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DANIEL HOBBY (11 S. iv. 89, 138, 259). The reference to Romney's portrait is borne out by Romney's diary, which records that Mr. Horry (Romney wrote the name with a diaeresis over the y) sat for a whole length in 1789, and that he paid 100 guineas for it on 15 March, 1790 ; it was dispatched to South Carolina 22 July, 1790 (see Ward and Roberts's ' Romney,' Catalogue Raisonn6, p. 80). Mr. Horry sat for a second portrait, a kitcat, in 1791-2, but this was never finished.

It is doubtless this Mr. Horry to whom MB. W. P. COURTNEY referred at 10 S. vi. 46 in connexion with Jowett and his " little garden." W. ROBEBTS.

Was not Eleonore de Fay de la Tour Maubourg the granddaughter not the niece of General Lafayette ? Marie-Jean-Paul- Roch- Yves-Gilbert Motier de la Fayette (General Lafayette) was an only child. He married Adrienne de Noailles, second daughter of Jean-Paul-Francois de Noailles, Due d'Ayen. Their elder daughter Anastasie de la Fayette married in 1798 Comte Charles de la Tour Maubourg. Eleonore de Fay de la Tour Maubourg would thus be the granddaughter of General Lafay- ette, and the niece of his only son George Washington de la Fayette.

FBANCES HILL THOMAS.

AUTHOBS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iv. 88). MB. R. L. MOBETON'S second quotation, " Multi ad sapientiam pervenire potuissent," &c., is from Seneca, Dialogue ix, 'De Tranquillitate Animi,' i. 16 (11): " Puto multos potuisse ad sapientiam per- venire, nisi putassent se pervenisse, nisi quaadam in se dissimulassent, quaedam opertis oculis transsiluissent."

EDWABD BENSLY.

Aberystwyth.

MILITABY EXECUTIONS (11 S. iv. 8, 57, 98, 157, 193, 237). My remarks on p. 98 referred to British practice only, but I spoke of what has occurred in * the Lee- Metford era. Difference in design of the weapon used would not affect the procedure, which was the subject of the inquiry.

During the last war, a number of Boer desperadoes were shot under military law in the manner I described, for butchery of unarmed men, wounded soldiers, and civilians, and such like offences. Although the death penalty was awarded several times by courts -martial to British soldiers during the campaign, this was invariably com- muted by the G.O.C. to penal servitude of

varying terms, according to c the nature of the offence. Information from many quarters is against military executions having taken place in the British Army for many years past before'" flogging was abolished, in fact. Except during active service, soldiers guilty of serious crimes (not purely military), such as murder or attempt to murder, and robbery from civilians, are handed over to the civil power to be dealt with. CHABLES S. BUBDON,

STONEHENGE : ' THE BIBTH OF MEBLIN ' (11 S. iv. 128, 178, 235). MB. HABBIS STONE should refer to the Stonehenge Bibliography Number of The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society Magazine, edited by the Rev. E. H. Goddard, being vol. xxxii. No. 96 (December, 1901) of that magazine. I note that there ' The Birth of Merlin ' is attributed to Thomas Middle- ton and Wm. Rowley.

PEBCY MAYLAM.

Canterbury.

CHABLES WATEBTON'S PAMPHLETS (11 S. iv. 228). I have two pamphlets by Charles Waterton, published at Wakefield in 1835. They are in the form of letters addressed to Robert Jameson, Regius Professor of Natural History at Edinburgh. They are written in Water ton's usual caustic style, and must have made poor Jameson very uncomfortable. FBEDEBIC TUBNEB.

Egham.

FBANK BUCKLAND (11 S. iv. 245). MB. RHODES' s reference to this naturalist reminds me of an old friend whom he often used to visit in years gone by, the Rev. Scott F. Surtees of Dinsdale Manor House, a pretty place on the Lower Tees. Above^the Manor House is Fishlocks, which was also Mr. Surtees' s property, where there used to be a high crescent-shaped dam, constructed, I believe, by Smeaton, the celebrated engineer. As there are many salmon in the Tees, it was quite a sight to watch the fish in their vain attempts to leap the dam. At the end of one of Buckland's visits he was driven to the railway station by Mr. Surtees' s servant, who was, I believe, coachman and fisherman combined. The naturalist took his seat on the box alongside the driver for a gossip. Not only were there salmon in the river, but also many bull-trout, which the man said were caught and sent to France to be sold as salmon. Buckland wondered how it was that French people did not know the difference between the ^ fish, as their