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NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. xn. OCT. so, 1915.

-give it to thy body." Manliness and in- dependence were inculcated on all hands. Sycophancy and free feeding at rich men's tables were boldly denounced (Beza, 32). Miserliness and needless hoarding were also Teprehended. Leaders of public opinion were expected to set an example in self- -control, frugality, and temperance (Sanhe- drin, 42). " Within, rather than beyond one's income," was the tenor of much Rabbinical admonition to all and sundry (Chulin, 84). Fathers had to exercise tem- perance as an example to their families <(ibid. 84). " Live well within your means ; spend little on yourself, but all on your wife and children, and your days will be happy and long " (ibid., 84b).

lor a finale we cannot do better than take this beautiful citation from Ethics ' (Pirke Aboth) : " This now is the grand Xaw of Life. Dine every day on bread and salt. Drink water when you need it. Sleep on the bare brown earth. Live -laborious days. Devote much time to the study of the Torah. Do these things con- stantly, and it will go well with thee in this world and also in the next."

This citation recalls old Dr. Abernethy, who said, " Live on sixpence a day, and earn it," and sorts well with Milton's recom- mendation of " the fields in summer, and in winter the study, as often as the first bird rouses, or not much tardier, to read good authors, preserving the body's health with hardiness, and rendering lightsome, clear, and not lumpish obedience to the mind, to the cause of Religion, and to our Country's Liberty." M. L. R. BBESLAB.

Percy House, South Hackney, N.E.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

'{See 10 S. xi. 441 ; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401 ; US. i. 282 ; ii. 42, 381 ; iii. 22, 222, 421 ; iv. 181, 361 ; v. 62, 143, 481 ; vi. 4, 284, 343; vii. 64, 144, 175, 263, 343, 442; viii. 4, 82, 183, 285, 382, 444; ix. 65, 164, 384, 464; x. 103, 226, 303, 405; ^xi. 24, 145, 275, 428 ; xii. 65, 178, 298.)

PIONEERS AND PHILANTHROPISTS. DEAN COLET.

Kensington. In the grounds of St. Paul's School, facing the Hammersmith Road, is a bronze statue of John Colet, Dean of 'St. Paul's and founder of the School. It presented by the late Mr. Edwd. Howley

Palmer, and unveiled by his son Mr. Greville Palmer on 10 Dec., 1902. The sculptor was Mr. Hamo Thornycroft, R.A., who has represented the Dean seated in a chair, with book in hand, and a boy kneeling on either side, reading to him. The group is placed under a crown of open work.

" From a hexagonal base rise slender bronze columns clustered in threes, supporting on their branched capitals a crown into which are worked the name and the date of the foundation. From this crown spring a series of half-arches gathered into a central point, on which is placed a small shrine containing the Virgin seated with the child Jesus, to whom the School was dedicated by the Founder."

The pedestal of Portland stone is thus in- scribed :

Viro. admodum. reverendo

IOANNI. COLET. S.T.P.

Ecclesiae. Cathedralis. inter. Londinensis. Decano Scholae. celeberrimae. olim. juxta. D. Pauli.

aedem. exstructae nuper. ad. suburbanas. has. sedes. translatae

Fundatori Qui. quanto. opere. innocentiam. dilexerit.

puerilem Scripta. instituta. vita. denique. ipsa. testifi-

cantur Erasmi. Mori. amico

Posuit

Edyardus. Howley. Palmer unus. e. xxiv. viris. rei. argentariae. apud.

Anglos. praefectis

idem. in. Schola. Coletina. administranda. diu. sedulo. versatus

ANNO MCM 1

There are two busts of Dean Colet at St. Paul's School : one contemporary, and the other sculptured by John Bacon over a century later (see 7 S. iv. 505). The Dean was buried in the choir of old St. Paul's, and his monument perished in the Great Fire of 1666. The inscription has been preserved, and will be found in the Rev. J. H. Lupton's ' Life of John Colet, D.D.' (1887). Some writers aver that fragments of the monuments are still enshrined at St. Paul's, but I have failed to discover any such relics among the salvage.

With rtspect to the inscribed bust on Dean Colet' s house at Stepney see 9 S. iii. 495.

. SIR THOMAS WHITE.

Coventry. The first public statue erected here was that of Sir Thomas White. It stands in a commanding position facing the city, at the end of Grey Friars' Green. He is represented in the rich costume of a Mayor in the year 1558 ; his chain and badge of office are suspended from his shoulders, and in his right hand he grasps