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fc anded by such a mechanical artist as he v so catalogued together * Mill on the Human ]\ ind ' and ' Ditto on the Floss.' The writer \\ ho nearly anticipated Mr. Watts-Dunton's t: tie is Mr. James C. Moffat, a Scotsman who o icupied (and may still occupy) the chair of C hurch History at Princeton, New Jersey, ft.r. Moffat published in 1876 a poem entitled ' A.lwyn : a Komance of Study.' In ' Poets a ad Poetry of Scotland,' vol. ii. p. 532, Mr. Grant Wilson introduces an extract from this \vork as follows :

" The poem describes the progress of the mind of a Scottish shepherd boy from its earliest unf oldings ; its searchings after truth ; the dawning of the true light, and at length its satisfaction and peaceful rest."

THOMAS BAYNE.

Helensburgh, N.B.

'A LOVER'S COMPLAINT,' LL. 271-3. Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense,

'gainst shame ;

And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears, The aloes of all forces, shocks and fears.

A foot-note reference to 'A Lover's Com- plaint ' led to my reading the whole poem, the first time, I suppose, for about fifty years. On the confessedly corrupt 271st line I ven- ture to offer an emendation, reading " Love arms apace" for "Love's arms are peace." The grammatical connexion, I think, makes it almost certain that " Love arms " should be

read for " Love's arms": "Love arms and

sweetens." "Apace," a favourite word with Shakespeare, makes good sense and does not depart so widely from the ductus literarum as do some other proposed emendations, e. g., " proof," the conjecture of Malone.

R. M. SPENCE, D.D. Manse, of Arbuthnott, N.B.

Miss FRANCES MOORE. As the authorship of the 'Life of Joanna, Queen of Naples,' 1824, does not seem to be known to the latest authorities about that lady (see ' N. & Q.,' 8 th S. y. 263, 431), it may be stated that it was written by Miss Frances Moore, who was probably a daughter of Peter Moore, M.P. (' N. & Q.,' 6 th S. iv. 128), concerning whom see ' Diet. Nat. Biog.,' s.n. Miss Moore, under the name of "Madame Panache," wrote several lighter works, of which I know one only, * A Year and a Day,' 2 vols., 1818. She died at Exeter, 6 June, 1881, aged ninety-two.

W. C. B.

MARRIAGE OF LANDOR. In the article on Landor in the Gentleman's Magazine for January it is said that "in 1811 the poet married the daughter of Baron de Nieuve- vffle, a court official to Charles VIII." As

Nieuveville seems an impossible name, and as I cannot discover any European monarch en- titled Charles VIII. in 1811 or proximate years, I seek enlightenment in the ' Diction- ary of National Biography,' and there I read that Landor married in 1811 a lady whom he had met casually in a ballroom at Bath, named Julia Thuillier, daughter of a banker of Swiss descent, who had been unsuccessful in business at Banbury and gone to Spain, leaving his family at Bath. I am unable to do more than direct attention to the discre- pancy in the two accounts. F. ADAMS.

WILLIAM HALL, PRINTER. The assumed "W. H." of Shakespeare's 'Sonnets' was a son of the Rev. William Hall, of Lilliesield ("? Lilleshall), Salop. He was apprenticed to John Aldee (sic) on 28 June, 1577, and became free of the Stationers' Company on 3 Feb- ruary, 1584, and a master printer of London. In 1606 Robert Southwell's ' Fourfold Medi- tations ' appeared with a dedication inscribed to Mathew Saunders, Esq., to whom " W. H." " wisheth long life, &c." (see Edmunds's Isham reprints). In 1609 the 'Sonnets' came out similarly inscribed to "W. H." by T. T. (Thorpe).

William Hall's publications were chiefly religious and legal ; but in 1612 he produced Bacon's 'Essays' jointly with John Beale, who in 1614 bought out his entire stock, after which he disappears, aged about fifty. It seems, therefore, that this proposed identifi- cation was started by Charles Edmunds, but it is difficult to understand how any "stranger" could have had the unique opportunity of collecting all these scattered poems, ad- dressed during ten or twelve years to several different persons of rank or fame.

A. HALL.

13, Paternoster Row.

DUKE OF ALBANY. (See 9 th S. ii. 489.) The heraldic representation of the first duke, as MR. CALDER mentions, passed to his grand- daughter Lady Isabella Stewart, who married Sir Walter Buchanan, of Buchanan, Stirling- shire, and was ancestress of all the leading families of the name. The Earls of Castle- Stewart, in the peerage of Ireland, claim to be lawfully descended from Lady Isabella's second brother, Sir Walter, and a member of the family, the Hon. Andrew Godfrey Stuart, wrote a book in 1854 in support of the claim ; but the weight of evidence is against him in that it is documentarily proved Sir Walter left no legitimate issue, but issue that was legitimated. He had a younger brother, Sir James, styled of Albany, who had a natural son James, of Balindoran, Stirlingshire, an-