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like Douglas Jerrold or George Cruikshank. As it was, his somewhat indolent good- nature, the heart of one slow to wrath and ever ready to " kiss and be friends," led to his being only too often " put upon." No doubt he knew that it was for the good of Punch that he should be sacrificed when the paper changed hands, but few of us would be generous enough to acknowledge as much in a similar case. Stirling Coyne took his conge rather like a sulky child ; but then he was personally insulted nicknamed " Paddy " and " filthy lucre " whereas Henry Mayhew was, to the last, treated with proper respect. To soften slightly the mortification he must have felt when told that the new proprietors would dispense with his services as " joint-editor," he was offered the honorary appointment of " sug- gester-in-chief " !

I do not think he had more than one son, and he had, I believe, no daughters. He and his boy were, I always heard, warmly attached to one another : more like brothers than parent and child. Gus had, likewise, one son only Richard. Horace was married, but childless. HERBERT B. CLAYTON.

39, Renfrew Road, Lower Kermington Lane.

SHEPHERD'S MARKET, MAYFAIR (11 S. v. 228). The portion of MR. NEWMAN HARD- ING'S inquiry which concerns the position held by Grosvenor Chapel, South Audley Street, may, in a measure, be answered by MR. JOHN COLLINS FRANCIS'S contribution at 11 S. ii. 294. No doubt the Rev. Ewart Barter, who is the officiating minister of the Chapel, would reply fully upon the queries.

CECIL CLARKE.

Junior Athenaeum Club.

CHEVET'S POPULARIZATION OF Music (US. v. 229). The Cheve system (there is no t) is a method of teaching part-singing and sight- reading. It is named after the founder, Emile Cheve (1804-64). The article ' Cheve, or Galin-Paris-Cheve System,' in Grove's ' Dictionary of Music and Musicians ' (new edition), gives an outline of the system. It has been adapted for English use, and class-books and exercises are published by Messrs. Moffatt & Paige, 28, Warwick Lane, E.G. J. S. S.

EARLY WOMEN DOCTORS (11 S. v. 187). Surely the foundation of this subject is to be found in Nicholas Culpeper's ' Directory for Midwives ' (London, 1651), in which the superiority of women as medical practi- tioners is warmly extolled.

EDWARD HERON-ALLEN,

OWEN SALUSBURY-BRERETON (11 S. v.. 250). I have made some fairly close investi- gations into the pedigree of the above, but I have not absolutely satisfied myself as to* the identity of his mother. His father^ Thomas Brereton, married, first, a Miss Trelawney, sister of Sir William Trelawney ,. sixth baronet, of Trelawney, Cornwall, Governor of Jamaica ; and, secondly, Catherine, daughter and heiress of Salusbury Lloyd of Leadbrook, co. Flint. Upon his second wife inheriting her father's estate,. Thomas Brereton adopted the additional surname of Salusbury, and became Thomas- Breretoii-Salusbury. I feel fairly certain^ that Owen Brereton was the son of the first marriage. He was born in 1715. On the death of his father, Thomas Brereton- Salusbury, the estates passed to Owen, who assumed the name of Owen Salusbury- Brereton. I think I once had a note of the- dates when the two changes of name took place, but I cannot find it at the moment. Owen Salusbury-Brereton died s.p. in 1798, and divided his estates amongst the Tre- lawneys, which again points to his mother having been one. Part of the estates passed to William Lewis Trelawney, afterwards eighth baronet, who assumed the additional name of Salusbury on 30 Oct., 1802, and of Salusbury-Trelawney on 19 Dec., 1807. The estates in Wirral were given to Col. Charles Trelawney, a nephew of the first Mrs. Thomas Brereton. He assumed the additional name of Brereton before Tre- lawney on 12 June, 1800.

Robert Brereton, a brother of Owen Salusbury-Brereton, was also at West- minster, and a scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. R. S. B.

PHASES OF CULTURE (11 S. v. 168). See Hugh Miller's ' Testimony of the Rocks,' Lecture Sixth. C. S. M.

MILITARY EXECUTIONS (11 S. iv. 8, 57,. 98, 157, 193, 237, 295, 354, 413, 458 ; v. 52). In The Southern Messenger (San Antonio, Texas) for 7 March, 1912, the Rev. P. F. Brannan of Weatherford, Texas, writes :

" When I was in the Civil War, years ago, I. saw a man shot to death .... [for attempted deser- tion]. Twenty men of his own company were selected, their guns taken from them. Ten of the guns were loaded with powder and a leaden ball, and ten with powder only, so that none of the twenty would know whether or not he con- tributed to the death of his former comrade.. After his death, every soldier in Gen. Lee's army,, cavalry, infantry, and artillery, was marched by his dead body as a warning to them all."

JOHN B, WAINEWRIGHT..