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mythology which had its roots in many lands. As to Plato's River " Ameles," I should like to hear of the most recent recen- sion of the Plato ' Republic ' MSS.

It must be remembered that Plato went to Egypt, and I should not be surprised to find evidence that the River Ameles hid some such term as Amenti or Amentes, the Egyptian name for the Western Land, the bourne of the dead.

Further, I should incline to see a joke in TO A-/y#?;? irtBiov, the plain of the River Lethe, whereon only dead men can walk i.e., water. I should not reject a theory that Lethe river is sound mythology after all.

My old friend and master the late C. J. Cornish when at St. Paul's was always in the habit of writing on the papers of boys whose Latin verse he was correcting Ovid's line from the ' Metamorphoses ' :

Rivus aquse Lethes crepitantibus unda lapillis. He and that line live in my memory together.

Perth, W.A. CECIL WEN -

[Readers of Ovid will remember that the text actually has

Rivus aquse Lethes, per quern cum murmure labens Invitat somnos orepitautibus unda lapillis.]

" RAGTIME "(US. ix. 488). In American slang to " rag " a melody is to syncopate a normally regular tune. " Ragtime " may be said to be a strongly syncopated melody superimposed on a strictly regular accom- paniment, and it is the combination of these two rhythms that gives it its character. A very exhaustive disquisition on " ragtime " music, which has been popular in America for over twenty-five years, was printed in The Times of 8 Feb., 1913.

WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. [MR. ARCHIBALD SPARKE also thanked for reply.]

HEART-BURIAL (US. viii. 289, 336, 352, 391, 432, 493 ; ix. 38, 92, 234, 275, 375, 398, 473). In the Archives Nationales, Paris, are certificates for the heart-burials of Henrietta Maria (1669), James II. (1701), Marie d'Este (1718), and Marie Louise, daughter of James II. (1712). These burials took place at the Couvent de la Visitation at Chaillot. Henrietta Maria's body is biiried in the church of the Hopital du Val- de-Grace. This was founded as a Bene- dictine monastery by Anne of Austria, and was converted by Napoleon I. into a mili- tary hospital. James II. 's body was buried in the Church of St. Germain-en-Laye, where he died.

The Couvent de la Visitation was founded at Chaillot by Henrietta .Maria. Marie

d'Este supported it, and there is at the Archives a most interesting correspondence between her and the Mother Superior. But I do not know the site of the Couvent. The only " Chaillot " with which I am acquainted is a district lying between the Etoile and the Seine, and the only convent of which I could find traces was in Rue Christophe Colomb. That convent was formerly called Notre Dame de Sagesse, and the building is now used for an " ecole paroissiale." Can some reader of ' N. & Q.' tell me more about this convent ? Extracts from certificates :

(a) Henrietta Maria "nous a ete remise le

coeur et les entrailles de la reine d'Angleterre, par 1'ordre du roi et de Monsieur."

(b) James II. "Je, sous-sign^ Maitre des cer^- mouies de France, certifie que le cceur de tr6s-haut, tres-puissant, et tres - excellent Prince Jacques second Roy de la grande Bretagne decede" i St. Germain-en-Laye le 16 du present mois de Septem- bre, ayant esti miz dans une boete de plomb ren- fermtte danz une autre boete de vermeil dore, j'ay eu ordre du Roy dele t'aire transporter au couvent des Religieuseux de S te Marie a Chaillot, suivant le desir du Roy d'Angleterre d&'unt et de la Reyne d'Angleterre son Epouse, que la nuit du 17 au 18 du d. mois il a esti remiz par un des Aumoniers de sa Majeste Britannique entre les mains de la Superieure du d. Couvent, en presence de M. le Due de Barwik, des principaux officiers du Roi et de moy," &c.

I-:. M. F.

DE GLAMORGAN (US. viii. 468 ; ix. 153, 476). Respecting the pedigree of this family, I should like to draw the attention of those interested to two books which, I think, throw some further light upon it. The first is ' Historical Notes on Parts of South Somerset,' by the late John Batten, F.S.A., 1894, where, in the early history of Brympton, there is a good deal about the De Lisle and Glamorgan families. The second book is a recent privately printed history of the Baildon family by W. Paley Baildon, F.S.A., in which the con- nexions of the Lisle, Stopham, and Gla- morgan families are very ably treated. Should MR. WHITEHEAD or AP THOMAS not have access to these works, I shall be happy to lend them. E. A. FRY.

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CLACK SURNAME (11 S. ix. 428, 494). On the very day on which the reply appeared I found at the Record Office (W.O. 13 : 4166), among the Peterhead volunteers of 1803, one " George Clackie." The Scots word " clake " means a gossip.

J. M. BULLOCH.

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