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 9* s. vi. OCT. 27, loco.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 325 'DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOORAPHY': SUPPLEMENTARY CORRECTIONS. (See 6"> S. xi. 105; ante, 264.) Vol. XIX. P. 337 b. For "Qonzago" read Gonzalo. Vol. XXIV. >J P. 244 b. The date of the preface to the Whole Duty of Man' was 1657, not " 1659." Vol. XXIX. P. 15 b. 1. 16 from foot. " Weir-eton "? P. 220 b. "Kinvaston"? Vol. XXX. P. 31 b, 1. 8 from foot. After " school" add and was next put. For " Jane " read Tom. Vol. XXXIII. P. 435 b, 1. 13 from foot. The date 24 Feb- ruary, 1693, should be expressed 1693/4, and the "private house" should be explained. See the statements in xxvi. 352 a and Iviii. 434 b. Vol. XXXIV. P. 172 b. For " Drincourt" read Deincourt. Vol. XXXVIII. P. 88 a. For "Brightstone " read Brighstone. P. 107 a. The same character quoted from Burnet, "ii. 130," with respect to Mohun is also quoted from Burnet, "vi. 130," with respect to the Duke of Hamilton, xv. 329 a. Vol. XXXIX. P. 371 b, 1. 10 from foot. For " grandson " read c/reat-grandson (see p. 383). P. 413 a. The paragraph beginning at 1. 18 from foot is erroneous and confused (see pp. 355-6). Vol. XL. Pp. 194-5. On these two pages events are mentioned as taking place on at least twenty- seven different days, in a period of eighteen months, yet the month is rarely specified, and the year only twice — a criminal omis- sion in a Dook of reference. Vol. XLIII. P. 221. Mungo Park. It is strange that no reference should be made to the Life' by Joseph Thomson, 1890, five years earlier than this volume of 'D.N.B.' (Ivi. 265 a). P. 233 b, 1. 18 from foot. For " Shipton ' read Shipston. Vol. XLV. P. 78 b. For " Dr. Turton " read Dr. John Turton ('j.v.). P. Ill o. Notes and Queries, "vii. xii. 129,' read 7* S. xii. 128. Vol. XLIX. P. 161 a, 1. 15 from foot. For " Haig Browne " read Haig Brown. P. 454 b,l. 18. The date of marriage "1869" s an error, for his eldest son was born in 865. Why is the son placed before the ather, both being of the same names ? P. 462 a. Lady Victoria Eussell was the wife, not of the bishop, but of H. M. Villiers, son of the bishop (Iviii. 3S1 a). Pp. 480, 485. Again, why is the son before the father ? Vol. L. P. 249 b. " Elder R. White," place a comma after Elder. P. 249 b, 1. 12 from foot. "Different to" read from. Vol. LIV. P. 436 a, 1. 4. For " 1810 " read 1800. Vol. LVI. P. 138 b. "Thomas Thirlwall (d. 1808)." For " Thomas " read Stephen. Vol. LVII. P. 377 a. Under John Turton there should be a cross-reference to M. W. Peters, xlv. 78. W. C. B. NOTE ON ARMY REFORM.—There is one view of army reform that may bo admissible in ' N. & Q.'; I mean as regards army books. I venture to think they might be issued at a cheaper price and in paper covers tobelighter. The price might be reduced to perhaps six- pence a volume. Even if this were to cause a loss or charge to the public to fall on the Army Estimates, I think the cost would be well repaid by a wider diffusion of know- ledge and decrease of official correspondence. Thus the report on musketry instruction at Hythe, which in 1859 was published at one shilling, rose gradually until in 1885 and 1886 it was seven shillings and sixpence. This may be called a prohibitive price at which to circulate information to the army at large, or to the public generally. In 1894-5 I notice the above work fell to five shillings. It would be interesting to know if these and similar works have to be priced so high to cover any loss on them. Up to a few years ago, and perhaps now even, some of the official army regulations in India were too bulky and heavy, and issued at high prices— three, four, or five rupees. In publishing amendments to drill-books in the future more care might be taken to correct the drill, musketry, and rifle exercise books simultaneously, to avoid such diffi- culties as arose about 1893, when the army was in possession for a time of two or more manuals, one having been corrected^ and the other not, but supposed alike to be infallible and implicitly obeyed. It would be interest-