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sessed for the last sixty years a copy of the twelfth edition, published by D'Almaine, 20, Soho Square, in his series entitled "Irish Songs." David J. O'Donoghue, in his * Poets of Ireland,' London, 1892, gives Mrs. Craw- ford's Christian name as Julia. Anne Craw- ford (1734-1801) was an actress, who married Spranger Barry of the same profession, and at his death took Mr. Crawford, a Dublin manager, for her third husband.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

VANISHING LONDON : CHRIST'S HOSPITAL (9 th S. vii. 205, 296). I have looked at my copy of * The Pictorial Handbook of London ' (Bonn, 1854), p. 717, but have failed to find there the expression of an opinion that Christ's Hospital "is all bad." Will MR. THOMAS kindly point out the sentence on which he bases this assertion 1

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

SHIPS OF WAR ON LAND (9 th S. vii. 147, 235, 296, 354). Tarbert on Loch Fyne should not be overlooked. It is famous for the achieve- ments of Malcolm, the bare-footed King of Norway, and Robert the Bruce. Pennant in his ' Tour in Scotland ' expressed the opinion that it should be considered "the Tarbat of the kingdom," because of the historical prominence of the feats associated with it as a convenient isthmus. In ' The Lord of the Isles,' IV. xii., Scott, with a slight licence in the matter of chronology, describes the pulling of Bruce's galley from the shores of West Loch Tarbert to Loch Fyne, the adventurous patriot being then on the passage from Skye to Arran :

They held unwonted way ; Up Tarbat's western lake they bore, Then dragged their bark the isthmus o'er, As far as Kilmaconnel's shore,

Upon the eastern bay.

It is interesting to note that at the present time " Tarbert >y is the name for the Loch Fyne locality, while "Tarbet" is the term used for a similar position and a hamlet between Loch Long and Loch Lomond.

THOMAS BAYNE.

" Here Robert Bruce held his court, and James II. was also here ; the former had his boats carried hither across the narrow isthmus from West Loch Tarbert, in the manner so vividly described by Scott in 'The Lord of the Isles.' The word ' Tar- bert,' in fact, means boat-carrying, and is often met with in similar places in Scotland, between two arms of the sea, or between two fresh-water lochs, where these Tarberts were similar to the Canadian 'portages,' the North American 'carrying-places,' and the Grecian ' diolkoi.' "Once a Week, Third Series, iii. 38 (No. 56, 23 Jan., 1869).

Some years ago I saw a project for carrying ships by rail across one of the American isthmuses. THOMAS J. JEAKES.

WM. MORRIS AS A MAN OF BUSINESS (9 th S. vi. 406, 495 ; vii. 54, 118, 172, 296). IBAGUE runs off the lines, and wilfully imagines an attack where none is either made or in tended. Dean Swift is not the only writer whose acts disprove his arguments. If God does not regard on what we dine, the dean would not have submitted to a fast which he disliked. I cannot enter into a controversy unfitted for these pages. W. C. B.

SIMON FRASER (8 th S. x. 156, 223; 9 th S. vi. 157, 338, 433 ; vii. 16, 51, 75, 115, 192, 232). It is very "easy to know" what I want in the way of a picture of Simon Fraser. My quest is for an oil or miniature sketch or drawing of the face of Simon Fraser, the eldest son of Lord Lovat who was beheaded. General Fraser commanded the 78th High- landers at Quebec, and died 1782. There are plenty of engravings of old Lord Lovat, and one of Brigadier-General Simon Fraser, who was killed at Stillwater a day or two before Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga ; and there is an engraving of Col. Lovat, F.R.S. This latter man was a half-brother of General Simon Fraser. I do not believe he was ever painted in oil or engraved. My impression is that there is a miniature somewhere. I hope MR. JULIAN MARSHALL may be able to find it. J. Ross ROBERTSON.

ORIENTATION IN INTERMENTS (9 th S. vi. 167, 276, 335 ; vii. 195, 338). In the four new churches I mentioned there are no inter- ments. I am glad R. S. noted this. But in the same district are two important older churches which do not orientate beneath which are many bodies resting, viz., St. Mary- lebone parish church and Holy Trinity, Marylebone. These both lie so far as one may judge from their weathercocks N.N.W. by S.S.E., the altar being at the north end at Holy Trinity and at the south end at St. Marylebone. Both stand in clear spaces and were built long before other structures crowded them into any special point of the compass. It would be interesting to know how the dead lie in the vaults at Holy Trinity ; there are five marble tablets on the wall of the aisle to the west which relate to persons buried " in vault beneath."

St. Marylebone has six on the east aisle wall which set forth the same informa- tion ; two more which say " near this place"; one "in a catacomb under this church." Three tablets at the north end