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adopted, and on account of this change the price asked for the estate, 35,OOOZ., has been reduced to 19,OOOZ. for the area named. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

BISHOP EDWARD KING. I have under- taken to write a memoir of the late Bishop of Lincoln. I should be deeply grateful for the loan of any of his letters, and -would take the utmost care of anything entrusted to me. Can any one supply the Bishop's birthplace ? GEORGE W. E. RUSSELL.

18, Wilton Street, S.W.

BAGEHOT ON THE CROWN. It is frequently stated in print that Bagehofc declared that, if the reigning monarch's. responsible ministers were to submit to him a warrant for his execution, the monarch would have to sign it. Where did Bagehot sav this ?

A. P.

Toronto.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARL OF RUTLAND. We have heard usque ad nauseam of the theory that Shakespeare's plays were written by Bacon. I should be glad to learn the title and date of a book published a few years ago by a Danish writer who put forth another theory that the plays were by the Earl of Rutland, i.e., Roger, the fifth Earl.

W. T. LYNN.

'EDWIN DROOD.' (See 5 S. ii. 407, 475, 526 ; iii. 136, 177 ; 8 S. iti. 348, 418, 472 ; xi. 508 : 9 S. ix. 361 ; xii. 389, 510 ; 10 S. i. 37, 331.) The review in ' N. & Q.' for 25 March (ante, p. 230) of Prof. Henry Jackson's ' About Edwin Brood ' has re called to my recollection a contemporary review of Dickens' s posthumous book, in my possession as a newspaper cutting. I should like to discover the source of this review, which evidently (from the adver- tisements on the back) appeared in a London paper in August, 1870. It fills rather more than a column ; begins, " It w.ould not be just to criticize a fragment " ; and ends. author of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. 1 "
 * Surely no unworthy epitaph for the

What gives the review in question special interest at the present time is that the reviewer notes, as an inference about which there can be no doubt, that Datchery is

Tartar (" Datchery aHas Tartar," and again "Mr. Datchery, TV ho is clearly the ex- midshipman Tartar "). Was this identifica- tion of the " idle dog who Uved upon his means" (p. 140, orig. edit.) with the * ; idle man " (p 138) who "accepted the fortune [of his uncle] " the usually accepted belief until in 1874 (thirteen years before Procter pub- lished his ' Watched by the Dead '} Mortimer Collins suggested that Datchery was Drood v

Mr. George F. Gadd state* * The Case for Tartar ' in The Dickensian of January, 1906, but he fails to lay stress on the significant paragraph at the end of chap. xxii. which tells of the effect on Rosa of the unexplained absence of Tartar. If, as Pro e. Jackson suggests, chap, xviii. should follow chap, xxiii., the result would be to bring this paragraph into immediate juxtaposition with the paragraph beginning " At about this time a stranger appeared in Cloister - ham." P. J. ANDERSON.

University Library, Aberdeen.

[We publish this query with pleasure, but we cannot reopen the whole question of the mystery concerning Datchery and. the death or survival of Edwin Drood, which have been amply dis- cussed elsewhere. The Athenceum review of the book in 1870 says nothing about the guesses as to the details of the story.]

CHARADES BY COL. FITZPA TRICK. Horace Walpole in a letter to the Hon. H. S. Conway dated Oct. 29, 17R6, quotes two charades made by Col. Fitzpatrick and sent to him by Lady Ossory. The first, she says, is very easy, the second very difficult :

1. In concert, song, or serenade,

My first requires my second's aid. To those residing near the pole I would not recommend my whole.

2. Charades of all things are the worst, But yet my best have been my first. Who with my second are concern 'd Will to despise my whole have learn'd.

Can any of your readers give me a solu- tion of these charades, especially of the first ? JOHN MURRAY.

50, Albemarle Street, W.

JOHN APPLE YARD. When did this un- fortunate half-brother of Amy Robsart die ? The latest reference to him that I have met with is 31 May, 1574, when he was ordered to be taken from Norwich Castle (where he had been imprisoned since 1570) and placed in charge of the Dean of Norwich (' Cal. S. P. Dom.' ). Yet, according to a very full pedigree by Mr. H. W. Aldred ( Yorkshire Genealogist, i. 130), his will is stated to have been proved in the Norwich Archdeaconry Court in 1572. W. D. PINK.