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The Times HAS now finished
the great task which it set itself in
1914 of compiling a full and authentic
record of the Great War; and
The Times Illustrated History and
Encyclopædia of the War stands
complete in 21 volumes. A general
index volume is now in course of pre-
paration, and will be published shortly.

Now is the time to look through
your back numbers, replace those
that are missing, and have each
volume of this great work bound in
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To SUBSCRIBERS
AND OTHERS

The Times HAS now finished
the great task which it set itself in
1914 of compiling a full and authentic
record of the Great War; and
The Times Illustrated History and
Encyclopædia of the War stands
complete in 21 volumes. A general
index volume is now in course of pre-
paration, and will be published shortly.

Now is the time to look through
your back numbers, replace those
that are missing, and have each
volume of this great work bound in

The Times Special Binding Cases.

All back numbers and binding cases can be obtained from
the Publisher, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4.
Write to-day-

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Only six years but the most crowded years in the
history of the world!

From the murder of the Archduke Francis Ferdinand at
Serajevo to the final ratification of the Peace Treaty events
fraught with the greatest significance followed each other
with such rapidity that the clearest memory must require
some aid in tracing even the most important of them.
The Times has prepared a complete brief Diary and
Index of the War in which the full history of the great
conflict is compressed into 178 clearly printed pages.
Appendices give the total casualties and other useful
statistics, and a magnificent Index, which has taken many
months to prepare, ensures immediate access
to any
information required.

The Times

DIARY & INDEX OF THE WAR

Is thus the briefest and most handy Reference Work
dealing with the War.

It is now ready, and may be obtained post free for £2 3s.
from The Publisher, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4.

Sept. 4, 1837, aged 19; Anne Elizabeth Roe Cobbold, died Feb. 4, 1837, aged 11; Georgina Cobbold, died Mar. 30, 1837, aged 8; Cobbold, "only surviving child: a F. GORDON ROE.

son" (Add. 19147)

Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, W.1.

LEANDER CLUB: EARLY RECORDS SOUGHT. -The club was founded about 1820, or possibly a year or two previously; but the early records have been lost.

The earliest mention I have come across in The Sporting Magazine is in August, 1828, where the Leander boat is described as a six-oared cutter.

In the September number of the same year is an account of a race for watermen for a purse of sovereigns, subscribed by the members of the Leander and Arrow Clubs in conjunction with several other gentlemen. Possibly some readers of N. & Q.' may be able to furnish earlier references from old diaries or other contemporary literature. H. A. PITMAN.

Oxford and Cambridge Club, Mall Mall. SLAVE OWNERS IN JAMAICA.-I should be very glad if any one acquainted with the history of the slave trade in Jamaica during the period 1800 to 1820 could inform me whether a Mr. James Dickson was a slaveowner in the parish of St. Mary's Isle, Jamaica, during that time. Mr. Dickson is said to have died there about 1820 and to have left an estate and 60,000l. in cash. If I am correct in the foregoing I should esteem any information regarding his parents who resided in Edinburgh, and his brothers and sisters. I believe his sisters were Mrs. Dodds and Mrs. Simpson, and that they both resided in Edinburgh.

JAMES SETON-ANDERSON.

39 Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex.

GILES JACOB, HIS YEAR BOOKS AND LAW REPORTS.-In the abridged edition of his Law Dictionary published in 1743 there is a Catalogue of all the Year Books and Law Reports with the times of their publication. The first items are the Year Books, being and continued to 12 Hen. VIII, 1521, and 10 volumes begun 1 Ed. III, Anno 1326the list goes down to near his own ti ne.

Are these publications recognized as now of any substantial value? Probably they are not reasonably accessible !

sede them as covering the same ground? Do the Record office publications superW. S. B. H.

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THE COFFIN-MOUSE.-We read in Plu- (which I contend is the right interpretation) or tarch's

Life of Marcellus' that

"when Minucius the dictator was appointing Caius Flaminius his master of the knights, the mouse which is called the coffin-mouse was heard to squeak."

What was the coffin-mouse, and what the ceremony referred to ?

W. A. HUTCHISON.

BIBLE OF JAMES THE FIRST.-What were the names of the translators of this work, issued in 1611? The translators were Carlyle says, 47 in number. Could their names be given for reference in these columns? G. B. M.

as ennobling the host of families who can trace descent from him through any number of females.' The latter theory reminds one of the happy land where "Dukes were three a penny."

Some time ago I had an opportunity of examining an original patent of nobility issued by the Kaiser's grandfather as King of Prussia. It did not confer any title, the effect being to raise the recipient from a roturier to the rank of gentilhomme, if I may use these convenient French terms. (It is difficult to put it in English, as in our country nobility is a matter of titles, not of blood.) The wording of the patent, which was of course in German, gave the impression of

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