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when he resigned the office of head master in July, 1793 (Walcott's * William of Wykeham and his Colleges,' 361, 448).

2. He is not mentioned in Foster's 'Alumni Oxonienses,' but appears in ' Graduati Can- tabrigienses, 1800-72,' as of Trinity College, M.A. 1797, LL.D. 1811.

I much regret that I did not observe these errors in time to communicate with the editor of the volume of 'D.N.B. Errata' which has lately appeared. H. C.

LINK WITH THE PAST. The Times recently recorded the death on 27 September of " the youngest and last surviving daughter of Stewart Kyd," one of the political prisoners of 1794. Her age was not given, but, even if a posthumous child, she must (for her father died in 1811) have been ninety-two. Now her father, whose date of birth is not stated in the 'D.N.B.,' may be identified as the Henry Kyd of Arbroath who, according to Anderson's 'Roll of Alumni,' entered Aberdeen University in 1780. He was then fourteen. Thus two generations cover a period of 138 years. J. G. ALGER.

Holland Park Court.

PRISONERS OF WAR IN ENGLISH LITERA- TURE. (See 9 th S. vii. 469 ; viii. 46, 153, 514.) Since the last communications appeared Mr. Eden Phillpotts has written two novels, 'The American Prisoner ' and * The Farm of the Dagger,' in which American and French prisoners of war, confined in the then new prison on Dartmoor, in the first fifteen years of the nineteenth century, play a leading part. ALFRED F. BOBBINS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

THE AUTHOR OF 'ST. JOHNSTOUN.' Can any one tell who was Mrs. Eliza Logan, the author of 'Restalrig,' 1823, and 'St. John- stoun,' 1829 ? The former work, according to the ' London Catalogue of Books,' was issued, so far as London is concerned, by Simpkin ; the latter by Baldwin. Descendants of Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig, the alleged con- spirator, exist both in Scotland and the United States. A. LANG.

1, Marloes Road, W.

DANIEL WEBSTER." No man was ever as wise as Daniel Webster looked " (' The Limits of Japanese Capacity,' by " Calchas," Fort-

nightly Review, November). Where was this said ? A similar saying was current in the last generation as made by one distinguished physician of another : " No man could be so wise as X looks." Is there a similar saying earlier than that regarding Daniel Webster $

W. R. G.

BACON OR USHER ? Is there any satis- factory evidence to show that the well-known lines beginning,

The world 's a bubble, and the life of man Less than a span,

were written by Bacon ? Of course, I know that they are generally attributed to him, and I was not aware till a day or two since that there was any other claimant for them. Happening, however, to look through a little booklet of 28 pp., entitled "Miscellanies ; or,

a Variety of Notion and Thought, by

H. W., Gent [Henry Waring], 1708," I find that he attributes the poem to Bishop Usher. His words are as follows :

"In short the world is but a Ragou, or a large dish of Varieties, prepared by inevitable Fate, to treat and regale Death with : Which Consideration obliges me to conclude this small Treatise with these following Verses, Compos'd by Bishop Usher, late Lord Primate of Ireland, viz.,

The World 's a Bubble, &c." One would think that so positive an asser- tion could hardly have been made unless the writer had good reason for it Though the * Miscellanies ' are not remarkable for originality of thought or elegance of style, they show their author to have been a sensible and well-informed person, and one therefore whose assertions are not to be summarily dismissed as without foundation.

BERTRAM DOBELL.

COCKADE. Who is strictly entitled to use this ? Can any ordinary J.P. do so 1 Is there any book which describes the origin and his- tory of cockades ? EAST GRINSTEAD.

[A similar question is asked by SUSSEX. The right to cockades was discussed in an editorial note a column long at 4 th S. i. 126, references being supplied to nineteen places in the First and Second Series where the subject had been discussed. An- other editorial note at 4 th S. vi. 94 stated : " We tnow no authority on which a justice of the peace n his servant's hat ; but we are bound to add, we {now no authority on which that right is assumed jy officers of the army, &c."]
 * an be assumed to be entitled to mount a cockade

ANGLES: ENGLAND, ORIGINAL MEANING. The Kngle or Angles originally inhabited Jleswick, and seem (by Latin writers) to have 3een variously called Anglii, Angili, Angri- varii, and Anglevarii. Zeuss and Forstemann make them "dwellers on the meadows? from