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1851). An examination of Dr. Gessert's book will put an end to the belief that there were no artists in stain eel glass during the seventeenth century. An article of over 40 columns in Meyer's ' Conversations- Lexicon,' which is based on Gessert, supplies lists of seventeenth-century artists in glass for the Netherlands, Germany, France, England, Switzerland, and Spain. See also chap. vi. in Mr. Eden's book, where, in describing the revival of ecclesiastical glass- painting encouraged by Archbishops Abbot and Laud, he mentions, among Flemish glass-painters who settled and worked in England, Bapti-ta Sutton and Bernard and Abraham van Linge. Another artist men- tioned by him is Henry Giles of York, " who, in 1687, finished some of the uncompleted work of the younger van Linge in University College Chapel."

For some eighteenth- cent ury English artists on glass see the following lives in the ' D.X.B.' : William Price (d. 1722), Joshua Price (fl. 1715-17), William Price his son (d. 1765), Thomas Jervais or Jarvis (d. 1799), Francis Eginton (1737-1805), James Pearson (d. 1805), and Eglington Margaret Pearson (d. 1823). EDWARD BEXSLY.

Your correspondent will find references to artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in chap. v. of ' A History of English Glass Painting,' by Maurice Drake, published in 1912. Amongst others, the names of Richard Greenbury, Henry Gyles, Abraham and Bernard van Linge, William Peckitt, Francis Eginton, William Price, Jervais, Pearson, Forest, J. H. Miller, Robert Godfrey, and William Brice occur, and specimens of their work are referred to.

H. TAPLEY-SOPER.

Exeter.

SUBMARINES (12 S. iii. 356). In " The

Table " of " Physico-Theology : By W.

Derham, The Seventh Edition. London,

1727," MR. ACKERMANN will read " DrebelTs submarine Ship " ; and on p. 5 this note about it :

"But Jthe famous Cornelius Drebell contrived not only a Vessel to be rowed under Water, but also a Liquor to be carried in that Vessel, that would supply the want of fresh Air. The Vessel was made for King James I. It carried twelve Rowers, besides the Passengers. It was tried in the River of Thames ; and one of the Persons that was in that submarine Navigation was then alive, and told it one, who related the matter to our famous Founder, the Honourable and most Ingenious Mr. Boyle." This book is " the Substance of Sixteen Sermons Preached in St. Mary-le-Bow- Church, London ; in the Years 1711, and

1712." Dr. W. Derham is recorded in the ' D.N.B.' as President of St. John's College.. Oxford. He died in 1757.

E. S. DODGSOX.

A news cutting states :

" Few would associate the name of Napoleon with the submarine, and yet, had it not been for the vigilance of the British Government, the two might have been inseparably linked for all time. When Napoleon was banished to St. Helena, various schemes were set on foot to effect his escape. One of the most remarkable of these originated in the brain of a notorious smuggler named Johnstone. A submarine vessel, says Scott in his ' Life of Napoleon,' was to be the means of effecting this enterprise. It was thought that by sinking the vessel during the daytime she might escape the notice of the British cruisers, and, being; raised at night, might approach the guarded rock without discovery. The vessel was actually begun in one of the building yards upon the Thames, but the peculiarity of her construction having occa- sioned suspicion, she was seized by the Govern- ment."

R. J. FY>TMORE.

Lieut.-Col. Cyril Field in ' The Story of the Submarine ' (Sampson Low, 1908) traces these under- water craft back for many centuries. Chap. i. is from B.C. 415 to A.D. 1559. It is fully illustrated.

RALPH THOMAS.

Your correspondent will be- interested in an article on ' Forerunners of the U-Boats '' in the July issue of The United Service Magazine. L. L. K.

LOPE DE VEGA '(12 S. iii. 274). So far as I know the ' Pastores de Belen ' has never been translated into English ; nor is this surprising in view of the fact that only a- tiny fraction of Lope's output has ever appeared in this form. Of course, English days have been based on those of the- ipaniard. Moreover, versions of separate- scenes and passages have appeared in various review articles, literary histories, &c. But I am acquainted with only one play that has been completely rendered the Montague- Capuiet drama, which has obviously to be lassified under Shakespeariana. Further, there are various short lyrics done by Long- fellow and others : a sonnet and its English equivalent by Churton figured quite recent ly in these pages (ante, pp. 210, 314). Men like Lord Holland gave a few specimens from the longer poems, too. And, finally, we have the renderings of the ' Peregrino en iu patria' which formed the subject of a
 * orrespondence at 11 S. xi. 417, 498 ; xii. 53.

On the moral question raised by your correspondent I cannot enter at length-