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which was unearthed during excavations on the Horse Guards Parade for the new Govern- ment offices, but believe it must have been carted there in rubbish from the City in the time of the Stuarts. References to lachry- matories may, I think, be found in Sir William Gell's 'Pompeiana,' vol. i.; Fairholt's 'Diet, of Terms in Art,' s.v, 'Guttus'; Fosbroke's 'Ency. of Antiq.,' vol. i. p. 240, s.v. 'Am- pulla '; and in ' Glass in the Old World,' by M. A. Wallace-Dunlop, p. 26.

J. HOLDEN MAcMlCHAEL.

MONUMENT TO GENERAL CURETON (9 th S. x. 227, 291). There is an interesting account of Brigadier-General Cureton, C.B., in ' Salo- pian Shreds and Patches,' 27 December, 1876. It may not be generally known that he served first as an officer in a militia regiment, and in 1808 enlisted as a private in the 14th Light Dragoons. In 1814, as a reward for gallant services, he was given a commission in the same regiment.

In the Illustrated London News of 27 January, 1849, some account is given of his life and service, and an illustration of the portrait by William Bradley, whicft can be easily copied or photographed, and also an imaginary sketch of his death at the battle of Ramnuggur.

If DE ST. will send me his address I will lend him the copy of ' Shreds and Patches,' and supply a photograph of the monument when it is possible to obtain one.

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

Shrewsbury.

WORDSWORTH AND KEATS (9 th S. x. 284). W. B. says, " A parallel not hitherto, as far as I am aware, remarked in print." It was noticed by me in my second paper headed ' Wordsworthiana' at 9 th S. iv. 342. W.B. has completed my imperfect reference by actual quotation. Both of us have hitherto failed to note that the thought is repeated by Wordsworth from another poem of his, also on a picture^ by Sir George Beaumont, 'Peele Castle in a Storm.' This poem was composed six years and published eight years before the other. See Knight's 'Wordsworth,' where the resemblance between the two poems is pointed out. The Keats parallel is not noticed in my edition of 1883.

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

KNURR AND SPELL (9 th S. ix. 385, 452, 511; x. Ill, 196, 293). The game of "shinty" or '' shindy," described by MR. THOS. RATCLIFFE (ante, p. 294), is not a bit like "knurr and spell," as may be seen from MR. R. O. HESLOP'S contribution on the same page.

"Shinty" (or "shinny," as we called it in Gloucestershire) was played with a wooden knob or ball. Boys formed sides, each player being armed with a curved stick. A road, street, or lane was generally the course, and the object of the two sides was to drive the knob or ball to the goals at either end of the course. "Shinny," in fact, was just the modern game of hockey, only played with ruder implements. " Shinny on the ice " was a glorious pastime sixty years ago, when the lake at Marl Hill, near Cheltenham, was frozen over in severe winters. Trippet and coit was a rather common game on the Town Moor when I first went to Newcastle in 1863; but of late years, I think, as MR. HESLOP implies, it has gone out of fashion mainly, I fancy, on account of the expensiveness of the outfit and the skill needed to acquire proficiency. W. E. ADAMS.

Torquay.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The New Volume* of the, Encyclopedia Britannica.

Vol. V., being Vol. XXIX. of the Complete Work.

(A. & C. Black and the Times.) THE fifth of the new volumes of the ' Encyclopaedia Britannica,' constituting the twenty-ninth of the entire work, has for some little time been before the public. The delay in the notice of its appear- ance is due to accident. This latest volume is a monument of English scholarship, and is in some respects the most interesting and valuable that has yet appeared. It is, of course, impossible to direct attention to more than a tithe of its contents. The prefatory essay on ' The Application of the Doctrine of Evolution to Sociological Theory and Problem ' is by Mr. Benjamin Kidd, the author of ' Social Evolu- tion,' a work that has gone through a score editions and been translated into most European languages. The present essay gives a clear and condensed account of the growth and development in England of a study belonging practically to the latter half of the past century, and ends with maintaining, in opposition to the view taken by Huxley that ethical and cosmic processes in human society are antagonistic, that the ethical process is the cosmic process. Glass, which has made in recent years, and, indeed, during the latter half of the nineteenth century, more advance than any other artistic pro- duct, is described by Mr. Harry J. Powell and, so far as regards stained, by Mr. Lewis F. Day. Mr. Powell supplies illustrations of the work done at Whitefriars by the Powells, of the solid and quaintly mediaeval workmanship of William Morris, and the pretty and fantastic table glass of Koepping, of Berlin. A life of General Gordon is by Col. C. M. Watson, C.M.G., Deputy-Inspector or Fortifica- tions. Whether the life of Gordon as it is known to the esoteric will ever be told is doubtful, the probabilities being that it will not. An animated account of Gordon's career is, however, supplied, and the public mind is disabused of some errors that had obtained currency and had a certain measure of verisimilitude. It is a concession to popular