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officer, sent by the British commander of the forces attacking the Redan to Mac- Mahon, asking " if the latter could hold the position" his men had just stormed. Mac- Mahon replies, " Dites a votre general que j'y suis et que j'y reste." This is, I believe, the generally accepted French version, though I have never seen English testimony to its accuracy. The historical phrase was natur- ally freely flung at MacMahon when he retained his position as President of the Republic in the later seventies ; in fact, I believe Tenniel had a Punch cartoon with this inscription. F. A. W.

CAMPBELL THE SCOTTISH GIANT (11 S. iv. 130). In Boase's ' Modern English Bio- graphy,' 1892, vol. i. col. 535, MB. AD AIR FITZ-GERALD will find the following infor- mation -

" Campbell, William. &. Glasgow ; came to Newcastle about Nov. 1877 ; landlord of Duke of Wellington public house High, bridge, New- castle ; exhibited himself at Egyptian hall, London, d. Newcastle 26 May 1878.

" NOTE. He was 76 inches round the breast and weighed 52 stone."

RALPH THOMAS.

EMERSON IN ENGLAND (11 S. iv. 69, 115, 152). Emerson was in England in 1872, for on 13 November he attended (as the guest of the late Dean Howson) a meeting of the Chester Archaeological Society at the Old Bishop's Palace, when the late Mr. I. E. Ewen read a paper on ' Ancient Tapestry.' I was present on the occasion. Mr. Emerson seconded a vote of thanks to Bishop Jacob- son for presiding, and returned the audience thanks for their unexpected kindness to him, as a stranger who had the happiness that day of seeing Chester for the first time and viewing their grandly designed old temple, which in its old age, when in ruins and crumbling away, was then being restored to its best, and more than its best, condition all which was an object very charming for a stranger to see. Not only, he said, did he experience great happiness in meeting the officers of the Cathedral and those of the Chester Archaeological Society, and in renewing an old acquaint- ance with his good friend the Bishop, but it had given him great pleasure and satis- faction to hear the statements made with respect to that interesting relic of the Cathedral (a tapestry depicting Elymas the sorcerer). He felt his day in Chester had been most happily spent, and he had great pleasure in seconding the vote just proposed to the Bishop.

My late father (Mr. Thomas Hughes, F.S.A.) was then Honorary Secretary of the Chester Archaeological Society, and at the request of the Dean he showed Emerson the points of interest in the city ; and there lies before me the autograph card of Emerson, left with my" father in recognition of the services rendered to his American visitor. T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., F.S.A. Lancaster.

APPARITION AT PIRTON, HERTS (11 S. iii. 466 ; iv. 33, 134). I am much interested in this subject. Possibly the following may interest Miss Pollard and your other readers. ' The Legitimist Kalendar, 1910,' contains the names of three Gorings exempted from the Acts of Indemnity, viz., George Goring, Earl of Norwich, exempted 1651 (England, p. 135) ; George Goring, Lord Goring, his son (ditto) ; and Sir H. Goring, Governor of Bristol for King James III. and VII., 1722.

If any one can give further information of the Cavalier Goring who was executed (place, year, name, <fec.), it will be useful for the next ' Legitimist Kalendar,' as his name ought to appear in the ' Martyr Roll of Loyalty ' in that work.

F. M. A. MACKINNON.

" VlR BONUS ES DOCTUS PRUDENS AST/

HAUD TIBI SPIRO " (11 S. iv. 65). The exceedingly rare edition of Sidney's ' Arcadia ' published in 1593 has a title-page wholly different from that of the 1590 edition, and one which Mr. A. W. Pollard says was specially made for it. This 1595 title-page has an emblematic picture of a pig and a rosemary shrub with the suggestive motto " non tibi spiro," a rather palpable declaration that the book was not for every- body. This title-page is reproduced in The Universal Review for July, 1889, accom- panying the text of Mr. Pollard's history of the title-page. CHAS. A. HERPICH.

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" DAVID HUGHSON " : EDWARD AND DAVII> PUGH (11 S. ii. 89; iv. 70, 116). Allow me a line to say that the street mentioned in the last paragraph on p. 71 should be Well Street (not Wall Street), Ruthin.

W. P. COURTNEY.

DR. EDMOND HALLEY'S MARRIAGE (11 S^ iv. 85). MR. DANIEL HIPWELI/S interesting note contains one error. The maiden name of Halley's mother-in-law was Margaret (not Mary) Kinder (cf. 10 S. viii. 221 el passim). EUGENE F. McPiKE.

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