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NOTES AND QUERIES. [*- s. IL AUG. 13,

Bouverie, al quale era stato destinato tutto ci6 che si fosse in avvenire ritrovato di queste novelle, dopo la di lui morte accaduta, mentre con voi e col dotto Signor R. Wood faceya il celebre viaggio dell' Asia ; a voi come suo amico ed erede delle illustri e letterarie imprese di si famosa societa era dovuto questo mis dono."

R. Wood was the author of the folio dated 1753 on the ruins of Baalbec and Palmyra, and F.N.B.P.R. further refers to him in his dedication as being, like his other friends Giacomo Stuart and Niccola Revett, patrons of Italian arts and literature. The two latter are the well-known writers on the antiquities of Athens.

Probably some of your readers can supply notes about Bouverie and Dawkins, who are not mentioned in the 'Dictionary of National Biography,' and suggest why the three editions I mention of II Lasca's novels, printed, apparently, at Florence, Paris, and Leghorn, are represented on their title-pages as published in Constantinople and London.

J. M. T.

SOURCE OF QUOTATION (9 th S. ii. 7, 72). "Backward, turn backward." If J. A. S. likes to write I could get him a copy of this song I think. E. E. THOYTS.

Sulhampstead, Berks.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9 th S. ii. 69). The line :

The love-light in her eye

occurs in the poem "She is not fair to outward view,'' by H. Coleridge (No. ccxviii. p. 207, 'Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics'). The second stanza runs :

But now her looks are coy and cold,

To mine they ne'er reply, And yet I cease not to behold

The love-light in her eye. Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

H. F. MOTTLE.

This line occurs in 'The Irish Emigrant,' by Helen, Lady Dufferin (grand-daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan) :

The corn was springing fresh and green,

And the lark sang loud and high, And the red was on your cheek, Mary, And the love-light in your eye.

KATHLEEN WARD.

This is apparently an imperfect reminiscence of a line in Lady Duffcrin's ' Lament of the Irish Emi- grant ' :

And the red was on your lip, Mary, And the love-light in your eye.

C. C. B.

I think from a little poem by Hartley Coleridge, beginning:

She was not fair to outward view As many maidens be,

A version into Latin elegiacs by Shilleto will be found in ' Sabrinse Corolla,' p. 235, ed. 1.

P. J. F. GANTILLON.

The last line of the first verse of the popular old song, ' The Irish Emigrant,' is

And the love-light in your eye. I think the words are by either the Hon. Mrs. Norton or Lady Dufferin. ALFRED MOLONY.

(9 th S. i. 509.) The quotation :

Hush, hush, hush, I am listening for the voices Which I heard in days of old,

asked for by W. B. K., is from a song entitled ' The Lonely Harp,' the words by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, music by Miss A. Cowell, dedicated to the Countess of Jersey. The printed music was given to me in 1848. I shall be pleased to copy the words for W. B. K. if wished. J. ASTLEY.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

Calendar of Letters and State Papers relating to English, Affairs, preserved principally in the Archives of Simancas, 1580-1586. Edited by Martin A. S. Hume. (Stationery Office.) THE plot thickens as we advance through the wilderness of these Spanish papers. The time of the Armada was drawing near, and everything that Englishmen hold dear seemed at stake. Their country was never in greater peril, not even in the darkest hour of our death-grapple with the first Napoleon. Whether in this trying time Elizabeth and her ministers acted with that consummate prudence \vhich has been so often attributed to them by those who had but few original documents to guide them, it is hard to say, so very much depends on our ideas of what is and what is not lawful in the diplomacy of states. One thing these p,pers show without doubt is that, however inexcusable from the modern point of view the imprisonment and slaughter of Catholic mission- aries may have been, there was much to be said in favour at the time by those who were not members of the ancient faith. That the priests were almost to a man loyal, or, at least, not actively disloyal, is now manifest, but this could not have been clear to the ordinary understanding at a time when the black thunder-cloud of Spain overshadowed half the heavens. The political schemes of Mendoza are here in some measure exposed, though more in- formation probably for ever unattainable is much wanted. The Duke of Alencon's cause and character comes out much more clearly. Whatever be our estimate of the character of Elizabeth, we cannot but feel glad that the projected marriage never took place. The volume contains many letters of Mary, Queen of Scots ; but we think most of them have already been printed by Labanoff and others. One of the most curious documents in the volume is headed a " Statement of the Provinces of England and their Present Condition." It belongs to the year 1586. What means of information the writer may have possessed it is impossible to say; but it seems to be thoroughly truthful in intention. Under Yorkshire, we are told that all the gentlemen are Catholics or Schismatics, much devoted to the Queen