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The above extract is correct in its facts. The illustrations were in a style quite dif- ferent from that of Matt Morgan in The Tomahawk, though some of the portraits of authors, artists, and other prominent people were exceedingly successful efforts.

The late George Augustus Sala, in his writing of the Tsar Alexander III.'s corona- tion at Moscow in May, 1883, says :
 * Life and Adventures ' (1896), chap. Ixiii.,

" Amongst the English newspaper correspondents was my old friend Alfred Thompson, artist, dramatist, and journalist, who had been sent out to Moscow to represent the Daily News. Alfred had, in his youthful days, been a subaltern in a crack cavalry regiment, the Carabiniers, so that he was all right as regarded the wearing of uniform,"

alluding to the prescribed non-admission to the Kremlin unless in uniform or court dress. W. B. H.

I notice that reference is made to the title of The Mask having been revived in " the dramatic quarterly published by Messrs. Simpkin & Marshall." This is not exactly correct, as, although Messrs. Simpkin & Marshall are the London agents for The Mask, it is published here in Florence at the Arena Goldoni, Mr. Gordon Craig's School for the Art of the Theatre.

A. TREMAYNE.

Florence.

MORRIS (11 S. viii. 68). In reply to X. Y. Z., William Morris, Master Royal Navy born at Bermondsey in 1749, was son of William Morris, whose death is recorded in The Gent. Mag.," April, 1790, at Rotherhithe in his seventy-eighth year. Mr. William Morris, sen., one of the oldest masters in the Royal Navy" (I should be glad of further particulars of him), elder brother of Capt. George Morris, Royal Navy, and oJ

Mary, married to Rev. Thomas, Vicar of

, Norfolk. He married Ann Minter

daughter of - Hart, and sister of Thomas Hart of H.M. Customs, and of Mrs. Kneviti (whose son, the gallant Thomas 'Leparc Knevitt, entered the naval service on boarc H.M.S. Penguin, commanded by his cousir George Morris). By his wife Ann, Willian Morris had issue : John Row Morris, Com mander Royal Navy, born at Rotherhithe 9 August, 1772 ; George, Rear- Admiral, born at Rotherhithe, 18 October, 1775; and Marj Thomas Morris, who died unmarried, 29 July 1863. He died at Queenborough, co. Kent 11 January, 1821, and lies buried in the churchyard there.

Admiral George Morris. Very full par ticulars of his naval services will be founc

n Marshall's and O' Byrne's naval bio- graphies, also in ' The Annual Register r nd Gent. Mag. for 1857. It will be suffi- ient, therefore, to say that he entered the ervice on board H.M.S. Victorious in Octo- , 1789, although his name had been pre- viously borne on the books of the Triumph, f which his uncle George was first lieu- enant. He fought as midshipman of the Audacious in Howe's victory over the Trench, May- June, 1794, and lost his right eg. Was lieutenant of the Ardent at the battle >f Camperdown, and of the same ship at the lurrender of the Dutch fleet in the Texel, 1799 ; wrought to England the Admiral de Ruyter, one of the prizes ; and was presented at ourt, when being unable to rise to his
 * eet, owing to having but one leg, King

George III. graciously came forward and assisted him. He was promoted to com- mander, April, 1802, and was successful in capturing many privateers. Was made cap- tain 1 February, 1812, and Rear-Admiral October, 1846. He died at Peterborough, 29 September, 1857. W. M.

An account of the naval career of Admiral eorge Morris (1778-1857) will be found in O'Byrne's ' Naval Biog. Diet./ 1849.

M.

CLOTJET (US. viii. 109). J. Bradshaw's edition of Gray's ' Poems,' published by Macmillan, contains the following note :

' Clouet was a celebrated cook. In the British Museum there is a copy of Verral's 'Cookery' which belonged to Gray. The title is: 'A Complete System of Cookery, in which is set forth a variety of genuine receipts collected from several years' experience under the celebrated M. de St. Clouet, sometime since Cook to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by William Verral, Master of the White Hart Inn in Lewes, Sussex, 1759.' " GURNER P. JONES.

Stepney Reference Library, Bancroft Road, Mile End, E.

The reference is to M. de St. Clouet, who was chef to the Duke of Newcastle. Gray's ' Verses from Shakespeare ' were originally written in a letter sent from Hartlepool to Mason, dated 16 July, 1765. A few years earlier (1759) there had appeared 'A Com- plete System of Cookery,' &c. [ut supra}. Gray had this book in his library, and his copy afterwards belonged to Mitford, and was sold with that collector's books in May, 1860, for 21. Us. It is now in the British Museum. Gray evidently studied St. Clouet's recipes, amending them, and remarked upon them by notes on the fly-leaves ; and additional recipes are included in the poet's