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of royalty. No non-resident monarch could have occupied such mansion in continuity, so it would be " let off," as we now say, and its conversion into an inn or hotel seems natur- ally to follow. A. H.

SWIFT'S VANESSA, ESTHER VANHOMRIGH. Having always heard this lady's name pro- nounced as it is written, I find that Swift's friend Lord Orrery says, " The name is pro- nounced Vannummery" (p. 67, note, of his most interesting ' Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift,' second ed., 1752). If we accept Lord Orrery's contem- porary authority, Swift's relationship to Vanessa and Stella is clear. Vanessa was his willing mistress, and Stella his wife, though an unacknowledged one. F. J. F.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

ROYAL NAVAL (OR NAVY) CLUB. What is this club ; and where is its house, if it have one? An announcement appeared in the Daily News, 8 October, to the effect that "the Lord Mayor of London will be the guest of the Royal Navy Club, 1765-85 [sic], on Friday, Octo- ber 21st. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Algernon Lyons, G.C.B., will preside."

The club is not mentioned by Whitaker, Kelly ('P. O. London Directory'), Webster, <fcc. ; therefore, as I suppose, it has no club- house, but is a social gathering of naval officers. But I have a book-plate bearing the name of "Royal Naval Club," from which it would appear that this, or some other club with a similar name, once had a library, which argues the then existence of a house, or at least of rooms, occupied by the club.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

NAME OF BOOK WANTED. Can any of your readers supply the name (which has slipped my memory) of a recent novel, written, evi- dently, to show up the supposed iniquities that take place in military prisons? The hero, a gentleman who ia disinherited for supposed illegitimacy, enlists in a cavalry regiment, in which he is so bullied by a cousin, who succeeded to the estate and who is an officer of the regiment, that he (the hero) gets into trouble, is tried by court- martial, and sent to a military prison, where he is most shamefully ill-treated, till rescued by the doctor, who has seen a warder assaulting him, while he is so cowed that he simply does

not attempt to save himself from the man s blows. G. H. FAGAN, Lieut.-Gerieral.

Croydon.

BELLARS OR BELLOWES FAMILY. John Bellowes and Mary his wife had children born in Stamford Baron about 1660. John Bellowes was buried at Gretton, 1678. Mary Bellowes, widow, died at Stamford Baron, 1681. There is no entry of John's death there. Are the two Johns identical ; and was John Bellowes, born (where?) 1648-9, and married at Stamford 1676. son of John and Mary ? And was either John descended from the Bellars (Bellowes) of Stoke Albany or Cottesmore? I should be glad of any notices of this family from 1400 to 1700.

CHARLES J. BELLAIRS GASKOIN.

55, Jesus Lane, Cambridge.

JAMSHY'D AND KAIKOBAD. The recent deaths this summer of Bismarck and Glad- stone within a few weeks of each other will recall to some the ninth 'Rubaiyat' of Omar Khayyam as rendered by Edward Fitzgerald :

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say ; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday ? And this first summer Month that brings the Rose Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.

At least, Bismarck will stand for Jamshyd, who, it is asserted, introduced iron into Persia, and after a long and prosperous career, in the course of which he greatly enriched his countryj was defeated, disgraced, and, finally, died in exile. He, too, like Bismarck, if we are to believe Omar, "gloried and drank deep." As to Kaikobad I know nothing. Who was he? Kaikhosru, of the tenth 'Ru- baiyat,' is, I suppose, the same as Chosrpes or Khoshru, the contemporary of Justinian. Was Kaikobad Khoshru's father?

JOHN HEBB. Canonbury Mansions, N.

COLLECTOR'S MARK. In a circle of an inch and a quarter a lion rampant with a tree in sinister paw, with initials P.M. on left and right hand respectively. Who used this mark ? It is upon a number of clever drawings, appa- rently seventeenth century, which are marked Gennaro Landi. Who was he ?

XYLOGRAPHER.

F. CASHIN. Is anything known of the artist whose name is given as "Cashin, F. (?), 1825," in the South Kensington Water- Colour Catalogue? The sole exhibit to which it refers is a small street scene in Bristol. I have a pencil drawing of the river Avon and Cook's Folly, signed (I think) E. Cashin but the initial may be F. and dated 1823, but fail to find the name in