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is merely conjecture. Any information about the legend or the picture will be thankfully received. I may add that, before I saw this photograph, I saw an outline sketch bearing the same name in an illustrated magazine, but differing iri the arrangement of the figures. Unfortunately, I do not recall the name of the magazine. JOHN P. LAMBEBTON.

[' The Catholic Encyclopedia ' might be consulted for the legend, which is well known.]

SCHOOLBOYS IN THACKERAY. I am almost certain the following is found in Thackeray, but a diligent search through all his volumes has failed to come upon it.

He is talking of schoolboys full of vague enthusiasms which afterwards come to nothing. He instances one who wrote impassioned verses aftout the Crusades, and afterwards became a quite common- place citizen. The verses he used to write were of this kind (I quote from imperfect recollection) :

On to the breach, ye soldiers of the Cross, . . . and fill the reeking fosse battleaxe and mangonel ;

Ye gallant archers, ply your crossbows well.

Perhaps some reader of ' N. & Q.' would kindly help me with a reference.

G. V. L.

AUTHOR WANTED. Who is the author and what the source of the following lines, written under the picture by Herbert Schmalz, ' Where is my Lord the King ? '

Again she spoke : " Where is my lord the king ? " And closing round a deeper silence seemed To hold the host. " Where is thy father, boy ? " Nor answered but the harsh horns hardly blown From shore to sea ; and low before her bowed His head the Prince, and all around stood dumb.

S. F. S.

ADMIRAL JOHN GUY OF GREENWICH. Burke's ' Landed Gentry ' (sub ' Atkinson of Cangort') mentions him as having relieved Derry by breaking the boom. I should be glad of a reference to any records of his family, descents, and services. Did he settle in Ireland ? W. ROBERTS CROW.

1. Miss MITFORD'S ' TALES OF OUR VIL- LAGE.' Will some one tell me who were the persons, and what the places, represented by initials in this book ?

2. BERKSHIRE TOMBSTONES. I should be glad of inscriptions from churchyards in Berkshire. Please reply direct.

(Mrs.) COPE. Finchamstead. Berks.

" JONGHEER." Will one of your corre- spondents kindly give me information as to this word, which, I understand, is a Dutch title of lesser nobility, somewhat like our "Sir" ? Is this so ? Is it heredi- tary ? When did it come into use ?

Lucis.

ROBIN LYTH. Can any of your readers tell me if any biography of Robin Lyth, the smuggler, of Flamborough, on the York- shire coast, has been published, or what authorities there are on the subject ?

B. FREDERICK.

POEMS BY H. F. CARY. A century ago the Translator of Dante (his title to the remembrance of posterity), in a letter to his brother-in-law, the Rev. Thomas Price, dated 28 Dec., 1813, wrote :

" Can you as a Cambro - Briton tell me what was the ensign of the Welch [aic] nation before we con- quered you in the time of Edward the First? I ask this with reference to a short poem that I have lately written, in which a line is left incomplete for want of this information."

On this passage his son, the Rev. Henry Gary, observes in his ' Memoir ' of his father (vol. i. p. 284) :

"In the last of the foregoing letters mention is made of his having written a short poem ; I believe it is the same as that alluded to in his Journal, July 2, of this year, under the title of ' Visions of Romeo.'* The poem was never printed, but in after life, when he had some thoughts of publishing a volume of original poems, my father selected this as the one that should stand first in the collection. As I hope it will shortly make its appearance before the public [1847], I will not anticipate the critics by further notice of it at present." Was this filial hope ever fulfilled ? and, if so, when ?

I would fain see the volume, if published, for the few poems contained in the ' Memoir ' whet the appetite for further specimens of Gary's muse. Some time in 1788 he issued a small quarto volume of twenty-eight sonnets and three odes, but that is, of course, not the book referred to above. Two fine sonnets from this collection, beginning respectively

I ask not riches, and I ask not power, and

Oft do I burn to snatch the epic lyre,

are given in the ' Memoir ' (ibid., p. 19) " not as being the best, but as best evidencing the tone and temper of the writer's mind."

Gary was a fine sonneteer as well as a fine translator. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

1813, July 2. Finished writing the ' Visions of