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mountain included, appears in Brewer's somewhat discredited manual ' Phrase and Fable.'

In the fourth series of his ' Common-Place Book,' under the heading ' Ideas and Studies for Literary Composition,' Southey sketches a potential poem on Mohammed. One of its integral features is presented in these terms :

" The famous miracle of the mountain. The people before one of the battles demand of him angelic aid ; then he calls the mountain, and applies the fact by showing that the miracle is not wanted ' Are ye not men and valiant ? ' '

THOMAS BAYNE.

ERRORS IN MACAULAY (11 S. i. 181). Perhaps I may be allowed to point out that in my book ' A Scots Earl in Covenanting Times ' I show that Macaulay makes two serious blunders in connexion with his narrative of Monmouth's expedition. He asserts that Ferguson and Gray share the blame of tempting Monmouth to enter on the rash expedition. I give proof that the principal person deserving of blame in the matter was Argyll.

The second point is that Macaulay repre- sents William of Orange as opposed to Argyll's expedition, whereas I give proof that he contributed to the expenses of it, and promoted Wishart, the captain of Argyll's ship, to the rank of admiral after the Revolution. J. WILLCOCK.

Lerwick.

IV. 2. Sir W. Raleigh. Chambers's ' Biog. Diet.' says that Raleigh served in France about 1569 as a volunteer in the Huguenot cause, and fought at Jarnac and Montcontour. In 1580 he went to Ireland with one hundred foot ; and in 1582 he accompanied the Earl of Leicester to the Netherlands.

IV. 4. John Patrick. This should per- haps be Simon Patrick (1626-1707), who was Rector of St. Paul's, Covent Garden (1662), Dean of Peterborough (1678), and Bishop of Chichester (1689) and Ely (1691).

IV. 8. Medallists during Stuart period. ' The British Museum Guide to English Medals ' contains the names of about thirty designers of medals during this period. Most of the names appear to be Dutch, although there are a few English and French. There are only one or two who were designers of the coinage as well.

A Frenchman named Blondeau was in 1662 in charge of a new mill -and -screw apparatus for coining ('The Story of the British Coinage '). G. H. W.

MONEY : ITS COMPARATIVE VALUE (US. . 168). In addition to the books mentioned n the editorial note, the following articles and references on the "value of money" may be named :

' A Comparative View of the Present Depre- ciated Currency with the Sterling Money of Eng- .and ; showing the difference of their value at various periods, and the causes and effects thereof,' &c. London, Robinsons, 1815, 8vo.

Chambers's Journal, vol. xvi., 1851.

Cornhill Magazine, vol. ix., 1864.

Shadwell's 'System of Political Economy,' 1877.

W. SCOTT.

"RUMBELOW" (11 S. i. 224). Rumbelow is a very uncommon name, but there are two men so called in the ' Law List,' 1891, namely, Arthur Pierre Rumbelow, solicitor, at 76, Finsbury Pavement, London ; and Wm. Merrich Rumbelow, solicitor, at Fakenham, Norfolk. FREDERIC BOASE.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (US. i. 68, 115). At the latter reference SIR HARRY POLAND speaks of ' ' the late MR. BRANDER MATTHEWS." He will doubtless be pleased to know that PROF. MATTHEWS is still alive, and active as a writer and as a teacher at Columbia- University.

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, U.S.

BIBLE : CURIOUS STATISTICS (11 S. i. 127). There is in my library an illustrated Bible in two volumes folio. The first volume bears no date, but the dates 1811 and 1812 both appear in the second volume. At the foot of the contents page inserted at the beginning of the first volume is a table giving virtually identical information to that supplied by D. K. T. JOHN T. PAGE.

These figures were known when I was a lad, and there were more of them, such as how many times certain letters occurred e and o, for instance. THOS. RATCLIFFE.

MONKEYS' PARADE (11 S. i. 225). This ex- pression, to which .attention is drawn by MR. F. P. MARCH ANT, has been familiar to me for many years as applied to a noisy promenade of hobbledehoy boys and girls, "frequenting a main road as aimless wanderers." About thirty years ago it was used at Brighton with reference to an evening nuisance in Western Road. I subsequently heard the same term applied to an assemblage of half; grown lads and lassies at Richmond (Surrey) and at the Crystal Palace. But perhaps the most flagrant and characteristic example was the Sunday-evening scene in Fleet