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 farther, when a message from the Princess Charlotte of Wale, through her music-master, expressing gratification with the work, and a wish for its continuance, determined him to persevere. The two next volumes proceeded under her patronage, and in the preface to the fourth he makes a feeling allusion to her loss. The whole six volumes cover a space of twenty years, embracing examples, more or less extended, from the works of upwards of fifty composers. It forms a treasury of the richest music, and is peculiarly adapted to meet a want often experienced — how to fill up the hours of social recreation.

The son (from whom I quote) was Canon La Trobe (see chapter xxiii.). lie edited his father’s “Letters to my Children.” He published a didactic volume of essays on the “Music of the Church” in 1831, with this dedication:—

[The old minister was born at Fulneck in 1758, and died at Fairfield on 6th May 1836, in his seventy-ninth year.]

Another son was (I think) Charles Joseph Latrobe, author of travels. I cannot think that he was American, for the motto of his books on the new world was —

His works were (1) “The Alpenstock; or, Sketches of Swiss Scenery and Manners, 1825-6,” Lond., 1829. (2) “The Pedestrian — a Summer’s Ramble in the Tyrol and some of the adjacent Provinces, 1830,” Lond., 1832. (3) “The Rambler in North America, 1832-3,” “dedicated to Washington Irving, Esq.,” 2 vols., Lond., 1835. (4) “The Rambler in Mexico, 1834,” London., 1836.

 . — The Bosanquet family (see chapter xx.) have cultivated literature with no inconsiderable success. The British Museum Library Catalogue contains a long list of their publications. The Bosanquets of Rock, in Northumberland, are represented in three generations. Colonel Charles Bosanquet published a “Letter on West India Property” (1807), “Thoughts on Commerce and our Colonial Trade” (1808), and “Observations as to Bullion” (2nd edit., 1801). His eldest son and successor, Rev. Robert William Bosanquet, published “Objections to Dr. Pusey’s Sermon on the Holy Eucharist” (1843), reprinted at Edinburgh (1844), and “The Sacrament of Baptism” (1850). A younger son, Rev. George Henry Bosanquet,