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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vn. APRIL 19, 1913.

From York the party went by train to Leeds, and from there back to Liverpool :

" When we came to the long tunnel near Man- chester, I counted, by means of the lamp in our elegant carriage, the time we were in passing through it at full speed. We were exactly five minutes and fifteen seconds, and this may give some idea of the length of this subterranean work."

On 18 July the King left Liverpool by train for Lancaster, but the journey is not described. Dr. Cams says :

" Whilst we were examining the castle [at Lancaster], the carriages had been brought from the railroad horses were put to and we pro- ceeded on our journey."

The rest of the tour was made by road.

F. H. C.

In 'Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway from Birmingham to Liverpool & Manchester ' (no date, prob- ably about 1840) is a map of the line, in the margin of which is a picture of a train : in front is the engine, named " Wild Fire " ; then the tender, showing the initials " G. J.R.W." ; a coach of three compart- ments, named respectively " Liverpool," " Reformer," and " Manchester " ; a second coach, consisting of a coupe named " Man- chester," a compartment labelled " Royal Mail " and bearing the royal arms, and a rear compartment named " Liverpool " (be-, hind this sits a guard). Then comes a big family carriage on a truck, with persons sitting in the carriage ; then a coach of three compartments, named respectively " Liverpool," " Conservative," and " Man- chester " ; and then a truck carrying luggage, or possibly goods probably the former, as there is no appearance of luggage 011 the coaches, excepting that the coach marked " Royal Mail " seems to have one or two long cases on the top.

In ' The Foreign Tour of Messrs. Brown Jones and Robinson,' by Richard Doyle, 1854, plate 16 is

" The English ' Milord' upon the Rhine. How happy he looks ! He dislikes the hum of men, and sits all day shut up in his carriage, reading the literature of his country. How rude of those Germans to be laughing and joking so near his lordship."

His literature is The Quarterly Review and The Times. ROBERT PZERPOINT.

In the most interesting paper by MR. H. G. ARCHER it is stated that the practice of travelling by rail in " the family carriage " was abolished by the majority of lines about the year 1850. I should like to say that on 30 Sept., 1859, I travelled in the

" rumble of the family carriage " from Torquay to Cheltenham, over the lines of the Great Western and Midland Railways. As I have referred to my diary, I am able to give the exact date. I well remember two things : ( 1 ) that I paid second-class fare ; (2) the surprise of stationmasters and porters at the elevated position which I occupied on the truck ! X. MADAN.

THE WAXWORK EFFIGIES IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY (11 S. vii. 205). The words ascribed to Dryden at the above reference occur in an anonymous poem, ' A Description of the Tombs in Westminster- Abby,' which occu- pies pp. 298-306 of the third edition of lished by Jacob Tonson, still under Dryden's name, in 1716. Whether this poem occurs in the second edition (1706) I cannot say, but it certainly is not in the first (1693). In any case the lines are not by Dryden. As printed in the 1716 edition the lines quoted are :
 * The Third Part of Miscellany Poems,' pub-

And now the Presses open stand And ye see them all arow.

L. R. M. STRACHAN. Heidelberg.

DR. JOHNSON'S COPIES OF BURTON'S ' ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY ' (11 S. vi. 390). I find in Mr. J. H. Slater's ' Book-Prices Current,' xxvi. (1912), 165, No. 1736, the following remark on the Huth copy of the ' Anatomy,' with Johnson's autograph, men- tioned at the above reference :

" On a fly-leaf, apparently not original, but inserted when the book was rebound, is the in- scription ' Samuel Johnson ejus liber.' Catalogue.'''

The volume was described in Messrs. Pickering & Chatto's Catalogue as " a very fine piece of binding by Herring."

A.UTHOR WANTED (US. vii. 229). The Latin verses on Livingstone's slab in West- minster Abbey are from Lucan, ' De Bello Civili,' x. 189, 190. The sentence in the inscription is cut short at the end of the second line. The first three words that follow are even more apposite : Ignotunique caput ; spes sit mihi certa videndi Niliacos fontes ; bellum civile relinquam. The scene is the banquet at Alexandria at which Julius Caesar is entertained by Cleo- patra on landing in Egypt. Four lines earlier comes the much-quoted

Media inter proelia semper Stellarum caelique plagis, superisque vacavi. Caesar is addressing the priest Acoreus.

EDWARD BEXSLY. Hotel Oxford et Cambridge, Paris. [MR. JOHN T. PAGE also thanked for reply.]