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also, ISTo. 277 Gray's Inn Road, a building of exceptional interest (vide The Antiquary, vol. 44, April, 1908), but this is all much Jater than the Cinder Heaps and Battle Bridge. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

MICHES IN CHURCHYARD CROSSES (12 S- vi. 251). E. R. may be referred to the following extract from a review of Mr. Aymer Vallance's ' Old Crosses and Lych- rgates ' in The Times Literal y Supplement if or June 3 :

" The niche which is sometimes found in the socket or base of the shaft of a churchyard cross, especially in the western counties, remains, we think, an unsolved problem. We are not so ready as Mr. Vallance to accept the suggestions of Sir William St. John Hope that it was intended to receive the pyx with the Host during the station of the Palm Sunday procession, for the niches are usually too low down and too shallow for such use."

EDWARD BENSLY.

These occur in the south-western district <of England ; a similar one to that at Great Malvern will be found at Blackmere in Herefordshire ; other instances are at Wonastow, Raglan, Lydney, Newland, Whit- ohurch, Wigmore, and Broadway. It is suggested that the purpose of the niche was to contain a light, but a more probable suggestion was advanced by the late Sir W. H. St. John Hope, and is that the niche was designed as a receptacle for the pyx, enclosing the Sacred Host, in the course of Ahe Palm Sunday procession.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

WILLIAM ELLIS, ENGRAVER (12 S. vi. 40). This artist was born in London in 1747, and died there in 1802. Most of his prints are landscapes, though he engraved a few other subjects either in line or aquatint after different artists. He did four of the latter after F. Chesham, known as ' The Memorable Victory of the Nile,' and these SXQ desirable items to obtain.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW i(l2 S. vi. 228). Here are a few books which _your correspondent will find of service :

Moore. ' Digest of International Law,' 1906 {Government Printing Office, Washington.) A comprehensive and authoritative work of reference.

Cohbet.t. * Cases and Opinions on International Law,' 1909 (Stevens & Haynes.) Contains the general lines of the subject.

Hall. ' A Treatise on International Law,' 1909 <Clarendon Press.) One of the principal works in .English.

Oppenheim. ' International Law,' 2 vols., 1905-6 (Longmans.) Comprises all modern test oases.

Phillipson. 'International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome,' 2 vols., 1911 (Mac- niilla.ii.) The only English work on the subject.

Taylor. ' Treatises on International Public Law,'' 1902 (Sweet & Maxwell).

Westlake. 'International Law,' 2 vols.. 1904-7 (Cambridge University Press.)

Wheaton. ' Elements of International Law,' 1904 (Stevens & Sons.)

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

[MR. N. W. HILL who mentions alo Sir Robert Phillimore's 'Commentaries upon International Law,' 1879 thanked for similar reply.]

A "CHINESE " GORDON EPITAPH (12 S" vi. 272). -For this epitaph, see 'In Memo- riam, Epitaphs on .''. C. Gordon,' London t William Rice, 86 Fleet Street, 1885, p. 9. The heading is :

" For the Grave of Gordon : ' I had rather be dead than praised,' C. G. G." This heading applies to all the epitaphs of which this has the first place. The last two lines are :

There, strong by death, by failure glorified O never proud in life, lie down in pride !

It will be seen that in the version quoted by MR. J. M. BULLOCH " stung " and "justified" are substituted for "strong" and " glorified," and that the comma after " O " ought to be deleted.

The signature of the author is E. D. A. M., which perhaps someone can translate. The preface of the book says :

" A prize of live guineas was offered in the March number of The Journal of Education, for the best epitaph on General Gordon. Out of more than two hundred compositions sent in, at least ten appeared to the Editor worthy of preservation,' '

From the position of the epitaph in the book I presume that it won the prize. Following the ten " competition " epitaphs are fifteen others written at the editor's request by contributors to the Journal and private friends, four in English, nine in Latin, of which one contains a Greek line, and two in Greek. In my copy has been inserted an undated extract probably from The Journal of Education, giving seven epitaphs, English, Latin, German and Greek.

The first of these is : Warrior of God, man's friend, not here below,

But somewhere dead far in the waste Soudan ; Thou livest in all hearts, for all men know

This earth hath borne no simpler, nobler man. Under this appears " Tennyson " in writing.

Possibly the identity of E. D. A. M. could be discovered at the office of The Journal of Education. ROBERT PIERPOINT.