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gate Literary and Scientific Institution ; but there is every reason to believe that Prickett was a competitor. The terra " prize essay " was applied to his production in some magazine or newspaper paragraph which I came across at the British Museum. Whether it may be applied to each essay written in competition for a prize, or must be confined to the winning essay, I am not prepared to decide. No doubt " as a prize essay," as suggested by COL. PRIDEAUX, is a better way of describing a work which fails to win the prize. HENRY JOHNSON.

BEN JONSON AND BACON (10 th S. ii. 469 ; iii. 35, 94; v. 31). Q. V. will find Tenison's ' Baconiana ' at the British Museum, in the "Miscellaneous Collections" section of Francis Bacon's works. A. J. WILLIAMS.

11 FAMOUS" CHELSEA (10 th S. iv. 3G6, 434, 470, 517 ; v. 33, 95). I should like to add a few words to my reply at the last reference. To show that Cealchyth is really A.-S chalk wharf, it would seem that some further evidence than that which Mr. Reginald Blunt adduces in his * Hand book of Chelsea' is desirable as to chalk having been landed here in such quantities as to render the existence of a wharf necessary. This ety- mology certainly seems the most plausible, and there may, of course, have been some use for the chalk beyond that as material towards the erection of the more ancient parts of the Old Church. The name of Chelsea in one form or another certainly existed long before the time that of Edward II. in which any record of the rectory is known to exist. Cealc would mean "stone" as well as " chalk," and the very ancient north yard wall of Chelsea Church, mentioned by Bowack, was of flint stones, so that flints and chalk, neither of them indigenous, were imported, perhaps in quantities sufficient not only for the requirements of the remote hamlet of Chelsea, but for those of the neigh- bouring parts of the country. SIR HERBERT MAXWELL (10 th S. iv. 470) has, I think, con- clusively shown that Cealc-hythe = Chalk- hyth is at least a possible etymology.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

" DRINKINGS " : " DRINKING TIME " (10 th S. iv. 506; v. 52). I well remember the wooden bottles, shaped like miniature barrels, to which MR. W. W. GLENNY refers. They were in general use among the field labourers in Northamptonshire when I was a boy. It was not at all customary to carry a drinking vessel with them, the invariable method being to drink direct from the bottle. How

the regulation quantity was assured to each drinker I do not know, but I have no recol- lection of any advantage being given or taken in drinking. A l 'swoller" (swallow) of beer was the common expression, and I was by no means averse to having my "swoller" with the rest at "nunchin" time. I have seen these wooden bottles in use recently, but an earthenware jar and glass are now- mostly in vogue. JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

OSCAR WILDE BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 th S. iv. 266 ; v. 12). The Daily Telegraph of 11 Dec., 1905, contains an account of the first per- formance of Richard Strauss's opera ' Salome,' founded on Oscar Wilde's drama of the same name and produced at Dresden on 9 De- cember. S. J. A. F.

To the volume ' Oscar Wilde,' by Carl Hagemann, 1904, there is appended a supple- ment containing a bibliography. The in- quirer might also glance at the same writer's 'Oscar Wilde,' 1905, p. 216.

W. P. COURTNEY.

"THE BIRD IN THE BREAST " = CONSCIENCE,

(10 th S. iv. 448). An example of this expres- sion occurs in the 'Diary (1648 to 1679) of the Rev. John Ward, Vicar of Stratford-on- Avon,' arranged by Dr. Charles Severn, and published in 1839 (p. 219): "What need a man care what hurly-burlies are without, if that bird in his breast sing sweetly ?"

W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

BREAM'S BUILDINGS (10 th S. v. 66). A pedigree of Henry Collier, who died 13 August, 1743, is in Misc. Gen. et Her.* New Series, pp. 125-9, contributed by myself.

REGINALD STEWART BODDINGTON.

HORACE WALPOLE'S LETTERS (10 th S. iii. 386 ; iv. 158). I am much indebted to Y. for his reply to my inquiry respecting a letter of Horace Walpole's, and I would again bespeak his kind assistance, or that of any other of your readers, to enable me to identify, in Mrs. Toynbee's edition, the following letters, which appear in vol. i. pp. 127 and 440 respectively, of the ' Private Correspondence of Horace Wai pole, Earl of Orford,' 1820 :

To the Rev. Mr. Birch.

Woolterton, 15th (Aug.), 1745. SIR,

When I was lately in town I was favoured with yours of 21st past, but my stay there was so short,, and my hurry so great, that I had not time to see you, as I intended : as I am persuaded that nobody is more capable than yourself, in all respects, to set his late majesty's reign in a true light, I am sure there is nobody to whom I would more readily give: