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 NOTES AND QUEEIES.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 10,

CONTENTS. -No. 76.

N ITES : Two of Edward Fitzgerald's Early Poems, 441 "heodora de Verdion, 442 John Massy Baron John Dillon: Baron John Talbot Dillon Dickens's "Anthotiy lumm" Visiting the Wishing Wells, 443 Muscat ' Index," 444 Jane Shore Ancient Water-pipes Name jystem among the Red Men, 445 'Beware the Cat' tornshaw and Theodore Hook Palgrave as Professor of 'oetry Twenty Best Books, 446.

QUERIES: Letter of James VI. "Shaving Hat" Old tegisters Portrait of Lieut. -General Sir W. Gilbert De Jreon Family Peat on the South Downs John Shovel Mrs. Newington ' The Magnetic Pole, 447 Religious 'oundation at Shere M.P. claiming Payment of Expenses -Gender of " Church" Butts " Desemea" Fleetwood "amily " Homo additus naturrc" 'The History of a Moble Convert,' 448 Dyson: Colet " Hinges "-Prior's Parentage Alien Priories Epigram on Lord Lovat Irish Glibbes, or Coulins Bunhill Fields Burial-ground, 449.

REPLIES : Basilicas, 449 Walpole and his Editors, 451 'Neithior" or " Bidding" Black Images of the Madonna -University Colleges of Residence Heraldic, 452" Heels o'er gowdie" Siege of Troy and Siege of Belgrade, 453 Clanmolinespick "Janissary" A Martyr Bishop of Armagh, 454 Dead Fold Church of Allhallows the Great Curious Misquotation" Gow," 455 Windsor Chairs Goodhall, Yorks Yeed or Yeedith-Bishop Hooper's Vest- mentsAuthor of Verses' The Three Sergeants ' Cron- bane Halfpenny, 456 Epitaph at Drogheda " Foy Boat" Capture of Seville Morales, 457 Ramus Family Martin, a Game Authors Wanted, 458.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Escott's 'A Trip to Paradoxia' ' Dictionary of the Terms of the Canting Crew ' Bygate's ' Cathedral Church of Durham 'Reviews and Magazines.

Notices to Correspondents.

TWO OF EDWARD FITZGERALD'S

EARLY POEMS.

THE many admirers of Edward Fitzgerald may be interested in two contributions which appear under his name in 'The Keepsake' for 1835. They are not reprinted in Mr. W. Aldis Wright's collection of his l Letters and Literary llemains.' There does not appear to be any complete list of Fitzgerald's con- tributions to periodical literature. The first is accompanied by an engraving from a drawing by Ch. Aubry.

THE SLEDGE.

Just fancy, Sweet Cousin ! a ride

In a carriage so curiously planned, That it matters not whether your guide

Steers you over the water or land : Where you have n't that exquisite bore,

A postilion, 'twixt you and the wind ; Where the lady sits always before,

And the gentleman always behind ; Just fancy the bliss one must feel,

Just fancy the pace one might go, Unincuraber'd by pavement or wheel,

Slipping over a journey in snow !

Just picture yourself on the back

Of this comical land Drayon-fty, Not fearing your axle will crack,

Not dreading your linch-pin will fly ;

Not bumping and thumping away,

In a fever of terror and fright, And shaken to pieces by day,

To be jolted to jelly by night ; But slipping and sliding along

A sort of Macadamised snow, Where your harness can seldom go wrong,

And your coachman can never go slow.

Your horse (like a Hercules) dress'd

In a Nemean lioness' skin, A neat silver flask of the best

Eau de vie in the pockets within : On which side soever you 're bent,

O'er those snow-cover'd mountains or dells, You've a running accompaniment

Of the tinyest musical bells : And thus your gay journey is sped,

Unlike our dull voyages here ; Gay plumes waving over your head,

Sweet sounds tinkling into your ear !

Roll'd up in a tippet and muff

As soft as the plumage of doves, With a neat little black sable ruff,

And a warm pair of white ermine gloves ; You may laugh at the frost and the sleet,

You may smile at the wind and the snow, You 've a warming-pan under your feet,

And the frost cannot get at a toe : Not exposed, every hour in the day,

To extremes such as worry us here, Where we 're freezing from August to May,

And just thawing the rest of the year !

This world's full of changes they say ;

The Lievens, whom all of us miss, Perhaps may be driving to-day

In a strange-looking Drosky like this ! Dear princess ! henceforth what a tax

That dancing with spinsters will be ; And who will now care, O Almacks !

Any more, for your muffins and tea ? But whoever the friends you may cheer,

Or ivherever the fates speed your flight, Sweet Lieven ! you '11 think of us here,

When you clasp on your bracelets* at night.

Oh, trust me, whatever they tell

Of the cold of those rarified skies, One could manage to live very well

With a bright pair of Russian blue eyes ! The tenderest hearts, we are told,

Oft beat in the chilliest form ; So skies that are awfully cold

Cover bosoms deliciously warm ; And I cannot imagine a way

To ensure one so pleasant a life, As thus driving through snow ev'ry day,

With a dear little Muscovite wife !

The second piece is illustrated by a charac- teristic drawing of George Cattermole.

LORD SURREY AND THE FAIR OERALDINE.

"In the reign of the second Grand Duke of Tuscany of Lorenzo's family (Cosmo I.), Florence, it is said, beheld a novel and extraordinary

Lieven, on her departure from this country, by the patronesses of Almacks and a small circle of her friends.
 * A magnificent bracelet was presented to Princess