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to describe dramatic situations was likely to carry him away from dry historical fact into the realms of fancy ; and a matter of more import- , ance from a printer's point of view his delivery of ' copy ' was uncertain. After a brief period, therefore, the work was placed in more com- petent hands, William Howitt having undertaken at a short notice to continue it."

The title of the book in which I found this is " A Few Personal Recollections by an Old i Printer. London. Printed for Private Cir- culation. 1896."

The author tells me that he knew Smith,

and that he dyed his hair black. It certainly

1 looks very black in his portrait. (See

1 viii. 143, col. 2.) That he was somewhat

' deaf may account for his apparent want of

' sociability (see vii. 223) ; and that he was

never overburdened with cash seems to give

the keynote of his object in emigrating to

the United States.

Having been through The London Journal again, I observed two facts which had pre- viously escaped me. I notice that to 'Stanfield Hall' (11 May, 1850) Smith puts " author of ' The Jesuit,' ' Robin Goodfellow,' &c.," and to the first chapter of ' The Will and the Way,' " author of ' The Jesuit,' ' The Prelate,' &c." I have , not been able to find any novel with the title ' Robin Goodfellow.' It may have been a

Elay, but I find none with that title during mith's time in any of the lists, nor has your able contributor and all-round expert on the subject of actors and the stage, MB. WILLIAM DOUGLAS, any note of a play with that name in the years in question.* With the anony- mous novel simply entitled ' The Prelate ' I have been more fortunate, as I think I dearly identified it. In the Index to 'The London Catalogue 1816-51,' at p. 126, I find ' The Prelate, a Tale of the Church.' ! On referring to the ' Catalogue ' itself, I find " The Prelate, a Tale of the Church. By the Rev. S. Smith. 2 vols. 11. Is. Boone," publisher. 'The London Catalogue' gives no dates.

On looking at ' The English Catalogue, lfe35-62, I cannot find the book at all, but the 'Index of Subjects, 1837-56,' p. 214,

directed my attention to the following from an old newspaper :
 * Since this note was in type MR. DOUGLAS has

"lu 18:30, while attached to the company of Smith, of the Norwich circuit, Miss Noel married Mr. Henry Marston, the bride being given away by the 'heavy man' of the troupe, who was the milliner's son Mr. J. F. Smith, subsequently author of 'Stanfield Hall.'"

I am -liul to be able to add this, as it is sometLing in Smith's favour.

has "The Prelate. By the Rev. C. S. Smith, &c. 1840." There was clearly some- thing wrong about the book, as it is not under C. S. Smith. The date enabled me to look for reviews. The Literary Gazette, I found, had no index ! The Athenceum, however, has an index, and by that I find a review on 11 July, 1840, p. 554, which says :

" It is impossible to speak of this fiction with- out adverting to the unworthy trick by which, in advertising it, an attempt was made to foist it on the public as a tale by the author of ' Peter Plymley's Letters.' ' The Prelate ' needed no such quackery."

What I consider a further confirmation is that I find that most of the characters in ' The Prelate ' have names the same as those used by Smith in The London Journal. This makes two novels identified, so that if another is found, Vizetelly's remark (11 S. vii. 221) may be justifiable. I have now come to the conclusion that the less we know of Smith's private life the better.

I wish to ask your readers to erase the name of Stiff (viii. 122, par. 3), and substitute the name of the second proprietor of The London Journal W. S. Johnson.

RALPH THOMAS. (To be continued.)

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES.

(See 10 S. xi. 441 ; xii. 51, 114, 181, 401 j 11 S. i. 282 ; ii. 42, 381 ; iii. 22, 222, 421 ; iv. 181, 361 ; v. 62, 143, 481 ; vi. 4, 284,. 343 ; vii. 64, 144, 175, 263, 343, 442 ; viii. 4, 82, 183, 285, 382, 444; ix. 65, 164, 384, 464.)

RELIGIOUS LEADERS : PREACHERS, THEO- LOGIANS, &c. (continued).

WILLIAM CAREY.

Kettering, Northants. On 22 July, 1909, a bronze plate, fixed to a stone setting, was unveiled in front of the house in w 1 ich the Baptist Missionary Society was in- augurated in 1792. The house is now owned by Mr. J. T. Stockburn J.P., who readily gave his consent. The plate was designed by Mr. R. J. Williams of Kettering, and was unveiled by the Rev. J. B. Myer*v Home Secretary of the Baptist Missionary Society. It bears the following inscription :

In this house on October 2nd, 1792, a meeting was held to form a society for propagating the Gospel among the heathen, and 13Z. 2s. Qd. was contributed for that purpose. Andrew Fuller was elected Secretary, and Reynold Hogg, Trea- surer. William Carey, to whose sermon at