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The tract, is in Halkett and Laing, vol. ii. col. 954, under 'Fragment,' and they no doubt took the title from my query, as they refer to it.

My object is to identify the tract. I observe that the author's name is still unknown at the National Library. There is no cover or title. The head-title begins as follows :

"At a meeting of the Society for constitutional

information resolved: That 1500 of the two

following tracts, relative to the rights and duties of juries in trials for libels, be published at the

expense of the society 1. A fragment on the

constitutional power and duty of juries upon trials for libels."

It is of 16 pages octavo, and begins with signature B, vol. ii.; signature is on p. 9. The shelfmark is E. 2147 (6).

I readily admit the difficulty of cataloguing such a title. As cross-references are now given in the B M. Catalogue from 'Society' and 'Constitutional' to 'London,' it is easy to find the pamphlefc. It might perhaps be better if the main title came under one of these words, instead of, as at present, under ' London, miscellaneous institutions and other bodies. Society for,' &c. To refer searchers who want a tract about juries to London seems to me too scientific. However, I have already had ray say (9 th S. iii. 102) about these things, so I will now only observe that my remarks in ' N. & Q.' (and printed in pamphlet form in 1899) are backed by an interesting article on the B.M. Catalogue in The Edinburgh Review for January.

RALPH THOMAS.

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 answers may be sent to them direct.

GUI ALEXIS LOBINEAU'S 'ARISTOPHANES.' Early in 1792 Mercier de St. Leger sent Chardon la Rochette three volumes of MS. quarto, the Greek text of Aristophanes, with notes, Latin, French, and Italian. Aqua- fortis had failed to erase the inscription on the top of the first page : " Ex libris S. Melanii Rhedonensis, Congregationis S. Mauri " ; the second page had the same, with "Monasterii" besides. At foot of the last page were the words :

"Has ego xi. Aristophanis comoedias anno 1695, mensibus Martio et Aprili, manu propria descripsi, et notis illustravi, et textum ipsum pluribus in locis emendavi. Nominis vero mei Anagramma est Lux Dai va$ nobile et Monogramma [symbol], Aliud Anagramma gentilitii nominis : Beau lion."

On each of the three volumes is " Ex libris S. Melanii Rhedonensis." The work is men- tioned by Dom Tassin (' Hist. Lit. de la Congreg. de S. Maure,' p. 489), who objects to Dom L 's "penchant pour ces sortes d'etudes, si contraires a 1'esprit de son etat." Dom L. was born at Rennes in 1666; pro- fessed, 15 Dee., 1683, at St. Melaine there; died at the abbey of St. Jacut, near St. Malo, 3 June, 1727, in his seventy-first year. From, internal evidence in this MS. of which the Magasin Encyclopedique, de 1'an iii. (1795), Paris, gives the details Dom L. began this work when some twenty-eight years old, whereas his translation was one of his last efforts, as he mentions "feue madame Dacier" (ob. 17 Aug., 1720). Locally, at Rennes, which so well knows the Benedictine's history of Brittany, nothing is known of this MS. Can any reader throw light on this ? Says Erasmus : "Et multi sunt in consortio Sanc- torum qui non sunt apud nos in catalogo."

In a MS. of Aristophanes, inedited (appa- rently), and mentioned in vol. i. of the Paris (1795) Magasin Encydopedique, we find :

"Piovan Arlat, cure" de St. Cresci, pres de Florence, le Rabelais de son temps, en (des oXia&oi) repandit un bon nombre a Bruxelles et a Anvers, dans les differens voyages, qu'il fit en Flandre sur les galeres de la republique de Florence."

This was written by Dom Gui Alexis Lobi- neau. H. H. JOHNSON.

Rennes.

ABIGAIL HILL, LADY MASHAM. In the 'Dictionary of National Biography' it is stated that Lady Masham promised to sib for Swift, but that no portrait of her can be traced. We shall be pleased to know if any portrait has since come to light.

MANZF, JOYANT & Co. (Successors to Goupil & Co.) 25, Bedford Street, Strand.

COLERIDGE AND NEWMAN ON GIBBON. I remember seeing somewhere a long time ago a criticism of Gibbon's style made on opposite sides by Newman and Coleridge. Can any one kindly furnish references to either the Cardinal or the poet-philosopher's works, as I am engaged on a review of Gibbon 1

I have just bought the twenty- one volumes of Coleridge, as printed by Pickering. Can any one inform me which of Coleridge's many publications this edition does not contain ] A. H. T. CLARKE.

SOULETIN "PASTORALES." The subjoined list was recently sent to me by M. le Pro- fesseur G. Herelle, the distinguished author of many admirable books in French, with