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Bayswater Road ; and specimens of certainly an eighteenth -century paper, of which I possess a few square feet, are to be seen in the museum at Rochester. W. P. D. S.

GULF STREAM : ITS EARLY HISTORY. Will some reader direct me to works on the Gulf Stream, especially any work which

deals with it from the earliest known periods ?

Please reply direct. C. BEAUMONT.

154, 156, Temple Chambers, E.G.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. I shall be glad of the assistance of ' N. & Q.' in tracing the soutrce of the following quota tions occurring in standard writers.

In Lamb's ' Dissertation upon Roas Pig':- 1. What a speck is he dwindled into

In Hazlitt, ' On the Ignorance of th Learned ' :

!. Enfeebles all internal strength of thought. !. The Enthusiast Fancy was a truant ever. Ib . Wink and shut their apprehensions up. Ib.

5. " The mighty world of eye and ear " is hid, And " knowledge quite shut out." 76.

In Hazlitt's ' Indian Jugglers ' :

6. And visions, as poetic eyes avow,

Cling to each leaf and hang on every bough.

In Hazlitt's ' Landscape of Poussin l :

7. And blind Orion, hungry for the morn.

8. Leaping like wanton kids in pleasant

PUBLIC SCHOOL REGISTERS.

(11 S. i. 203.) THESE volumes form an extensive item in my working index-book, and for some years past I have omitted no opportunity of enlarging

like

spring. 76. J. Old Genius the porter of them was ;

He letteth in, he letteth out to wend. 76.

In Hazlitt's ' On Going a Journey '- :

10. He talked far above singing.

1 1 . Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name.

!. The beautiful is vanished and returns not.

13. The vine-covered hills and gay regions of France. 76.

14. Out of my country and myself I go. 76.

Tn Hazlitt, ' On Familiar Style ' : 1"). Ambition is more lowly.

In Leigh Hunt's 'Description of a Hot

Day * :

16. Rumbling in pebble-stones. In De Quincey's ' Murder ' :

Called aloud on Tully's name And bade the father of his country hail.

In J. A. Symonds's ' Venetian Medley ' :

Corruption most abhorred Mingling itself with their renowned ashes.

C. B. W.

opportunity of enlarging it. It must be conceded, however, that their usefulness is not so much as appears ; they cannot compare with Foster's ' Alumni Oxonienses,' or Welch's ' Alumni Westmon.'- The dates are sometimes misleading Repton, for instance, where the early years are very meagre. Still, though the usual saying is reversed, a little bit of amber is often embedded in a mass of dead flies ; the bit is valuable when got. The identifi- cation by the editors are not always trust- worthy ; nevertheless, they have their value, especially for modern biography ; therefore, as W. C. B. has added a few items to my list, I have much pleasure in supple- menting his as follows : Aberdeen, King's College. Roll of Alumni, 1596-

1860. Peter J. Anderson. Ackworth School. List of the Bovs Admitted.

1779-1879. Addiscombe : its Heroes and Men of Mark.

Vibart.

Aldenham School. 1836-1903. Edm. Beevor. Bury St. Edmunds. Biographical List of Boys educated at King Edward VI. Free Grammar School from 1550 to 1900. Sydenham H. A. Harvey.

Charterhouse. List of Scholars, 1812-23. Edinburgh. Catalogue of the Graduates in the

Faculties of Arts. Bannatyne Club, 1858. Farn worth Grammar School. 1507-1905. C. R.

Lewis.

Framlingham College Register, 1865-1907. Haileybury College. L. S. Milford, 1891. Harrow. School Register, 1801-1893. R. C.

Welch, "pswich. Brief Sketch of the History of Ipswich

School, 1477-1851. Nina Frances Layard. Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Scholae Novocastrensis Alumni : Brief Notices of Distinguished Scholars of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School at. N.-u.-T. Oakham. The Book of Oakham School, with

Register. W. L. Sargant, 1906. Oxford. The Roll of St. Edward's School, 1863-

is'.tT. W. H. A. Cowell and H. S. Rogers. Penketh. A History of Penketh School, 1834-

1907. J. S. Hodgson.

uakers. Biographical Catalogue .... London Friends' Institutes and Schools. W. Beck, W. F. Wells, and H. G. Chalkley, 1888. t. Andrews. The Matriculation Roll of the University of St. Andrews. 1747-1897. J. M. Anderson, 1905. St. Leonard's School Register, 1877-1900.

2 vols. 1895, 1901. t. Bees College. Calendar for 1851, &c.