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the many inexjKMisivr local educational establishments whirl i were characteristic of the time, and were mainly extinguished by the larger Grammar Schools and Board Schools, or absorbed into them. Application to the Trustees of Smith's Charity would probably lead to the particulars desired by MR. 'GARNETT. B. C. S.

THE SIGHT OF SAVAGES (12 S. ii. 410). Some observers believe that the men of wild countries recognize objects at a considerable distance, when a stranger cannot do so, because they are familiar with what they see, rather than because they see it very clearly. Vague indications may be sufficient to suggest that a certain object is a group of ostriches or a herd of antelopes. We in England are able to conclude from a distance that an animal is a cow, when we should not recognize the less familiar camel. I do not possess W. H. Hudson's ' Naturalist in La Plata,' but according to my memory he makes some interesting observations on this subject. M. P.

During the Zulu War General Pearson, of Ekowe fame, while in command of that isolated post, wrote a dispatch in which he stated that he was utilizing his native troops for outpost and sentry duties by night, because experience had proved their eyesight to be much keener than Europeans'.

In the Basuto War also of 1880-81, in which I took part as an irregular, Col. (afterwards Sir Frederick) Carrington when on the march always sent forward his friendly Basutos to act as scouts on account of their quickness in detecting the presence of the enemy in the open veldt ; on some occasions I have noticed them fully three miles ahead of the column, busy at work locating the enemy.

In Natal, too, a Kaffir will travel by night through the bush with his legs and feet bare, holding only a knobkerry in his hand, relying solely on his sight to pass along clear of cobras, puff-adders, and other wild creatures that molest the path of the wayfarer. N. W. HILL.

DERHAM OF DOLPHIXHOLME (12 S. ii. 448). 1 tho allusion is to Dolphinholme in the north ot' N'other \\Vresdale Forest, the name occurs in 1591 when some dispute arose over it ; also in 1588 in an inquiry into the weirs on the Wyre, where the mill-weir at Dolphin- holme is mentioned ('V. C. H. Lanes ' vii 270. 304).

^ The same name occurs in a fourteenth- or fifteenth-century deed as a place on the Sea

Bank in the Townfield of Liverpool. I am away from papers and cannot give the exact date or reference now. A " holm " is a piece of flat ground by the waterside. Perhaps, traditionally, or actually, porpoises had rested or been observed at such a place. It" it was at Dolphinholme on the Wyre that mills were established in 1784, it cannot have been to the Derhams that it owed either its name or existence, as stated by your corre- spondent. R. S. B.

REV. RICHARD RATHBONE (12 S. ii. 289,. 457). With regard to the particulars kindly furnished by W. R. W., Thomas Rathbone r son of the foregoing, died Vicar of Llanbadrig,. Anglesea, his successor to the benefice J. Ellis, M.A. being instituted March 1, 1813, ANEURIN WILLIAMS.

PERPETUATION OP PRINTED ERRORS (12* S. ii. 87, 177, 239, 418). In justice to the editor and publishers of ' Church Hymns, v I may say that in my edition (preface dated April, 1881) both the errors mentioned by C. C. B. as occurring in Dr. Watts' s hymn their absence. Verse 2 gives " praises," not " princes," and verse 4 gives " lose," not " loose." Though I have searched several other hymnals, in no case can I find the latter error, though one or two favour the- word " princes." JOHN T.. PAGE.
 * ' Jesus shall reign," &c.,are conspicuous by

QUEEN ELIZABETH'S PALACE, ENFIELD- (12 S. ii. 361, 384, 404, 423), An article,, accompanied by reproductions of two old plates of views of Enfield Town, appeared in Middlesex and Herts Notes and Queries for January, 1897. An engraving of the Palace was given in The Mirror of Feb. 20 r 1830, and one of the chimney-piece (re- ferred to ante, p. 362) in the same journal of Oct. 15, 1836. JOHN T.. PAGE.

IBSEN'S ' GHOSTS ' AND THE LORD CHAM- BERLAIN (12 S. ii. 469). It was in October,. 1900, that a German company performing at St. George's Hall, Langham Place, an- nounced ' Gespenster ' (the German title of Ibsen's ' Gengangere,' otherwise ' Ghosts'), for production, but it was prohibited by the late Mr. Redford, of the Lord Chamberlain' & Department. The Daily Mail of Oct. 8, 1900, published the story of the confounding of the Lord Chamberlain with Mr. Joseph Chamberlain in almost the same words a?- the extract cited by MR. PIERPOINT.

MR. PIERPOINT will find a most interesting and illuminating history of this play down to 1901, and its reception, both abroad and