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g. N<> 25., JUNE 21. '56.

" Lundy," an Opera. Can you inform me who is the author of Lundy, an opera, which was in rehearsal at the Bristol Theatre in 1 840 ? The music was composed by Mr. Cornelius Bryan, organist of St. Mary RedclifF, Bristol, who died March 18, 1840. R. J.

" Jephtha," a Sacred Tragedy. Who is the author of Jephtha, a sacred tragedy, published by Caines, Halkin Street. By a Lady. The profits to be applied to the fund for building a new church. R. J.

The Old Hundredth, ly whom composed ? In the account of the " Meeting of the Charity Chil- dren," in Saturday's Times, I saw it stated the tune of the " Old Hundredth" was composed in the first half of the sixteenth century, by Claude Goudemel, a Frenchman. Adding, that "in France the tune is utterly unknown, or at least unremembered." Never having heard it attri- buted to a Frenchman before, perhaps some of your correspondents can inform me if this account is correct ? and if not, who was the composer ?

EASBY.

Wilkie MSS. Could any of the readers of " N. & Q." give me any information regarding the MSS. of W. Wilkie, author of the Epigoniadf In the " Life of Wilkie," prefixed to his poems (Anderson's British Poets, vol. xi.), it is said that his MSS. were left to the care of Mr. Listen. That gentleman, if I mistake not, was minister of Aberdour, in Fifeshire, about the end of last century. R. J.

Glasgow Plays. Could any of the readers of " N. & Q.," acquainted with the history of the Scottish stage, give me any information regarding the authors of the following Glasgow plays ? 1. The Genius of Glasgow, a masque, acted 1792, for the benefit of I>lr. Stephen Keinble. 2. Glas- gow Green, or a Trip to Loch Lomond, a farce, in one act; to be performed June 2, 1798, for the benefit of Mrs. Kemble. 3. The Daft Man and his Twa Guid Wives, a comic interlude ; to be performed June 4, 1803, for the benefit of Mr. Bell. This piece is said to have been written by a Dr. Madden. 4. Spanish Patriotism; or, French Treachery Defeated, a dramatic piece ; to be per- formed July 25, 1808, for Mr. Talbot's benefit. 5. The Portuguese Wife, an interlude ; to be per- formed August 14, 1811, for the benefit of Miss Duncan. I do not think any of these plays are noticed in the Biographica Dramatica, with the exception of the first-named. R. J.

Geranium, May I ask any of your kind readers, who are learned in the matter, to inform me what is this flower (red, scarlet, white, or any colour) the emblem for? I seek this information for a poetical purpose. W. H. P.

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Author of the " Cyprianic Age" It would favour me to learn from any correspondent of "N. & Q." the name of a writer who styles him- self " By the Author of the Cyprianic Age." He assumes this in a work by him :

" The Fundamental Charter of Presbytery as it has been lately established in the Kingdom of Scotland, Ex- amin'd and Disprov'd by the History, Records, and Pub- lick Transactions of our Nation. London : printed for C. Broine at the Gun, at the West End of St. Paul's Church- yard, 1697. 8vo. pp. 422., with pp. 178. of a " Preface."

As an Episcopalian disputant, and likely some relic of the displaced church, he does all his power to demolish G. R. (Gilbert Rule, who was Prin- cipal of the University of Edinburgh), the " Vin- dicator of the Kirk," and brings forward much interesting information, local and historical, as his weapons. G. N".

[The author of the Cyprianic Age is John Sage, one of the first bishops consecrated after the Church in Scotland was deprived of its temporalities in 1689. He was ap- pointed to the See of Edinburgh, and consecrated Jan. 25, 1705, by Bishops Paterson, Rose, and Douglas ; but sur- vived his elevation little more than five years, dying in. 1711. His work, The Fundamental Charter of Presbytery, was republished in 1844 by the Spottiswoode Society. In 1714 was published, anonymously, An Account of the Life and Writings of Bishop Sage ; but it was written by Bishop John Gillan. See also Russell's edition of Keith's Scottish Bishops, p. 518., for a biographical notice of Bishop Sage, and Watt's Bibliotheca for a list of most of his works.]

Passage in " All's Well that Ends Well."

" Our own love waking cries to see what's done,

While shameful hate sleeps out the afternoon."

ActV. Sc.3.

These lines are not yet very clear. Is Johnson right in calling them an interpolation of a player ? or what is the sense of these lines, if they are not nonsense ? E.

Berlin.

[Mr. Singer, in his recently published edition of Shak- speare, has the following note: "This obscure couplet seems to mean that ' Our love awaking to the worth of the lost object too late laments; our shameful hate or dislike having slept out the period when our fault was remediable.' Mason proposed to read old for own." Mr. Collier, in his Notes and Emendations from the Old Corrector, tells us (p. 168.) that these two lines are erased, " giving some countenance to Johnson's hope that ' they were an interpolation of a player,' though we believe it to be an inexplicable corruption."]

Lord Byron's Mother. Who was Miss Ka- tharine Gordon, second wife to John Byron, Esq., and mother of Lord Byron the poet ? PATONCE.

[Miss Catherine Gordon was the only child and heiress of George Gordon of Gight, a descendant of Sir William Gordon, who was the third son of the Earl of Huntley, by Princess Jane, daughter of James I. of Scotland.]