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MEREDITH'S ' ESSAY ON COMEDY ' : JOHN STUART MILL. In his ' Essay on Comedy ' Meredith speaks of " that poor princess who ran away with the waiting-man, and, when both were hungry in the forest, was ordered to give him flesh." Can any one refer me to the source of this story ? Or has Meredith invented it ?

Again, Meredith says : " The French have a school of stately comedy. . . .and their having such a school is mainly the reason why, as John Stuart Mill pointed out, they know men and women more Accurately than we do." I have found passages in Mill from which Meredith might draw some such inference (see the essays on Armand Carrel and Alfred de Vigny, in Mill's ' Dis- sertations and Discussions '), but no passage which Meredith directly echoes. Possibly one of your readers can do better off-hand than I, for I have tried nearly every ex- pedient to identify the passage, short of reading the works of Mill outright.

LANE COOPER. Ithaca, New York.

ALEXANDER POPE AND POPIANA. I desire information about collections of books by or about Alexander Pope. I append a list, and have added in such cases as I could a note as to the fate of the collection. From the frequency of reports made to me that a book I have ordered has " just been sold," I infer there are at present many persons interested in the little wasp and his friends and enemies. For the names of any or all such I shall be most grateful.

1. Alexander Pope. Dyce Collection (South

Kensington) and Prof. W. J. Court-hope (see ' Commem. Cat.,' 1888).

2. Lord Oxford, 2nd. Sold to Osborn ; cata-

logue issued 174-(?). Query, Pope books included ?

3. Bishop W. Warburton.

4. Jonathan Richardson, 2nd. Owned several

Pope MSS. (cf. ' Richardsoniana,' 1776).

5. Edmund Malone.

6. Isaac Reed.

7. Gilbert Wakefield (?).

8. Joseph Warton.

9. Daniel Prince. Cf. Nichols's ' Anecdotes,'

iii. 705.

10. W. L. Bowles.

11. W Roscoe.

12. J. Mitford. Sale 1860. IS. J. W. Croker. Sale (?).

14. Peter Cunningham. Sale 1869 (?).

15. Robert Carruthers.

16. James Crossley. Sale 1884.

17. W. J. Thorns. Sale 1887.

18. C. W. Dilke. Part at least in Brit. Mus.

19. John Forster. South Kensington. Any Popiana ?

20. Alexander Dyce. South Kensington.

21. Edward Solly. Sale 1886.

22. Chauncy(?). Sale 1888. Included

what ?

23. Col. F. Grant. Sale 1881 ; again 1900.

24. Austin Dobson.

25. Richard Tangye.

26. Edmund Gosse.

27. Robert Hoe. Privately issued catalogue ; sale 1915-16.

28. Col. W. F. Prideaux. Sale 1916-17.

29. William Elwin (?).

30. W. J. Courthope.

31. Wrenn (of Chicago).

32. Thos. J. Wise. Privately issued catalogue.

33. Marshal Lefferts. Now at Harvard Univ.

Dealer's catalogue, n.d.

34. Beverley Chew. Grolier exhibition cata- logue, 1911.

35. Archer M. Huntington. Bought some Hoe- Grant books.

36. G. A. Aitken. See pubs. Bibliog. Soc., 1914.

Libraries.

a. British Museum. 6. Bodleian.

c. Cambridge University (several colleges).

d. Harvard Univ.

e. Yale Univ.

/. Boston Pub. Lib. (U.S.A.).

Notes on Pope Collectors. The Athenceum, July 14, Aug. 11, 1888.

I have books from many of these collec- tions, though none as yet with Pope's autograph. I hope, however, in time to own at least one book from the library of each famous collector. Please reply direct.

B. H. GRIFFIIH, University of Texas,

Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

GENERAL GRANT ON WELLINGTON. In Lord Redesdale's ' Memories,' volume ii. p. 612, it is stated that General Grant was invited to dine at Apsley House, and, seeing the portrait of the great Duke, said : " Ah ! I have commanded more divisions than that man ever commanded regiments, and yet what a lot of talk there has been about him!" I would like to learn what foundation there is for this story. I re- member to have seen in a book of recollec- tions by an Englishman, published ten years or so ago, the same story. In a foot- note the author says that he would like to believe the story to be true, but he is obliged to say that he can obtain no con- firmation of it.