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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL MAY 4, 1907.

MARLY HORSES (10 S. vii. 190, 211, 251, 277). It is strange that no reply has given with certainty the name of the sculptor of the two groups at the entrance of the Champs Elysees. M. N. D. gives " Coustou the Younger " ; but there were three sculptors named Coustou : Nicolas, 1658- 1733 ; Guillaume (his brother), 1678-1746 ; and Guillaume (son of the latter), 1716-77.

The ' Biographic Universelle ' says nothing about the ' Horses,' but mentions that Guillaume the elder made a marble group representing the ocean and the Mediter- ranean, which adorned the " tapis vert des jardins de Marly."

Chalmers in his ' Dictionary of Biography ' says that Nicolas was the sculptor of the ' Horses,' and relates an anecdote about a fop who took exception to the reins being slack, and what the sculptor said in reply.

Galignani's ' New Paris Guide for 1854 ' (p. 192) gives " Coustou junior " as the sculptor ; and Baedeker's ' Paris,' 15th ed., 1904, p. 69, gives " G. Coustou." ' Paris,' by A. J. C. Hare, 1887, p. 457, gives " Guil- laume Coustou."

If the date of the erection of the ' Horses ' in the gardens of the Chateau de Marly given by L. P. at the third reference is correct, viz., 1745, it appears most probable that Guil- laume the younger was the sculptor.

In that reply should not " Marly 's Horses " read " the Marly Horses " ? " Couston " is of course a misprint for Coustou.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

NAVAL ACTION, 1814: T. BARRATT POWER (10 S. vii. 246). If F. D. L. has access to The Gentleman's Magazine for the year 1814, he will find in part ii. p. 399, an obituary notice of a young midshipman of this name. He was killed in an attempt to board an armed American vessel of ten guns off the coast of Connecticut, on 21 July (not June), 1814. He was the fourth son of Dr. Power, of Atherstone, co. Warwick, and at the time of his death was in his nine- teenth year. If F. D. L. has no means of obtaining The Gentleman's Magazine account of the incident, and will send me his address, I will copy out the entry for him.

JOHN OXBERRY. 21, Grasmere Terrace, Gateshead.

Thos. Barratt Power was a midshipman on board H.M. ship Superb, under the command of the Hon. Commodore Chas. Paget. He had been sent out on the evening of 21 July in command of the ship's gig, manned and armed, for the purpose of annoying the coasting trade of the enemy,

as was the custom. His enterprise and intrepidity carried him alongside a vessel,, which, owing to the darkness of the night, he did not discover to be an armed ship of ten guns. Seeing no other chance to escape,, he bravely determined to attempt to board her, but received a musket-ball through his head, and instantly expired. His remains were interred at Stonington, in Connecticut, with every attention and respect which an enemy could bestow.

ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS. Library, Constitutional Club.

' REBECCA,' A NOVEL : A. C. HOLBROOK (10 S. iii. 128, 176, 293, 435; v. 72, 117, 377). It may be worth while to sum up what has been ascertained about this book. The third volume has not been found. The only copy known of the other two bears the cote R 107 at the Bibliotheque de la Sor- bonne, to which they were presented on 19 April, 1904. Mr. A. Enander found in that library, on p. 200 of the catalogue of the publishers, Messrs. Lackington, Allen & Co., for the year 1815, the proof that the third volume had been published, and a quotation from a review of it which appeared (p. 198) in vol. liii. of The European Magazine and London Review, 1808, from the pen of Joseph Moser. The theory that the novel was written by Ann Catharine (or Catherine, as it is spelt in two of her books) Hoi brook who,, according to the ' D.N.B.,' died in 1837, in the London district (within living memory),, seems to be confirmed by a comparison between the style of ' Rebecca ' and that of the four books attributed to her in the catalogue of the British Museum, parti- cularly in the ' Tales,' published (like ' Rebecca ') at Uttoxeter in 1821. Of these the fourth edition appeared at Thame in 1834, with a dedication 'To Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,' and ' Lines on the visit to Oxford of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria.' There is a copy of the second edition of this work (Burton-upon- Trent, 1822) in the possession of Mr. Cecil Clarke, the novelist, who has pointed out that " Ashby," the name of the family of ' Rebecca,' is one of the places where Mrs. Holbrook found subscribers. Has the third edition dis- appeared entirely ? In the first, with a preface written at Hixton (now Hixon), one remarks, p. 80, " norations," apparently in the sense of " imprecations " ; p. 81, men- tion of St. James's Square, as in ' Rebecca/ p. 4, the same interest in " The Negro."

If the other books of Mrs. Holbrook do