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on horseback. Though the road was partially blocked, he succeeded in pulling out of the way, and the Queen, in acknow- ledgment of his skill, bowed to him as she rode by. In commemoration of this incident Clark had the omnibus painted blue, substi- tuted " Royal Blue " in the place of " Eagle " on the side panels, and had a picture ot the Queen on horseback painted on the panel of the door. Subsequently he celled all his omnibuses on that line Royal Blues, " but the original ' Royal Blue ' was the only one that tore a picture of the Queen."

G. F. R, B. '

The 'buses of the L.G.O.C. that ran toi the east down Bethnal Green Road formerly found a terminus at *' The Salmon and Ball " at the corner of the Bethnal Green and Cambridge Roads, opposite to St. John's Church. About 40 years ago, as the Company did not extend the journey, some enterprising individual or company ran a line of 'buses which continued eastward down Green Street, over Twig Folly Bridge, to " The Earl of Aberdeen " in the Roman Road, Old Ford, at the corner of the Grove Road. This line of 'buses was called the " Royal Blue." The L.G.O.C. naturally had to lengthen their run to compete with the " Royal Blue " vehicles. The sympathy of the public was for many months with the Blue 'buses, and I as a small boy well remem- ber the juvenile population occasionally gathering in small crowds round a " Blue " when it stopped to pick up or set down in Green Street, and crying out " Hurrah, Royal Blue ! " and cheering.

There was also running at the same time a " Royal Red" line of vehicles. I believe that these distinctions disappeared years ago. WILLIAM BRADBROOK.

JJletc.hley.

THORESBY PEDIGREE (11 S. iii. 188). The ' Notes ' by Mr. A. S. Ellis are in the Thoresby Society's " Publications," vol. ix. pp. 112-25.

A Thoresby pedigree, in which the point raised in Dr. Round's foot-note is" referred to ...appeared in Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, September, 1910. G. B.

ARISTOTLE ON EDUCATION (11 S. iii. 107). See ' Physics,' I, 7, 7 : Tiyverai <$ ra aTrXw? ra jaev /xcTacr^^/xaTtVet, oiov !K Y/iAKOv, TO, 8e Trpocr^ecret, oibi' TO, av^aro/xcva, ra 8' acu/3ecrf, olov e/c rov XiOov o 'Epp'js, and ' Metaphysics,' II. 5, 6, IV. 7, 8, VIIT. 6, 2. The application to the process of

education is Addison's, and is not 'attributed by him to Aristotfe. A Greek prose version by Sir R. C. Jebb of part of The Spectator, No. 215, will be found in Jebb, Jackson, and Currey's * Translation?.'

EDWARD BENSLY. University College, Aberystwyth.

Cicero makes use of the same illustration in the second book of ' De Divinatione,' chap. xxi. ; see the passage beginning, " Quasi noil potuerit id evenire casu et non in omni marmore necesse sit, inesse vel Praxitelia capiti ! " to the end of the chapter. ,N. W. HILL.

The idea of the statue existing already in the block of marble, and only needing to be cut out, is attributed by Prof. Raleigh (' Style,' p. 62) to Michael Aiigelo. It occurs also in Donne. : As perchance carvers do not faces make, But that away, which hid them there, do take ; Let crosses, so, take what hid Christ in Thee, And be His linage, or not His, but He.

' The Cross' (" Muses' Library," i. 168).

C. C. B.

[MR. W. SCOTT also thanked for reply.]

VANISHING LONDON : PROPRIETARY CHAPELS (US. ii. 202, 254, 293, 334 ; iii. 149, 193). ! recollect St. Etheldreda's Chapel, Ely Place, when the upper portion was used for worship by a Welsh Episcopal congregation, and the crypt was utilized as a cellar for storing beer by Reid's Brewery. This was in 1875. The late Father Lock- hart purchased it for the Fathers of Charity the. following. year. Cardinal Manning opened it with Pontifical High Mass in 1877. FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

RICE FOR THE COMPLEXION (11 S. iii. 189). The habit of eating raw rice for the com- plexion is fairly common among girls, and I have known more than one case of serious injury to the health result. Undoubtedly rice so eaten does whiten the complexion by inducing anaemia, but it can scarcely be said to improve it. C. C. B.

Fifty years ago, at any rate, the girl in village who had naturally a pale com- plexion was FJI object for envy amongst v bevy of ruddy village lasses, and the least sensible of them ate such things as raw rice and chalk in order to make them pale. Many of the girls carried rice in their- pockets, and crunched all the day long. Chalk was considered to be as effective, but less tasty. I do not think the practice is now common. THOS. RATCLIFFE.