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3. Elmina Crabbe, of Glen Eyre, South- ampton, wid. of Col. Eyre John Crabbe, K.H., ob. at the Grande Bretagne Hotel, Bellagio, 12 Oct., 1888, a. 77.

4. Clara Elizabeth, dau. of Edward and Mary Ann Pembroke, of Blackheath, ob. 13 Ap., 1886, a. 18.

5. Alice Caroline, dau. of Francis and Bridget Hobson, of Burnt Stones, Sheffield. (Date omitted by me.)

6. Douglas Herbert, infant s. of Mar- guerite Wilhelmine Bunning, ob. 25 June, 1890, a. 6 months.

7. Sidney Herbert Brunner, of Winning- ton, Cheshire, a. 23, who lost his life in saving his elder brother from drowning, 8 Sept., 1890, bur. 11 Sept.

8. John Strachey Hare, ob. at Bellagio, 24 Ap., 1893, a. 48. Erected by his wife.

9. Catherine Chamberlain. The rest of the inscription could not be read on account of creepers and weeds covering the cross.

10. Blanche Henrietta Johnes Pechell, of La Boissonade and Maresfield Park, Sussex, ob. 12 Ap., 189[0 or 8 ?1.

There is another still smaller cemetery (locked) adjoining the English Church, a stone in the outside wall of which states that the land was bought by Mr. Richard Boswell Beddome, of London, as the burial- place of his son Thomas William Beddome, and given by him to the Commune of Bellagio as an English cemetery, January, 1866. G. S. PARRY, Lieut.-Col.

18, Hyde Gardens, Eastbourne.

[For earlier lists of inscriptions on Britishers dying abroad see 10 S. i. 361, 442, 482; ii. 155; ii'i. 361, 433 ; v. 381 ; vi. 4, 124, 195, 302, 406, 446.]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND EUROPEAN POLI TICIANS. Mr. Bryce, in his Introduction to the " Everyman " edition of ' Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832- 1865,' emphasizes I think over-emphasizes as a perusal of that work will show the great American President's lack of education; and he observes :

"He can have had only the faintest acquaint

ance with European history' or with any branch oJ philosophy. The want of regular education was not made up for by the persons among whom his lol was cast. Till he was a grown man he never movec in any society from which he could learn those things with which the mind of an orator or a states man ought to be stored. Even after he had gainec some legal practice, there was for many years no one for him to mix with, except the petty prac titioners of a petty town, men nearly all of whon knew little more than he did himself. '

This criticism smacks of the old type o: belief concerning Lincoln, voiced in a letter of March, 1861, by so customarily sagacious

a political thinker as Sir George Cornewair "".ewis, who wrote :

"I have never been able, either in conversation )r by reading, to obtain an answer to the question. What will the North do if they beat the South .' To restore the old Union would be an absurdity. What other state of things does that village lawyer,. Lincoln, contemplate as the fruit of victory . t is not, however, borne out by Lincoln's sarlier addresses, while his later are very far from being the utterance of a mere petty practitioner " or " village lawyer." In his etter to Joshua F. Speed of 24 Aug., 1855,. 'or instance, Lincoln observes :

"When I was at Washington, I voted for the Wilmot Proviso forty times ; and I never^heard ot any one attempting to tinwhig me for that - a phrase which showed at least sufficient acquaintance with the by-ways of European politics as aptly to recall the story of the younger Pitt exclaiming to a friend concern- ing Fox during the debates on the Regency Bill of 1788, " I'll un-Whig the gentleman
 * or the rest of his life."

It was, of course, by coincidence, and noi through reminiscence, that Lincoln in his address before the Washingtonian Temper- ance Society, at Springfield, Illinois, on 22 Feb., 1842, remarked, " It is an old and a true maxim * that a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall,' " though, it was Sir Robert Walpole's expressed belief that more flies are caught by honey than by vinegar. To Walpole, as to Lincoln,- was given the opportunity of which each, availed himself to the full for safely carry- ing his country through a most perilous internal crisis; and each political genius was described as a country lout and a buffoon by the more cultured and less far-seeing: among their contemporary critics.

ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

" CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION." In the ' Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen ' (1906), p. 183, occurs the following sentence from a letter of Leslie Stephen under date 8 Nov. r 1866 : "... .1 have a conscientious objec- tion to my present position." Possibly this may be the earliest use of the expression from which in later times we have " con- scientious objectors." H. W. U.

" BOTHOMBAR." In Dyce's ' Skelton,' ii. 31, in the poem entitled 'Why Come Ye Nat to Courte ? ' 1. 135, we find the form " Bothombar," respecting which Dyce says^r "I know not what place is meant here." The context says that the English have made a shameful truce with the Scotch, and have given up the war against them, " from