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creditor, Mr. Bickley has discovered that toefore her marriage to Shepperd she wrote AS a relative to William Priest, under the name of Chambers. Priest addressed hus- Taand and wife each as " couzen " in the .correspondence I printed.

AI.EYN LYELL BEADE. Park Corner, Blunclellsands, near Liverpool.

(To be continued.)

DODSLEY'S FAMOUS COLLECTION OF POETRY.

442; viii. 124, 183.)
 * (See 10 S. vi. 361, 402 ; vii. 3, 82, 284, 404,

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

SHENSTONE says (' Letters,' p. 314) that the sixth volume was printed before the fifth, .and that his verses were printed without his knowledge, and appeared without his correc- tions.

Pp. 1-15. Hymn to the Naiads. By Dr. Akenside (' D.N.B.'), 1746.

" Truly classical," says Dyce.

15-24. Ode to Francis, Earl of Huntingdon. 1747. " Perhaps the most perfect of his efforts in lyric poetry," says Dyce.

25-9. Ode to Benjamin [Hoadly], Lord Bishop of Winchester. 1754. 29-34. [Six] Inscriptions.

No. II. is for a statue of Chaucer at Wood- stock, and VI. for a column at Runnymede.

35-6. Ode.

All the above are by Akenside. Dyce says that the second of them was the only piece that had previously appeared in print.

37-41. Ode to the Tiber. Written by William Whitehead, Esq. ("D.N.B.'), on entering the Cam- pania of Rome at Otricoli. MDCCLV.

41-58. Elegies : I. Written at the convent of Haut Villers, Champagne, 1754.

II. On the mausoleum of Augustus ; addressed to Oeorge Bussy, Viscount Villiers. Written at Rome, 1756.

III. To George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Newn- ham. Written at Rome, 1756.

Whitehead travelled abroad with these two young noblemen.

IV. To an officer. Written at Rome, 1756.

V. To a friend sick. Written at Rome, 1756.

VI. To another friend. Written at Rome, 1756. 58-60. The lyric muse to Mr. Mason, on the

recovery of the Earl of Holdernesse from a dan- gerous illness.

The last seven pieces are also by Whitehead.

60-90. On the immortality of the soul. Trans- lated from the Latin of Isaac Hawkins Browne <(' D.N.B.') by Soame Jenyns, Esq. (' D.N.B.').

91-7. The arbour, an ode to contentment. Mr. Thomas Cole.

By

" Of Queens' College, Cambridge," 1782 ed.

97-100. The grotto, an ode to Silence. By the same.

100-24. The picture of human life. Translated from the Greet of Cebes the Theban by Mr. T. Scott.

" A Dissenting minister at Ipswich. Died at Hap ton, Norfolk, Nov., 1775" (1782 ed.). See a memoir of him in ' D.N.B.' This translation was published by R. & J. Dodsley in 1754 as " The table of Cebes, or the picture of human life in English verse, by Thomas Scott," when 20 pages of notes were added.

125. The dropsical man. By Mr. W. Taylor. 126-9. Paradise regained. By H. T.

H. T. is the Rev. Henry Taylor, fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, rector of Craw- ley, and vicar of Portsmouth, who died 1785 (' D.N.B.'). He was at Newcome's school, Hackney, with John Hoadly, and was patronized by the bishop. The poem ' Para- dise Regained ' is printed with more of his poems in Peter A. Taylor's ' Some Account of the Taylor Family.' Mr. W. Taylor was William Taylor of South Weald, the father of the Rev. Henry Taylor. Full particulars of him and his poetry will be found in Mr. P. A. Taylor's book. He was born 7 Dec., 1673 ; and died at Portsmouth, 7 Sept., 1750.

129-35. To the Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Walpole. By the Hon. Mr. D [Dodington, 'D.N.B.'].

135-7. To a lady on a landscape of her drawing. By Mr. Parrat.

137-8. Ode to Cupid on Valentine's day. By the same.

138-42. To the worthy, humane, generous, reverend, and noble Mr. F. C. [Cornwallis], now Lord Bishop of Litchfield [afterwards Archbishop of Canter- bury]. By Dr. D. [i.e., Sneyd Da vies, 'D.N.B.']. Written in 1743.

In the opinion of Sir Egerton Brydges, this is " a beautiful poem." The lines in it begin- ning

Sithence no fairy lights, no quick'ning ray, were favourites of Hazlitt, who quoted them more than once. The poem was known to Lamb, who sent the second line (" Blame as thou mayest the Papist's erring creed ") of it in a letter to Southey (19 Aug., 1825; ' Works,' ed. Lucas, vii. 692-4). It is sug- gested in The Athenoeum, 1 April, 1905, pp. 392-3, that the poem had been read by them in Enfield's ' Speaker.'

142-8. To his friend and neighbour, Dr. T. 1744. By the same.

The last two pieces are included in ' A Collec- tion of Original Poems and Translations, by John Whaley, 1745,' as by a friend. Three