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<up by the Society, as inferred, if not abso lutely stated in the list, but by Mr. Joh Lewis, the owner and occupier of the pro perty. The record is a handsome one. Ye it is much to be deplored that theall-importan word "site" is omitted from the letterin: Surely the error could be very easily rectifier

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenseum Club, W.

DRYDEN AND THE PROPAGATION OF LIGHT. The poet Dryden, in his Epistle to D Oharleton, has the lines : Nor are you, learned friend, the least renown'd, Whose fame, not circumscribed with Englis

ground,

Flies like the nimble journeys of the light, And is, like that, unspent too in its flight.

This was probably written in 1663, twelv .years before Ro'mer's discovery that light i gradually propagated, and that, rapid as i its transmission, it is possible approximately to determine its speed. Romer's views, con tested when first enunciated, were, abou fifty years afterwards, remarkably confirmee by Bradley's discovery of the aberration o light. W. T. LYNN.

EPITAPH. I came across the following -epitaph in a MS. topographical book, and, i it be a genuine one, I am desirous of ascer taming where it may be seen :

Poor John Scott lies buried here ; Tho ; once he was both hale and stout, Death stretch'd him on his bitter bier ;

In another world he hops about.

A. R. C.

INDIA. 'An Inquiry into the Expediency

of applying the Principles of Colonial Policy

to the Government of India, 1822,' was by

Major Gavin Young, who died at Calcutta in

W. P. COURTNEY.

"LITTLE MARY." This cutting (fieferee, 6 December, p. 11) seems to show that "'little rnary ' has passed into newspaper English as a term for stomach :

''The soothing syrup of commercial repose is what Lord Rosebery suggests should be adminis- tered to Baby Bull, to stop him crying because his .little mary craves for food.

IB AGUE.

[Many similar instances may be advanced.] LORD HEATHFIELD. W. S. in his notice on the * Lock-step ' (ante, p. 427) says : " General

.bhott was born at Stobs He was raised

to the peerage as Lord Heathfield." The former statement, although frequently seen m print, is erroneous. He was born at Wells House, in the valley of the Rule, Roxburgh- 8 TO m Ji he > 7ear 1717 - He was of the family ot the Ehotts of Stobs (being a son of Sir

Gilbert Eliott), but Stobs Castle had been burnt down in 1712, and his family in con- sequence removed to Wells House, which was only a few miles distant, and there the renowned defender of Gibraltar was born.

G. M. W.

GRAMMAR : NINE PARTS OF SPEECH. Th following lines were copied from an American newspaper many years ago. They can be easily committed to memory, and would prove useful both to teachers and pupils were they more generally known : Three little words you often see Are articlesa,, an, and the ; A noun's the name of anything, As school or garden, hoop or swing ; Adjectives tell the kind of noun, As great, small, pretty, white, or brown ; Instead of nouns the pronouns stand Her head, his face, your arm, my hand ; Verbs tell of something to be done, To read, count, sing, laugh, jump, or run ; How things are done the adverts tell, As slowly, quickly, ill, or well ; Conjunctions join the words together, As men and women, wind and weather ; The preposition stands before A noun, as in, or through a door ; The interjection shows surprise, As Oh ! how pretty, Ah ! how wise ; The whole are called nine parts of speech, Which reading, writing, speaking, teach.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

A NAMELESS GRAVESTONE. (See 8 th S. i. 47, 135, 213 ; also ante, p. 409.) May I add yet another to those recorded at the above refer- ences 1 A few paces north-east of the chancel wall of Muridesley Church, Norfolk, stands a small stone inscribed as follows :

Sepf 8 th 1832. Sleep stranger sleep within thy narrow bed Till earth and sea shall both give up their dead. Jp seek the Saviour lo the judge in sight Vake Reader wake and Christ shall give thee light,

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

" MOOSE. "This is one of our oldest bor- owings from the North American Indian.

As far back as 1024 Capt. J. Smith writes, Moos, a beast bigger than a stag." He vidently got the name from one of the boriginal tongues spoken in the English olonies, either (a) Virginia, in which case England, in which case it would be Abenaki
 * would be from Shawnee mos, or (b) New

mus, Penobscot muns. The object of this ote is to protest against the derivation uggested in the 'Century Dictionary,' and

n other books which ought to know better, roiii "Algonkinmwm,Knisteneaux mouswah."