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FBENCH-CANADIAN LITERATURE (10 S. viii. 29, 57). Your correspondent may be glad to have the following particulars :

The French Canadian (Nicholson).

Christmas in French Canada (Frechette).

Canadians of Old (De Gaspe").

The Habitant.

The Voyageur (Dr. W. H. Drummond).

Johnnie Courteau.

Chroniques (Buies). Quebec, 1874.

Au Portique des Laurentides (H. de Lamothe).

Cinq Mois chez lea Fra^ais d'Amerique (La- mothe).

Lettres sur les Etats-Unis et le Canada (G. de Molinari).

La Litterature canadienne. Quebec, 1863.

Histoire de la Litterature canadienne (Lareaii).

Voyage au Canada (Lamothe).

Essai de Bibliographic canadienne. Quebec, 1895.

Chroniques (Fabre). Quebec, 1877-

Chronicles of the St. Lawrence (J. M. Lemoiue).

Maple Leaves (Lemoine).

W. H. GRIFFITH, Secretary.

Office of the High Commissioner for Canada, 17, Victoria Street, S.W.

'MEMOIRS OF THE COMTESSE DE'BOIGNE ' (10 S. viii. 101). The late Mr. J. G. Alger's ' Glimpses of the French Revolution ' was issued subsequently to the appearance of his accounts of the Dillon family in the ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' and presumably contained his latest researches amongst the bypaths of that interesting period. His accuracy is generally unimpeachable, but in stating that the father of the first wife of General the Hon. Arthur Dillon was " a Scotch refugee," he has fallen into an excusable error. Since writing my note I have consulted that valuable work Mr. J. C. O'Callaghan's ' History of the Irish Brigades in the Service of France,' and on pp. 91-4 have found a short but adequate account of the Rothe family. Michael Rothe, the father of Lucy Gary's husband, was sprung from one of the oldest and most wealthy of the mercantile families of Kilkenny. He was born 29 Sept., 1665, and when the Revolution took place in 1688 was a captain in the Irish Foot Guards. After the Treaty of Limerick he passed over into France, and had a dis- tinguished career in the service of the French king, taking part, amongst many other engagements, in the battles of Blenheim and Malplaquet. He resigned his regiment to his son in 1733, and died on 2 May, 1741. Charles Edouard, Comte de Rothe, was born 23 Dec., 1710, and served with his regiment at Dettingen and Fontenoy. His military career was as distinguished as that of his father, and he died on 19 Aug., 1766, while holding the rank of lieutenant-general of the Irish and Scotch troops in the service

of France. As he left no male issue, the regiment after his death was' given to Robert Dillon, titular Earl of Roscommon.

Mr. O'Callaghan throws no light on the family of General Theobald Dillon, although he gives a circumstantial account of the murder of that officer by his own soldiers at Lille, and he also follows Lord Cloncurry in styling him " le beau " Dillon. The Dillons were a remarkably handsome family, and it is possible that more than one of them may have enjoyed this sobriquet.

The Comtesse de Boigne's ' Memoirs.' and the other books that I have quoted,. may|.be of service to MR. JOHN B. WAINE- WRIGHT (see ante, p. 87), so far as regards Arthur Richard Dillon, Archbishop of Narbonne, and Antoine Eustache d'Osmond, Bishop of Comminges. The latter prelate was the Countess's uncle, and both he and the Archbishop are frequently met with in the ' Memoirs.' An anecdote which shows the Prince Regent in a favourable light,. at a time when the Archbishop was very old and deaf, will be found in Mr. James Roche's ' Critical Essays.'

W. F. PRIDEAUX.

SIR THOMAS BROWNE'S KNIGHTHOOD (10 S. viii. 130). W. B. H. will probably find what he is in search of in the following transcript. It is taken from Simon Wilkin's supplementary memoir of Sir Thomas Browne in his edition of the works of the Norwich physician published in 1836, and runs thus :

"On the 28th of September, 1671, Charles II., who had been carousing with his profligate court, at Newmarket, made an excursion to Norwich, attended by the Queen, the Dukes of York, Mon- mouth, and Buckingham, and others of his nobility.

Whether he discovered the excellencies of

Browne by his own skill, and rewarded them from the impulse of his own virtue, those may question, who doubt. It would appear from Blomfield's [sic} account, that the King was not content to leave the city without knighting some one, and therefore, on Mr Mayor's declining the honour, it was thrust upon Browne. After relating other particulars of the King's progress, his visit to Mr. Howard, his attendance on divine service at the Cathedral, his review of the trained bands, his feasting in the New Hall, at an expense of 900J. to the city,

the historian proceeds to inform us that 'when

his Majesty was at the New Hall, he was earnest to have knighted the mayor, who as earnestly begged to be excused ; but at the same time conferred the honour on that deserving physician, Dr. Thomas. Browne, &c. : The fact, however, probably was, that though the literary celebrity of Browne must have been well known, his loyalty was the crowning excellence in the eyes of Charles. In perilous times, Dr. Browne had steadily adhered to the royal cause. He was one of the 432 principal citizens who, in 1643, refused to subscribe towards a fund