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marriage ' than ' marriage in a higher rank ' ; but the highest classical authority in India prefers it to anoterogamy, the only alternative which sug- gests itself.

Mr. William Coldstream retired from the Indian Civil Service in 1894. The highest classical authority referred to may have been Mr. John Graham Cordery.

STEPHEN WHEELER. Oriental Club, Hanover Square.

REFERENCES IN RUSKIN : WOMBWELL (11 S. vii. 209). Your correspondent may be interested to know that George Wombwell is buried in Highgate Cemetery (Grave 3867). The memorial consists of a square pedestal, on which reposes a life-size lion carved in white marble. On the pedestal are the following inscriptions :

(Front.) To the Memory

of George Wombwell

(Menagerist) Born 24 th Dec' 1777 Died 16 th Nov r 1850.

(S. side.)

(N. side.)

Also

to the memory of

M r Edmund Bramston,

of North Street, Pentonville,

and South Mims, Middlesex.

Born 18 th April, 1808.

Died 9 th June, 1859.

In memory

of Ann Wombwell,

Widow,

Died 3 rd September, 1876, aged 88.

The above notes \vere taken on 16 March, 1889, by JOHN T. PAGE.

Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

SIR JOHN GILBERT, J. F. SMITH, AND 'THE LONDON JOURNAL' (11 S. vii. 221). To many of those living in country places The London Journal, with its tales and illustrations, came as a weekly godsend. It Was so in my old first home. Apart from the tales, sketches, and interesting notes, the illustrations Were a source of pleasure the week round. Gilbert's were of country life full -flavoured, and many of them depicted scenes which we all looked upon daily. Every household took in the Journal, and talked of ' Woman and her Master,' ' Minnigrey,' ' The Will and the Way,' and others Written by J. F. Smith. The Journal ran in close rivalry with Rey- nolds' s Miscellany and the tales in it written by G. W. M. Reynolds. Both Journal and Miscellany were delivered to me from the country town, and though the price of each was a penny, We paid 3d. each for them,

as well as for The Family Herald and Cham- bers's Journal. Now and again copies of The Illustrated London News reached us, and the illustrations therein by John Gilbert had always a most hearty welcome, especi- ally those with Christmas subjects.

THOS. RATCLIFFE.

STONE FROM CARTHAGE (11 S. vii. 109, 195). A correspondent of The Gentleman's Magazine wrote, under date 5 May, 1792, that near the minor (or north) porch of Stepney Church "is a stone brought by Capt. Thomas Hughes from Carthage, upon which is the following inscription :

Of Carthage Walls I was a Stone O'h Mortals read with pitty Time consumes all, it spairest none Man Mountain Town nor Citty Therefore O'h Mortals now bethink You where unto, you must Since now such stately Buildings Lye Buried in the dust

THOMAS HUGHES. 1663

An excellent engraving of this stone is common among local collections of prints, &c. It is to be found also in some of the editions of Lysons and the expanders of Strype. Local antiquaries state that this stone was

"first set up as a corner-stone in the small porch on the north side of the chancel, on the site of the small Vestry, and was afterwards placed on the north wall of the west porch. In 1845 it was placed on the north wall under the belfry."

Just prior to that it seems to have been treated with some disrespect, and was derelict in the Great Churchyard of Stepney. Hatton in 1708 supposes the inscription upon it to be genuine, "or it Would not have been permitted to be there." It Was proved in 1845 that the relic was Turkey stone. Me.

THE WRECK OF THE ROYAL GEORGE (11 S. vi. 110, 176, 374, 436, 496; vii. 36, 77, 113, 158, 195). MR. F. CURRY inquires about the result of the " raising " of this vessel. As a matter of fact the hull remained for many long years where it foundered, and, being dangerous to modern and larger ships, was blown up during successive summers (1839 to 1844), under superintend- ence of General Sir Charles Pasley, R.E.

R. B.

Upton.

BlBLIOTHECA BRYANTIANA (11 S. Vii. 209).

Messrs. King & Lochee sold in 1806 the library of Jacob Bryant, which may be the one referred to by MR. ABRAHAMS. I sup- pose he is the Jacob Bryant of Salt Hill of