1874 to 1884, was an excellent example of the officers who held Master's warrants; but none appear to have been allowed to reach Flag rank.

The Quarterly Navy List still contains a few of these empire-builders.

JOHN A. RUPERT-JONES.

The book referred to by MR. CURTIS seems to have been carelessly printed in regard to the important matter of names, and I speak feelingly, for I seldom get my own spelt aright! M'Lintock should be M'Clintock, and Tatham stands for Tather. William Tather was only a temporary Naval Officer, he was appointed as Acting Master, probably owing to special knowledge of Arctic waters. The Enterprise was also commissioned with an "Acting "Master. A. G. KEALY,

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Pliny (Hist. Nat.' xxxvi, 39. 3) that the stone, if worn during pregnancy, will prevent abortion, but must be removed finally, in order that birth may take place: Aetitae omnes [various species were distinguished] gravidis adalligati mulieribus, vel quadrupedibus, in pelliculis sacrificatorum animalium, continent partus, -non, nisi parturiant, removendi: alioqui vulvæ excidunt. Sed nisi parturientibus auferantur, omnino non pariunt.

The stones are found, he says, in eagles' nest ('Hist. Nat.' x. 4. 1; xxxvi. 39. 1). L. R. M. STRACHAN.

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ter's wig) as the leading figure in a procession in that village. I don't know if this old custom continues. H. K. H.

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THE POPE'S GOLDEN ROSE (12 S. xii. 188). -A great deal of information relative to the Golden Rose will be found in Catholic Encyclopedia.' The last English sovereign to whom the Rose was presented was Queen Henrietta Maria, Consort of Charles I.

At St. Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, Hants, is a Golden Rose, that was presented to the late Empress Eugénie by Pius IX. Shortly before her death, the Empres handed it over to the Abbey of which she was the foundress. On the Fourth Sunday of LentLaetare Sunday this Rose is during Mass placed on the High Altar. Farnborough Abbey is one of very few Churches in the world that possess a Rose.

JOHN HAUTENVILLE COPE.

The Catholic

The Golden Rose, says Encyclopædia,' is a precious and sacred ornament made of pure gold by skilled arti ficers, which the Popes have been accustomed for centuries to bless each year, and occasionally confer upon illustrious churches, upon Catholic kings, queens, princes, or princesses, renowned generals, or other distinguished personages, for their Catholic spirit and loyalty to the Holy See, as a mark of esteem and paternal affection. The signification of the Rose and Laetare Sunday (the fourth in Lent) so blend that the Sunday is often called Rose Sunday, and rose-coloured vestments, altar and throne and chapel draperies (signs of hope and joy) are substituted for the penitential purple The golden during the solemn function. flower and its shining splendour show forth Christ and His kingly majesty Who is "the flower of heralded by the prophet as the field and the lily of the valley;" its fragrance shows the sweet odour of Christ which should be widely diffused by His faithful followers; and the thorns and red tint tell of His passion.

had no issue. All three sons by the first wife had issue. In addition to the three sons by his first wife, W. D. Haggard had three daughters, Mary Frances, Susannah Andreae and Jane. L. M. ANSTEY.

COLONEL ROBERT PHAIRE (12 S. xii. 123, 143, 164, 185, 203).—The following Clerical Records relating to this surname from the Consolidated Index of the Clerical Index Society may be of interest to MR. W. H. WELPLY.

Phayre, Maxwell: P.C. Overchurch, Cheshire, 16 Oct., 1838; P.C. of Threepwood, Flints., 21 Oct., 1839. There in 1853. Phayre, Richard: R. of East and West Rainham, Norfolk, 13 July, 1832, and P.C. of St. Mary in Coslany in Norwich, 13 July, 1832. There in 1853.

Phear, John: R. of East Stonham, Suffolk,

27 June, 1823. There in 1853. Phare or Phayre, J(ames, John, or Joseph): living in 1853. J. W. FAWCETT.

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DE LA MARE (12 S. xii. 190).-The surname De la Mare is held by families in Oxford at the present day.

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EMRA HOLMES (12 S. x. 131).--He was also Collector of Customs at Fowey (1877), Barnstaple, and Kirkcaldy (1882)." A biographical sketch of him, by G. M. Tweddell, occurs in his Tales, Poems and Masonic Poems' (1877), and Masonic memoir in 'Amabel Vaughan and Other Tales,' also by G. M. Tweddell of Stokesley. A note to the editor of the Freemason would probably elicit the date of his death, which I hope W. N. C. will communicate N. & Q.'

