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must have had a common origin. The en- graving of the memorial tablet to which MR. AXON refers is probably the reproduction of a photograph that is given in the National Shorthand Reporter (Cincinnati) for October last not the Phonographic Magazine.

A.' T. WRIGHT. 22, Chancery Lane.

SCHOOL LIBRARY OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (9 th S. xii. 388). The Kev. Thomas Leigh was for forty -seven years the head master of the Grammar School at Bishops Stortford, and Chauncy, who was a pupil of the school, in his 'History of Hertfordshire' says :

" My Reverend master Mr. Thomas Leigh raised a fair library for the use of the school. It was an ex- cellent nursery that supplied both Universities with great numbers of Gentlemen who proved eminent in Divinity, Law, and Physick, and in some matters of State. He obliged divers of those Gentlemen to present Books to the School at their Departure, where their names are recorded and remain to Posterity, to which Mr. Thomas Leigh, his second son, a learned Man and a good Antiquarian, lately Vicar of this parish Church, made a fair Addition."

The volume of which MR. DODGSON has made a note is probably one of those so presented. A few years ago a portion of the library was sold, and several of the volumes variously inscribed are upon my shelves. On the fly-leaf of folio, 1636, is written :
 * Clavis Mystica,' by Daniel Featley, D.D.,

" Y 194 [the shelf number] Scholar Stortford ne dessent D ris Featley consciones doctiss. symbolas contulerunt Scholares A 1664. M. Tho. Leigh, .Scholarchia."

A note in the same hand says, " Pretium 14s." On the half-title of the Amsterdam edition of Scaliger's 'Thesaurus Temporum Eusebii,' folio, 1658, there is :

latis symbolis pretio duar. et 5 Solidi coemtum huuc Temporum Thesaurum consecrarunt Scholares, Anno 1672 preceptore M. Barn. Conway."
 * ' L 34. Scholee quas est ad Stouretti Vadum col-

Con way succeeded Leigh as head master. Other two of the volumes give the names of the donors. GEO. CLULOW.

ENGLISH CARDINALS (9 th S. xii. 105, 192). A complete list of the English wearers of the Roman purple is given in ' England's Cardi- nals,' by Mr. Dudley Baxter (Burns & Oates,

1903). D. J. SCANNELL-O'NEILL.

BREAKING THE GLASS AT JEWISH WEDDINGS <9 th S. xii. 46, 115, 214, 337). The dictum of a Chief Rabbi, issuing an authoritative prayer book so recently as 1901, may, I think, be accepted as final. In the directions ac- companying the marriage service, p. 184, are these words : " The bridegroom hereupon

pours the wine on the floor, and breaks the glass in token of the destruction of the Temple." M. D. DAVIS.

Leopold Wagner (' Manners, Customs, and Observances/ p. 106) says that this custom is in some places combined with putting ashes on the head of the bridegroom, and the assump- tion by both bride and bridegroom of the black cap, in sign of mourning for the destruction of the Temple. He also says that the custom of breaking the cup obtains among the members of the Greek Church, with this difference, that the Jews do not tread on the glass, whereas the Greek bride- groom does, exclaiming: "May they thus fall under our feet, and be trodden to pieces, who shall endeavour to sowdissension ordiscontent between us ! " So far as the Greek Church is concerned, my copy of the 'AKoAov0/a TOV 2T<ai/w//,a,Tos at any rate has no rubric to the above effect, though there is a rubric for the administration of TO KOIVOV TTOT^/HOV to bride- groom and bride. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

INFANT SAVIOUR AT THE BREAST (9 th S. xii. 29, 115, 291). I should say that there are in- numerable examples of this, both in painting and sculpture. Perhaps I may be permitted to quote one passage in prose from St. Luke in illustration, and another in poetry from the poem on the 'Annunciation,' from the ' Christian Year ' :

"A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of Grod, and keep it " (xi. 27-8, A.V.). Ave Maria ! Mother blest, To whom, caressing and caress'd,

Clings the Eternal Child ; Favour'd beyond Archangels' dream, When first on thee with tenderest gleam Thy new-born Saviour smil'd.

JOHN PICKFORD, M.A. Newbourne Rectory, Woodbridge.

In Mr. Montgomery Carmichael's charming book 'In Tuscany' is shown a representa- tion of the Blessed Virgin Mary suckling the Infant Jesus, the 'Madonna delle Tosse,' by Matteo Civitali, which is to be found stowed away in the church of the SS. Trinita in the city of Lucca.

D. J. SCANNELL-O'NEILL.

PUNS (9 th S. xii. 386). There is an excellent paper on 'The Puns of Shakespeare' in the notice of your correspondent. Its author, Mr. F. A. Bather, computes the puns in thirty- seven of the plays as amounting to at least 1,062. He opines that "the test of a
 * Noctes Shaksperianse,' and I commend it to