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I now turn to the name of the late Mr. Justice Denman (for that is his proper designation, and not " Judge Denman," which would be appropriately applied to an ordinary County Court judge). On his death in 1896, his sons did me the honour of requesting me, as an old Reptonian specially interested in classical composition, to select and edit his Greek and Latin verses. Almost all of the verses handed over to me had been copied by himself into two large manuscript books, with a date appended to each set of verses. But among the papers were some other sets, one of which I recog- nized as having been composed by myself at school, about 1862, and doubtless sent to Denman by my own head master, Dr. Pears. There was also half a sheet of note-paper, with the Committee Notice, and a version of the same in Latin elegiacs, in Denman' s own hand, but without any date. This is still in my own possession. At the time I naturally inferred, from the handwriting, that the verses were Denman' s own. Not observing that they had no date (like the rest), I printed them in Denman' s ' Inter- valla' (in 1898), and I am really the only person responsible for so doing. There is thus no warrant for the supposition that Denman in any way claimed them as his, ^although, at the beginning of the third line from the end, I seem to trace his revising hand in the substitution of " sternere " for the " ducere " or " ponere "of an almost identical copy of this second version, with other slight variations.

Mr. Arthur Denman tells me that, some ten years ago, he received from a son of Dr. Pears, Mr. H. Temple Pears, two pages of a printed and annotated copy of this version. This was clearly the work of the grandfather of Mr. Temple Pears, viz., Temple Chevallier, Professor of Mathematics at Durham from 1835 to 1871. He had been Second Wrangler in 1817, seven years before the institution of the Classical Tripos, and it speaks well for the wide culture of the mathematicians of that day that he was capable of writing a clever jeu d' esprit of this kind in Latin verse. I have very little doubt that he sent a copy of his two printed pages to his son-in-law, Dr. Pears, Head Master of Repton from 1854 to 1874, and that Dr. Pears sent it, at an unknown date, to Denman as a distinguished classical scholar of Repton School. Before returning it, Denman must have copied out the text and the version, and kept them among papers of a cognate kind, such as his owu Latin verses.

Thus we have simply two versions of the same original. One of these is Dr. Kennedy's, published by him in ' Sabrinse Corolla ' and in ' Between* Whiles ' ; the other is Prof. Chevallier' s, privately printed by him as a fly-sheet for circulation among his friends in 1842. The question of any other version by Edward Massie in no way concerns us, but, as an Examiner with Prof. Chevallier at Durham in 1842, he may easily have been the medium through which Chevallier's version found its way to Oxford.

J. E. SANDYS.

Cambridge.

PICKWICK, ORIGIN OF THE NAME: PICKWICK FAMILY OF BATH.

(12 S. iv. 12, 51, 89, 162.)

THE following notes about the Pickwick family of Bath will perhaps be of interest, though they necessarily cover ground already traversed to some extent by MB. PIEBPOIKT and MB. WAITSTEWBIGHT at the fourth reference. I will begin by mentioning the Pickwicks who were educated at Winchester.

1. William Pickwick, who, having entered the School as a Commoner in 1789, became a Scholar on July 22, 1791. He is described in the College Register as " de par. Lyncombe et Widecombe in urbe Baiarum, bapt, 8 Aug., 1776," and in the parish ^ register which records his baptism as " son of Eliezar and Susanna Pickwick." In April, 1793, he was one of thirty-six Scholars who left Winchester prematurely in consequence of a famous School rebellion, and next month he matriculated at Oxford, having become a member of St. John's College. He died on April 23, 1795 ; see Gentleman's Magazine, 1795, i. 441, where it is stated that he was his parents' only child, and his father is styled " Mr. P. of the White Hart inn at Bath." The Bath inns mentioned in Cary's ' New Itinerary ' (3rd ed., 1806), p. 125, are " W. Hart, W. Lion, York Hotel, Lamb,' these being the inns (see p. 837) which supplied post horses and carriages ; and the fact that " Eleazer Pikwick " was tenant in 1790 of the White Hart at Bath, holding it of Samuel Bradbourne, lessee of the Bath Corporation, is mentioned in the Charity Commissioners' Fourth Report (Parlia- mentary Paper of 1820), p. 277. This was the Eleazer Pickwick who died at Bath, in his 89th year, on Dec. 8, 1837 ; see Gentle- man's Magazine, 1838, i. 109, where he is