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 298 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2S.iX.Oc* PENZANCE FAIR : i4 CAPUT JOHANNIS IN Disco " (12 S. ix. 30, 78). Perhaps the source in common of this query and of an editorial note in The Tablet, June 18, 1921, at p. 781, is an alleged very interesting article in The Western Morning News by H. Jenner, concluding that '" St. John's head once bore a symbolic relation to the Holy Eucharist, of which the precise meaning is now unknown." Some one (I cannot) should study this line, especially since this would tend to answer several recent queries still left in the air e.g., 12 S. v. 209 ; vi. 227. Citations in my answer to ' The Dance of Salome' (see p. 297) would aid, and to these might be added : Burlington Mag., 1917, xxxi., at 213A, and 1918, xxxiii. 45-54. ROCKINGHAM. Boston, Mass. LATIN PROVERB : " WE'RE IN THE SAME BOAT " (12 S. viii. 432, 476). In the Chinese work ' Kung-tsung-tsze,' attributed to Kung Fu, who was the eighth lineal descendant of Confucius and died about B.C. 208, the author's father, Kung Wu, is said to have uttered these words : When the natives of the Kingdoms of Wu and Yueh meet a storm in the same boat amidst the great river Kiang, they cooperate to help one another as if they were the two hands of a single man, quite forgetting their national animosities. And why so ? Only because their immediate concern is one and same. A similar but much briefer saying is quoted in the ' Yuen-kien-lui-han,' 1703, torn, ccclxxxvi., from the writing of the philosopher Tang Sih, who nourished in the sixth century B.C. KUMAGUSTJ MlNAKATA. Tanabe, Kii, Japan. MEMORIAL TO Miss CASSELL, KEW GARDENS (12 S. v. 146). This was provided by past and present students of the College for Working Women to express their sense of Miss Cassell's unique personality. It is intended to be a resting-place in sight of sky and trees within reach of working Londoners, and it is an appropriate memorial of the objects of the lady's life (Kew Bul- letin, 1909, p. 160). The inscription as given by MR. PAGE is not quite accurate ; it actually reads as follows : Life the gift | Let us take hands and help this | day we are alive together | Look up on high and thank the | God of all. [ On the side is the inscription " L.C. 1901." It is disfigured by initials cut by visiting vandals. J. ARDAGH. ALLUSION IN * LONDON LYRICS ' (12 S. ix. 210, 257). None of the writers adduce any convincing evidence that the " Lady Di " alluded to by Locker was Lady Diana Beau- clerk who married Baron Huddleston. One is warranted in assuming from the context of the poem that Locker had in his mind people who were riding in Rotten Row at about the same period, and as Cantelupe of the "curls" died in 1850, Lady Diana Beauclerk could hardly have ridden in the Row with him. I suggested in my previous letter (p. 257) that the " Lady Di " referred to by Locker was not improbably Cante- lupe's sister, Lady Diana Sackville West, who married in 1860 Sir Alexander Banner- man. She nourished long before Lady Diana Beauclerk. This suggestion was, how- ever, cut out from my letter by the editor for some reason that I am at a loss to divine. 1 may add that MRS. FORTESCUE confounds Lord Cantelupe of the " curls " with his younger brother, who succeeded to the De La Warr peerage, and that " W. A. B. C." is still further off the mark as regards the young nobleman to whom Locker alluded in his poem ' Rotten Row.' WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES (10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii. ; 12 S. i.-vii. passim; viii. 25 ; ix. 206). Temple Bar. MR. JOHN ARDAGH in identifying these statues offers tlie interesting alterna- tive " Elizabeth (or Anne of Denmark)." I believe Pennant was the first and to suggest this alternative. A photo- graph of the statue before me helps to confirm his belief, but we might ask why should Anne of Denmark be repre- ' sented ? On the other hand, John Bushnell ' the sculptor could not have seen Elizabeth, and although he may have intended to represent her, he actually achieved a figure resembling the King's consort (Anne of Denmark). The rather perplexing doubt would be set at rest if the statues had in- scriptions. ALECK ABRAHAMS. CHURCH or ST. MARY, LITTLE OAKLEY, ESSEX (12 S. ix. 212, 257). Many ^ thanks to ! probably represents the facts. Unfortu- nately I cannot speak as to the tinctures of the arms being shown as I have not seen I note to go by. G. W. YOUNGER, 2 Mecklenburgh Square, W.C.I.
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