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phaster,' printed in 1862 from a MS. for the Roxburghe Club by the Rev. W. E. Buckley, we read :

Auctore Roberto Burton, Sacrse Theologiae Baccalaureo

Atque JEdis Christ! Oxon. Alumno.) Mr. G. K. Fortescue has kindly informed me that nothing is known of the history of the book beyond the fact that it was bought on 15 Aug., 1837, from Mr. W. Pickering the bookseller.

Messrs. Pickering & Chatto, the represen- tatives of Mr. William Pickering, regret that they have no catalogue or records dating back so far as 1837.

To Mr. G. W. Wakeling of Brasenose College I am indebted for the information that the Brasenose College Library possesses the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh editions of the ' Anatomy.' He adds that the first contains no inscrip- tion, but that the third has the following in Burton's hand on the fly-leaf :

Mense august 1628 Liber Collegii yEneinasi

ex dono

Roberti Burton authoris ejus Collegii quondam commensalis.

In reply to an application at Christ Church, Dr. Haverfield kindly wrote as follows :

" The Brit. Mus. copy of Burton to which you allude is doubtless the copy which Burton gave to our Library. From thence it must have been stolen or lost (it is very unlikely to have been sold). We have always wondered why we had no gift-copy of the first edition. This seems to explain it."

EDWARD BENSLY.

University College, Aberystwyth.

" WESTRALIA." Mr. Stanford has lately issued a new edition of ' Australasia,' by Prof. Gregory. The author uses the term Westralia usually in his text, as if it were an accepted term. He gives West Australia as an alternative on p. 514. On the maps, and on p. xx, we read Western Australia which is, I believe, the form used officially It is to be hoped that the form Westralia will not be generally accepted. If it is why not Eastralia for New South Wales Why not also Soustralia and Norstralia These words are of the same class as " gase lier " and " electrocute," and may be de fended as convenient portmanteau words but to a philological mind they are rathe distressing. In choosing Western Australit the authorities perhaps found an uglj duplication of st in West Australia. But th official name is very long. In fact, it i highly desirable that new names should b found for W. Australia, S. Australia, an

.. Wales. An attempt' was made in the ase of the last some years ago, but it un- ortunately failed. It is to be hoped that tates and towns will in future avoid New, nd the points of the compass, in their ames. London, Cape Colony, would be more convenient than East London.

E. H. BROMBY. University, Melbourne.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- ornmtion on family matters of only private interest o affix their names and addresses to their queries, n order that answers may be sent to them direct.

PAGEANTS. I desire to be referred to all owns where there have been Pageants since that at Warwick. Particulars of pro- grammes, books of words, and any other details will be much appreciated if sent direct to me. T. CANK HUGHES.

78, Church Street, Lancaster.

VISCOUNT VANE. Fifty years ago a query appeared respecting the identity of certain portraits which at the death of William, second and last Viscount Vane, in ^ 1789, were handed to his " principal agent," and in 1854 belonged to S. D., a lady who de- scribed herself as an " elderly spinster.

Any information respecting their present whereabouts will be gratefully received. Mr. Papillon, of Crowhurst Park, Sussex, is the owner of a considerable number of pictures which are known to have belonged to Lord Vane, but not of the portraits alluded to by S. D. H -

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. Can any one tell me who wrote the fol- lowing lines ?

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Night with her train of stars And her great gift of sleep.

A. M.

The following lines, or something like them, were recently quoted in one of the monthly or weekly periodicals : I have squandered, I have wandered, I have pondered. Can any one give me the reference ?

W. 1.

Two POPULAR REFRAINS. Are there any more verses to the song "For he 's a jolly good fellow " than the snatches usually sung at festive gatherings ? What are the com- plete words of "We won't go home