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boise. The story opens in 1830, and th authoress seems to draw very largely o her own recollections for contemporar things, the introduction of railways, &( The curiosity shown on the top of a stag coach concerning the display of a steel pe (evidently new in 1830) seems strange a this date. Flannel waistcoats (ante, p. 95 were still fashionable in 1840. The hero wa asked by an old lady, "if he wore flanne waistcoats." He said, " No, as his aun did not wear them herself, and therefor did not approve of his doing so." Te cosies were novelties in 1840. Oliver in quires why that queer thing ' like a night cap " is on the teapot. It is explained t him, and he is told that the invention pro bably came from the North Country. Th description of a village school is admirabl and true to life. It is probably autobio graphical. I take the following extrac from it :
 * Oliver Westwood,' by Emma Jane Wor

'* It had been MissGrimly's school for a goodhal century ! The finishing school of the town at on time, as she was wont to boast, though it was no\v of such small account that she was obliged to take small boys and girls, and instruct them in their Primer, and give them their first lessons in writing and cyphering for the small sum of Qd. per week But there were extras. Was there ever a school of any kind where extras were unknown? Grammar was 3d. per week extra, so was Latin, so, I believe, were the higher grades of arithmetic by which ] do not mean algebra, but all that came beyond long division. The traditionary twopence for manner* n'Ofi not charged. It never occurred to Miss Grimly or her Satellite Miss Blum to teach us how to behave ourselves in society." The italics are mine. The period referred to is 1830. J. H. MURRAY.

100, Lothian Road, Edinburgh. [For "Twopence for manners" see 9 S. ix. 129. Societies for the reformation of manners are de- scribed at 2 S. i. 273 ; 4 S. iii. 313 ; ix. 202, 268 ; 6 S. xii. 454.]

" WOODHENS." Extracts from the report of commissioners appointed to examine witnesses upon certain interrogatories in an action circa 1656 (Shropshire) :

"Interrog. [7]. Do you know, or have you heard, that the Inhabitants of the Stitt and Cothercot did pay Woodhens unto the Bailiff of the said Manor, that he might permit them to hack wood and make swine styes within the said forest of ?

' Heply. To the 7th interrogatory this deponent saith that he heard this deponent's father say that the deponent's Grandfather, being Bailiff of the said Manor, did receive hens from the Inhabitants of the Stitt and Cothercott for liberty to put upon the Common belonging to the said Manor styes for their Swine.

What is meant by " woodhens " ?

HERBERT SOUTHAM.

DANTE ON PAOLO AND FRANCESCA. I should be much obliged if any of your readers could kindly inform me in what translation of Dante I could find the follow- ing lines, descriptive of the pathetic story of Francesca da Rimini and Paolo at the end of canto v. of the ' Inferno ' :

One day we read for pastime and sweet cheer

Of Lancelot, how he found love tyrannous. We were alone, and without any fear

Our eyes were drawn together reading thus. Full oft and still our cheeks would pale and glow.

But one sole point it was that conquered us, For when we read of that great Lover, how

He kissed the smiles which he had longed to win, Then he whom nought can sever from me now

For ever kissed my mouth all quivering.

I saw these lines in a fine-art catalogue underneath a print of an etching of Rossetti's picture of Francesca and Paolo.

The following translations have already been consulted in vain : Pollock, Sibbald, Wright, Boyd, Gary, Longfellow, W. M. Rossetti, and Plumptre.

GEORGE G. NAPIER. 9, Woodside Place, Glasgow

ELEANOR, DAUGHTER OF EDWARD I. The following is the pedigree given in the genealogy of the Hughes of Gwerclas :

King John.

Edward I. Eleanor, m. Simon de

iMontfort. enry,Comte Eleanor, m. Llewellyn ' de Bar. ap Griffith.

Eleanor, m. Llewellyn Catharine, m. Philip ap ap Owen. Ivor.

Thomas ap Llewellyn, m. Eleanor.

Eleanor, m. Griffith Vychan, Lord of Glyndwedwy.

Owen Glendower. Lowry.

But Mrs. Everett Green a careful writer says that Eleanor, daughter of Edward I., eft but one daughter, Joan, who married larl Warren and died before her husband ; nd several historians concur in saying that lie only daughter of Llewellyn the Great nd Eleanor de Montfort died a nun. As a escendant of Lowry, I am much interested i ascertaining whether this pedigree is orrect or not. Can any one help me ?

HELGA.

ARCHBISHOP'S IMPRIMATUR. In a copy f " Delectus auctorum sacrorum Miltono acem prselucentium .... adcurante Gulielmo audero, A.M. Londini : excudebat Jacobus ed. Anno 1752 " in the Cambridge