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"' the English scheme of local options, as it is called," I do not consider myself un- justified in having treated it as an English phrase, first employed in effective public use by Mr. Gladstone.

ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

\[VEBLE'S ' CHRISTIAN YEAR ' (10 S. vii 469 ; viii, 92). Attempts to interpret the unfortunate phrase " eager bound" in the poem for the Seventh Sunday after Trinity have ' consumed more time and though than it deserves. There was a considerabl correspondence on the subject in The Guardian in 1874. The author himself, as "would appear from a quotation there given seems to have had a pretty vague idea of his own meaning. He is reported to have saic towards the end of his life that he supposec he meant something of this sort :

' ' That when you stand on a height such as tha referred to, you feel an almost irresistible impulse to leap over.

The present Warden of Keble College, who quotes this explanation of the line

Though all seem gathered in one eager bound in his annotated edition of ' The Christian Year,' himself suggests a different meaning, viz. :

"Though to an onlooker the lake looks in the distance little more than a short line of water, as if it had gathered itself up in the one quick leap over its channel."

Other explanations that have been pro- posed are the following :

1. " Though the landscape is embraced in one rapid glance," " bound " being taken as equivalent to " a dart of the eye."

2. That the lake, though spreading over many miles, yet from a height seems to be contracted within a sharply defined boundary In the seventeenth century the epithet '" eager " could be applied to a razor's edge.

ALEX. LEEPER.

Trinity College, University of Melbourne.

" EIE SORES " (10 S. viii. 109). This is undoubtedly a misprint. The Latin original is ostrcis (Sen., ' Ep.' 108, 15), and the error is corrected in the list of ' Faults escaped in the Printing ' given at the end of the first edition (1614) of Lodge's 'Seneca' from which DR. PALMER quotes.

May I add that in my own copy of this work pp. 855, 856, 857, 858, are missing, while 851, 852, 861, 862, are in duplicate, and that I should be very glad to hear if Any reader possesses a copy with these defects reversed ? EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

HARRIET LEE (10 S. viii. 131). On the south wall of Clifton (Glos.) Parish Church there is a memorial tablet to the sisters Lee, bearing the following inscription :

Sacred to the Memory of

Two Sisters,

Sophia Priscilla Lee and Harriet Lee, Authors of ' The Canterbury Tales ' and other

literary works. Sophia Priscilla Lee, born May, 1750: died March 13,

1824.

Harriet Lee, born April 11, 1766 ; died August 1, 1851. The rest is in the hearts of those who knew and

loved them.

The dust of each lies beneath. The spirit has returned to Him who gave it.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME. 13, Westbourne Place, Clifton.

^ " PALATES " (10 S. viii. 29). The word " palate " means a particular piece of the beast, not apparently a " dish of special relish." It can be cooked in various ways or pickled.

In ' The Art of Cookery,' by Mrs. Glasse, a new edition, 1803, is the following :

" Pieces in a Bullock. The head, tongue, palate ; the entrails are the sweetbreads, kidneys, skirts, and tripe; there is the double, the roll, and the reed tripe." P. 6, chap. ii.

Mrs. Glasse has how " To stew," " To ragoo," " To fricassee," " To roast," and " To fricando Ox Palates " (pp. 41, 42). These receipts would certainly not produce hors d'ceuvres or savouries. She also has " To pickle Ox Palates " (p. 137).

In ' The Compleat Housewife : or Accom- plished Gentlewoman's Companion,' by E S, 3rd ed., 1729, are receipts "To pickle Ox-Palates " (p. 8) and " A Fricasy of Ox Palates " (p. 17). I should think that the receipts for pickling are very similar to that for making " Ochsenmaulsalat " described by MR. STRACHAN.

In the above-quoted books the receipts are in the indexes, s.v. ' Ox.'

Probably the passage in Boswell about ' Gordon's palates " simply means that Johnson greatly enjoyed eating ox palates as they were cooked at Gordon's house.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

SEAL INSCRIPTIONS (10 S. viii. 87). I omitted to mention that the figure on the eal bearing the motto " Ave M[ar]ia reules " s that of a woman wearing a crown.

I omitted also one other curious inscribed


 * eal at Hilton (temp. Edw. II.). It is the

repression of a bird in a tree-top, and over

it the one word " Yay." What is the

meaning ? CHARLES SWYNNERTONI