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dau. of Ralph Belfield of Gledge, but d.s.p. 1582 he was succeeded by his brother,

Peter Legh, of West Hall, m. Elizabeth dau. of John Baptista Castilion, of Benham Valence, in Berkshire, and dying 4 Mar. 1613, was succeeded by his second son,

Peter Legh, of West Hall in High Legh, who married, Mary, dau. of Robert Tipping of Manchester, and died 1657, aged 62 years, he was succeeded by his eldest son,

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The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume VI., Macedon 401-301 B.C. Edited by J. B. Bury, (Cambridge

S. A. Cook and F. E. Adcock. University Press. £1 10s.). THE history of Greece in the fourth century until we reach the story of Philip of Macedon and his greater son, is inevitably a flatter affair that the history of the fifth century. It is therefore not altogether the fault of the

Peter Legh, of West Hall, who d.s.p. 1665, writers if this volume is not upon the whole as being succeeded by his brother,

Richard Legh, of West Hall, who died unmarried, 12 Aug. 1670, and was succeeded by his brother,

Thomas Legh, of West Hall, married 1660 Mary dau. of William Austine, of Westminster, London, and had issue, Austine, Peter, William (all living 1670).

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MR. REYNOLDS says, Thomas Leigh, the eldest son of the above Peter Leigh, married Margery. From the context, it would appear the Peter he refers to is the Peter who died in 1657. If this is correct, Thomas must have married twice. But Thomas was 3rd son, not eldest son, of Peter. I believe the Peter Legh, whom I give as living 1670," was the Rev. Peter Leigh, Vicar of Great Budworth, who m. Elizabeth, dau. of the Hon. Thomas

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interesting as Vol. V. On the other hand, it was a very fortunate choice of Mr. Tarn to whom to entrust Alexander. In every respect his contribution is a real achievement. His knowledge is detailed and accurate, but he writes with force and imagination and is not afraid to expound ideas. Upon the topic of religious development some of us may think that he is too emphatic in his concurrence with the general belief that the cults of the Olympian gods no longer had much meaning for the educated Greeks, a view about which a careful study of the orators alone would raise doubts. On the celebrated question of προσκύνησις or prostration before Alexander Mr. Tarn holds that for Persians it had no religious significance. That is a pretty generally accepted view, and it remains to be seen whether the reopening of the question anew by Miss Taylor in the current number of the Journal of Hellenic Studies will lead to serious

reconsideration.
Egerton, of Tatton

Park. The Rev. Peter Leigh had a son,
Thomas, stated by Burke ('L.G.') to be
ancestor of the Leighs, of Leatherlake House,
Surrey. Perhaps it is the Rev. Peter
Leigh, who died in 1719, that MR.
REYNOLDS means, not Peter, who died 1657.
JOHN PRATT.

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THEATRE BUILT BY DICKENS (cli. 387, 450, 465; cliii. 33).—The anecdote of Dickens and the stage carpenter, in order to test the acoustics of the building,' related by MR. JOHN A. KNOWLES, is a variant of an old story of Sir Richard Steele early in the eighteenth century. My friend, the veteran Mr. Francesco Berger, who was a very intimate friend of Charles Dickens and the musical director in his theatrical performances, never heard of such an incident. The great novelist was by no means short of money at the time.

ANDREW DE TERNANT.

FIELD TO BURY STRANGERS

AIN. 407, 445).My Club in Pall Mall used the expression "The Potters Field" for this room. C.S.C.(B/C).

Mr.

The treatment of art and architecture remains in the skilled hands of Professor Beazley and Mr. Robertson. These sections could hardly be improved-except by hurrying on the appearance of the promised volumes of Plates, which will enormously increase their intelligibility and value. Cornford deals with philosophy (Socrates to Aristotle) and Professor Barker contributes a chapter upon political thought and theory. Of the other additional chapters Dr. Cook has an interesting topic in the foundation of Judaism after the exile. Ed. Meyer, Der Papyrusfund von Elefantine' should be added to the bibliography of this chapter.

