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Herbert), 'The Complete Angler' (Walton), 'Grace abounding to the Chief of Sinners' (Bunyan), and 'The Man of Feeling' (Mackenzie). An interesting list, and most likely intended for German purchasers. There is only one resident Englishman in the town, and he bears a foreign name. An Englishman would probably have bought some German classic from the same show- case. DUH AH Coo. Hongkew.
 * Armande,' by E. and J. de Goncourt, or

" THOUGH LOST TO SIGHT, TO MEMORY DEAR.' I respectfully ask permission to except to the statement in ' Notices to Correspondents,' ante, p. 180. The words " Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear," form the first line of a song by George Linley, composed for and sung by Augustus Braham about 1830. The song is given entire in Bartlett's 'Familiar Quota- tions' (ninth ed., Boston, 1891, p. 587), be- cause, as there stated in a foot-note, " so much inquiry has been made for the source of 'Though lost to sight, to memory dear'"; and it is added :

" Another song entitled ' Though lost to sight, to memory dear,' was published in London in 1880,

Surjjprting to have been written by Ruthven enkins in 1703. It is said to have been published in the Magazine for Marines. No such magazine, however, ever existed, and the composer of the music acknowledged in a private letter to have copied the song from an American newspaper. There is no other authority for the origin of the song, and the reputed author Ruthven Jenkins was living under the name of C in California in 188*2."

In May, 1870, I had a correspondence with Mr. Bartlett on this subject, and in his letter to me he says :

" The canard first appeared in the Greenwich Magazine for Mariners in 1701 or 1702, and its author Ruthven Jenkins. In San Francisco the song acquired a local habitation. The California wag has made a public confession of his part in the fraud."

This quotation has been the subject of comment in !" S. iv. 405 ; 3 rd S. vi. 129 ; viii. 290 ; 4 th S. i. 77, 161 ; vii. 56, 173, 244, 332 ; xii. 156, 217; 5 th S. x. 106, 134; 10 th S. ii. 260, 345 ; iii. 180. JOHN TOAVNSHEND.

New York.

[Linley's song is given in full at 5 th S. x. 417, where a letter is printed in which Mr. Bartlett states that the song " was set to music and pub- lished by Cramer, Beale & Co., London, about 1848." But unless Linley wrote his song before 1827 he is not entitled to the credit of the authorship of the lin, as at 6 th S. xii. 344 the late MR. V. S. LEAN printed a long extract from The Monthly Magazine for January, 1827 (new series, vol. iii.), in which the exact words are introduced in a manner showing that they were then familiar: "Now every lady has a selection of axioms (in flour and water) always by her, suited to different occasions. As' Though

lost to sight, to memory dear ! ' when she writes to a friend who has lately had his eye poked out."]

" HUGUENOT." (See 9 th S. viii. 165, 308.) For the benefit of the ' Supplement ' to the 'N.E.D.' it may be worth noting that the word occurs in an English letter of Thomas Randolph to Cecil, written 23 October, 1562 (Jos. Bain, 'Calendar of the State Papers relating to Scotland and Mary, Queen of Scots [1547-1603],' i. [1898] 660). Eight days earlier Elizabeth wrote to Mary (in French) that she "has now for the first time heard this name" (ibid. 659). Q. V.

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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 sent to them direct.

KING EDWARD VII. Will any one of your readers inform me where I can get a photo- graph of His Majesty the King attired in plain frock dress, with only the ribbon, star, and garter of the Order of the Garter ?

ENAR ALMQVIST.

10B, Karlavagen, Stockholm.

FANSHAWE FAMILY. It is purposed very shortly to issue a new edition of Lady Fan- shawe's memoirs from her original MS. in my possession. I should much value infor- mation from any havicg portraits, prints, letters, or any other things of the Fanshawe family. E. FANSHAWE.

132, Ebury Street, S.W.

MARCHESA SPINOLA. I am anxious to know the dates of the birth, marriage, and death of Giovanna Basadonna (or Bacchia- donna), wife of the famous Ambrogio, Marchese Spinola (1569-1630). I have con- sulted, without results, Deza, ' Istoria della Famiglia Spinola' ; Kiihnholtz, ' Des Spinola de Genes ' ; Siret, and Boccardo. The family of Spinola is not treated by Litta.

W. EGBERTS.

47, Lansdowne Gardens, Clapham, S.W.

WILLIAM HUTCHINSON. Could any of your readers give me information respecting the descendants of William Hutchinson, the historian of Durham ? F. R. N. HASWELL.

Monkseaton, Northumberland.

W. V. RICHARDSON AND THE RUSSIAN

CHURCH. In an old ecclesiastical journal published in St. Petersburg, I find a notice of the reception into the Orthodox Church of Wil- liam Voss Richardson, on 8 September, 1861.