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'The May Exam.,' beginning "You must wake and call me early, call me early, Pilcher dear." It was written by a graduate of St. John's College, Cambridge, Arthur Clements Hilton, B.A., 1873, for the Light Green Magazine, which lie edited in 1872-3, contributing the whole of the excellent two numbers, pub- lished by Metcalfe &. Son. Hilton was of highest promise, but his early death defeated the hopes of those who had loved him. His parodies rank for merit with those of C. S. Calverley, C. L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), and the recently lost and lamented H. D. Traill, who sacrificed his fine powers shown by ' The New Lucian,' 1884 in the wasteful quagmire of ephemeral journalism. Here is the third stanza of A. C. Hilton's 'New Year's Eve ' :

Last May we went to Newmarket, we had a festive

day, With a decentish cold luncheon in a tidy one-horse

shay ; With our lardy-dardy garments we were really "on

the spot," And Charlie Vain came out so grand in a tall white

Chimney-pot.

Opening paper in the Light Green, p. 1, 1873.

JOSEPH WOODFALL EBSWORTH. The Priory, Ashford, Kent.

MARENGO, NAPOLEON'S HORSE (9 th S. viii. 144). From an article in the Daily Mail, 1 June, 1898, on famous war-horses :

" Nine years after the Emperor Napoleon died, an old white horse perished of old age and pneu- monia in England. The skeleton is set up in the Royal United Service Institution, and to all visitors it is pointed out as Marengo, the charger Napoleon rode at Waterloo. Marengo came originally from Egypt, and was left to wander on the dismal battle- field when the Emperor was forced to fly for his life. An English officer found and took him, and he was sold to a general in the British army. In Eng- lish pastures, cared for by kindly grooms, this noble horse passed the latter years of his life far more peacefully and happily than his great and un- fortunate master."

I have seen two very fine companion portraits of Copenhagen and Marengo by Ward, R.A. 1 wondered at Ward painting the latter, but if the horse ended his days here that explains

G. T. SHERBORN. Twickenham.

In the gardens of Glassenbury, in Kent, a fine specimen of a moated grange, will be found a monument which states that it is placed over this animal's remains.

HAROLD MALET, Colonel. The ' Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,' s.v. Horse,' says Marengo was the name of " the white stallion which Napoleon rode at Water- loo. Its remains are now in the Museum of the

United Services, London. It is represented n Vernet's picture of Napoleon crossing the Alps." According to the illustration of the Dattle of Marengo in Bourrienne's ' Napoleon,' on that occasion also the First Consul rode a white, or, at any rate, a grey horse.

ARTHUR MAYALL.

I have always heard that Marengo died of old age. Its skeleton used to be, and I sup pose is still, in the United Service Museum at Whitehall. Brewer's 'Dictionary of Phrase and Fable' would probably give some in- formation on the subject.

THOS. U. SADLEIR.

Trinity College, Dublin.

SAMUEL RICHARDSON (9 th S. viii. 163). Mr E. Marston, in his 'Sketches of Booksellers of Other Days,' which appeared in the Pub- lishers 1 Circular of 16 February last, says :

" Samuel Richardson was born in a Derbyshire village in the year 1689, but for some reason he always avoided mentioning the name of the town or village, and to this day Derbyshire as a county claims the honour of owning his birthplace, but .t cannot identify the spot where the author of

'Clarissa' first saw the light of day It was no

oke in Chief Justice Jeffrey s's days of authority to come under suspicion ; for he might have been sent to the gallows, or to the plantations across the Atlantic. This possibly explains Richardson's reticence about his native village."

I have consulted many biographical works, but have failed to ascertain the name of his birthplace. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN.

71, Brecknock Road.

MR. R. N. WHITE will be fortunate if he obtains any information beyond the state- ment given in all the biographies that Richardson was born in Derbyshire in 1689. Mrs Barbauld, who edited his correspond- ence in 1804, says that Richardson, "from some motive known only to himself, always avoided mentioning the town which gave him birth." The 'Dictionary of National Biography ' can give no answer to the ques- tion, which was as great a mystery to Richard- son's contemporaries as to the present genera- tion. W. R. BARKER.

Musgrave's 'Obituary,' Harleian Society's Publications, 1901, has, "Sain. Richardson, novelist and printer, auth. of ' Pamela,' 'Clarissa,' etc., of a palsy, 4 July, 1761, set. 72," and gives various references, including "Zimmerm. Icon." The note on p. xii says, " There are engraved portraits of those per- sons marked 'Zimmerm. Icon.,' but for the description of these prints vide my MS. Cata- logue of Engraved Portraits" (Add. MS. 5,727).

H. J. B.