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 12S.VHLJAN.8, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 35 is not unlikely that there may be more caches, than he is aware of even in Yorkshire, for the benefit of posterity to say nothing of hoards elsewhere. ST. SWITHIN. Surely it is now a matter of general knowledge that every Public Library makes a special feature of collecting the literature of its own district and also that those in County and the larger towns possess (as in that under my care) very large local libraries. Apart from this, the information has already foeen printed in the ' Libraries, Museums, and Art Galleries Year-Book ' for 1914 and the Literary Year-Book ' for 1913, and if these are not accessible, a card to any Librarian always secures full information as o the extent of his own collection. The question of recording private collec- tions is another matter, and I doubt if it 'would be welcomed generally. My own experience suggests that most correspon- dents are not interested so much in local history and topography as in genealogy, and too frequently they ask for searches to be made for references to their forbears which private owners would hardly undertake, and in my opinion should not be expected of custodians of public collections. I have found that the suggestion of a fee to be contributed towards the funds of the library in return for such services ends the corres- pondence. PUBLIC LIBRARIAN. BATEMAN BROWN. ( See under " The Her- mit of Hertfordshire " 12 S. vii. 466, .516). MR. PRESCOTT Row may be interested to have a few particluars I can give him of Bateman Brown, whose book he now -possesses. Bateman Brown, J.P., was born at the village of Houghton, Hunts, Apr. 9, 1823, the year of a great flood there. In 1896 he "bought Bridge House, Huntingdon, and died "lere May 9, 1909, aged 86, and was buried it Houghton. His wife, Mrs. Susannah Brown died at Bridge House May 7, 1913, aged 88, and was also buried at Houghton. 'Reminiscences of Bateman Brown, J.P.,' was published at Peterborough, 1905. Bateman Brown was the son of Potto -and Mary Brown. Potto Brown was born at Houghton, July 16, 1797, and died Apr. 12, 1871. A biography was published by Mr. Albert Goodman called ' Potto Brown : the Village Philanthropist,' 1878. I can remem- ber them all very well. HERBERT E. NORTHS. Cirencester. KILDALTON CROSS, ISLAY (12 S. vii., 511). The richly ornamented cross and other sculptured stones at the ancient church of Kildalton (not Kidalton as written in J. C. M. F's. query) are fully described and illustrated in Stuarts ' Sculptured Stones of Scotland,' vol. 11, p. 36: Proceedings of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries, vol. xvii, p. 277 ; R. C. Graham's ' Carved Stones of Islay,' p. 83, with plates xxiv. and xxv., and Romilly Aken's 'Early Christian Monuments of Scotland,' pt. iii., p. 392. In the National Scottish Museum of Anti- quities, Edinburgh, there is a plaster cast of tho cross, presented by Mrs. Ramsey of Kildalton, standing 9 feet high. HERBERT MAXWELL. Monreith. "HuN " (12 S. vii. 330, 375, 438, 492). 'The Rowers,' by Mr. Rudyard Kipling, mentioned by MR. LEFFMANN at the last reference was published in The Times of Dec. 22, 1902 (see 12 S. iv. 25, s.v., Germans as "Huns"). The poem has been re- published in 'Rudyard Kipling's Verse,' 1919, vol. ii. p. 57, where it is dated 1902. " (When Germany proposed that England should help her in a naval demonstration to collect debts from Venezuela)." ROBERT PIERPOINT. THE BRITISH IN CORSICA (12 S. viii. 10). A reference to Fortescue's 'History of the British Army ' would probably give the information required. In the occupation of 1794 Sir David Dundas had the command, and the 18th Foot (Royal Irish) was at least one of the regiments engaged. In the affair of 1814 the Pembroke, and possibly ' L'Aigle ' also took part ; there was a Brigade of Infantry engaged as well. The French hoisted the Bourbon flag on the approach of the English and a treaty was effected under which the French were placed under the protection of the English and the forts of Ajaccio, Calvi and Bonifacio were surrendered. Should Mr. Lewis wish for a more detailed account of the 1814 affair, I shall be glad to let him have a copy of some private papers I have. F. M. M. Rochester. A FEW WARWICKSHIRE FOLK SAYINGS (12 S. vii. 507). Some of these sayings are not confined to Warwickshire. My Tiother, a Leicestershire woman (born near Melton Mowbray), would often speak