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list, but many of the indelicate passages in the original edition appear to have been expurgated. Gilbert's illustrations, like the novel itself, are full of absurd anachronisms ; and though intended as a scathing attack upon the manners and morals of the English nobility at the close of the eighteenth century, the book loses all its sting through exaggeration. It has some interest, how- ever, for the historical student who is acquainted with the dramatis personce, and who can trace the source of many of its canards. Otherwise, as a work of art, it is beneath contempt.

HOBACE BLEACKLEY.

ROBINSON OF APPLEBY (11 S. x. 288). Thomas Robinson, Alderman of Appleby, died 11 Aug., 1711, aged 68. By his wife Mary (died 21 May, 1683, aged 42) he had issue a son John, and daughters Margaret, Mary, Elizabeth, and Isobel. His son was probably the Alderman of Appleby who died 29 April, 1746, aged 74. He left issue, by his wife Anne, two sons Charles and Hugh. The latter was Rector of Lowther, and died 29 Dec., 1762, aged 61. Charles died 19 June, 1760, aged 58, leaving a son Joseph, who died 17 June, 1776, aged 42.

If the John Robinson referred to in the query was a son of a Charles Robinson of Appleby, and grandson of John Robinson, Alderman of Appleby, it seems probable that he was a brother of Joseph Robinson, who died in 1776.

The above information is from the will of Thomas Robinson, who died in 1711 (proved at Carlisle, 24 Oct., 1711), and from monu- mental inscriptions in the church of St. Lawrence, Appleby (quoted in Bellasis's
 * Westmoreland Church Notes ').

If these two Charles Robinsons are iden- tical, the ' D.N.B.' supplies the wife's name, viz., Hannah, daughter of Richard Deane of Appleby, married at Kirkby Thore, 19 May, 1726. ST. LAWRENCE.

P. D. M. will find a full account of the family in ' Robinson of the White House, Appleby,' by the Rev. Charles Best Nor- cliffe, privately printed, 1874.

G. D. LUMB.

STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES: JOHN WESLEY (11 S. x. 304). The statue of John Wesley concerning which your contributor inquires was never erected at Epworth. A similar scheme was broached when the Wesley Memorial Chapel was built in the town in 1889, but this also fell through. A memorial window was, however, placed

in the " chancel " of the chapel, above the Communion table, in the upper portion of which is a circular pane containing profile portraits of John and Charles AVesley drawn, I believe, from the medallion in Westminster Abbey. C. C. B.

WALTER SCOTT : SPURIOUS WAVERLEYS (11 S. x. 330). Replying to part of OLD GOWN'S query, the following note on ' Wal- ladmor ' appears in a ' Bibliography of Thomas De Quincey,' 1908, p. 7 :

" ' Walladmor ' : ' freely translated into Ger- man from the English of Sir Walter Scott,' and now freely translated from the German into

English. London, 1825, 8vo, 2 vols The

German original from which this is ' freely trans- lated ' (or rather entirely rewritten) was by G. W. H. Haring. De Quincey's account of the genesis of this work appears at pp. 132-45 (' Works,' vol. xiv.), with supplementary notes by Prof. Masson."

OLD GOWN will find other references to ' Walladmor ' in some of the biographies named on pp. 58-75 in the above-mentioned ' Bibliography.' J. A. GREEN.

Public Library, Moss Side, Manchester.

As there was no Waverley novel in 1824 to supply the feverish demand of the Leipsic Fair, " a German of ultra-dulness," as De Quincey avers, forged a substitute which he called ' Walladmor.' He professed to translate from Scott a romance with its scene in the county of Merioneth and the neighbourhood, Walladmor (with accent on the antepenultimate) being an ancient castle in which one of the characters is immured on a charge of treason. The work was duly issued in the three volumes that were conventionally indispensable, and De Quincey has put on record that he was asked to do an English translation, which he found one of the most disagreeable tasks he ever undertook. His version, he states, was in two small volumes, and was anything but an exact reproduction of his stupid original. See article ' Walladmor ' in the essayist's ' Works,' vol. xvi. (A. & C. Black). If this ostensible translation exists, and is not merely one of De Quincey's fantastic visions, it must be a genuine and valuable curiosity.

With regard to attacks on Scott, Da Quincey in his vigorous essay on ' Whiggism in its Relations to Literature ' has a notable word to say. While he mainly concerns himself with Dr. Samuel Parr, he is, as usual, fresh, individual, and persistently discursive ; and at one point he character- istically observes that " Mr. Bentham, Dr.