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be taken as certain that Gnaton (as originally recorded in The Field of Aug. 14, 1875, by G. C. Green, Vicar of Modbury, S. Devon) is the place, whence the monster came.
 * G. C. G." who was probably the late Rev.

HUGH S. GLADSTONE. Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire.

EPITAPH: AUTHOR WANTED (12 S. vii. 290). This would seem to be a reminiscence of the lines beginning

Out of the strain of the doing Into the peace of the done.

No author is given at 11 S. x. 336, where the whole stanza is quoted, and referred to Th^ Sunday at Home for May, 1910.

i, also, have been told that the writer was an American named Jay : but have been unable to verify this.

JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

There is an epitaph similar to the one quoted :

He lived a life of going to do, And died with nothing done.

ARCHIBALD SPARKE.

CHARLES CHURCHILL, THE POET (12 S. vii. 249). Although it does not state the place of his birth, the following transcription of the monument to Churchill, the poet, on the south wall (a little to the east of the south door) of the Church of St. Mary, Dover, Kent, may prove of some use and interest to your correspondent G. F. R. B.

In memory of Ye late celebrated poet

Mr. Charles Churchill

Who died at Boulogne in

France. JEtatis 32 and

Was buried in y 8 town

Nov r 1764.

The rich and great no sooner gone But strait a monumental stone Inscribed with panegyric lays Such fulsome undeserved praise The living Blush, the conscience Dead Themselves apall'd that truth is fled And can it be that worth like thine Should smoulder undistinguished Sleep At very thought the muses weep Forbid it gratitude and Love. O for a glow like his to prove, How much regretted Honest Bard Accept this Shadow of Regard. T. Underwood ye IMPARTIALIST Erected June 1769 A Line taken from his Epistle to Hogarth

At ye sole expense of ye above T. Underwood.

G. YARROW BALDOCK, Major. South Hackney.

MISSING WORDS (12 S. vii. 232, 296). The lines quoted :

Come not when I am dead

To drop thy foolish tears upon my grave, were written by the first wife of George Meredith, and will be found in one of the earlier chapters of his ' Life. ' I have not the book by me, so cannot verify this. I should like to know if the words were set to music and by whom. C. B. E.

JUDGE PAYNE (12 S. vii; 232, 273). There is a long and interesting account of this amiable, if eccentric, philanthropist in the Memoirs of Mr. Serjeant Coulson Robinson. I cannot lay my hands on the book, but it was published about 1885. ISATIS.

BURNABY, BARONETS OF BROTJGHTON HALL (12 S. vii. 269). John Burnaby was minister- to the Swiss Cantons from 1743 to 1749. He is described as a "Hitter, Hofrath uncfe Kammerherr Georgs II." (seethe 'Eidgenoe- sische Abschiede,' 1744-1777, vol. vii. part 2, p. 1244 (Basel, 1867).)

In the very full Index there are no other entries about him. W. A. B. C.

THE MINER OF FALUN (12 S. vii. 270). S. Baring-Gould introduced the story, in a versified form, into his chapter on the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, in ' Curious Myths of the Middle Ages ' (Rivingtons, 1869, p. 110). ll/i WILLIAM BRIGG.

SYDNEY SMITH'S " LAST FLICKER OF FUN ' r (12 S. vii. 270. 296). My memory seems to recall, "There is an end to everything excepting Little Welbeck Street " ; but irt passing it, I have never seen the point of the remark. GEORGE C. PEACHEY.

Ridge, Barnet, Herts.

NOVELS OF THE NORTH WOODS (12 S. vii. 231, 295).' Kazan ' and ' Son of Kazan,' by James Oliver Curwood, two very fine stories with dogs for their heroes, may be added to MR. C. P. HALE'S list, though they are hardly novels in the usual sense. The Son of Kazan, by the way, is half dog. half wolf. C. C. B.

PARLIAMENTARY PETITIONS (12 S. vii. 270). I understand that the " &c." at the end of the Petition to Parliament was intended to include further particulars that it had been customary to add, such as "for the estates of the Realm." Some have taken it to refer to the " Prayer for Peace " introduced in 1549, or " the Bidding Prayer." It might