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See Boase's Collectanea Cornubiensia,' p. 358 and Bibliotheca Cornubiensis,' pp. 123-4. J. H. R.

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ACROBATS AT OLD ST. PAUL'S (12 S. xi. 6). -In the Chronicle of the Grey Friars of London,' edited by J. G. Nichols, it recorded at p. 53, that, when Edward VI went in procession from the Tower to Westminster on Feb. 20, 1546/7,

at the west ende of Powlles stepull was tayed a cabelle roppe, and the other ende besyde the denes place at an hanker of a sheppe, and a man ronnynge downe on the sayd roppe as swefte as an arrow owte of a bow downe wyth hys hondes and fette abrode not to chynge the roppe;

also, at p. 84, that, when Queen Mary

went in procession from the Tower to Whitehall, on 30 Sept., 1553, she stood long at the east end of St. Paul's, where there was a pageant,

item also there was a man made too topecastelles above the crosse of the stepulle, and there stode with a flagge in hys honde and viij flagges hangynge besyde;

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and, at p. 91, that, when Philip and Mary went to St. Paul's on Aug. 19, 1554, was one came downe from the chapter-howse upon a roppe." HARMATOPEGOS.

JOHN GALT'S MARRIAGE: DATE WANTED (12 S. xii. 189).--The Ayrshire novelist was born at Irvine, May 2, 1779, and died at Greenock, April 11, 1839. He married in London, in 1813, Elizabeth, only daughter of Dr. Alexander Tilloch, one of the proprietors and editor of the Star, an evening newspaper. Mr. Galt left a widow and two was the Hon. Sir sons, one of whom Alexander Tilloch Galt, G.C.M.G., LL.D., P.C. of Canada, who died in 1893. JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

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WOOLRYCH PEDIGREE (12 S. xi. 32, 77, 117. 1. Sir Thomas Wolryche, Bart., of Dudmaston, co. Salop. (baptized at Worfield Mar. 27, 1598; died July 4, 1668), married dau. of Thos. Ottley of Pitchford, and sister Ursula (baptized at Pitchford Aug. 9, 1607) dau. of Thos Ottley of Pitchford, and sister of Sir Francis Ottley the Royalist Governor of Shrewsbury. By her, he had issue eight sons and four daughters. Of these, I should be glad of further details relative to the marriage (if any) and issue of:

William, 3rd son, entered Shrewsbury School, 1642; Gray's Inn, 1648; executor of his father's will, 1657; buried at Wroxeter, Nov. 9, 1673.

Thomas, 6th son, educated at Shrewsbury School and of Gray's Inn; buried at Quatt, 7 Nov., 1683.

Andrew, 7th son, baptized at Pitchford, April 25, 1644.

George, 8th son, entered Gray's Inn, June 9, 1657. He married Margery who was buried at Quatt, Aug. 5, 1689, and had issue, Mary, baptized Feb. 24, 1681, and Thomas, baptized July 20, 1683. The surname of Margery, and whether their son Thomas married are specially sought.

2. I have a note that the family of Wolryche is connected with the Earls of Mercia, and a pedigree shewing the connection is stated to be given in Turner's Anglo

HUNGER IN PLACE-NAMES (12 S. xi. 511; xii. 18. 58).-According to the oldest inhabitant, there used to be a hill at Lilliput in the parish of Parkstone, Dorset, fifty or sixty years ago, known as Hunger Hill." The hill has disappeared, carted away for the sake of the sand of which it was formed, and with the hill the name, except from the plans and documents relating to the locality. From the top of the hill, which from its white appearance was a conspicuous object in the landscape, it was possible to see the Solent over the trees of Branksome Wood. The site of it was pointed out to me; it is not now very much higher than the road which passes within a few yards of it.

PENRY LEWIS.

MORAY (12 S. xii. 92).-The "Lord Moray" of W. G. Wills's play, Charles I,' was a falsified creation of the dramatist, who, in order to improve his plot, made the historical Sir Robert Moray responsible for the surrender of the King by the Scots to the Parliament. For Sir Robert Moray see the D. N. B.'

