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Authors should note that the Leadenhall Press, Ltd., cannot be responsible for the loss of MSS. by fire or otherwise. Duplicate copies should be retained. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912. CONTENTS.-No. 106. seem to have been built upon until the reign The leases to the Earl of St. Albans' NOTES:- United Service Club and Pall Mall, 1-James Townsend, M.P., 2-Signs of Old London, 4-Dolben's Poems-A Dickens Toy book, 5-Pepys's Diary': Bray brooke Edition-De Quincey: the Murderer Williams- "Cinematograph":"Cinemacolor "The King "Over the Water"-Blindfolded Man: Japanese Variants, 6-"Nose of wax -Miniature of Mary, Queen of Scots, 7. QUERIES: Dinner-Jacket-Kings with Special Titles- Edgar Allan Poe's Mother: Elizabeth Arnold, 7- Decorated Shoe-Horns: R. Mindum-Dean Swift: Rev. Gery - Sir William Davenant's Entertainment, Rutland House-J. R.: Letters to Lord Orrery - Family, 8-Patrick Archer, Merchant-Mrs. Gordon, 9-pation of Carlton Palace adjoining. The Latin Phrase for "Mistletoe for the New Year," 10. houses were then demolished, and the REPLIES: Sir Francis Drake at the Middle Temple, 10-present row of houses was built on the site. Keats's 'Ode to a Nightingale,' 11-Mistletoe-"Sala- mander," a Heavy Blow, 12-London Corporation and the Medical Profession - Bennetto, 13- Irving's Sketch Book'-'Catalogue of Honor'-Maida, 14-"Riding the high horse"-Marryat: Diary of a BlaséMathe matical Transactions'-"Sabbath day's journey." 15- Gordon's 'Geography' Lackington's Medals, 16-J. "Wigesta" - Murderers reprieved for Marriage The Robber's Cave'-Fire-Papers, 18-Casanoviana: Edward NOTES ON BOOKS: 'The Chilterns and the Vale'- Almost the first break was made in 1881, The United Service Club was built in 1826, and extended eastwards by the destruc- tion of a house in 1858-9. It is now to be extended still further by the destruction of There is a certain appropriateness in the absorption of these houses, for both of them manack' and 'Whitaker's Peerage,' 1912-Reviews and have been connected in a roundabout way with the Services: No. 119, latterly, by housing Hugh Rees, Ltd., military book- sellers, who have moved into the Howell & James's block in Lower Regent Street. I am, however, more interested in No. 118, through having lived there for sixteen and THE forthcoming extension of the United Service Club at the expense of the adjoining property, No. 118 and No. 119, Pall Mall, suggests a note on the lines of the interesting articles which the late MR. W. E. HARLAND- OXLEY contributed from time to time on changes in Westminster, and may help that desirable work, a history of Pall Mall to Through the courtesy of the Office of Woods, I learn that the site of the doomed houses is within the bailiwick or manor of St. James's-in-the-Fields, which was pur- chased by the Crown from the Abbot of Westminster in the reign of Henry VIII. Part of the manor was granted on leases by William Cobbett, who enlisted in the 54th probably a Cornishman, and may have been connected with Edward Budd (1771-1853) of the West Briton, Truro (Boase's Collec- tanea Cornubiensia,' p. 115: Add. MSS. 29, On 5 July, 1827, a ninety-nine years' lease was granted to George William Budd |