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he left 300/. in trust. | For coals to be distributed every Christmas, | among the deserving poor of this ecclesiastical parish, he left 1001. in trust. | Also in loving memory of his devoted wife | who in life was associated with him in the above. good works. | This tablet was erected by subscription. E. R. Parr, M.A., Vicar. | "Well done, good and faith- full servants, Enter into the joy of the Lord." I

St. Matt. xxv. 21.

35. fTo the Glory of God | and in dear memory of I my beloved husband | Isaac Harrowsmith | for

many years | a resident | in this Parish : | who died at Guildford | March 26th, 1900 | aged 76 years.

36. Erected by the County of Berkshire in memory of | Private William Joseph Moir, 58th Company Imperial Yeomanry, | Aged 22 Years, | who died of enteric fever at | Lindley, South Africa, I on Jan- uary 13th, 1901.

RUVIGNY. Galway Cottage, Chertsey.

TETE-A-TETE PORTRAITS IN ' THE TOWN AND COUNTRY MAGAZINE.' (See 10 S. iv. 241, 342, 462, 522 ; v. 54.) Since I compiled my list of identifications of these portraits for ' N. & Q.' I have had the opportunity of comparing my catalogue with one drawn up by Mr. C. Van Noorden, of 5, Essex Court, Temple. After discussing the subject with Mr. Van Noorden, who has devoted a great deal of research to these interesting problems, I have come to the conclusion that many of my identifications are wrong. Below I give a list of my mistakes :

Vol. IV. (1772). P. 401. The Inflexible Patriot Charles, 2nd Marquis of Rocking- ham.

Vol. XII. (1780). P. 9. The Hardy Com- mander Lord Howe.

Vol. XIII. (1781). P. 625. The Patriotic Senator Sir George Savile.

Vol. XV. (1783). P. 401. The Careful Commander Robert Monkton.

Vol. XVI. (1784). P. 513. The Approved Candidate Lord Rodney.

Vol. XVIII. (1786). P. 9. Dorcas and Dorinda Robert Merry and Elizabeth Brunton.

Vol. XXII. (1790). P. 51. The Royal Soldier and the Beautiful Genevese Duke of Orleans and Madame de Buffon.

P. 195. The Military Exile Ernest, Duke of Cumberland.

P. 483. The Consular Artist and Venus de Medici Sir William and Lady Hamilton (?).

These twelve names, I believe, are in- correct, and those who are interested in the subject will do well to cross them off the list. In the cases also of ' The Temple Toast,' IV. 569, and 'The Vauxhall Syren,' VIII. 401, I am inclined to doubt the accuracy of my identification.

Since my last contribution to ' N. & Q.' both

Mr. Van Noorden and I have discovered the identity of many more of these portraits ; and of the 286 male personages whose pictures are given in the magazine, only 26 remain unnamed. It would be unfair, however, for me to print a revised list, as Mr. Van Noorden is preparing a book upon the subject, which will be published in d'ue course. Its documentation should prove of the greatest service to students of the eighteenth century.

HORACE BLEACKLEY. Fox Oak, Walton-on-Thames.

" DOVETAILING " : " CHIGAGO." Sixty years ago, in what were the frontier settle- ments of the U.S., it was customary in stage- coaches for the passengers to make room by- putting their knees between those of their opposites : and this was called " dovetailing.' ' It is recorded that once a Lake captain sat opposite a fat old lady, and, finding the accommodation scanty, said : " I guess, marm, it's got to be done anyhow, sooner or later, so you and I must jist dovetail.'" She replied : " Must what, sir-r ? " " Dove- tail, marm ; you and I have got to dovetail,, and no two ways about it." " Dovetail me, you inhuman savage ! " she roared out,, shaking her fist : " dovetail a lone woman in a Christian country ! If there's law on airth, sir-r, and in the State of Illinoy, I '11 have you hanged " (George F. Ruxton's ' Adventures in Mexico,' &c., Murray, 1847, pp. 328-9). On the latter page the writer alludes to " Chigago."

RICHARD H. THORNTON.


 * ' AUGUSTINUS MORAVUS OLOMUCENSIS.

Prof. Saintsbury in his ' History of Criticism ' (ii. 27) refers to this well-known humanist as " a certain Augustinus Moravus Olmu- censis," and wonders whether Wilibald Mueller's ' History of Olmiitz ' contains any information about him. Numerous data of his life may be found in Ersch and Gruber's ' Encyclopaedia,' sect. i. part vi. ; in Eugen Abel's ' Humanists of Hungary ' (Budapest, 1880) ; and in Wotke's article in the Zeitschrift d. Vereins /. die Geschichte Mdhrens, 1898. L. L. K.

DICKENS AND HOMER. MR. FIRMAN (ante^ p. 406) points out a coincidence between words of the elder Mr. Weller and those of Helen as reported by Euripides. Allow me to draw attention to the close resemblance between a passage in one of the speeches of Agamemnon and words of Mrs. Gamp. The passage in Homer is in the ' Iliad,' book iv. 262-3. The Greek general is reminding Idomeneus of the privileges con-