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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vii. SEPT. 25, 1920,

that the index mentioned appears to have been compiled for, and not by, the author of the book containing it.

1 came across the following in a book- seller's catalogue of British topographical works issued in 1902: heading, "Isle of Man " :

501 B[ernard] R[ichard] ' The Isle of Man ; or, Legal Proceeding in Man-shire against Sinne.' 1683.

509 Fletcher (Phineas) ' The Purple Island ; or, the Isle of Man.' 1783.

W. B. H.

The index appended to Mr. Henry Cousins 's 'Hastings of Bygone Days and the Present,' published in 1911, contains the following :

Ancient Churches of Hastings (under A). Biographical Sketch of John Collier (under B). Curious Document signed by Cloudtsley Shovell

(under C).

Duke of Cambridge (under D). Earl of Ashbnrnham (under K). Fights with Smupgleis uinder F) Interesting Historical Notes (under]). King Alfred 'under K). Old Inns of Hastings and St. Leonards, List of

(under 0).

Quaint Coronation Custom (under Q). .Residence of Mrs. Shovell (under R). Traces of Roman Occupation (under T).

FRED. R. GALE. Crooksbury, Fitzjohn Avenue, High Barnet

BEACONSFIELD'S 'SYBIL': "CARAVAN' (12 S. vii. 209). A brown colt named "Caravan," belonging to Lord Suffield ran second in the Derby of 1837, before which the name does not appear. There are however, many subsequent notices. The race in question w r as Avon by Lord Berners "Phosphorus" out of seventeen runners I have obtained the above particulars from a friend w r ho is a considerable authority on racing matters G. W. YOUNGER.

2 Mecklenburgh Square, W.C.I.

"It was the eve of the Derby of 1837 ' (not 1817) ('Sybil,' book 1, chap, i., p. 1).

The winner of the Epsom Derby in ISS' 7 was Lord Berners' brown colt " Phos phorus," by "Lamplighter," the seconc horse being Lord Suffield 's brown colt "Caravan," by Camel, out of Wings.

Mr. Louis Henry Curzon in his ' The Blue Ribbon of the Turf ' (1893), p. 302, writes "At the third trial a good start was effected .... and ' Phosphorus ' landed the race in the last three or four strides."

FREDERICK CHARLES WHITE.

No horse of the name of "Caravan"

tarted for the Derby of 1817, there were,

lowever, no less than four horses of that

lame, viz., a chestnut horse (foaled 1865),,

y Angelus, out of Carry, J>y King Caradoc ;,

bay horse (1877), by Vanderdecken, out oi Burgas, by Vedette ; a bay horse (1896) by Common, out of Tambourina. by Hamptoa ; and a chestnut horse (1912), by Holiday House, out of Esterbelle, by Esterling.

W. A. HUTCHISON.

32 Hotham Road, Putney, fcf.W.

STOURHEAD AND ALEXANDER POPE ( 1 2 S. di. 231). The lines are Pope's, but they lad nothing to do with Stourhead. Descrifo- ng his grotto to Edward Blount (June 2,, 1725), he quotes the Latin lines as given by FAMA, but with blandae for placidae in the* second line, and adds his own version.. The " Globe " edition of Pope badly needs; revision. A number of errors were pointed out not long ago in The Times Literary Supplement* and I have a longish list of others. G. G. L.

In a letter to Edward Blount, dated! Twickenham, June 2^ 1725,. Pope, after- describing his grotto in detail, writes.: "It wants nothing to complete it but a good statue with an inscription, like that beautiful antique one which you know 7 1 am so fond of and then coino the Latin lines with the English rendering quoted by FAMA. See vol. i. of Pope's 'Correspondence,' edited by Elw r in, p. 384. The Latin quatrain has been printed again and again. Lying before me at this moment are the following books in \vhich it figures : ' Epigrammata et Poe- matia Vetera,' Paris, 1590 ; P. Burmann's ' Antbologia,' Amsterdam, 1759 ; H. Meyer's ' Anthologia,' Leipzig, 1835; Nathan Cby- traeus's 'Deliciae,' 3rd eel., 1606; Caspar Earth's 'Adversaria ' (lib. li. cap. 1), Frank- furt, 1648 ; Andrew 7 Ames's 'Gems of Latin Poetry,' 1851. Barth copied irom a MS. collection of " diversae Inscriptions monu- mentorum anti quorum " made by Jacobus Bergellius and dated 1 533. Burmann, op. cit. vol. i. p. 62, after quoting Scriverius's opinion that the epigram is " suspectum et sane commentitium, " gives a long list of works in which it occurs. It is said to have been found as an inscription on the bank of the Danube and in the county of Durham, as well as in the so-called grotto of Egeria, According to Burmann, Auratus (Jean Dorat, c. 1502-88) included it, with some changes in line 3, among his own ' Poematia,*'