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did not give to the world that "digest "of his travels limited as they were which his friends understood that he was preparing.

The first issue of 'Elia 'had the following title-page :

" Elia. | Essays which have appeared under that signature | in the | London Magazine. | London : | Printed for Taylor and Hessey, | Fleet -Street. |

I have not seen a copy of this issue with a half-title, and Messrs. Sotheby have expressly stated in their catalogues that it did not possess one. A perfect copy of this issue contains at the end a leaf announcing The London Magazine, and two leaves of adver- tisements of Taylor & Hessey's publications. After a certain number of copies had been issued the original title-page was cancelled, and the following substituted :

" Elia. | Essays which have appeared under that signature | in the | London Magazine. | London : | Printed for Taylor and Hessey, | 93, Fleet Street, and 13, Waterloo Place. | 1823."

This issue possesses a half title, which is rarely found in bound copies. My own copy has at the end the announcement of The London Magazine. In his fine edition of Lamb, Mr. E. V. Lucas gives a facsimile of this second title-page, but not of the first. From the label on the back of the volume we learn that the published price of ' Elia ' was 9s. 6d. W. F. PRIDEAUX.

CROCKFORD'S (10 th S. iv. 489). In addition to the articles mentioned in the 'D.N.B.,' notices of Crockford appeared in The Gaming House Expositor, 1825-6 ; The London Maga- zine, February, 1828 ; Bailys Magazine, November, 1888, and February, 1891 ; and in many letters to The Times about the year 1824.

In Raikes's diary for 1844 there is a brief memoir of Crockford (May 27).

I have a portrait, with 'An Ode to W. Crockford, Esq./ signed " Reveller," which is evidently an excerpt from a newspaper, per- haps The Town.

The * Evidence of W. Crockford, Esq.,' occupies several pages of the Report from the Select Committee on Gaming, 1844.

F. JESSEL.

1 MILITARY DISCIPLINE ' (10 th S. iv. 489). This book is by Capt. William Barriff. The title of the first edition is as follows :

"Military Discipline; or, the yong Artillery Man. Wherein is discoursed and showne the Postures both of Musket and Pike: the exactest way, c. Together with the Motions which are to be used, in the exercising of a Foot - Company. With divers and severall formes and figures of Battell; with their reducemeuts ; very necessary

for all such as are studious in the Art Military. By William Barriff. Paal. 144. 1. Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to warre, and my fingers to fight. London, Printed by Thomas Harper, for Ralph Mab, 1635."

The first and third editions lie before me, and contain 326 and 421 pages respectively, so that I am afraid your correspondent's copy is very incomplete. The third edition has a still longer title, and was "printed by John Dawson, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, at the signe of the Green 'Dragon in Pauls Church-yard, 1643." The title page in both editions is preceded by a portrait of the author and the arms of the Honourable Artillery Company. It is interesting to note that the portrait has been brought up to date in the later edition.

EDWARD M. BORRAJO. The Library, Guildhall, E.G.

Capt. W. Bariffe (or Barriffe) was the author of this book. It is quoted in Clifford Walton's ' History of the British Army.' About a year ago Messrs. Maggs offered a copy of the edition of 1661, in the original calf, for 2J. 10s.

I have a copy of the second edition of 'Military Discipline, or the Art of War,' London, 1689, in which reference is made to "Barriff." W. S.

It passed through six editions in twenty-six years. See my ' Bib. Military Books up to 1642,' No. 133. M. J. D. COCKLE.
 * Military Discipline ' is by William Barriffe.

Walton-on-Thames.

OSCAR WILDE BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 th S. iv. 266). I possess * The Harlot's House 'in one of my scrap-books, and I am firmly of the opinion that the poem originally appeared in a sixpenny weekly publication called Life, about the years 1877-80. It is a very powerful poem of twelve stanzas. S. J. A. F.

BOWES OF ELFORD (10 th S. iv. 408, 457). In the quotation from Surtees's ' History of Durham,' " the collateral descendants of Sir Jerome Bowes were of Elford, in Suffolk" is not Suffolk a misprint for Staffordshire, in which county Elford is situate?

NORTH MIDLAND.

REPARTEE OF ROYALTY (10 th S. iv. 467). Surely the numerous " Court Memoirs," 4 'Recollections,'' and biographies " by a late member of the Court" published in the last decade are the best source for examples of royal repartee. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

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ALMANAC, c. 1744 (10 th S. iv. 486). I think the leaf which MISTLETOE has reproduced is