Dec. 2. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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When speaking of Dryden's " tuneful Muse," 

 Addison says : 



" From her no harsh unartful numbers fall, 

 She wears all dresses, and she charms in all." 



J. H. M. 



Bath. 



Major Andre (Vol. ix., p. 111.). — The follow- 

 ing inscription, copied from a tombstone in the 

 churchyard of Bathhampton, near Bath, may be 

 useful to your correspondent : 



" Sacred to the Memory of Louisa Catherine Andre, 

 late of the Circus, Bath : Obit. Dec. 25, 1835, aged 81. 

 Also of Mary Hannah Andre, her sister, who died March 3, 

 1845, aged 93 years." 



B. S. Ejlcock. 



Bath. 



Thomas Fuller, D.B. (Vol. x., p. 245.).— You 

 mention that a good life of this witty and charm- 

 ing writer would be an acquisition to our biogra- 

 phical literature : you are perhaps not aware that 

 such a work has been done by the Rev. A. F. 

 B,ussell, Vicar of Caxton, Cambridgeshire ; and 

 was published a i^vr years since by Mr. Pickering 

 under the_ title of Memorials of Thomas Fuller, 

 D.D., &fc., price 6s. i^^oEEis Deck. 



Cambridge. 



The Poor Voters Song (Vol. x., pp. 285. 350.). 

 — As the author of "The Poor Voter's Song," 

 may I be allowed to observe, that, in the tran- 

 script sent to you by my kind friend Newburi- 

 ENSis, there were two lines interpolated by the 

 composer, which greatly mar the reading of the 

 verses, as will be evident, if you will oblige me by 

 printing the following : 



The Composer's Version. 



" They judged me of their tribe. 



Who on dirty Mammon dote. 

 So they ofFer'd me a bribe 



For ray vote, boys, vote ! 

 So they offer' d me a bribe for my vote. 



" shame upon my betters, 



Who would my conscience buy ! 



But shall I wear their fetters? 

 No, no, no, no, no, 



Not I, indeed, not I ! " 



The Author's Version. 



" They judged me of their tribe. 

 Who on dirty Mammon dote. 

 So they offer'd me a bribe 

 For my vote, boys, vote ! 

 " O shame upon my betters, 



Who would my conscience buy ! 

 But shall I wear their fetters ? 

 Not I, indeed, not I." 



Nothing can be more wretchedly prosaic than 

 the line of five No's ; and I may be excused for 

 repudiating it altogether. . Thos. Noejl. 



Boyne Cottage, Maidenhead. 



" The Perverse Widow" (Vol. x.,p. 161.).— The 

 lines, " Surely a pain to love is," are a translation 

 from Anacreon's "XoAeTrov fieu ro <pi\7](r(i ;" and 

 another English version of them by Addison will 

 be found in Bohn's Anthologia. J. H. L. 



Pensions to Men of Science and Literature 

 (Vol. X., p. 322.). — 



" Quelques pensions accordees aux gens de lettres 

 n'exerceront jamais beaucoup d'influence sur les vrais 

 talens. Le genie n'en vent qu'k la gloire, et la gloire ne 

 jaillit que de I'opinion publique." — Mme. de Stael. 



" Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise 

 (That last infirmity of noble minds) 

 To scorn delights, and live laborious days." 



Milton. 



These quotations from two of the most illus- 

 trious ornaments of literature, show the high 

 animus that prompts and sustains the mind in the 

 prosecution of its congenial pursuits ; but as it 

 often happens that the rewards of literature and 

 science are insufficient to endow their enthusiastic 

 votaries with a sufficient portion of this world's 

 goods, what more noble and grateful task can be 

 undertaken by a civilised and Christian nation 

 than to evince its regard for letters in the persons 

 of its ill- starred cultivators; and to save them 

 from the pangs and the degradation of neglect, 

 misery, and want ? Thank God ! such generous 

 feelings are not extinct in England : although, 

 with regret it must be owned, they are not so 

 conspicuously and systematically manifested as 

 could be wished towards unfortunate men of 

 letters. Liberal. 



The Sultan of the Crimea (Vol. x,, p. 326.). — 

 In reference to the Query, I well remember the 

 Sultan Kata (not Kala) Ghery Grim Ghery 

 coming to Ireland, and being introduced to some 

 friends of mine, at whose house I have seen hia 

 cards, and he also spoke at some Missionary 

 meetings ; after losing sight of him for some 

 years, I heard a great deal of him again in Edin- 

 burgh, where he married a Miss Thompson. They 

 went out to some part of Tartary, I think as 

 missionaries. They had a family, and she used 

 always to be styled " the Sultana" by her sister, 

 whom I knew. M. D. 



Keble's " Christian Year " (Vol. x., p. 355.). — 

 Notwithstanding the high poetical merit and po- 

 pularity of this beautiful outpouring of a refined 

 and Christian mind, it is generally felt that there 

 are occasional blemishes that disfigure both its 

 harmony and lucidity of expression — blemishes 

 that only require a slight effort of the master's 

 hand to remove. Is it true that Mr. Keble is 

 sensible of the defects alluded to, and that, as I 

 have heard it said, he refuses to alter them ? 



OXONIENSIS. 



