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" This Ticket is not transferable, and if presented 1>y another than the Proprietor it will be forfeited, and the names of the parties published. The Proprietor must observe all rules that may be made by the Directors for the regulation of Visi- tors, and for reserving seats or portions of the Palace.

"If this ticket is lost it will not be replaced.

" Bradbury Evans, Engravers, Whitefriars,

London."

Below is a copy of a lady's season ticket :

LADY'S.

Crystal Palace, 1858, Non-Transferable Season Ticket Available from 1 May, 1858, to 30 April, 1859.

N 3000. Axitograph "j

Signature [ M. A. Shand. of ProprietorJ

One guinea. Bradbury & Evans, Engravers, Whitefriars,

London.

On the back of the season ticket are the words :

" The Ticket will admit the Proprietor to the Palace and Park whenever open to the Public, except on six days, the right to which is reserved. The proprietor must sign," &c.

The words which follow are the same as on the above Opera Concert ticket.

H. G. WARD. Aachen.

LOXG'S HOTEL, BOND STREET. The closing on 30 September of this old-fash- ioned hotel is an event that should, I think, be mentioned in ' X. & Q.' It was rebuilt in the spring of 1888, the proprietors then claiming that it had been in existence for more than 200 years, though it did not become famous till the earlier part of the nineteenth century. An historical meeting in the old house was that which took place in 1815, when, as The Times has reminded us, Sir Walter Scott records that Lord Byron dined and lunched with him there, this being their last meeting. Scott adds that he never saw Byron " so full of gaiety and good humour, to which the presence of Mr. Mat-hews the comedian added not a little. Poor Terry was also present." Many other references can be culled from the public press of May, 1888, and again from that of October, 1911.

My object, however, in writing this note is to draw attention to a novel called ' Six Weeks at Long's,' my copy of which is described on the title-page as the fourth edition, published for the author in 1817. It has the motto " Longo orcline gentes." The chief interest of the three volumes lies in the fact that they introduce, of course

under fictitious names, a number of person- ages then living. Lord Byron occupies ar prominent position as Lord Leander, and among others suggested are Lord Barry- more, the Due de Berri, Sir F. Burdett, Beau Brummell, and Lady Hamilton. But it would require prolonged study to find out in all cases to whom the rather scurrilous descriptions refer. Mr. Austin Dobson told us in Literature of 20 Nov., 1897, that the author of ' Six Weeks at Long's' was Eaton Stannard Barrett,- born at Cork, 1786, of whom there is a short notice in the ' D.N.B.' In addition to this novel he wrote a " mock romance " called ' The Heroine ; or, Adventures of Cherubina ' ; also a comedy, political satires against the Whigs, and a Popesque eulogy on ' Woman,' of which four lines, beginning

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, are said to figure from time to time, not undeservedly, among " Quotations wanted." This almost forgotten writer died of con- sumption in 1820, while still quite young. PHILIP NORMAN.

DUD DUDLEY. The ancient memorial in St. Helen's Church, Worcester, to " Dud Dudley," has been recently restored by the Staffordshire Iron and Steel Institute, and the renovated monument was unveiled on 7 October by Mr. I. E. Lester, the President of the Institute. The memorial has been repaired at the suggestion of Mr. J. W. Willis-Bund, at whose instance the ancient inscription, which was sinking into decay, has been accurately reproduced. One of the most remarkable monuments to a seventeenth - century captain of industry, who coupled politics with a military career, and science and commerce with a very energetic tendency towards litigation, has thereby been repaired and preserved.

W. H. QUARRELL.

FIRE-PAPERS. Before it be too late, something ought to be recorded of fire- papers, w T hich until not very long ago were a feature in every house.

At the time of spring-cleaning girls used to hawk them through the streets. The cheaper sort were made of thin paper cut into scollops and Vandykes, better ones were made of some kind of fine shavings, and all were decorated with imitation flowers, e.g>, red roses and green leaves, or with coloured bows, or with gilt stars. They were strung on a small bar of wood, and hung in the fire- place so as to cover the grate. I can remem- ber being allowed, as a boy, to help in making