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periti Neapolitan!, Genialium dierum libr sex, varia ac recondita eruditione referti Francofvrti, MDXCI." On the fly-leaf a the beginning is this interesting note in thi handwriting of the date which it contains " R 331 Stortford Scholse in usum coemerunt Scholares a 1665. Prseceptore M. Tho Leigh." This shows that boys in the reign of Charles II. would buy for the use of their school a book of which but few of those oi our day have read or heard. Who was Mr. T. Leigh, their preceptor 1

E. S. DODGSON.

SLEEP AND DEATH. A friend asks me who was the writer of

Sleep, that is Death's twin brother, and so like That I dare never trust him without prayers.

My friend Mr. R. A. Potts, who has an instinct for such things, pointed out the original source of these lines in Sir Thomas Browne's 'Religio Medici,' part ii., sect. 12,

which begins : "We term sleep a death In

fine, so like death, I dare not trust him with- out my prayers, and an half adieu unto the world, and take my farewell in a colloquy with God," and is followed by some thirty lines of verse. Can any one tell me what modern poet rehandled Sir Thomas's words, and turned them into the two lines quoted above 1 F. J. FURNIVALL.

"ALL THE FLOWERS," &C. I " WHATE J ER THE

EAGER SPIRIT," &c.~I wish to ascertain the authorship of the following :

All the flowers were in their pride

On the day that Rupert died.

Whate'er the eager spirit to itself denies

The ever-watchful hand of Providence supplies.

D. M-R. Philadelphia.

BABIOLE, PRIVATEER. Any reference to this vessel, which was pretty active in the early years of the last century, will be useful.

XYLOGRAPHER.

WILLIAM UPCOTT. The literary corre- spondence of this famous autograph col- lector, comprising some 700 letters, apparently passed into the possession of Dawson Turner before Upcott's death, as it is not included in the sale catalogues of the latter's collections. When in 1859 Turner's 40 ; 000 autograph letters and valuable manuscripts were sold by Messrs. Puttick, this correspondence formed Lot No. 509, realizing IQl. It is described as consisting of "3 vols. half-calf, 4to, 1802-45." In the same sale Lot 510, consisting of Upcott's eight memorandum books, realized 26s.; Lot 511, a brief list of the "lions" in his collection, 10s.; Lot 512,

a catalogue of autographs he had obtained or intended to comprise in his collection,^ 6s.; Lot 513, descriptive catalogue of his MSS. in 1831, 3s. 6d.; Lot 514, catalogue of minia- tures, &c., 5s.

I shall be pleased to receive information enabling me to trace the subsequent owners and present possessors of these interesting collections. ALECK ABRAHAMS.

39. Hillmarton Road, N.

"POUR OIL ON TROUBLED WATERS." Will

you kindly give me a reference to an early instance of the use of the expression "pour oil on the troubled waters"? W. B. H.

[Many references to the phrase and the practice are supplied in the Sixth Series, but the exact wording does not occur. Neither is it to be found in the 'N.EJD.,' s.v. 'Oil,' among the examples quoted to illustrate the proverb " To pour oil upon the waters."]

'EDWIN DROOD' CONTINUED. Can you tell me who finished 'Edwin D rood ' after Dickens's death, and also what is the title of the latter portion ] C. W. H. SEWELL.

Swymbridge Vicarage, Barnstaple.

['John Jasper's Secret' was published anony- mously. See 5 th S. ii. 407, 475, 526 ; iii. 136, 177 ; vi. 348, 418, 472.]

INSCRIPTION ON BELL IN BOSTON CHURCH. Stukeley, the antiquary, saw in Boston Church "the famous old Clock Bell," which he thought equal to any in England in point of size. There was a long inscription on it, which he imagined to be in Saxon letters. He neglected to take a copy, and it was soon after broken up. Has any copy of this inscription been preserved ? We may be sure the lettering was not Saxon ; but of whatever date, it would certainly be highly interesting. See ' Memoirs of William Stuke- ey' (Surtees Soc.), vol. i. p. 43.

COM. LING.

JOHNSON'S PRAYER. What is the Latin context of Dr. Johnson's prayer which com- mences with the words " Summe Pater ! " and of which the following is, I believe, a more or less representative rendering ? Father Supreme, whatever be Thy care Touching this body(Jesu, plead the prayer), Spare me my mind, nor count it fault in me If that I ask which most pertains to Thee.

MORRIS BENT.

" MY NAME MAY HAVE BUOYANCY." " To use the glowing expression of one of the greatest orators of the day, ' My name may lave buoyancy enough to float upon the sea )f time" 5 (Eton Miscellany, November, 1827). Who is the author of this " glowing expres- ion"? The use of it was unconsciously