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originally in The St. James's Gazette (date unknown). There are ten verses. ' The Quest ' is a poem of four verses. It ap- peared in Hutchinson's ' Book of Beauty (Late- Victorian) ' in 1896. I have the book in my collection. ' Things and the Man ' appeared in The Times of 1 Aug., 1904. ' The Sons of Martha ' appeared in The Boston Post (U.S.), 28 April, 1907.

Of short stories, I feel almost certain that ' Mrs. Hauksbee Sits Out ' and * Bitters Neat ' were included in the Edition de Luxe published by Macmillan, as is probably ' Haunted Subalterns.' The Limerick ad- dressed to The Cantab began " There once was a writer who wrote." (I have the copy of the paper in my possession.)

I was in the United States in 1900, and have preserved several cuttings from Ameri- can newspapers containing verses by Mr. Kipling. Unfortunately, I have not pre- served the names of the papers, nor can I give the dates. In 1900 a paper published some verses entitled ' Rudyard's Regrets. Sent to the Kipling Club of Yale University, New Haven, U.S.A.' There are six verses. The first runs thus :

Attind, ye lasses of swate Parnasses, And wipe me burnin' tears away, For I 'm declinin' a chanst of dinin'

Wid the boys at Yale on the fourteenth May. Another American paper published in 1900 some lines of Mr. Kipling's with the following explanatory paragraph :

" Several years ago F. D. Underwood, now General Manager of the Baltimore and Ohio Road, named two stations in Michigan ' Kudyard ' and ' Kipling.' A mutual friend informed Mr. Kip- ling, and the author sent Mr. Underwood his photograph with these lines at the back."

There are three verses, and I quote the first :

"Wise is the child who knows his sire,"

The ancient proverb ran ; But wiser far the man who knows How, where, and when his offspring grows, For who the mischief would suppose

I Ve sons in Michigan ?

I have another cutting, apparently from a London paper, headed " Cape Town, Apl: 18, 1900." It goes on to say :

" Mr. Kipling has written the following inscrip- tion for the memorial that is being erected in Kimberley to those who fell during the siege :

This for a charge to our children, in sign of the

price we paid, The price we paid for freedom, which comes

unsoiled to our hand. Read, revere, and uncover Here are the victors

laid,

They who died for the city, being sons of the land.

In the ' Navy League Guide to the Coro- nation Review,' 1902, are some verses called * The Houses,' by Kipling. The first line runs thus :

'Twixt my house and thy house the pathway is broad.

In September, 1897, in a London paper, a Limerick by Kipling was published, which he had sent to a daughter of Lord Aberdeen. I quote it in full :

There was once a small boy of Quebec, Who was buried in snow to the neck. When asked " Are you friz f " He replied, " Yes, I is, But we don't call this cold in Quebec " In 1899, probably, a London magazine (again my cutting does not give the title) said that the editor of The Horsmonden School Budget was successful in obtaining a two -page article from Mr. Kipling at the modest rate of 3d. per page. The article I quote went on to say : "A Kipling Number now fetches 10s. 6d."

Has ' The Cuckoo Song,' which appeared or was quoted in a London paper in Septem- ber, 1909, been included in any of the collected poems ? I think not. J. R. H.

Fox OF STRADBROKE, SUFFOLK (11 S. ix. 168, 216). I am much obliged to COL. FYNMORE for the note on Nathaniel Fox in the will of Robert Jenner of Widhill, Wilts, 1651. In his 'History of Suffolk' (1845, vol. ii.), under Worlingham, Suckling says that Charles James Fox the statesman (b. 1749, d. 1806) was of the family of Fox of Stradbroke. In the ' D.N.B.' the states- man is shown to have been a grandson of Sir Stephen Fox (b. 1627, d. 1716), who aided Charles II. to escape, and was knighted in 1665. He was also a statesman and M.P. for Wiltshire. Sir Stephen had two cele- brated sons : Stephen, his heir, created Earl of Ilchester, and Henry Fox (b. 1705, d. 1774), created first Baron Holland (father of Charles James).

A search among the Suffolk wills yields that of Simon Fox of Stradbroke, which was dated 1658, proved 1661. He left his houses and lands at Stradbroke to his son Simon Fox on condition he paid his (the testator's) son Nathaniel Fox 160Z. To his wife Elizabeth he left 401. a year in lieu of dower, and certain rooms in the house at Stradbroke during her widowhood, &c. He also left 101. for a marriage-ring to his daughter Elizabeth Barrett. So far no will of Simon the son can be found ; possibly he was the " Simon " buried in 1697 at Stradbroke.