some new pieces, there was but a limited English impression. Last came, in 1897, the single volume of Collected Poems, of which this is the ninth edition.

"What God withholds no man can know."-PAGE II.

"Nescire velle quæ Magister optimus

Docere non vult, erudita inscitia est."-Scaliger.

A GENTLEWOMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL.-PAGE 14.

The Bachelor Samson Carrasco in Don Quixote had his doubt about Second Parts, and there is a like prejudice against Companion Pictures, A Gentlewoman of the Old School would probably have remained unwritten if an uninvited pendant to its forerunner (which originally came out in St. Paul's for July 1870) had not made its appearance in Chambers's Journal for July 8, 1871.

THE BALLAD OF "BEAU BROCADE."-PAGE 19.

There is no foundation in fact for this ballad. It has, however, been gravely asked how a story, some of the incidents of which take place in 1740, can possibly have been suggested by a book published in 1739. Those who are embarrassed by this delicate difficulty can-if they choosementally substitute Forty-Nine for Thirty-Nine in the final line.

"Shared its glories with Westminster."-PAGE 19.

Westminster is now "swallowed up in the general vortex of modern London" (Wheatley and Cunningham's London, 1891, iii. 460).

"Went out of town to Marybone.”—PAGE 19.

Many persons arrived in town from their country-houses in Marybone." (Daily Journal, October 15, 1728.)

WHITEFIELD preached to the colliers grim.”—PAGE 19. "Bristol. The Rev. Mr. Whitefield. . . has been wonderfully laborious and successful, especially among the poor Prisoners in Newgate and the rude Colliers of Kingswood. ... On Saturday the 18th instant [March] he preached at Hannum Mount to 5 or 6000 Persons, amongst them many Colliers" (Gentleman's Magazine, March 1739, vol. ix. p. 162).

"WALPOLE talked of a man and his price."-PAGE 19. This has been contradicted by the more literal historians. But it is sufficiently true for poetical purposes.

"There was Barber DICK."—PAGE 20.

These two personages are borrowed from Plate II. of Hogarth's Election Series, 1757 ("Canvassing for Votes ").

"Guard in the basket armed to the teeth."--PAGE 20.

The basket was a cumbrous wicker appendage for luggage (and frequently passengers) at the back of the coach. (See Hogarth's Country Inn Yard, 1747.) "Its [London's] fopperies come down to us... in the very basket "-says Mr. Hardcastle in Act i. Scene 1, of She Stoops to Conquer, 1773. In 1741 a highwayman was shot from the basket by a Captain Mawley (Gentleman's Magazine, ii. 498).

'Highwayman's manners.”—PAGE 21.

"On Friday in the Afternoon, between Three and Four o'clock, the Bath Stage-Coach was robbed by a single Highwayman about two Miles this Side of Maidenhead, who took from the Passengers between four and five Pounds, behaved very genteely, and made off" (Covent Garden Journal, 10th March, 1752).

"(That's where the best strong waters are !) "—PAGE 21.

Strong waters-e.g. Barbadoes-water, citron-water, &c.— were restorative cordials, much affected by the fair sex. In Richardson's Familiar Letters, 1741, p. 163, a sailor sends his Peggy from Barbadoes six bottles of citron-water. "It is what, they say, Ladies drink, when they can get it."

"Ensign (of BRAGG's)."-PAGE 21.

Despite its suspicious appropriateness in this case, "Bragg's" regiment of Foot-Guards really existed, and was ordered to Flanders in April 1742 (see Gentleman's Magazine, 1742, i. 217). In 1759 Wolfe was leading it at Quebec when he was mortally wounded.

"But for the Ladies had drawn his hanger 1”—PAGE 21.

A hanger is "a broad, crooked, short sword" (Bailey). Tom Bowling (Roderick Random, ch. iii.) wears an hanger with a brass handle ;" and Commodore Trunnion, going to his marriage, is equipped with “a huge hanger, with a hilt like that of a backsword" (Peregrine Pickle, chap. viii.).

"For GEORGE was in league."—PAGE 22.

"That these suspicions [of connivance] were not without foundation is proved by the dying speeches of some penitent robbers of that age, who appear to have received from the innkeepers services much resembling those which Farquhar's Boniface [in the Beaux' Stratagem] rendered to Gibbet" (Macaulay's History of England, ed. 1864, i. p. 181).

"PORTO-BELIO at last was ta'en."-PAGE 23.

Porto-Bello was taken in November 1739, but ViceAdmiral Vernon's despatches did not reach England until the following March (see Gentleman's Magazine, 1740, i. 124 et seq.).

With the B-SH-P of L-ND-N's 'Pastoral Letter.'"PAGE 24.

A Pastoral Letter was issued by the Bishop of London in August, 1739. It was at once answered by Whitefield.

"In his famous gold-sprigged tambour vest.”—PAGE 25.

This embroidery was so-called from being worked on a drum-shaped frame. "Your occasional tropes and flowers suit the general coarseness of your style, as tambour sprigs would a ground of linsey-woolsey" (Sheridan's Critic, 1779, Act i. Scene 1).

"London-Spaw."-PAGE 25.

A tavern and pleasure garden at the corner of Rosoman Street and Exmouth Street, Clerkenwell, having a noted chalybeate spring on the premises.

"Sweethearts with their sweethearts go

To Islington or London-Spaw;
Some go but just to drink the water,
Some for the ale which they like better."

(Poor Robin's Almanack, 1733.)

A freak of the Rose' or the Rummer' set,”—PAGE 25.

The "Rose" was a famous tavern at Covent Garden; the "Rummer was at Charing Cross.

"His solitaire.”—PAGE 26.

A loose neck-tie of black silk, generally affixed to the bag of the wig (Fairholt).

"(Called after BET of Portugal Street)."-PAGE 26. Portugal Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

"In the fresh contours of his 'Milkmaid's' face."—

PAGE 27.

See the Enraged Musician, an engraving of which was published in November of the following year (1741).

"Served-for a day."-PAGE 27.

Walpole (Letters, 1857, ii. 219) says that "half White's," with Lord Mountford at their head, went to see James Maclean (the "gentleman highwayman") in prison. Also that Lady Caroline Petersham and Miss Ashe had been to comfort and weep over him. Maclean was hanged on October 3, 1750, for robbing the Salisbury Coach, near Turnham Green.

"To the world of St. James's Street and White's.'"

PAGE 27.

"White's" was a famous coffee-house in St. James's Street.

"Aim-well. Pray, Sir, ha'n't I seen your Face at Will's Coffee-house?

"Gibbet. Yes, Sir, and at White's too." (Farquhar's Beaux' Stratagem, Act iii. Scene 2.)

"With a pomp befilling his high degree."-PAGE 27.

Fielding (Covent Garden Journal, 27th April 1752) says: "This Day five Malefactors were executed at Tyburn. No Heroes within the Memory of Man ever met their Fate with more Boldness and Intrepidity, and consequently with more felonious Glory."

Elsewhere he says (March 27): "The real Fact at present is, that instead of making the Gallows an Object of Terror, our Executions contribute to make it an Object of Contempt in the Eye of a Malefactor; and we sacrifice the Lives of Men, not for [the italics are Fielding's] the Refor