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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast,

Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last.

On p. 46 the following couplet is from 'Lucrece,' lines 615-6 :

For Princes are the glass, the school, the book, Where subjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look.

Further on (p. 284) he quotes lines 1287-8 from the same poem, substituting the word for in place of and :

For that deep torture may be called a hell, Where more is felt, than one hath power to tell.

Besides these quotations, the last three of which I have myself verified, there is a sen- tence which seems to be an echo of the lines in the ' Passionate Pilgrim,' 169-74. Burton says (p. 597) that " beauty is bonum fragile, a mere flash, a Venice glass, quickly broken." However, it may have been our author's own utterance, for he was quite capable of such sayings, as for example, "Thou hadst better Denold a Gorgon's head than Helen's carcass" (p. 596), and many more which T could give.

I think I have pretty conclusively shown that Mr. Eye's assertion that there are numerous quotations from Shakespeare in the 'Anatomy of Melancholy' is not based on fact. I have a list of a score, at least, which had, I thought, the real ring of the immortal bard, but on going to our excellent Reference Library (Liverpool) and consulting M. C. Clarke's 'Concordance,' I failed to identify a single one of them. In conclusion, I may perhaps be allowed to quote Juv.enal's lines with Burton's translation (p. 244) :

Hie alias poteram, et plures subnectere causas,

Sed jumenta vocant, et Sol inclinat. Eundum eat. Many such causes, much more could I say, But that for provender my cattle stay : The sun declines, and I must needs away.

JOHN T. CURRY.

THE FIRST HALFPENNY NEWSPAPER. The celebration by the Echo of its thirtieth birth- day deserves record. The first number was published on the 8th of December, 1868 Messrs. Cassell, Petter <fe Galpin were the originators ; Mr. Galpin had special charge of the enterprise, and I well remember hi calling upon me and telling me of hi plans for the new paper ; he was full o: enthusiasm, and determined to make it a success. The birthday number gives an account of its progress, the articles being written by Sir Arthur Arnold, its firs editor; Mr. Horace Voules, of Truth, its first manager and second editor; and Mr Aaron Watson, of the Newcastle Daily Leader its fourth editor. Portraits of these are given, together with a most speaking like

ness of its third editor, Mr. Passmore Edwards. It was in June, 1875, that Mr. Passmore Edwards purchased the property, and for twenty years he was its editor. Mr. Edwards brought with him considerable practical knowledge, having already founded English Mechanic. Under his control the paper increased in prosperity, and he deter- mined that the entire profits should be devoted to the public good. He has thus istablished Free Libraries, Convalescent Homes, and Homes for the Epileptic. The number of buildings thus provided amounts at the present time to sixty. In doing all this Mr. Edwards states that his "purpose has been to protect, nurture, and build up the weak, and to afford ampler oppor- tunities for the strong to do the best for themselves and for the community." Among the early contributors were Frances Power Cobbe,. the Rev. H. R. Haweis one of whose articles on Mr. Bradlaugh began " There is no God, and Bradlaugh is his prophet" Mr. William Black, Mr. John Macdonell, and Mr. George Shee. It would appear, as the result of a series of investiga- tions conducted by the staff, that the build- ing which has been the home of the Echo for the past thirty years was the house in which the works of Handel were printed and published. A study of the front of the Echo building reveals the sign of the harp in two prominent positions over the windows. For particulars see Grove's 'Dictionary of Music and Musicians.'
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One word should be added as to the very careful manner in which this birthday number has been produced. It is a worthy memento in every way of a wonderful enter- prise in the world of newspapers.

JOHN C. FRANCIS.

SPORTING GHOSTS. The following instances of a not unfamiliar superstition may be welcome to your pages this Christmastide :

"Une autre residence, non moins ancienne que Chambord, Montfrault, se voyait vers Penceinte du pare de Chambord, a 1'endroit ou se trouve au- jourd'hui le Pavilion de Montfrault. A ce lieu se rattache une tradition d'origine germanique, semblable k celle du Chasseur Noir, si repandue dans le Nord de 1'Europe, et empruntant dans chaque pays le nom de quelque personnage redout- able qui 1'habitait & une ^poque reculee et dont la memoire subsiste encore. Lorsque le craintif JSolognot, dont le pied a foule 1'herbe qui egare, se trouve vers minuit pres du pavilion de Mont- frault, il est expos6 k rencontrer la figure effray- ante d'un chasseur nocturne, habill^ de noir et accompagn6 de chiens noirs, qui n'est autre que Thibault de Champagne, dit le Vieux et le Tricheur, premier comte hereditaire de Blois et 1'un des types