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the back cover is blank. The poem numbers 49 lines.

This remarkable poem took America by storm in 1899. I well remember its publica- tion in this pamphlet form ; indeed,! was in Xi'\\ York at the time.

Mr. Markham is not only a distinguished poet, but he is a very discriminating critic, besides being a brilliant conversationalist. It has been my pleasure to meet him more than once. The last time we met was the year before the outbreak of war, and I shall long remember his great interest in the younger school " of English poets. Few American critics have done more to make the work of this school of poets known in the United States than Mr. Markham and the late Edmund Clarence Stedman.

JOHN LANE.

The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, W.

PRONUNCIATION OF " CATRIONA " (12 S. ii. 110). In the Gaelic diphthong io the o is silent. Catriona = Catrina, which in modern Irish is altered, by substitution of one liquid for another, into Kathleen. All these are Gaelic variants of Katharine or Catherine. N. POWLETT, Col.

See 8 S. vii. 89, where it is said, referring to Athenceum, vol. ii. of 1893, pp. 556, 664, that Stevenson's pronunciation was " Catreena."

DIEGO.

DK. THOMAS CHEVALIER (12 S. ii. 109). The twenty-ninth Bulletin of the Societe Jersiaise contains (pp. 44-56) a pedigree of the family of Chevalier of St. Helier, from which family the Suffolk Chevalliers are descended. The Huguenot descent of Lord Kitchener is a popular myth. R. J. B.

PORTRAIT OF A KNIGHT or THE GARTER (12 S. ii. 108). The old portrait mentioned at the above reference is evidently that of Philip Herbert, 5th Earl of Pembroke and 2nd Earl of Montgomery, who died Dec. 11, 1669, aged 77, and who was not a Knight of the Garter nor Chancellor of the University of Oxford. It was his father, Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke and 1st Earl of Mont- gomery, who was installed a Knight of the Garter on St. George's Day, 1608, before succeeding his brother William in the Earldom of Pembroke, and who, having been elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford, July 1, 1641, was deprived of the office in 1643, and reinstated March 2, 1647, by the authority of the Parliament. He died at an advanced age Jan. 23, 1649/50, and was well over 70 years of age in 1641.

F. DE H. L.

AN ANCIENT WELSH TRIAD (12 S. ii. 109)_ Soon after having applied for your valued help I happily found the required original text in ' Williams ab Ithel, Barddas I.' (Llandovery, 1862), on p. 302, as follows :

Tri Dyn sydd :

1. Dyn i Dduw, & wna dda dros ddrwg ;

2. dyn i ddyn, a wna dda dros dda, a dnvg dros ddrwg ;

3. a dyn i ddiawl, a wna ddrwg dros dda.

INQUIRER.

AN EARLY CIRCULATING LIBRARY (12 S. i. 27). Several notes on this subject, though under another caption, appeared in the 10th Series. At 10 S. ix. 414 it was pointed out that Francis Kirkman had such a library in 1674 ; but MR. PEDDIE'S citation carries it back to 1661.

Boston, U.S. ALBERT MATTHEWS.

THOMAS HUSSEY, M.P. FOR WHITCHURCH,. 1645-53 (12 S. ii. 88, 135). Thomas Hussey of Hungerford Park, Berks, died in the early part of the year 1658. His will (P.C.C. 53 Wootton), dated July 3, 1654, has two codicils, the latter dated Dec. 14, 1657 ; probate was granted Feb. 25, 1657/8. In the will he refers to his wife Catharine, his eldest son, Thomas (under 15 at date of will), his son William, and his four daughters^ Anne, Catharine, Mars 7, and Cicely (all under 18) ; also to his lands in Chilton Folliatt, Heywood, and Leverton, cos. Wilts and Berks ; manors, rectories, and lands in Highworth, Blunsdon, Marston, and Bushton, co. Wilts ; Langford Ecclesia, cos. Oxon and Berks ; manor and lands in Shipton Bellinger, and farm lands in Freefolke and Freefolke Priors, co. Southampton. He appoints his friends Tho. Hawles, Robt. Mason, John Elwes, and Giles Hungerford executors. The first codicil mentions manors of Peinton and Colehurst, co. Salop ; also " the five children of John Savage, late of Kingscleare, co. Southampton, gent., deceased (one of whose executors in trust I was)." In the second codicil he appoints his brother-in-law, Mr. Francis Monday, of Wickham, co. Berks, a co-executor, and refers to manors of Moulsford, Streetley, and Ashton, and lands in Cholsley and Munkenden, co. Berks.

The tomb of his wife Catharine is in Win- chester Cathedral ; she died in October,. 1675, aged 62. Judging by the arms on the tomb, she appears to have been a member of the Yonge family of co. Wilts. She outlived three husbands : John Vaux, M.D., Thomas Hussey, and Sir Robert Mason (of Kingsclere, co. Hants, son of Robert Mason,. Recorder of Winchester).