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library : " Monumenta Veteris Antii. . . . .auctore Philippe a' Turre. Romse, MDCC." I am sorry to say that the first owner's book-plate has been ruthlessly cut out, but his ' Leges ' are left on the opposite fly-leaf, and their spirit has been scrupulously observed, for the book itself and its original vellum binding are in faultless condition.

CECIL DEEDES. Chichester.

MARLY HORSES (10 S. vii. 190, 211, 251). There is no good authority for the state- ment of L. P., " There are four groups called Marly's Horses." The well-known distinc- tion set up by the best French writers is made clear in these words from Lady Dilke's 4 French Architects and Sculptors,' of which the first were quoted by M.N.D. (ante, p. 211) in reply to MARLI : " Even the most careless tourist pauses to admire the famous to the ' Renommees ' of Coyzevox standing over against the entrance to the Tuileries." The groups of Coyzevox were returned to Paris a< unsuitable to Marly " after the death of King Louis XIV." (Piganiol de la Force, ' Description de Marly '). Coustou was set to work on " Horses " ordered as such. Louis XIV. in his order to Coyzevox wanted
 * Horses of Marly,' and glances from them
 * ' Fame." M. H. T.

"PORTOBELLO" (10 S. vii. 88, 198).

In the ' Memoirs of the Rev. John Hodgson ' (the author of a very valuable, though incomplete history of Northumberland), by the Rev. James Raine, mention is made (vol. ii. p. 261) of a place called Portobello. As I have not the book to refer to, I cannot point out where the place lies, but believe it will be found somewhere in the far north of England. EDWARD PEACOCK, F.S.A.

' PENROSE'S JOURNAL ' : TURTLE-RIDING (10 S. vii. 148, 216). The story of Arion, the poet, of Lesbos, playing his harp with such skill as to attract a dolphin, upon whose back he threw himself, and reached Corinth in safety, has a curious confirmation in the accounts of travellers who tell us that in the back settlements of North America some of the native tribes are accustomed to harpoon the larger fish, and, quitting their canoe, to leap upon the back of the fish, and ride it to land (H. J. Rose's ' Biog. Diet.,' s.n. Arion). L. S.

Many years ago I amended the title in my copy of the ' Handbook of Fictitious Names,' p. 99, to " Penrose, fictitious name '-[i.e., Williams, edited by John Eagles]."

That it was considered a fiction at the time it was published is shown by ' The London Catalogue, 1800-1827,' entering the book under ' Journal ' instead of ' Penrose.'

It was first published in 1815 in four volumes. I have frequently noticed com- ments in booksellers' catalogues treating the work as a real journal. I should think there was a slight foundation of fact, and then Eagles romanced as he felt inclined.

RALPH THOMAS.

In my reply the date of the " new edition " should have been 1825 (not 1827).

G. E. WEARE.

ANGLO-INDIAN fc LITTLE JACK HORNER ' (10 S. vii. 45, 97). The second line should read

Khata his kishmish raetai.

W. CORFIELD.

Calcutta.

BIDDING PRAYER (10 S. vi. 448 ; vii. 32, 70, 92). At the end of the homily ' De Festo Sancti Andree,' by Johannes Mirkus, edited by Theodor Ebbe (London, 1905), there occurs this injunction :

" And also ye schull pray for the state of all holy chyrch, and for the pope of Rome and all his cardenalles, et cetera."

EDWARD S. DODGSON.

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NOTES ON BOOKS, &o.

The Shirburn Ballads, 1585-1016. Edited from the MS. by Andrew Clark, Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College. (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) SINCE the virtual completion, under the brilliant care of the Rev. Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth and his predecessors in editorship, of the Roxburghe and Bagford ballads, we had ceased to look for any such contribution to ballad literature as this we have received from the Clarendon Press. The MS. now for the first time made public is, we are told, one of the treasures of the library at Shirburn Castle, Oxfordshire, the seat of the Earl of Maccles- tield, leave to publish which has been granted by the trustees of the Earl.

The collection is wonderfully rich, varied, and representative. As Mr. Clark says, there pass in review before us as we turn the pages the folk-songs of Shakespeare's time the songs that poor Tom sang and that Autolycus vended. It is indeed marvellous what illumination is cast upon Shake- speare's subjects. Thus No. 55 the text of which is given in the 'Roxburghe Ballads,' ii. 544 is called 'Titus Andronicus' Complaint,' has a close relation to Shakespeare's play of ' Titus Andro- nicus,' and conveys the idea that the common origin of the drama and the ballad must be sought in some early Italian collection of tales. No. 45, 'The Second Part of Jemye' contains the line