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COLLAR (cliii. 334, 411). I beg to thank MR. ASKEW for interesting information. He maybe glad to know there is a fine example of a fourteenth century SS collar in the Department of Metalwork at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It is of silver and beautifully worked, has forty-four links and esses, and is an early and perhaps only example.

There are good articles on the Order in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1842.

C. W.

Surely DR. J. M. BULLOCH errs when he "is remembered says that William Sangster as the introducer of alpaca." Certainly he was the first to use alpaca for covering umbrellas. This was in 1848. Alpaca was first extensively manufactured by Titus (afterwards Sir Titus) Salt, in 1836. Yarn from the wool of the alpaca had been spun in England for the first time in 1806, but it was not valued. Benjamin Green, of Greetland, near Halifax, endeavoured to popularise it in 1830, but unsuccessfully. Perhaps DR. BULLOCH meant his remarks to be confined to umbrella-making. H. ASKEW.

Spennymoor.

ENGELBERTUS KEMPFER (cliii. 398,

S.V. Two Hundred Years Ago '). There are many of his MSS. in the Sloane collection, including History of Japan,' seventeenth cent. Germ. Hologr. (3060); H. of J.' transl. by J. G. Scheucher, 1727, imperf. (4026 ff. 76-130), and Heads of his Work on J., eighteenth century (3329 f. 80). See Scott's Catal. Sloane MS.' p. 286.

J. ARDAGH.

the Memoir of Sir Sidney Lee, pre-fixed to this new volume of the D. N. B.' Sir Charles Firth takes occasion to re-tell the story of the inception of the whole work, and restate the original ideals of scope and method. The first volume was published in January, 1885, and the sixty-third and last in October, 1900. In those fifteen years readers observed with satisfaction that the articles contained more and more learning, and while it had not proved possible to carry out the plan of the work exactly upon the scale intended, the work itself preserved consistency and form, with advance in general merit. Two Supplements, each of three volumes, have since appeared, con

LEZZE. UMBRELLA WILLIAM SANGSTER, MAKER (cliii. 376, 408).—I have Lon-taining lives which by accident had been omitted don Directories of 1823-4 and of 1828. Both from the original scheme, and lives of persons of these give "Samuel Sangster, Umbrella who had died during the progress of the DicMaker, 94 Fleet Street." tionary. By the time the Second Supplement was under way these latter included many of the contributors to the Dictionary themselves. And here piety requires us to make mention of Joseph Knight. When in June, 1917, upon dissolution of the firm of Smith, Elder and Co., after the death of Mr. Reginald Smith, the Dictionary went to the University of Oxford, Lee gave up the editorship which he had held since 1891. It is not, therefore, surprising that this new volume, of which Professor H. W. C. Davis and Mr. J. R. H. Weaver are the editors, preformer ones, sents certain differences from differences which in large measure reflect those Perceptible in literary work of all sorts since At the foot of a large proportion of the articles appear the words personal knowledge "a fact which accounts for the frequent, tone. restrained but perceptible, warmth of The neutrality of style conspicuous (if one may so put it) in the Dictionary hitherto, here often gives place, usually without prejudicing brevity, to personal idiom. One change in the biographies of writers we regret; the main Dictionary, at the close of the life, gave systematworks, a feature ically a numbered list of which we have often found of great use. This has been discontinued. It may be conceded that in the case of very voluminous novelwriters not of the first rank it was unnecessary, but we think it might well have been adhered to for scholars, historians and the like.

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