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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. XL MAY 29, im

This is a quaint confusion. The book referred to is Richard Carlile's publication, of which absurd legemds are told of Free- masons buying up copies for vast sums. It can be bought at any bookseller's for a shilling. EDWARD HERON-ALLEN.

BECKFORD QUERIES (10 S. xi. 386). Elizabeth March was married at St. George's, Hanover Square, on 5 May, 1774, to Thomas Hervey. He was a natural son of the Hon. Thomas Hervey by Lady Hanmer. I imagine that he did not live long afterwards. At any rate, his wife, apparently his widow, is often mentioned in the ' Journals ' of the Hon. William Hervey between 1783 %nd 1814. During that time she was living successively at Aston, near Shifnal, Braziers near Wallingford, and East Acton in Middle- sex. She is occasionally mentioned in Horace Walpole's letters. Of her two sons, William was married to Lady Arabella Primrose, in Lord Rosebery's house in Park Lane, on 1 Sept., 1801. They lived at Bradwell Grove, near Burford and both lie in Bradwell Church. He died in 1863, aged 87. S. H. A. H.

DE QUINCEY : QUOTATIONS AND ALLU- SIONS (10 S. xi. 388). 4. The cottage door may be barred without being locked. The wooden bar is fastened on the door so as to slide smoothly into a staple driven firmly into a board on the lintels. For a humorous and brightly realistic ballad, entitled ' Get up and Bar the Door,' see Herd's ' Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs,' ii. 159, ed. 1869.

5. Prof. Masson concludes his monograph on De Quincey, [in the " English Men of Letters," by quoting "the essential core" of ' The Three Ladies of Sorrow,' which he justifiably calls " a permanent addition to the mythology of the human race." Intro- ducing the extract, he writes thus :

" All that it is necessary to premise is that ' Levana ' was the Roman goddess of Education, the divinity who was supposed to ' lift up ' every newly-born human being from the earth in token that it should live, and to rule the influences to which it should be subject thenceforth till its character should be fully formed."

THOMAS BAYNE.

NANCY DAY, LADY FENHOULET (10 S. x. 406 ; xi. 393). Particulars are given as to the portrait of this lady in ' A History of the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds,' by Messrs. Algernon Graves and William Vine Cronin, vol. i. p. 236. It is stated that the portrait, a half-length, " belonged in 1845

to Sir Thomas Baring, Bt., and is now [1899] in the possession of the Earl of Northbrook.' T She sat in January, 1757, and January,

1760, as Miss Day, and under this name the picture was engraved in 1760 by J. McArdell and by R. Purcell. Under that of Lady A. Fenhoulet it was engraved by S. W. Rey- nolds.

In the short biographical note prefixed it is rightly stated that she was Peter Fenhoulet' s second wife, yet the mistake is. made of saying that she died on 10 May,

1761, which is the date of the first wife's death. W. R. B. PRIDEAUX.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S. xi. 387). 1. See Anatole France in ' Le Jardin d' Epicure,' p. 132 : " Le hasard, en definitive, c'est Dieu." F. B. M.

"THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT," &c. : 'THE NUN' (10 S. xi. 249, 317). G. W. E. R. replies to an inquiry as to the origin of " Though lost to sight to memory dear " by referring to its appearance as a quotation in ' The Nun,' 1834. I shall be glad to learn the authorship and character of the work so entitled. T. F. D T.

La Tour de Peilz, Vaud.

The lines quoted by G. W. E. R. from Sir David Dundas,

Though lost to sight, to memory dear ; The absent claim a sigh, the dead a tear,

appear to me a mangled quotation of the

beautiful lines of Pope :

Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear : A sigh the absent claims, the dead a tear.

I regret I cannot point out where the above are to be found in the works of Pope ; that Pope is the author I am certain.

H. ANDERSON. Belfast.

MILTON AND HACKNEY (10 S. xi. 388). See 10 S. x. 281. JOHN T. PAGE.

GOOSE WITH ONE LEG (10 S. xi. 388). I heard this anecdote in Hungary long before 1870. The culprit in this case was a gipsy messenger who had to deliver a roast goose.

L. L. K.

The story occurs in Boccaccio, where it forms Novel IV. for the Sixth Day. The bird is there a crane. I do not suppose that this is its place of origin, though I do not call to mind having met with it earlier, I have not read Planche's story.

W. HENRY JEWITT.

38, North Road, Highgate, N.

[MR. W. DOUGLAS also refers to Boccaccio.]