kent (see Arch. Cantiana, vol. v.). The monumental inscription is too