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of Colley Gibber's * Apology,' and of Samuel Rogers's 'Pleasures of Memory.'

Amos gives several other interesting modern uses of the same words. EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia.

POPE SELF-CONDEMNED FOR HERESY (9 th S.

xi. 67, 218, 409 : xii. 52). See 3 rd S. i. 170. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

BLACK CATS (9 th S. xii. 69). The Mahratta does not eat cats of any colour, and the Mahratta women do not take employment as ayahs. This is the opinion of one who has lived among the people in question thirty years. G. M. W.

COUNSELLOR LACY, OF DUBLIN (9 th S. xi. 149, 213, 314). I should be greatly obliged if any Dublin correspondent would give me a copy of the will of Francis Lacy, of Dublin, gent. It is dated 20 June, 1766, and was proved in the Prerogative Court, Dublin, 28 July, 1766. FITZGERALD.

INFANT SAVIOUR AT THE BREAST (9 th S. xii. 29). Mrs. Jameson, in her 'Legends of the Madonna,' says that on the facade of the portico of the S. Maria-in-Trastevere at Rome there is a mosaic of the Virgin enthroned and crowned, and giving her breast to the Child ; and that this is

" one of the oldest examples of a representation which was evidently directed against the heretical doubts of the Nestorians : ' How, 3 said they, plead- ing before the Council of Ephesus, ' can we call him God who is only two or three months old ; or suppose the Logos to have been suckled and to increase in wisdom ? ' "

Mrs. Jameson adds : " The Virgin in the act of suckling her Child is a mot if oi ten since repeated when the original significance was forgotten "; but she does not give any list of examples. C. C. B.

Many years ago I saw an exhibition either at the National Gallery or the Royal Academy of paintings by Old Masters. One room was full of pictures of the Virgin and Child. A very large proportion of them showed the mother suckling the Holy Child. It was a very proper way to teach people that Jesus Christ " was made very man of the substance of the Virgin Mary His mother." The Rem- brandt Exhibition showed the same thing.

W. C. B.

A SEXTON'S TOMBSTONE (9 th S. x. 306, 373, 434, 517 ; xi. 53, 235, 511). A full-page copy of Old Scarlett's picture and inscription, the latter printed in capitals as on the original in Peterborough Cathedral, appears in 4 Dib- din's Biographical, Antiquarian, and Pic-

turesque Tour in the Northern Counties of England,' &c., facing p. 13 of vol. i. The

S'cture is copied in Chambers's ' Book of ays,' vol. ii. p. 17, but the inscription is in lower case. Dibdin's copy looks accurate, and here is a transcription of it. It differs slightly from the versions of both MR. LEEPER and MR. PAGE. The u's are not invariably v's in Dibdin's copy, nor are T and H always conjoined, while the old man's name is printed with an i instead of the first T as in other copies, i.e., SCARLEIT.

YOV SEE OLD SCARLE1TS PICTVRE STAND ON HIE BVT AT YOVR FEETE THERE DOTH HIS BODY LYE HIS GRAVESTONE DOTH HIS AGE AND DEATH

TIME SHOW

HIS OFFICE BY HEIS TOKEN YOV MAY KNOW SECOND TO NONE FOR STRENGTH AND STVRDY

LYMM A SCARE BABE MIGHTY VOICE WITH VISAGE

GRIM HEE HAD INTERD TWO QUEENES WITHIN THIS

PLACE AND THIS TOWNES HOVSE HOLDERS IN HIS LIFES

SPACE TWICE OVER BVT AT LENGTH HIS OWN TURN

CAME

WHAT HEE FOR OTHERS DID FOR HIM THE SAME WAS DONE : NO DOVBT HIS SOVLE DOTH LIVE

FOR AYE IN HEAVEN : THO HERE HIS BODY CLAD IN OLA.Y.

RICHARD WELFORD.

" BRACELET " (9 th S. xii. 6).

"The Bracelets (Rascettes) are the lines which encircle the wrist. It is, however, only those placed close to the hand that are of any importance. The Bracelets show length of life each line being said to foretell some thirty years of existence and

health, wealth, and happiness A Bracelet of four

lines is called a ' royal Bracelet,' and signifies that the fortunate possessor will gain all this world can give," c. 'The Grammar of Palmistry,' by Katha- rine St. Hill, London, 1889.

BENJ. WALKER.

Gravelly Hill, Erdington.

BREAKING THE GLASS AT JEWISH WEDDINGS (9 th S. xii. 46). I performed this ceremony fifty years ago, on the occasion of my marriage at the Great Synagogue, Aldgate. The rite is capable of an explanation much more simple than that which appears at the above reference. At all festal gatherings, such as weddings, communal banquets, &c., Jews are enjoined not to be borne away wholly by over -joyous sentiments, but to spare a thought for the destruction of Jerusalem, and the consequent loss of their nationality. The bridegroom, in the presence of his numerous entourage, gives a practical token of thisprevailingsentiment,andsmashes