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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL FEB. 2, 1907.

The landjat the corner of Wood Street and Tufton Street was acquired at the beginning of the year by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, as its home in Delahay Street had been bought by the Government, it being within the scheme for housing some important departments. This house, which at the end of the year just closed was still in the Society's occupation, was purchased by the Government for 27,OOOL, but up to that time no steps had been taken towards the erection of the " suitable home in which to live, or rather from which to extend to all parts of the world." It has also been written that

"no one can accuse the Society, which kept its 205th birthday last year, of having made undue haste to provide itself with a house, for it has lived for nearly 205 years, either in no house at all, or at best (during the last thirty years) in a house which it purchased, but which was not properly adapted for this work."

A full description of the old house will be found in The Mission Field for February, 1906. It is claimed that the site chosen for its new home will afford ample room for a building which will enable the work to be carried on in comfort, unhampered by lack of space, for many years to come.

At the corner of Tufton Street and Great College Street is the home of the Society of St. John the Evangelist. The chapel (of which the foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of London on 20 July, 1904) has been completed, and was consecrated by the same prelate on 21 July last year. He was assisted at the ceremony by the Bishop of Springfield, Illinois. The service was strictly private, as so many persons wished to be present that all had to be refused the building being very small. Next to the chapel stands the new building, known as the Parish Institute of St. John's. It was opened for use in December, but what may be called its " official " opening has been delayed, I believe, in order that the Duke of Westminster may take part in it. The building may be suitable for the purpose for which it has been designed, but to most of the casual observers the massive pillars will, I fear, give it a heavy appearance. Such a building has been long wanted, and Archdeacon Wilberf orce is to be congratulated on having at last overcome the many diffi- culties by which its inception was beset. Its front covers one entrance to the now obliterated Black Dog Alley.

W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY.

Westminster.

(To le continued.)

DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY.

(See 10 S. vi. 361, 402 ; vii. 3.)

VOL. II., ED. 1766, CONTENTS AND AUTHORS-

Pp. 1-16. The progress of love, iri four eclogues.

16-18. Soliloquy of a beauty in the country. Written at Eton school.

19-25. Blenheim, written at the \\i\\\. of Oxford in 1727.

25-30. To the reverend Dr. Ayscough at Oxford,. Britten from Paris in 1728.

written

31-4. To Mr. Poyntz the congress of Soissons in 1728. Written at Paris.

34-5. Verses to

D.N.B.'), ambassador at

Writ under a picture of

be written Mr. Poyntz.

35-8. Epistle to Mr. Pope from Rome. 1730.

38-41. To my lord [Hervey] in 1730, from

Worcestershire.

41-6. Advice to a lady. 1731.

46-7. Song written in 1732.

Delia was Mary Greville, eldest daughter of the Hon. Algernon Greville, wife of Shuck- burgh Boughton, and mother of the eighth and ninth baronets of the family of Boughton. She was one of the bedchamber women to Queen Charlotte, died Cavendish Square, London, 1 March, 1786 (Gent. Mag., 1786, pt. i. 267).

47-8. Song written in 1733.

49-50. Damon and Delia, in imitation of Horace and Lydia, written in 1732.

51-2. Ode in imitation of Pastor Fido, written abroad in 1729.

52-4. Part of an elegy of Tibullus translated. 1729-30.

55. Song written in 1732.

56. [Lines] Written \at Mr. Pope's house at Twickenham, which heMiad lent to Mrs. G lie [Greville] in August, 1735.

57. Epigram.

57. [Lines] to Mr. West at Wickham in 1740.

58-66. Set of poems addressed to Miss Lucy F [Miss Fortescue, afterwards his wife].

67-78. To the memory of the same lady, a monody. 1747.

Gray (' Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 172) asks Wharton :

"Have you seen Lyttelton's Monody 911 his Wife's death ? there are parts of it too stiff and poetical ; but others truly tender and elegiac, as one would wish."

79. Verses, part of an epitaph on the same lady. All the above are by George, first Lord Lyttelton ('D.N.B.'). Nichols says that the poem addressed to Ayscough (above, pp. 25-30), Lyttelton's tutor at Oxford and later Dean of Bristol, was by Anne, sister to Lord Lyttelton, who afterwards married the Dean. Ayscough d. 16 August, 1763.

80-103. On the abuse of travelling, a canto in imitation of Spenser.

Gray ('Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 78), writing to Richard West, 1740, says :