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CLARKSON STANFIELD, R.A. (11 S. iii. 409). In the * Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold,' by his son, p. 23, we read :

"Life on board a man-of-war in 1813 even on board a guardship at the Nore was no holiday work. I have often heard my father dwell upon the great emotion with which he first ascended the gangwav to the deck of one of his Majesty's ships. ......He liked well enough to pass hours in the Cap- tain's cabin, to read Buffon through and through, and to get up theatricals, aided by the pictorial genius of foremast-man Clarkson Stanfield, afloat in the same ship."

Jerrold, it is stated, was to j oin on 22 De- cember, 1813, the guardship Namur, as a first- class volunteer.

P. 107 deals with twenty years later :

'"The Rent Day' was in active preparation in the first days of January, 1832. Rehearsals were going forward on the dingy stage ; and behind, there was an artist at work for his old shipmate. That Namur man, who was so useful in the officer's theatricals, has turned his nautical life to account also. Clarkson Stanfield and Douglas Jerrold, who parted last on board the Nore guardship, shake hands at one of these dingy rehearsals shake hands to become fast friends, as they shall still, in their respective paths, push forward to their ultimate part in the art and literature of their common country. Some years hence they shall be sauntering in Richmond Park, eagerly drinking in a little fresh air, after sooty days spent in London. There shall be other friends with them. Matters theatrical shall bubble up in the careless ebb and flow of the conversation ; and suddenly the. Namur middy still the middy, though silver is stealing along his hair shall cry :

'"Let's have a play, Stanfield, like we had on board the Namur.' "

R. J. FYNMORE.

CLERGYMEN AS ESQUIRES (11 S. iii. 409). For an example in the seventeenth century see 9 S. xi. 422, and for an example in the nineteenth see 10 S. ii. 307.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

UTTOXETER'S FIRST BOOK (US. iii. 405). In this connexion it may be recalled that reference has been already made in ' N. & Q.' to Robert Richards as the printer (see 10 S. iii. 128, 176) in 1808 of the novel ' Rebecca,' of which the missing third volume is still sought. Although this was not the first book presumably printed in the little Staffordshire town, it runs MR. AXON'S date pretty close. I may add that there is a slight difference in the length of time he names during which Richards acted as post- master at Uttoxeter, Dr. Forshaw giving the dates as 1793 to 1835 only.

CECIL CLARKE. Junior Athenaeum Club.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. iii. 409). F. T. F.'s quotation consists of the last three lines of ' The Harp that once through Tara's Halls,' one of the best known of Moore's ' Irish Melodies.' It is printed on p. 182 of the new Oxford edition of Moore's works by Mr. A. Godley, who tells us in his Introduction that the publication of the ' Melodies ' went on from 1807 to 1835.

JOHN R. MAGRATH.

Queen's College, Oxford.

The first of G. H. J.'s quotations, " Indus- tria res parvae crescunt, socordia magnse comminuuntur," seems to be a variation of the words of Sallust, which are : " Con- cordia parvae res crescunt, discordia maxu- 11133 dilabuntur" ('Jug.' 10). In Tacitus (' Anna!.,' ii. 38) we find " industria " opposed to " socordia," but not in the manner quoted. JOHN T. CURRY.

G. H. J.'s second quotation seems a mis- reading of Keble's verse in the poem for the first Sunday after Easter :

O joys that, sweetest in decay,

Fall not, like withered leaves, away,

But with the silent breath Of violets drooping one by one.

J. D.

The lines sought by IKONA, " Guess now who holds thee ? " " Death," I said.

But, there, The silver answer rang, "Not Death, but Love,"

form the conclusion of the first of Mrs.

Browning's ' Sonnets from the Portuguese,'

commencing

I thought once how Theocritus had sung. The lines quoted by MR. BRESLAR, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, &c.,

are to be found in Pope's ' Essay on Man,'

Epistle I. 11. 273-6.

M. A. M. MACALISTER.

[Several other correspondents thanked for replies.

' RALPH ROISTER DOISTER '(US. iii. 367, 413). According to the ' D.N.B.' and most other authorities, Udal died in 1556. The suggestion that the prayer for the Queen at the end of ' Ralph Roister Doister ' was written by another hand, and at a later date than is generally assigned, has not, I think, been previously made. Is there any- thing to warrant such a belief apart from what is stated in the query ? There is some reason to believe that ' Ralph Roister Doister' was not completed until 1553, or even later. It is quoted from in Wilson's ' Art of Logique,' edition 1553, but not in the previous editions of 1551 and 1552,