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however, would be quite appropriately carried by an angel as a messenger of fame, since it was used to crown the victors in games and conquerors in war ; but it is apparently appropriated more generally to the goddess of successful conquest, Victory, who carries a palm branch or a laurel crown. A bas- relief on the Arch of Titus represents that emperor in his car at the procession on account of the conquest of Jerusalem, and behind him stands a winged figure of Victory, holding a crown of gold (corona triumphalis\ made in imitation of laurel leaves, over the conqueror's head.

J. HOLIVEN MACMICHAEL. 6, Elgin Court, W.

It is not easy to say which of the many representations of Fame is the most correct, but Virgil's description Jiolds a high place. See * JSneid,' iv. 174-88.

J. A. J. HOUSDEN.

In * Bacon's Essays,' edited by W. 0. Taylor, LLD., is an artistic vignette of Fame blowing a trumpet heavenwards with her right hand, and pointing downward to earth with her left. The description is given underneath :

" The poets make Fame a monster ; they describe her in part finely and elegantly, and in part gravely and sententiously ; they say look how many feathers she hath, so many eyes she hath underneath, so many tongues, so many voices, she pricks up so many ears." P. 82.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A.

Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

CATALOGUES OF MSS. (10 th S. iv. 368, 415, 436, 531). No argument appears necessary to enforce the importance of the general availability of the Catalogues of the MSS. in the British Museum, especially to students resident in the country, and it is a matter for regret that a larger number of the public libraries have not complete sets of these invaluable publications. MR. MASON refers to the fact that in the list supplied to him by the Museum authorities no price was affixed to the 'Index to the Additions, 1783 to 1835.' The reason, no doubt, is that the Index in question is not to be acquired at any price. It is a volume issued in 1849, and, if I am rightly informed, only 100 copies were printed. The collections of Cole, Woolley, Burrell, Hayley, Syrnmes, Bray, Kerrich, Essex, Wood, Banks, Mitchell, and Stepney are all included in this invaluable Index, which runs from the conclusion of the Ayscough Catalogue, No. 5,017 to 10,018, and includes over a hundred of the Sloane collection transferred to the MS. Depart-

ment after the publication of the Ayscough Catalogue, and not included therein. Some years ago I had to borrow from London a copy of this volume, as no copy was to be found in any of the libraries in Manchester. Since that time, I am happy to say, I have been able to complete my set of the Museum Catalogues by adding this volume. I rather think that there is no printed and published catalogue of some two or three thousand of the Museum MSS., nor any indication in print of their contents, save what this Index affords. It is some time since I worked on these catalogues, but believe that the un- catalogued numbers are between 5,017 and 7,084, or possibly up to 8,220, when the catalogue of acquisitions in 1831 commences.

W. A. COPINGER. Kersal Cell, Manchester.

CAMPBELLS IN THE STRAND (10 th S. iv. 509). No trace is left either of the original "Three Crowns," or of the "Globe" Tavern at the corner of Craven Street, which the "Three Crowns " is, in one instance at least, described as being next door to. In 1683 this "Three Crowns" was the sign of John Wright, haberdasher (* London Bankers,' by F. G. H. Price), before, of course, the Camp- bell in question moved to the premises in the Strand afterwards those of Campbell & Coutts. John Campbell died in 1712, but his name was retained, for the firm was styled Campbell & Coutts until 1756, owing to George Campbell, a relative of James, having been taken into partnership by Middleton. In 1756 Campbell & Coutts were advertised as treasurers for the British Lying-in Hospital for Married Women, in Brownlow Street, Long Acre ( Whitehall Evening Post, 23 Dec., 1756). In Wheatley's ' London ' we are told that Coutts <fc Co. were established in St. Martin's Lane, in the reign of Queen Anne, by one Middleton, a goldsmith, and John Campbell, a relative of the Duke of Argyll. See also * London Bankers,' by F. G. Hilton Price ; and * Coutts & Co.,' by Ralph Richardson, F.S.A.Scot.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

George Campbell was the Campbell of both Middleton & Campbell and Campbell & Coutts. He was son of John Campbell, of Campbell & Middleton The Week of 20 July, 1870, says he was a cadet of the house of Argyll ; but the genealogy of the article is slovenly, and I have been unable to verify, corroborate, or negative the statement. George died sp. His sister Elizabeth married John Peagrum, of Colchester and Knights- bridge, and her daughter married James