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Alexander the Great, written in a small scratchy handwriting on foolscap paper."

One is tempted to ask, Do those volumes, thumbed and annotated by the greatest soldier of the last century, still repose at Carl ton House ? J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

ME. GEOEGE F (9 th S. viii. 185). 'Mus-

grave's Obituary,' Harleian Society's Pub- lications, 1900, has "Geo. Eobt. Fitzgerald convicted of murder 1786 ('Anecd.,' E.M., ix. 359)," i.e., consult European Magazine for anecdote. 'Dictionary of National Bio- graphy,' vol. xix. p. 114, has "George Kobert Fitzgerald (17481-1786), known as Fighting Fitzgerald." H. J. B.

HESKETH OF CHESHIEE (9 th S. viii. 263). I have often tried to identify this Henry Hesketh, but without success. Wood says he was "a Cheshire man born, descended from Heskeths in Lancashire." There are many pedigrees in print and in MS. of the Heskeths of this county. The Heskeths of Hesketh, of Rufford, of North Meols, of Poulton, and of Whitehill in Goosnargh, were all probably offshoots of one common stock, but the vicar of St. Helen's does not appear to belong to any of them. The matriculation book at Brasenose simply records that he entered as a "pleb," which makes it appear unlikely that he belonged to one of the families whose pedigrees have been preserved. Henry Hesketh wrote several works which are not named in the 'Dictionary of National Bio- graphy, 'inter alia, 'The Dangerous and almost Desperate State of Religion, together with other Things in Order to its Recovery,' Lon- don, 1679, 4to. Anne Halliwell, sister to the Rev. Henry Halli well, vicarof Ifield, Sussex, by her will dated 14 November, 1669, nominated Henry Hesketh, (rector) of Charlwood, to be her overseer. This Henry Halliwell was cer- tainly of Lancashire descent (5 th S. i. 138). Henry Hesketh resigned the vicarage of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, 23 January, 1694, but he continued to hold the rectory of Charlwood, where he died 16 December, 1711. HENEY FISHWICK.

' THE LOST PLEIAD ' (9 th S. vi. 49, 274, 333 ; viii. 309V I am very much obliged to the REV. J. WOODFALL EBSWOETH for his satisfac- tory reply to my query at the first reference, arid for sending Mrs. Hemans's poem ; but I am sorry that before his note concludes surgit amari aliquid, namely, his unkind stricture on Francis Turner Palgrave. Mr. Palgrave's ' Golden Treasury 'even the first edition of 1861, which, valuable as it is, is yet

less valuable than the enlarged edition of 1892 is, I am bold to say, the best anthology, at least of lyrical poetry, in our language ; so much so that it takes rank almost as an original work. It is a book to which I am not at all ashamed to say I owe an incalculable debt of literary gratitude, a quality which I am pleased to believe is strongly developed in me. The taste dis- played in this truly "golden" anthology is nearly perfect ; not absolutely so, because there are a few unfortunate omissions, e.g., Shelley's ' Cloud ' and Byron's ' Isles of Greece.' I think also that Logan's (or Bruce's) 'Ode to the Cuckoo/ Mrs Hemans's 'Graves of a Household,' and the Ettriek Shepherd's ' When the Kye come Hame ' should have been included. But it is impossible to please every one in an anthology. Almost every reader will miss some favourite piece or pieces. Never- theless, the ' Golden Treasury ' is, or ought to be, a Krrjfjia es ai for all lovers of poetry.

ME. EBSWOETH has apparently forgotten that his trenchant criticism of Mr. Palgrave includes, indirectly, no less an authority than Tennyson, under whose "encourage- ment " the 'Golden Treasury' was begun, and under whose "advice and assistance" it was completed, as the anthologist says in his dedication of the work to the great poet. I was not personally acquainted with Mr. Pal- grave, although I had several letters from him at one time and another.

I hope ME. EBSWOETH will take these remarks in good part, and will attribute them to my sense of gratitude to a book to which I have been deeply indebted for help in my literary education.

I should like to add that I think the Rev. H. C. Beeching's 'Paradise of English Poetry ' is a worthy companion to the 'Golden Treasury' ; but this contains both epic and dramatic, as well as lyrical poetry, and this was outside the plan of Mr. Palgrave's anthology. JONATHAN BOUCHIEE.

Ropley, Hampshire.

FEEDEEICK, PEINCE OF WALES (9 th S. viii. 224, 306). I have somewhere read that the lines on Frederick were written, or at least put in their present form, by the Hon. Miss Rollo, a sister or a daughter of the then Lord Rollo. M. N. G.

CANN OFFICE (9 th S. viii. 304). From pre- vious correspondents (see 6 th S. vi. 168, 293) I learn that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a Cann Office at Bath, and that at present there is a Cann Office Inn in Montgomeryshire, but which is not named in Camden Hotten's * History of Sign-