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The periods separately dealt with in this manner are the Roman, the Anglo-Saxon, the Danish, the Norman, the Plantagenet, the York and Lancaster, the Tudor, the Stuart, the Commonwealth, and the Hanoverian, the last concluding thus : In 1830 William Fourth ascends his brother's

throne, And Grey and Russell in '32 the Great Reform

Bill won. And when our Queen ascended, and when Prince

Albert came ; When Hardinge, Sale, and Napier brave held

high the British name ; When at Alma and at Inkermann we struck the

Russian low, When Albert died, the Great and Good all

British boys should know.

T. H. BARROW.

[The lines quoted by MB. VAUGHAN GOWER and MR. BARROW are part of the same version.]

" HlC LOCUS ODIT, AMAT," &C. (11 S. lii.

66, 131). Andrew Amos in his ' Gems of Latin Poetry,' p. 331, gives the following distich, headed ' Stadt-House at Delft ' : Haec domus amat, punit, conservat, honorat, Nequitiem, pacem, scelera, jura, probos.

" Odit " should obviously be inserted before " amat," and it seems almost impossible that " scelera " can be anything but a slip for " crimina." Amos adds an English version : This House hates vice, loves peace, swift vengeance

flings

Impartial upon malefactors' heads : To laws insulted timely succour brings, And glory round the brows of virtue sheds,

and says : " The Latin and English are from Dr. Watts' s Correspondence."

These Latin lines, in which each verb of the series governs its separate accusative, are an example of the kind known as " versus correlative," one of the best-known instances of which is the couplet on Virgil ascribed to Pentadius :

Pastor arator eques pavi colui superavi, Capras rus hostes fronde ligone boves.

EDWARD BENSLY. [The last word of the epigram is also read manu.~\

COL. SIR J. ABBOTT : ' CONSTANCE ' AND ' ALLAOODDEEN ' (11 S. iv. 228). I have a copy of ' Allaooddeen, a Tragedy, and other Poems,' by the author of ' Constance,' &c. It was published by Smith, Elder & Co. in 1880, cr. 8vo, cloth. The cover has on the back, in gilt, a six-storied tower seen through a palace or temple window.

The book of 230 pp.+xi pp. consists of an Advertisement (really a preface) of 3 pp. Then the play of 164 pp., with notes on the play, 6 pp. After that comes ' The Legend

of Raniwar ' (with introduction and notes), 26 pp. ; and lastly Miscellaneous (poems), 34 pp., comprising ' The Desert Child,' ' Mr. Puck,' ' The Yes,' * Sul Margine,' 'Song' ("Thou art all in all to me"), ' Ariel,' ' The Strain of other Days,' ' Battle- Song' ("Hark the crash of hurtling foe- men!"), 'Sonnet,' 'Scene: Gate of West- minster Abbey ' (8 pp.).

On the fly-leaf at the end is an advertise- ment of ' Constance,' a tale, crown 8vo, price 6s., with reviews from papers, including one in Allen's Indian Mail of 28 January, 1878, which would probably give much fuller details, and one from The Liverpool Weekly, Albion, dated 17 November, 1877.

The scene of ' Allaooddeen ' is laid at Delhi, and the dramatis personce include Allaooddeen, Ghiljie Emperor of Delhi ;. his eldest son, Prince Khizr ; Kafoor, a eunuch created Khan Khanan, Lord of Lords ; Nizamooddeen, a Muhummadan saint of the Tchoustie sect ; Ubdal the Afghaun, an assassin in the pay of the saint ; Dewilde or Dewul Devi, daughter of Kowilde; Kowilde or Kowul Devi, favourite queen of Allaooddeen ; and a lot of fictitious cha- racters. J. T.

WOMEN CARRYING THEIR HUSBANDS ON~ THEIR BACKS (11 S. ii. 409, 452, 518). A somewhat extensive bibliography on the subject (naturally, largely with foreign, references) will be found at pp. 615-18 of the 'Remarks ' toM. Montanus's ' Schwank- biicher' (1557-66), edited by J. Bolte for the " Bibliothek des Litterarischen Vereins- in Stuttgart," 1899.

A. COLLINGWOOD LEE.

HAMILTON KERBY (11 S. iv. 230). The arms of the Kerby family, according to. Papworth, Glover, and Burke, were Argent,, on a fesse vert, three crosses patte or.

Hamilton Kerby of Antigua married Anna Warner of a well-known family of that island. He had with other issue Sarah (born 1755, died 1833), who married in 1781 Robert Pott, and had issue.. Another daughter married Wilgress.

L. C. PRICE. Bwell.

BELGIAN COIN WITH FLEMISH INSCRIPTION (US. iv. 88, 176). I think that Flemish, first appeared on Belgian coins about 1887. At any rate, I have this year seen several Belgian francs of that date. They bear on the obverse the inscription " Leopold II. Koning dor Belgen," and on the reverse " Eendracht Maakt Macht."

JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.