i2s. vm. JAN. 29, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 91 LEIGH HUNT. In ' Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature ' (editions from 1844- 1892) there is included, among the re- presentative selections from Leigh Hunt a
- ' Dirge " ("Blessed is the turf, serenely
blest "). I have not found this elsewhere ^attributed to or acknowledged by Leigh Hunt. Can any reader trace it for me ? F. PAGE. MORGAN PHILLIPS. This Roman Catholic worthy, one of the founders of Douay College, where he died 1570, was also known and referred to as Phillip Morgan. Where was lie a native of originally ? ANEURIN WILLIAMS. SPENCER TURNER. Information is desired about this man. He had a nursery at Holloway Down, Essex, in 1787 (?) Had tie any connexion with Turner's oak ? J. ARDAGH. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED. The following must belong to some work between 1700-1770. Are they from Pitt's speeches? 1. " My hold of the colonies is in the close affec- tion which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges and equal protection. 44 These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." 2. " To hinder insurrection by driving away the people, and to govern peaceably by having no sub- jects, is an expedient that argues no great profundity of politics. It affords a legislator little self-applause to consider that, where there was formerly an in- surrection, is now a wilderness." L. H. P. 3. Will some one please supply author of these lines, and fill in missing words? ^Somewhere there wanders thro' this world of ours Two hungry souls Each chasing each thro' all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at some sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole, And life's long night is ended, and the way Seems open onward to Eternal Day. M. A. P. 4. Who wrote the following, and concerning whom? It is a quotation from Beckmann. Si son execrable m^moire Parvient a la poste'rite'. C'est que le crime, aussi bien que la gloire Conduit a I'immortaUte. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. ^>. Who wrote : Time, and the ocean, and some fostering star, In high cabal have made us what we are. J. R. H. 5. Sir William Watson : ' Ode on the Day of the Coronation of King Edward VII.,' 11. 8 and 9.1 TERCENTENARY HANDLIST OF NEWSPAPERS. (12 S. viii. 38. See vii, 480.) EVERYONE interested in the history of news- papers and periodicals must be grateful to Mr. J. G. Muddiman and to The Times for the compilation and publication of the 'Handlist ' to the former for undertaking such laborious work, and to the latter for enabling it to be printed for the use of students. The more the 'Handlist ' is used the more its value will be appreciated and if, with the co-operation of readers of 'N. & Q.', the earlier history of the press can be brought to completion a * very necessary piece of research will be available for posterity. Mr. Muddiman will be the first to acknowledge that such a work as his must be incomplete, more especially, perhaps, in the provincial section, and here I think he might well have asked publicly for assistance in compiling lists and so have made his ' Handlist ' of even more value. The fugitive nature of provincial papers is well known and records of many can only be obtained by using local knowledge. Two other suggestions are offered. Having put the index to a fairly close test the need for more direct reference to the titles is felt. The chronological arrangement having been adhered to throughout makes searching for titles more difficult than would have been the case had the group of papers under each year been numbered. For example, under 1888 in section II. there are 126 titles and had these been numbered from 1 onwards and referred to in the index as 1888 (1), 1888 (2), &c., instant reference could have been made. The initial labour would have been greater and the cost of printing added to, but the ultimate saving in time to users of the list would have been immense. Secondly, the index would have been more complete had it included the titles of papers which were the successors, under different names, of earlier ones. As examples I give (1) the (second) Gloucester Mercury (1856), which was a continuation of The Gloucester Free Press (see p. 240, col. 2), and (2) The South Midland Free Press, the continuation of The Northamptonshire Free Press. Neither is indexed. Unless one has
