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NOTES AND QUERIES, no s. vin. AUG. 17, 1907.

In reference to the change in the date o: Lord Mayor's show MB. ROBERT PIER- POINT, in a very interesting article on ' The Birthday of George III. : Old v. New Style," which appeared on the 26th of August, 1905 quotes Toone's ' Chronological Historian as his authority for saying that whereas before 1752 the Lord Mayors of London were sworn in at Westminster on the 29th of October, they were in 1752 anc afterwards sworn in on the 9th of November.

The precedence of members for London in the House of Commons is referred to on the 14th of March, 1857, by J. G. MORTEN, and the Editor quotes from May's ' Law and Practice of Parliament ' :

" ' On the opening of a new Parliament, the members for the city of London claim the privilege of sitting on the Treasury or Privy Councillors' bench.' And in a note Mr. May adds : ' In 1628 a question was raised, whether the members for the city of London were "Knights "; but there appears to have been no decision.'

On September 7th, 1867, MR. JEPHSON HUBAND SMITH gives the names of some who have held the office of Lord Mayor's laureate.

The removal of Temple Bar is the subject of a note on the 12th of January, 1878 ; and vanishing London forms the subject for many a later note, as will be seen in the "General Index to the Ninth Series.

The grants made by the Corporation for educational purposes from 1781 to 1905 include 361,0002. to the City of London School; and 11,0002. to the City of London School for Girls. Over 24,0002. has been devoted to technical education. On musical education, including the new building on the Embankment, 121,0002. has been ex- pended ; and in addition the Royal College of Music has received 5,0002.

The grants to charitable purposes are allotted, as they should be, in a thoroughly catholic spirit, quite irrespective of creed. Among the amounts devoted to public purposes were 27,0002. in connexion with the reduction of the price of gas, and 6,2552. similarly for water. Other sums include Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, 5,0002. ; a donation to the Imperial Institute, and contributions to the Victoria Memorial Fund ; King Edward VII. 's Coronation gift, 5,0002. ; the necklace presented to Princess Alex- andra, 10,0002. ; the City of London Im- perial Volunteer Fund for the equipment of a volunteer battalion and its transport to South Africa, 25,0002. ; and International Health Exhibition, 5,0002. Earlier amounts include monuments to Chatham, 178083, 3,2412. ; Pitt, 1807-13, 4,0782. ; Nelson,

1807-11, 4,4422. ; and Wellington, 5,0002. The total sum expended for charitable pur- poses amounted to 1,198,2822., and for public purposes 203,4412. These sums are entirely apart from the expenditure on improvements and public works. JOHN C. FRANCIS.

(To be concluded.)

DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY.

(See 10 S. vi. 361, 402 ; vii. 3, 82, 284, 404, 442.)

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

GRAY in his letter to Wharton, dated 8 March, 1758, says of vols. v. and vi. :

"Then here is the Miscellany (Mr. Dodsley has sent me the whole set gilt and lettered, I thank him). Why, the two last volumes are worse than the four first ; particularly Dr. Akenside is in a deplorable way. What signifies learning and the Antients (Mason will say triumphantly) why should people read Greek to lose their imagination, their ear, and their mother tongue ? But then there is Mr. Shenstone, who trusts to nature and simple sentiment, why does he do no better? he goes hopping along his own gravel-walks, and never deviates from the beaten paths for fear of being lost." ' Letters of Thomas Gray,' ed. Tovey, vol. ii. p. 25.

Pp. 1-13. Rural elegance, an ode to the late Duchess of Somerset, written 1750. By William Shenstone, Esq. (' D.N.B.').

"The duchess did not object to the publication of this poem, but did not wish her name, or that of her house, Percy Lodge, to be mentioned." 'Letters of Lady Luxborough to Shenstone,' pp. 358, 361-2.

13-15. Inscription near a sheep-cote, 1745.

16-18. Nancy of the Vale, a ballad.

19-20. Ode to indolence, 1750.

21-4. Ode to health, 1730.

24-5. To a lady of quality [Lady Luxborough] fitting up her library, 1738.

Lines ' To a lady furnishing her library at Luxborough) are also among Jago's poems, 1784, pp. 184-5.
 * in Warwickshire ' (no doubt Lady

26-7. Upon a visit to the same in winter, 1748.

28-32. An irregular ode after sickness, 1749.

33-4. Anacreontic, 1738.

34-5. Ode, written 1739.

36-7. The dying kid.

38-42. [Six] love songs, written between 1737 and 1743.

42-5. Rape of the trap, a ballad ; written at ollege, 1736.

45-6. A simile.

46-7. The ceremonial.

47-8. The beau to the virtuosos, alluding to a pro- posal for the publication of a set of butterflies, it is stated in the 1782 edition that the ' set " was by Mr. Wilkes.