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the present is only the re-commencement of the 

 overland route to Australia. The Peninsular and 

 Oriental Steam Navigation Company had the first 

 mail contract in 1853, and carried on the line for 

 a twelvemonth, when it was discontinued in con- 

 sequence of so many of their steamers having been 

 taken for transport-service during the late war. 

 The first mail, therefore, left Southampton per 

 steam-ship " Ripon," on December 20, 1852, 

 and reached Sydney on March 19 by the " Chu- 

 san," the commander of which vessel (Captain 

 H. Down) was presented by the colonists with a 

 valuable gold medal struck for the occasion. 



I should not have thought this worth noting, 

 were it not for the purpose of correcting the erro- 

 neous impression of W. B. C. W. Bombay. 



Lord Lyttclton (2"'^ S. iii. 270.) — More in- 

 formation will be found in Wraxall's Memoirs, 

 i. 329., -Gent. Mag., 1818, i. 517., and in Taifs 

 Magazine for December' and January last. 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Richard Johnson and the Seven Champions of 

 Christendom (2"'i S. iii. 267.) — F. R. S. will find 

 some bibliographical information respecting Ri- 

 chard Johnson and his works in Mr. Chappell's 

 preface to The Croton Garland of Golden Bases, 

 edit, of 1612, printed for the Percy Society, No. 

 23, 1842. Johnson's History of the Seven Cham- 

 pions of Christendom was in print but a few years 

 ago, as a book for boys, and is probably still. 



L.(l.) 



Gehazites (2'"^ S. iii. 169.) — In the English 

 Chronicle, published by the Camden Society, 

 p. 112., the following verses are among a set 



f)Iacarded on St. Paul's gates in 1395 by the Lol- 

 ards: 



" Surgunt ingrati Giezitoe Simone uati 

 Nomine, prelati hoc defensare parati." 



Foxe renders the lines thus : 



" But Giersites full ingrate 

 From sinful Siuion sprung." 



Gehazi is Giezi (2 Kings iv. & v. pass.) in the 

 Vulgate. Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Thanks after the Gospel (2°'» S. ii. 467.) — If 

 you, and I may add your readers, are not tired of 

 the subject, 1 would add the following instance, 

 which shows we have no need to go into " the 

 nooks and corners of England," as one of your 

 correspondents says, to find one. A few years 

 since it (" Thanks be to Thee, O Lord, for thy 

 Holy Gospel") was usually su?tg in our own St. 

 Paul's. 



I do not remember to have heard it since Att- 

 wood's time. I wish his worthy successor, Mr. 

 Goss, would revive this thanksgiving, as it ap- 

 peared to me, though no musician, very good, 

 certainly very pleasing, and possibly Attwood's 



own composition. Its being sung may rest with 

 the precentor, and, if so, he might be reminded 

 from your pages that the custom has good au- 

 thority. F. James. 



Epigram on " Who wrote Icon Basilike ? " (2"'' S. 

 iii. 301.) — M. N. S. has spoiled both the point and 

 the rhythm of this epigram. It should run thus : 

 " Who wrote Icon Basilikfe ? 

 ' I,' said the master of Trinity, 

 ' I, with my little divinity, 

 I wrote Who wrote Icon Basilikfe ? ' " 



I understand that Archbishop Whately wrote 

 this smart parody. C. Mansfield iNGLEur. 



Birmingham. 



Bell Gables (2"'^ S. ii. 467.) — Peakirk, near 

 Peterborough, Northamptonshire, and Buckland, 

 near Dover, are instances of bell gables for three 

 bells. The former undoubtedly very old — I 

 believe about the middle of the twelfth century — 

 the latter may be taken from the old church, the 

 present church being a restoration. F. J. 



B7'ick Buildings (2"'i S. iii. 199.)— I do not 

 think you have noticed Little Wenham Hall, in 

 Suffolk, which is, according to the Glossary, built 

 of Flemish bricks, and of the date 1260. J. C. J. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The new volume of Mr. Peter Cunningham's edition of 

 The Letters of Horace TVafpole embraces the period be- 

 tween the years 1746 and 1756 ; which includes, of course, 

 the close of the Rebellion of 1745, with the subsequent 

 trials, executions, &c., of the Kebel Lords, These Wal- 

 pole narrates with all his characteristic liveliness and 

 powers of description. As we turn over letter after letter, 

 now enjoying a witticism of George Selwyn — now a 

 little bit of Walpole's own malice — picking up in one 

 the last bit of scandal, in another the newest political 

 move — now taking part in a squabble at the opera — now 

 witnessing one in the Ko3'al Closet, and then becoming 

 partizans almost in some fierce parliamentary strugg le — 

 we seem, under the influence of his witty and able pen, 

 to be actual spectators of the scene. Nowhere is the 

 minor history of that time so pleasantly related as in 

 Walpole's delightful gossip; nowhere is the social con- 

 dition of the class to which he belonged so graphically 

 touched off, as in these models of familiar letters. 



Mr. Chappell's amusing and instructive work on the 

 Popular Music of the Olden Time increases in interest as 

 it proceeds. The Ninth Part, which has just been issued, 

 if not quite so rich as some of its predecessors in musical 

 illustration, is particularly rich in its literary portions. The 

 Introduction to the Robin Hood Songs is very carefully 

 compiled ; but the portion of the present Number which 

 will be read with the greatest interest, and well deserves 

 it, is Mr. Chappell's notice of the Effects of Puritanism 

 upon Music and its Accessories ; and his Introduction to 

 the Music of the Commonwealth Period. By the bye, 

 we ought to call attention to what may be called two 

 Musical Supplements to the work before us : the one 

 containing a selection of the best airs under the title of 

 Old English Ditties Harmonized, by G. A. Macfarren, 



