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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. vm. DEC. 28, 1901.

Mr. Maclagan describes some other volumes relating to the 'Paraphrases' which he was unable to trace, and expresses the hope " that, if still in existence, means will be taken for

the preservation of these manuscripts At least

three, and probably four, such manuscript volumes were at one time in existence, and we cannot believe that all these have now been destroyed, or irretrievably lost." P. 192.

It may be suggested that ' N. & Q.' readers might help in the quest for the missing MSS. The present writer possesses Lord Craig's copy of Bruce's ' Poems' (1782), which after- wards belonged to Dr. A. B. Grosart. The Signet Library has his lordship's copy of Logan's l Poems' (1781), ' Runnamede' (1783), and his 'Review of the Conduct of Warren Hastings' (1788), bound together in one volume, the two former items being presenta- tion copies from the author. I have also Dr. Adam Smith's copy of the Warren Hastings pamphlet, with the inscription "for Dr. Adam Smith with Mr. Logan's Compts." In Mr. James Bonar's 'Catalogue of Dr. Smith s Library' (Lond., 1894) the following entry occurs : " Logan (John), Elements of the Philosophy of History, part i. 12mo, boards [1781]." On title-page "from the Author [Logan of Leith, the poet]."

Dr. John Rae, in his ' Life of Adam Smith ' (London, 1895), says :

11 One of the visits Burke paid in Edinburgh (1785) was to a charming poet, to whom fortune has been singularly unkind, not only treating him cruelly when alive, but, instead of granting the usual posthumous reparation, treating him even more cruelly after his death. I mean John Logan, the author of the ' Ode to the Cuckoo,' which Burke thought the most beautiful lyric in the language. 1 After giving details regarding Logan's trou- bles, and quoting a letter from Dr. Smith to Andrew Strahan, dated Edinburgh, 29 September, 1785, in which he warmly recommends Logan to his notice, and supplies details which evince intimate acquaintance with his clerical friend's talents, Dr. Rae concludes :

"But his memory rests now on his poems, which Smith thought less of (than his lectures on his- tory) and especially on his ' Ode to the Cuckoo which he has been accused so often of stealing from his deceased friend Michael Bruce, but to which his title has been put beyond all doubt by Mr Small's publication of a letter, written to Principal Baird in 1/91 by Dr. Robertson of Dalmeny, who acted as joint editor with him of their common friend Bruce sPoems.-Small (John), Michael Bruce anc the Authorship of the " Ode to the Cuckoo"' (Britis) and Foreign Evangelical Review y July, 1877)."

Careful examination of the works of Bruce as edited by Dr. Mackelvie and Grosart, com pels me to declare that their arguments and conclusions are too often based on tradition

learsay, and conjecture, together with a dis-

inct display of animus towards Logan, which

s not creditable to their judgment as editors.

'. would direct the attention of MR. THOMAS

BAYNE to the articles on this subject which

appeared in the Scots Magazine from Decern-

Der, 1894, to February, 1900.

ADAM SMAIL.

Edinburgh.

AUTHOR OF SAYING (9 th S. viii. 463). For lalf a century the origin of this saying in emarkable for showing consideration to either witnesses or jurors. A pursuivant, as an expert, in explaining a " coat " to his ordship, incredible as it seems, is said to lave confused a " bar " with a " bend." My .ord, irascibly correcting him, is debited with adding, "Why, you silly old fool, you don't even know the alphabet of your own silly old business! " GNOMON.
 * he Temple at least has been attributed to
 * he late Maule, J., a judge not conspicuously

I believe it was Lord Westbury who said of a witness from the Heralds' College that he was " a silly old man who did not under- stand even his silly old trade." C. C. B.

I believe that the author of the saying "You foolish man, you don't even know your own foolish business," was the famous Lord Chesterfield, and that it was used by him to John Anstis, the Garter King of Arms.

W. P. COURTNEY. Reform Club.

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BRICKS (9 th S. viii. 404, 449). I was always under the impression (received, I hope, from some authentic source) that it was the Earl of Arundel, in the reign of James I., who intro- duced into this country from Italy the taste for brick buildings in so far as general domestic architecture is concerned. It was, however, very prevalent prior to this in the case of private mansions and public buildings, e.g., Lincoln's Inn Gateway, the earlier portion of Hampton Court Palace, parts of the old church, Chelsea, &c., and the fashion no doubt received a fillip from the fact that some of Palladio's finest productions were of brick. Buildings of deep -red brick, says Fosbrooke, chequered with others, glazed and darker, window frames of stones or bricks covered with plaster, are of about 1530, when Holbein built his beautiful gateway at Whitehall. But that bricks were in use at a much earlier period than that of the Per- pendicular style of architecture is proved by their employment in the walls of Little Wenham Hall, Suffolk, dated about 1260 or