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is then left for Padre Ugo ? Seeing the bitter -anguish of soul within me, looming larger as it approaches nearer and more near, the heart .almost refuses to keep up its natural courage.

Alas ! remember, always remember to pray for me at this holy Christmas time, which has never come more sorrowfully to me in all my past life.

Tell the Reverend Abate Marchesi that Padre Ugo recalls him to memory most cordially, and also wishes to be remembered to the Signer Medico who was the bearer of his last two poems {sonnetti). UGO BASSI.

Naples, Dec. 19th, 1848.

The above letter shows by its date that it was written during the short interval between the fall of the Roman Republic and his attempt to assist Venice in its death struggle with the Austrian army of occupa- tion.

Had all patriots acted in words and deeds the same noble part as this heroic priest and servant of God, the cynical definition of grand old Dr. Johnson, that " a patriot was only another name for a scoundrel," could never have been written.

WILLIAM MERCER.

THE SITE OF THE BEAR GARDEN. I would suggest that a great deal of direct -evidence on the identification of this site would be provided by reference to the Brand Papers.

A very large collection of documents and records relating to the Maid Lane property of this local family was found in an office in Basinghall Street, and passed into the possession of your esteemed con- tributor MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

J. WARD-MORTON.

[The Bear Garden and Maid Lane are frequently mentioned in the discussion on * The Site of the Globe' now being carried on in our pages.]

" ANZAC," A NEW PLACE - NAME. In The Times of 4 August appeared a summary <of the principal events of the first year of the present great European conflict, illus- trated by several maps. That of the Galli- poli peninsula contained on the eastern side, Jour or five miles south of Suvla Bay, a little indentation described as Anzac Cove. Maps and Gazetteers of six months ago will be scanned in vain for Anzac Cove, as the name had not then been invented, though it now appears frequently in maps in the -daily papers.

" Anzac " is formed of the initial letters of " Australian [and] New Zealand Army Corps," and the name marks the place where the Australian expeditionary force landed on the Gallipoli peninsula. It has also been extended to the district in which

they are now fighting, reference being made to the " Anzac " zone of operations by some of the war correspondents. Australians of a century hence should thrill with pride as they read the story of the deeds which added Anzac Cove to the map of the Dar- danelles. J. R. THORNE.

HANDBOMBS. While at Raab, or Komara, in Hungary, Dr. Edward Browne saw, in 1669,

" a werf Kugel, or instrument filled with wild fire, and combustible matter, to be thrown by the hand, it sticketh fast and burneth."

He has left a sketch, preserved with others at the British Museum, according to which the bomb in question was similar to the modern type of the baby's rattle pattern. It was not globular, as the German name would imply. L. L. K.

ORIGIN OF THE ALPHABET. (See 11 S. xi. 443.) Long have we looked for capital A in the stars of Taurus, and for the letter M in running water. In fact, every part of Isaac Taylor's work on the history of the alphabet is fascinating.

Now your reviewer of ' The Development of Arabic Numerals in Europe ' tells us the origin of the alphabet awaits its sacer vates.

This implies that many parts of the above work are mistaken or defective. Would he be so good as to indicate them in some way ? If we have enjoyed but moonlight heretofore, many a student will turn with intense interest to the quarter of the rising sun. J. K.

South Africa.

" EST, EST, EST." (See 11 S. ii. 345, 413.) References to the literature of the subject are supplied by Giuseppe Fumagalli in his ' Chi 1'ha detto ? ' fourth edition, Milan, 1904, pp. 528-9. According to the account there given, the version of the legend quoted by MR. MAYHEW is the most widely spread, the hero being a bishop, Johann Fugger. The oldest form, in which no persons or

? laces are specified, is in Schrader. ' Monum. taliae,' p. 100. De Angelis, ' Commentario storico-critico della citta e cattedrale di Montefiascone ' (Montefiascone, 1841), says that the bishop's name was Deuc. L. Pieri Buti, ' Storia della citta di Montefiascone ' (ibid., 1870), p. 64, describes the toper as a German baron, Defuk, who came to Italy with Henry V. at the beginning of 1111 and died in 1113, leaving his property to the city for charitable uses on condition that a cask of the muscadel that had been the cause of his death should be poured every year on his tomb. The version to which