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_. -bury, was cut into a Gothic shape. In tl is case the original black faces have been si bjected to a little tpuching-up, to intro- di ce a European flesh-tint. The Child's head is distinctly negro, with woolly hair; the M other's is of Greek type, with black skin. This picture was brought to Cardiff from Vi nice some years ago. It appears to be Abyssinian. It is noteworthy that in the case of most of these "black Madonna" pic- tures the face of the Virgin is not made of negro type, except to the extent of blacking the skin. JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

Town Hall, Cardiff.

The following extract from Mrs. Piozzi's ' Observations in a Journey through Italy,'
 * vol. i. p. 262, may be of use to MR. CROOKE :

1 Why all the very, very early pictures of the Virgin, and many of our Blessed Saviour himself, done in the first ages of Christianity, should be black, or at least tawny, is to me wholly iricompre- jhensible; nor could I ever yet obtain an explana- tion of its cause from men of learning or from con- noisseurs. We have in England a black Madonna, very ancient of course, and of immense value, in the Cathedral of Wells, Somersetshire ; it is painted on glass, and stands in the middle pane of the upper Kvindow, I think is a profile face, and eminently jhandsome. My mind tells me I have seen another somewhere in Great Britain, but cannot recollect the spot, unless it were Arundel Castle, in Sussex, but I am not sure. None was ever painted so since jthe days of Pietro Perugino, I believe, so their antiquity is unquestionable ; he and his few con-

emporaries drew her white, as Sir Joshua Reynolds

nd Pompeio Battoni."

RICHARD LAWSON. Urmston.

" HEAN " (9 th S. ii. 2G7). Compare Cleasby nd Vigt'usson's ' Icelandic Dictionary ,' p. 252 :

" Hein=a, hone. In poetry the sword is called ein-Jtet, the flat of the hone ; hein-land, the land of he hone ; hein-vandill, the rod of the hone."

Perhaps the word to which MR. MAYHEW Defers may have some connexion with the Ice- andic. ALEX. G. MOFFAT.

Swansea.

CLARE STREET (9 th S. iii. 69, 175). This treet is shown in Porter's map of London nd Westminster, of which a facsimile has ecently been issued by the London Topo- raphical Society. This map is not dated, iut it must have been published very soon fter the Restoration. Clare Street was pro- >ably built by John Holies, first Earl of Clare.

llen's 'History of London,' which is cited y MR. H. A. HARBEN, is not a very trust- worthy compilation, and is of no account by he side of a contemporary writer like Ho well. )enzil Street was one of the latest to be uilt in the district, of which I gave a short

descriptive sketch some months ago in 'N. & Q.' (9 th S. ii. 81). W. F. PRIDEAUX.

EUCHARIS (9 th S. iii. 308). The epitaph of Eucharis is in the 'Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum,' vol. vi. part ii. p. 1324, No. 10,096 (of the class Ludorum Scsenicorum), tabula marmorea, found on Via Flaminia. See also 'Anthologia Latina' (Biicheler), ii. 1, p. 27 No. 55, Teubner edition.

EVCHARIS LICINI(AE L.)

DOCTA ERODITA OMNES ARTES VIRGO VIX(lT AN XIIl)l. HEVS OCVLO ERKANTE QVEI ASPICIS LETI DOMV(s) MORARE GRESSVM ET TITVLVM NOSTRVM PERLEGE AMOR PARENTEIS QVEM DEBIT NATAE SVAE VBEI SE RELIQVIAE CONLOCARENT CORPORIS. HEIC VIRIDIS AETAS CVM FLORERET ARTIBVS CRESCENTE ET AEVO GLORIAM CONSCENDERET PROPERAVIT HORA TRISTIS FATALIS MEA KT DEXEGAVIT VLTRA VITAE SPIRIT VM. DOCTA ERODITA PAENE MVSARVM MANV QVAE MODO NOBILIVM LVDOS DECORAVI CHORD ET GRAECA IN SCAENA PRIMA POPVLO APPARVI. EN HOC IN TVMVLO CIXEREM NOSTRI CORPORIS INFISTAE PARCAE DEPOSIERVNT CARMINE. STVDIVM PATRONAE CVHA AMOR LAVDES DECVS SILENT AMBVSTO CORPOHK ET LETO TACENT. RELIQVI FLE'rVM" NATA GENITORI MEO ET ANTECESSI GENITA POST LETI DIEM. BIS HIC SEPTENI MECVM NATALES DIES TEXEBRIS TENEXTVH DITIS AETERNA DOM(v). ROGO VT DISCEDENS TERHAM MIHI DIC(AS LEVEM).

The spelling is a little odd, but the sense is clear. L = Liberia. The early age at which Eucharis died makes the record of her talents a little remarkable, still we may compare Juliet's age in Shakespeare. V. H. R.

CM. (9 th S. iii. 307). The 'Imperial Dic- tionary,' 1883, by Charles Annandale, vol. iv., contains a ' List of Abbreviations and Con- tractions,' in which cm. = centimetres.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

Certainly centimetres. Richmond.

E. G. CLAYTON.

QUOTATIONS (9 th S. iii. 208, 294). MR. ARM- STRONG might have added at the last re- ference that Matthew Arnold has probably popularized these particular lines from 'Heine's Grave' by his own very effective quotation of them in ' Friendship's Garland,' p. 162 :

" I ask myself, counting all the waves which have come up with England at the top of them : ' When the great w r ave which is now mounting has come up, will she be at the top of it?' 'Ilia nihil, nee me qucerentem vana moratur?'

Yes, we arraign her, but she,

The weary Titan," &c.

S. G. HAMILTON.

AGNES A FATEFUL NAME (9 th S. iii. 249).-- The belief in the doom of those who have had the misfortune to be named Agnes is not peculiar to Lincolnshire. I have heard the remark in many different places, " Agneses