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1 puff the prostitute away,' my* he. smiling, and blowing a cloud out of his pipe, ' Esmond/ book ii. chap. xi.

" So it was that when Fortune shook her wings and left him, honest Tom cuddled himself up in his ragged virtue, and fell asleep." ' Esmond,' book iii. cihap. iv.

" 'Here's a good end to it,' says Clive, with flash- ing eyes and a flushed face, ' and here s s a good health till to-morrow, father !.....; Good-bye to our fortune, and bad luck go with her. I puff the prostitute away. "Si celeres quatit pennas," you remember what we used to say at Grey Friars" resigno quse dedit, et mea virtute me involve, probamque pauperiem sine dote qusero." ' And he pledged his

father his kind voice trembling as he uttered the

well-known old school words, with an emotion that was as sacred as a prayer." ' The Newcomes,' vol. ii. chap, xxxiii.

" Do you suppose I am going to make a tragedy

out of such a stale trivial every-day subject as

a jilt who plays with a man's passion, and laughs

at him and leaves him? Tragedy, indeed! No;

if she goes, let her go ! 'Si celeres quatit pennas,' I puff the what-d'ye-call-it away ! But I '11 nave no tragedy, mind you."' Lovel the Widower,' chap. ii.

" An exile from my country, I seek another where I do not despair I have even a firm belief that I shall be enabled to repair my shattered fortunes ! My race has never been deficient in courage, and

Philip and Philip's father must use all theirs ' Si

celeres quatit pennas Fortuna,' we must resign what she gave us, and bear our calamity with un- shaken hearts."' The Adventures of Philip,' vol. i. chap. xiv.

A systematic examination of the ' Works ' would doubtless bring to light numerous additional instances.

T. HUTCHINSON, M.A.

POMPEY'S PILLAR (9 th S. iii. 247). 'Pompey's Pillar ' (with woodcut), Penny Magazine, 12 April, 1834 (vol. iii. pp. 137-8):

"All travellers agree that its present appellation is a misnomer ; yet it is known that a monument of some kind was erected at Alexandria to the memory of Pompey, which was supposed to have been found in this remarkable column. Mr. Montague thinks it was erected to the memory of Vespasian. Savary calls it the pillar of Severus. Clarke supposes it to have been dedicated to Hadrian, according to his reading of a half -effaced inscription in Greek on the west side of the base; while others trace the name of Diocletian in the same inscription. No mention occurring of it either in Strabo or Diodorus Siculus, we may safely infer that it did not exist at that period, and Denon supposes it to have been erected about the time of the Greek emperors or of the caliphs of Egypt, and dates its acquiring its present name in the fifteenth century. With regard to the inscrip- tion, we may observe that it might have been added after the erection of the column."

THOMAS J. JEAKES.

Tower House, New Hampton.

The column erected in honour of the " in- vincible" Diocletian is called by the above name probably for the same reason that " By

the waters of Babylon" is called a Psalm of David, t, e>. the magnetic affinity of con- spicuous relics to locally popular names and associations. The lately neighbouring obe- lisks known as Cleopatra's Needles exem- plified the same principle. The Greek inscription upon it (which will be found in ' Corp. Insc. Gr.,' torn, iii.) shows it to have been raised by Publius, " Praefectus ^Egypti." ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

Prof. Mahaffy had in the Athenceum of 27 Feb., 1897, a long letter dealing with Pompey's Pillar. Prof. Flinders Petrie replied at some length in the Athenaeum of 10 April following. Further letters appeared in the next two numbers, Prof. Mahaffy mentioning on 17 April that an article from his pen deal- ing with the same subject was published in Cosmopolis for that month.

JOHN RANDALL.

EARTHQUAKE IN 1750 (9 th S. iii. 225, 330). The earthquakes of 1750 caused a considerable literature :

Letter from the Bishop of London [Sherlock] to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster, with Supplement.

Epistle to the Admirers of the preceding Letter.

Theory and History of Earthquakes.

Historical Account of Memorable Earthquakes, with an Appendix on those felt in England.

Account of all Earthquakes from the Time of William the Conqueror to the Present Time.

Practical Reflections on Earthquakes down to

these last shocks in London and Westminster, by John Shower.

Jubilee Masquerade Balls at Ranelagh Gardens, a bad return for the merciful deliverance from the late earthquakes.

Single sermons on the Earthquake, 8 Feb. and 8 March, by J. Allen, S. Chandler, Dr. Doddridge, A. Portal.

Philosophy of Earthquakes, by W. Stukeley.

All these appeared in 1750. The shocks of 1755 produced a fresh set. The British Asso- ciation printed in their volumes of annual Proceedings chronological tables of earth- quakes. ' W. C. B.

HEXHAM PRIORY AND THE AUGUSTALES (9 th S. ii. 241, 391 ; iii. 8). At the last reference I drew attention to the fact that the crypt under the church at Hexham resembles the crypt under the tribunal of the basilica at Pompeii.

In the Builder for 1 April (vol. Ixxvi. p. 323) Mr. Hodges, of Hexham, gave a plan and transverse section of this crypt the best, I believe, that have ever been pub- lished. In the next number of the Builder Mr. Irvine gave an excellent plan of the same crypt, and compared it with a plan of the crypt under Ilipon Cathedral.