TOMB OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT (11 S. xi. Instead of wearing his Tephillin "by 361). The description of the supposed chance," as MR. ABRAHAMS naturally surdiscovery of this tomb provided in Amises, he was wearing them "by choice," Doffed Coronet,' 1902, is fictional, and was and for an excellent reason. Rather than probably inspired by one of Sir Rider incur the danger of committing a minor Haggard's interesting novels. There are offence (" Cheit") by not having them availalso slight suggestions that the writer was able always for " Shachriss," or morning familiar with Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke's service, he resolved, in accordance with "a (1776-1822) discovery of the Sarcophagus rule of law established by the Rabbins, of Alexander, that had been unearthed from to wear them continuously, day and night; this same site. He published a monograph or only so long as he was compelled to be on the tomb (Cambridge, 1805), and there in the forefront of battle. That is the plain was considerable discussion of his claim and the probable explanation of this ritual (see The Monthly Magazine, xvii.). Sir anomaly. Henry Ellis opposed the attribution, and I have some of his correspondence relating to it. This Sarcophagus can now be seen in the Egyptian Gallery at the British Museum, identified as having been made for the coffin of Nekht Heru Hebt, B.C. 378. ALECK ABRAHAMS. "BELL" BIBLE (11 S. xi. 490).-Perhaps MR. THORNTON would be kind enough to give the street in Covent Garden where Mr. John Gray Bell carried on his business of bookseller. REGINALD JACOBS. 6, Templars' Avenue, Golder's Green, N. W. GERMAN SOLDIERS' AMULETS (11 S. xi. 187, 256, 439).—I am indebted to MR. ALECK ABRAHAMS for his interesting remarks at the last reference; but I fancy he has missed the atmosphere and the precise point of view, not of modern Judaism, but of that remoter and more intensive form of Now it With regard to those debates aforesaid, the kernel of the discussion is to be found invariably in an obscure passage in the Old Testament. The particular passage that engages attention in this case is found in Ex. xiii. 10, and the argument revolves round these words, "in its appointed season, from period to period." only requires the play of normal imagination to realize how the incidence of that precept, uniform and inflexible, would materially affect the interests and the welfare of an agricultural people during "the lambing season, for example. The shepherds of Judea would have to travel hundreds of miles; would be away from their homes and from their houses of worship for days together; away on the bleak and lonely mountains, and up the greater part of the night with their sick charges. Sunrise would break almost unexpectedly upon their anxious vision, and the time,' as the Rabbins say, "would have arrived for Talmud issued Tephillin." To spare those men the dread not otherwise. it represented by the Hebrew communities in Russia, &c., over whom the antique spirit of the rigid Rabbinical formulas still prevails. And, in order that there might be no conflict of opinion between us, I carefully went over several folios of Talmudic tradition, including the locus classicus in Erubin, folios 95b to 97a, where the whole subject of Tephillin (phylacteries) is brilliantly handled by some of the greatest masters of Hebrew jurisprudence, notably by Akiba and by Rabban Gamaliel among those of recognized standing. The sum and sub- NOTES ON STATUES AT THE ROYAL stance of those delightful debates is, I EXCHANGE (2 S. xi. 47; 3 S. i. 267; 7 S. rejoice to say, in favour of my own a v. 7, 51, 145; 8 S. v. 407, 470; vi. 92, 138, priori impression of the Russian soldier's 249, 333; ix. 213; 9 S. ii. 65, 198; viii. behaviour. He was fresh from his dialectical | 202; 10 S. x. 491; 11 S. ii. 322, 371, 454, encounters in the "Yeshivous," or schools 508; iii. 187, 230, 241, 315, 385, 429, 473; of learning, and imbued from infancy with iv. 138, 176, 499; vi. 398; ix. 219; x. 168, the old-world piety of his Palestinian 347; xi. 468; xii. 17). A record should ancestors, and I can well understand the be made of the fact that among other places mental state of that ardent but conscientious considered as appropriate for the reception warrior, sent into the firing-line, and com- of the seven statues of English sovereigns pelled to attend to his devotions under recently removed (or now in course of extreme, if not impossible, conditions. removal) from Westminster Hall was the Royal Exchange. They represent James I. and Charles I., both by T. Thornycroft; Charles II., by H. Weekes; William and Mary, by T. Woolner and A. Munro; and George IV. and William IV., by W. Theed. According to The Morning Post of 4 June, 1915, the suggestion was found not to be feasible, and the ultimate decision arrived at has been in favour of the spacious Entrance Hall of the Old Bailey Sessions House. At that date Charles I. had already been placed in position, in a slightly damaged state, a portion of the sword-hilt and part of the sceptre being absent." WILMOT CORFIELD. "LONDON BRIDGE IS BROKEN DOWN (11 S. xi. 401, 461, 478).—I have been given viva voce another version : London Bridge is broken down; Old King Lud he built it first, Cæsar marched through London Town, Good St. Olave dinged it down; CHEESES IN IRELAND (11 S. xi. 472).