l who knew him well, could always recognise.
That eminent prelate thus sums up the fate of the sole publication of
the so-called Catholic Bible Society:

"Its stereotype Testament ... was proved to abound in gross
errors; hardly a copy of it could be sold; and, in the end, the
plates for continuing it have been of late presented by an
illustrious personage, into whose hands they fell, to one of our
prelates [this was Bishop Collingridge], who will immediately
employ the cart-load of them for a good purpose, as they were
intended to be, by disposing of them to some pewterer, who will
convert them into numerous useful culinary implements,
gas-pipes, and other pipes."

F. C. H.

_Cassiterides_ (Vol. ix., p. 64.).--Kassiteros; the ancient Indian
Sanscrit word _Kastira_. Of the disputed passage in Herodotus respecting
the Cassiterides, the interpretation[7] of Rennell, in his _Geographical
System of Herodotus_; of Maurice, in his _Indian Antiquities_, vol. vi.;
and of Heeren, in his _Historical Researches_; is much more satisfactory
than that offered by your correspondent S. G. C., although supported by
the French academicians (_Inscript._ xxxvi. 66.)

The advocates for a Celtic origin of the name of these islands are
perhaps not aware that--

"Through the intercourse which the Phoenicians, by means of
their factories in the Persian Gulph, maintained with the east
coast of India, the Sanscrit word _Kastira_, expressing a most
useful product of farther India, and still existing among the
old Aramaic idioms in the Arabian word _Kasdir_, became known to
the Greeks even before Albion and the British Cassiterides had
been visited."--See Humboldt's _Cosmos_, "Principal Epochs in
the History of the Physical Contemplation of the Universe,"
notes.

BIBLIOTHECAR. CHETHAM.

[Footnote 7: His want of information in this matter can only be referred
to the jealousy of the Phoenicians depriving the Greeks, as afterwards
the Romans, of ocular observation.]

_Wooden Tombs and Effigies_ (Vol. ix., p. 62.).--There are two fine
recumbent figures of a Lord Neville and his wife in Brancepeth Church,
four miles south-west of Durham. They are carved in wood. A view of them
is given in Billing's _Antiquities of Durham_.

J. H. B.

_Tailless Cats_ (Vol. ix., p. 10.).--In my visits to the Isle of Man, I
have frequently met with {112} specimens of the tailless ca