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thinking he would give more, advanced 5*-.; but Coram, perceiving the intent, left it 011 his hands. The Print by Tomkins, which is from a private Plate belonging to Lord Braybroke, sold to Clarke for 01. 6*.

Reference to the Musgrave Sale Catalogue partly confirms this : the Collins print, lot 69, was bought by Richardson at 10Z. 15s., but the Tomkins print, lot 70, was bought by Clarke at 51. 5s. This incident occurred on 13 March, 1800, the twenty -seventh day of the sale.

George Legge, Lord Dartmouth [261]." 10*. Qd. Simco had the Plate, which he sold to Wilkinson ; it prints as well as ever ; the price he sets on it is 10-s. Qd. [each impression?]."

John Simco was then at 2, Air Street ; Robert Wilkinson at 125, Fenchurch Street. The fact that the plate was in existence evidently did not transpire. Sir W. Mus- grave's copy of the print was lot 5 on the fourth day of his sale (1800), and was bought by " Lord Bath " for 31. Us. At a later day it passed into the possession of Sir M. Master- man Sykes, and at the sale of his collection (1824) was lot 1006, " Very rare and fine," bought by Grave a dealer for 4Z. 4s.

' ' The Dutchess of Cleveland, and my Lady Barbara her daughter. H. Gasparp [? Gascar]. This print, which is supposed to be unique, is in the possession of Mr. Walpole [161]. 10/. 10*. Scott had a reverse from this print, which he put into one of Richardson's sales. Mr. Lloyd bought it for 3/. 3*. I have seen two or three that must have been as good as Walpole's, but never knew them to have been worth more than 10/. 10*." This print was not known to Bromley. A copy occurred in a sale by Richardson, May, 1815, lot 19 (seventh day).

" Anne, Dutchess of Albemarle ; standing hand in hand with the Duke ; sold by Stent ; very bad [156J. 10/. 10-9. The print of the Duke and Dutchess hand in hand is a mezzotinto by Sherwin, and perhaps the worst-done print in that way. Harding had one in a Granger he sold Mr. White for 400/. He was several times offered 10 Guineas for it, but would not take it out of the Book." This print was not known to Bromley, and I cannot trace a copy. " Mr. White " was probably Thomas White, of Down Street.

"Elizabeth, Dutchess of Albemarle [157]. 1W. 10. This print is as scarce as the one before mentioned. I do not recollect seeing one at any sale for many years."

There was a copy in the Musgrave Sale, twenty -sixth day: "Lot 7, Elizabeth, Duchess of Albemarle, in a laced head-dress, mez. by W. Sherwin, extra rare and fine," bought by Sir M. Masterman Sykes at 61. 9s. ; but T cannot trace it at the sale of his collection. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39, Hillmarton Road, N.

(To be continued.)

" AMEL OF UJDA." A Reuter telegram dated 29 March tells us that "the Amel (Governor) of Ujda " offered no resistance to the French expeditionary force. This is the first time that I have noticed the occurrence of the word " Amel " in an English newspaper. It is an Arabic word of genuine Semitic origin, the root 'amal occurring both in Hebrew and Arabic. The radical notion of the verb is " to work,. Labour, take pains." In the tenth form of the Arabic verb we find the sense " to make one a governor, an administrator." The word l dmdl often occurs in the Hebrew Psalms in the sense of trouble (toil or sorrow).. A. L. MAYHEW.

Oxford.

IXTLILXOCHITL AND OTHER AZTEC NAMES..

As far back as 4 S. v. 174 a question wa& asked as to the pronunciation of this name, but it was never answered. I was recently consulted on the same point, and I found that English dictionaries do not agree about it. For instance, in Smith's ' Cyclopaedia of Names ' this famous Aztec historian appears as Ixtlilxochitl, with final stress ; but in the appendix to Webster's ' Dictionary ' he appears as Ixtlilxochitl, with stress upon the penultimate. From my knowledge of how Mexicans pronounce I should say that Webster is right.

As there are so many readers of Prescott interested in knowing how to pronounce the long Aztec names which decorate his pages, I may here conveniently direct attention to a Spanish poem called ' Anahuac,' published at Mexico in 1853. The author, J. M. Rodriguez y Cos, tells the story of the conquest of Mexico in verse, and as he took great pains to find out how each Aztec name should be sounded, his poem forms a trustworthy guide to Aj.tec orthoepy. He frequently mentions the name Ixtlil- xochitl, and invariably accents it upon the penultimate. Similarly he has Popocate- petl, Xicotencatl, and other lofty appella- tions ending in -tl, all stressed upon the last syllable but one. JAS. PLATT, Jun.

B.V.M. AND THE BIRTH OF CHILDREN. In The Times, 1 April, it was mentioned that

" the King and Queen [of Spain] seem to have given much pleasure to the people of all classes in Madrid by visiting together without State seven popular shrines of the V irgin Mary a custom followed by all the Queens of Spain for centuries on the eve of their accouchement."

Richard Ford in his * Gatherings from Spain,' 1846, gives particulars of the " sash " of the B.V.M. at Tortosa which " delivers