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Street and the Strand during the milder months of the year, when hundreds of East End boys and girls strolled up and down, at first with due separation of the sexes, but afterwards, according to selective affinity, in pairs, to the considerable discomfort of the ordinary passer-by. I found on inquiry that they came, with few exceptions, from the Whitechapel and Stepney districts, and that they termed the excursion ' ' going up West to see life.'* In my experience they were fairly well-behaved, very decently dressed, and most amusing in their con- versation and manners.

FRANK SCHLOESSER.

' A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE PUBLICK BUILDINGS, &c., IN LONDON,' 1734 (11 S. i. 189, 253). It is difficult to understand what MR. ABRAHAMS means by saying in his query that this work ' ' is generally attributed to John Ralph." In Lowndes, in the B.M. Catalogue, in ' Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography,' and in a dozen more books that I have consulted, the work is attributed to James Ralph, author of ' The Touchstone,' &c. But this attribution is a mistake. In the notice of James Ralph in the ' D.N.B.'- there is a reference to an article by the late DR. E. F. RIMBAULT at 3 S. vi. 72. RIMBAULT mentioned four editions 1734, 1736, 1763, and 1783. MR. ABRAHAMS'S copy lacking a title-page is doubtless the edition of 1736. The author was an architect, and there would seem to be no reason for doubting the authenticity of the signature " J. Ralph of Newbury n to the dedication of the 1771 edition. A copy of the 1734 edition in the Boston Athenaeum has written in ink on the title-page the words, There are several allusions to the work in The Gentleman's Magazine for 1734 (iv. 223, 246, and cf. 260, 315, 367).
 * ' By the ingenious M r . Ralph. Very scarce."

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

IJoston, U.S.

" ROSAMONDA'S LAKE" (11 S. i. 169, 529). It seems to me possible that the name may have a more substantial origin than the romantic association of the pond with happy <>r forlorn lovers, and be so called, perhaps, in remembrance of the Fair Rosamond of King Henry II.

Somewhere near to the place John de IVustede, the King's clerk, had his dwelling- house called "Rosemont,"- for which in 130S he obtained certain privileges and licence to crenellato (' Cal. Patent Rolls, 1308, 2 pp. 58, 61). The situation is described

as "in Eye near Westminster," which manor of the Abbot had, so far as is known, its eastern boundary in the Tyburn Stream, immediately east of which stream lay the ground of St. James's Park containing the aforesaid lake or pond.

Again, when Henry VIII. in 1532 seized land from the Abbot (nominally an exchange) to make St. James's Park ' ' the land called Rosamunds ll formed part of the boundary (' Statutes of the Realm,* iii. 388). It lay along the road which became James Street (now Buckingham Gate), and here certainly was the lake or pond. This land would seem to have been just outside the manor of Eye, yet the resemblance of the name Rosamond's to Rosemont may point to identity. W. L. RUTTON.

BRITISH BARROWS : GREENWELL COL- LECTION (11 S. i. 227). The announcement in the press to which MR. CANN HUGHES refers is doubtless that which first appeared in The Times, 27 Nov., 1908. This was followed on 19 Jan., 1909, by a long article dealing with the collection, which is now in the British Museum, where a portion only is exhibited. W. ROBERTS.

Unless the arrangement has been altered, I think that a visitor to the British Museum, seeking the Green well barrow discoveries, will find them in the Prehistoric Room. This most valuable collection comprises every kind of imperishable implement used in the daily domestic and tribal life of prehistoric times vessels of pottery, cinerary urns, food vessels, drinking cups, " incense " cups, implements of flint, stone, and bronze, and personal ornaments. It is a wonderful object- lesson to the student of the remote past. If I remember rightly, fairly minute descrip- tions accompany each object ; but I do not think that the Museum authorities have issued a detailed catalogue of Canon Green - well's priceless collection, though many of the objects are described in his ' British Barrows.' J. HOLDEN MACMICHAEL.

[Reply from MR. R. O. HESLOP next week.]

'SHORT WHIST': C. B. COLES (10 S. xii. 264, 318, 357 ; 11 S. i. 90, 150). H. C. in his very informing and valuable reply says that, for reasons of which he is ignorant, C. B. Coles would seem to have been a dis- carded son. With the clues that his reply gives I think I am able to settle the point, if I assume (and I think there is no doubt) that Coles's poem ' The Discarded Son ' is a piece of Coles's own biography.