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 150 NOTES AND QUERIES. [ii s. vu. Feb. a, 1913. The very gravediggers in the churchyard opposite did not know. Surely the church might be kept open, like its successor across the road, and if penny leaflets, giving its history and description, were procurable in the porch of the new one, it would no doubt be occasionally visited. It seems a pity, too, that when old churches like this are superseded, they should not be preserved as churches intact, even if a service were held in them only once a year. Penry Lewis. The following notes may be of interest to Perecjrini's. Church of St. Olaf, Poughill, North Corn- wall: a printed guide has been prepared, and may be obtained at the Vicarage, price lrf. The Guide (6X5 in.) contains on p. 1 a view of the church (exterior); p. 2, a description of the building; p. 3, history; and p. 4. noteworthy features. St. Andrew's Church, Kenn, co. Devon: a printed guide has been prepared, and may be obtained at the church, price 3d. The Guide (9X6 in.) contains <ni p. 1 a representation of the dedica- tion saint ; p. 2, history and noteworthy features ; p. 3, view of the church (interior) ; p. 4, blank. M. Upon visiting the Church of St. Peter, Thanet (Broadstairs), last year, I noticed in the porch a number of pamphlets dealing with the history of the church, and those taking them wero requested to place six- pence in a box close by towards the church expenses. William Gilbert.
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All Saints', Maidstone, Kent. Supply of leaflets in church. Stoke Poges. near Slough. Pamphlet on sale in church. J. Ardaoh. 40, Richmond Road, Druiiicondra, Dublin. Diei> lv his Coffin (11 S. vi. 468; vii. 96, 134).—The particulars respecting the portrait referred to by Mr. M. H. Dodds are to be found in Walton's ' Life of Dr. Jolui Donne':— After Donne's death tho jiortrait was "given to liis dearest friend and executor, Dr. Henry King, then chief residentiary of St. Paul's, who caused him to lie thus carved in one entire piece of white marble, cib it now stands in that church." The monument was originally placed in the north choir aisle, and was rescued entire after the Great Fire of 1666. For many years it was kept with other relics in the crypt, but has now been set up in an alcove between the first and second windows at the west end of the south choir aisle. Donne- also wrote his own epitaph, which has- again been inscribed over this wonderfully realistic monument. An engraving of the effigy appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine for February, 1820, and in The Minor of 3 May, 1834. John T. Page. Long Itchiugton, Warwickshire. References of Quotations Wantei> (11 S. vii. 90).—1. "I hate the French, because they are all slaves, and wear wooden shoes." This phrase occurs in No. 24 of Goldsmith's 'Essays' (1765). This essay originally appeared in The British Magazine for June, 1760, and it was reprinted by Goldsmith in the ' Citizen of the World ' series, where it forms No. 119. But the phrase quoted above does not appear in either of these latter versions. M. A. M. Macalisteb. Napoleon as Historian (US. vii. 70).-— The following is from W. O'Connor Morris's 'Napoleon' (1893), pp. 6-13 relating to tho years 1785-93:— "These first essays do not reveal genius, and are remarkable only as showing the influence of asso- ciation and reigning opinion, even on a mind of the highest order Tradition still points out a secluded spot where Napoleon, yet full of Corsican sympathies, composed a history, in youth, of Corsica. The book was dedicated to the Abbe Kaynal ; but all that is remarkable in it is a tone of impatience, of ambition, and of scorn of mankind, and a real sense of the wrongs of Corsica. A second performance is more curious: the Academy of Lyons offered a prize for the best essay on the ' Means of Making Alan Happy'; and Napoleon competed for this distinction. Rousseau had long been the master of French thouiht: the composition of the great future despot abounds in the spurious liberalism, in the trashy sentiment, in the ' ideology' in a word, which were singled out by him for scoffs and contempt, when he had risen to power. The essay, written doubtless against the grain, was marked by the judge as ' bad and feeble.' The Emperor took care to destroy the MS., but a copy which survives proves how genius. when false to itself, can be in eclipse [As an admirer of Paoli] he launched an angry invective against a deputy, at that moment Bitting at Ver- sailles, as a representative of the noblesse of Corsioa, who years before had betrayed his country to the ambitious minister of Louis XV. The ' Letter to Buttafuoco,' though disfigured by the declamation and rant of the day, has, neverthe- less, a true ring of passion, and when it was written there can be little doubt that Napoleon was still at heart a Corsican He took part, it is believed, in the siege of Lyons, and commanded the artillery in the attack on Avignon ; but he has left no record of these services, and all that we possess of him at this conjuncture is a very curious pamphlet from his pen, the last and the ablest of the productions