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British Museum, vol. xxi. The 1812 picture is the one " engraved by Shury from a drawing by J. F. Neale," mentioned by MB. WAINEWRIGHT. The 1818 print shows -described in the reduced magazine copy merely as " From an old print," was, on all copies taken direct from the original plate, Dr. Pearson, the Rev. Dr. Pinckney, and the several Noblemen and Gentlemen educated In this establishment." This last plate is now in the custody of Messrs. Graves & Co., who may possibly be able to give some information about it.
 * a view of the garden front, and, though
 * ' most respectfully dedicated to the Rev.

The Rev. H. W. Waterfield, the present liead master of Temple Grove, Eastbourne, has kindly shown me yet another old print, described as ' Temple Grove, East Sheen, iormerly the residence of Sir William Temple : Garden View in 1810.' It appears as an Illustration in Anderson's ' History of the Parish of Mortlake,' p. 32 (1866). He tells me, moreover, that he has never seen, cr heard of, any oil or other old paintings of the house or grounds.

ALAN STEWART.

EMENDATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE (12 S. I. 365). It is suggested that in 'Julius Caesar/ III. i. 174 :

Our arms, in strength of malice, and our hearts Of brothers' temper

ior malice we read allies.

But that is surely impossible. For hardly in our day has alli'es become allies.

Wordsworth's ' Toussaint 1'Ouverture '  Thy friends are exultations, agonies, And love, and Man's unconquerable mind. And Crabbe's ' Tales of the Hall ' (v.), even some twenty years later on the workhouse, Where shame and want, and vice and sorrow meet, Where frailty finds alli'es, where guilt insures retreat.

It is hardly necessary to say that Shake- speare heard only alli'es. Six times he uses the word :

I say it is the queen and her alli'es That stir the king against the duke my brother.

' Bic. III.,' I. iii. 330. So ibid., II. i. 30 ; III. ii. 103 ; V. i. 16. And so

You to your land and love and great alli'es. ' A. Y. L.,' V. iv. 195.

Against acquaintance, kindred, and alli'es. ' 1 Hen. IV.,' I. i. 16.

W. F. P. STOCKLEY. ork.

JOHN HAMILTON MORTIMER, R.A. (12 S. i. 370, 414). I have read with great interest the communications of MR. GILBERT BENT- HALL and MR. JOHN LANE, but it is only an act of justice to join in friendly combat with the latter when he says that J. H. Mortimer's work " is very little known outside of a few book-illustrations. ' '

Are the superb mezzotints after this artist by John Dixon, Dunkarton, and Valentine Green (to mention no others) so utterly unknown ? Have the remarkably fine stipples, line engravings, and etchings by Burke and Ryland, John Hall and Woollett, Robert Blyth and Samuel Ireland, no longer a place in our collections ? These questions, in happier times, could be conclusively answered by a single visit to the Print Room of the British Museum.

However, these and many other obscure points will perhaps be made clear in MR. BENTHALL'S Life of Mortimer, on which long-delayed undertaking I heartily echo MR. LANE'S congratulations.

WALTER NOEL.

JOHN MILLER, M.P. FOR EDINBURGH 1868-74 (12 S. i. 429), was son of James Miller, builder, of Springvale, Ayr, and was born July 26, 1805. He was in practice as a civil engineer from 1825 to 1849 or 1850, being engaged for the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the North British, and Great Northern Railways. He constructed many viaducts. He was F.R.S. Edinburgh. He married in 1854 Isabella, daughter of Duncan Ogilvie, a merchant of Perth. There is a notice of him in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Ixxiv. 286-9. He died May 7, 1883.

ALFRED B. BEAVEN.

Leamington.

" HAVE " : COLLOQUIAL USE (12 S. i. 409). The use of the word " have " for " con- sume " is older than the instances quoted from George Eliot and Rider Haggard. It often occurs in Thackeray and Dickens. '"Have a drop,' said he to Pen" (' Pen- dennis,' chap. iii.). " * Let's have 'nother bottle,' cried Mr. Winkle" ('Pickwick,' chap. viii.). Cum muliis aliis.

Again, in ' Cranford,' chap. iv. : " We had pudding before meat." In ' Emma,' chap. xii. : " My dear Emma, suppose we all have a little gruel."

An earlier instance is to be found in Boswell's diary of his tour to the Hebrides with Johnson : " She proposed that he should have some cold sheep's-head for breakfast " (Oct. 22, 1773). B. B.