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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th B. x. DEC. e, 1902.

evidence than this he has in his possession Bruce s original MSS. of the poem ' Lochleven,' and the story is not there either in the form or extent in

which it appears as published the story ends by

simply painting her fear and her flight from the Giant to the side of the lake into which she plunged herself." ,-

And again :

" He [Logan] has certainly imitated Bruce's man- ner very happily. Nearly 200 lines of the story are entirely Logan's."

These extracts alone seem pretty conclusive. It will be noticed that Dr. Baird's reference is to ''the Giant." As has been already mentioned, Logan makes the hero a hunter. But in addition to all this external evidence there are many parallelisms which point to Logan as the author of 'Levina.' Nor is it altogether without significance to note that the name Levina, although not Logan's creation, reappears in a slightly altered form in Elvina the heroine of 'Runnamede,' which was not published till thirteen years after the first issue of Bruce's poems. Here then are some of the more important parallel- isms :

Levina. A Tale.

Each height'ning each, Something unseen o'er

effus'd o er all her form all her form A nameless grace, the Did nameless grace im-

beauty of the mind. part.

The patriarch of the A patriarch in the vale of

plains ; ne'er by his peace

door

The needy pass'd or the He liberal dealt his

way-faring man. store ;

And called the stranger

to his feast, The beggar to his door.

His only daughter, and An only daughter in his

his only joy, I feed my father's flock.

age Solaced a father's care.

Than the sweet lily of Queen of the vale, the

the lowly vale, lily fair.

The Queen of flowers.

, Runnamede.

Parents, happy in a You, Albemarle,

child so fair. Are happy in a daughter

fair.

Come, let us crop the Give us again the wild- roses of the brook, ness of our woods. And wildings of the wood. Act I. sc. i.

The Lovers. Yet at his frugal board And friendship sits a

Health sits a guest. constant guest.

To strew the bridegroom's For thee the virgins way, and deck his bed. deck the bed.

Ode to Man of Letters. And now the Morning.... The rose unfolds her

put on her robes, robe of light.

Her beauteous robes of light Ode written in Spring.

the Naiad streams The loosen'd streamlet

loves to stray Flowed down the dale. And echo down the dale.

Levina. Ode written in Spring.

Her breast was fairer O come, thou fairer than

than the vernal bloom the bud

Of valley-lily, opening in Unfolding in a shower ! a shower.

where, hand in hand, Trip hand in hand the

Eternal Spring and Au- circled green, tumn rule the year.

Runnamede.

When hand in hand we sported in your hall.

A few parallelisms taken from Logan's 'Sermons' may also be cited. In Sermon VI.

vol. i. will be found "They walk hand in

hand through the paths of childhood," which is similar to quotations given above from the poems. " Keeps as the apple of his eye " occurs in Sermons II. and XV. of vol. i. In the address before the "serving of the third table " at the Lord's Supper, Logan's poetic taste is seen in the introduction of the some- what uncalled-for injunction, " Strew his path with flowers," following the exclamation " Rejoice, behold thy King is come." It corresponds well to what is found in 'Levina': "in quest of flowers to strew the bridegroom's way." Also, " crop the unblown flower " and " crop the blossoms," from Sermons III. and XII. respectively of vol. i., closely resemble " crop the roses of the brook" in 'Levina.' There is also great similarity in the ideas expressed in this extract from ' Levina ' (1. 228 et seq.\ " High in

the midst, an enchanted tree grew ever

green Here every bride two golden

apples gathered the pledge of nuptial

concord and delight," to those in this sentence from the twentieth sermon of vol. ii., " Amid the Garden of Eden a tree arose, the sacramental pledge of life."

A. M. MCDONALD.

108, Gilmore Place, Edinburgh.

LADY WHITMORE (9 th S. x. 268, 318, 395). We have in our care at the present time for cleaning and varnishing an oil painting of Lady Whitmore, by Sir Peter Lely. The inscription painted on the picture is, "Frances, youngest daughter of Sir W m Brooke, B fc, Wife of Sir Thomas Whitmore, K.B. Interred in Twickenham Church, 1690." A picture of Sir George Whitmore, Lord Mayor of London, painted by Cornelius Janssen, has also recently passed through our hands. WHITEHOUSE & JAMES.

30, St. George's Place, S.W.

I have to thank COL. PRIDE AUX for his long and exhaustive note. Lady Whitmore's portrait by Zurbaran has never been cata- logued, but has been seen by experts. It