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seven-line stanzas, was received in MS. by the Committee formed for the purpose of obtaining a commutation of the capital sentence passed upon the Manchester Martyrs Allen, Gould, and Larkin, who were executed in November, 1867. It is entitled " The Condemned Fenian Prisoners

-vr T-I i ' An Appeal to England ' by the dis-

It is clear from N.E.D. that honey- '

suckle and woodbine are the same ; see the quotations from Turner, 1562, Shakespeare, I I^wlspublishedln small 8 voTgreen wrapper^, and Withering. Bindweed, the convolvulus, | withou ^ printer's name or pllce. It is now

I saw a copy sold at Hodg-

tionaries I find a quotation from Levins's ' Manipulus Vocabulorum,' 1570 (to which I cannot refer), where the English and Latin synonyms are given as " Eglantine, cynorrodos " Cynorrhodos being, of course, the Latin for the dogrose. M. C. L.

New York City.

for which there are given quotations from Wordsworth and Tennyson, is used " also dialectally " for honeysuckle and other climbers.

Here are more quotations. Our modern poetesses have a fondness for woodbine.

Charlotte Smith : Pluck the wild rose or woodbine's gadding flowers. There honeysuckles flaunt, and roses blow.

Bower'd with wild roses, and the clasping woodbine, And the dew fills the silver bindweed's cups

Mrs. Hemans :

Or gather woodbine from the garden spot. Gather one woodbine bough, Then, from the lattice low Of the bowered cottage.

The woodbine, the primrose, the violet dim. O'er the woodbine she can dwell.

This rich bough Of honeyed woodbine tells me of the oak.

There is a spray of woodbine from the tree. Keats :

A filbert- hedge with wild-briar overt wined, And clumps of woodbine.

Tennyson :

The honeysuckle round the porch has wov'n its wavy bowers.

Frances Brown : In haunts where the woodbine yet climbs.

W. C. B.

very scarce. 1 saw a copy sold at

son's two or three years ago for, if my

memory serves me right, II. 5s.

Twenty years afterwards, when the poet was denouncing in his vigorous verse the doings of the Nationalists of that day, The Daily News reprinted the ' Appeal,* with the significant comment that ** the verses will be read with interest now for other than literary reasons." I could let KOM OMBO have a copy of the verses.

EDITOR ' IRISH BOOK LOVER.* Kensal Lodge, N.W.

A fine poem by Swinburne entitled ' The Commonweal : a Song for Unionists,' dated 30 June, 1886, appeared in The Times on or about 1 July, 1886. There are fifteen stanzas. The first is : Men, whose fathers braved the world in arms

against our isles in union,

Men whose brothers met rebellion face to face, Show the hearts ye have, if worthy long descent

and high communion, Show the spirit*, if unbroken, of your race.

My cutting is from The Sporting Times of 3 July, 1886, which quotes The Times.

ROBERT PIERPOINT.

No one seems to have consulted Messrs. Britten and Holland's ' Dictionary of English Plant-Names.' Honeysuckle and woodbine are different names for Lonicera peridy- menum, but it has not the exclusive use of them, and has dozens of other names to compensate it for that. ST. SWITHIN.

SWINBURNE ON IRISH NATIONALISTS (10 S. xii. 350). Swinburne's most sympathetic allusion to the Irish Nationalist cause is his ' Appeal to England * ; but for this KOM OMBO will search in vain in the poet's collected works, as it has never been re- printed. The poem, consisting of twelve

CHARLES PIGOTT'S ' JOCKEY CLUB ' (10 S. xii. 90, 135, 174, 255). In writing at the third reference, " There was not a Sir Frederick Eden only Sir Robert and his third son, 1 * &c., I should have added " con- nected with the Jockey Club, and therefore likely to be the subject of Pigott's lampoon.'* I regret that in omitting this I too com- pletely corrected MR. W. H. DAVID'S reply p. 136). ALECK ABRAHAMS.

WELTJE'S CLUB (10 S. xii. 167, 239, 293, 352). Mr. Wheatley in * London Past and Present,' i. 516, says, on the authority of ' The Cornwallis Correspondence,' i. 363, note, that the Prince of Wales, in opposition to Brooks' s, where his friends Tarleton and Jack Payne, though proposed by his Royal Highness, had been blackballed, founded a club " where Fenton's Hotel now [1857]