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he shall never " touch a woman more. Merlin then turns to console his mother and offers her a residence in Merlin's Bower : There shall you dwell with solitary sighs, With groans and passions your companions, To weep away this flesh you have offended with, And leave all bare unto your aerial soul. And when you die, I will erect a monument Upon the verdant plains of Salisbury (No king shall have so high a sepulchre) With pendulous stones that I will hang by art, Where neither lime nor mortar shall be used, A dark enigma to the memory, For none shall have the, power to number them.

Is there an earlier account of this legenc of the origin of Stonehenge, and if so, where is it to be found ? J. HARRIS STONE.

WATER-COLOUR ARTISTS. Biographica details are sought of any of the following English water-colour artists, examples oJ whose work are in my collection :

1. G. H. Ashburnham. 18. Paul Marny.

2. J. D. Barnett.

3. J. N. Carter.

4. H. B. Carter.

5. Peter Deakin.

6. E.Dolby.

7. Bernard Evans.

8. J. D. Harding.

9. G. J. Knox.

10. R. P. Leitch.

11. W. L. Leitch.

12. R. T. Landells.

13. R. Markes.

14. R. H. Nibbs.

15. C. L. Ogg.

16. F. P. Searle.

17. B. B. Wadham.

35. E. Byrne. Please reply direct.

T. CANN HUGHES, M.A., 78, Church Street, Lancaster.

19. F. Boisseree.

20. Charles Pearson.

21. J. Salmon.

22. R. P. Richards.

23. John Faulkner.

24. E. A. Penley.

25. W. J. Callcott.

26. T. Hart.

27. W. Dexter.

28. J Naish.

29. T. S. Robbins.

30. J. H. Mole. 31. Dighton.

32. N. Pocock.

33. H. H. Lines.

34. H. R. Rose.

F.S.A.

Miss HICKEY, BURKE, AND REYNOLDS.

I should be glad to have any information about Miss Hickey, the daughter of Mr. Hickey, a solicitor at Dublin, and a friend of Burke and Reynolds. I wish particularly to know (1) whom she married ; (2) when she died ; (3) what portraits of her exist. LEVERTON HARRIS.

Camilla Lacey, Dorking.

REV. PHOCION HENLEY. This clergyman was the composer of a double chant in E, retained in most collections, and he held the living of St. Andrew - by - the - Wardrobe, London, from 1759 till 1764. Was he related to the Rev. John Henley, better known by the appellation of "Orator Henley"? I should be glad of the date and place of his birth and any other information.

L. H. CHAMBERS. Amersham.

" VIVE LA BELGE." I am reminded by MR. W. BAILEY KEAIPLING'S note on " Crown Prince of Germany " and like errors (ante, p. 45) of a story told to me many years ago, viz., that when certain detach- ments of Belgian National Guards (?) visited England, probably somewhere about 1865, each man was presented with a medal bearing the inscription " Vive la Beige," instead of " Vive la Belgique."

Can any correspondent verify this story, and, if it be true, give the date and cir- cumstances ? The visit preceded or fol- lowed a visit of English Volunteers to Belgium. ROBERT PIERPOINT.

WASHINGTON IRVING' s ' SKETCH-BOOK.' I continue from p. 109 my list of quotations and allusions occurring in the ' Sketch- Book ' which I have hitherto failed to trace and shall be glad of the assistance of ' N. & Q. '

9. Who wrote the poem ' Corydon's 3oleful Knell ' in Percy's ' Reliques,' vol. ii.

book ii. No. 27 ?

10. " There is a grave digged and a solemn mourning and a great talk in the neighbourhood, and when the daies are finished, they shall be, and they shall be remembered no more." Jeremy Taylor.

11. Beds of darkness.

12. Live abroad and everywhere.

13. Omne bene

Sine poana. Tempus est ludendi.

Venit hora

Absque mora

Libros deponendi.

Old Holiday School Song.

This is still sung at some schools, with a horus which shows that it is akin to, or a orruption of the Winchester ' Domum.' Vhat is its history ?

14. Who wrote the song,

When this old cap was new, 'Tis since two hundred year, &c.,

ntitled ' Time's Alleviation and Beginning ' n Ritson's ' Select Collection of English

ongs ' (2nd ed., 1813, vol. ii. p. 138), and tated to be probably a seventeenth-century omposition ?

15. Now capons and hens, besides turkeys, eese, and ducks, with beef and mutton all

must die for in twelve days a multitude of people will not be fed with little. Now plums and spice, sugar and honey, square it among pies and broth, &c. An old writer's account *f Christmas preparations.

16. Harp in hall.

17. Rejoice, our Saviour He was born On Christmas Day in the morning.

Of what carol is this the burden ?