If it

Like its predecessors Vol. VI. is well equipped with maps, bibliographies, tables, indices, etc., but the bibliography upon Alexander deserves special mention. It is very full but well and carefully subdivided, and in itself constitutes a work of real utility and importance. achieves a less even excellence than the volume on the Athenian Empire and the Peloponnesian War, there is a great deal in this instalment of the history which could hardly be bettered. It is sad to think that it is the last which will be directed to completion by Professor Bury,

cui Pudor et Justitiae soror incorrupta Fides, nudaque Veritas quando ullum inueniet parem?

Appledore, Kent: Notes from Transcripts and Registers. By F. William Cock. (Apple dore. 1s. net).

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HE oldest extant register book of Appledore starts only in 1700, but our correspondent Dr. Cock has gone to the transcripts at Canterbury for the records contained in the earlier books now lost. He has had the courage to copy out the whole of the transcripts for Appledore and Eboney. Rare as surviving-perhaps nearly unique is the addendum to the transcript of the register for 1564 of a list of communicants' names. Dr. Cock has found a good number of interesting entries, and he annotates them lavishly and well. In a note about periods of distress in the village he remarks on the ravages of ague and the benefits of quinine, first produced by the French chemist Pelletier. Seventeenth century French letters are full of praises of quinine as le remède anglais," connecting it with Talbot: was it at that time unknown in England? The old topographical information is worth having; and there are some instances of connection with famous names-thus John Marlow, father of Christopher, makes his appearance. A list of surgeons and doctors and a list of parish clerks are appended. One " surgeon of Appledore published a book on sheep-farming in 1809, and practised on himself frequently and so violently the then favourite remedy of bleeding that he died at last, lancet in hand, of exhaustion from excessive hæmorrhage. This little book is sold for the benefit of the Village Hall Fund. Appledore people, we feel sure, are grateful to the author not merely for his gift to the fund, but also for retrieving much interesting information about their home, and for apprising the outside world of its claims to interest. We look forward to a promised account of the clergy and churchwardens of the parish.

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ILLUSTRATED by 112 plates, this little book on one of the most delightful topics in architecture should find a welcome from all lovers of Gothic, and especially from beginners. It sets out the evolution of a branch of sculpture in which the sculptors who invented Early English still-leaf produced something unique as it was beautiful. The most casual visitor to an old church notices, however vaguely, the carving of capitals and corbels; he will have his interest trebled after a study of this book by knowing what to look for and being drawn to appreciate the significance of such detail as turned-over tips of leaves; leaves mid-ribbed or hollowed; leaves with bumps and bulges and holes; or frankly naturalistic foliage. The return, at least twice during the life of English Gothic, to direct representation of nature is very instructive. It seems to denote need of fresh decorative inspiration

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MR. P. M. BARNARD, of Tunbridge Wells, describes something short of 150 items in his Catalogue No. 158. The edition printed at Cologne of St. Ambrose's Commentary on the Epistles of St. Paul, supervised by Erasmus, in an interesting copy bound in contemporary English calf, and having leaves with printing which is possibly Wynkyn de Worde's on them for end-papers, tempts one on the first page (1532: £8 10s.). Better still is a first edition of the Ecclesiasticall Historie of S. Thomas Archbishope of Canterbury which contains, as other copies do not, Huret's frontispiece engraved for the book (1639: £12 10s.). Then there is John Barnard's First Book of selected Church Musick,' a folio printed by Edward Griffin in 1641, which has five leaves of old MS. music bound up with it. It has the Tenor Cantoris part only, and "Tenor C stamped in gold on the cover, which is the original calf somewhat worn and with the back defective (£35). A good first collected edition of Beaumont and Fletcher in a binding by Rivière is offered for £35-it was printed in 1647 for Humphrey Robinson at the Three Pidgeons and for Humphrey Moseley at the Prince's Arms. Here are two or three first editions of Byron and of Pope; a copy of the first collected edition of Goldsmith's essays and poems (1775: £35); the original edition of Barnabe Googe's Popish Kingdome, or reigne of Antichrist, written in Latine verse by Thomas Naggeorgus, and englyshed by Barnabe Googe a fine copy from the library of Alexander Young and bound in calf by Bedford (1570: £45); a first edition of Killigrew's Conspiracy,' a tragedy, as it was intended, for the Nuptialls, of the Lord Charles Herbert, and the Lady Villers" (1638: £12) and the corpus of medical writings which was issued from the Aldine Press in 1547 (£20).

