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dealing with Boulanger and the Boulangist movement appeared on Oct. 20, 1888 ; Feb. 9, 1889 ; May 4, 1889 ; Sept. 28, 1889 ; Oct. 5, 1889 ; and Sept. 20, 1890. If I am wrong as to the first appearances of the general in the pages of Punch, I should be glad of correction. It is always easy to overlook a paragraph.

To my bibliography I should like to add : " Le General Boulanger, parle Commandant Entz," 6pp., 11$ by 7i. in This is No. 229 of ' Les Hommes d'Aujourd'hui,' published at 48 rue Monsieur-le-Prince, Paris. It is undated, but from internal evidence appears to have been issued soon after Feb. 18, 1884, when Boulanger was nominated General of Division. The portrait on the first page shows him with moustache only. When did the famous beard 'make its first appearance ? F. H. CHEETHAM.

" DECELERATE " (12 S. iii. 48). This word is given in vol. i. of the supplement to ' The Century Dictionary ' (New York), published in 1910 ; also in Funk & Wagnalls's ' New Standard Dictionary,' 1914.

E. COLLINS.

East Finehley, N.

AUTHORS WANTED (12 S. iii. 90). No Spring nor Summer Beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one Autumnall face.

In the above form these are the opening lines of Donne's ninth Elegy, ' The Au- tumnall,' addressed to the Lady Magdalen Herbert, mother of Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, and George Herbert, author of ' The Temple.' See Donne's ' Poetical Works,' ed. Grierson, i. p. 92.

G. C. MOORE SMITH.

1. These fine lines, which goto the heart of every one who has known a good and gracious woman, are part of the tribute of John Donne to the memory of the mother of George Herbert. See Walton's ' Lives ' of both men :

Satellites burning in a lucid ring

Around meek Walton's heavenly memory.

Wordsworth, ' Ecclesiastical Sonnets,' part iii. No. 5.

Cf. Wordsworth's sonnet ' To in her

70th year ' :-

Such age how beautiful ! O Lady bright, Whose mortal lineaments seem all refined By favouring Nature and a saintly Mind To something purer and more exquisite Than flesh and blood.

' Miscellaneous Sonnets,' 17.

E. BRABROOK.

[Several other correspondents thanked for supplying this reference.]

2. MR. FARQUHAR is correct in attributing- the lines " Sad, happy race," &c., to Crabbe. They occur in his 12th letter respecting " the Borrough " under the title of Players.'

" Your days all spent " should read " Your days all passed," and the last line cited should read :

A wandering, careless, wretched, merry race. MR. FARQUHAR may be interested in the completion of the passage :

Who cheerful looks assume and play the parts Of happy rovers with repining hearts ; Then cast off care, and in the mimic pain Of tragic woe feel spirits light and vain, Distress and hope the mind's, the body's wear, The man's affliction, and the actor's tear : Alternate times of fasting and excess Are yours, ye smiling children of distress.

WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

[Thanks to several other correspondents for this reference.]

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Tales. Selected and edited with Intro- duction and Notes by H. T. Francis and E. J. Thomas. (Cambridge, University Press, 7s. Qd. net.)

AN important part of the argument of the Intro- duction goes to establish the fact that the mass of Indian folk- tales contrary to the opinion of Benfey are of pre-Buddhistic origin. The collection, which is best known by us as the ' Fables of Bidpai,' displays traces of Buddhism : these were supposed to represent the original material which had been revised by Brahmins. But this position had been reversed by the dis- covery of an earlier form of the tales, which is free from any tincture of Buddhism ; and the correc- tion is reinforced by the Jataka.

The Jataka belongs to the Pali Buddhist Scriptures, to the second of the three great divisions into which they fall. It is a series of 547 numbers, and each member consists of a story, rarely more than one, concerned with an incarnation of Gotama Buddha in his existence as a Boddhisatta, preparatory to attaining Enlighten- ment. Each is supposed to be related by the Buddha for some purpose of edification to illustrate the heinousness of some offence, or point the moral of some virtue ; and he is regarded as drawing them from his memory of his own t past. One might expect to find a mass of original 'Buddhist lore ; in reality we get nothing more than a congeries of ancient tales, whose beginnings are still plunged in the most profound darkness. though the chief of them are current in clearly recognizable form over a great part of the world. They are nearly all beast and bird stories, and have been adapted to the Buddhist theory, the more easily, as the editors remark, because they are made to relate to the pre-Buddhistic life of Gotama.

Something over a hundred examples have been chosen for this volume. One good feature of it