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travaganza,' by Rudyard Kipling, which was part of the Christmas, 1890, number of The Illustrated London News : Fair Eve knelt close to the guarded gate in the hush

of an Eastern spring, She saw the flash of the Angel's sword, the gleam of

the Angel's wing

And because she was so beautiful, and because she

could not see How fair were the pure white cyclamens crushed

dying at her knee.

He plucked a Rose from the Eden Tree where the four great rivers met.

And though for many a cycle past that Rose in the

dust hath lain With her who bore it upon her breast when she

passed from grief and pain, There was never a daughter of Eve but once, ere the

the tale of her years be done, Shall know the scent of the Eden Rose, but once

beneath the sun ! Though the years may brinj? her joy or pain, fame,

sorrow, or sacrifice, The hour that brought her the scent of the Rose

she lived it in Paradise !

Mrs. Hauksbee is singing to her friend May Holt. The missing lines were probably never written. Mrs. Hauksbee, in answer to May Holt's question, " What is it?'' replies " Something called 'The Eden Rose.' An old song to a new setting." F. L. Knowles's ' Kipling Primer ' says that the story was added to * Under the Deodars' in the "Out- ward Bound " edition.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

KING : JOACHIN CARDOZA (10 th S. v. 108). Cardoza Road, in the immediate neighbour- hood, built about 1880, was, I understand, named after Mr. Joseph Cardoza, a local tradesman and member of the vestry. The name is so uncommon that this may be worth Doting. There was also a Mrs. Cardoza living at G, Lloyd Square, Pentonville, in 1862. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

"THE BIRD IN THE BREAST " = CONSCIENCE

(10 th S. iv. 448; v. 133). As a modern instance of this let me quote 'The Old Curiosity Shop, 3 chap. Ivii. :

'"A man,' says Sampson, * who loses forty-seven pound ten in one morning by his honesty is a man to be envied. If it had been eighty pound, the luxuriousness of feeling would have been increased Every pound lost would have been a hundred- weight of happiness gained The still, small voice, Christopher,' cries Brass, smiling, and tapping himself on the bosom, 'is a singing comic songs within me, and all is happiness and joy.' "

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Kewbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

BELLS (10 th S. iv. 409 ; v. 34). Lord Grim- thorpe's table of the weights and sizes of bells may be found in his 'Clocks, Watches, and Bells,' seventh ed, 1883, pp. 390-1.

R. B. P.

GLANVILLE, EARL OF SUFFOLK (10 th S. iv. 267). Camden's 'Britannia,' 1789, vol. ii. p. 77, says :

"Suffolk has had earls and dukes of several families. Some late writers say the Glanvilles were antiently distinguished by this title, but as- they have no authority for this, and as the error is obvious, and I have found nothing of it in the public records, I shall till better informed suspend my assent. I acknowledge, however, the Glanville family was of great note in these parts. But I have not yet found good evidence for any earl of this county before the time of Edward III."

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL : ITS FOUNDATION STONE (10 th S. v. 168). In Longman's 'History of the Three Cathedrals of St. Paul' (1873) it is recorded (p. 125) :

"The first stone of the new Cathedral was laid at the south-east corner of the choir by Mr. Strong, the mason, and the second one by Mr. Longman oa June 21, 1673."

But in Godwin's 'Churches of London* (1839), under 'St. Paul's Cathedral' (p. 22), we read differently :

" The first stone of the present building was laid in 1675, by Doctor Henry Compton, Bishop of London. He was the youngest son of Spencer, Earl of Northampton, and was born in 1632, and- died at Fulham in 1713, where he was buried.

Thomas Strong was the master-mason a man of

talent, who assisted mainly to carry out Wren's- intentions in regard to this noble edifice."

In a foot-note the author adds : "In digging the foundation a vast cemetery was discovered, in which the Britons, Romans, and Saxons had been successively buried : the Saxons, who were uppermost, lay in graves lined with chalk stones, or in coffins of hollowed stones ; the bodies of the Britons, lower down, had been placed in rows, and many ivory and box-wood pins remained, which, it is supposed, had fastened their shrouds. On digging deeper from curiosity circumstances appeared to prove that the sea had once occupied the site upon which St. Paul's now stands."

HARRY HEMS. Fair Park, Exeter.

" PIECE- BROKER " (10 th S. iv. 367, 391, 412), I owe to DR. MURRAY the record of & passage in which this word is used, as ib would appear, in the sense of a vendor of small pieces of cloth or other material, and not in that of a seller of long rolls of cloth, as I at first suggested. In a rare tract printed in 1663, entitled 'Life and Death of James, commonly called Collonel Turner. Executed at Lime-Street End January the