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the earldom devolved upon, but was never formally claimed by, the Rev. Theophilus Henry Hastings, as descended from the fourth son of Francis, 2nd Earl. He died in 1804, the successful claimant in 1819 being the only surviving son of a younger brother, George, who died in 1802. No " William " appears in the line of descent ; and beyond the single fact that a Dowager Counter* was living in 1790 (Selina, died June, 1791), there is disclosed nothing which supports the narrative given in The Kentish Gazette.

W. B. H.

POEMS BY LORD CHESTERFIELD (12 S. iii. 68). ' Lyra Elegant iarum,' edited by Frederick Locker-Lampson, 1891, attributes only the four lines on Beau Nash's picture at Bath beginning

Immortal Newton never spoke to Lord Chesterfield, the four beginning :

This picture placed these busts between being ascribed in the text, as well as in notes at end of the book, to Mrs. Jane Brereton.

The same work credits Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773), with ' Ad- vice to a Lady : Autumn,' thirty lines, beginning :

Asses' milk, half a pint, take at seven, or before, and also with ' On Lord Islay's Garden at Whitton on Hounslow Heath,' fifteen lines, beginning :

Old Islay, to show his fine delicate taste. The notes at end of the volume have this :

"Lord Chesterfield also wrote some excellent lines, in conjunction with Lord Bath, on Miss Lepell : but, happily, taste and manners are so altered that it would be impossible to print them."

It would rather seem as if Mr. Locker- Lampson had access to material not included in the Earl's biographv and collected works.

W. B. H.

The song ' When Fanny, Blooming Fair,' is printed in Dcdsley's ' Collection ' (vol. i. p. 331), and it appears with a musical setting in a song-book of 1749. My copy of this book has no title-page, but when I bought it, more than twenty years ago, the modern cover was lettered ' Universal Harmony.'

Lysons (' Environs,' 1795, vol. iii. p. 599) says that the song was written on Lady Fanny Shirley, daughter of that Countess of Ferrars who was buried at Twickenham, March 25, 1762, and that the author was probably Thomas Philips, a dramatic writer. Lysons's further statement that it was in- serted in Dcdsley's ' Collection ' as written

by Lord Chesterfield is erroneous : neither there, nor in the song-book of 1749, is the- author's name given.

CHRISTIAN TEARLE.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (12 S... iii. 69).

4. 80S [J.OI TO TTTCpOV.

Is not this a recollection of Aristophanes* ' The Acharnians,' 584, where Dicseopolis,, wishing se faire vomir, asks Lamachus to give him the feather from his helmet ? The actual words are :

VVV OLTTO TOV KpOLVOl'S fJ.Ol TO 7TTOOV,

but the form of Lord Dufferin's quotation. may have been influenced by a request for a basin, under similar circumstances, in. ' The Clouds,' 907, Aore pot ACKCIVT/V.

I am not able at this moment to consult Mr. F. A. Cavenagh's annotated edition of the ' Letters from High Latitudes,' published by the Clarendon Press in 1915, in the series edited by Mr. C. B. Wheeler. One would expect to find help there.

EDWARD BENSLY.

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The Tou-ns of Roman Britain. By the Bev. J. O Bevan. (Chapman & Hall, 2s. 6d. net.)

THIS is an unpretentious little book, and when the writer expresses regret over its incomplete- ness, he is certainly not without justification^. But we think he has none the less attained what he aimed at. He has produced a concise and careful account of the localities which were centres of the Roman occupation, with indications of such Roman remains as are to be found in each. The principal part of the work is an alphabet of ' the towns the English, not the Roman names being used for this purpose. Any one who- should master this book would be equipped for more detailed investigation at least by having made a survey of the whole field, and located its principal points and their chief significance, - There are a good elementary Introduction and four notes by way of appendix, of which those on Corstopitum and Uriconium are useful.

Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica. (Mitchell,

Hughes & Clarke, 2s. 6d.)

THE December number (1916) contains genea- logical particulars of the ancient Catholic family of Parys of Linton (Cambridgeshire), and of" Halloway, Fettiplace, Drury of Ireland, Corsellis, Wescombe, and Vaughan, with one or two other pedigrees. The article on the ' Heraldry and Monumental Inscriptions in St. Olave's, Hart Street,' is continued, and this is an interesting instalment. There are also three grants of arms: Hovell, Clare, and, from the original in the P.R.O., the grant of crest to Gelly Merick of Basarden, Pembrokeshire.