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 152 NOTES AND QUERIES. [io» B. iv. AUG. 19,1905. by the gifted lady who became his wife. In 1834 he wrote an essay on ' The Influence of the Roman Conquests upon Literature and the Arts in Rome,' which was included in the "Oxford English Prize Essays," pub- lished at Oxford by D. A. Talboys in 1836, v. 113-73. This is also a work of considerable learning and research, written in strong and nervous English. _The hard work of a professorship, sustained with the conscientious earnestness which marked every step in the career of Joseph Anstice, was too much for a constitution which was naturally feeble. In a few years he was compelled to resign his appointment and retire to Torquay, where he died on 29 Feb- ruary, 1836. The farewell message which on his death-bed he sent to his old pupils is an affecting document. He had always been a convinced Christian, and during the last months of his life his principal occupation was the composition of hymns, which after his death were collected and printed in a thin volume for private distribution. Some of them have found a place in ' Hymns Ancient and Modern,' special mention being merited by the harvest hymn :— Lord of the Harvest! once again We thank Thee for the ripened grain, and that beginning O Lord, how happy we should be, If we could cast our care on Thee. His remains were conveyed to Enmore, where they were buried on 8 March, 1836, and a monument, with a long Latin inscription, was raised to his memory in the chapel of King's College. His widow died in 1887, having survived her husband for more than fifty years. Joseph Anstice had two children, a son, John Arthur, who died young, and a daughter, Josephine Elizabeth, who on 21 March, 1857, married Colonel the Hon. Henry Hugh Clifford, V.C. (afterwards Major- General Sir Henry Hugh Clifford, K.C.M.G.. C.B.), third son of the seventh Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, who left her a widow on 12 April, 1883. One of her sons is Mr. Hugh Charles Clifford, C.M.G., Colonial Secretary of Trinidad, who, while enjoying a dis- tinguished career under the Colonial Office, is perhaps better known in the domain of literature as the author of 'In Court and Kampong,' and other works inspired by his experiences in the Malay Peninsula. My father, who was a first cousin of Joseph Anstice, being a son of Mary Cowles Anstice, an elder daughter of Robert Anstice, often told me of the sense of loss which was felt by the whole family at the early cessation of a, career which seemed to hold out so great a promise. In some respects, had it but possessed a vates sacer, it might have paralleled in public estimation that of his friend Arthur Hallaun. W. F. PRIDE AUX. All the information G. F. 11 B. requires can, I think, be found in Mrs. Henry Sand- ford's interesting work on ' Thomas Poole and his Friends.' JOHN COLES, Jun. Frome. 'LA BELLE ASSEMBLER' : Miss CETBITT (10th S. iv. 108).—Miss Cubitt's father was a singer of some repute at Vauxhall, and useful in musical dramas at Drury Lane. Miss Cubitt made her first appearance as Mar- geretta in ' No Song, No Supper," at Drury Lane, 1817, and was engaged at that theatre and Vauxhall up to 1827, when she left Eng- land. On her return she took part in oratorios—but, through her uncertain state of health, constantly disappointed the public. She died in Maiden Lane, Covent Garden, at the early age of thirty. Winston credits her with a remarkably quick study, and great musical knowledge. Miss Cubitt figures in Clint's picture, now in the Garrick Club— exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1821, in the scene from 'Lock and Key," with Munden Knight and Mrs. Orger. She died 1830, and is buried in St. Paul's, Covent Garden. ROBERT WALTERS. Ware Priory. "KNIAZ" (10th S. iv. 107, 130).—I have before me a letter from a Russian friend, who lives at Theodosia, dated 27 June-10 July, in which is the following :— " Ces jours-ci nous avons eu de grandes inquie- tudes ;i cause de ('apparition dans la rade de Thdodosie du cuirasae rebelle Prince Potemxine." Is Potemxine, or Potemkin, the proper Western rendering of the Russian name? What is the effect of the two marks over the first e 1 ROBERT PIERPOINT. In reply to MR. WILSON, Kniaz is etymo- logically the same word as English " king," but in Russian it has the sense of " prince." Kniaz Potemkin means Prince Potemkin. By the way, this surname is rarely pro- nounced correctly by foreigners, owing to the fact that its e, which bears the stress, should be sounded like yo. The name may be phonetically rendered Pat-y6m-kin. JAMES PLATT, Jun. Kniaz means " prince," and is apparently pronounced as a monosyllable, the ia repre-