Macrobius or Philosophy, Science and Letters in the year 400. By Thomas Whittaker. (Cambridge University Press. 68. 6d. net). THIS scholarly and interesting little book has also the merit of being pleasant to read, and various it deals with an author who, for perhaps rates the absolute merit of Macrobius reasons, repays some attention. Mr. Whittaker a little high. Although he was undoubtedly a well-informed and even learned person, he does not in truth display any originality of mind or force of intellect. The value of his work is mainly historical. It contains scraps of antiquarian information which we should not otherwise possess, it presents a picture of the literary, philosophic and religious equipment of the ordinary well educated man at the close of paganism, and it exercised an important influence upon the subsequent development of European thought as an intermediary between Christianity and Neo-Platonism. Macrobius was evidently a member of the pagan party at Rome at the end of the fourth One of the dramatis century after Christ. persona of his 'Saturnalia' is that Symmachus whose eloquent petition for the restor ation of the altar of Victory was defeated by the intransigeance of St. Ambrose. The plea put forward by the Pagans is characteristic up, one heaven is spread above us, one earth of the time. "To the same stars we look bears us more than one way leads to the great secret.' The dogged refusal of

Christianity to parley with syncretism had much to do with its victory.

The first book of the Saturnalia illustrates the character of this religious syncretism. All the deities of every race are shown to be forms of one another, and ultimately to be identified with the Divine Sun. This solar theory is not the invention of Macrobius; it is a systematic exposition of a generally accepted view, which had its roots in the development of religious ideas during the preceding centuries. It is possible to differ from Mr. Whittaker in regarding the solar theory, both in its ancient and in its modern forms, as scientifically quite worthless. He is perhaps mistaken in supposing that " after a period of disfavour, it may be said again to hold its own in contemporary controversy." The real value indeed of this part of Macrobius's miscellany lies in the scraps of information about ancient religious practices and formulæ which are embedded in it.

On the side of philosophy and science, Mr. Whittaker well brings out the importance of Macrobius as one of the channels through which Platonism affected European thought. Precisely because the presentation is that of a vir clarissimus et illustris, an educated and distinguished man of affairs, not a professional philosopher, it exercised an influence denied to more difficult works. Whether Mr. Whit taker is right in lamenting the disappearance since the eighteenth century of a philosophy without tears as part of the stock-in-trade of the ordinary well-educated man, is perhaps questionable. "The easy philosophy had its merits, but superficiality has also its Nemesis. His insistence, however, upon the importance of Platonism, and upon its special value for our present times, when materialism has threatened, if not destroyed, our standard of values, will hardly be disputed. Nor is Mr. Whittaker alone in raising to-day the banner of Plato and Plotinus. The Dean of St. Paul's, more definitely Christian, but equally scholarly, is with him here and in America the recent work of Mr. Paul Elmer More, though less sure in scholarship (for Mr. More has perhaps some defects in common with Macrobius), preaches from the same text.

Alexander Pope: a Bibliography. Vol. I, Part i. By Reginald Harvey Griffith. (University of Texas Press).

IN compiling a bibliography of Pope Dr. Griffith attacks courageously a considerable task, Part I of the First Volume now in our hands carries the list of Pope's writings as far as 1734; Part II is to complete that list, and the second volume is to furnish a record of the books written about the poet. Pope has filled no small space in our own columns, especially in the early days, when the pens of Thoms and Dilke furnished matter which, as Dr. Griffith's pages testify, still remain

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valid and useful. The latter half of the nineteenth century-with exceptions certainlytended to disparage the eighteenth century in general, and Pope, it might be said, in particular. This arose partly from an incompatibility between the outlook and characteristic temperament of the two centuries, partly from indisputable limitations in Pope as poet and defects as a man, but it owed also something to ignorance. A recurrence of sympathy for the eighteenth century, a renewed appreciation of Pope's genius, and the modern passion for minute research, have brought to light several attenuating or explicatory cir cumstances and removed some aspersions. Dr. a zealous researcher, has Griffith who, as borne a good part in this work of verification and correction, shares the less severe and gloomy view of Pope's character and work. An interesting Introduction (which charitably, condescends to set out some of the ele ments of the bibliographer's mystery) discusses the special conditions and difficulties under which Pope's bibliographer has labour. The list-wisely, we think,-is chronological, the work of each year being ushered in by a short resumé of the poet's doings during its course. The entries themselves, in addition to the usual particulars of a serious bibliography, are supplied with occasional miscellaneous notes. These are well worth having. The entries are numbered and that in two series. Of the usefulness of the first, there can be no doubt;-it is to be hoped that numbering will come to be a matter of course in bibliographical lists. second series, no opinion worth having can well be formed until one has had some prac tical experience in using it.

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