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to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

! has lately been published, I am informed, in America on ' Bunyaniana,' which is not known to London booksellers, and it may

Can any of your correspondents

WILLIAM CROW OF UPLEATHAM. In Up- leatham Church, midway up the tower, on the western side, roughly carved on stone, appears the following quaint inscription :

WILLIAM CROW CHURCHWARD EN

BVLPED STEPEL 1664.

Is anything further known of this person ?

J. C. H. New York.

' PROMETHEUS THE FIREGIVER.' Who is the author of ' Prometheus the Firegiver : an attempted Restoration of the Lost First Part of the Prometheian Trilogy of ^Eschy- lus, J published in 1877, seven years before Mr. Robert Bridges issued his drama with similar main title ? ROLAND AUSTIN.

Gloucester Public Library.

HEINE ON KANT. In The Journal of Theological Studies for January last, p. 303, a reviewer states that a passage in a book under notice reminds him ' ' irresistibly of Heine's famous irony about Kant and ' der alte Lampe,' for whose benefit the existence of God must needs be demonstrated." Will some one explain this reference ?

L. PHILLIPS

Theological College, Lichfield.

DE GUILEVILLE AND BUNYAN. I have recently been reading carefully " The Ancient Poem of Guillaume de Guileville entitled ' Le Pelerinage de FHomme '- com- pared with ' The Pilgrim's Progress > of John Bunyan, edited from notes collected by the late Mr. Nathaniel Hill of the Royal Society of Literature, with Illustra- tions and an Appendix," published by Pickering in 1858, and have compared the passages from the French poet with those therein set out from ' The Pilgrim's Progress. 1 I now venture to ask whether any one has written since 1874 touching their great similarity.

I have carefully read all that is to be found on the subject in ' N. & Q., J and I may perhaps be allowed to point out, for the benefit of any one interested in the question, that the reference in the Index to Series II. under Guileville (De) should be to viii. 322, and not to 372. An exhaustive essay

query.

help me ? STAPLETON MARTIN.

The Firs, Norton, Worcester.

WYCLIF AND i; SISTER ME NEEDETH."- In Capgrave's ' Life of St. Augustine ' (Additional MS. 36, 704), shortly to be issued by the Early English Text Society, the monk refers to the Manichaeans, saying that they held their schools by night, and that, after the lesson, the light was blown out and they played, ' ' as Wiclif disciples played, Sister me nedith." Capgrave's book was written for an unnamed gentlewoman who had made him sundry retributions, and it met with the approval of Magister Nicholas Reysby, head of the Order of Sempringham. Elsewhere also Capgrave attacks Wyclif, but not with this kind of vilification ; and I can find no reference in other authors to this so-called " game. ?i Perhaps some ' N. & Q.' contributor can trace other references. JOHN MUNRO.

J. WALTON, TOPOGRAPHICAL ARTIST. Mr. Dobell's new catalogue of books con- tains three entries of water-colour drawings of scenes in the Lake District, circa 1790-95, by J. Walton, whose name is not recorded in Bryan, nor yet in Mr. Binyon's British Museum ' Catalogue of Drawings by British Artists. l The three volumes of drawings by J. Walton came from Sir Wilfrid Lawson's collection. Mr. Dobell tells us that in 1821 Ackermann published ' A Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, 1 with coloured plates from drawings made by this artist. Appa- rently this is all that is known about Walton, who, from the series referred to, must have been an artist of more than ordinary talent. No such person exhibited at the Royal Academy of the period which would fit in with the date of these drawings. It would be interesting to know something more of J. Walton. W. ROBERTS.

FOSTER'S ' ALUMNI CANTABRIGIENSES.' A friend tells me that a few years ago he saw, in a second-hand bookseller's catalogue, the MS. of ' Alumni Cantabrigienses ' by Foster, a similar work to his monumental one for Oxford. This MS. was purchased, I am told, by a Canon Wordsworth, but has never been published. Can any one say where it is now ? Surely, if permission could be obtained, it ought to be published.

R. STEWART-BROWN.