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Napoleon himself, the selfsame corpse rested for the first nineteen years after death. A more exquisitely situated little nook, shel- tered as it is by the welcome shade of tropical trees whose foliage is unknown to European eyes, it is difficult to imagine. At the one burialplace nature has done everything to make the surroundings bright and beautiful; at the other, all that art and money can afford has been expended lavishly. Give me St. Helena ! HAERY HEMS.

Fair Park, Exeter.

Antommarchi in his ' Last Days of Napo- leon ' states, " Having obtained some plaster, I moulded the face " (ii. 161). I have a small engraving of the mask, which I bought thirty years ago. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

THE DEVIL AS A BLACK DOG (9 th S. ii. 206, 335). In looking into Grimm's 'Teutonic Mythology ' I chanced upon the two follow- ing quotations instancing the black dog as a supernatural familiar, in this case as guardian of treasure :

"Aiunt in Brunsberg magnum thesaurum abscpnditum esse, quern niger canis custodit cura oculis igneis." ' Annales Corbej. ad an. 1048' (Paullini, p. 386).

Horrendus canis est tenebrosum vinctus ad antruni, Thesauri custos, qui latet inms ibi ; Igneus est visus, color atque nigerrimus illi, Os patuluni, et cunctis halitus usque grayis.

4 Carmen de Brunsbergo ' (Paullini, p. 599). See Stallybrass's translation of Grimm's 'Teutonic Mythol.,' vol. iii. pp. 977, 979.

M. C. L.

New York City.

'THE THREE SERGEANTS ' (9 th S. iii. 108). The following is from the title-page :

"The Three Sergeants; or, Phases of the Soldier's Life. By Thomas Morris, Ex-Sergt. 73rd Highlanders (Medal, ' Waterloo ') ; William Morris, Ex-Sergt. 73rd & 63rd Reg. (Medal, 'Waterloo'); and William Morris, jun., Colour-Sergt. 63rd Reg. (Medal, ' Crimea,' with four clasps French Gold War Medal). London: Effingham Wilson, 11, Royal Exchange, MDCCCLVIII."

William Morris had published his adven- tures in 1848. O. H. DARLINGTON.

A TRANSLATION OF MARCUS AURELIUS PUBLISHED A.D. 1792 (9 th S. iii. 249). The translation by R. Graves is mentioned in

No other English translation is given. It is mentioned with Collier's in the ' Manual of Classical Literature' from the German of J. J. Eschenburg, "with additions by

N. W. Fiske Fourth Edition Phila- delphia 1844,"p.5i6 : "English R. Graves.

Bath, 1792, 8, Loncl, 1811, 12 J. Collier, Lond., 1702, 8." Allibone, in his ' Dictionary of Eng- lish Literature,' speaking of the writings of Richard Graves, says : " translations from Antoninus, Herodian, Xenophon, &c." There was another Richard Graves of the same period who was Dean of Ardagh, not to speak of yet another, a captain in the navy, who appears in Allibone as author of a pam- phlet or book about his non-promotion.

ROBERT PIERPOINT. St. Austin's, Warrington.

There is a notice of Mr. Graves's little- known translation in the Academy, 19 March 1898, where it is commended. W. C. B.

He was the ' Spiritual Quixote ' Graves. See, as was but to be expected, the ' Diction- ary of National Biography,' s.n.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

Hastings.

Lowndes's ' Bibliographer's Manual,' under " Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius Meditations. A New Translation by R. Graves," &c., says it is "the best English version of An- toninus, rendered particularly valuable by the judicious notes of the translator."

JOHN RADCLIFFE.

THE CHURCH (?) AT SILCHESTER (9 th S. ii. 101, 158, 277, 429 ; iii. 11, 110, 275). It has been remarked to me that throughout the dis- cussion on this subject MR. ST. JOHN HOPE has laid special insistence on the apparent fact that in none but Christian periods can basilican buildings be shown to have been made of such very small dimensions as was this one at Silchester. 1 have acknowledged the difficulty, at any rate, of finding sur- viving examples to the contrary. But at last I have been more fortunate. The so-called (ruined) church of S. Primitivo* (eleventh century) at Gabii,t in the Roman Campagna, has occupied the second -century basilica (?) of that small town. On entering it I was immediately struck by the resemblance of its proportions to those given us by MR. ST. JOHN HOPE of the Silchester building. For- tunately, though roofless and doorless, three walls of some height are yet standing, and the apsidal or terminal wall still retains three courses of "opus reticulatum" of the second century, probably the work of Hadrian, who constructed the aqueduct to Gabii. The side walls have suffered restoration more than once anterior to their ruin ; but they

A local saint.

f Castiglione.