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out in Dr. Koelle's paper in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. My statement is contained in a short foot-note, and it was beyond my purpose to do more than set out my agreement with the conclusions of, per- haps, the greatest European authority on the group of Central Asiatic languages. The explanation given by me does not account for the final r in Tatar, nor have I pretended that it does, though here again I accept the explanation of Dr. Koelle.

EDWIN PEARS. Constantinople.

MAXIM (9 th S. xii. 309). Mr. David Christie Murray, in a contribution, 'The Gospel of Self-Hypnotism,' in T.P.'s Weekly of 24 July last, remarks :

" A very frequent line is to be found in the pages of Charles Reade : 'Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit, and you reap a character. Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.' "

This citation may not help the search for the origin of the maxim, but it is at least in- teresting. JOHN GRIGOR.

"PARTING OF THE WAYS" (9 th S. xii. 309). Samuel Wilberforce, writing to Gladstone 14 September, 1850, says of Archdeacon (afterwards Cardinal) Manning : " It is, as you say, the broad ground of historical in- quiry, where our paths part."

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

"The king of Babylon stood at the partin_ of the way " (Ezekiel xxi. 21). The chapter is well worth reading. F. CLAYTON.

CARSON (9 th S. xi. 488 ; xii. 19, 110, 331). I wonder whether DR. C. F. FORSHAW can connect with the medical Carsons named at the last reference the Carsans of Lambeth, Robert Carsan, of Vauxhall Place, surgeon died 29 September, 1784 ; Charles, probably his son, and also of Vauxhall Place, diec 13 December, 1800, aged seventy-two. Accord ing to the obituary notice in the Gent. Mag. Charles was " a gentleman of approved professional abilities and universally sought and beloved for his fascinat ing powers in conversation. His remains ar< interred in Lambeth Church, and were attendee thither by the Loyal Association of that parish, t( which respectable corps he was surgeon. He ha an additional claim to the military honours ^h received at the grave from having served in Ger many in the war of 1758 and 1759, and from remain ing on the staff till the day of his death." His wife died 7 December, 1794, aged seventy A quaint appreciation of her virtues is t( be found in the Gent. Mag. Her Christiai name was Meliora ; there is some reason fo supposing that her family name was Le

range. Elizabeth, daughter of (1 Robert) )arsan, of Vauxhall Place, married at Lam- >eth, 23 September, 1762, Dr. Charles Hall,

his Grace's chaplain," and Dean of Booking, n Essex ; she was then aged twenty-four, n the published letters of Miss Talbot (who lescribes the wedding breakfast) to Mrs. barter the name is erroneously printed >arsaw. Dr. Hall died in 1774, arid is buried n the north cloister at Westminster. His widow buried two more husbands, both lergymen. Her eldest son, Charles Henry Jail, was Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and afterwards Dean of Durham. The three

arsans I have named Robert, Charles, and Elizabeth are all I can find in Lambeth or elsewhere, and I shall be glad of some clue to their origin. HAMMOND HALL.

" GENTLE SHEPHERD, TELL ME WHERE " (9 th i5. viii. 423, 530; ix. 113, 416). The song required by MR. DENNIS is, as I think, not the one beginning " Tell me, shepherds, have you seen," which has been communicated by MR. J. W. EBSWORTH, but the following, which may be found in ' Calliope, or English Harmony ' (c. 1740\ ii. 124, and in ; The Vocal Enchantress' (1783), p. 162 : Tell me, lovely shepherd, where Thou feedst at noon thy fleecy care, ' Direct me to the sweet retreat That guards thee from the midday heat, &c.

There are several songs which begin in a similar way e g., " Tell me, gentle Strephon, why" ('Vauxhall Songs,' 1774)- "Gentle youth, O tell me why " (cf. ' The Humourist,' p. 5) ; " O gentle shepherds, saw ye pass " ('St. Cecilia,' Edin., 1782, p. 103).

OTTO RITTER. Berlin.

ELIZA GRIMWOOD (9 th S. xii. 328). Eliza Grim wood was found murdered 26 May, 1838, in Wellington Terrace, Waterloo Road. ^ I can distinctly remember the great excite- ment caused by this murder, the perpetrator of which was never discovered. He was sup- posed to be an Italian who made good his escape from England. W. BENHAM.

MR. KITTON will find a lengthy account of the coroner's inquest held on the body of the murdered Eliza Grimwood in the 'Annual Register' for 1838 (' Chron.,' 28 May).

G. F. R. B.

Eliza Grimwood was found murdered in her room on 26 May, 1838. A man named Hubbard, with whom the woman lived, was charged with the crime, but discharged for want of evidence. The police failed to trace a mysterious foreigner who was said to have