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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. x. DEC. 12,

at the office, 227, Strand, in case Kitty or Nelly should feel inclined to call and claim them in person. R. J. FYNMOBE.

This shilling paper-covered book was a great favourite with my aunts in their young days, and was evidently very popular, as my copy is the sixth edition, and is dated 1853. The author was Horace May hew, whose name appears on the cover. One of my aunts tells me that the shop (the type is almost extinct now) at which the letters are supposed to have been left was known as Tupp's, and was situated at the corner of Hanway Street and Tottenham Court Road. W. P. D. S.

ST. GODWALD (10 S. x. 268). The patron saint of Finstall is no doubt the eponymous hero of Gulval in Cornwall, and the St. Welvela, Gulval, or Galwell, to whom, with St. Sitevola or Sidwell, the parish church of Laneast in the same county is dedicated. Alban Butler and others think that St. Gudwal or Gulval is to be identified with St. Gurval, the second bishop of the see now known as St. Malo. This question is dis- cussed by Canon Thomas in a note at p. 217 of Le Grand's ' Les Vies des Saints de la Bretagne Armorique' (5th ed., Quimper, 1901). See also the ' Acta Sanctorum ' under 6 June; Stanton's ' Menology,' pp. 2589; and Smith and Wace's ' Dic- tionary of Christian Biography,' ii. 807.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. x. 309, 353, 413).

Two shall be born the whole wide world apart. The poem ' Fate ' appeared, as I said ante, p. 353, in The Saturday Review of 18 Jan. 1908, with the name G. E. Edmundson and the address Bucaramanga, 1907. It would be interesting to learn whether the poem is identical with that mentioned by your American correspondents. It is cer- tainly a poem of two stanzas of nine lines each, in blank verse. ETHEL M. TURNER.

MR. HIBGAME inquires, ante, p. 309 for the author of the " well-known line on ' Fate,' " beginning

Two shall be born the whole wide world apart; while the inference to be drawn from the information given at p. 353 is that the line wanted were first published on 18 Jan. 1908, in The Saturday Revieiv, as an origina poem by G. E. Edmundson, to whom the} are credited.

The ^truth is that the poem in question consisting of two nine-line stanzas, was

s I stated at p. 413, written nearly twenty ears ago by Mrs. Susan Marr Spalding, f Bath, Main, and later resident in Rock- ord, Delaware. I have a manuscript copy,. Tanscribed in 1891, with a note saying that The Magazine of Poetry of October, ^1890' to which I cannot now refer gave, with he lines, a biographical notice of the writer. | At this distance of time I cannot be cer- ain, but my strong impression is that this- )it of verse was even then becoming " well nown " and was reprinted in the magazine- n connexion with its biographical sketch.

However this may be, a claim in behalf f any other reputed author should at least how publication of the poem prior to- )ctober, 1890. M. C. L.

New York.

Is he gone to a land of no laughter?

The words are not quite correctly given

>y MRS. MONTEFIORE, ante, p. 428, but the-

)iece in question will be found in Mr. James-

ilhoades's ' Poems.' The subject is the

eath of Artemus Ward (Charles F. Browne).

?he author was evidently indebted as regards

he metre to Mr. Swinburne's ' Dolores/

ind the dedication to Burne-Jones of the-

irst series of ' Poems and Ballads.'

EDWARD BENSLY. [G. W. E. R. also refers to Mr. Rhoades.]

Lose this day loitering, 'twill be the same story- To-morrow, and the next more dilatory; True indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost, lamenting over days. Are you in earnest 1 Seize the very minute; What you can do, or think you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only begin it, and the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed.

An old scrapbook in my possession con- tains the lines in a cutting from a newspaper of 1845. The name of the author is not given, but I am inclined to think the lines are- from an American pen. M. N. G.

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY (10 S. x. 329). The late William Henry Alexander (b. 1833), who subscribed 80,OOOZ. towards- the building of the National Portrait Gallery, was a son of Henry Browne Alexander,. J.P., of the Laurels, Barnes, Surrey, and grandson of John Alexander (d. 1831) of Kensington Terrace, Kensington (see Faulk- ner's 'Kensington'). Alexander Square, South Kensington, is said to be named after this family. LIONEL SCHANK.

BRIDGE WITH FIGURES OF THE SAVIOUR (10 S. ix. 309). J. W. A. is probably think ing of the bridge at Prague, upon which are a number of statues of saints. He will