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taste ' in any of the " three churches he names. There is certainly none in St. Ann's, nor was there any in St. Mary's : both these were classic town churches of a type familiar in the eighteenth century. But St. John's is different. It is described in the 'Manchester Church Congress Guide' of 1908 as " a curious example of revived Gothic style " the Gothic style, of course, as understood in 1769. It has a rectangular nave with galleries, two tiers of pointed windows, embattled parapets, and tall west tower with pinnacles. It is, in fact, quite an interesting, if not beautiful, example of the work of the early Gothicists. F. H. C.

" THE CALL OF " (12 S. iii. 69). Kip- ling uses " the call," &c. more as a phrase than as a title. It occurs in ' The Feet of the Young Men ' in ' Five Nations,' first published in December, 1897. The first recorded title that I have found is that for a volume of poems by L. F. Tooker, 1902, 'The Call of the Sea.' This was followed in 1903 by Jack London's well-known novel, ' The Call of the Wild ' ; in 1904 by J. A. Hamerton's ' Call of the Town.' ' The Call of the Blood,' by R. S. Hichens, appeared in 1906 ; F.T.Bullen's 'Call of the Deep' in 1907; and there have been several " calls " since of the Drum, the East, the South, the Mountains, and the Land.

ARCHIBALD SPABKE.

TEMPLE BAB : A NOTE ON ITS BIBLIO- GRAPHY (12 S. iii. 101). For the informa- tion of MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS and of others interested in this subject, I hope I may be allowed to say that in 1855 J. W. G. Gutch, M.R.C.S.L., " late Foreign Service Queen's Messenger," printed at Clifton Villas, Pad- dington, chapter i. of a work on Temple Bar. . The title-page promised ' Temple Bar, with a brief notice of the Gates of Old London, and a Narrative of the Social, Historical, and Criminal Occurrences con- nected with Temple Bar and its Immediate Vicinity.' The instalment now before me is in quarto : it has a faded photograph of the author as a frontispiece, and facing that a view of the west side of the Bar from a drawing by Boz. Later, there are ten woodcuts of remnants of the old City walls. J. W. G. Gutch was for some years editor of the ' Literary and Scientific Register,' of which he may have been the founder. After the death of the painstaking compiler, Mr. Stevens, 421 Strand, went on publishing ' Gutch's Literary and Scientific Register and Almanack,' which was replete with unexpected information. ST. SWITHIN.

MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS has covered the ground very well, and his contribution to the bibliography of London under this heading makes it reasonable to ask how far it is possible to treat similarly many other streets and spots in London. Why is it that the Corporation of London probably the richest in the world has so far done nothing towards a bibliography of London ? The Guildhall Library neither issues a Catalogue which is of any use, nor does it publish a Bulletin, as is done by nearly every good library. Verily we are slow to- learn.

I append a note upon three scarce items- upon Temple Bar :

' The Solemn Mock-Procession, or the Tryat and Execution of the Pope and his Ministers, on the 17th of November, at Temple Bar.' 4to- 1680.

' Miscellanies over Claret, or the Friends to the Tavern the best Friends to Poetry, being a collection of Poems from the Rose Tavern, with- out Temple Bar.' 4to. 1697.

' Kenrick's Introduction to the School of Shakespeare, held in the Apollo, at the DeviE Tavern, Temple Bar.' 1773.

A. L. HUMPHREYS. 187 Piccadilly, W.

The following may be added : ' History of Temple Bar.' 8vo. London,. 1877 ; ' Inner and Middle Temple ' (Bellot) r pp.USO, 264, 295 ; All the Year Round, xxvi. 438 ; Amateur Photographer, xxvii. 377 ; Appleton's Journal, xvii. 15 ; Chambers's Journal, xlviii. 428 ; Chicago Law News, xv. 62 ; Colburri* New- Monthly Magazine, clxv. 1323; Evening Standard r ix. 531 ; Penny Magazine,' ii. 223 ; St. James's- Magazine, xxvi. 797 ; Leisure Hour, ii. 380.

J. ARDAGH.

NOTABLES BORN IN 1809 (12 S. iii. 148). Besides those mentioned by T. F. H., Mendelssohn, R. Monckton Milnes (Lord Houghton), and Abraham Lincoln were born in this year.

Your correspondent may be interested in another very curious coincidence the fatality of Saturday to the English Royal family (Hanoverian line). It is the fact that William III., Queen Anne, George I. George II., George III., George IV., the Duchess of Kent, the Prince Consort, and I Princess Alice (Grand Duchess of Hesse) all died on a Saturday.

Another coincidence : some one (was it Disraeli ?) called thirty-seven the " fatal age of genius," and compiled a list including Raphael, Mozart, Byron, and Burns (there were others whom I forget), who died at that early age.

D. O. HUNTER-BLAIR, O.S.B.

Fort Augustus.