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cools, the portion of air remaining under the cup, and which, while
heated, was sufficient to fill it, contracts; and then the pressure of
the external atmosphere, entering through the air-holes of the pie, and
acting upon the surface of the juice round about the cup, forces a
portion of it into the cup, just on the same principle that water rises
into the chamber or cylinder of a pump when a partial vacuum is formed
in it. Having once risen into the cup, the same law of hydrostatic
pressure keeps it there until the cup is raised sufficiently to admit
air under its edge, when the juice of course escapes.

J.T.S.

_Curfew_ (Vol. ii., p. 103.).--Your correspondent Naboc will find the
information he seeks upon this subject in a valuable communication to
the _Journal of the British Archaeological Association_, vol. iv. p. 133,
by Mr. Syer Cuming. To Mr. C.'s list may be added, Charter House,
London; Newport, S.W.; and Lowestoft, Suffolk.

E.B. Price.

_Derivation of Totnes._--From the Anglo-Saxon _toten_ or _totten_, to
project, to rise above, and _ness_ or _nes_, nose, (French _nez_, German
_nase_, Latin _nasus_). Tooting, Tottenham, &c.

B.H.K.

_Dogs in Monuments._--S.S.S. (Vol. i., p. 405.) is informed that a dog,
at the feet of monumental effigies of females, is as common as a lion
accompanying male figures. It is most probable that the dog was meant to
represent affection, fidelity, &c., just as the lion signified courage,
generosity, &c. There are, however, some instances (Deerhurst,
Gloucestershire, Ingham, Norfolk) where the dog's _name_ is inscribed;
and then it was doubtless the intention to give a favourite _pet_ the
honour of a monument, that of itself, as well as of its mistress, should
"witness live in brass."

T.S. Lawrence.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

It is long since the students of English Archaeology received a more
welcome or valuable addition to their libraries than the recently
published _Antiquities of Richborough, Reculver, and Lymne, in Kent_, by
Charles Roach Smith, F.S.A., _illustrated by_ F.W. Fairholt, F.S.A.
Originally intended to have been a volume confined to Richborough, of
which the well-known collections of Mr. Rolfe were to form the basis, it
has been wisely extended to Reculver and Lymne, and now forms, both in
its literary and pictorial illustrations of those highly interesting
localities,