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but within the plate mark, is inscribed "The Death Killing Doctor Or Galen reviv'd," followed by "Expert Healer " in Hebrew. On the lower part of the print, and also within the plate mark, are the following lines :

I see thro' Urine, Ills impure ;

With Spider webs, I agues Cure :

With Toads calcin'd, Spells, Adders Bone,

I drive off Plague, the Gout, and Stone,

Diseases Venom I defy,

And live by what my Patients die.

The print is a portrait of Abraham Hart, and was engraved by his great-grandson Samuel Hart, the father of Solomon Alex- ander Hart, R.A., both natives of Plymouth. I have a copy of this print with the following inscription on the margin in the handwriting of Horace Walpole : ' ' Hart Abrahams, a Jew of Plymouth who travels with medicines through Cornwall." In the. catalogues of Bromley and Chaloner Smith he is de- scribed as ' ' Hart Abrahams, Empiric at Plymouth " ; and in Evans, vol. ii. No. 11787, as ' ' Hart Abrahams, travelling Jew -Doctor and Empiric at Plymouth."

ISRAEL SOLOMONS.

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GUILDHALL: OLD STATUES (11 S. i. 208). Cassell's ' Old and New London ? gives a different version from Price's :

"These figures were taken down during Dance's injudicious alterations in 1789. They lay neglected in a cellar until Alderman Boydell obtained leave of the Corporation to give them

to Banks, the sculptor At his death they were

given again to the City. These figures were removed from the old screen in 1865, and were not replaced in the new one."

If this be correct, the statues are not to be looked for at Corfe Castle. W. B. H.

"LITERARY GOSSIP" (11 S. i. 208). MR. GRIGOR indicates that The Athenceum was among the first of the literary journals, if not actually the first, to employ the term " Literary Gossip n in its columns. I know of nothing to disprove the assertion. But having been recently looking over a number of old magazines, I found that the kind of article denoted by " Literary Gossip " extends well back into the eighteenth century. Most of the old magazines set apart a portion of their space for the purpose of furnishing their readers in a free-and- easy way with items of Uterary news. Perhaps it may be of some interest to readers of ' X. & Q. J to state how their notes were headed.

The Analytical Review, 1788-98, The British Critic, 1783-1842, The European

Magazine, 1782-1825, and The Freemason's Magazine, 1794 (a publication apparently unknown .to bibliographers at so early a date), were in; the habit of devoting some of their space to what they called ' Literary Intelligence. 1 The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany, New Series, 1793-1812, adopted the heading ' Literary and Scien- tific Notices.* The Literary Panorama, 1st Series, 1806-14, had a ' Literary Prospective l corner ; and The New Monthly Magazine 1st Series, 1814-20, a corner headed ' Lite- rary Reports. 2 ' Literary Chit-Chat * was employed by The Edinburgh Literary Journal, 1829-31 ; while * Literary Register was the term chosen by Tait's Magazine, 1832-61.

Although as a heading * Literary Gossip J may not have been in use until the second half of the nineteenth century, it is clear from the above notes that the information denoted by that title was common long before the century began. W. SCOTT.

W. BILLYNG'S ' FIVE WOUNDS OF CHRIST 2 : LOMBERDALE HOUSE (11 S. i. 267). Lomber- dale House is near Bakewell in Derbyshire, and was the residence of Mr. Thomas Bate- man, a well-known antiquary, who printed an interesting illustrated ' Descriptive Cata- logue of the Antiquities and Miscellaneous Objects preserved in the Museum of Thomas Bateman,* 1855. He was the author, also, of ' Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derby- shire and the Sepulchral Usages of its In- habitants, 1 1848. His father, William Bate- man, was of Darley (not Darby or Derby).

Miss MURRAY may be glad to be referred to a paper by Dr. William E. A. Axon on ' The Symbolism of the Five Wounds of Christ a in the Transactions of the Lanca- shire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, vol. x. p. 67 (1892). This paper includes a reprint of Billyng's poem.

C. W. SUTTON.

The library of books and MSS. formed by T. and W. Bateman (of Lomberdale House, Youlgreave, Derbyshire) was sold 25 May, 1893. G. F. R. B.

BlBLIOTHECA DRUMMENTANA (US. 1. 248).

Drummeniana, I am inclined to believe, means the Stirlingshire parish of Drymen, equivalent to Drummond, pronounced Drim- men, and sometimes anciently spelt Drum- mane. It was the place where John Napier of Merchiston (Napier of the logarithms) possessed considerable landed property, and where he is traditionally