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personal dignity, as if, forsooth, he were a gentleman of independent means and on a level of importance with an historical celebrity like Guy Fawkes. A bogle, on the other hand, belongs to the region of shadows, and his only approach to the position of a sensible entity is in his character of Scottish scarecrow. The hobgoblin or bogle of the Lowlanders, like the Deil that " danced awa' wi' the Exciseman," is for long as obsolete as the dodo ; but in rural parts we still have our " tawtie-bogle," and certain of his brethren that do standard service in the springing crops. But the bogles of Burns's songs, and those that Tarn o' Shanter in apprehensive mood feared "might catch him unawares," have no abiding influence among us, unless, indeed, in very primitive districts, or in spots specially selected for the experiments con- ducted by the Psychical Society. Brownies and bogles are associated more than once by Gavin Douglas ; Burns links the bogle and the ghost as possible agents of terror ; and Scott makes some of his rustics approach with bated breath what is considered "an unco bogilly bit." These are matters of purely literary importance, and are of particular concern mainly to the folk-lorist and the student of superstition. THOMAS BAYNE.

Bogle. An apparition ; TL ghost, hobgoblin, spectre ; an object of terror, a bugbear. The column to this word. W. B. GERISH.
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[The point is that the word is Bogle, not bogle ; we imagine Dickens used the capital letter to personify the bogey in question.]

ENGLISH GRAVE AT OSTEND (9 fch S. xii. 9, 176, 235, 278). In the Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1843, p. 558, 1 find this entry of death on 9 March: "At Ostend, George Nevile, Esq., of Skelbrooke Park, Yorkshire."

RALPH THOMAS.

INSCRIPTION ON SNUFFBOX (9 th S. xii. 429). The incident depicted relates to the arrest of a, Capt. Reynolds by order of Lord Cardigan, formerly Lord Brudenell. For his writing an account of this transaction Lord Cardigan challenged, and fought a duel with, Capt. Harvey Tuckett, for which Lord Cardigan was tried by his peers, 16 February, 1841. Lord Denman, my grandfather, presided as Lord High Steward, and I have his original notes taken during the trial.

ARTHUR DENMAN, F.S.A.

[MR. F. C. FROST, MR. HAMMOND HALL, H. H. P., MR. J. T. PAGE, ST. SWITHIN, MR. G. T. SHERBORN, MR. J. B. WAINEWRIOHT, and the REV. C. 8. WARD send similar information, with references to the ' Annual Register' for 1840 and Irving' s ' Annals of our Times ' under 5 Oct., 1840.]

"PEACE AT ANY PRICE" (9 th S. xii. 367). Both at 5 th S. ix. 448 and xi. 187 the origin or, at least, the earliest use of this phrase is given as French, it having been used by Armand Carrel in 1831 in describing the Casimir-Perier Administration as " le minis- tere de la paix a tout prix," and by Lamar- tine in 1848, he, it was said, having pro- claimed " Paix a tout prix." But the idea, and even the very words, may be found in English verjr much earlier and, indeed, in one of the most famous passages in our his- torical literature. Clarendon, in his ' History of the Rebellion,' in the description of Falk- and which has become immortal, wrote that some thought, or pretended to think, " that was so much enamoured on peace, that he would have been glad the king should have Dought it at any price," a suggestion which the historian regarded as "a most unreason- able calumny." ALFRED F. ROBBINS.

INFANT SAVIOUR AT THE BREAST (9 th S. xii. 29, 115, 291, 435). In a miscellaneous collection of pictures representing the work of various artists I have seen a print of the ' Flight into Egypt,' signed Gerarde Jode. In the fore- ground is Joseph, leading an ass and looking Dack towards the Blessed Virgin, who is seated with the Child at her breast ; in the Dackground are a castled crag and houses with stepped gables where soldiers are engaged in massacring the Innocents. Under the print are the lines :

Nocte sub obscura puerum cum matre Josephus Ducit in JEgiptum barbariemque fugit.

It ought, as a matter of fact, to be easy to obtain any number of examples of works upon this subject. Thus in the Uffizi Gallery at Florence there is a very small picture on copper by Parmigiano of Mary giving the breast to the infant Jesus. Spinello. too, painted the Madonna del Latte (a half figure) for the church of San Stefano fuor d'Arezzo, though it is now in San Bernardo : and Albert Diirer has left something of the same sort in wood or bronze. T. P. ARMSTRONG.

SUNDIAL MOTTO (9 th S. xii. 428). COL- LECTOR will find some interesting particulars concerning this motto in Mrs. Alfred Gatty's ' Book of Sun-Dials.' She says : " It must be imperfect ; and it has been suggested that a previous line may have referred to the two trees of Life and Knowledge in the Garden of Eden. If so, the meaning is clear. '

JOHN T. PAGE.

PETER PAYNE (9 th S. xii. 308). I strongly recommend MR. W. PAYNE to buy or borrow three books : * A Forgotten Great English-