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with a large oval head surrounded by small garnets and containing a plait of brown hair; it is engraved inside "In memory of James and Jane Hogarth." I should be much obliged for any information on the identity of these Hogarths. FEED. A. CRISP.

KINGSLEY QUOTATION. In which of Kings- ley's novels does the following quotation occur ?

"There is no because in anything. We all are constituted differently, and therefore see things, as it were, through different-coloured spectacles."

AMY SAMUEL.

ROPER. I am trying to trace the ancestry of John Henry Roper, who was a subscriber and member of " Lloyd's " from 1837 to 1845. He is supposed to be the youngest son of Noah Roper, of Hough-on- the-Hill, Lincoln- shire, but there is no mention of any one of this surname in the registers there. He married Harriot Seagood.

LEOPOLD A. VIDLER.

The Stone House, Rye.

SOTHERN 's LONDON RESIDENCE. A perusal of the list of houses (10 th S. ii. 425) to the fronts of which tablets have been affixed at the instance of the Duke of Bedford, which includes one upon 27, Southampton Street, Covent Garden, to David Garrick, prompts me to register a regret that no medallion, either Society of Arts, London County Council, or private, has ever marked the spot where Edward Askew Sothern, creator of the inimitable Lord Dundreary, lived for a time and died. The 'D.N.B.' chronicles that he passed away in a house "in Vere Street, Cavendish Square." But did not this famous actor in reality occupy rooms at 332, Oxford Street, over a branch of the Sun Office ? This, at any rate, has always been pointed out to me as the actual place where his decease occurred on 21 January, 1881. Is it too late to hope for the com- memorative plaque in this case also ?

CECIL CLARKE.

[Sothern lived for some years in Wright's Lane, Hampstead, in a house with other theatrical and musical associations.]

' SUFFOLK MERCURY.' (See 2 n(1 S. x. 238.) Will MR. C. GOLDING, of Paddington, or heirs, allow his copies of the Suffolk Mercury or St. Edmund's Bury Post, 1717 - 1731, to be inspected by me 1 HERBERT NORRIS.

16, Cambridge Road, Battersea Park.

FADED HANDWRITING. Many years ago I asked the readers of * X. & Q.' if any one knew the means of reviving the ink of the handwriting in old manuscripts, and I ob-

tained a very prompt and useful reply, sug- gesting a formula with some tanin mixture. This I have since lost. Would any one be kind enough again to indicate it?

THE O'NEILL.

59, Rua das Flores, Lisbon.

[Recipes for reviving faded handwriting will be found at 6 th S. v. 249, 355 ; vi. 71, 91.]

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

1. Heu : vitam perdidi, operose nihil agendo.

2. If pathos be a sense of loss, a deep longing, mingled with melancholy.

3. Che par sorriso, ed e dolore.

4. Of what great contemporary was it said, "he was always beating about the bush without starting the hare"? Quoted in 'Studies of a Biographer,' I believe.

5. Velut inter ignes, Luna minores. Which may have suggested Wotton's " Ye meaner beauties of the night."

6. If I forget,

The salt creek may forget the ocean. In Hardy's ' Woodlanders.'

W. L. POOLE. Montevideo. [5. "Velut, "&c., is from Horace, 'Odes,' I. xii.


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KENNINGTON. VVill some student of old Kennington and its immediate vicinity kindly send me privately a resume of the literary and other worthies who lived in or were asso- ciated with that part of Southern London 1 M. L. R. BRESLAR.

Percy House, South Hackney.

REV. RANDOLPH MARRIOTT. He married Diana Feilding, a daughter of George Feilding (son of Basil, fourth Earl of Denbigh). Who was he when and where born, baptized, married, died, and buried 1 Does any por- trait of him exist, and where 1 C. MASON.

29, Emperor's Gate, S.W.

"AND THOU, BLEST STAR." The following lines evidently refer to William Pitt ; but who was their author ? And thou, blest star of Europe's darkest hour, Whose words are wisdom, and whose counsels

power,

Whom earth applauded through her peopled shores (Alas ! whom earth, too early lost, deplores), Young without follies, without rashness bold, And greatly poor amidst a nation's gold.

W. T. L.

"SNOWTE": WEIR AND FISHERY. The in- habitants of the seaside parishes of Seasalter and Whitstable, in Kent, in their wills (proved in the Archdeacon's Court at Canter- bury) mention both weirs and fisheries. As to the weir (gurges\ it was probably con- structed on the shore or banks left dry at low water. The chief place for the weirs on