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Prof. Zangemeister's article (' Bleitafel von Bath,' Hermes, vol. xv. pp. 588-96, with notes by Prof. E. Hiibner) is likely to agree with Prof. Sayce's view as to the meaning of the inscription. EDWARD BENSLY.

CAPE TOWN CEMETERY (10 S. viii. 106). The subjoined cutting from The Cape Argus of 8 August is of interest in connexion with this subject :

" The following is from Plain Talk, the organ of the Cape Town Union Congregational Church : A most interesting discovery has been made in the D.R. Cenietery, Somerset Road, Cape Town of the grave of the Rev. J. T. van der Kemp, with the inscription on the stone quite legible. In company with the Rev. J. S. Moffat we visited it, and after cleaning away the dirt and grass made it out as follows : ' Here lies the dust of a faithful and learned missionary of Jesus Christ, the Rev. Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp, M.D., who died December 19, 1811. Aged 64 years. He studied at the Universities of Leyden and Edinburgh, and was the author of some theological works in Latin and Dutch. Dr. Van der Kemp was once an infidel, but by the grace of God became a Christian and laboured as a missionary 12 years amongst the Caffres and Hottentots, and was a Director of the Missionary Society established in London in 1795.' We had not the least idea this pioneer missionary was buried in Cape Town, and the spot and stone are of his- toric interest, and worthy of the utmost care being given them."

HENRY GEARING.

Atlas Works, Cape Town.

PLAISTOW AND WILLIAM ALLEN (10 S. viii. 189). There is a Plaistow in Surrey, near Ockley, and it was a centre of Qua- kerism. C. R. HAINES.

Pulborough.

'ALONZO THE BRAVE' (10S. viii. 169). This poem occurs in chap. ix. of Lewis's mechant novel ' The Monk,' and is described as an " old Spanish ballad " read by the unfortunate Antonia, by the light of a nickering taper, just before the terrifying apparition of her mother. As MR. JERRAM suggests, the whole is probably the com- position of Lewis ; but the theme of the return of the knight, either in the flesh or as a spirit, on the wedding of his betrothed, is not new. To quote Sir Walter Scott's note on his rendering of ' The Noble Moringer ' :

" The legend itself turns on an incident not peculiar to Germany, and which perhaps was not unlikely to happen in more instances than one, when crusaders abode long in the Holy Land, and their disconsolate dames received no tidings of their fate."

Scott mentions other legends of a similar character in the introduction to ' The Betrothed.'

Lewis reprinted " Alonzo the brave and the fair Imogene " in his ' Tales of Wonder,' together with an excellent parody, " Giles Jollup the grave and the brown SallyGreen," beginning :

A doctor so prim and a sempstress so tight

Hob-a-noboed in some right marasquin. The poem was parodied more than once at the time of its popularity, and has since formed the peg on which to hang some of Punch's political verses.

R. L. MORETON.

MRS. MARSH, AUTHORESS OF 'THE VALLEY or A HUNDRED FIRES ' (10 S. viii. 149). May I point out that Halkett and Laing's ' Dictionary ' does not attribute ' The Valley of a Hundred Fires ' to Mrs. Anne Marsh, but to a Mrs. Marsh, who appears without any Christian name ?

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

[The author of ' The Valley of a Hundred Fires ' and ' Margaret and her Bridesmaids ' is stated in the ' D.N.B.' to be Mrs. Stretton, not, as printed ante, p. 150, " Mrs. Stratton."]

SIR THOMAS LUCY (10 S. vii. 449 ; viii. 74). There are two chapters on the Lucies in the Rev. Samuel Kinns's ' Six Hundred Years ; or, Historical Sketches of Eminent Men and Women who have more or less come into contact with the Abbey and Church of Holy Trinity, Minories, from 1293 to 1893.' The account is embellished with portraits and other illustrations ; and there is much in relation to the deer- stealing story, concerning which the reverend author remarks that " a more shameful libel could not have been penned."' The connexion between Holy Trinity Church and the Lucy family arises from the inter- ment there of a granddaughter of Sir Thomas in 1596.

WILLIAM McMuRRAY.

" PISCON-LED " (10 S. vii. 226,376 ; viii. 78, 178). I think it clear that piscon-led is a corruption of pixy-led or pisgy-led. Pixy is supposed to be pucksy ; and pisgy to be pixy transposed. Puck is as well known in Wales as in England ; and the Pisgies are in Cornwall, a county very similar to Wales. Perhaps I did not quote enough from Keightley's book. I will quote a little more :

" The being pixy-led is a thing very apt to befall a worthy yeoman, returning at night from fair or market; and then, says our authority, 'he will declare that, whilst his head was running round like a mill wheel, he heard with his own ears they bits of pisgies a-laughing and a-tacking their hands, all to see he led astray.' Mr. Thorns, too, was told