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This may seem extraordinary praise, but is certainly not a whit more than is deserved ; for if John Carter had not done what he did, the work of destruction would have been much more complete, for though Dean Corn- wallis of Durham claimed to have saved the Galilee, Mr. Bumpus says that "it is much more probable that we owe its preservation to John Carter's remonstrance." We West- minster folk have always revered the memory of John Carter, and it is a pleasing thought that many of his drawings and much of his literary work were done while he was a resident in Wood Street and Great College Street, both of which have recently been greatly changed from what they were in his day. W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS (10 th S. v. 141, 183, 242, 297, 351, 415). I may add the name of Samuel Gould, who carried on business for half a century at Dorchester, Dorset (1733-83). The following is his epitaph, written by Dr. Cummings :

Samuel Gould, Superintendent of the Amusements of Dorchester.

He sold Books.

He scatter'd Jokes and promoted Mirth. He cemented Friendships.

He hurt no Body.

He wished to do good to All.

He especially studied to befriend the Widow and

the Orphan. He was the Companion of Men of Learning

and

Was ever receiv'd with Friendship and Cheer- fulness. By all persons of Distinction to whom he was

known,

And he was known to Many. He died the 22 nd Feb., 1783, aged 73 years.

In Hutchins's * History of Dorset,' first edition, 1774, vol. i. p. 374, is a plate repre senting a view of Dorchester and the village of Forthington, engraved at his expense, and inscribed by him to the author. In some correspondence between Dr. Cummings and Richard Gough, chiefly about the pub- lication of this work, now preserved in the Bodleian Library, are letters from Samuel Gould on business matters connected with this county history, and the first finished copy was exhibited in his shop.

In the British Museum is a catalogue pi his books offered for sale in Dorchester it 1780 ; and in The Gentleman's Magazine. 1783, p. 273, there is an obituary notice oi him.

I think, therefore, he is entitled to be enrolled among the principal provincia booksellers A; W. G.

EARTHQUAKES IN FICTION (10 th S. v. 388, 436). Among the poems of W. J. Mickle 1735-88) is one that has a passage of a dozen lines or so on the great earthquake of Lisbon. I regret I cannot give more precise reference ; I have only the extract
 * >y me, and if X. would like to see it I

shall be pleased to send him a copy.

H. K. ST. J. S.

1, Glebe Road, Bedford.

GOETHE : " BELLS, BUGS, AND CHRIS- TIANITY" (10 th S. v. 270, 416). As to the statements of the Abbe Gaume that Goethe lated ** les cloches, les punaises, et le chris- tianisme,'' and that he had a bust of Jupiter n his room, I would refer C. T. J. for the first to No. 67 of Goethe's * Epigramme aus Venedig': Wenige sind mir jedoch wie Gift und Schlange

zuwider ;

Viere : Rauch des Tabaks, Wanzen, und Knob- lauch, und.

The final blank is generally supposed to stand for "Christ"; so that the Abbe is right in two of his three assertions, and omits a fourth.

As to the bust, there is a fine bust of Goethe as Apollo, by Trippel, which is now in the Grandducal Library at Weimar. It was, probably, formerly in Goethe's house, and may account for the second statement. FRANK LAWRENCE,

Bedford Park, W.

TRAVELLING IN ENGLAND, 1600-1700 (10 th S. v. 348, 414, 433, 455). The following is from 'An Ordinance, touching the Office of Postage of Letters (inland and foreign),' 1653, by which the Post Office was farmed to John Manley for 10,000. a year, as repro- duced in "The Penny Postage Jubilee and Philatelic History. By Phil " (Sampson Low & Co., 1891) :

"That the said John Manley shall be, and is hereby obliged to provide Post-horses at every Stage, for all such persons as shall by especial Warrant of his Highness, His Council, any of the Generals at Sea, Commissioners of the Admiralty and Navy, Secretary of State, General Officer of the Army, Commanders of any Garrison, or Com- manders of any Squadron or Ship of the Navy of the Common-wealth, be authorized to ride Post.

"That for the reasons aforesaid none but the Post-Masters, deputed and approved of by the said John Manley, upon the several Roads, shall horse any person Post ; and that the said Post-Masters upon the Roads, deputed by the said John Manley, shall not receive or take, from any person or persons riding post as aforesaid, above the rate of threepence a mile for each Post-horse, being the Rates in such case formerly used and accustomed. And to the end there may be a constant and sufficient provision at every Stage for the Horsing