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jecur Cratetis." Last line of an epigram of M. Furius Bibaculus on P. Valerius Cato, given by Suetonius, ' De Grammaticis,' xi.

P. 45, 1. 21; 21, 44, "Quis est sapiens? Solus Deus, Pythagoras replies." Diog. Laert., 'Procem.,'8, 12.

P. 45, 1. 23 ; 21, 45, "only good, as Austine well contends." ' De Nat. Bon. contr. Manich.,' 39; vol. xlii. col. 563 in Migne's 'Patr. Lat.' The reference "Lib. de Nat. Boni" is wrongly attached in Burton, and left by Shilleto.

P. 46, 1. 5 ; 22, 11, "asini bipedes." Paling., 'Zod. Vit,' ix. 586 and xii. 354.

P. 46, 1. 19 ; 22, 23, "as Lactantius proves out of Seneca," Lact., 'Inst.,' ii. 4, 14 ; Sen., 'Fr.,'121 (Haase).

P. 48, 29; 23, 37, "Hippocrates, in his Epistle to Damagetus." Ep. 17.

P. 53, n. 6 ; 27, n. x, " E. Gnec. epig." ' Anth. P.,' ix. 148, 3-4.

P. 53, n. 7 ; 27, n. y, " Eras. Moria." P. 39, ed. 1851 ; a quarter through the ' Enc. Mor.'

P. 55, n. 6 ; 28, n. *. The reference to Josephus should be lib. v. c. 9 (69, 70). The Latin version is that by Rufinus of Aquileia. See vol. i. of Cardwell's ed. of the " De Bell. Jud.' (Ox., 1837).

P. 56, n. 7 ; 28, n. h, Seneca. 'Fr.,' 34, ap. Augustin., 'De Civ. Dei,' vi. 10.

P. 59,1. 6 ; 30, 12, "ignoto cselum clangore remugit." Mart. Capella, v. 425, 1. 2.

EDWARD BENSLY.

The University, Adelaide, South Australia. (To be continued.)

'ADDRESS TO POVERTY':

BY CHARLES LAMB? A LETTER of Mr. R, A. Potts in the Athenaeum of 3 October, 1903, induces me tohope that that gentleman may be able to afford a clue to the authorship of some lines which were pub- lished under the above title in ' The Poetical Register, and Repository of Fugitive Poetry, for 1806-7,' London, 1811, vol. vi. p. 264. The lines were signed with the. initial L., and dated 1 February, 1796. As they were printed in the section of 'Fugitive Poetry,' they had presumably been published earlier in some other form. By a letter from the editor, R. A. Davenport, addressed to Miss Mitford under date 17 January, 1811, and printed in the Rev. A. G. L'Estrange's book, 'The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford,' i. 56, it would appear that the authorship of the lines lay between Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd. Though Coleridge or Lamb might reasonably invoke the muse of poverty, there seems no ground for Lloyd, who was the son

of a banker in easy circumstances, to do so, nor do I think that in the second month of 1796 he had come sufficiently under the influence of Coleridge to write poetry of this pessimistic cast. At the date at which the fines were written, Lamb was just emerging; from the asylum at Hoxton, in which he had been confined during the winter of 1795-6, and his mind was attuned to the gloomy atmosphere in which the poem is enveloped!. I will venture to subjoin a transcript of the- lines as a pendant to the sonnet under a similar title which is conjecturally attributed to Coleridge by Mr. Potts :

ADDRESS TO POVERTY.

'Tia not that look of anguish, bath'd in tears,

O, Poverty ! thy haggard visage wears

'Tis not those famish' d limbs, naked, and bare

To the bleak tempest's rains, or the keen air

Of winter's piercing winds, nor that sad eye

Imploring the small boon of charity

'Tis not that voice, whose agonizing tale

Might turn the purple cheek of grandeur pale ;

Nor all the host of woes thou bring'st with thee,.

Insult, contempt, disdain, and contumely,

That bid me call the fate of those forlorn,

Who 'neath thy rude oppression sigh and mourn r

But chief, relentless pow'r ! thy hard control,

Which to the earth bends low th' aspiring soul ;

Thine iron grasp, thy fetters drear, which bind

Each gen'rous effort of the struggling mind !

Alas ! that Genius, melancholy flow'r,

Scarce opening yet to Even's nurturing show'r,

Shpu'd by thy pitiless and cruel doom,

Wither, ere nature smiles upon her bloom ;

That Innocence, touch'd by thy dead'ning wand,

Shou'd pine, nor know one outstretch a guardian'

hand !

For this, Poverty ! for them I sigh, The helpless victims of thy tyranny ! For this, I call the lot of those severe, Who wander 'mid thy haunts, and pine unheeded

there ! L.

Feb. 1, 1796.

It is hardly outside the range of possibility that Coleridge and Lamb may both have set themselves, in friendly competition, to write verses on a subject which at a certain period of their lives possessed in each case some ele- ments of personal interest.

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

SEOUL : ITS PRONUNCIATION. Standard works on Corea leave us in doubt as to the spelling and pronunciation of this name. Dr. Griffis, in his ' Corea,' 1882, p. 188, writes as follows :

" The common term applied to the royal city is

Seoul, which means the capital Seoul is properly

a common noun, but by popular use has become a proper name, which, in English, may be correctly- written with a capital initial. According to the locality whence they come, the natives pronounce the name Say'-ool, fchay'-ool, or Say'-oor.

Inability to distinguish between s and sk, or