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famous fight with ' Slogger Williams,' and he was also the one friend whom Arthur Penrhyn Stanley made at school. Sir Charles never had a serious illness in his life. He was rather eccentric in his dress, and presented the appear- ance of a tenant farmer rather than the owner of thousands of acres. Sir Charles was the last survivor of the original characters of the ' School- days,' "

H. G. ABCHER.

' A HISTORY OF THE OXFORD MUSEUM.' In your full review of our little book ' A History of the Oxford Museum J (25 Decem- ber) your reviewer mildly took us to task for omitting any reference to Charles Robertson and his skill in dissection. If he will turn to p. 104 of our book, he will find adequate mention of both. H. M. VERNON.

K. DOROTHEA VERNON.

THEATRICALS IN THE COUNTRY. (See 5 S. iv. 185 ; 8 S. vii. 87.) In ' Kentish Tales,' by Edward Nairne, 2nd ed., 1824, p. 62, a Mr. Mate is mentioned. A foot-note states that Mr. Mate was " then patentee of the Theatre Royal at Margate. He is an excellent comedian, and, with or without his ingenious, but innocent amplifications, is a most admirable companion.'* The first edition of the ' Tales l is dated 1796.

The ' Report on the Municipal Records of Folkestone/ by Mr. Atkinson of the Record Office, p. 16, gives some correspond- ence between John Jonas and Sampson Penley, dated Henley, 28 Dec., 1803, and a petition by them to the Corporation, endorsed 30 April, 1804, wherein they state that they have for several years been per- mitted to act in the town. The Kentish Gazette announced the marriage of William Pepper of Folkestone at Eastbourne, on 2 Oct., 1804, to Miss Penley, sister to Mr. Penley, one of the managers of the Lewes company of comedians.

In the Masons' Lodge, Folkestone, there is preserved a playbill, dated 13 March, 1810, of performances under the patronage of the lodge, consisting of a Masonic Prelude by Mr. Darnley, Mr. Dawson, and Mr. R. Pelly ; also ' The Wonder ' and ' The Review,' in which Mr. Penley and Mr. Penley, jun., appeared.

A local guide, 1816, ' Hythe, Sandgate, and Folkstone,* p. 25, mentions that there is at Hythe " a neat Theatre under the management of Mr. Trotter, who spares neither pains nor expense to afford enter- tainment to the public by engaging an excellent company of performers.' 1 A play- bill of 20 March, 1809, announced the pro-

duction of ' Laugh when You Can ? and ' Plot and Counterplot,' in which Mr. and Mrs. Trotter and others appeared, with a song by Miss Banfield, and a comic song, ' Whoop' d among the Lasses, O,' by Mr. I. P. Harley.

On Monday, 3 Sept., 1827, there was a performance at the New Theatre, Hythe and Sandgate, of ' Macbeth,' by " His Majesty's servants of the Royal West London Theatre,'"' Mr. H. Beverly acting manager.

A playbill is also preserved in the Folke- stone Public Library of 13 May, 1822, wherein Buckstone appears in the dramatis- personal at the Theatre, Folkestone.

R. J. FYNMORE.

CHARLES READE AND ANATOLE FRANCE f PARALLEL PASSAGE.

" And I told you the names of the stars, and you said those were not their real names, but nick names we give them here on earth." Chas.. Reade, ' Christie Johnstone.'

" Je regrette de ne pas savoir comment on* 1'appelle, mais je m'en console en pensant que les hommes ne donnent pas aux etoiles leurs vrais noms." Anatole France, ' Sur la Pierre Blanche.'

W. L. POOLE,

Montevideo.

MACGILLIVRAY SLOGAN. In ' Scottish Clans and their Tartans,' a charming little book, published by W. & A. K. John- ston, I recently saw it stated, under the Clan MacGillivray, that the rallying-cry of this clan was " Loch Sloy ! ?? ^There must be some confusion here, as " Loch Sloy ! ri belongs, of course, to the MacFar- lanes. I suspect that the slogan of MacGilli- vray should be " Loch Moy ! " the same as- the Macintoshes, with whom they are closely connected. This error needs correction if a new edition is projected. Loch Moy means " The Lake of Threatening," Loch Sloy " The Lake of the Host."

JAS. PLATT, Jun,

SAMUEL ROGERS STORY. In his delightful The Nineteenth Century, July, 1881, the late William J. Thorns gave a fresh lease of life to Sam Rogers' s story about an officer who, the day before leaving London for India, rode in a hackney coach to his lawyer's in Lincoln's Inn Fields, and in paying the driver dropped a shilling, which neither the owner nor the coachman could find in the mud. On the officer's return from India after an absence of some years, he had occasion again to go to his lawyer's, and some unaccountable impulse compelled him to look for the lost shilling on the very spot
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