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of Burke's 'Landed Gentry'; but I have in my possession a more detailed pedigree show- ing the arms and quarterings of the family, and I will willingly let COL. MOORE have any information he may require.

EICHARD GRIGSON, Solicitor. Upper King Street, Norwich.

THOMAS FIELDING (8 th S. xii. 424). I find that in 3 rd S. x. 228 MR. S. JACKSON attri- buted the collection of proverbs issued under the above name to W. H. Ireland. The 'Diet. Nat. Biog.,' vol. xxix. p. 36, attributes to Ireland " Henry Fielding's Proverbs, 1822 (?)." This must be a mistake, for the name is Thomas, not Henry. MR. JACKSON, I think, went too far in calling the collection worth- less, though the scissors evidently had a larger share in it than the pen.

EICHARD H. THORNTON.

VALENTINES (9 th S. i. 248, 410, 473). On the margin of one of the pages of a sixteenth- century Welsh MS. treatise on heraldry I find the following inscription, in a hand of circa 1620 :

Richard Morgan a frind of mine by Chance it came to be my wene [own] valentyne.

I suppose the rhyme properly reads :

Richard Morgan, a friend of mine, By chance became my Valentine.

JOHN HOBSON MATTHEWS.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (8 th S. i. 329 ; vii. 209, 339 ; 9 th S. ii. 358).

The hand that rocks the cradle, &c.

There are two poems which contain the above words, both by American authors: "The hanc that rocks the cradle rules the world," by William Ross Wallace, and " The hand that rules the world,' words and music by Don Fielding, published by C. D. Blake & Co., Boston, U.S. The verse quotec at the last reference belongs to the latter poem. I can give copies of both if desired. J. T. THORP.

Miss Kate Louise Roberts, of Newark, N.J., states, in a letter to the Critic, that in working upon the revision of the Hoyt-Ward ' Cyclopaedia of Quotations ' she discovered that William Ross Wallace is the author of a poem the first stanza o: which runs thus :

They say that man is mighty,

He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty sceptre

O'er the lesser powers that be ; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, And the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand that rules the world. Providence, R.I. C. B.

[See ante, p. 358.] (9 th S. ii. 69, 258.)

The poem of Emerson's referred to by MR BOUCHIER will be found, I believe, in th ' Children's Garland,' by Coventry Pa.tmore (Mac millan). It begins thus ;^

The mountain and the squirrel

Had a quarrel,

And the former called the latter

" Little prig" ; nd ends thus, or in some such words : If I cannot carry forests on my shoulders, Neither can you crack a nut.

C. LAWRENCE FORD, B.A. (9 th S. ii. 389.)

Ol KvfBoi AlOS act V TTlTTTOVO-t.

This is a rearrangement in puerile prose of a frag- ment (No. 763) attributed to Sophocles :

'Aei yap tv TTLTTTOVO-IV ol Aios Kvfloi. On which Brunck notes : " Prpverbialis est senarius sine auctoris nomine saepe citatus. Vide Erasmi Adagia chil. i. cent. iii. 9." Emerson could not lave been aware that he was quoting from Sophocles, or indeed from any poet. F. ADAMS.

" Forty stripes save one."

Ten years ago I was favoured with a letter from the late Dr. J. R. Bloxam, in which he said: "I am ashamed to confess that the joke about the Thirty- nine Articles and the forty stripes was mine at east my old friend W. G. Ward used to quote it as mine and I have some vague recollection that when we were laughing and talking together on one occasion the joke, not intended seriously, slipped out of my mouth. It was afterwards adopted by Cardinal Wiseman. But it was just one of those odd, strong sayings that Newman always protested against. I feel confident that it is not to be found in his writings." Some newspaper had said that it was. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. A Life of William Shakespeare. By Sidney Lee

(Smith, Elder & Co.)

UPON the first appearance of Mr. Sidney Lee's life of Shakspeare contributed to the ' Dictionary of National Biography,' we were of those who dwelt upon its merits and anticipated its issue in a separate form. No long time has elapsed before our hopes have been granted, and more is given us than we dared to ask. The ' Life of Shakespeare' now appears in a handsome and convenient shape, and has been raised, by additions to the text, notes, and appendices, to twice or thrice its original dimensions. It has, indeed though the method observed in the ' Dictionary of National Biography ' is maintained every right to be estimated as an independent work. Little more than a year has been occupied in the processes of expansion, and we are compelled to believe, taking into account the potentialities of human industry, that portions of the matter incorporated into the volume were written with a view to appearing in the ' Dic- tionary,' and repressed in consequence of enforced restrictions of space. As now it is seen, Mr. Lee's ' Life ' will take up an important and an enduring place as the best and most authoritative record of facts concerning Shakspeare's life, and the most judicious and concise summary of his position with regard to his English rivals, and the influence upon him of his foreign contem- poraries. It is, in fact, the sanest, the moat