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writers," &c., will, it seems to me, appear unduly severe to others than, those of the sealed tribe of bibliographers. That all are not of MB. ZEITLIN'S opinion is clear from Landor' s ' Imaginary Conversations between 'Southey and Porson.' I take it that the views attributed to Porson are in reality those of Landor himself, as much as those he ventilates in his conversation headed, ' The Abbe Delille and Walter Landor.' .But be they Landor 1 s or Porson' s, the subjoined excerpts (from vol. iii.) hardly /square with MR. ZEITLIN'S estimate of Southey as a reviewer :

<k Be sparing of your animadversions on ,Byron."-P. 42.

" What exquisite pleasure must you have felt in being the only critic of our age and country labouring for the advancement of those who might 'be thought your rivals ! " P. 46.

"Let me ask you, who being both a poet and a .critic are likely to be impartial," &c. P. 46.

" I admire your suavity of temper, and your consciousness of worth ; your disdain of obloquy," , etc. P. 48.

" Although you attributed to him [Wordsworth] what perhaps was not greatly above his due." &c. P. 50.

14 You judge correctly that there are several parts of genius in which Demosthenes is deficient." P. 57.

" You, Mr. Southey, will always be considered the soundest and the fairest of our English critics ; but your admirable good nature has thrown a costly veil over many defects and some deform- ities." P. 70.

The second half of the last quotation, while it exhibits Lander's (or Person's) impar- tiality, does not impair the value of the .first half. J. B. McGovERN.

SCOTCHMAN'S POST (12 S. v. 123). " Scotchman's Post," erected on the Winter Hill portion of the Horwich Moors, marks the scene of a murder committed in 1838, and bears the following inscription :

"In memory of George Henderson, traveller, native of Arran, Dumfriesshire, who was barbar- ously murdered on Horwich Moor, on Monday November 9th, 1838, in the 20th year of his age."

.Henderson was shot, and the culprit was never discovered. A man named Whittle was apprehended for the murder, but was discharged after a trial at the Liverpool Assizes in 1839.

The present memorial (of cast iron) is

.the third erected at this spot. The first was a plain oak stake, replaced in 1887 by

..a stone memorial, which was damaged and uprooted a few years ago and replaced by the present one.

Henderson, although a native of Scotland, was known as a " Scotchman " by reason of his being a travelling draper or packman,

and your correspondent is in error in describing him as a travelling " bargee " ; in fact the use of this word is new to me in. any other connexion than that of a man, employed on a barge.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

RIDDLE BY GEORGE SELWYN (12 SJ v. 153). I should guess the answer of this to be : a bee in a bandbox. I have no doubt about the receptacle and very little] about the inmate. Without a b any " bargain " would be incomplete and so not; very good. I fancy that my grandmother, j born when George III. was king, used to] speak of things being "as - - as a bee in a bandbox " the blank is caused, not byj any impropriety in the dear lady's language,' but by my own lack of memory. I think the missing word was " safe " : the captive! would be fairly secure, though it might] resent its loneliness.

I have met with the expression " like aj bee in a box " in print, and have also ream that a certain kind of collar was known as a] " bee." An article of that sort might be] fitly kept in a bandbox. ST. SWITHIN.

PHILADELPHIA LINK WITH LONDON (12 S. v. 148). James Peller Malcolm gives thJ epitaph on Catharine Mary Meade in hill ' Londinium Redivivum,' 1803-7, vol. ii. p. 552. He describes the monument as

" A neat tablet, near the vestry-door, by] Cooke, with a relief, of a female, mourning over! an urn, shaded by a weeping willow." After the epitaph he writes :

" I cannot refrain from adding, that I had the pleasure of knowing this amiable young lady:, intimately ; whose sudden death was the cause ofj most sincere grief to all her friends."

ROBERT PIERPOINT. j

BISHOP DAWSON OF CLONFERT (12 S.j iv. 133, 171). Since the above query and answer appeared I have found in the church of South Kirkby, Yorkshire, the following inscription to the bishop's daughter :

" Hie jacet corpus M.argeriae filiae reverend! in Christo patris D. Robert! Dawson, defunct!, quondam Episcopi Clonfertensis et Kilmacdowy- hensis in regno Hiberniae; quondam uxoris et relictse yirilis ducis ad arma Colonelli Joh'is Morris, martyris pro Bege et patria ; quid dulcius ? Postea nuperque uxoris Jonse Buckley, gen. Quse obiit 28 die Octobris, anno Christ! 1665; aetatisque sue 38. Mors mihi lucrum."

Can any one now supply me with the name of the bishop's wife, date of the marriage, and date of her death ; also the names of any more of his family or de- scendants ? J. W. F.