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parish church of St. Lawrence was rebuilt by him in 1763), to build the structure. Within are recesses for tombs, and niches for busts and urns. When there in October, 1903, I noted one inscribed to " Paul White- head, of Twickenham, ob. Dec. 30, 1774": another to "Thomas Thomson, M.D."; and in the centre, an altar-tomb for Sarah, Baroness Le Despencer, ob. 19 Jan., 1769. Besides these, there are many memorials to the Dashwood family. This will answer some of the questions raised by E. H. M. CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

COLET ON PEACE AND WAR (10 th S. v. 28). Your printer has damaged MR. PICKFORD'S Latin sentence somewhat. I therefore re- store it, and can also mention the name of the author of it: "Cum vel iniquissimam pacem justissimo bello anteferrem." Cicero is the author ; but I cannot say in which of his works the sentence is to be found.

E. YARDLEY.

[Our apologies are due to MR. PICKFORD for the tccident which caused the misprinting of his

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MR. MOXHAY, LEICESTER SQUARE SHOW- CAN (10 th S. iii. 307, 357, 395, 474 ; iv. 35, 135). Referring to my former remarks under this head, I have now found an opportunity to tap the source whence my information was obtained. It is confirmatory of the extract from * N. & Q.' given by MR. E. H. OLEMAN, which attributed to Mr. Moxhay an attempt to acquire the Square about the year 1847. My informant states that this gentleman endeavoured to establish a right to erect a " tent" for some kind of "show" id on payment, he thinks, of 500. But no legal footing was to be had, so Mr. Moxhay was obliged to remove whatever structure was put up. CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club, W.

4 THE KING' (10 th S. iv. 448). <l The Ring, in a Series of Letters, by a Young Lady," was published by Stqckdale in 1783, 3 vols., It was noticed in The Monthly Review for 1784, vol. Ixxi. p. 150, which observes, 1 This is said to be the production of a very young lady." It is in the 'Bibliotheca Britannica,' but I do not find the work under "Ring ' in the B.M. Catalogue.

RALPH THOMAS.

HAIR-POWDERING CLOSETS (10 th S. iv. 349, 417, 453). In September, 1901, I stayed at a private boarding-house in Derby which had a powder room. It is (or was) on the right- hand side of the road as one enters from Leicester, and in a leading thoroughfare,

probably the London Road or High Street. It was a large old house with a plain front, and I believe had been formerly two build- ings. Unfortunately I have forgotten the name of the house and that of the proprietor.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 5, Grove Villas, Wanstead.

BOWES OF ELFORD (10 th S. iv. 408, 457 ; v. 12). The quotation from Surtees's * History of Durham' is correctly copied. But vol. iv. from which the quotation is made, was published after Surtees's death, and the error of printing " Suffolk " for " Stafford ;J is probably due to the compositor.

RICHARD WELFORD.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

TRAFALGAR (10 th S. iv. 385, 431, 471, 534). As the original (Moorish) form of this word is Tarf el-Gharb (West point), there ought to be no puzzling as to how to accent Trafalgar. In the same way, Gibraltar (Gibel-Tarik), or what is left of it from its original derivation, ought, strictly speaking, to be pronounced Gibral-tar. FRANCIS KING.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &0.

A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles. Edited by Dr. James A. H. Murray. Reign- Reserve. (Vol. VIII.) By W. A. Craigie, M.A. (Oxford, Clarendon Pi ess.')

A FURTHER instalment, being a double section of vol. viii., of the ' New English Dictionary ' appears under the charge of Mr. Craigie. It consists mainly of compounds of re-, the only native words in common use being rend, rent, and rennet. Adapta- tions from other Teutonic languages are, we are told, few. Romanic words which are not formed by means of the prefix re- comprise some to the history of which special interest attaches. As is usually the case in separate instalments, much new light is cast on the history of words. Meanwhile the customary comparisons may be instituted. The words included number 2,818, as against 1,196 in the most ambitious of rivals, and 15,934 illustrative quotations against 1,93D. Of main words, 579 are marked as obsolete, and 25 as alien or not fully naturalized. Reillume appears in the second column, with the authority of Wordsworth, Shelley, Lytton, and Symonds, but seems a poor alteration of rtlume, reaching from Shakespeare to Swinburne. JReim- kennar, one skilled in magic rimes, is sanctioned by Walter Scott alone. Customary derivations for rein, a long narrow strip of leather, are not regarded as conclusive. Innumerable words in re- follow, some of them, like reinforcement, sanctioned by Shakespeare and Milton ; others, such as reink, not too commendable. Reintegrate is found so early as 1508. Reis, a captain of a galley, is justified, as might be expected, by Hakluyt. Reister and reiter, a German cavalry soldier, are used in 1577 and 1584 respectively. Rejounce is a curious sixteenth and seventeenth century word now obsolete, without leaving much impress. Relation=na.rra,tion, has a