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looked upon with distrust and suspicion. < His published writings, especially his novels, ! were bitterly assailed in The Record in j 1851. He was branded as "the apostle " of Communism and Socialism in The Edin- burgh Review, and The Quarterly the same [ year. Bishop Blomfield prohibited him from preaching in London, but after reading the sermon which rumour had reported as subversive of all things human and divine, he straightway withdrew the prohibition. I subjoin the names of a few of the magazines in which criticisms of his writings appeared.

' Alton Locke ' was reviewed in Black- wood's Magazine, vol. Ixviii., 1850 ; Fraser's Magazine, vol. xlii., 1850 ; Quarterly Review, vol. Ixxxviii., 1851 ; also in The Eclectic Review, and The Examiner.

Magazine, 1855 ; also in The Athenceum, Spectator, Guardian, and Gazette some of the notices being friendly, but others very much the reverse.
 * Yeast ? was reviewed in Blackwood's

' The Saint's Tragedy,' Kingsley' s earliest poetical publication, was criticized in The North British Review, vol. xv. 1851.

His ' Twenty-Five Village Sermons - was reviewed in The Times soon after publication in 1849.

There were also numerous cartoons, skits, and parodies, but these were of a somewhat later date than the period under considera- tion. Several pages, containing parodies on ' The Three Fishers l and * The North-East Wind ' are printed in Hamilton's * Parodies,' vol. iii.

Perhaps I may also be permitted to name a clever cartoon of Kingsley, with apprecia- tive notice, which appeared in Once a Week, March, 1872. The artist was F. W. Waddy. At the time, however, when the cartoon appeared, Kingsley had become a power in the land. W. SCOTT.

Some references to Charles Kingsley about 1854-7 will be found in Miss Sichel's ' Life of Canon Ainger,' chapters i. and ii. The book is now published by Nelson & Sons at a shilling. G. C. MOOBE SMITH.

Sheffield.

I think MB. PABKEB will find what he wants in a volume of personal studies by the late Mr. Kegan Paul (I forget its name).

G. W. E. R.

BUBTON AND FlLETCHEB (10 S. VI. 464).

At the above reference it was pointed out that there was a serious obstacle to believing, as Mr. Courthope did, that in the Passionate Lord's Song " Hence, all you vain delights "

(' The Nice Valour,' Act III. sc. iii.), Fletcher was indebted to Robert Burton's verses " When I go musing all alone," as it would be very difficult to reconcile any such indebted- ness with Fletcher's authorship, Fletcher having died three years before Burton's poem appeared in print.

Unfortunately, this is not an isolated instance of the neglect of bibliographical evi- dence in dealing with this question. In the companion volume of Notes to Palgrave s ' Golden Treasury,' Books I. IV., published by Macmillan & Co., (1904), the introductory remarks on Fletcher's song by Mr. W. Bell contain the following (p. 218, notes to Book II.):

' ' There is a third famous poem on Melancholy, published in 1621, which certainly suggested some of the imagery of ' II Penseroso ' and must have been known to Fletcher. This is ' The Author's Abstract of Melancholy, AiaAoytos,' prefixed by Burton to his famous 'Anatomy of Melancholy.' "

Burton's famous book was published, it is true, in 1621, but it was not until the third edition (1628) that the 'Author's Abstract of Melancholy, AiaAoyiKws,' first appeared. The meaningless AtaAoyws is further proof that the early editions of the ' Anatomy ' were not consulted. The error is due to a reprint (it is found, e.g., in the edition pub- lished by William Tegg & Co., 1849).

EDWABD BENSLY.

" MOBAL POCKETHANDKEBCHIEFS " (11 S i. 146). In reply to POLITICIAN I indignantly repel the accusation of non-study of ' N. & Q.' Putting aside the question of the periodical a most worthy one, and one to which, I am sure, the great Pickwick (discoverer of the Cobham Stone) would have been proud to contribute, had it existed in his days, and the very motto of which is taken from another work of the immortal editor of ' The Pick- wick Papers I would beg to inform POLITICIAN that if he will refer to the " Topical Edition " of the aforesaid ' Papers,' he will find that I am not ignorant as to what constitutes a moral pockethandkerchief, b that I was unable after ten years' search to procure an example to illustrate the texl nor, in spite of the many letters I receiv with regard to the Evening News article, have I yet found one.

Nor, let me point out, is an election < a topographical or a prizefight handkerchief or any such, any relation to a moral pockt handkerchief which alone combines moral; and woodcuts, leaves the passions of the mol severely alone, and devotes itself to t amelioration of humanity, thus forming an