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death occurred, according to biographical dictionaries, in 1505.

Does the above inscription now exist on the bust or its pedestal 1

According to Lanzi's ' History of Painting in Italy,' translated by Thomas Pvoscoe, 1847, vol. ii. p. 328, the monmment in S. Andrea was raised in 1517, " which has been falsely supposed by some to be the year of his death, whereas it appears from many authentic works that he closed his days in 1505."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

"QUAM NIHIL AD GENIUM, PAPINIANE, TUUM!" (10 th S. v. 27.) This line will be found, not in the ' Illustrations ' to Dray ton's 'Polyolbion/ but in the introductory address " From the Author of the Illustrations." The preliminary pages of the * Potyolbion ' are unnumbered, but the line is quoted on the leaf A 4, recto. As this address is signed in my copy, and I presume in others, by Selden with his own hand, there is no ground for saying that the 'Illustrations' are "attri- buted" to him. Nor, to my regret, can I agree with the Editor that the line is "pro- bably Selden's own, as he generally gives references for quotations from Latin and Greek authors." The reverse is rather the fact, as on the same page on which the line occurs there are two Greek quotations, and two other Latin quotations, to not one of which is a reference given.* Nor is it likely that Selden would compose a solitary penta- meter in order to point his moral. The line seems to belong to one of the Italian poets of the Renaissance, and may possibly be found in one of the books forming the library of the late Chancellor Christie in Owens College, Manchester.

In 1795 the worksof Drayton were included in the third volume of Anderson's " British Poets," and it was, I believe, from this source, and not from the original * Polyolbion/ that Coleridge derived the quotation.

The reference to PROF. KNIGHT'S query should be 10 th S. iv. 350 (not 351).

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

PIDGIN OR PIGEON ENGLISH (10 th S. v. 46, 90). I can give an earlier instance of pigeon English than any supplied by MR. CURRY :

" * Boy ! ' he cried, ' go catchee three piecey boat washee pigeon to-morrow.' Then he added to me 'A-tye will row you out, because she can speak pigeon English!'" 'A Piece of China,' All the

Year Round, 30 April, 1859.

E. YARDLEY.

^iven.
 * The second Greek quotation is attributed to
 * 'an old Cosmographicall Poet," but no name is

' THE EPICURE'S ALMANACK ' (10 th S. v. 4). There is no reason to suppose that Benson Earle Hill edited * The Epicure's Almanack ' 'or 1815. My copy gives no editor's or author's name, but it is attributed (without authority) to one James White, of whom I snow nothing. ' The Epicure's Almanack ' for [841 and that for 1842 (I have no copy of 1843) were undoubtedly edited by Hill, who iates his preface for the former year from Brompton (publishers. How &, Parsons, 132, Fleet Street). There is much excellent work and quaint advice in both almanacs. The series is continued by ' The Epicure's Year- Books' of 1868 and 1869, both edited by Fin-Bee, otherwise Blanchard Jerrold. They were published by Bradbury, Evans & Co., and the former has a vignette and orna- mental initials by John Leighton, F.S.A. According to the preface, these Year-Books were to have been published annually ; but [ know of only these two years. Of course, Terrold was responsible for many other culi- nary publications, such as ' Knife and Fork/ 'The Cupboard Papers,' 'The Dinner Bell/ and 'The Book of Menus,' all of which I possess. 'The Epicure's Almanack ' was re- vived in a curious way in 1884, and I have in my library an "early proof copy." The book was to have been published by David Bogue, but, according to a note on the fly- leaf of my copy, it was '* given to me by D. Bogne, and is the only one done, the work never having been proceeded with." It is described on the title-page as " a waistcoat pocket calendar of good cheer and table talk for the year 1884." No author's name is given, but the preface is signed C. E. P. Michaelmas, 1883. I can find no record of this little book anywhere.

FRANK SCHLOESSER.

15, Grosvenor Road, S.W.

BOWES CASTLE, YORKSHIRE (10 th S. iv. 288). W. Hutchinson, in his 'Excursion to the Lakes/ thus describes the ruins in 1773 and 1774:

" Bowes Castle, situated near the old high street, is fifty-three feet high, and forms a square of eighty-one feet each way. It is built of hewn stone, of excellent workmanship, and the walls are cemented with lime mixed with small flints ; but much of the external casing is stript off, and the whole is rapidly hastening to decay. The fortress is surrounded by a deep ditch, beyond which is an open area, or platform, and the hill, on whose brink it stands, has a swift descent to the river Greta. There are evident traces of Roman works within its precincts ; and most probably the present castle was founded on the site of one much more ancient. The remains of a bath and its aqueduct, now wholly in ruins, and overgrown with weeds and brambles* are still indicated to travellers. A late enclosure