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10th S. III. 4, 1905.]

NOTES:—Recently Discovered Keats MSS., 81—Father Paul Sarpi in Early English Literature, 84—Photographs and Lantern Slides: their Registration—Col. W. Light's Publications, 85—Patent Medicines—"Earpick"—"Swedenborgianism" in Philadelphia—William Kastell—New Year's Eve in Baskish—"Prosopoyall"—Christmas Custom in Somersetshire—Nathanael Taubman, 86—"Larcin": Bevan, 87.

QUERIES:—Englishmen under Foreign Governments—Eton Lists—Strahan, Publisher—"Harpist"—Sunset at Washington—Laurel Crowns at Olympia—"The hungry forties"—Halls of the City Companies—Cope of Bramshill—James and Jane Hogarth, 87—Kingsley Quotation—Roper—Sothern's London Residence—'Suffolk Mercury'—Faded Handwriting—Authors of Quotations Wanted—Kennington—Rev. Randolph Marriott—"And thou, blest star"—"Snowte": Weir and Fishery, 88—Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rifled Cannon—Baptist Confession of Faith, 1660—"Ælian"—Firearms—"Abraham Newland"—'The Phenix,' 1707—Verse on a Cook—Gladstone as Playwright, 89—Patents of Precedence, 90.

REPLIES:—Horseshoes for Luck, 90—Heraldic Mottoes Isabelline as a Colour—Southey's 'Omniana,' 92—Children at Executions—Loutherbourgh—Flying Bridge—Ruskin at Neuchâtel, 93—Ben Jonson and Bacon—"Dogmatism is puppyism full grown"—Heraldic—'The Northampton Mercury'—Count A. de Panignano: Holloway—Duelling—Bacon or Usher? 94—"Walkyn Silver"—Solitary Mass—Split Infinitive, 95—Rule of the Road—'Notes on the Book of Genesis,' 93—Mercury in Tom Quad—Hugh Percy—Disbenched Judges, 97—Arithmetic—Penny Wares Wanted—"Iland"—Felix Bryan Macdonough—Blake: Norman: Oldmixon—Sir T. W. Stubbs, 98.

NOTES ON BOOKS:—'The Garrick Club'—Sir George Trevelyan's 'American Revolution'—'The Shade of the Balkans'—Burton's 'Anatomy.'

rediscovery, in October last, of the Woodhouse transcript of 'The Fall of Hyperion,' which differs in some important respects from the printed version of the poem, and contains, moreover, twenty-one additional lines, has already been made known. With the consent of Lord Crewe, the owner of the manuscript, this has just been published, and with his kind permission, obtained through the good offices of Mr. Sidney Colvin, I am enabled to communicate to students of Keats some further matters of considerable interest. At the end of the manuscript is a small collection of minor poems, most of which are already familiar; but among them are two early poems which have never appeared in print, and there are some points arising from a study of the transcript which throw fresh light upon the poet's work. The earliest poem included in our manuscript bears the date August, 1814; it is therefore, so far as we know, only preceded among Keats's Juvenilia by the 'Imitation of Spenser,' which was written in 1813, and published among the 'Poems' of 1817. Of as little intrinsic value as its predecessor, it is, I think, of equal interest in the light it throws upon the influences which affected his early work. It runs as follows:—

  Just as in the 'Imitation of Spenser' we only see the Elizabethan master through the veil of his later and more conventional imitators, so here we have the influence of the early poems of Milton acting upon the young poet, though he is only treating a conventional subject in a purely conventional manner; and the lines are interesting as certainly Keats's first experiment in the measure which he learnt from Milton and Fletcher, and was afterwards to bring to such perfection in 'Fancy' and 'The Eve of St. Mark.'

The next verses calling for comment are those entitled 'A Song,' of which the first line runs:—

They were first printed by Lord Houghton among the early poems, but were omitted by Mr. Buxton Forman from his editions of Keats because, in a scrap-book

With this evidence before him Mr. Forman had no choice but to reject the lines; but their appearance in the Woodhouse transcript puts a somewhat different complexion on the matter. It is highly probable, as I have shown elsewhere, that Woodhouse obtained 