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tinned to appear monthly until December, 1772, and probably later. I have only the first three volumes of Wheble's publication, including the date last mentioned. But although there are fifteen of these poem% I find insufficient evidence to declare any of them as Crabbe's contribution. As he was born in 1754 he would be but 18 years of age in December, 1772. The indications, therefore, point to an appearance in a later issue of the magazine.

JOHN NESBITT DOWLING. 48 Gough Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham.

Mr. T. E. Kebbel in his ' Life of Crabbe,' p. 17, speaks of Wheble as the editoj* of The Lady 's Magazine, and says that the volume of that journal which contains Crabbe's prize poem on Hope is not in the British Museum.

M. Rene Huchon, on p. 70 (56 in the English translation) of ' Un Poete Realist e Anglais, George Crabbe,' suggests that this Wheble was John Wheble, the printer ot The Middlesex Journal, who was summoned to the bar of the House of Commons in 1769 for publishing the real names of the speakers in Parliamentary debates.

EDWARD BENSLY.

EUROPEAN ARTISTS IN INDIA (12 S. iii. 415)- In 1858 there was in Calcutta a very able artist, Mr. J. Grant. I cannot quote any large work of his, but he used to paint with the then Mr. Richard Temple (later the Right Hon. Sir R. Temple, M.P., &c.), who was a good amateur artist. I have two excellent books illustrated by Mr. Grant : ' Anglo-Indian Domestic Life ' and ' Rural Life in Bengal.' With the letterpress, which is as good as. the sketches, these give a most excellent idea of India in those days. J. H. RIVETT-CARNAC.

Hotel des Trois Couronnes, Vevey.

MAGIC SQUARES IN INDIA (12 S. iii. 383' 424). The square recently found at Dudhai bears a strong resemblance to the well- known square in Albert Diirer's symbolical picture ' Melancolia,' printed in 1514. Indeed, the two squares are built up out of the same elemental groups of figures ar- ranged in a slightly different manner. The question suggests itself, Where did Diirer get this square from ? ARTHUR BOWES.

GREYSTOKE PEDIGREE (12 S. iii. 384, 424). A pedigree of this family down to the time of Henry III. will be found in my ' Early Yorkshire Charters,' vol. ii. p. 508, accompanied by some early evidences of the family. W. FARRER.

Over Kellet.

RUISSHE HASSELL (12 S. ii. 513 ; iii. 1321 339). Having recently had the oppor- tunity of examining the portrait (Kit-cat) of Major Ruisshe Hassell at Halswell, I am able to reply to W. R. W.'s query, and to describe the uniform more particularly.

The portrait is that of a man apparently about 30 years of age. He is wearing a low-crowned black hat with black cockade, and three-cornered brim, edged with gold lace ; a dark-coloured wig ; a white lawn stock or cravat ; a bright steel cuirass (breastplate) ; and a blue coat embroidered with gold lace. There can, I think, be no doubt that this was the uniform of the Blues in Hassell's time, and that he was in that regiment. Besides the fact that Wade's Horse wore a red and white uniform, as stated by Millan, did they wear the ciiirass ?

I may add that there is also a miniature of Major Hassell at Halswell, in which he is depicted in a similar blue coat and steel cuirass, but with rather more gold lace on the collar of the coat, and he is facing the opposite way to that in the larger portrait. ST. D. M. KEMEYS-TYNTE.

The Beeches, Claverton Down, Bath.

WARDEN PIES (12 S. iii. 273, 402).- Pear-pies may still be met with in Lincoln- shire. I have had my share in many such pies made from the fruit of a very old " bell-tongue " pear-tree.

P. W. G. M.

MEWS AND MEWYS FAMILY (12 S. ii. 26, 93, 331, 419, 432 ; iii. 16, 52, H3, 195, 236, 421). It seems clear that the Mrs. Mews who was living at Winchester in dire straits; in 1710 must have been the widow of Ellis Mews, once Mayor, who died in 1709, and whose third wife she was. This is not easy to explain, except on the ground of some family feud, such as sometimes occurs when there is a remarriage ; for Ellis Mews's son (also Ellis) was very well off indeed. He died in 1729, leaving by his will several manors, and was a man of very ample- substance. I notice that in his will (proved 1709) Ellis Mews senior only leaves this son- Ellis one shilling. Whether this points to the existence of previous friction or whether it was due to the fact of his said affluence (he had married two heiresses, and sub- sequently married a third), I am unable to say. It would seem that there must have been some strong reason why a man of fortune should have allowed his father's- widow to be so grievouslv distressed.

C. H. S. M.