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under the Great Seal for creating His Royal High ness Prince George Frederick Ernest Albert, Duke of Cornwall and York, Duke of Rothesay, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Duke of Saxony, Earl of Carrick and Inverness, Baron of Renfrew and Killarney, Lord of the Isles, and Great Steward of Scotland, K.G., K.T, K.P., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester." The Prince was born on tbe 3rd of June, 1865, and married on the 6th of July, 1893, Princess Victoria Mary (" May ") of Teck.

Mr. Henry Frowde, of the Oxford Univer- sity Press, and Messrs. Eyre & Spottiswoode, Printers to His Majesty, on Monday last issued advance copies of the "George, Prince of Wales, Prayer Book. " The books are ready for publication so soon as the Order in Council authorizing the issue is given.

A. N. Q.

THE FIRST NEGRO TO DINE AT THE WHITE HOUSE. President Roosevelt is the first President of the United States who has invited a negro to dine at the White House. The honour has been accorded to Mr. Booker T. Washington. The Sphere, in giving his portrait on November 9th, states that " he has done more to better the conditions of his race than any other living man. He is the head of the splendid educational institution for negroes, founded by himself, at Tuskegee, Alabama."

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CHARLES WESLEY, GEORGE LILLO, AND JOHN HOME. At the close of July, 1743, the Kev. Charles Wesley visited Land's End. It must have been on that occasion, or at least not earlier, that he composed the hymn, Lo ! on a narrow neck of land, 'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand,

Secure, insensible.

The same metaphor is found in Lillo's ' Arden of Feversham,' Act III. sc. ii. : What shall we call this undetermin'd state, 1 his narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless oceans, that whence we came, and that to which we tend? And Lillo died in 1739. This may have been a coincidence of thought. But if Wesley borrowed from Lillo, Home seems to have borrowed from Wesley in another place. The latter, in his noble funeral hymn on Mr. John Hutchmson, July, 1754, uses the phrase "his indignant spirit." And in ' Douglas,' Act IV 1756), occurs the line,

Whilst thy indignant spirit swelled in vain.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon.

COLERIDGE IN RoME.-In his introduction to Coleridge's 'Poetical Works,' 1893, the late Mr. Dykes Campbell, referring to the poets hurried departure from Rome in May, 1806, says, "Coleridge is reported to have

given several accounts not altogeth er con

sistent but we know nothing of the

circumstances from Coleridge directly." It may be worth noting here that we distinctly have a brief account of the circumstances from Coleridge himself in the tenth chapter of the 'Biographia Literaria' (first edition, vol. i. p. 212), where he explains that Napo- leon had issued orders for his arrest (in consequence of his contributions to the Morning Post\ that he got a warning from Baron von Humboldt, and was rescued from the impending danger "by the kindness of a noble Benedictine and the gracious con- nivance of that good old man, the present Pope." WALTER JERROLD.

Hampton-on-Thames.

CHRISTOPHER ANSTEY'S HOUSE AT BATH. A tablet bearing the following inscription has recently been placed on the house No. 5, Royal Crescent, Bath, where Anstey, the satirical poet, lived : "Here lived Christopher Anstey, 1770-1805." Gainsborough during his resi- dence in Bath painted a portrait of Anstey, besides many other celebrities of the time, and when Anstey died he was adjudged worthy of a place in Poets' Corner, where a monument still commemorates him.

FREDERICK T. HIBGAME.

JOHN HOPPNER, R.A. I am preparing, in conjunction with Mr. William McKay, for early publication an exhaustive monograph on the life and work of John Hoppner, R.A., and I should be glad of the loan of any un- published letters or other material which may be in possession of readers of * N. & Q.' Any document sent will be returned within a day or two of receipt. Hoppner, like George Romney, wrote very few letters, and those few were chiefly of a social rather than artistic interest. I should also be glad of particulars of any family portraits or other pictures which have not been exhibited or

ngraved. I have been able to identify by various means many of his exhibits at the Royal Academy. W. ROBERTS.

47, Lansdowne Gardens, S.W.

" COMMANDO." The war has increased the lumber of words in common use in the lan- guage, and occasionally bestowed an added sense upon ahitherto unfamiliar word. For in- stance, at Snaith, a small Yorkshire town near Groole, the second annual "commando" took 3lace in August last. It consisted of a parade of horsemen and cyclists. The first parade was held last year, in celebration of the reachi- ng of Pretoria and the relief of Maf eking. An outcome of the affair was the raising of a 1 roop of yeomanry. ARTHUR MAYALL.