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Try * Turner on Birds,' by E. H. Evans (Cambridge, 1903). Turner's book was pub- lished at Cologne in 1544. L. L. K.

TERRACE (11 S. iii. 207, 251). At the latter reference several interesting attribu- tions of date were afforded. Miss MARIA POOLS' s reference to Highbury Terrace is particularly interesting, and apparently this was the first Terrace to be admitted to the Directories, where it appears in 1791 (' Universal British Directory,' p. 433). Cole- brooke Terrace is much later, but New Terrace, in what is now Colebrooke Row, dates from 1791. Cloudesley Terrace belongs to the following century. It was only in 1811 that the trustees of the Stone Fields estate (i.e., Oloudesley's bequest) obtained powers to grant building leases.

Faulkner's identification of Hammer- smith Terrace as having been built about 1770 is probably only correct as to the date of erection. The name, as in his further instance of Theresa Terrace, belongs, it may be possible to show, to a later date. " Row " was the more usual designation used in London suburbs until the great revival in domestic architecture in 1815.

The example of the Adelphi is remarkable, as apparently " Terrace," as a place-location, was not generally used here until subsequent to 1795. In Lowndes's ' London Com- panion ' both text and plate (by B. Green) give " Adelphi Buildings " for what is now Adelphi Terrace. Mr. Bretherton in his ' History of the Adelphi,' 1908, provides several reproductions of old views, including B. Green's large plate with its title ' The Buildings called The Adelphi ' ; but the date 1777 should read 1771 (vide ' Grace Catalogue,' 182).

The frontispiece of his book is a pretty reproduction of a drawing by John Richards, to which Mr. Bretherton has given the title of 'The Terrace, York Buildings, 1796.' This drawing occurred in the sale of London prints held at Sotheby's in July, 1853, as lot 583 : " Terrace, York Buildings, 1796, for a Scene, Jno. Richards, R.A. Coloured drawing, 20 inches by 14. 9s. Evans." The fact of this being the design for a scene would disqualify its identification as The Terrace. There is another instance of a misapplied title at p. 72. The view named ' Adelphi Terrace in Garrick's Time ' is a reproduction of T. Malton's plate ' The Adelphi Terrace,' drawn, engraved, and published in 1795, sixteen years after the death of Garrick. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

' The Annual Register ' for 1779 (Chronicle, p. 196) records the death of David Garrick, " at his house on the Adelphi Terrace " on 20 January in that year. G. F. R. B.

EMINENT LIBRARIANS (11 S. ii. 489, 538 ; iii. 13, 55). May I venture to make an alternative suggestion to one made by MR. F. C. WHITE at the first reference ? Is the " Jones " who was, in the opinion of John Hill Burton, so eminent a librarian, not rather Mr. Thomas Jones, the very learned Librarian of the Chetham Library, Man- chester ? See a paper on ' Bibliothecarius Chethamensis ' read by Mr. W. E. A. Axon on 14 December, 1875, before the Manchester Literary Club (Manchester Quarterly, ii. 59), and * D.N.B.' I have heard my father (the late Thomas Hughes F.S.A., one of your earliest contributors) speak in glowing terms of Mr. Jones as an exceptional man.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

YEWS IN CHURCHYARDS : CLUBS FOR KILLING OLD PEOPLE (11 S. iii. 166). A curious reference to a churchyard yew occurs in Sebillot's ' Folk-lore de France,' iv. 76. When recording the many French super- stitions connected with prehistoric stone implements, he mentions that in Morbihan axe-hammers are called blessed hammers, and it is said that they were used in by-past times to knock on the head old people who lived too long. Other traditions relative to this practice of remote times are also given, the instrument of the Stone Age being replaced by a weapon of wood. The people living near the Montagne de Mane- Guen asserted, about 1845, that aged persons weary of life went up to its summit in days of yore in order that one of the Druids living there might set them free by striking them on the head with his sacred club. It is related at Caurel (Cotes du Nord) that for- merly old people were killed with the first cudgel to be had, but that after the intro- duction of Christianity a mat (large kind of wooden club) was blessed, which was deposited in the hollow of a yew near the door of the church, where it was to be pro- cured in case of need. It is not rare to hear it said of an old man who has become a burden to his family, " Le pauvre vieux, he has been forgotten ; the blessed mat of Caurel should be sent for." In the country round it is declared that people came from a great distance formerly to borrow it, and that it was specially used for killing old women.