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Arch," been taken also to indicate a terrace of houses.

Two suggested explanations have been offered. The first is to the effect that, in the year 1800, a farmhouse was built on the site of the present Wrangthorn Church by Nathaniel Atkinson, whose son John carried on the farm after his father's death, the land extending from the Cardigan estate to the slopes of Woodhouse Ridge. John Atkinson and a friend or two took coach to London, and on their safe return had a meeting in the farmhouse, and over a bowl of punch solemnly gave the district the name of " Hyde Park Corner " to com- memorate their pleasant visit to London. The present " Hyde Park " Hotel at Leeds was then called the " Red Lion," but its name was soon afterwards changed. The stone marking the boundary of Leeds has only recently been removed from the end of this house.

The second suggested explanation is that the builder and proprietor of certain houses which formed the nucleus of the present Hyde Park Road in Leeds had named a new street " Henrietta " after a beloved daughter. Subsequently, however, he took a journey to London, where, to his annoyance, he found that a Henrietta Street bore an evil repute. On the other hand, Hyde Park had pleased him mightily, and on his return he substituted that appellation, and reserved " Henrietta " ex- clusively for his daughter.

J. LANDFEAR LUCAS.

Glendora, Hindhead, Surrey.

ANTONY BREWER. The ' N.E.D.,' s.v. ship of 'Lingva,' 1607. In the ' D.N.B.' this is shown to be an error. ' Lingua ' is a highly ingenious and witty play, part comedy, part morality, part masque. The question, Who wrote it ? may be classed with that other, What song did the Sirens sing ? RICHARD H. THORNTON.
 * Catadupes,' attributes to him the author-

THE LIGHT BRIGADE AT BALACLAVA. There would seem to be some uncertainty as to the numbers that formed this Brigade, popularly known as the " Six Hundred," as they are variously given as 607 and 673.

In Lord George Paget's * Journal ' the numbers, as taken from the regimental returns, are thus given :

Present on Parade Total of all ranks 673

Horses 643

For thirty, therefore, there were no mounts

E. L. H. TEW. Upham Rectory, Hants.

NOTES ON SHILLETO'S EDITION OF BUR- TON. In Burton's ' Anatomy of Melan- choly ' (ed. A. R. Shilleto, vol. iii. p. 155) there is a rather confusing reference to one of Sannazaro's Piscatory Eclogues : " Accius Sannazariua Edoga 2, de Galatea, in the same manner feigns his Lycoris tormenting herself for want of sleep, sighing, sobbing, and lamenting." The lamenting in San- nazaro's poem is done, not by Lycoris, but by the fisherman Lycon. The foot- note which is appended to this sentence does not come from Sannazaro at all : " Dum vaga passim sidera fulgent, numerat longas tetrica horas, et sollicito nixas cubito suspirando viscera rump it." Apparently the editor tried to give the quotation a feminine look by writing tetrica and nixas. Earlier editions have tetricus and nixus.

In vol. ii. p. 235 Burton quotes the motto " Be contented with thy lot," and the foot- note. adds " Contentus abi." Here the editor suggests a reminiscence of Horace, cence of " good old Mantuan," Eel. v. 46 :
 * Sat.,' I. i. 118-19. It is probably a reminis-

Sorte tua conteutus abi, sine cetera nobis. Compare also Petrarch, Eel. iv. 68 :

Sorte tua contentus abi, citharamque relinque.

W. P. M.

Johns Hopkins Club, Baltimore.

THE MEMOIRS OF CAMERON OF FASSIFERN. Col. John Cameron of Fassifern, Lieu- tenant-Colonel of the Gordon Highlanders, was killed at Quatre Bras. A brief sketch of him by the Rev. Archibald Clerk, minister of Kilmallie, entitled * Memorial of Colonel John Cameron, Fassifern, K.T.S.,' printed by Thomas Murray & Son, Glasgow, was privately issued January, 1858. A second edition, with a few corrections, appeared in August, 1858. The first edition for the public appeared in 1859. A fourth was destroyed by a fire at the printer Murray's premises before issue. These facts, which I learn from the author's daughter, Miss M. Macleod Clerk, Aros, Row, Dumbartonshire, may interest bibliographers.

J. M. BULLOCH.

123, Pall Mall, S.VV.

WYCHERLEY'S PLACE OF BIRTH. In the ' D.N.B.' and other Lives of the poet it is stated that he was born about 1640 at Clive, Shropshire. By courtesy of the Vicar of Whitchurch, Hampshire, I recently ex- amined the old Church Register of that parish, and noticed the following entry :

" William the sonne of Mr. Daniel Wycherley was baptized the 8< h April, 1641."