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enough then, but not to be compared wit! what tumbles into the stocking in these day* of toys and joys without number. Do they talk about Mother Christmas anywhere 1 ?

THOS. RATCLIFFE. Worksop.

COLLINGWOOD'S DESCENDANTS. In the Trafalgar Centenary celebrations it seems to have been assumed that there are now no living descendants of Admiral Lord Colling- wood. He left two daughters to survive him, viz, Sarah, wife of George Newnham, barrister-at-law, and Mary Patience, wife ol Mr. Anthony Denny, these ladies being also coheiresses to their mother, Sarah, daughtei of John Erasmus Blackett, proprietor of a beautiful estate at Hethpool, in the Cheviots. George Newnham assumed the additional name of Collingwood, and published a bio graphy of his distinguished father-in-law He is stated to have died a disappointed man, owing to the refusal, or neglect, of the Government of the day to make him a peer under the title of Baron Collingwood.

Both Mrs. Newnham - Collingwood and Mrs. Denny left issue, and I have reason to believe that descendants of the latter are in existence. I shall be glad of information about them or about Mrs. Newnham - Collingwood's children.

J. C. HODGSON, F.S.A.

Alnwick.

FAME. (10 th S. iv. 249.)

To find Fame, in the sense of Renown, represented in the way MR. H. J. BARKER mentions is very common in modern times ; but I do not think she was ever so depicted by the ancients. 3q/7, as personified by Hesiod (' Works and Day?,' 760 sqq.), and Fama as personified by Virgil ('.^n., 7 iv. 173-88, and ix. 474), Ovid ('Met., 5 xii. 39 sqq.\ Valerius Flaccus (ii. 116 sqq.) and Statius ('Theb,'iii. 426 sqq.) y stand rather for Report or Rumour than for Renown, and in the above passages no mention is made of a trumpet or a wreath.

Fama does not seem to be frequently repre- sented in works of art. Spence in his 'Polymetis' (I quote from the second edition) gives a representation of her as a nude winged figure, the upper portion of the wings being studded with eyes (pi. xxix. fig. 4), and with reference to it says (at p. 214) :

"The only figure I have ever seen of her is the little one in brass in the Great Duke's collection at Florence, from which this was copied."

On p. 149, n. 67, he says :

" I have never observed any figure of Gloria among the antiques 1 have met with. The Roman poets speak of her sometimes in a good, and some- times in a bad sense."

Of the bad sense i.e, as equivalent to Jactantia he gives as an example Horace, 'Odes,' I. xviii. 15, and 'Sat.,' I. vi. 23; and Vergil, '^En ,' xi. 708. As exemplifying the good sense he quotes Silius, xv. 98, and Vale- rius Flaccus, i 78 sqq.
 * Epist.' II. i. 177. He might have added

On the same page Spence refers to pi. xxiii. fig. 2, a delineation of Honos, taken from a common medal of the reign of Titus, on which he appears partially draped, and hold- ing a spear in one hand and a horn of plenty in the other, and adds :

" He is called Honos on a medal too, where you see him joined with Virtus ; and they perhaps generally made a male of this deity, and called him by the name of Honos, rather than Gloria ; because the latter was sometimes used in a bad sense (for Vain-Glory) among them."

"Honos et Virtus" are, I take it, approxi- mately equivalent to "Fame and Valour," our morestrictly ethical conceptionsof Honour and Virtue being rather foreshadowed by the Roman ideas of which Fides and Justitia are the respective tallies. Temples of Honos and Virtus, so connected that the former was only approachable through the latter were vowed by M. Claudius Marcellus, and dedi- cated by his son about B.C. 204. C. Marius built another temple to these deities on the Arx Capitolina about B c. 101.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

Samuel Butler, who was Milton's con- temporary, took another view of Fame Hudibras, 3 Part II. canto i. 45, &c.). His Fame would seem to be Rumour rather than Renown ; but, after all, what is Renown but established Rumour?

There is a tall long-sided dame

(But wond'rous light) ycleped Fame,

That like a thin cameleon boards

Herself on air, and eats her words ;

Upon her shoulders wings she wears

Like hanging sleeves, lined through with ears,

And eyes and tongues, as poets list,

Made good by deep mythologist ;

With these she through the welkin flies,

And sometimes carries truth, oft lies.

Two trumpets she does sound at once, But both of clean contrary tones ; But whether both with the same wind, Or one before, and one behind. We know not ; only this can tell, The one sounds vilely, th' other well ; And therefore vulgar authors name The one Good, th' other Evil Fame.

There is a valuable note on the black and