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record of the thoughts and feelings animat ing the writer as he developed out of a precocious society novelist into a statesraai of the first rank. From the first he is confi- dent of his future, and the easy deliberation of his occasional critical survey is ver ( > refreshing. Sir Robert Peel, e.g., "attacking his turbot most entirely with his knife" Strangford considered as "an aristocratic Tom Moore"; Bulwer's mother-in-law as "something between Jeremy Bentham ano Meg Merrilies"; Mrs. Norton's rival Lady Erameline Wortley, with "person more beautiful than her poetry," are all pithy with that quality of epigrammatic, hyper- bolical truthfulness which characterizes an energetic and vivacious intellect reaching out towards greatness. The letter dated 8 Decem- ber, 1837, telling of his notorious maiden speech in the House of Commons, is a very candid statement, and is signed "Yours,

D, in very good spirits." Writing on

6 February, 1845, Disraeli says in reference to Gladstone's retiring speech as President of the Board of Trade, " Gladstone's address was involved and ineffective. He may have an avenir, but I hardly think it." Altogether the book is singularly free from anything weak, mean, or deliberately uncharitable, and constitutes, in its own way, a treasury of autobiography, criticism, and history.

THOMAS BAYNE.

WE must request correspondents desiring infor- mation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries, m order that the answers may be addressed to them direct.

" PAULIE." From the 'E.D.D.' material it appears that this is not an uncommon word m the south of Scotland and Northumber- land. It is used especially of lambs. A paulie" is one of the inferior lambs of a nock, a sickly or deformed lamb. It is also used as an adjective, as " a paulie lamb," and figuratively of human beings, "a paulie creature." The word is also pronounced m pailie." I can find no instance of the word m early Scottish literature. Query, the etymology? A. L. MAYHEW.

GIBSON CRAIG. I have an engraving of a pic- ture of Elizabeth Throgmorton, Lady Raleigh, engraved by R. Bell from an original picture m the possession of James T. Gibson Craig, Esq. I should like to find out the address of Mr. Craig, or, if he is dead, that of any of his

heirs, as I wish to discover the whereabouts of the original picture.

C. WICKLIFFE THROCKMORTON. 349, Broadway, New York.

LAMENT FOR CHAUCER. I should be very much obliged if any of your readers could identify the author of the following lament for Chaucer. It occurs in a poem called * The Cownseyl of the Trynite,' in an unnamed volume of old English sacred poems : And eke myn mayster Chawncers now isgraue, The noble rethor poet for verry certeyne, That worthy was the laurer to haue Of Poetrye and the palme atteyne, That made fyrst to dystylle and reyne The golde dewe dropes of speche and eloquence, In to owre tunge thorow his excellence.

And fonde the floures fyrst of Retoryke Owre rude speche only to enlumyne, That in owre tunge was neuer non hym lyke. For as the sunne doth on heuene shyne In mydday spere down to us by lyne, In whos presence no sterre may appere, Ryght so hys dities with owten eny peere,

Euery makyng with his lyghte disteyne

In sothfastnesse who so taketh hede,

Wherfore non wondre thoro myn herte pleyne

Upon his deth and for sorowe bleede

For wante of hym now in myn greet neede,

That shuld alias conneye and dyrecte, '

And with his supporte amend and correcte

The wrong traces of myn rude penne, Ther as I erre and go not lyne ryght, But for that he ne maye me not kenne. I can no more but with alle myn myght, With alle myn herte and myn inward syght, Preye for hym now that be in hys cheste To god aboue to 3eue his sowle good reste.

MAUDE G. MAY.

[References to Chaucer like the foregoing are requent in Occleve and Lydgate.]

RICHARD FOTHERGILL was admitted to West- minster School on 17 January, 1820. He was 3orn 21 May, 1806, and is said to have died in 1821. I should be glad to ascertain his parent- age and the exact date of his death.

G. F. R. B.

JOHN Fox Fox was admitted to Westminster School on 8 January, 1787. Any particulars concerning his parentage and career are desired. G. F. R. B.

'THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS': EARLY EDITION N FRENCH. I seek to identify an unfamiliar md probably scarce edition of * The Pilgrim's D rogress' in French, my copy of which un- lappily lacks the title-page.

The following details are submitted not

merely to assist my quest, but in the belief

hat the perennial interest which invests the

m mortal allegory will make them welcome

o your readers. The little duodecimo retains