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Gwysanny, co. Flint, in whose minute hand writing, between the upper date and the first quotation, is inserted : " Guil. Camb- denus Scripsit." There is a marginal note on the first page, and the Errata are duly corrected in the same handwriting, in which also his name, " Rob te Davies," on the upper margin of the title-page, appears It is in a parchment cover roughly fastened at the back, and there are two strips oi leather to close the book by tying. It is in good condition from the beginning to the " Finis, Laus Deo," on the last page.

(Mrs.) PHILIPPA SWINNERTON HUGHES. 91, Albert Bridge Road, S.W.

The booklet described by WYCKHAM is " Reges, Reginse, nobiles et alij in Ecclesia Collegiata B. Petri Westmonasterij sepulti, vsque ad annum reparatae salutis 1600. Londini, xcudebat E. Bollifantus, 1600." Enlarged editions of the same work, bringing it down to 1603 and 1606, were printed in those years by Melchior Bradwood. The writer was William Camden. See his life in the ' D.N.B.' EDWARD BENSLY.

The book described by WYCKHAM is by William Camden. The first edition ap- peared in 1600, and there were issues in 1603 and 1606, each with additions. The exact size of an uncut copy would be 7-J in. by 6| in., the wide outer margins being pro- vided to allow of armorial bearings being added. There are large-paper copies of the first edition.

Bishop Xicolson (' Historical Library,' chap, ii.) and others claim that this was partly compiled on some unpublished notes of Jolm Skelton ; but there is not sufficient evidence to support this contention, and it is not probable. Richard Widmore (' An Account of the Writers of the History of Westminster Abbey,' 1743) says of Camden : " He could without doubt have given the world a full and accurate History of the Church, had he thought fit ; but he was better employed ; and the Public would have been no gainer, to have had from him a just History of Westminster and gone without the Britannia, or the Annals of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth."

ALECK ABRAHAMS. [W. B. S. also thanked for reply.]

GERMAN " ROMANS DE CAPE ET D'EPEE " (11 S. v. 169). Duelling is mentioned in Zaeharia's ' Renommist ' (cheap edition in Reclam's collection, Leipzig) ; Wilhelm Hauff's ' Memoiren des Satans ' ; Immer- mann's ' Cardenio und Celinde ' ; Grabein's ' Vivat Academia ' ; ' Der tolle Hans ' ;

' Du mein Jena ' ; ' O alte Bur&chenherr- lichkeit ' ; Blohm's ' Krasser Fuchs ' ; Stil- gebauer's ' Gotz Krafft ' ; Ossip Schubin's ' Gloria Victis ' ; Hans Hopfen's ' Der letzte Hieb ' ; Hofmer s ' Gideon als Arzt ' ; StrobFs ' Die Vaclavbude ' ; and Von Ompteda's novels.

Duellroman we should call only a novel which is chiefly concerned with duelling, and Fechterroman one whose heroes are fighters or fencers. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

GEORGIANA, DUCHESS OF BEDFORD (US. v. 306). Jane Maxwell, Duchess of Gordon, was a famous and most successful match- maker. Her youngest daughter, Lady Georgiana Gordon, was engaged to Francis, fifth Duke of Bedford, who died by' an accident on 2 March, 1802, Thereupon the Duchess took her daughter abroad, and tried to marry her to Eugene Beauharnais; but Xapoleon made difficulties. Nothing daunted by this second defeat, the Duchess brought the disconsolate Lady Georgiana back to England, and married her (on 23 June, 1803) to John, sixth Duke of Bedford, who had lost his first wife on 11 Oct., 1801. The two Dukes were brothers. Georgiana, Duchess of Bedford, who lived till 1853, had a numerous family, of whom my father was one ; and in honour of her memory he bestowed on me the characteristically Gordon name of George.

I have heard that when my grandmother travelled in Italy she used to say (with reference to Eugene Beauharnais's vice- royalty), " I might have been Vice-Queen of Italy." G~ W. E. RUSSELL.

" THE MEMORABLE LADY " : GEORGE

MEREDITH (11 S. v. 228, 337).

What is art But life upon the larger scale, the higher, When, graduating up in a spiral line Of still expanding and ascending gyres, [t pushes toward the intense significance Of all things, hungry for the Infinite ? Art 's life, and where we live, wi suffer and toil.


 * Aurora Leigh,' book iv. 1. 1150.

Aurora Leigh speaking to Romney Leigh. There is a response in George Meredith's books to the spirit of Elizabeth Browning's poetry. SUSANNA CORNER.

BARNETT (11 S. v. 288). William Barnett of Jamaica married 11 Sept., 1764, Miss Vooling of the same island (Gent. Mag., 497). 3e was appointed a Member of H.M. Council n 1780 (Feurtado's 'List of Officials'), and was dead when his son William Barnett