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Warne & Co. This reference to Oxenford is also given by ST. SWITHIN, ante, p. 428.

John Oxenford (Warne & Co., p. 168 et seg.) has eighteen stanzas, both in English and in French, i.e., six more than Prout gives, and four less than the version in ' Chants et Chansons ' or at 8 S. ii. 86. He omits the four concluding stanzas, beginning with

Les uns avec leurs femmes.

Possibly Father Prout' s English travesty is supposed to be witty, but as a translation of the original, as far as it goes, it is much inferior to John Oxen ford's rendering. Besides smaller differences, Prout omits

Quittez vos habits roses, Et vos satins broche's,

and mixes the last three of his twelve stanzas, giving three for two. Probably he wrote his version of the original French from his own or some one else's memory. ROBERT PIEKPOINT.

SIGNBOARDS AND SHOP DEVICES (12 S. iii. 446). In addition to the two books named in the editorial note may be men- tioned Norman's ' London Signs and In- scriptions,' Christy's ' Trade Signs of Essex,' and two articles in Book-Auction Records for 1915-16 on ' Booksellers' Signs of Fleet Street.' A reference to Poole's ' Index to Periodical Literature ' will reveal several other useful articles, some illustrated.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

MR. MACDONALD GILL will find a couple of informing chapters (ix., ' Historic Signs,' and xii.. ' Fanciful Signs and Curious Signboards ') in ' Old Country Inns,' by Maskell and Gregory (Pitman & Sons, 1912). In ' Historic Byways and High- ways of Old England,' by the late Wm. Andrews (Wm. Andrews & Co., 1900), there is a short chapter on ' House Marks and Signs in the Olden Time.'

FRED. MITCHELL.

9 Upper Fountaine Street, Leeds.

ZIONIST MOVEMENT (12 S. iii. 447). One of the fullest and most authoritative state- ments of the principles and objects of the movement is the article ' Zionism ' in ' The Jewish Encyclopaedia,' vol. xii. It is by Richard Gottheil, Ph.D., Professor of Semitic Languages, Columbia University, New York. In it Zionists are described as " looking forward to the segregation of the Jewish people upon a national basis and in a particular home of its own." Dr. Gottheil describes the idea of the return to Palestine as "an integral part of the

doctrine that deals with the Messianie- time, as is seen in the constantly recurring expression ' shub shebut ' or ' heshib shebut,' used both of Israel and Judah " (Jeremiah xxx. 7, &c.). The article is worth reading as a whole by any one desiring to know the feelings of the Jewish people on the subject. It occupies over 20 pages of the ' Encyclopaedia.'

MICHAEL GRAHAM.

Catheart, Glasgow.

[Vol. xxviii. of the eleventh edition of ' The En- cyclopedia Britannica ' also contains an article on Zionism ; and Mr. Leon Levisoii has just published through Messrs. Marshall Brothers a booklet entitled ' Zionism : Racial or Sectarian?'!

MAGIC SQUARES IN INDIA (12 S. iii. 383,. 424, 454). Mr. Lionel Cxist in his ' Engrav- ings of Albrecht Diirer ' accepts the view that the magic square in the ' Melencolia ' refers directly to the death of Diirer's- mother, which occurred on May 1,7, 1514 :

" The two figures in the opposite corners to each other, 16-j-l and 13+4, make 17, the day of the month ; so do the figures in the centre, read crossways, 10 + 7 and 11+6, and also the middle- figures at the sides, read across, 5 + 12 and 8+9. The two middle figures in the top line, 3+2. give 5, the month in question ; and the two middle figures in the bottom line give the vear, 1514."

Diirer' s mother, it may be observed, was singularly accommodating in the date of her" death, the day of the month being 17, the half of the sum of the numbers in every line of the magic square ; while to express the year, 1514, no figures were required above 16, the highest individual number in any square. EDWARD BENSLY.

PELL AND MILD MAY FAMILIES (12 S.. iii. 418). Paul Pell of Bardney, co. Lincoln, married Anne, daughter and coheiress of Henry Eaton of Raynham, co. Essex, by Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Mildmay. Their daughter Jane (born in 1782, died 1812) married Paul Francis Pell of Tupholme Hall in Bardney. He died in 1854. See ' Lincolnshire Pedi- grees,' Harl. Soc. Pub. Iii. 772.

G. J. A.

I have looked through some Mildmay pedigrees, and find that Henry Eaton of North Lodge, Rainham (born there in 1706-), married in 1742 Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of George Mildmay of Corbetstye,. Essex. Anne, their youngest daughter (born July 12, 1759), married Paul Pell of Tup- holme Hall, co. Lincoln, died Jan. 14, 1784,- and was buried at Rainham.