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would be used as well as perfectly understood by any country doctor. It is, of course, an entirely different article from the well-known " wooden leg," which nobody ever misunder- stands. I remember an old song, once very popular, called ' The Cork Leg,' in which the machine ran away with its owner. Being a " rank outsider," 1 know nothing of the tech- nical construction of either legs or arms in the trade, but I do know that "cork leg" and " false arm " are the names by which thpse limbs are now commonly called, even by educated people. F. T. ELWORTHY.

INDEX EXPURGATORIILS (9 th S. viii. 342). Your correspondent has been misled by a statement in the serious arid usually well- informed journal Literature. The rnisstate- ment was corrected in the ' Literary Notes ' of the Daily Neivs of 26 October, under the heading ' Galileo and the Roman Index.'

JOHN HEBB.

BURIAL-GROUND IN PORTUGAL STREET (9 th S. viii. 343). - From ' Some Account of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes,' by John Diprose (1868), 1 gather that a committee was appointed in 1848 to inquire into the state of the old "Green Ground" grave- yard in Portugal Street, and from Timbs's King's College Hospital, which occupies the site of this graveyard, was commenced on 18 June, 1852. The bodies must therefore have been removed some time between 1848 and 1852. Although Diprose gives some in- teresting particulars concerning the " Green Ground," he nowhere explicitly states when it was abolished or where the remains and tombstones were deposited. It appears that G. A. Walker, Esq., M.R.C.S, known as " Graveyard " Walker, was a leading member of the 1848 committee. In his 'Gatherings from Graveyards,' published in 1839, he had given a fearful account of the state of this ground, describing the soil as "absolutely saturated with human putrescence." It was no doubt largely in consequence of his efforts that the Act of Parliament pro- hibiting interments within the limits of the metropolis was passed in 1850.
 * Curiosities of London ' that the building of

JOHN T. PAGE.

West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

The burial-ground in Portugal Street was formerly called the "Green Ground." In 1848 a committee was appointed by the parish of St. Clement Danes to inquire into the condition of this burial-ground, when fy the report of the committee, dated 23 Marc'l ot the same year, it was found that th< ground contained 14,968 superficial feet, o

,bout the third of an acre, and that the lumber of bodies deposited in this space etween the years 1823 and 1848 was 5,518. committee reported that coffins which hould have occupied one acre had been >acked into a space little more than the hird of an acre.

An Order in Council was issued in 1858 or closing the burial-ground around St. Clement Danes. The coffins in the ault were placed in one part of it, and enclosed by a brick wall at an expense of 00/. The bodies in the bury ing-ground at D ortugal Street were removed to the ceme- tery at Norwood.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

RAPHAEL'S CARTOONS : ENGRAVINGS (9 th S. mi. 224). The following advertisement ap- >ears in the Daily News of 24 September :

Old Engravings by Holloway of the Raphael lartoons in the South Kensington Museum. Apply truthers, Solicitor, Ayr, N.B."

!f I remember rightly I purchased a set of
 * hese engravings when they were republished

oy Messrs. Day & Son, of Gate Street, Lin- coln's Inn Fields. Perhaps Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Limited), 48, Parker Street, W.C., who are Messrs. Day's successors, might give some information. JOHN HEBB.

"WEEK-END" (9 th S. viii. 162, 292). I oelieve this expression has only in recent years come into general use. Perhaps some }f your readers may be able to say when it Became a common term for an outing from Friday or Saturday to Monday. It appa- rently emanates from the North, for Miss Braddon in * The Day will Come,' chap. xxiv.. writes as follo\vs : " Theodore and his friend betook themselves to Cheriton Chase on the following Friday, for that kind of visit which North-Country people describe as 'a week end.'" HELLIER R. H. GOSSELIN.

Bengeo Hall, Hertford.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

French Furniture and Decoration in the Eighteenth

Century. By Lady Dilke. (Bell & Sons.) INDEFATIGABLE in effort and unwearying in zeal, as well as all but infallible in taste and knowledge, Lady Dilke continues her task of supplying an historical account of French art and design in the eighteenth century. Her latest volume on furni- ture and decoration has had two predecessors belonging to the same series, ' French Painters of the Eighteenth Century' (see 9 th S. iv. 358) and ' French Architects and Sculptors ' of the same period (9* h S. vi. 499), and will have one successor, 'French Eighteenth-Century Draughtsmen and Engravers.'