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NOTES AND QUERIES. tn s. v. MAY 4, 1012.

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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.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED.

On, Esperance, on !

The fight is never lost while fight you can. Where does this, or something like it, occur ? I presume that the writer is later in date than Walter Scott. Was he recalling Hotspur's horse in ' 1 King Henry IV. ' ?

MEZZO.

Will some one be so good as to tell me where I can find the phrase "Sweetest in the close " ? I believe the whole line runs :

Like dying music, sweetest in the close, but I cannot place it. LECTOR.

In a very interesting essay on ' Dreams,' by Dr. W. Wynri Westcott, he quotes these lines from an unnamed poet : Why come not angels from the realms of glory To visit earth as in the days of old ? Is heaven more distant, or has earth grown cold ?

-Will some one kindly give us the source ? M. L. R. BRESLAR.

Percy House, South Hackney.

PORTRAITS OF GARY, TRANSLATOR OF DANTE. Can any reader say where are now the portraits of 'Henry Francis Cary ? At least two were painted by his son, Francis Stephen Gary, head of the Bloomsbury Art School, who frequently exhibited, although not these portraits (see ' D.N.B.' and Graves's ' Dictionary of Artists '), and died at Abinger in 1880. One of them was lent by the artist to the Historical Portrait Exhibition at South Kensington in 1868. The other, engraved by H. Robinson, forms the frontispiece to the ' Memoir ' of the trans- lator by his son, Henry Gary (2 vols., Moxon, 1847). The Carys were intimate friends of the Lambs ; and Francis painted in 1834 the well-known portrait of Charles and Mary Lamb, now in the National Portrait Gallery. H. M. BEATTY.

32, Elers Road, West Baling, W.

SHIPS LOST IN GREAT STORM, 1703. I have been informed that shortly after the great storm of 1703 a list of the ships that were lost was carefully compiled. Is this correct ? If it be so, copies thereof must, one would imagine, be still in existence.

EDWARD PEACOCK.

HARVEY SMITH : DESCENDANTS. Harvey Smith was, as is well known, one of General Wolfe's A.D.C.'s at Quebec. I should be obliged if, through ' N. & Q.,' I could, for historical purposes, be put in touch with his descendants. DAVID Ross McCoRD.

Temple Grove, Montreal.

R. DELLON, ARTIST. I have a fine por- trait by this artist, very much in the Hogarth manner, signed and dated " R. .Dellon Ft 1732 "; but I can find no mention of him in the usual artistic books of reference, ex- cepting in Chaloner Smith, who gives only one portrait engraved after him, that of Jonathan Smedley by J. Faber, jun., 1723. Dr. Smedley was Dean of Killala 171^ and of Clogher. Smith spells him " Dellon or Dillon." It occurs to me that the artist was an Irishman. I shall be glad to have some particulars of his birth and death, and to hear of any other pictures painted by j imi JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

" J'AI vu CARCASSONNE." I have been accustomed to regard this phrase as the statement of a pleasant fact, in prose ; but something I saw of late has led me to the conclusion that I have been confronted with poetry unawares. Will somebody, less igno- rant than I, tell me to whose muse we are indebted for the declaration ? Just now I can only remember the late John VV. Taylor's sad little poem called ' Carcassonne. It seems to me that there is a note of joy in the line, or part of a line, which I use as a heading to my query. ST. SWITHIN.

"SPLENDID ISOLATION." M. Poincare, the French Premier, in his speech at Cannes on 13 April at the unveiling of a statue to King Edward VII., observed that that sovereign " was careful not to tear England violently from the splendid Ration in which she had wrapped herself.' Was not " splendid isolation " the phrase employed by the late Lord (then Mr.) Goschen, as First Lord of the Admiralty in 1897, t describe Great Britain's position in m*i national politics ? I should be glad ot the precise reference. POLITICIAN.

MACAULAY ON "FEN SLODGERS."Mr- W H. Wheeler, in his ' History of the lew of South Lincolnshire' (Boston, 1868), repro- duces an engraving from Thompsons hUs; tory of Boston ' representing two slodgers returning from a fowling excursion, an< refers to Macaulay, who writes of this "half -savage people, leading an amphibious lite, sometimes rowing, sometimes wading from one firm