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I have the following Roe Book-plates :

(1) Charles Roe (festoon armorial) Arg. on a chevron az. 3 plates between 3 trefoils slipped .... a label for difference. Crest: & stag's head. . ..

(2) William Roe (festoon armorial).... a bee-hive beset with 14 bees, volant.... impaling Shaw. Crest : on a chapeau a stag stantant .... Apparently the plate of Wm. Roe, of Liverpool, who married Hannah, daughter of Samuel Shaw.

(3) Christopher Shaw Roe (plain armorial) ... .A bee-hive beset with 13 bees volant ....

impaling a coat I cannot identify. Same -crest as No. 2. Motto : spes mea'Christus.

(4) William Row (festoon armorial). Arg. a chev. sa between 3 lions heads erased .... motto : f ortitudo et prudentia.

CHAS. HALL CROUCH.

In ' The Grammar of Heraldry, ' by Samuel lent, London, MDCCXVI., appears :

" Roe of Cheshire ; The Field is Argent, a ^Beehive beset with Bees diversly volant sable." See also Robson, who adds "granted 1653." H. ATHILL-CRUTTWELL, M.D.

New Place, Bagshot.

THE SHIP ON THE ARMS OF PARIS (12 S. yii. 288). MR. J. LANDFEAR LUCAS'S interesting note recalls the even more famous -ship-island of the Tiber,

Whose naval form, divides the Tuscan flood, whose mast, as Evelyn notes, was an obelisk, and part of whose travertine bul- ~warks are still to be seen. It was famous ior Aesculapius' temple, and it seems probable that the building up into the form of a trireme was done to represent the ship which brought the deity from Epidaurus in 293 B.C. Folk-lore is apt to associate small islands with ships. Ulysses' ship which Poseidon turned to stone is still shown near Corfu, though Procopius found on examination that it w'as in his time a recent structure. Is there any myth about -the Seine island ? G. G. L.

THE VAGARIES OF INDEXERS (12 S. vii.

231). In his delightful * Excursions in Xibraria,' G. H. Powell writes of Sully 's

'* Memoires ' in their original form :

" Only beware of the Index. ' Indices in those OW days were composed by trained lunatics who did nothing else. Witness the following ' prize entry ' which we once found under Q, after fruitless inquiry of all other letters, in the ' table ' of a famous and valuable history of the sixteenth century, ' Quae uno die diver sis locis acciderunt ! ' It should be added in common fairness that the

day referred to was a very remarkable one, even for the sixteenth century."

The cataloguer betrays at times a close kinship to the index-maker. Many years ago I noticed among works on Old Testa- ment History in a German list of second-hand theological books "King Solo- mon's Mines,' by H. Rider Haggard, and recently I have found that the Aristote- lian commentator, Alexander of Aphrodisias is regarded in one English quarter as an erotic author ! EDWARD BENSLY.

At the first reference allusion is made to the * Recollections of Lady Georgiana Peel ' and to the bewildering character of the Index to that volume. We are told that "in none of these entries was there a single reference to any 'page in the book." Such inexcusable negligence on the part of author and publisher is probably and fortunately rare, but I can mention a similar case. H. W. Wheelwright, best known by his pen-name " An old Bush- man," who died in November, 1865, wrote several books on Sport and Natural History based on personal experience, which are still esteemed for the information they afford. Among these may be mentioned ' Ten Years in Sweden,' 'A Spring and Summer in Lapland,' and ' Sporting Sketches,' long out of print. In 1861, after spending some years in Australia, he published ' Bush Wanderings of a Naturalist,' an entertaining little volume, but sadly defective in having an unpaged and therefore useless Index. Incredible as it may seem there are eight columns of entries without mention of a single page. Apparently the publisher supplied, the proofs of an unpaged Index leaving it to the author to insert the pagina- tion ; but by some mischance it was not completed before publication. In my own copy of the book, therefore, in order to make it more useful, I have had to remedy the defect with pen and ink.

J. E. HARTING.

ANGLESEY HOUSE, DRURY LANE (12 S. vii. 271). "At the corner of Bow Street and Drury Lane " must, I think, be a mis- description of the locus of this house, for New Broad Court at the northern end and Russell Street at the southern end separated these two celebrated thoroughfares, which ran and still run parallel to one another (see Rocque's 'Survey,' 1745).

Anglesey House is said to have stood two doors from Lacy's, the comedian, and near