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(who died Feb. 24, 1819), relict of Lester (arid query sister to Benjamin Lester, M.P.). His son John Binglev Garland (1791-1875) was high sheriff Dorset, 1828, and Speaker of the first House of Assembly, 1855 (query in which of our colonies ?).

Benjamin Lester, M.P. Poole, 1790-96 ; sheriff, Michaelmas, 1777: died there Jan. 24, 1802. (Query grandson of John Lester who was sheriff of Poole, 1737, and brother to Sir John Lester, Kt., who was sheriff there 17S1, knighted June 2, 1802, and died at Bath, Jan. 12, 1805?)

Benjamin Lester Lester, M.P. Poole, Feb., 1809, to 1834 ; sheriff thereof (as B. Letter Garland), Michaelmas, 1804; mayor thereof in 1819, 1821 ; Captain in the Poole Volunteer Infantrv (as Benjamin Garland), Aug. 22, 1803;' Captain 2nd Battalion Dorset Volunteer Infantry, 1804 ; Major thereof (as B. Lester Garland), May 16, 1805, to 1808; described in 1835 as "a Newfound- land merchant, born and residing at Poole." Son of George Garland, M.P., and took the surname of Lester between 1805 and 1809. His mother Amy died Feb. 24, 1819, having married as her second husband George Gar- land, M.P. A Thomas Garland was made Ensign in the Milton and Dorchester Volun- teer Infantry, Sept. 1, 1803. W. R. W.

" THE HOLY CARPET." In The Times, Oct. 7, a paragraph states that " The Holy Carpet has arrived at Mecca after an un- eventful journey from Jedda."

A little information about this Holy Carpet would be much appreciated.

G. A. ANDERSON.

The Moorlands, Woldingham, Surrey.

[A short account will be found in the eleventh edition of ' The Encyclopaedia Britannica,' s.v. 'Mecca,' vol. xvii. p. 953. A military escort for the procession is generally provided.]

A LETTER OF KEATS : ST. JANE. In a letter from Keats to Benjamin Bailey, November, 1817, he says in a postscript :

" Yesterday I called at Lamb's. St. Jane looked very flush when I first looked in, but was much better before I left."

What does Keats mean by the words I have italicized ? G, A. ANDERSON.

BUTLER'S ' ANALOGY ' I should be obliged to who would give me notices or criticisms work, (2) of translations cially desirous to hear other than Anglican, and


 * BIBLIOGRAPHY.

any correspondent

particulars (1) of

of Butler's great

of it. I am espe-

of any criticisms

other than English.

PEREGRINUS.

AUTHORS WANTED. Can you tell me the author of the following stanza, and under what title it is to be found ? From the heretic girl of my soul shall I fly

To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss ? No, perish the and the thought that would try

Love, valour, and truth by a standard like this.

It is almost fifty years since I heard it quoted, and the speaker was an Irishman now deceased.

I always thought that Thomas Moore was the author, but I cannot find the words in any of his poems. THOMAS WILSON.

17 Newport Terrace, Manningham, Bradford.

Can any of your readers give me any in- formation of a poem or song which contains the following (or similar) line ?

How sweet the echo of the music sounds !

J. P.

Who is answerable for the following utter- ance which I found the other day on one of my hanging calendars ? The idea of the game is not new ; but the assertion I have italicized is strange to me. And it is false :

"The World is a Chessboard. The Player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always just and patient. But we. also know to our cost that he never overlooks a mistake or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance ."

ST. SwrrHiN.

[Abbreviated and slightly misquoted. Huxley ' A Liberal Education ; and where to find it.' An address to the South London Working Men's College, 1868. See * Science and Education,' vol. iii. of Huxley's ' Collected Essays ' (Macmillan, 1895).

' THE LAND o' THE LEAL.' The words are by Lady Nairne ; is anything certainly known of its melody ? My present informa- tion (not verified) is that Lady Nairne wrote the words to a melody adapted from the air to which Burns wrote the song ' Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled.' The tunes seem too much alike to be capable of explanation by coincidence. It is my misfortune to be far* from a file of ' N. & Q.'

S. GREGORY OULD. O.S.B.

[Lady Nairne's ballad was the theme of much discussion in the first four volumes of the Sixth Series of N. & Q.,' but few references were made to the music with which it is associated. MR. C. A. WARD stated at 6 S. i. 139 that Finlay Dun had supplied symphonies and accompaniments to Baroness Nairne's ' Lays of Strathearn,' in which the poem appeared, but added : "It is done to the air ' Hey tutti taiti,' and though Dun is a good musician, the air is hurt by his skilful harmony." W. C. J. said at 6 S. ii. 51 : " There is considerable detailed information as to the authorship, circum- stances of composition, and publication of this song, in Dr. Rogers's memoir of Lady Nairne, prefixed to the collection of her pongs published (second edition) by. Griffin & Co, 1872."]