Home News :-"Like his brother, Peter Cunningham, he was an enthusiastic lover of Old London. He searched it every nook and corner, and one of his latest labours was the preparation of a new edition of his brother's work, which, we believe, will before long be published by Mr. Murray. A sense of his approaching end made him desirous of preparing materials for a life of his father; for he felt deeply that the life already published was insufficient and incomplete, especially in its treatment of the period of the poet's residence in London, to illustrate which he was in possession of many valuable letters from Scott, Wordsworth, Southey, and other leading contemporaries of Allan Cunningham's best days. He was called in at the eleventh hour, by Messrs. Vickers, to edit their last publication of Ben Jonson's works, and he has thus linked his name with that of the second greatest of our dramatic poets. Glorious Ben was indeed his idol, and it was his supreme desire to be spared long enough to accomplish another edition of the poet on his own undivided responsibility, an opportunity for which had just been offered him. But it was not to be; and, as ever happens when a learned man dies, a mass of knowledge has perished out of the world, never to be presented to it in the form it would have assumed. He was cut off at a comparatively early age, just when his knowledge was ripest. He was well known to, and appreciated and admired by, a few of the highest rank among the litterateurs of the day, who will miss and mourn him; while his geniality as a companion, his happy fund of anecdote, his courteous manners, and his large-hearted sincerity as a friend, will leave a blank among a large circle of those who enjoyed his intimacy which no time can efface or supply." "THERE has just been affixed to the pedestal of the monument of John Conduitt, nephew of Sir Isaac Newton, which is situated at the extreme west end of the north side of the nave of Westminster Abbey, and exactly opposite that of Newton, at the extreme east end, a marble scroll formed between foliage ends, and bearing this inscription : 'In Memory of JEREMIAH HORROCKS, Curate of Hoole, in Lancashire, Who died on the 3d of January, 1641, in or near his 22d year; Having in so short a life Detected the long inequality in the mean motion of Jupiter and Saturn; Discovered the orbit of the Moon to be an ellipse; Determined the motion of the lunar apse;" Suggested the physical cause of its revolution; And predicted from his own observations the Transit of Venus, Which was seen by himself and his friend William Crabtree On Sunday, the 24th of November (O.S.), 1639: This Tablet, facing the Monument of Newton, Was raised after the lapse of more than two centuries, December 9, 1874.'" The Guardian. THE following Latin rendering, from the Contemporary, by Mr. Gladstone, of Dr. Mason Neale's hymn," Art thou weary," should find a place in " N. & Q.": "Scis te lassum? scis languentem ? Luctu contristaris? Audin' Veni, veniensque Pace perfruaris.' Notas habet, quas agnôrim Istum consectatus ! R. Manus, Plantæ, cruentatæ, Cruentatum Latus.' THE Cornhill Magazine, for December, shows us an Oriental Polonius in the person of Noureddin Ali, who, on his death-bed, gave this advice to his son Bedreddin, an Arabian Laertes :-"Be not familiar with all; you will live happily by keeping your thoughts to yourself. Do violence to none: the world is a creditor to whom you owe moderation, pity, and forbearance. He that is silent is out of danger. Silence is life's safeguard, but Speech too often, like a storm of rain, spoils all. No man ever yet repented speaking too little, many millions speaking too much. Be frugal: a little property well laid out will procure you many friends; but all the world will forsake him who makes a bad use of immense riches." THE present Premier is usually credited with the phrase that terms the cab the gondola of London. But in May Fair, a delightful satire, published by Harrison, of Old Bond Street, in 1827,-the year in which, I think, Vivian Grey appeared,-I find "There beauty half her glory veils In cabs, those gondolas on wheels." The author of May Fair is not named, but none of the marks or initials subscribed to the foot-notes point in any way to Mr. Disraeli. W. T. M. Shinfield Grove. RUNIC CROSS AT POOL.-In the middle of the village of Pool, near Otley, in Yorkshire, stood an ancient cross with Runic letters and ornaments upon it. Thus it stood until very recently, when the local Surveyor of Highways, considering it to be rather in the way, removed it, and broke nearly the whole of it up LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY.-The appeal for gifts of works on Kentish literature, antiquities, and topography, for this library, has met with much success, but the Librarian, Mr. Kershaw, still asks all who take an interest in the subject to contribute towards this department of literature. As an adjunct to the Ancient Records of the See and Diocese of Canterbury, preserved here, the Kentish collection will be of great assistance in the researches of those to whom the library is freely open on three days of each week. Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. CURIOUS. It simply refers to a wrong application of an argument. R. S. CHARNOCK is requested to forward his present address. Editorial Communications should be addressed to "The Editor of Notes and Queries'"-Advertisements and Business Letters to "The Publisher"-at the Office, 20, Wellington Street, Strand, London, W.C. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. LORD MANSFIELD.-MR. CHR. COOKE writes: "Neither Mr. Holliday, nor the late Lord Campbell, nor Mr. Foss, in their respective memoirs, explains the reason for the original selection of this title; and the title is not mentioned in W. Harrod's History of Mansfield, 1801, but allusion is made to a 'circular saw invented by William Murray,' a mechanic there. Lord M. may have had legal business from Mansfield when at the Bar, as the first Lord Truro had from Cornwall, and hence selected THE PERLUSTRATION of GREAT the title." 3 vols. 4to. with 400 Engravings, cloth, 31. 58. ; or in Parts, al YARMOUTH. By CHARLES JOHN PALMER, F.S.A. "Books of this kind are interesting even for casual readers, but their E. D.-The extract from the Liskeard register of bap-value to all who are specially interested in local or family history tisms does not refer to the individual named at p. 307 of cannot well be exaggerated."-Spectator. "Nothing is more curious thau to see the little glimpses of life the current volume, as will be seen by comparing the two entries:-"Juliana Carew-Baptism in Liskeard Church, Cornwall. 1632, Julian dr. of Hoblyn Carew gent. by Catherine his wife. June 10." Hoblyn Carew was a younger son of Richard Carew, of East Anthony, and Juliana, daughter of John Arundell of Nevin. W. H. C. is best answered by our quoting a note to the lines in Cowper, in the late Mr. John Bruce's excellent edition of the poet's works (1865, Bell & Daldy): -"Dr. Katterfelto, an empiric of Cowper's time, who announced the performances of himself and his black Morocco cat, in advertisements occasionally headed 'Wonders! Wonders! Wonders!' He died 1799." F. J. H. PRICE.-The Horace Walpole alluded to was the younger brother of Sir Robert, and much engaged in diplomacy when the latter was Prime Minister. Horace was born in 1678, was created Baron Walpole in 1756, and he died in the following year. Robert Mann was Horace Mann's father; between the two families there was some cousinship. ALFRED J-L.-The lines by Mr. Tennyson on Bulwer may be found in Punch. We do not feel authorized to print verses so personal, and which the author has never included in his collected works. Bulwer withdrew from his New Timon the fierce satire which had provoked "Alcibiades," under which signature Tennyson wrote in Punch. CLARRY writes: "Permit me to thank MR. WILLIAM PLATT for his full and excellent reply to the query about Anastasius (5th S. iv. 369, 451). I have read the review in the Edinburgh, but it appeared in March, 1821, not 1820, as stated by a clerical error.' 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