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would call forth the remark, " No need ter dump it that wey ! " Any one engaged in filling a sack with a compressible article would be told to "dump it well down." It was necessary in making dough to dump it well in the kneading ; and clothes put to soak prior to the wash were well dumped down in the *' seg-pot."

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

"Dumping" is evidently an American expression. On landing at San Francisco some thirty years since I was amused at seeing on a notice board, erected on a piece of waste ground, "Rubbish not to be dumped here."

G. D.

COPYRIGHT IN LETTERS (10 th S. v. 128). Of the numerous questions I had to go into with great care in writing my * Swimming,' copyright was one. I apologize for so fre- quently referring to my own book, but it is the only one I know of that treats of nearly every bibliographical or book question. In the first place your querist should himself consult the last edition of the great work of your learned contributor Dr. Copinger. If he refers to " Copinger on Copyright, edited by Easton," 1904, he will find all the law on the subject. I do not think it useful to go into cases in *N. & Q.' The chief principle seems to be that you must not take anything that is original from another book, so as to injure the sale of the book. There is, how- ever, not the slightest doubt that part might be quoted ; the doubt is as to the whole, or if long. This can only be settled in each instance by the facts of the case.

By the by, Dr. Copinger's volume is in two parts. The first is paged to 816 as usual ; but the paging of the second part is truly horrible and thoroughly unpractical : it is paged to ccxciv, the index beginning after p. clxxxviii. And this is from a great biblio- grapher ! RALPH THOMAS.

FALSTAFF ON HONOUR (10 th S. v. 128) In " a trim reckoning " the speaker ironic- ally indicates that the return is so fine as to be unsubstantial. Anything that is air and nothing more may be fitly ridiculed as a basis of pretension " a trim reckoning " indeed! For this ironical use of "trim" compare * Henry VIII.,' V. iv. 77, "There's a trim rabble let in." THOMAS BAYNE.

BOWES CASTLE, YORKSHIRE (10 th S. iv. 288 ; v. 116). In vol. iv. of ' The Antiquities of England and Wales/ by Francis Grose, 1776, is a view of Bowes Castle, drawn by Bayley in 1774, and engraved by Godfrey in 1775.

There is also a short history of the castle, about one and a half pages. On the fourth page before the view is a small ground plan of the castle. The date of foundation or building given in the index is 1070 :

"The Castle was built, as Mr. Horseley thinks, out of the ruins of the Roman fortress, by Allan Niger, the first Earl of that title [i.e., Brittany and Richmond ], who (it is said in a M S belonging to the dissolved Monastery of St. Mary's at York) placed therein William his relation, with 500 archers, to defend it against some insurgents in Cumberland and Westmoreland, confederated with the Scots ; giving him for the device of his standard, the arms of Brittany, with three bows and a bundle of arrows, from whence both the castle and its com- mander derived their names ; the former being called Bowe Castle, and the latter William de Arcubus. Camden indeed mentions another deri- vation, but it seems rather a less probable one: ' As for the latter name of Bowes, says he, con- sidering the old town had been burnt to the ground (as all the inhabitants report) I should think it arose upon that occasion ; for that which is burnt, in the British language is called Boeth.' "

Henry III. in the twent3 r -fifth year of his reign settled the castle upon Peter de Savoy, uncle to his queen. Successive owners were John de Dreux, Earl of Richmond ; Arthur his brother ; Mary St. Paul, Countess of Pembroke ; John, Duke of Bedford, third son of Henry IV.; and Henry VI.

"From him there is a chasm in the succession of Proprietors. A few years ago [i.e., from 1776] it belonged to Mr. Pullen."

"To this Castle belonged a certain tribute called Thorough Toll, and the privilege of a gallows."

Grose gives the height of the castle as about 53 feet. He records that one of the inscribed stones found among the remains of the Roman station is said to have *' served for the Communion-table at the Parish Church."

Stephen Whatley in his 'England's Gazet- teer,' London, 1751, says, s.v. Bowes :

"The antiquity of this place, appears from an old stone in its church with an inscription on it to the Emperor Adrian, which was used about the beginning of the last century for a communion- table."

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

OSCAR WILDE BIBLIOGRAPHY (10 th S. iv. 26G ; v. 12, 133). Anent the drama of 'Salome,' it may not be inappropriate to mention how it was at the inaugural dinner of the Authors' Club, held in June, 1892, at its first home, 17, St. James's Place, that Oscar Wilde complained so bitterly of the interdict put upon it by the censor of plays. As one of those present, I recall with what assumed indifference he derided the mandate just issued ; indeed, I think it was on that same afternoon he had received a decision