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'AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN ON THE DIFFICULTY OF THE CORRECT DESCRIPTION OF BOOKS ' (9 th S. viii. 124). The answer to MR. W. H FEET'S query is not, I imagine, to be founc in any essay written by this learned anc respected professor, but in the prefatory letter to Dr. Peacock, Dean of Ely and Lown- dean Professor, which precedes De Morgan's 'Arithmetical Books from the Invention of Printing,' &c. (1847), and where he says that none but those who have confronted the existing lists (of such books) with the work they profess to describe know how inaccurate the former are ; and none but those who have tried to make a catalogue know how difficult it is to attain common correctness.

FREDK. HENDRIKS.

The catalogue of the library of the Royal Astronomical Society, of which Augustus De Morgan was a fellow, contains no fewer than forty titles of books, including pamphlets, written and presented by him ; but the work bearing the above title is not among them.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

PICTURES OF TAVERNS (9 th S. viii. 43). Illustrations may be sought in both the Archer and the Grace collections in the Print Department of the British Museum. Confer also ' The Creed Collection of Tavern Signs,' vol. v. among the printed books. In, . think, portfolio xxviii. (? xxvii.) of the Grace Collection will be found a sketch of Green Arbour Court, or rather of Breakneck Stairs leading to it. In the Archer Collec- tion is a drawing of the bust of the Earl of Essex executed, it is said, by Caius Gabriel Gibber with the legend beneath, "This is Devereux Court, 1676," which adorned the front of Constantino the Grecian's house, but I am unaware of the existence of anything illustrating the house itself. In the English Illustrated Magazine some year in the eigh- ties, but I cannot say which is an interesting account by Mr. W. Outram Tristram, the author of 'Coaching Days and Coaching Ways,' of "The Cheshire Cheese," with illus- trations by Mr. Herbert Railton of the approach in Three Falcon Court, the en trance in Wine Office Court, the entrance hall, the staircase, the chop-room, &c. ' Old and New London ' also has an illustration of Wine Office Court, exhibiting the plain western exterior. If Mr. F. G. Hilton Price, who wrote & pamphlet on the 'Signs of Fleet Street,' does not know of a picture repre- senting the famous "freak" resort, "The Globe," in Fleet Street, further inquiry would perhaps be futile. For "The White

Conduit House," see a ' Set of Views of Noted Places near London,' drawn and engraved by C. Lempriere, 1731. There is a water- colour drawing of the remains of the last of the water conduits at Dalston in the Archer Collection, C. A curious little print in my possession, which adorns a business circular of this old bourgeois resort, famous for hot rolls, tea, and cream, " rival beaux and jealous belles," evidently represents it as it was before its destruction about the year

1831. J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

Wimbledon Park Road.

A picture of " The Cheshire Cheese " will be found in ' Old and New London,' i. 121. " The Crown " at Islington is included in the Grace Collection of Views of London, in the British Museum, portfolio xxxii. ; also " Con- duit House," subsequently called "White Conduit House," for the years 1641, 1749, 1771, 1780, 1846, 1849. Another picture will be seen among the 'Set of Views of Noted Places near London,' drawn and engraved by C. Lempriere, in 1731 : in ' Old and New London,' ii. 283, and in 'Old England' in 1749, print 2,402; "Highbury Farm," then "Highbury Assembly Rooms," and finally "Highbury Barn," in the same folio above mentioned. This building was pulled down in 1861. At the London meeting of the Royal Archaeological Institute, 1893, 1 saw drawings of "The Chapter Coffee House," Paternoster Row, 1887, and "The Cheshire Cheese," Fleet Street, 1886, by Mr. Norman.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

In the Grace Collection at the British Museum there are illustrations of " The Crown" at Islington, of "Highbury Barn," 'White Conduit House," and "The Grecian Coffee House." In Pinks's 'History of Clerken- well' there is an account, with woodcuts, of ' White Conduit House." In Thornbury and Walford's ' Old and New London ' there are woodcuts of "White Conduit House" and

The Cheshire Cheese." In Nelson's / His- tory of Islington ' there is an engraving of ' The Crown " in Lower Street ; and in the collection of the Guildhall Library there is a view of "The Grecian Coffee House." Of 'The Temple Exchange," "The Globe," in Fleet Street, and " The Chapter," in Pater- noster Row, I have found no illustrations. G. FIELDING BLANDFORD.

FLAG OF EAST INDIA COMPANY (9 th S. vii.

468). At 9 th S. vii. 466 CANON TAYLOR tells

us St. George is the sun-god ; St. George's

TOSS would then be the sun-cross, and the

hirteen stripes the thirteen lunar months of