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DR. JOHNSON'S COPIES OF BURTON'S vii. 314). These two communications dealt with a copy of the sixth edition of the ' Anatomy ' alleged to have belonged once to Samuel Johnson, though this appears to be very doubtful. At the earlier reference I quoted a statement in the Huth Catalogue that
 * ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY ' (11 S. vi. 390 ;

a copy of a later edition which had also belonged to him,"
 * ' in a bookseller's catalogue many years ago was

and said that I should be very glad to learn the present whereabouts of this book.

The desired information is contained, it seems, in the following passage from Mr. Austin Dobson's essay on Johnson's Library, recently reprinted with other select essays of his in ' Eighteenth Century Studies ' (Dent's " Wayfarers' Library ") :

" Among the remaining folios on the same page is Burton's ' Anatomic.'. . . .This, which was bound up with Sir Matthew Hale's ' Primitive Origination of Mankind,' 1677, is the issue of 1676 [the 8th ed.] ; and the volume now forms part of the material for that gigantic enterprise at present in progress at Oxford under the guiding hand of Sir J. A. H. Murray. An inscription which it bears affirms it to have been bought at John- son's sale by one William Collins. It was after- wards presented to the Philological Society in 1863 by a subsequent owner, and so ^ passed into the Sunnyside arsenal of authorities.' Mr. Dobson adds in a foot-note that he is " indebted for these particulars to the courtesy of Sir J. A. H. Murray himself."

EDWARD BENSLY.

Reydon, Southwold, Suffolk.

WILLS AT ST. PAUL'S (11 S. x. 12). The records of the Peculiar Court of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, previously deposited partly in the office of the Deputy Registrar, Dean's Yard, Doctors' Commons, and partly in the Chapter House, were, by an Act of Parliament, 20 & 21 Vic. c. 77, transferred to the Court of Probate, with the records of other courts exercising testa- mentary jurisdiction prior to 1858.

The jurisdiction of the Peculiar Court extended over twenty-two parishes within the diocese of London, viz., five in the City of London, eight in Middlesex, five in Essex, and four in Herts.

The records, wills, administrations, and inventories belonging to it are deposited at the Principal Probate Registry, Somerset House. The official (MS. ) Calendar contains a large number of entries of grants of pro- bates of wills and letters of administration from 1535 to 1837. DANIEL HIPWELL.

AUTHOR WANTED : ' HANDS ALL ROUND ' (11 S. x. 10). This poem appeared in The Examiner in 1852, over the signature of Merlin. The next time it appeared was in The Times in 1880, over the signature of A. Tennyson

There were considerable differences in the two versions. Lord Tennyson never ac- knowledged the first version, wh?ch, I think, was very much better than the s^ond.

THOS. WHITE.

Junior Reform Club, Liverpool.

(11 S. x. 69.)

1. "Nulli [not "nullo "] penetrabilis astro" is from Statins, 'Thebaid,' x. 85.

GOMEZ.

[Several correspondents have kindly furnished the reference to No. 2. Hor., ' Odes,' I. iii. 38.]

" THE ANNANDALE BEEF-STAND " (11 S. x. 69). Four or five miles from Moffat the Edinburgh road passes through the hill farm of Ericstane along the brink of a precipice forming one side of a deep corrie known as the Dail's Beef-tub or Annandale's Beef- stand. It is described by Sir Walter Scott in ' Redgauntlet ' : "It looks as if four hills were laying their heads together to shut out day- light from the dark, hollow spaoe between them." Sir Walter tells how in 1745 a Jacobite prisoner on his way to be tried at Carlisle escaped from his escort by wrapping himself in his plaid and rolling down to the bottom of the tub. He names the prisoner Maxwell of Summertrees, a mythical person ; the real individual was called MacEwen or MacMillan, whom Sir Walter remembered seeing in his boyhood.

Th-3 Beef-tub or Beef-stand got its name from the Marquess of Annandale using it as a pen for cattle and sheep, which could only be driven in or out on the south-east side. HERBERT MAXWELL.

Monreith.

MOSES FRANKS (11 S. x. 49). I suggest that Moses Frank, Attorney and Advocate- General for the Bahama Islands, was the same as Moses Franks, second son of David Franks of Philadelphia, admitted to member- ship of the Middle Temple on 28 Jan., 1774. C. E. A. BEDWELI,.

Middle Temple Library.

' THE MANCHESTER MARINE ' (11 S. x. 49). This was probably a piece by Thomas Dibdin, whose stage name at that time (1793) was Thomas Merchant. He was prompter and actor at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, ani was married in that town on 23 May, 1793. In 1791 ho produced 'The Mad