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 i2s.vii.-TOT.Y3i, 1020.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 97 '.him : but it stamps its author as a genius just because it is so immensely superior to rthe treatment of the matter by the drama- tists mentioned. For the rest, much that seems inconsistent in Shakespeare's presentation of Shylock is easily explained by the fact that the ' Merchant of Venice ' was all along in- tended to be a comedy, and only the supreme genius of Shakospeare, which could hot be satisfied with the conventional carica- ture of a blood-thirsty villain, evolved the tragic figure of a strong, hunted man, turning on his tormentors when a suitable opportunity seemed to offer itself. L. ZECKHAUSEN. 66 Highbury Park, N.5. "BUG" IN PLACE-NAMES (12 S. vii. 28, '77). Apropos of this discussion I wish to mention that a branch of the Bugg family is found in Essex, particularly about Colchester. JMy mother was a "Bugg" and naturally I am interested in districts I shall feel very grateful if anybody can vgive me any particulars respecting the history of this family in Essex, and whether there are now, or were formerly, any places derived from that name, as in Nottingham- shire. H. RICHARD WRIGHT. 64 Carpenters Rd., Stratford, Essex. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON COFFEE- HOUSES (12 S. vi. 29, 59, 84, 105, 125, 143, 162; vii. 26, 67). The following are mentioned as well - known meeting-places 'for Whigs and Tories in L' Estrange' s The Observator, 1684-7 : Vol 1, Bruin's Coffee House ; Amsterdam Coffee House ; Gray's (in Bloomsbury) ; Grecian Essex Buildings ; Jonathan's ; Kid's, Sam's, Widdon's ( Ave Mary Lane) ; Shipton's, Royal, Old Dog " Tavern (Ludgate Street) ; Fountain Tavern (Holborn), Horse Shoe Tavern (Drury Lane). Vol. 2 : Angel and Crown, George's, Wonder "Tavern and several of those mentioned in vol 1. R. S. B. CONTINUATION OF' DON JTTAN' (12 S. vii. 49). In my possession is a small volume entitled ' Continuation of Don Juan, Cantos XVII. XVIII.,' published by G. B. Whittaker, London, and Munday and Slatter, Oxford, 1825. No author's name. The two Cantos >mprise 158 stanzas. The Shade of Byron : A Mock Heroic } oem,' published by John Burns, London, .d., also contains a continuation of ' Don luan.' W. J. M. THE PALACE OF THE SAVOY (12 S. vii. 45). To the list of authorities named in MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS' interesting Bibliographi- cal Note may be added : ' Notice on the Savoy Chapel, built by King Henry VII., and recently restored by Queen Victoria, 1844 ': (fly-title and title, and 16 pp. of text, with printer's imprint at foot of p. 20, London, printed by G. J. Palmer, in the Savoy.") The pamphlet is of value for its minute descriptions of the work on the ceilings (" painted roof ") and the alterations through- out the chapel at that time, and also for the note on p. 18 : " The devices on this ceiling are minutely explained in Mr. Willement's 'Heraldic Work.'" There is no author's name to the pamphlet, but the Rev. Henry White begins his preface to Mr. Lottie's 1878 volume by saying : " In the year 1844 Mr. Gibson Lockhart, the son-in-law and biographer of Sir Walter Scott, was commanded to write " An Account of the Royal Chapel of the Savoy." His short pamphlet was printed at the cost of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and was destined only for private circulation. No other attempt has ever been made to present a monograph on the Savoy." Mr. Loftie gives a quotation from tho pamphlet, at pp. 228-30 of his volume, in regard to the "painted roof.-" Crouch End. F - J - HYTCH. THE CRUCIFIXION IN ART : THE SPEAR- wouND (12 S. vi. 314 ; vii. 11). In Russian religious art everything as a rule is done according to order and as it has been done for hundreds of years and more. I have a Russian crucifix of an elaborate type, such as is often seen in Russia. On the right of the Figure on the cross and parallel with it is a spear ; further away to the right is the sun and below it are two female figures, tho front one, as an inscription shows, being the Mother of God (Bogomater). On the left of the Figure on the cross and parallel with it is a reed : further away to the left is the moon and under it are a woman and a Roman soldier. In this arrangement, evidently, the principal objects are on the right the sun, the Mother of God, and the spear : the objects of inferior dignity are on the left the moon, the soldier, and the reed. The spear reaches higher than the reed, but I doubt if that has any significance, as it is of precisely the same length as the spear in the hand of the Roman. Undoubtedly, if a spear-wound were indicated, it would be on the right side, as the more important one. T. PERCY ARMSTRONG. The Author's Club, Whitehall Court, S.W.
 * and persons of that patronymic.