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The Old Oak Chest, drama, 1816. The Poison Tree, pantomime, 1811. The Bed Robber, melodrama, 1808. A Successful Cruise, musical piece, 1807. The Summer-House, burletta, 1815. The Two Misers of Smyrna, burletta, 1810. The Two Spanish Valets, burletta, 1818. Ulthona, the Sorceress, spectacle, 1807. The Vizier's Son and the Merchant's Daughter, comic opera, 1812.

Whackham and Windham, burletta, 1814. Woman's Tears, opera, 1817.

. Miss Scott acted in most of the above, besides writing and delivering a poetical address at the commencement of each season.

Only ' The Old Oak Chest ' appears to have been printed in its entirety, but of the others books of the words of the songs were printed, and sold in the theatre at a shilling each.

In 1820 Mr. Scott sold the theatre to Rod well and Jones, who renamed it the Adelphi. Miss Scott then quitted the stage, and afterwards married Capt. Middleton, R.N. WM. DOUGLAS.

125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill.

DR. BENAMOR (11 S. vii. 261). In The Gentleman's Magazine for September, 1796, under date of 2 Sept., is recorded the death, " at his lodgings in Pentonville, in his 30th year," of "the Rev. James Benamor" (Ixvi. 796). And in the same magazine for December, 1800, under date of 13 Nov., is recorded the death, " at his house in Bedford- row," of " the wife of James Benamor, M.D." (Ixx. 1214).

ALBERT MATTHEWS.

Boston, Mass.

In the List'of Subscribers to Young's ' Night Thoughts ' I notice the name " Dr. Benne- mor, Bedford -row " ; date under portrait of Dr. Young, 1793.

In the ' P.O. Directory for Kent,' 1845, there was a Mrs. Bennamore living at Os- pringe Road, Faversham.

R. J. FYNMORE.

Sandgate.

HOSIER LANE, WEST SMITHFIELD (11 S. vii. 249, 333, 356). There are many early references to permanent buildings in this street in the * Calendar of Wills, Court of Husting, London.' The following occur in part i. : in 1328 a shop (p. 332); in 1332 tenements (p. 379); in 1333 a shop (p. 400) ; in 1342 lands and tenements <p. 466) ; in 1349 tenements (p. 626). In part ii. mention is made of a house in 1365 .{p. 92), and lands and shops in 1407 (p. 375).

F. W, READ.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION WANTED (US. vii. 309). The following are probably identical with the John Lloyd of Rhagatt, Merionethshire :

" Lloyd, John, 1 s. Edward of Rhagatt Corwen, co. Montgomery [sic], arm. Ch. Ch., matric. 5 Feb., 1830, aged 18 ; of Rhagatt, co Merioneth, J.P., D.L. ; High Sheriffco. Denbigh, 1863 ; a studentof Lincoln's Inn, 1834; died 22 May, 1865." Foster's 'Alumni Oxon.'

" Lloyd, John, eldest son of Edward Lloyd [K.S. 1792, q.v.], b. Sept. 25, 1811, 'adm. June 28, 1825." ' Westminster School Register.'

Donhead. F. DUNSTON.

[Ms. A. R. BAYLEY also thanked for reply.]

MATTHEW ARNOLD'S POEMS (11 S. vii. 349). 2. Stanza xix. of 'The Scholar - Gipsy ' would certainly seem to be an appropriate description of Tennyson. Arnold's poem appeared in 1853, and ' In Memoriam ' in 1850. The lines,

And how the breast was soothed, and how the

head,

And all his hourly varied anodynes, remind one of

But, for the unquiet heart and brain, A use in measured language lies ; The sad mechanic exercise. Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.

'In Memoriam,' v.

"!F NOT THE ROSE" (11 S. vii. 349). " Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai ve"cu pres d'elle," is given among the ' Adespota ' (No. 3059) in King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,' with the following note :

" In one of his songs [no reference is given] the Persian poet, Sadi, represents a lump of clay accounting for the perfume still clinging to it by the fact of its having lain among some fallen petals at a rose-tree's foot."

In my own copy of King's book I have written against the French quotation " Con- stant," with a query, but cannot recall to whom I am indebted for the suggestion.

The late Dr. Robert Wallace in a memor- able and witty speech in the House of Commons made, I think in 1893, a very happy application of the proverb to a well- known member who sat in the corner seat below the gangway, and was generally supposed to have been disappointed at not becoming a member of the Government.

EDWARD BENSLY.

Bartlett's ' Familiar Quotations,* 1891, p. 806, has the following note :

"'Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vcu aveo elle,' is assigned to Constant [H. B. Constant, 1767-1830] by A. Hayward in his Introduction to the ' Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. Piozzi.' "

ST. SwiTHIN.