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except that the camels are in the fifth com- partment of the steerage, the end one being occupied by leopards, and the next by elephants. And, moreover, there are no sons of men, drunk or sober, in the fore- ground.

Lamb's memory was not so confused as Mr. West wood thought. Impressions re- ceived in childhood are not easily forgotten, and besides, did not Lamb's " inconsiderate fingers " drive right through that portion of the Ark where the elephant and camel resided ? Can that plate in Mr. West- wood's copy of Stackhouse have been different ? It would seem so. Yet on Feb. 5, 1873, he writes to Lady Alwyne : " I have got Stackhouse, 1st edition ; old man in mantle, elephant, camel and all " (the italics are mine). This after writing a whole little article on the absence of these looked- for quadrupeds !

If anybody has a copy of the first edition I wish he would look and see what the Ark picture is like. Probably the words in the letter were merely put in to round off the sentence, without regard to absolute accuracy, and certainly without anj' idea of their being published. Therefore the pre- sumption is that the copy of Stackhouse to which Lamb had access was the second edition, published in 1742, and that one, at least, of the plates in it differed from the first edition, on the strength of which Mr. Westwood wrote his article.

G. A. ANDERSON.

FIREBACKS AND STOVE IRONWORK : BIBLIO- GRAPHY. I have come across some contri- butions on antique cast-iron firebacks and oven-plates in an out-of-the-way quarter, one article having a ready-made biblio- graphy which should be reproduced in c N. & Q.,' where it will be of more use to antiquaries than where I found it. I should explain that on the Continent open fire- places are not in use everywhere, especially not in Germany, where all the ornamentation is to be found on cast - iron oven-plates. One of the oldest firebacks with a date known in England is that reproduced by Gardner and Dawson, with the effigy (done to the quick, we may presume) of Iron- master Richard Lennard of Brede Fournes in Sussex, and bearing the date 1636, but the oldest dates, I believe, from 1515. In Germany one of the oldest oven-plates in existence is dated 1508, but a contemporary sketch of a "lamina ferrea in arce Beil- stein " has been discovered bearing the date 1474, inTold Arabic numerals. The Verein

deutscher Huettenleute has a fine collection, the number of specimens in which exceeded six hundred in August, 1913, and has, we may suppose, increased since. The oldest of these is dated 1497. Joseph Fischer- Ferron has seen two from the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg with the dates 1538 and 162$ respectively, and a modern reproduction, in the Maus Collection in Frankfurt a. M. is of a plate dated 1519. There is still a great demand for such ornamental oven- plates in the eastern part of Wiirtemberg and in Bavaria. I reproduce the biblio- graphy with the addition of a few items :

Marc Antony Lower. Contributions to Litera- ture. London, 1854.

W. Luebke. Ueber alte Oefen in der Schweiz (Antiquarische Mittheilungen, Band 15), Zurich, 1865.

L. Bickell. Die Eisenhuetten des Klosters Haina. Marburg, 1889.

L. Beck. Die Geschichte des Eisens. 4 vols. Braunschweig, 1891-9.

H. Wedding. Eiseme Ofenplatten (Festschriffc d. Harzvereins f. G. u. A.). Wemigerode, 1803.

L. Maxe-Werly. L' Ornamentation du Foyer depuis .... la Renaissance (Bulletin Archeolo- gique). Paris, 1897.

J. Starkie Gardner. Iron Casting in the Weald (Archceologia, vol. Ivi., part i.). London, 1898.

J. Fischer-Ferron. Taques, Description d& Plaques de Foyer et de Fourneau observees dans le Pays Luxembourgeois. Luxembourg, no date- (about 1900).

The same. Plaques de Chemin^e et de Four- neau observe'es dans le Grand-Duch6 de Luxem- bourg et la Province de Luxembourg. Luxem- bourg, 1900.

Kassel. Plattenoefen und Ofenplatten im El- sass (Illustrierte Elsassische Rundschau, Jahrg. x.). Strassburg, 1903.

Charles Dawson. Sussex Iron Work and Pot- tery (Sussex Archceological Society's Collections, vol. xlvi.). Lewes, 1905.

Harry Fett. Tre Soerlandske Reliefkunstnere fra det 18de Aarhundrede (Vestlandske Kunst- industrimuseums Aarbog for 1906). Bergen, 1907.

L. Beck. Geschichte der Eisen- und Stahl- giesserei (in C. Geiger's 'Handbuch,' vol. i.).. Berlin, 1911.

O. Johannsen. Die Quellen z. Gesch. d. Eisen- gusses im Mittelalter. . . . bis 1530 (Archiv f. d Gesch. der Naturwissenschaften, vol. iii.). Leipzig. 1911.

The same. Die technische Entwicklung .... gusseiserner Ofenplatten (Stahl und Eisen, Feb. 29, 1912). Duesseldorf.

A short letter on the same subject (ibidem, March 28, 1912).

E. Schroedter. Ueber die aeltesten gusseis- ernen Ofen- und Kaminplatten (ibidem, June 23,. 1914).

See also the Victoria County History of Sussex, vol. i.

L. L. K.