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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. DEC. 5, IMS. Three Doctors.' These songs I propose to give, and I think it will be seen that they are worthy of being printed, and in many instances distinctly better than a great deal of Peacock's verse which has been neither neglected nor forgotten.

The most striking of these songs is, perhaps, the second. Devoid of overstrained sentiment, it appeals through its grace and simplicity, recalling to mind other poems, by Peacock written in the same vein.

The songs included in 'The Circle of Loda' differ somewhat from those contained in 'The Dilettanti' and 'The Three Doctors' in that they do not show Peacock's humour and sarcasm to the same advantage.