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14 March ; Bath Journal, 16 March ; and Berrow's Worcester Journal, 19 March, 1767.

It may be assumed, therefore, that Kitty Fisher died on Tuesday, the 10th of March, 1767, at "The Three Tuns Inn" in Stall Street, Bath. Her illness was consumption.

On the 25th of October, 1766, she was married at Trinity Church, Haddington, in Scotland, to John Norris, Jun., the grand- son of Admiral Sir John Norris ; and on the following 4th of December the pair went through the ceremony once more at St. George's, Hanover Square.

The register of Benenden Church in Kent thus records her burial :

" March, 23, 1767. Katharine Maria, wife of John Norris, Jun r, Esq".."

She was under thirty years of age.

HORACE BLEACKLEY.

' TYRRELL' s MARCH.' When Capt. Richard Tyrrell in 1597 ambushed the troops of Queen Elizabeth in the defile
 * since known as Tyrrell's Pass, and cut them

to pieces, it is stated that the signal for attack was the playing of ' Tyrrell's March.' This exploit took place in the Barony of Fertullagh, or Tyrrell's Country, where till recent years many traditions of the family existed, and perhaps this march may still be known. HENRY W. POOK, Col.

121, Hither Green Lane, Lewisham.

" GENEROUS." This word (which, like " generosity," is not to be found in the English Bible) has much altered its meaning .as usually understood, and probably few persons remember that it is connected with " genus," and signifies " of good or noble race or stock," as in the expression "generous wine," which is in fact a literal rendering of Horace's vinum generosum.

In his very interesting recent work, ' Luke the Physician and other Studies in the History of Religion,' Sir W. M. Ramsay contests the view that the Epistle to the Hebrews could not have been addressed to the Jews of Jerusalem, which is asserted by McGiffert in these words :

" The reference to the great generosity of those addressed, and to their continued ministrations !to the necessities of the saints, does not accord with what we know of the long-continued poverty of the church of Jerusalem."

The text to which reference is here made is Heb. vi. 10, and as Sir William points out, what is called " generosity " is in the original aydirri, rendered in the A.V. " labour of love," and in the R.V. more literally " love." It is not necessary to be rich to show this feel-

ing, and Sir William refers to their kindness and hospitality as shown to fellow-Christians travelling to and from Jerusalem. I do not enter here into the general arguments dis- cussed in the interesting article alluded to, which should be read and studied in its entirety ; but merely touch upon the use of the word in this Epistle. W. T. LYNN. Blackheath.

DRYDEN ON MILTON'S PORTRAIT. In that excellent work ' Cassell's Book of Quotations,' p. 125, Dryden's well-known lines are quoted, and a note is added stating that the " three poets " are " Homer, Dante, Milton." The poet referred to as adorning Italy is clearly not Dante, but Virgil. There is a note in the Globe edition of Dryden's works as follows :

" Mr. Malone has suggested that the idea of these lines was derived from Salvaggi's Latin distich :

Graecia Mseonidem, jactet sibi Roma Maronem,

Anglia Miltonum jactat utrique parem."

P. 652.

In the Globe edition of Cowper's works (p. 469) there is the following :

To John Milton. Greece, sound thy Homer's, Borne thy Virgil's

name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.

Salvaggi.

In Cowper's ' Table Talk,' Globe edition, p. 60, there are these lines :

Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard ; To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more.

As Cassell's work has such a very large circulation in all English-speaking countries, the note in it may mislead many persons, as it has already misled a writer in one of the leading evening journals.

There cannot be the smallest doubt that Virgil was meant, and not Dante. Dryden does not, 'I think, once mention Dante, but every one knows how deeply versed he was in Virgil. Moreover, the " three distant ages " must be the ages of Homer, Virgil, and Milton. HARRY B. POLAND.

Inner Temple.

[See the editorial note to ' Dryden on Milton ' at 10 S. ix. 250, which comes to conclusions here endorsed by our correspondent.]

' THE GIRL I LEFT BEHIND ME.' It is about time that the Irish origin of this fine air should be gracefully conceded, and yet I find it passing as an " English " melody in some recent publications. Dr. Rimbault may be regarded as the author of the English claim, but his statements on many