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later period. The first cricket match between Eton and Harrow took place in 1805. See p 356 of the volume on cricket in the " Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes." It seems to me more likely that the Duke had in his mind that corner of the playing fields where the school fights took place, and where he himself fought and won at least one battle, and had for his opponent Robert Smith, better known as Bobus Smith, elder brother of the witty Dean of St. Paul's. The story of that fight is given at p. 4 of Gleig's 'Life of Wellington.' It was those school fights that taught British officers how to win at Waterloo. JAMES WATSON.

Is it not pretty certain that Wellington was not alluding to games at all, but to pugilistic encounters between the boys ?

REGINALD HAINES.

Uppingham.

ST. ANNE'S CHURCH, BLACKFRIARS (9 th S. vi. 48, 117, 238, 330). The portion of an arcade of the Dominican monastery, which was discovered on pulling down a house in Blackt'riars in 1890, has been re- erected at Selsdon Park, Surrey, the residence of Mr. Wickham Noakes. The manor of Sanderstead and Selsdune-in-Sanderstead dates from Saxon times, and was bequeathed in 871 by Duke Elfred to his wife Werberg. Ifc afterwards passed to the Crown, arid in the tenth century Queen Ethelfleda, wife of Edgar, who began to reign in 959, granted u Sandelstead [sic] with its church" to the abbey of St. Peter at Winchester. In 1759 the manor was purchased by Thomas Wigsell, an attorney of New Inn, whose descendant Mr. Wigsell Arkwright now owns it.

JOHN HEBB.

TlDESWELL AND TlDESLOW (9 th S. xii. 341).

Near Sheffield there is a place now called Tinsley. Between 1681 and 1712 I find it written Tinsloe, Tinslow, Tinslowe. In 1633 I find Tanslaw. These will be familiar to MR. ADDY. W. C. B.

GENIUS : ITS MANIFESTATIONS (9 th S. xii. 244, 373). There must be a difficulty in discussing this subject. We do not all agree as to what genius is. Still less do we agree as to the men of genius themselves. Ignatius Loyola seems to me a madman with a purpose, and not a man of genius. I mentioned the -case of Julius Caesar, and said that he was a man of action who could not have been a poet, though he wrote good prose. Leonardo da Vinci, I believe, wrote verses, and may have been a good mathematician, but he was only & man of genius as a painter. A man of

genius may be excellent in other ways than that in which he shows genius, and then all his excellences are noted ; but I believe, in spite of apparent instances to the contrary, that a man cannot be a man of genius in two different ways. A Newton cannot be a Milton also. E. YARDLEY.

CHARLES READE (9 th S. xii. 243, 312). From a paragraph in the deeply interesting note supplied by MR. CLEGG, the reader is led to infer that Charles Reade is buried at Bromp- ton. The Standard of 1G April, 1884, describes his funeral as having taken place the day before "in Willesden old Church- yard." JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

IMMUREMENT ALIVE OF RELIGIOUS (9 th S. xii. 25, 131, 297, 376). The author of that charming novel ' The Romance of War ; or, the Highlanders in Spain,' utilizes the sub- ject of self-immurement in his historical tale called ' The Scottish Cavalier 'in the follow- ing manner. When Lilian Napier, the heroine, who was induced to marry Lord Clermistonlee, learnt one day in the presence of her hus- band that her first love, Walter Fenton, was not only hounded to death by, but was also the son of his lordship, she replied : " Un- fortunate Walter, how deeply have we been wronged how bitterly must we suffer ! " Taking up her little infant from the cradle, she kissed it tenderly and retired slowly from the room; "to any place/' she remarked, 'where never again the light of day shall find me." From that moment she was never beheld alive again. In the year 1800, when the venerable mansion of Bruntisfield was demolished, within a deep alcove in the heart of its massive walls, the skeletons of a female and child ware discovered ! It is recorded in 'Old and New Edinburgh,' at pp. 31 to 34, vol. iii., that when the mansion belonging to the old baronial family of Napier was pulled down to build that hideous structure, Gilles- pie's Hospital, "there was found under a hearthstone a box containing the body of a female, from which the head had been severed, and beside her lay the remains of an infant wrapped in a pillow-case trimmed with lace/' HENRY GERALD HOPE.

119, Elms Road, Clapham, S.W.

In 1835 a nun escaped from a nunnery at Charlestown, near Boston, United States. She was captured, taken back to the nunnery, and demands for her release were refused. A mob broke into the nunnery and searched everywhere, even digging up graves to see if her body was in one of them. Failing in