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ANNOUNCING the exhibition of their Shakespearian treasures now being given by the Bodleian authorities The Times of July 25 notes down the chief features of that great collection of editions. Not the least interesting detail about it is the witness borne by their First Folio to the popularity of Shakespeare in the earlier seventeenth century and, further, to the relative popularity of the several plays. The evidence for this is the wear and tear of the pages, and it reveals that Romeo and Juliet came first in the affections of readers before the Civil War. Not only so, but their thumbing seems to show that of all things it was the balcony scene that pleased them most. After Romeo and Juliet come (in order of popularity)Julius Caesar,'The Tempest,' Henry IV (Pt. i. Falstaff scenes), Macbeth,' and Cymbeline.' This copy of the First Folio (the only one to pass straight from the publisher to a public institution) was, as our readers know, sold in 1663 upon the publication of the Third Folio, which was taken to have superseded

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At the Bodleian also is the only known copy of the first edition of Venus and Adonis,' which it is curious to reflect that Malone was able to acquire for no more than

£25.

MAJOR J. Fairfax-Blakeborough sends

us the following notes on sporting anniversaries of the month of July.

"The past few days have witnessed some interesting northern anniversaries. On July 16, 1838, the famous Dr. Syntax (sire of

Bee'swing) was shot at Newmarket owing to infirmities: The wonderful old horse (he won more Gold Cups than most of his day) was twenty-two years old and, in addition to Bee'swing, was sire of Gallopade, Lawnsleeves, Chapeau d'Espagne, Doctor and other good racers of their day.

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In 1822 the season was so forward that the Brocklesby started cub-hunting in July, though Tom Smith entered in his diary on July 16 of that year: Though we have killed several foxes yet we have done no good with the young hounds before this time. 1 shall, therefore, date our cubbing from this day.' Lord Galway often began the preliminary stages of the hunting season in July and in 1903 notes in his diary that owing to a very late harvest he could not get amongst the cubs till the end of August.

Another anniversary we have just celebrated is that of the tragic death, in 1873, of John Gallon, a famous northern Master

of Otter Hounds, who was drowned whilst hunting the river Lugar in South Ayrshire.

Going back further into the past, July 18 was the anniversary of the death of a celebrated stallion called Snap bred by Mr. Jennison Shafto. Snap was by Snip, and was never beaten during his turf career. He was twenty-eight when he died.

Eleven years before this Francis Buckle, the most famous jockey of his day, died. He rode five Derby winners, nine Oaks winners, and had two successes in the St. Leger. He went on riding till he was fifty, and passed hence fifteen years later.

July 20 was a date the late John Osborne always remembered, for it was on that day in 1885, he received one of the most severe of his racing accidents. Johnny was riding a filly by Blair Athol, out of Ambulance, for Mr. Gladstone, and on coming into the straight, his mount collided with a post, giving her jockey a terrific fall. He did not fully recover for several months."

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THE Home Secretary last Tuesday night, Everton, U.) stated the position of Lord in reply to Colonel Woodcock (Liverpool. Mayors in regard to the designation Right Honourable. This is not to be held attached to the office of Lord Mayor as such, but is conferred by grant from the Sovereign as fountain of honour. At the present moment the Lord Mayors and Provosts entitled to it are the Lord Mayors of London and York and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, who have had the privilege from time immemorial, and the Lord Provost of

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