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Regular Clerics of St. Paul. He has been immortalized for English readers in Mrs. Harriet Eleanor Hamilton King's poem ' The Disciples,' the tenth edition of which appeared in 1888. He incurred excommuni- cation by taking up arms with Garibaldi against the Pope, and was executed in August, 1849, at Bologna by the orders of General Gorzhowski.

JOHN B. WAINEWBIGHT.

CAMBRONNE'S REPLY (11 S. xii. 68). The word " merde " (Latin merda) is not necessarily slang, though as used by Cam- bronne it was slang. Napoleon Landais in his ' Grand Dictionnaire,' 14 e edition, 1862, after the original meaning has :

" Dire merde a quelqu'un, c'est dire qu'on se moque de lui ; et merde, par exclamation, signifie : allez vous promener, laissez-moi en paix."

In Alfred Delvau's ' Dictionnaire de la Langue Verte,' nouvelle edition (circa 1883), is the following :

" MERDE ! Exclamation ^nergique dont Cam- bronne ne s'est servi qu'une fois, le 18 juin 1815, ei dont le peuple se sert tous les jours."

In ' Histoire de France,' par Theodose Burette, 2 e edition, 1842, ii. 630, the use of the word at Waterloo is delicately sug- gested :

" lei vient le mot de Cambronne, trivialement he>oique, que Ton a traduit par ' La garde meurt et ne se rend pas ! ' '

In ' Nouveau Larousse Illustre ' (circa 1909), $.v. ' Cambronne ( Pierre -Jacques - Etienne, comte),' we read :

" C'est alors qu'envelopp de toutes parts et somme de ;se rendre, il aurait lanc sa reponse fame use : ' La garde meurt et ne se rend pas,' conclensee par la tradition en un mot e"nergique dans sa forme peu parlementaire, mais rendu he>oique par les circonstances."

It appears to be possible that the intention of the " mot de Cambronne " is compara- tively modern, as in that sense it is not given in the ' Dictionnaire Comique, Saty- rique,' &c., par Philibert Joseph Le Roux, either in the edition of 1718 or that of 1786. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

SEVENTEENTH - CENTURY TRAVEL IN EUROPE (11 S. xii. 42, 63, 81, 130).' The Travels of Edward Brown, Esq., formerly a Merchant in London,' is the work of John Campbell, LL.D. (1708-75). It was first published in 1739. The work is fictitious, and has nothing whatever to do with the me. The latter traveller was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Browne, and was himself a notable physician in his day. His
 * Travels of Edward Browne ' quoted by

' Travels ' are, of course, perfectly genuine. See ' D.N.B.' under ' Campbell, John,' where " Brow 7 n " is misprinted " Bevan " ; ' Catalogue of the London Library ' ; Halkett and Laing, ' Dictionary of Anonymous Literature,' col. 2627. MALCOLM LETTS.

MARYBONE LANE AND SWALLOW STREET (11 S. xi. 210, 258, 325, 410, 497). When it w r as proposed in 1812 to form a new means of communication between Pall Mall and Oxford Street, Nash suggested a street begin- ning at Charing Cross and ending at Port- land Place. Pall Mall w T as to be continued eastward to meet the Haymarket ; from Carlton House the new street was to go, at right angles with Pall Mall, to Piccadilly. A circus was to be formed at Piccadilly, and just north of the circus was to be placed a square with a public building in the centre. The street then ran from the western corner of the square in a slightly oblique direction to Oxford Street (where another circus was to be formed), and was continued north in a straight line to meet Portland Place. In April, 1813, the Treasury approved Nash's scheme, subject to the square north of Piccadilly Circus being altered to a curve, and to a further curve being introduced, north of Oxford Circus. A plan showing the existing streets and houses in 1812, with the outlines of the new street (Regent Street) marked on it, is given in Sir Laurence Gomme's ' London,' p. 302 (London, Wil- liams & Norgate, 1914). This shows very clearly the streets leading from Piccadilly to Oxford Street prior to the formation of Regent Street, viz. :

(1) Tichborne Street, starting from Piccadilly a few yards west of the junction of that thoroughfare with Haymarket, and running north-west. This merges into

(2) Marylebqne Street, which continues north- west to the junction of Glasshouse Street and Brewer Street.

(3) Warwick Street then runs due north as far as Silver Street; and a few yards east of the junction,

(4) King Street begins.

T. F. D.

PORTRAIT OF CERVANTES (US. xii. 119). The portrait of Cervantes by Juan de Jauregui has been reproduced previously to the reproduction in The Century Magazine in the Revue Hispanique, tome xxv. s in 1911. See ' L^ii Portrait de Cervantes, peint par Juan de Jauregui, decrit par M. Sentenach ' (6 pp. with 2 portraits). It is in the Taylorian Library. H. KREBS.

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