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said to have died on 6 March, 1808, at Dor- chester House. Park Lane.

Alexander Hood, Viscount Bridport, who is said to have died on 3 May, 1814, at Bath, and to have been buried atButleigh, Glaston- bury.

Henry Stawell Bilson Legge, Lord Stawell, who is said to have died on 25 August, 1820, at Grosvenor Place.

Alleyne Fitzherbert, Lord St. Helens, who is said to have died on 10 February, 1839, at Grafton Street, Bond Street.

John Hely Hutchinson, Lord Hutchinson, who is said to have died on 29 June, 1832, at Knocklofty.

Earl Beaulieu and Viscount Bridport are not buried at the places assigned.

STRACHAN HOLME.

'THE SOUL'S ERRAND.' This quaint old poem, beginning

Go, soul, the body's guest,

is generally, I believe, attributed to Sir Walter Raleigh. But I find it in my copy of Syl- vester's ' Du Bartas' (Loud., 1633): it appears as the last of the ' Epigrams ' in the penulti- mate section of the book, which bears the title ' Elegies, Epistles, and Epitaphs, written by Joshua Sylvester.' Can any one explain this ? According to dates given in books of reference Raleigh and Sylvester were con- temporaries, both dying in the same year. C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A.

Bath.

AYLWIN.' (9 th S. ix. 369, 450 ; x. 16, 89.)

As one of the few surviving friends of "Eden Warwick," mentioned at p. 90, the author of ' Notes on Noses,' I am able to give your correspondent MR. HAKE the informa- tion he requires.

The real name of " Eden Warwick " was George Jabet, a solicitor of Birmingham, in the literary life of which city he took a prominent part until his death, when scarcely past middle age, in 1873.

' Notes on Noses ' had its inception in a paper communicated to a small literary society which, more than fifty years ago, met at Handsworth, near Birmingham, and of which I was a very junior member. The paper was afterwards expanded into a book published by Bentley in 1848, under the title of 'Nasology.' The name was un- attractive, and the book had a small circula- tion until Bentley in 1859 brought it out in

a cheaper form, and under the more taking title of ' Notes on Noses,' when it became more widely read and appreciated. The author complained to me, I remember, that Bentley had done this without asking his approval, but I think he was nevertheless pleased at the increased popularity of his little work.

He was also the author, under the same assumed name, of a charming book that turns up frequently in the booksellers' cata- logues, entitled 'The Poets' Pleasaunce; or, Garden of all Sorts of Pleasant Flowers which our Pleasant Poets have in Past Time for Pastime Planted.' This book was beauti- fully illustrated by Noel Humphreys, and was brought out by Longmans in 1847. The author has there collected, under the heading of the different flowers, the references thereto by the English poets, with whose works, particularly those of Spenser and Wordsworth, he had an extraordinary familiarity, giving appropriate selections from their writings, and each page having illustrated margins descriptive of the flower under treatment. I shall be glad if my mention of this delightful book should lead to its being more sought after and read.

Persistent ill health was, no doubt, the principal cause which prevented the author from giving to the world the fruits of his wide researches in other departments of learning. Ethnology, for instance, with the distinctive characteristics of races, was a favourite study of his, and he was an accomplished botanist, but beyond some magazine articles these two works alone exist to keep his name in remembrance. He was a most original thinker and a man of the widest reading ; and retiring compara- tively early in life from professional practice, he was actively engaged in promoting all literary and educational movements.

He was the first secretary, and in a way the founder, of the Birmingham Debating Society, which, when united with the more local Edgbaston Society, became, under the title of the Birmingham and Edgbaston Debating Society, the famous training ground in which Mr. Chamberlain and the other able men of my generation, who have made Birmingham what it has become during the last fifty years, first tried their strength as debaters.

He is, too, regarded as the second founder of the Birmingham Old Library, the most ancient literary institution in the city, founded by Dr. Priestley more than a century ago, and his portrait hangs in the central room of the new handsome building which has lately taken the place of the one in the