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 10 S. VII. MARCH 2, 1907.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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My father, who knew Neale well, told m he had the power of being able simultaneous] to dictate to several writers and to talk t some one else, which I always thought mus be pretty quick work. RALPH THOMAS.

' Lawyers in Love,' by the author o ' Cavendish ' (Capt. W. Johnson Neale 3 vols., post 8vo, was published by Coch rane in 1844, price 31s. Qd.

ALFRED SYDNEY LEWIS.

GEORGE GEOFFRY WYATVILLE (10 S. vii 109). He died in Montagu Square, 27 Jan 1833. JOHN B. WAINE WRIGHT.

" SET UP MY (HIS) REST " (10 S. vi. 509 . vii. 53). As this expression, very common before 1650, is stated by several of you correspondents to be obsolete, and is markec obsolete in ' The Century Dictionary,' may I be allowed to point out that it still linger in literary use ? Here are some example which will supplement those given in Nares'
 * Glossary ' :

"Let me have your prayers, that I may not s

unworthily act, as it' I believed I ought to set uj my rest in my mean xelf and think nothing f urthe to be done, with the opportunities put into my hand, by the divine favour, and the best of men ! 1740, S. Richardson, 'Pamela,' 'Works' (1883) i. 417.

"When I last wrote to yon I was in lodgings. '.

am now in chambers, No. 4, Inner Temple Lane

Here I hope to set up my rest, and not quit unti Mr. Powell, the undertaker, gives me notice that '. may have possession of my last lodging." 2 Jan. 1810, C. Lamb, 'Letters' (1888), i. 2o6.

"Went to poor Lyclia White's, and found her extended on a couch, frightfully swelled, unable to stir, rouged, jesting, and dying. She has a good heart, and is really a clever creature, but unhappily, or rather happily, she has set up the whole staff oi her rest in keeping literary society about her." 13 Nov., 1826, Sir W. Scott, 'journal' (1890),

" In 1814 she [Fanny Godwin] had visited Wales, and possibly may have known Swansea, where now she chose to set up her everlasting rest." 1887, E. Dowclen, ' Life of P. B. Shelley,' ii. 57.

There are also among my notes references to Evelyn's ' Diary ' (i. 192) and to Smollett's Humphry Clinker ' (p. 308) ; but as the editions are not available, I am unable to quote the passages. As occasionally met with at the present time, the expression is very probably a reminiscence of the familiar quotation in ' Romeo and Juliet.'

ALBERT MATTHEWS. Boston, Mass.

[H. K. ST. J. S. also thanked for reply.]

HEENVLIET AND LORD WOTTON'S DAUGHTER (10 S. vii. 130). The following note from the ' Catalogue of the Rawlinson

MSS.,' iv. part i. col. 352 (Oxf., 1893), appears to show that the marriage took place at the end of 1640 or beginning of 1641. It describes a part of the contents of MS. D. 559 :

" 'Copie d'une lettre escrite au tres-rev. pere

Jacobo Usserio, archevesque d'Armachan, par Ludov. de Dieu ; Leyden, 17 Nov., 1640.' On behalf of the sieur Heenvliet (son of the professor Poly- ander) and his proposed marriage with Lady Stanhope ; containing a history of the family of Kerckhoven, in reply to representations that Heen- vliet was of a vulgar family and of an obscure place."

W. D. MACRAY.

' EDINBURGH REVIEW ' ATTACK ON OX- FORD (10 S. vii. 128). In The Edinburgh Review for April, 1810, there is a rejoinder to an anonymous pamphlet entitled ' A Reply to the Calumnies of The Edinburgh Review against Oxford,' published in the same year. The pamphlet was written by Dr. Edward Copleston ; the article in the Review was the joint work of Dr. John Playfair, Sydney Smith, and Payne Knight. From this it appears that the articles which had given offence were three. The first was a review of Laplace's ' Mecanique Celeste ' (Jan., 1808), which was written by Playfair. The second was the notice of the Oxford edition of Strabo in the Review for July, 1809. This was written by Payne Knight. The third was a review of Edg-

worth's ' Essays on Professional Education ' Oct., 1809), which was written by Sydney

Smith. The authority for the names of ihese contributors to the great Whig

review is the excellent little monograph 3rivately printed by Dr. W. A. Copinger.

According to the same authority, only two

articles are known to be Sir Daniel Sandford's n the first fifty volumes. These are a notice

of Mitchell's ' Aristophanes ' (Nov., 1820)

and of Hahnemann (Jan., 1830). The last trikes one as a curious subject for the

Brilliant Professor of Greek.

WILLIAM E. A. AXON. [Further reply from MR. J. P. OWEN next week.]

PEOPLE TO BE AVOIDED OR CULTIVATED 10 S. vii. 130). MR. LATHAM will find the ines he seeks discussed at 10 S. i. 167, 235, 77. LIONEL SCHANK.

I hope the subjoined extract from The outh Place Magazine for February may be f some assistance to MR. LATHAM :

The recent Harveian Oration was delivered in le hall of the Royal College of Physicians by Dr. Villiam Osier, Regius Professor of Medicine at xford. Prof. Osier took as his subject 'The rowth of Truth,' as illustrated by the history of