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number of the references appear in it for the first time, and no suggestion as to the author- ship ; (2) that the increased number is said by some writers to have been taken from Scattergood's Bible ; and (3) that whereas the 1683 edition is a quarto, the 1678 is described in Archdeacon Cotton's Catalogue as a folio, and the same statement is made by Lowndes, though Hewlett gives it as a quarto. It must be admitted, however, that none of these objections have great weight under the circumstances. It is remarkable, as bearing on the above, that the only English Bible in the 2,000 vols. of Dr. Scattergood's Library* as offered for sale 26 July, 1697, is the Cambridge 4to, 1683.

This would seem to strengthen the view that this was, in fact, a copy of the edition issued by him ; but my copy does not seem to bear any internal evidence of the notes and references being his work, and the difficulty remains with regard to tradition having preserved the name of the anonymous editor if I may use an Irishism through so many years. More evidence is required, and I should be very grateful for any early references to Dr. Scattergood's Bible, or for information as to the actual existence of a 1678 edition published by J. Hayes at Cam- bridge. Such a copy, if it were forthcoming, would, I think, be found to contain evidence, on the title-page or elsewhere, of the author- ship of the notes and parallel references.

BERNARD P. SCATTERGOOD.

BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. The old book- sellers have always been apt to give amusing interest to their lists by annotating their own catalogues, and Mr. Spencer, of New Oxford Street, is no exception to the rule. In commenting on a book on gladiators he makes a fierce attack on ancient Greece and Rome, although given to swear " by Jove." Mr. Spencer goes too far, however, when he calls modern Greece "a nest of brigandage." It is worth remembering that there has been no case of brigandage in the kingdom of Greece (which includes all the classical spots of ancient Greece in the strict sense of the word) since the memorable outrage on British subjects which occurred more than a genera- tion ago. Greek brigands there are, no doubt, but they are all in Turkey. Modern Greece, amid her troubles, deserves com- mendation for having put down a brigandage to which in similar countries, Corsica and

" A Catalogue of the Library of the Reverend and Learned Dr. Scattergood, Deceas'd. Contain- ing a Curious Collection of Greek and Latin Fathers," &c. Brit. Mus. 355, c. (6),

Sicily to wit, neither France nor Italy haa been able to put an end. HELLENIST.

LATIMER FAMILY. Looking through back volumes of ' N. & Q.,' I see, 7 th S. vi. 208, a query signed J. W. referring to the descen- dants, if any, of Bishop Hugh Latimer, and again, 8 th S. xii. 509, a query appears signed A. C. with reference to the descendants of the father of Bishop Hugh Latimer. My father, Williams Daniel Latimer, civil engi- neer, third and youngest son of John William Bassett Latimer by his wife Eliza Katherine, eldest daughter and coheiress of Daniel Winslow, of Cloghan, co. Fermanagh, claimed to be a descendant of the family of Bishop Latimer. I have no record of my father's family further back than my great-grand- father, Hugh Latimer, an officer in the 10th Regiment of Foot, who died at Gibraltar probably towards the end of the eighteenth century. He married Mary McCormick, daughter of (?), of Cookstown, co. Monaghan. Hugh Latimer had two sons : the elder was my grandfather, John William Bassett, and the younger James Cranston, who was married first to his cousin Mary McCormick, of (?), co. Donegal. He after- wards went to Manchester, and of his descendants, if any, I know nothing. My father's arms are Gules, a cross patonce or, surmounted by a bend azure, semle of fleurs- de-lys of the second. Crest, a demi-lion proper, holding between the paws a fleur-de- lys azure. M.otto, Vi et virtute. These arms are painted on the portrait of Bishop Latimer in the National Portrait Gallery with a slight difference in the detail. ^ I possess an old print of the bishop in which the same arms appear. I shall be most grateful to any one who can give me in- formation with regard to the genealogy of the family. My only brother is named Hugh. (Miss) F. H. LATIMER.

6, Oakley Street, Chelsea.

CHINESE GHOSTS. A Chinese friend tells me that Chinese people believe their ghosts never appear outside Chinese territory. This does not mean that they never appear out- side China. The Chinese quarters in the large American cities are also Chinese terri- tory ; the Chinatown of San Francisco, for in- stance, is haunted by a Chinese ghost, which my friend had seen. It was in the open street, he said, in the neighbourhood of the Chinese Consulate, about four o'clock in the morning. The first intimation he had of the approach of something uncanny was the bark- ing of a dog in a peculiar manner, impossible to describe, but which when once heard is