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On pp. 518-21, in the description of the election of a successor to Nicholas IV. and the bringing of Celestine V. from his hermit's cavern to Aquila, Charles II. of Naples and " his youthful son Charles Martel, titular king and claimant of Hungary," led the ass, on which the unfortunate Pontiff was riding, " with reverent solicitude by the bridle."

On the occasion of the coronation of Boni- face VIII. at Rome (p. 532) it is stated : "beside him, clad in scarlet, walked two vassal kings, Charles and Charles Martel, holding the Ibridle of his horse. Only half a year before the same kings had walked beside a Pope who wore a Siermit's tunic and rode upon an ass."

It was Charles Martel, who died the same year, grandson of Charles I., and not his son Charles Robert, Charobert, or Caribert, the great King of Hungary, great-grandson of -Charles I., who took part in the two functions. -Charles Robert appears not to have been called Charles Martel.

THEODORE F. D WIGHT. La Tour de Peilz, Vaud, Switzerland.

H.M.S. PACTOLUS (11 S. iii. 209). Perhaps this extract from ' A Naval Bio- graphical Dictionary,' by W. R. O' Byrne, 1849 (pp. 29, 30), may be helpful :

" Aylmer, C.B., K.F.M. (Rear- Admiral of the Red, 1837). In Jan., 1812, he next joined the Fortune, 36, in which he cruised for four months on the Irish station. After an interval of half pay he was -appointed, on 14 of the following Sept., to the Pactolus, 38, and while in that frigate, in the summer of 1815, he conducted an eminently success- ful expedition to the Gironde in support of the French King, which terminated in the royal colours being hoisted on the castle of Bordeaux and the ^surrounding districts.* Previously to ths latter event the Pactolus, besides escorting the Duke of -Cambridge to Cuxhaven, and his late Majesty to the Scheldt, had, we believe, assisted at the bom- bardment of Stonington in America."

AlTCHO.

CHARLES FREDERICK HENNINGSEN AND KOSSUTH (US. ii. 510; iii. 55). Charles Henningsen was the grandson of the Marquis de Henningsen who was guillotined by Robespierre. His wife was condemned to the same fate, but Robespierre died just before the time appointed for her execution, and she was saved. General Henningsen' s eldest sister was the Lady Superior of the -Convent in Grahamstown, South Africa. Another sister, Henrietta Maria, lived in a cottage in the convent grounds. .

When Abdul Kader had taken Kossuth prisoner, Henningsen offered his sister


 * Vide Gaz., 181f>, p. 1513.

Henrietta in exchange, but Lord Palmerston would not allow it. She said to me years afterwards : "I was quite willing to die for Kossuth."

General Henningsen married a widow in America. She built the hospital at Rich- mond, and her son was the first patient. General Henningsen was a remarkably handsome man : I have his portrait.

W. GLANVILLE.

' WAVERLEY ' : DEPARTED HERO AND THE SUN'S LINGERING LIGHT (US. iii. 207). Perhaps A. S. P. means the passage in 'Old Mortality,' chap, xxxiii., where Claver- house is made to say :

'* It is not the expiring pang that is worth thinking of in an event that must happen one day, and may befall us on any given moment it is the niemory which the soldier leaves behind him, like the long train of light that follows the sunken sun that is all which is worth caring for, which distinguishes the death of the brave or the ignoble."

W. MORISON.

In the chapter of ' Old Mortality ' which has for motto Scott's famous lines in the old heroic style, " Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife," &c., Claverhouse is repre- sented as saying something that appears to be an echo of Dry den's verse, and this echo on the author's part is not improbable when we remember Sir Walter's familiarity with " glorious John." If my memory serve me aright, there is a passage in ' Don Sebastian ' to the effect that

A setting sun Should leave a track of glory in the skies.

See the first edition of Chambers' s ' History of English Literature,' article ' Dryden.' The critic, I think, applies these words to Dryden himself, because his late literary career was so splendid in achievement.

HAWTHORNDEN.

" PROBABILITY is THE VERY GUIDE OF LIFE " (11 S. iii. 226). Butler is quite as likely to have derived his doctrine of pro- bability from writers nearer his own time, e.g., Hooker, * Ecclesiastical Polity,' Bk. I. chap, viii., and Bk. II. chap. vii. ; Locke's ' Essay,' Bk. IV. c. xv., besides other refer- ences all through these works. Hobbes (' Leviathan ') also makes use of the doctrine. W. BRADBROOK.

THE MAGPIE'S DEATH (11 S. iii. 187). I read this story in an old book of jests over sixty years ago. It was entitled ' Breaking the News,' and described a young man returning to his home. On asking for news,