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CONTENTS. 



Page 



Coleridge : Letters to Lamb, and Notes on Samuel 

 Daniel's Poems .-..-- 



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 126 



Shropshire Ballad, by R. C. Warde - - - 1 18 



Cowley and Gray, No. IV'. - - - - 119 



Quaint Lines by Alain Chartier, by GustaveMasson - 122 

 Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple - - 123 



Folk Lore : — Hertfordshire Folk Lore, by Henry 



Campkiu - . - - . - . 123 



Minor Notes : — Curious Epitaph — Verses written on 



the first Leaf of Lady Meath's Bible by Sir Compton 



Domville — " Blue Bells of Scotland" — Ancient Mark 



of Emphasis — A Suggestion to Publishers 



QuEniES : — 



Dr. Cosin and Fuller, by J. Sansom . - _ 



English Catholic Vicars Apostolic, 1625—1689 - 

 Morell's Book-plate - - . . . 



Conundrums .-.-.- 



Pagan Observance on the West Coast of Ireland 



Minor Queries: — " Nobilis antiquo veniens," &c 



Volume of French Poetry — St. Mary Overy's painted 

 Windows — The Host — Eoigram on the Monastic 

 Orders— Greville's Ode to Indifference— Clock Motto 

 — Does the Furze Bush grow in Scandinavia? — Duke 

 of Orleans — Ferdinando Conde D'Adda — Constables 

 of France — Lady Mary Grey and Thomas Keyes, 1568 

 — Frances, Duchess of Suffolk, and .Adrian Stokes — 

 Queen Marv de Conci, Widow of Ale.xander II., King 

 of Scots — Milan — Author of the Gradus — Mutability 

 I of the Substance of the Human Body — Beech Tree 

 never struck by Lightning- Derivation of Knights- 

 bridge ....... 



Minor Queries Answered: — Henrie Smith — Thomas 

 Stanley, Bishop of Man, 1510 — . Thomas Watson, 

 Bishop of St. David's. 1G87 to 1699— J.M, Turner, fourth 

 Bishopof Calcutta, 1829 to 1831 — S. Gobat, Bishop in 

 Jerusalem, 1846 — Distemper — Wright's Louthiana - 159 



Replies : — 



Government of St. Christopher's '- 

 On the World lasting Six Thousand Years, by William 

 Dodge ....... 



Trochilus and Crocodile, by George Munford - 

 Saul's Seven Days .--..- 

 Venice Glasses, by Willi.im Bates, &c. ... 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Styles of Dukes and Mar- 

 quises — Burials — Shakspeare Emendations — Bronze 

 Medals— Baxter— Meaning of "slow " in Goldsmith's 

 " Traveller "— Bells on Horses' Necks — Burial in 

 unconsecrated Ground — Canongate Marriages — Fou- 

 bert Family — Andrews the Astronomer— Portrait of 

 Cromwell — Foundation Stones—The Word " Hand- 

 book" — Dissertation on a Salt-box — All Fours, &c. 

 Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. . . • . . 138 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - - - 138 



Notices to Correspondents . - - -138 



Advertisements . • . • • • 139 



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Vol. VI. — No. 145. 



COLERIDGE : LETTERS TO LAMB, AND NOTES ON 



SAMUEL Daniel's poems. 



[We are indebted to the kindness of Mr. William 

 Hazlitt for the loan of a copy of The Poetical Works 

 of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History 

 (2 vols. 12mo. 1718), which had formerly belonged to 

 Charles Lamb : and from the second volume of which 

 we transcribe the following characteristic Letters from 

 Coleridge to Lamb ; and his admirable and interesting 

 notes upon a poet who is not nearly so well known as 

 he deserves to be.] 



The first is written on the first fly-leaf of vol. ii. : 



" Tuesday, Feb. 10th, 1808 (10th or 9lh). 

 "Dear Charles, 



" I think more highly, far more, of the ' Civil 

 Wars' than You seemed to do on Monday night, 

 Feb. 9th, 1808. The verse does not tease me; and 

 all the while I am reading it, I cannot but fancy 

 a plain England-loving English Country Gentle- 

 man, with only some dozen books in his whole 

 library, and at a time when a 'Mercury' or 

 ' Intelligencer' was seen by him once in a month 

 or two, making this his newspaper and political 

 Bible at the same time, and reading it so often as 

 to store his memory with its aphorisms. Conceive 

 a good man of that kind, diffident and passive, yet 

 rather inclined to Jacobitism ; seeing the reasons 

 of the Revolutionary Party, yet by disposition and 

 old principles leaning, in quiet nods and sighs, at 

 his own parlour fire, to the hereditary right — (and 

 of these characters there must have been many) — 

 and then read this poem, assuming in your heart 

 his character — conceive how grave he would look, 

 and what pleasure there would be, what uncon- 

 scious, harmless, humble self-conceit, self-compli- 

 ment in his gravity; how wise he would feel 

 himself, and yet after all how forbearing. How 

 much calmed by that most calming reflection 

 (when it is really the mind's own reflection). 

 Ay, it was just so in Henry VI.'s time, always 

 the same passions at work, &c. Have I improved 

 thy Book — or wilt thou like it the better there- 

 fore? But I have done as I would gladly be 

 done by — thee at least. 



« S. T. Coleridge." 



