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daughters Amelia Sarah White, and Jane Lascelles Holbrook, wife of James Hoi- brook of Ledbury, co. Hereford, and their daughter Ann Kinderley Holbrook.

Mary Ann Warren, eldest daughter of Bent ley Warren of Uppingham, co. Rutland, and another daughter, Catherine Warren.

Mary Ann, wife of William Paine of Ham Common, co. Surrey, a daughter of the late Charles Gapper, Esq., and another daughter of his, Jane Dawson ; Thomas Dawson, son of the said Jane Dawson.

Eobert Long of Gray's Inn and Sarah his wife, and Robert and Rose his son and daughter.

Benjamin Austen of Gray's Inn and Sarah his wife.

Thomas Hince, formerly partner with "my late husband " John Kinderley.

Mary Rudd, daughter of Richard Rudd of Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Mary Powell, widow of John Joseph Powell.

Mrs. Whitton, widow of Charles Whitton, "now residing at Mr. Bretts" in Snares- gate Street, Dover.

Edward Smith Godfrey of Newark, co. Notts, and Elizabeth his wife.

Lionel Mayhew and William Chapman.

John Garratt, Chesnut Grove, Kingston.

William Boots, Kingston.

Please reply direct.

(Miss) E. F. WILLIAMS.

10, Black Friars, Chester.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED. I should be glad to obtain information con- cerning the following Old Westminsters. In order to save valuable space in ' N. & Q.' I may add that references to ' Alumni Westmon.,' 'Alumni Oxon.,' and to the several volumes of Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge, are not required.

(1) John Lamb, son of Christopher Lamb of Maidstone, Kent, who graduated M.A. at ( ambridge from Trin. Coll. in 1699. (2) Wil- liam Lamb, K.S. 1675. (3) Adam Langley, Vicar of Stanford-in-Vale, Berks, 1720-31. (4) Samuel Langley, K.S. 1678. (5) Lewis Lanoe, son of James Lanoe of Jersey, Scholar of Trin. Coll. Camb. 1701. (6) John Lant,M.A. of Ch. Ch. Oxon, who obtained a licence to practise medicine 7 March, 1594/5. (7) Matthew Law, who graduated M.A. at ( 'umbridge from Trin. Coll. in 1621. (8) John Lmvton, K.S. 1610. (9) Henry Leheup, who graduated LL.B. at Cambridge from Trin. Hall in 1769. (10) Philip Leigh, who uraduated B.A. at Cambridge from Trin. Coll. 1624/5. G. F. R. B.

REFERENCE WANTED.

Good deeds immortal are they cannot die ; Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost, They live and bud and bloom, and men partake Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. These lines have been quoted as by Aytoun, but I cannot find them. G. H. J.

' MADAME DE SEVIGNE AND HER CONTEM- PORARIES.' The recent publication of Ed- ward FitzGerald's ' Dictionary of Madame de SeVign6 ' prompts me to ask if anything is known of the authorship of the book that was published, in two volumes, by Colburn in 1842, with the title that heads this query ? It gave occasion to one of Leigh Hunt's most delightful essays, which origin- ally appeared in The Edinburgh Review, and was afterwards republished in his ' Men, Women, and Books ' (1847), ii. 300. Of the book itself Hunt does not speak in very complimentary terms, and he adds :

" The name which report has assigned to the compiler of the volumes before us, induced us to entertain sanguine hopes that something more satisfactory was about to be done for the queen of letter-writing."

This would seem to imply that the compiler was a person of some note in the literary world.

Leigh Hunt wrote his essay in 1842, and he says :

" It is somewhat extraordinary, that of all the admirers of a woman so interesting, not one has yet been found in these islands to give any reasonably good account of her any regular and comprehen- sive information respecting her life and writings. The notices in the biographical dictionaries ? are meagre to the last degree ; and ' sketches of greater pretension have seldom consisted of more than loose and brief memorandums, picked out of others, their predecessors."

Seventy -two years have passed, and Hunt's complaint still holds good. No adequate study of this great woman has ever been produced by any English witer of dis- tinction. For a sympathetic appreciation of her life and writings we still have to go to Sainte-Beuve. At the same time, the first approach to such a study as the chatelaine of Les Rochers merits has been presented to the public in FitzGerald's charming book. Unfortunately, the absence of an index and of descriptive head -lines disqualifies it from taking its place as a really useful book of reference. It is a stack of the most delicious hay, but it is hard to find the needles in it. And we know that skill with these imple- ments was one of the accomplishments of the gracious writer of the ' Letters.'

W. F. PRIDEAUX,