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of some common lands, belonging to Bowes, brought to light an ancient aqueduct, which conveyed the water two miles, from a place called Levarpool, to th eastle.

" Antiquaries have hitherto fixed the ancient Lavatree at Bowes, that place corresponding with the distances set out in the 'Itinerary' ; but the site may have been near Levarpool, particularly as some adjoining lands still bear the name of Lavar- tree, or Laretree ; these, however, on examination they found only ancient stone quarries of vast capacity.

"Great numbers of Roman coins have been dis- covered at Bowes, which mark its former celebrity. Several sorts of earthen vessels, of the red kind, have also been dug up at this place ; and Camden says he saw an altar to the honour of Adrian in the church."

This, with four or five other inscriptions, is given in Mr. J. S. Fletcher's comprehen- sive work 'Picturesque Yorkshire.' If both Hutchinsori's and Fletcher's measurements be correct, the castle has in 131 years lost about three feet in height, for the latter de- scribes it as only 50 feet in height, and says :

"There are traces of many interesting things about it a bit of vaulted roof here ; an ornamental pillar there ...... and few of the ancient strongholds

of the north are more pathetic in their desolation."

A similar inquiry to that of MR. CANN HUGHES I have endeavoured to answer in Yorkshire JVotes and Queries, December, 1905,

p. 282. J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

FAME (10 th S. iv. 249 ; v. 49). I think that the following line of Juvenal (Satire xiv. 152), which has not been quoted in this dis- cussion, shows that a trumpet was given to Fame by the ancients :

. Sed qui sermones ? Quos foeda3 buccina famre ?

I know not whether it has been noticed how much Virgil in his celebrated descrip- tion of Fame is indebted to Homer. Heyne, who notices most of the resemblances be- tween Homer and Virgil, has omitted to mention this :

Parva metu primo ; mox sese attollit in auras,

Eugrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit. ' .Kneid,' iv. 176-7. Kopv<r<rTai, aura/0

'Iliad,' iv. 442-3.

Homer is speaking of Strife, or Discord, not of Fame. E. YARDLEY.

The "Muse" in Milton's 'Lycidas,' 1. 19, means " poet." This is a fairly common use of the word, and occurs in Shakespeare, Sonnet xxi. ; Spenser, 'F. Q.' IV. ii. 34 ; and also in Dryden. Hence there is no need for Jortin's proposed correction of " he " to "she " ; still less for application of the words

"as he passes turn" to the floating body of Lycidas. 0. S. JERRAM.

'REBECCA,' A NOVEL (10 th S. Hi. 128, 176, 293, 435 ; v. 72) I am glad to be able to inform MR. E. S. DODGSON and those readers of * N. & Q.' who are interested in the subject that the notice of this old novel in The European Magazine and London Review, a brief extract from which was given in Messrs. Lackington, Allen &, Co.'s catalogue of 1815, appeared in the number for March, 1808. I am indebted to Mr. E. E. Newton, of West Hampstead, for the loan of the volume for January to June, 1808, and have at my elbow a typewritten copy of the lengthy criticism upon a book which must have created some stir in its day. Therein the plot of the story is fully outlined, its motive being the desire to expose and casti- gate an abominable ' New Philosophy * which prevailed amongst certain dissolute classes of society, a discourse upon the evils of which takes up much space at the com- mencement of an article highly appreciative of the efforts of the writer and the force of his, or her, denunciations. The criticism is signed by J. M., the initials, it is assumed, of Joseph Moser, a well known contributor to Tlie European Magazine and other periodicals of that time. Unfortunately, although J. M. frequently attributes the authorship to a male, no name is ever mentioned, so that he was probably unable to pierce the mask of anonymity.

The book, containing scenes of the most harrowing, pathetic nature, is one calculated to stir the finest emotions, and to point a truly moral lesson. The fact that ' Piebecca ' was printed at Uttoxeter, where in the year 1821 as we find from the 'D.N.B.' was also printed ' Tales, Serious and Instructive,' by Ann Catherine Holbrook, would seem to lend colour to the inference that this lady was the author of the work under discussion, as some have conjectured. She lived in the village of Sandon, in Staffordshire, not far distant, where corroborative evidence of identity, with discovery of the missing third volume, might be the result of diligent search on the part of natives. It would also be appropriate to reprint the novel in its centenary year, 1908, at Uttoxeter, the original place of issue. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club, W.

The review to which MR. DODGSOX alludes will be found in The European Ma'jadne for March, 1808. It is signed J. M., which evi- dently stands for Joseph Moser, who appears to have written the whole magazine off his