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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1911.

CONTENTS.-No. 75.

NOTES : Statues and Memorials in the British Isles, 421 j Tottel's 'Miscellany' and John Harington, 423 The Blindfolded Man : Japanese Variants, 424 Blue Rod, 425 The Ballad of Splendid Silence ' Signs of Old i London Mathematical Terms not in the 'N.E.D.' Tiger or Arctia caja Moth, 426 Deadly Nightshade and , Pigs, 427.

QUERIES : Judge Jeffreys and Temple Church Organ "Mad Archy Campbell," 427 John Gove Adelaide, Widow of Hermann IV. Prince Albert on Balmoral | Whig Club - " Jail " in Heraldry, 428 Mrs. Kitty \ Cuthbertson Royal Exchange Paving - Blocks Foreign Ambassadors Charles I. Miniature John Drummond John Vesey Ornithology and Natural History, 429.

REPLIES : Burns and 'The Wee Wee German Lairdie,' 430 Bishop Ken First Halfpenny Newspaper, 431 Black Bandsmen in the Army Bishop Vigors Holwell Family, 432 Mansel Family Aristotle on Education- Bibles with Curious Readings Milton Bibles Marriage Relationships Putney Bowling-Green " Never swap horses when crossing the stream," 433" Wait and see" Wall Churches, 434 " Orgeat "James Ballantyne's Kelso Press, 435 " Capping " at Scottish Universities- Sanctuary Rings, 436 William Evatt Robert Rollo Gillespie Lawrence Street, St. Giles's-in-the-Fields Physician's Cane, 437 "May Fair" Queen Victoria's Maternal Great-Grandmother " When she was good," 438 ' Belgravia ' Shakespeare and the Prayer Book, 439.

NOTES ON BOOKS. ' Grace Book A,' Cambridge Uni- versity Records' Coronation of Edward the Seventh.'

Booksellers' Catalogues. Notices to Correspondents.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi. 441; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401? 11 S. i. 282 ; ii. 42, 242, 381 ; iii. 22, 222.)

STATESMEN AND POLITICIANS (continued).

Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A massive column to the memory of Earl Grey stands at the head of Grey Street. It rises to a height of 133 feet, being surmounted by a bronze statue of the hero of the 1832 Reform Bill. A spiral staircase of 164 steps in the interior of the column leads to a protected platform upon the capital. The architects were Messrs. John and Benjamin Green, and the statue was the work of E. H. Baily. The foundation stone was laid on 6 September, 1837, and a parchment scroll placed within it bearing the following words :

The Foundation Stone of this Column, erected by public subscription in commemoration of the

transcendent services rendered to his country by the Right Hon. Charles, Earl Grey, Viscount Howick, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and Baronet, was laid on the sixth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, by John Green and Benjamin Green, Esq w, Architects.

Then follows a list of the Building Com- mittee. The inscription on the column is as follows :

This column was erected in 1838 to commemorate

the services rendered to his country by

Charles, Earl Grey, K.G. who, during an active political career of

nearly half a century,

was the constant advocate of Peace,

and the fearless and con istent champion of

civil and religious liberty.

He first directed his efforts to the amendment of the representation of the people in 1792,

and was the Minister by whose advice, and under whose guidance,

the great

measure of Parliamentary Reform was,

after an arduous and protracted struggle,

safely and triumphantly achieved

in the year 1832.

Hereford. In front of the Shire Hall is a statue of Sir G. C. Lewis, Bt. It was un- veiled by Lord Palmerston on 3 September, 1864, and is thus inscribed :

Sir George Cornewall Lewis, A Wise and Honest Statesman,

A Profound Scholar,

A Kind and Firm Friend,

M.P. for the County of Hereford from 1847 to 1852,

Chief Steward of the City,

Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1855 to 1858,

Home Secretary from 1859 to 1860,

Secretary for War from 1860 to 1863.

Born 1806.

Died 1863.

Shrewsbury. --In the Square stands Marochetti's fine bronze statue of Lord Clive, the founder of our Indian Empire. It was erected in 1860, and represents the great statesman bareheaded and in military dress.

Salisbury. Close by the Council Chamber in the Market-Place is a bronze statue by Marochetti of Sidney Herbert (Lord Herbert of Lea), who for many years represented the southern divi&ion of Wiltshire in Parlia- ment.

Eastbourne and London. On 24 October, 1910, the Duke of Norfolk unveiled a bronze statue of the late Duke of Devonshire on the western lawn, Eastbourne, opposite the Grand Hotel. It is the work of Mr. Alfred Drury, A.R.A., and represents the Duke in his robes as Chancellor of Cambridge Uni-