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did not choose to acknowledge them. We learn, however, from the ' Catalogue ' that in 1790 he sculptured an * Amorino ' on commission for an Irish gentleman namec La Touche (p. 472). JOHN T. CUBBY.

Busts of Mars and Minerva by Canova are I believe, entirely unknown. If MABS wishes to compare other sculptured figures with the busts he names, he might examine the various groups of the Elgin Marbles a1 the British Museum. Perhaps even a visit to the gallery of statuary at the Roya Institution, Edinburgh, and an examination of the various gods and goddesses represented there, might be worth the trouble taken.

SCOTUS.

COBN AND DISHONESTY : AN HONEST MILLER (11 S. ii. 508; iii. 12, 57). Millers are evidently suspected in many lands. When, a number of years ago, I made several trips on the Danube, I was always amused at the way in which the Slovak raftsmen provoked the young Magyar millers on the floating mills they passed. The chal- lengers' were as a rule the millers, who would greet the raftsmen with a derisive " Jano Kuk" or "Upr6 Jano," in themselves quite innocent calls, but evidently with a tale hanging thereby ; whereupon John would make a gesture imitating the millers pocket- ing their customers' corn. This was always considered a casus belli. L. L. K.

A phrase in MB. RATCLIFFE'S reply at the last reference recalls to my memory that in the late seventies a village school-feast game (of the drop-the-handkerchief order) used to be accompanied in East Notts with the following rime :

There was a jolly miller, and he lived by himself, And the mill went round, and he earned his pelf : One hand on the hopper, and the other in the bag, And the mill went round, and he earned his swag. I cannot remember that there was any more of it, but perhaps some one else oan.

H. K. ST. J. S.

[There is but the one verse, we believe. When children use it, the last words are generally changed to "he made his grab," the principal feature of the game being that the child in the centre has to try to " grab " the arm of one of the children in the ring when they are changing partners at the end of the verse.]

SMITHS OF PABNDON, HEBTFOBDSHIBE (11 S. ii. 427). William Smith, a London merchant, residing at Parndon House, near Harlow, Essex, represented Sudbury in 1796. In 1802 he was returned for Norwich, but was defeated in 1806. He regained the

seat, however, the following year, and was still acting as its representative in 1814. His town address was 5, Park Street, West- minster. In 1818 his daughter Frances married William Edward Shore (born 1794, died 1874), who assumed the name of Nightin- gale under the will of his grand-uncle Peter Nightingale.

William Smith of Parndon had other children. One of these, Benjamin, repre- sented Norwich in Parliament 1838-47, and died in 1860. Another, Samuel, younger brother of Benjamin, resided at Embley, Hants, formerly the abode of the Nightin- gales. I am not aware of any pedigree of the Smiths of Parndon. W. S. S.

REV. SEBASTIAN PITFIELD'S GHOST (11 S. ii. 367, 510). Mr. Caswell's letter to Dr. Bent-ley, H[art] Hfall, Oxford], 15 Dec., 1695, with Mr. Wilkins's account of the apparition, Oxon., 11 Dec., 1695, from the Trin. Coll. Camb. Collection, will be found in Bentley's ' Correspondence,' 1842, vol. i. pp. 103-9. R. H. EDLESTON, F.S.A.

Gainford.

CHUBCH WITH WOODEN BELL-TUBBET (11 S. iii. 10). In many respects the small church at Newington, near Folkestone, answers to the description given by W. B. H. I am aware that lately this quaint old turret was threatened with improvements. HABOLD MALET, Col.

Churches with detached bell-towers and I presume that by this is meant gabled or turret bells occur at Spalding, Fleet, Berkeley, Torrington, Pembridge, Bosbury, Richard's Castle, Ledbury and Yarpole, Beccles, Walton, Woburn, Mylor, Brynnlys, Hennlan, Llangyfelach, Gunwalloe, East Dereham, Marston - Morteyne, Lap worth, Elstow, Magdalen and New Colleges (Oxford), Dunblane, and Kilkenny. At Talland, says Mr. Mackenzie Walcott, a covered way con- nects it with the church (see Walcott's ' Sacred Archaeology,' 1868, p. 217).

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

' THE FLYING DUTCHMAN '(US. iii. 48). The Flying Dutchman and other Poems,' was published in 1881, E. M. [? Ellen Mary] Clerke being the author. Part II. of the m, ' The Curse,' appeared in ' Women's Voices,' edited by Mrs. William Sharp, 1887, >p. 350-56. The tale is the old legend of V"anderdecken the Dutchman, compelled to ail the seas till the day of doom. In Part I. the metre does not correspond with the verse quoted in the query, but probably