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NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. vn. APRIL is, 1907.

' for his ' Songs for Sailors,' gave voice to th universal feeling that a bust of him shoul< be placed in our own Poets' Corner. Verj -soon a powerful committee was formed bj Dr. Bennett, with the Prince of Wales a chairman, and Francis Bennoch as treasurer The result was the marble bust by Thoma Brock, A.R.A. It was admitted to it present place in the Abbey on March 2nd 1884, by. Dean Bradley, and is the firs monument of an American author placet there. Dr. Bennett presented the albun containing the five hundred autographs o the subscribers to the American Longfellow Memorial Committee.

The Poet, faithful and far-seeing,

Sees, alike in stars and flowers, a part Of the selfsame, universal being

Which is throbbing in his brain and heart.

JOHN C. FRANCIS.

DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY.

(See 10 S. vi. 361, 402 ; vii. 3, 82.)

VOL. III., ED. 1766, CONTENTS AND AUTHORS

Pp. 1-2. On a grotto near the Thames at Twicken ham. By Mr. Pope (' D.N.B.').

2-4. Hymn on Solitude. By the late James Thomson ('D.N.B.').

4-5. Ode on ^Eolus's harp.

6. On the report of a wooden bridge to be built at Westminster.

The last two are also by Thomson.

7-18. The choice of Hercules. By the Rev. Dr. Lowth, Bishop of London (' D.N.B.'). This poem was published in the tenth dialogue of Spence's ' Polymetis.' Walpole adds that " part of this poem has been set to music by Handel."

18-23. Ode to the people of Great Britain, in imitation of the sixth ode of the third book of Horace. Written in 1746.

This ode, which appeared in the first volume of Dodsley's 'Museum,' pp. 179-82, was also by Lowth. These two poems of Lowth, and that on the Link at Ovington, are in- cluded in his sermons and other remains, ed. Peter Hall (1834), pp. 472-86, 491-3. The 4 Ode to the People ' is also in Southey's iii. 279-84.
 * Specimens of the Later English Poets '

23-43. Psyche, or the great Metamorphosis ; in imitation of Spenser. By the Rev. Gloster Ridley

It had been previously printed in the third volume of Dodsley's 'Museum,' pp. 80-97, cf. Gent. Mag., 1774, p. 505. Three letters the second and third chiefly relating to this poem from Ridley to Spence are in the

appendix to Spence's ' Anecdotes ' (ed. Singer, second ed., 1858), pp. 320-27.

44-58. Jovi Eleutherio, or an offering to liberty. Also by Ridley.

First appeared anonymously in 1745.

58-61. An epistle from a Swiss officer to his friend at Rome. By the Rev. Joseph Spence. Also appeared in the ' Museum,' ii. 259-61.

61-3. Life burdensome, because we know not how to use it, an epistle. By Rev. Edward Rolle.

64-7. The duty of employing one's self, an epistle. By the same.

67-70. On scribling against Genius, an epistle. By the same.

The last three pieces appeared in the ' Museum,' the first in vol. i. 257-9, the second in vol. i. 331-3, the third in vol. i. 420-23. ^ 71-4. The Mimic. By the Rev. Christopher Pitt

First appeared in the second volume of the ' Museum,' pp. 179-82. " Drowsy P**'s " , (in 1. 27) has been identified as Sir Francis Page (' D.N.B.'). S**'s (in 1. 51) is " Robert Symons, of Exeter College, Oxford, the most astonishing mimic of his time " (Gent. Mag., 1780, p. 407). Symons or Symonds was originally of Clare* Hall, Cambridge, but he was incorporated at Exeter College, Oxford, on 28 Feb., 1720/21, where, as bom at Exeter, he was qualified for a Devonshire fellowship. He was elected to one on 30 June, 1721, and held it until 1727. He became M.A. in 1723. Bishop Weston made him vicar of St. Mary Arches at Exeter ; but he was deprived, and went to Ireland (Boase, ' Exeter Coll. Fellows,' 1893 ed., p. 88).

75-89. An epistle from Florence, to T. A. [Thomas Ashton, 'D.N.B.'], tutor to the Earl of P [Ply- mouth]. Written in 1740. By the Honourable

i.e., Horace Walpole, 'D.N.B.']. >ray (' Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 78), writing to West from Florence, 16 July, 1740, says of bhis epistle it " seems to me full of spirit md thought and a good deal of poetic fire." Valpole was against publishing his verses ; >ray was for the publication, especially, he writes to Walpole, as the ' Epistle ' (' Letters,' ed. Tovey, i. 185) was

in the spirit of Dryden, with his strength and ften with his versification, such as you have caught n those lines on the Royal Unction, on the Papal )ominion and Con verts of both Sexes, on Henry VIII. nd Charles II., for these are to me the shining arts of your Epistle. There are many lines I ould wish corrected, and some blotted out, but eauties enough to atone for a thousand worse aults than these."

90-5. The beauties, an epistle to Mr. Eckardt, the ainter [written in 1746].

"his was written by Walpole in July, 1746,