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that on one occasion, when a shooting star burst with a report, it was said by one present, " Ah ! we shall hear of some big man's death."

Country folk paid more attention to the '*' starry heavens " than town folk could, and " shooting stars " were signs of coming happenings." THOS. KATCLIFFE.

YVorksop.

SONNETS BY ALFRED AND FREDERICK TENNYSON (10 S. vii. 89, 159). In 1871 Messrs. Harper & Brothers, of New York, published an illustrated volume entitled The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet Laureate.' Besides ' Timbuctoo ' and the poems of 1830 and 1833 that were omitted in subsequent authentic editions, this American publication includes " a number of hitherto uncollected Poems from various sources." A section of the work, under the general title ' Occasional Poems,' contains various items of considerable interest, together with useful foot-notes indicative of the sources from which they have been derived. Among these is the sonnet " Me my own Fate to lasting sorrow doometh," which is said to have originally appeared in ' Friendship's Offering ' for 1833. The next member of the group is a sonnet beginning " Check every outflash, every ruder sally," reproduced from the same volume. THOMAS BAYNE.

CALIFORNIAN ENGLISH (10 S. vi. 381 ; vii. 36, 136, 154). On my return to Eng- land I have read with much interest the replies to the query which I ventured to propound 6,000 miles away. The sugges- tion of tizzy in connexion with the name ticky for a threepenny piece in South Africa does not, I think, help to a solution. MR. PLATT says that the Zulu word is tiki, and he imagines that South Africa got its word from the Zulu. If he can state that tiki was a pre-existent Zulu word, carrying a meaning which would relate to a threepenny piece or threepence, then I think he will have hit the point. As it stands, however, there is nothing whatever to indicate that .tiki is anything other than ticky made into Zulu. Has tiki in the Zulu tongue any other meaning than that of the coin or value ticky ? and, if so, what is it ?

DOUGLAS OWEX.

STATUES OF THE GEORGES (10 S. vii. 66, 155). In speaking of the Georgian statues in London at the former reference, I forgot (as MR. PAGE points out) that of George II. in Golden Square. This was brought from

Canons, the seat of the Duke of Chandos, near Edgware, when the mansion and furniture were sold on the death of the second duke in 1747, as I mentioned at 9 S. xi. 445. There was also a statue of George I., which was removed to Leicester Square (where the statue of Shakespeare is now), and afterwards perished. In ' Old and New London,' vol. iv. p. 237, the statue of George II. is called " small and common- place," and certainly, though it is not very small, no one can admire it. As to the statue of that king (' Old and New London,' vi. 178, erroneously calls it George III.) in the square of Greenwich Hospital (now the Naval College), erected by Admiral Sir John Jennings when Governor of the Hospital a post to which he was appointed in 1720, and which he held till his death in 1743 that can hardly be reckoned amongst " statues in London."

I would strongly recommend your corre- spondents to procure the latest edition of ' Haydn's Dictionary of Dates,' published last year ; for, notwithstanding the omissions to which I have referred, it is on the whole well brought up to the present time, The double mention of the statue of Richard I. is odd. MR. THOMAS is evidently not familiar with the deep regret expressed by the late Prof. Freeman that the first Richard should have been placed near the Houses of Parliament instead of the first Edward.

W. T. LYXX.

DEAN VAUGHAN'S PUPILS (10 S. vii. 128). The obituary notice of Dean Vaughan in the Daily Mail, 16 Oct., 1897, said :

" Up to almost the last year of his life he gathered together year by year, in the Long Vacation, his old pupils, sometimes to the number of 300, in one or other of the colleges at Cambridge. They were generally known as 'Vaughan's doves,' some of whom are now bishops."

JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

WEST INDIAN MILITARY RECORDS (10 S. vi. 428, 476 ; vii. 14, 78, 156). At p. 254 of the official Army List dated 10 January, 1803, of which I possess a copy, the names of the twenty-seven officers in the llth West India Regiment occupy a full page, the senior of them being Thomas Hislop, whose com- mission in it as lieutenant-colonel command- ing is dated 6 Sept., 1798, and the junior of them Edward Stapleton, whose commission in it as ensign is dated 23 June, 1802. The list of ' Alterations while Printing ' contains no reference to the regiment.

At p. 630 of the Army List dated 10 March,