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 228 NOTES AND QUERIES. [9<h s. vi. SEPT. 22,1900. should have been pleased if C. C. B. had given us his scansion. I offer the following : The fair' | Ophelia! | Nyra'ph, in | thy or1 ison'a Be all my sins remember d. In Ophelia we have a polysyllabic proper name with only one accent, as in another example given by Abbott :— Thou art' | Hermioue; | or ra | ther thciuj art she. ' Winter's Tale,' V. iii. 25. On " Nymph " falls accent after pause. If this do not satisfy C. C. B., will he kindly give his alternative scansion t Any- thing rather than believe that Shakespeare's ear could have tolerated the grating sequence in sound—thy ori. E. M. SPENCE, D.D. Manse of Arbuthnott, N.B. JOHN STUART MILL'S DEFINITION OF MATTER.—"The permanent possibility of sensation" (see "Life,' by Courtney, 1889, p. 137). It is interesting to compare with this a remark made by Sir H. Davy in ' Consolations in Travel':— "The external world or [query 'of'] matter is to us in fact nothing but a heap or dialer of sensations, and in looking oack to the memory of our OWE being, we find one principle which may be called the monad, or self, constantly present, intimately associated with a particular class of sensations. which we call our own body or organs."—I)ia logue iv., speech by " The Unknown." C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A. Bath. SIDNEY COOPER'S LIFE.—A correspondent wrote to me some time ago from the other side of the world thus :— " I notice that T. S. Cooper in ' My Life' calls Joseph Gillott, of Birmingham, whom we used to know, a 'picture-dealer.' He was not that any more than Lord Northwick and a number of the ' merchant princes' of Manchester and Birmingham who used to buy pictures of the artists and dabble and exchange with each other. That is my view." I wrote to Mr. Cooper pointing out the mistake he had made, but no reply seems to imply that he is, he thinks, right. The pas sage occurs in vol. i. p. 294. He says "About this time Mr. Gillott, of Binning ham, the celebrated steel-pen maker, startec as a picture-dealer." Further on, writing of Turner's pictures Mr. Cooper says: "Of these the 'Fighting Te'me'raire' was one which, after Gillott1. death, fetched a very high price " ; and " this famous picture by that great master passec through several hands after Gillott's death anc finally found its way to the National Gallery where it now is, being one of those which wer repurchased by Turner himself and left by him t the nation at his death." Considering that Turner died in 1851 an( that Gillott did not die until 3 January, 187. t is quite clear that there are some mistakes i Mr. Cooper's account. The fact is that this licture was in the National Gallery long >efore Gillott's death. One cannot nelp a mile at Mr. Cooper's remark on the next Dago. He says : " Mr. Gillott was a liberal nan in every way, and I always found him horoughly straightforward in all business ransactions, which, I fear, cannot be said )f all dealers " (vol. i. p. 295 ; see also vol. ii. a. 4). This of one of Birmingham's most
 * elebrated men, who had hundreds of

)eople in his employ, and died worth 250,000/. personalty. In vol. i. p. 252 Mr. Cooper says :— " My picture, which was described in the cata- ogue of the [Royal Academy] Exhibition as ' Milk- ng Time : Study in a Farmyard near Canterbury,' s now in the National Gallery as one of the Vernon Collection, the greater portion of which was moved there from South Kensington Museum (where the whole of this valuable collection was first placed) some years ago." In the K.A. Catalogue for 1834 'Milking Time' is ascribed (in error ?) to " J. S. Cooper.' In vol. i. p. 336 we find the same statement that the Vernon Collection was " originally placed in the S.K.M." It is wrong. Mr. Vernon gave it to the nation in 1847. How soon after it was exhibited I do not know ; but it was at Marl borough House in 1853, and before, because Mr. Vernon died 22 May, 1849, when the Vernon Gallery was closed for his funeral. EALPH THOMAS. Qntriti. WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to aflix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct. ST. JAMES'S SHELL.—Did the wearing of this scallop or "cockle" shell (Pecten jacobaeus) signify that the pilgrim had been at the shrine of St. James of Compostella or in the Holy Land ? Many modern writers assume or assert the latter. Is there any actual evidence of early date ? LittnS says Com- postella or Mont St. Michel in Normandy, ignoring Palestine. J. A. H. MURRAY. Oxford ADDRESS WANTED.—Can any one inform me of the present address of Graham R. Toinson, author of Ballades, Triolets, ike., included in a book of Ballades, Jec., selected by Gleeson White, and published by Walter Scott, Ltd.? (Mrs.) M. HARWOOD. Braseuose House, All Saints' Court, Oxford.