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F. G. B. (" Serendipity "). The word was coined by Horace Walpole, whose explanation of it was printed at 9 S. xii. 430 by COL. PBIDEAUX.

CAMPFTELD (" The kiss of the sun for pardon "). Fronj the song ' God's Garden,' written by D. F. Gurney, music by Frank Lambert.

J. LANDFEAK LUCAS (Bishop Van Mildert). The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' begins its life of the bishop with an account of his Dutch ancestry.

J. LAND PEAK, LUCAS (" Saw life steadily, and saw it whole "). Matthew Arnold, ' Sonnet to a Friend ' : said of Sophocles.

ANEUBIN WILLIAMS (Mrs. Agnes Maria Bennett). This novelist died at Brighton on Feb. 12, 1808. The ' Diet. Nat. Biog.' devotes a column to her.

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