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CONTENTS. -No. 32.
 * De Quincey's Kditorship of the 'Westmorland

Gazette 'Dog-names, 101 Cobden Bibliography, 103 Gipsies : Chigunnji ' Murray's Handbook for Yorkshire,' 105 William Way ' Closure -by -compartment" " Kaboose "Epitaph on Ann Davies, 106.

QUERIES: I. H.S., 106 Shakespeare Autograph Eton Lists Italian Initial H Court Drew, 107 Josephus Struthius Polisman Old Bible Bristol Slave Ships- Sir Harry Vane Gwyneth Bayly of Hall Place and Bideford 'Times' Correspondents in Hungary, 108 Philip Baker Saucy English Poet "Esquire" in Scot- land, 109.

BEPLIES -.-Peak and Pike, 109-Disraeli on Gladstone- Latin Quotations, 110 Benbow County Tales "There was a man," 111 Desecrated Fonts, 112 Whitty Tree Documents in Secret Drawers Pigott Family Beating the Bounds, 113 'Die and be Damned,' 114 Bunney Winchester College Visitation, 115 Trooping the Colours, 116 Butcher Hall Street' Road Scraping* 'St. Ninian's Church, 117 Milton's Sonnet xii. St. Patrick at Orvieto Publishers' Catalogues Fair Maid of Kent Black Dog Alley. Westminster,,! 18.

.NOTES ON BOOKS :-' Lean's Collectanea '- Corbett's 'England in the Mediterranean' Crashaw's Poems Bell's " York Library " ' Anti-Jacobin ' Poetry.

Notices to Correspondents.

Stoics.

DE QUINCEY'S EDITORSHIP OF THE 4 WESTMORLAND GAZETTE.'

PROF. MASSON, H. A. Page, the 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' (Leslie Stephen), and 'The Ency. Brit.' (J. R. Findlay) have each fallen into error in regard to the above. De Quincey became editor of that journal on 11 July, 1818, not " in the summer of 1819." He took up residence at Dove Cottage in November, 1809 (his tenancy dating from the previous May Day), therefore he nad not " ultimately

settled in 1812 on the borders of Gras-

mere." It was from this cottage, at a distance -of seventeen miles, that he edited his paper (a fact which largely contributed to his non- success and ultimate resignation). Once, when his presence at the office was urgently needed, a heavy fall of snow prevented him from getting there to time. On another occasion he inadvertently missed the post with 'his MS. Thus he was not " living, it seems, chiefly in Kendal at the time." He never " lived " there. As to his politics, in the party sense of the term, whatever they may have been in later life, they were during his residence in Lakeland those of a high Tory. In his first leader he endeavoured to show how that Brougham who, having ventured

to contest the Parliamentary seat of the Lowthers, held by them unopposed for thirty years, had been defeated by 2,369 out of 3,258 votes polled would have received a still greater downfall had he not withdrawn from the contest before the allotted time for the closing of the poll. So strong, indeed, was De Quincey's feeling against Brougham and his Whig friends that the proprietors of the Gazette staunch Tories ultimately desired their editor to modify the extreme manner in which the vehemence of his party spirit was expressed. He was a confessed enemy to Bonaparte and Owen, and opposed to Catholic Emancipation ; hence was not " classed as a Liberal - Conservative "; and what he "would have been" is irrelevant. It is a fact that he was not "always as far removed from Radicalism as from Toryism." De Quincey tendered his resignation in 1819, his last "Editorial Note" appearing in the issue of 27 November, and his work did not " come to an end some time in 1820." Above all, he did not " abandon it as insufficiently remunerative," or for any such reason. It is true that " he continued to edit the paper for the greater part of a year." It would be more accurate to say that he did so for the greater partof a year and a half. He did not "reside till the end of 1820 at Grasmere," but left in the early part of that year. And Dove Cottage was not "afterwards occupied by Hartley Coleridge," nor at any time, save as Words- worth's and De Quincey's guest. The younger poet spent the last ten years of his life at Nab Cottage, whence De Quincey wooed and won his bride, Mary Simpson, in 1816. These corrections are on the authority of the present proprietor-editor of the Gazette.

W. BAILEY-KEMPLING.

DOG-NAMES.

SOMEWHERE about sixteen years ago we published in your pages (7 th S. vi. 144) a list of dog-names ; since then we have gathered others which we send as an addition thereto. The names of the dogs given in * The Gentle- man's Recreation,' fifth ed., 1706 there are ninety-nine of them were published in the same volume, p. 269, by another contributor, who arranged them in alphabetical order. It has not been considered necessary to reproduce any of these except when they occur elsewhere. The dogs mentioned in the writings of Sir Walter Scott are also given on p. 462. Classical and Oriental names we have disregarded, at least for the present, but it may be well to remind our readers interested in the subject that several dog-