-The following note on the manufacture of cheese at Carrickfergus, in the county of Antrim, is taken from Samuel McSkimin's History Carrickfergus,' Belfast, second edition, 1823, p. 242: "In the town and suburbs is made a considerable quantity of excellent cheese, often fully equal to the best imported from England. In making it a number of persons receive the milk of each other's cows a week or so in rotation, during the season for making cheese, from May till November, the milk being regularly measured and an account kept of that delivered. "The number of persons in each join is commonly from 8 to 12, their cows probably from 12 to 14; the joins from 5 to 7. Each join has vats, tubs, pans, and the like implements, which are kept up at the expense of the whole. "The cheese is commonly made in the morning, soon after the milk of that day is steeped; of late years it has been coloured with anetta; last season the price varied from 5d. to 7d. per pound. A owners' houses; but the greater part is taken to considerable quantity of this cheese is sold in the Belfast. A few now continue the making of cheese till about Christmas, but it is very inferior in quality, easily distinguished by a peculiar softness and odd taste, and is called fog cheese." I have not heard of Carrickfergus cheese for many years, and I suppose the making of it has ceased. Imported cheese-Canadian, English, and Dutch-is largely used. W. H. PATTERSON. Belfast. ORIGIN OF OMNE BENE (11 S. xi. 280, 389, 477). At the first reference MR. CRANE quoted the first stanza of the song, and added that, as sung to-day at Kingswood School, the last line of the song is Domum rediendi. At. the second reference R. M. quoted the second stanza, making the last line to be Nunc redire domum. As I recollect it, the last line of the second stanza was Dulce redire domum. Between all the stanzas we used to sing twice the refrain, Domum, domum, Dulce domum, Domum domum felix! At the last reference MR. CRANE says: "The two stanzas already quoted are the only ones extant." What, then, about the third stanza, ending with the words, Domum rediendi? How does that run? Should it not read "redeundi"? There was a fourth stanza also, which ended with the words, Hic, hæc, hoc, et ibo. As a fifth stanza there was a frank relapse into the vernacular language :— Jolly good song, and jolly well sung! Holla, boys, holla, boys, this is the day! The words and tune, as known to me in the eighties, were, no doubt, modernized and vulgarized forms of those known to Hood and to Washington Irving. 66 MR. CRANE at the last reference expresses the opinion that we should not go far wrong in fixing the composition near 1800"; and adds that it would thus be a century younger than Winchester's' Dulce Domum.' This is not the heading under which to discuss the very difficult question as to the date of the words and music of the Wykehamist Domum.' It would seem, however, far more likely that Domum was an improved edition of 'Omne Bene' in its original, traditional form than that any one should have taken the trouble to parody 'Domum' by writing 'Omne Bene.' JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. 66 PARISH REGISTERS (11 S. xi. 397, 501).—A few corrections have to be made in the list referred to. "Denham and Bromley should not have appeared among the transcripts, for, although they are described as "abstracts" in the Catalogue, they are really only a few pages of notes from the Registers. The earliest date in Lyminge is 1538 (burials), not 1544; St. Bridget's, Chester, 1560, not 1580; St. Mary at Key, Ipswich, 1559, not 1539. According to Mr. A. M. Burke's 'Key,' the Denham Registers do not begin until 1653, yet the notes above mentioned begin with 1564 for burials, 1582 for marriages, and 1591 for baptisms. Thus when they were made an earlier volume must have been accessible. H. INCE ANDERTON. GOATS WITH CATTLE (11 S. xi. 452, 500).— I do not think that the prevalent idea is that animals in a general way thrive better when a goat is with them, but that horses keep in better health and do not get the staggers, and cows are much less likely to abort, under these conditions. In the case of horses, it is the smell of the male goat that is supposed to do good; but as regards cows, either a male or female goat answers the purpose, as these animals are credited with eating certain herbs on a pasture which cause abortion in cattle. H. S. HOLMES PEGLER, Hon. Sec. British Goat Society. Here, in Galloway, no herd of dairy cows used to be considered safe from murrain unless a scape-goat pastured with them. The practice is not so common now as formerly-I suppose lecturers on dairy management and cheese-making do not prescribe its observance; but it is still maintained on some farms. Monreith. HERBERT MAXWELL. W. H. DUIGNAN: BIBLIOGRAPHY (11 S. xi. 373, 468; xii. 6).