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and to ornament the Marble Arch. More- over, the Marble Arch itself was originally erected by Nash at a cost of 75,OOOZ. as an entrance to Buckingham Palace, and stood there until 1851, when it was moved to its present position at Cumberland Gate, re- placing a brick gateway by Sir John Soane. But the subject is almost inexhaustible. ALAN STEWART,

CONSTANT'S MEMOIRS (10 S. viii. 128). A query by me having suggested a confusion of " Constant, Valet de Chambre of the Em- peror " (Napoleon), with the statesman of the same name and period, you added a note to that effect. I now add that Louis W. Constant was the author. M. T. L.

SHEEP FAIR ON AN ANCIENT EARTH- WORK (10 S. viii. 250). The fair referred to by Mr. Hardy and MR. ADDY is clearly, as stated in the brief editorial note, that of Woodbury Hill, which is described in the Little Guide ' to Dorset, by Frank R. Heath (Methuen, 1905), as 1 miles N.E. of Bere Regis :

" On it is an ancient earthwork, in good preser- vation, with an oval entrenchment and a rampart which encircles the hill-top, enclosing a great level green space on which a great sheep fair is held annually in September, one of the most famous gatherings of the kind in the S. of England."

This year I visited the fair with a mer- curial friend, partly for the sake of the Hardy associations. One of the oldest vendors of fairings told me that he had been to the fair for forty years, and this year, for the first time, not a single sheep was offered for sale, the auctioneers combining to remove such transactions to big towns like Dor- chester. There were, however, a number of horses for sale, two samples of the bioscope on view, two merry-go-rounds, and other incitements to gaiety. I did not ascertain whether the traditional " Duck Dinner " was still offered at a dilapidated cottage on the side where Bere Wood approaches the hill. The view all round is beautiful, and Bere Regis is, I need hardly add, an inter- esting little place, with the Turberville associations so strikingly used by Mr. Hardy

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MEDICINAL WATERS (10 S. viii. 130, 214). The literature on mineral waters is vast. The inquirer should refer to my ' Register of National Bibliography,' ii. 341 and 476. The third edition of the volume on ' Spas and Mineral Waters,' by Sir Hermann Weber and F. Parkes Weber, came

out a few months ago. The bibliography of the subject occupies pp. 745-7 J.

The printed matter on the ' Evolution of Artificial Mineral Waters ' is set out by William Kirkby in his book with that title (1902, pp. 133-40). W. P. COURTNEY.

LORD TREASURER GODOLPHIN (10 S. viii. 210). Kneller's portrait of him is at Port Eliot, the seat of the Earl of St. Germans. I believe the one engraved by Houbraken is still in the possession of the Duke of New- castle. The Duke of Leeds has several portraits of him, one of them at Hornby Castle being also attributed to Kneller.

YGREC.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. viii. 150, 236). I believe the words

The virtue lies

In the struggle, not the prize, are taken from a poem by Lord Houghton (R. Monckton Milnes), to which I am unable more precisely to refer, and of which I re- member only the one stanza in which they occur :

If what shone afar so grand Turn to nothing in thy hand, On again I The virtue lies In the struggle, not the prize. It will be seen that the parallels furnished from Lytton and Mr. Watson at the second reference have the general thought rather than the exact words.

C. LAWRENCE FORD. Bath.

The lines quoted by B. H., ante, p. 169, are from some scathing verses suggested by the late Lord Chief Justice Coleridge " bowing as he passed through Westminster Hall," and written by the late Dr. Kenealy, well known as the council for the Tichborne Claimant in the trial for perjury. The verses were handed about in manuscript, and thus came to the notice of the Claimant, who was much impressed by them, and was in the habit of repeating them. They were afterwards published in The Englishman (Tichborne Trial Report, 13 June, 1873), and also, I believe, in the Figaro. They begin as follows :

Lo ! where Belial moves across the Hall A front of honey and a heart of gall. A tongue that glozes while you 're face to face, But spits its venom when you've left the place ; A hand that grasps you, as with all the heart, But stabs you in the back as you depart.

R. L. MORETON.

MAJOR CUTHBERTSON'S quotation at p. 230 is apparently from Sir Walter Scott's
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