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the front cover is a view of the square showing the Pitt statue and St. George's Church in the background. How many numbers were issued of this model publication 1 ? In its pages several well-known songs by Blurneri- thal, Sullivan, Hatton, Watson, and others first saw the light. JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

ante, p. 404, under heading ' Humbug=Non- sense.') In a serious work by Arthur Rackham Cleveland called * Woman under the English Law,' published in 1896, this k Diary ' is cited as an authority in just the same way as a police report from the Times is afterwards cited, but it is not apparent whether Mr. Cleveland had any knowledge of it indepen- dently of J. G. Bertram's book. ARGINE.
 * DIARY OF LADY FRANCES PENNOYER.' (See

"HOTl" IN HOWELL AND BROWNING.

Readers of Browning will be familiar with the noble poem on the grammarian who " settled Hoti's business " and " properly based Oun." An amateur commentator once conjectured that Hoti was a Chinese mandarin whom the grammarian, in a bellicose moment, knocked on the head. No solution was offered^ for Oun, but as this personage was "properly based," sym- metry would require us to suppose that, in the classic language of the ring, he " went to grass " at a similar crisis. The moral is that some readers need an explanation. Browning referred to the Greek on and ovi/, though to any one unacquainted with Greek the reference and orthography are puzzling. I find to my surprise that this Anglicized "hoti" was anticipated by Ho well in his 'Familiar Letters,' 1650: "These holy titles of bishop and priest are now grown odious among such poor sciolists who scarce know the hoties of things, because they savour of antiquity." Halliwell and Wright inserted this passage among their additions to Nares, but left it unexplained, which means, apparently, that they had no explanation to give. Perhaps human knowledge has advanced of late, but if not, it may be well to add that on literally means " where- fore," and that the hoties of anything are " the whys and the wherefores."

PERCY SIMPSON.

SIR OLIVER CROMWELL AND HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS. In 1897 appeared a query con- cerning Major Oliver Cromwell, cupbearer to the king in 1648. /See 8 th S. xii. 408.) In a reply (ibid., 491) it is asserted that Sir Oliver- Cromwell (uncle of the Protector) was "cer- tainly dead in 1648." This appears to be a

mistake. The date of his death, as given in Betham's 'Genealogical Tables' (Table 716), is 1655.

Echard, among the " considerable and emi- nent persons " who died in 1654-5, records the deaths of the Protector's mother, and " the Protector's own Uncle and God-Father, Sir Oliver Cromwell, Knight, the oldest Gentle- man in England " (' History of England,' by Lawrence Echard, London, 1718, vol. ii. p. 770). Betham gives Henry, Thomas, William, and John (the names mentioned at the last reference) as Sir Oliver's sons by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chancellor.

He gives, however, a second marriage, viz., with Anne, widow of Horatio Palavicini, the issue of which was Anne (who married John Baldwin), Oliver, Giles, and Mary. As to these last three nothing is given but the names. Sir Oliver had four daughters by his first wife, viz., Elizabeth, who married Sir Richard Ingoldsby ; Catherine, who married Sir Henry Palavicini ; Jane, who married Sir Toby Palavicini; and Joan, who married William Baker.

Sir Oliver Cromwell was, according to Betham, a grandson of Sir Richard Crom- well, who assumed his mother's name of Cromwell in the place of his father's name of Williams. According to " Regum Pariumque Magnse Britannise Historia

Genealogica Norimbergse, 1690 " (Table

118), Oliver Cromwell, the uncle of the Protector, was created a Knight of the Bath in 1603. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

RIDING IN PRUSSIA. In the holograph "MS. Journal of Travels in Germany and Austria, April to August, 1829, by Henry Musgrave Musgrave (afterwards a barrister of Lincoln's Inn)," now in my possession, is the following entry under the above heading :

" Principles, stirrup rather shorter than that of our Cavalry and longer than the French Curb reins held by the 4th finger elbow close to the side ; hand about 4 inches above the Pommel of the saddle, the arm is not allowed to move the body is not so erect as in French school nor the stomach so forward: the foot is parallel to the horse's flank, the heel lower than the toe, and in a line with the Elbow best system in Europe."

This latter was, possibly, merely the writer's opinion, and how far he was competent to judge I am not aware. The note, which apparently refers only to military equitation, will, however, doubtless prove interesting to horsemen generally, and more particularly to those belonging to mounted regiments both in our own army and in those of other European powers. W. I. R. V,