eed hardly say that the kettle-holder hangs by its fetter on the wall
beside my fire, and is not allowed to be used by anyone but myself. S.B.
January 21st, 1902."

Two small Dutch dolls (9)

Mr. Charles Archer Cook was at Trinity Hall with me. He is mentioned in
the _Memoir_ as having edited _The Athenaeum_ in October, 1885, during
the absence of MacColl, the editor. Butler and I sometimes dined with
him and met his brother, Mr. (afterwards Sir) Edward T. Cook and his
wife. Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Cook came to tea with Butler, and Alfred was
showing them round the sitting room, while Butler was in his painting
room, where he had gone to look for something.

"These are the pictures which the governor does when he is away," said
Alfred, "and these are the photographs which he brings back with him and
the plates and images."

"And please, Alfred, what are these two little dolls among the pictures?"

"Oh, those, ma'am! Those are ---."

"Alfred!" exclaimed the reproving voice of Butler, who although in the
next room, had overheard.

"Well, Sir," replied Alfred, "that's what we always call them."

Alfred was referring to a recent divorce case in which the names of two
ladies had been brought prominently before the public, but Butler did not
approve of the names being blurted out in the presence of visitors.

A brass bowl which my brother Edward brought from India.

It always stood on my table in Staple Inn, and Butler used it as an ash-
tray and played with it and liked the sound it made when he struck it. He
also liked its shape, and was pleased with it for not being "spoilt by
any silly ornament." It is mentioned in the _Memoir_ (II. xliii.) when
Miss Butler comes to my rooms after Butler's death.

A leather (or sham leather) cigarette case from Palermo (but, I am
afraid, made in Germany).

It contains a fragment of a Greek vase picked up on Mount Eryx and given
to Butler by Bruno Flury. He was one of the young men who came about him
in 1892 when he broke his foot on the mountain; he afterwards settled in
Pisa, where I saw him in 1901.

Two of the blue and white wine cups mentioned in _Alps and Sanctuaries_
(ch. xxii.; new ed., ch. xxiii.), "A Day at the Cantine."

"These little cups are common crockery, but at the bottom there is
written Viva Bacco, Viva l'Italia, Viva la Gioia, Viva Venere or other
such matter; they are to be had in every crockery shop throughout the
Mendrisiotto, and they are very pre