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quainted with English life as MR. HAMILTON suggests is a point that I am not able to decide. He is jeeringly alluding to certain things of which the English are known to be particularly fond, and he mentions " home, sweet home," " the Bible," and " the beurre.' Five o'clock tea is perhaps intended, and the question is whether the beurre can be taken to signify " tea with bread and butter.' In this case the would be used of the meal and not of the beverage, in much the same way, for instance, as we talk of " high tea.'" The editorial comment underneath my query seems to me to make for this interpretation. T. P. ARMSTRONG. Timperley.

A "SUNDAY" HARE (9 th S. v. 46). -I very well remember that my father always pre- ferred a coursed hare to one that was shot because of its greater tenderness. He was a Yorkshireman, but he did not sport on Sun- days, and, indeed, fox-hunting was almost his only diversion. ST. SWITHIN.

"HAVELOCK" (8 th S. xii. 87, 177, 214, 295). Does not Sir Henry Havelock (p. 232) mean Sir Henry Marsham Havelock-Allan ? The son of Havelock of Cawnpore and Luck- now, who served with his father in the Indian Mutiny campaign, assumed in 1880 the addi- tional surname of Allan. He was killed by the Afridis, December 30th, 1897.

EGBERT PIERPOINT.

THAMES TUNNEL (9 th S. iv. 419, 467; v. 35, 75, 169). I was very glad to read MR. CHARLES COBHAM'S interesting note. There is plainly room for difference of opinion. I should be sorry indeed to be classed among the wor- shippers of success a very scurvy cult. But surely a work such as Dodd undertook could only be judged by its success or failure. What other ground is possible 1 The Man- chester Ship Canal is an ugly, dirty, and evil-smelling blessing at the best. But it is a great project carried out ; and this is exactly what the Gravesend tunnel was not. Had the preliminary works of the Manchester Canal been left Panama-like, a very different opinion would have to be passed on the under- taking. MR. COBHAM certainly goes a long way to defend Dodd. Were Rennie and Jessop among the "sinister engineers, or schemists," who ruined Dodd's plans ? The accounts were " cooked," or neglected ; but does that explain why the work failed? Expense was certainly not grudged in some directions witness the "steam engine'' which Dodd undertook to do without. That the enterprise was badly managed nobody can

doubt ; but the bad management was through- out, with Dodd as well as with his directors. I still think MR. COBHAM'S monument would be a sad precedent. Engineering enthusiasts would be thereby encouraged, and, in the pursuit of ideals, would seam the country with horrors.

Before leaving this subject, I should like to say that "poor Northumberland miner" scarcely applies to Ralph Dodd. According to the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' he appears to have been born in London. GEORGE MARSHALL.

Sefton Park, Liverpool.

'PUNCH': THE CHANGES (9 th S. v. 227). Punch has obtained such a national status through its honoured career that any im- portant change can scarcely fail to encounter public criticism. As J. J. F. remarks, " No doubt the alterations have been well con- sidered on the commercial side," and yet one would fain hope for further consideration. The main objection to the alterations is the quality of the paper. In order to make a drawing look its best there is nothing to beat black on dead white. The creamy glazed paper to which we are now treated produces a want of distinctness which seriously affects the drawings. After reading the Times one sees at once what a loss is suffered on this account when taking up Punch. Then, does any one want the story which is thrown in at the end 1 I have only read two of them, and they seemed to me neither better nor worse than the average run of stories to be found in a dozen periodicals. Finally, though the annoyance is slight, it causes a certain amount of irritation to be faced with an advertisement when you expect an inimitable caricature ; and that the system of inter- leaved advertisement should have taken hold of Punch is one more matter for regret. But one would gladly let that pass if the editor or proprietor would only revert to the dead- white paper. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY. Heacham Hall, Norfolk.

" IVERS "(9 th S. v. 188)." Burcombe Ivers " would seem to be coppices planted on "Lyn- chets," that is terraces made by the ancient Britons on a hillside. Great numbers of chalk hills within ten miles of Salisbury have ynchets, but still more north of Devizes. They are like those in the valley of Jehosha- Dhat, and indicate the existence formerly of a dense population. E. L. G.

ARMS OF THE PRINCIPALITY OF WALES 9 th S. v. 228). There are not and never have )een any territorial arms for Wales, the various arms so attributed being all personal