-To the list given at the above references should be added an interesting paper on The Meaning of "Birmingham' and the Origin of "Brumagem,' which the late William Henry Duignan contributed to The Birmingham Daily Post of 2 April, 1902. BENJ. WALKER. Langstone, Erdington. Notes on Books. The Incendium Amoris of Richard Rolle of Hampole. Edited by Margaret Deanesly. (Manchester, University Press; London, Longmans & Co., 10s. 6d. net.) THIS work seems to have been among the most popular of Richard Rolle's works. Two editions of the translation of it made by Richard Misyn in 1435 have appeared within the last twenty yearsthe fifteenth century text edited by Mr. Harvey for the Early English Text Society in 1896, and an edition done into modern English by Miss Comper This is the first which appeared last year. to many lovers of Richard Rolle their first idea publication of the original Latin, and will afford of his method of Latin writing no negligible study, for his facility in Latin is great, and it is of extreme interest to compare his use of it with that, say, of St. Thomas à Kempis, as well as to note the reaction upon his own thought of Latin as compared with English. Much reading and re-reading will probably be necessary to most students before they catch with any ease a characteristic rhythm, the presence of which--and its delicate simplicity, too-forms so large an element in the poetical quality of the 'Imitation.' Here the phrases are often long, involved, piled with words in apposition, difficult (till the ear finds their trick) as to distribution of emphasis. Misyn's English rendering somewhat over-emphasizes, one now finds, the tone of Rolle's divers strictures on his fellow-creatures, and makes, inevitably, in the pages of devout exaltation, that kind of slightly unfortunate difference which we perceive in a song transposed from its original key. Miss Deanesly's work as editor is a very scholarly performance. Her Introduction gives us a detailed complete description of the MS. of the 'Incendium Amoris,' an account of the subject-matter sufficient for her purpose, a short discussion of the relation remarkably good discussions of the two extant of Richard Rolle to other mystics, as well as forms of the text and their history. the folios of the so-called Emanuel MS.-identified A monogram which appears again and again on as that of Joan Sewell, a Brigittine sister of Sion Abbey-has furnished Miss Deanesly with the pretext for another elaborate and highly interesting piece of work-an account of the foundation of Sion Abbey. The work of English students on the early years of the foundation has hitherto left something to be desired, and the short monograph on the subject incorporated here is of real importance In particular, it may be noticed that the author has had the advantage of consulting Swedish work on the subject. FRENCH BOOKS. This is No. 97 of the Manchester Publications, THE following short notice concerns the most and certainly not the least worthy. The Vernacular Form of Abjuration and of Con- answers. THE July Nineteenth Century gives us two articles of which the interest is preponderantly literary: Rowland Grey's Waterloo in Romance,' and Miss R. M. Bradley's The Romance of a Détenu.' The former is restricted to the Waterloo of the greater novelists: Thackeray, Lever, Victor Hugo, and Stendhal; it hardly does justice to the last of these, and misses the fine workmanship of the description of the battle in La Chartreuse de Parme.' The latter is an account of nine years spent in Paris by one John Blount during the earliest part of the nineteenth century-detained there by Napoleon, yet, owing to something fortunate in his nature, so well able to effect any purpose of his and to make people his friends that his lot was no intolerable one, even apart from the romance. Mr. J. Ellis Barker in The Secret of Germany's Strength' gives a most useful, clear, and well-documented account of the character and measures of the three great sovereigns who made Prussia. Two interesting historical notes are Dr. Armitage Robinson's Array of the Clergy in July, 1415,' and M. Yves Guyot's account of The Great Mistake of Talleyrand and Lord Castlereagh '-the creation of Rhenish Prussia. interesting French items in the small number of new Catalogues which we received last week. We shall notice in our next number sundry items in this subject which had struck us in reading a handful of earlier lists. Messrs. Leighton send us two delightful brochures-a Catalogue describing nearly 1,500 early printed books arranged by presses, and an accompanying collection of reproductions from these, issued separately. The presses of Germany and Italy furnish the bulk of the matter, but a few may be taken to belong to France. There are five examples of Lyon counterfeits of Aldine editions: three Lucans, a Silius Italicus, and a Pontanus. The best of the Lucans is the Huyon (either the third or fourth Lyon counterfeit) of 1521 (37. 58.). The Silius, 1514 (31. 58.), is interesting as being an imitation of Aldine work, but actually anticipating the Aldine edition of this particular Opus de Secundo Bello Punico,' which was issued in 1523. There are also two of the Torresano Aldine imitations printed at Paris: Egnatius's ' De Exemplis illustrium virorum Veneta civitatis,' the printer of which is Menier, the Epistolæ clarorum La 1554 (31. 38.), and In the Catalogue sent us by Messrs. Simmons & Waters of Leamington we noticed three cheap 'Dictionnaires': Français-Breton and BretonFrançais (10s. 6d.), and, offered together, a Dictionnaire du Patois Normand' and a Dictionnaire du Patois Savoyard' (68.). 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