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/ould say, 'Let us have something good nex lonth.' "

. uid such was Cave's unremitting care thai . ohnson observed to Boswell, " Cave scarcely i ver looked out of the window but with " iew to its improvement."

In the Gentleman's Magazine of the presenl c ay biography and history retain the pro i rinence which have always been assigned to them; and under the head of 'Table Talk natters of current interest are treated, while each number contains at least one short story Mr. Chatto tells me that the number of con- tributors of more recent years has exceeded one hundred and fifty.

That this oldest of all the magazines may, for long years yet to come, continue full of life and vigour must be the wish of all who have enjoyed the vivid pictures of bygone times which, in such a consecutive form, are to be found in the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine alone. JOHN C. FEANCIS.

STRONG'S BLUFF (9 th S. iii. 187). Probably part of a land grant of my grandfather's, Samuel Strong (1749-1834), a Crown Sur- veyor. He was Deputy Surveyor -General when the War of Independence broke out. I heard as a child that he and his brother had then just completed, under General Taylor, the survey of Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. As Crown officials, my grandfather and great-uncle were con- spicuous marks for hostility. They took, as in duty bound, an active part on the Loyalist side, and suffered greatly in every way in consequence. When the result of the struggle was no longer doubtful, my grandfather, who was married, and had several children, sacrificed all he possessed, and carried his family to England, at some time prior to the conclusion of the Treaty of Versailles. His (brother, who remained, I believe, a year or two later, was subjected to the utmost in- jdignity. He was known to have written a (pamphlet or pamphlets on the Loyalist side, and my grandfather told my father that his brother had been " tarred and feathered and ridden on a rail."

My grandfather would never speak will- ingly of all that he and his brother had bndured ; and I recollect that when I ques- tioned my father about his uncle's sufferings, pe said "that the mere mention of America j kas sufficient to rouse the old man to fury." ' I have never seen any account of the suffer- pgs of the Loyalists in the Southern States ; ! ut, from the little that I was able to glean i pom my father's talk, they must have been / 1 any rate, in individual cases as severe as

anything that overtook the Loyalists of New York, whose story has been told with so much feeling by Mr. Ernest Cruikshank in the annual Transactions of the United Em- pire Loyalist Association for 1898.

My grandfather, though some of his chil- dren went back, refused to return to the States, in spite of the urgent appeals made to him by those of a different way of think- ing, during the thirty years' grace allowed, after 1783, to the holders of Crown grants. EMILIA F. S. DILKE.

76, Sloane Street, S.W.

"BAILEY "(9 th S. iii. 269). The word has been in use from the Norman days in Dean Forest for portions of the forest smaller than " Walks," such as Lea Bailey, Scar Bailey, &c. In Norman French it equals "grant." D.

"ARE WE BETTER?" BOM. iii. 9 (9 th S. iii. 106). I transcribe the following from 'A Commentary on the Revised Version,' by W. G. Humphry, B.D., one of the revisers :

" ' Are we in worse case than they ? ' This gives to the Gr. irpoexoptOa the passive sense 'are we surpassed ?' which it has in all other places where it occurs; in the N.T. it is not found again. All English versions have ' are we better than they ? ' following Vulg. prcecellimus eos? which would re- quire the verb to be in the active voice (Trpok^o^v). There is no example of the sense given in the margin, ' Do we excuse ourselves?' i.e., of the verb standing absolutely without an accusative of the thing put forward as an excuse. The meaning is 'Are we (Jews) in a worse case than the Gentiles ? ' this in- ference being suggested by what is said in vv. 4, 5."

Alford acknowledges great difficulty in >oexoAte#, but virtually agrees with the A.V., taking the verb as middle. So Tholuck, and substantially Olshausen. Meyer, on the other hand, renders "Do we put forward (anything) in our defence 1 " and adds : " This 3xplanation is the only one warranted by linguistic usage as well as suited to the connexion." C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath.

TRINITY WINDOWS (9 th S. iii. 28, 187). I cannot answer E. B.'s question; but it may be well to say that besides the representation of the Holy Trinity in the church of that name in Goodramgate, York, there are two nstances in St. John's, Micklegate, one in St. Michael's, Spurriergate, and, if I mistake not, one in St. Dennis', Walmgate, all in the mme city. I regret I am unable to describe
 * hem. The mystery of the Holy Trinity is

more frequently figured on the Continent
 * han it is in England. ST. SWITHIN.

Encouraged by the repetition of the inquiry by E. B. respecting Trinity windows, I venture