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in a position to do through the kindness of
Mr. E. J. Wisdom of Stockwell. I am in-
formed that the original painting is now
being shown in the department of British Art
.at the Franco-British Exhibition, and that
the names of the sisters are painted in the
left-hand bottom corner of the picture.
I think that the latter fact is one not gene-
rally known, or at any rate is usually over-
looked, so that other readers may be (as I am)
rgrateful for the information.
W. E. HARLAND-OXLEY. Westminster.
AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (10 S.
- x. 247). Is this what M. M. requires in his
first query ?
" The appropriate business of poetry (which never- theless, if genuine, is as permanent as pure science), her appropriate employment, her privilege and her duty, is to treat of things not as they are, but as they appear ; not as they exist in themselves, but as they seem to exist to the senses, and to the passions." Wordsworth's ' Essay Supplementary to the Preface to the Edition of the Poems, 1815.'
T. M. W.
4. " Even the gods cannot alter the past." 'Compare, for a Greek reference, required l3y M. M., Agathon, quoted by Aristotle, " Eth. Nic.,' vi. 2 :
IJLOVOV yap avrov Kal Otos
dyevrjTd TTOICIV acrcr av fj Similarly Milton, ' P. L.,' ix. 926 :
But past who can recall, or done undo ? Not God omnipotent, nor Fate !
C. W. B.
4. See Pindar, c Olympia,' ii. 17 :
-TWV
fv SiKa TC Kal irapa Sfaav aiTOnjroK ovS' av
\povos 6 Trdvroiv Trarrjp Svvairo $e/zei> epytw
Tt'Aos.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.
4. The elder Pliny says that God is not
- able " revocare defunctos, nee facere ut qui
vixit non vixerit ; qui honores gessit non gesserit : nullumque habere in prseterita jus, praeterquam oblivionis " (' H. N.,' ii. 5, 10, quoted by Dr. Ramage in * Beautiful Thoughts from Latin Authors,' ed. 2, 1869, p. 433).
W. C. B. [The REV. J. PICKFORD also refers to Agathon.]
LIZZIE DOTEN'S POEM * Is LIFE WORTH LIVING?' (10 S. x. 229.) This poem appeared in vol. viii. of the New Series of Great Thoughts (vol. xvii. of the original).
G. T.
PICKTHALL (10 S. x. 249). This family is
not included in the latest edition of Marshall's
' Genealogist's Guide,' and the only refer-
ences I have of the name are modern ones
from Chillesford, Suftplk ; Ottery St. Mary,
Devonshire ; and Bootle and Liverpool,
Lanes. These I shall be pleased to send to
your correspondent if of any use.
CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 48, Nelson Road, Stroud Green, N.
JAMES PRESTON OF BARTON-ON-HUMBER (10 S. x. 189). He had issue by his wife Sophia Marshall (who was my great-aunt) two sons, John and James. They used to visit my father, the Rev. Tho. Myddelton, at Laughton Vicarage, Lincolnshire : that would be between 1844 and 1856. I never heard that either of them married. John died at Chelsea, and James in Switzerland. The latter, who had delicate health, was living in the early part of 1874 at Rue Grande, Lausanne, and I rather think it was there that he died. W. M. MYDDELTON.
St. Albans.
ZOFFANY (10 S. x. 130, 193). A fine engraving of the ' Embassy of Hyderbeck from the Vizier of Oudh to Calcutta, by way of Patna, to meet Lord Cornwallis,' contains about 100 figures, among them a portrait of Zoffany, the artist of the original picture. It was published 12 July, 1800, by Lawrie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London. A copy Kangs in the central lobby passage of the Imperial Library, Calcutta ; and a repro- duction of it appears in Bengal, Past and Present, the journal of this Society.
WlLMOT CORFIELD. Calcutta Historical Society.
W. H. RIEHLIN ENGLISH (10 S. x. 247). I do not believe any translations exist, but some of his ' Culturgeschichtliche Novellen ' have been edited for scholastic purposes by H. J. Wolstenholme (1884), J. F. Davies (1890), and A. Voegelin (1892). L. L. K.
FRENCH COAT OF ARMS (10 S. x. 209, 258). The description of coronet agrees with that of a French marquis. The arms " d'azur, au chevron d'or, accompagne en chef de deux etoiles du meme, et en pointe d'un mouton arrete d' argent," are those of the Seguier family, and were borne by the Marquis de Seguier de Saint-Brisson (Loiret) and by the Baron Seguier de Saint Brisson (Paris) : see ' liltat present de la Noblesse francaise,' 1884. There is a notice of Jean Mathieu, Baron Seguier, born 1768, in
- Biographie des Pairs et des Deputes,' 1820.
