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6. Miss Linwood exhibited her needlework pictures in 1776 and 1778 at the Society of Artists, and from 1798 to 1841 both in London and the country. See ' D.N.B.'

ST. SWITHIN.

3. Towards the end of the eighteenth century what are known as " knife-boxes " were on almost every sideboard. These contained partitions into which were dropped knives, forks, and spoons, after being cleaned when the meal was over. Usually these boxes were in pairs, and these are very greatly valued by collectors of antique furniture. No old Chippendale sideboard is really complete without them. Nowadays, however, the insides have usually been transformed into receptacles for stationery. These boxes are " extraordinary " for their beautiful lines and variety of design.

I enclose a rough sketch which will, no doubt, recall to the mind of your correspon- dent specimens of these old knife-boxes, which he must have often met with adapted for various household purposes.

F. BRADBURY. [Drawing forwarded.]

4. ' The College Hornpipe ' whistled by Mr. Micawber was composed by Grobe.

5. The allusion is obviously to the song If the heart of a man is depress'd with cares, The mist is dispelled when a woman appears,

which comes from Act II. sc. i of Gay's sang it to Linley's original music, or to Dr. Pepusch's music composed for the Lyceum revival in 1821, there is no evidence
 * Beggar's Opera,' though whether* Markham

tO show. WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

7. The words " It may be for years, and it may be for ever," form the penultimate line of each verse of the song ' Kathleen, Mavourneen,' written by Mrs. Julia Craw- ford, and first published in The Metropolitan Magazine (London, 1830-40).

R. GRIME.

[Many thanks to other correspondents who have kindly sent answers. Miss Linwood's exhibition of needlework was fully discussed at 10 S. vii. 281, 392, to which, ante, p. 327, we referred the querist.]

HANDLEY CROSS (12 S. i. 228, 275). SIR WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK' s reply is reproduced at length in The Field of April 8 last, and, with it, a reprint of a note on the same subject by " Shotley," which originally appeared in the same newspaper in August of last year. This last-mentioned note should not be overlooked by anybody who is

interested in the question involved, but it is far too long to be quoted in these columns. It is worth while, however, to point out that " Shotley," who knew Surtees personally, tells us that the latter lived at Hamsterley Hall, in the extreme north of the county of Durham, and that the name " Handley Cross " is taken from that estate, there being to this day a high bridge over a brook, between the lodge and the house, which is always called Handley Cross Bridge. Which particular town it was that Surtees intended to describe under that name is a different question. ALAN STEWART.

BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SPANISH LITERATURE WANTED (12 S. i. 287, 378). The best short history of Spanish literature is that written by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, and issued in 1898 in the series of " Short Histories of the Literatures of the World," edited by Edmund Gosse (Heinemann). This volume has at the end a good Bibliographical Appendix, classified so as to correspond with the chapters of the book. Chap. xii. deals with the ' Nineteenth Century,' and chap. xiii. with ' Contemporary Literature.' As an alternative to Fitzmaurice-Kelly's book there is H. Butler Clarke's ' Spanish Literature : an Elementary Handbook ' (Sonnenschein, 1893). Chap. xx. of this excellent book deals with * The First Half of the Nineteenth Century,' and chap. xxi. with ' Contem- porary Literature.' At the end is an ' Alphabetical Index of Authors and Editions recommended for a Course of Spanish Reading,' followed by an ' Alphabetical List of a Few of the Principal Authorities on Spanish Literature.' In Duruy's French series " Histoire des litteratures etrangeres " there is a compact little volume by Jacques Claude Demogeot. Botta's ' Handbook of Universal Literature ' (Houghton, Mifflin & Co.), a useful book very little known in England, contains a brief sketch of Spanish literature at pp. 295-334. The above can be supplemented for the nineteenth and present centuries by Gustave Hubbard's ' Histoire de la litterature contemporaine en Espagne ' (1876), and Boris de Tannenberg's ' La poesie castellane contemporaine' (1892). For novelists there are Vezinet's ' Les maitres du roman espagnol contemporain ' (1907) ; and Fitzmaurice-Kelly's essay, at the end of his ' Chapters on Spanish Literature ' (Constable), on ' Modern Spanish Novelists.' James Kennedy's ' Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain,' published by Longman as far back as 1852, is still of considerable use as a supplement to Ticknor's great ' History of Spanish Literature.' A. L. HUMPHREYS.