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NOTES AND QUE1MKS. [ii s. vn. FE. 22, 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 It seems a pity, too, that when old churches like this are superseded, they should not be preserved as churches intact, even if a service were held in them only once a year.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 PEREGRINUS.

Church of St. Olaf, Poughill, North Corn- wall: a printed guide has been prepared, and may be obtained at the Vicarage, price Id. The Guide (6X5 in.) contains on p. la 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 on 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, Tlianet (Broadstairs), last year, I noticed in the porch a number of pamphlets dealing with the history of the church, and those ticking them were requested to place six- pence in a box close by towards the church expenses. WILLIAM GILBERT.

35, Broad Street Avenue, B.C.

All Saints', Maidstone, Kent. Supply of leaflets in church.

Stoke Poges, near Slough. Pamphlet on sale in church. J. ARDAGH.

40, Richmond Road, Drumcondra, Dublin.

DIED ix HIS COFFIN (US. vi. 468; vii. 06. 134). The particulars respecting the portrait referred to by MR. M. H. DODDS are to be found in Walton's ' Life of Dr. Jolin Donne ? :

After Donne's death the portrait was " given to his dearest friend and executor, Dr. Henry King, then chief residentiary of St. Paul's, who caused him to be thus carved in one entire piece of white marble, as 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 wa^ kept with other relics in the crypt, but lias now been set up in an alcove

between the first and second windows at the west end of the south choir aisle. Donnt v 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 Mirror of 3 May, 1834.

JOHN T. PAGE. Long Itchington, Warwickshire.

REFERENCES OF QUOTATIONS WANTED- (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 th& phrase quoted above does not appear in either of these latter versions.

M. A. M. MACALISTER.

NAPOLEON AS HISTORIAN (11 S. vii. 70). The following is from W. O'Connor Morris's 'Napoleon' (1893), pp. 6-13 relating to the- years 1785-93:

"These first essays do not reveal genius, and 1 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 Raynal ; 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 Man Happy ' ; and Napoleon competed for this distinction. Rousseau had long been the master of French thought ; 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 ot Paoli] he launched an angry invective against a deputy, at that moment sitting at Ver- sailles, as a representative of the noblesse of Corsica, 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