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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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(vi.) * Love out of place.' Begins " I'm a boy
of all work, a complete little servant." Six
'four-line stanzas in a cheap, sprightly vein.
(vii.) * Good-bye.' Twelve four-line stanzas of execrably bad allegory.
(viii.) ' The Fair Thief.' Five six-line stanzas on a girl who " stole the whiteness of the snow " .and various other things.
(ix.) ' Lovers Learning.' Thirteen four -line stanzas on a lover who does not know much (the matters on which he is ignorant being specified), tout who knows how to appreciate Cloe.
(x.) ' Irish Melody.' " She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps." This is by Thomas Moore.
- 34. Among the advertisements in La Vie
parisiennc, before the rule went into effect against copies destined for foreign countries carrying advertising matter, was a list of English books (mostly salacious) published by " The Paris Book-Club." One of the items on this list is : " Lord Byron's ' Unknown Poems ' (Very
rare). 'If not Byron, the Devil.' (Cloth.)
20 fr." This I have not seen. What does it contain ?
Besides the above thirty -four items, one may note two others that really do not belong in " the Byron Apocrypha." James Hogg's imitation (not parody, as is so often stated) of ' Childe Harold ' published in
- The Poetic Mirror,' 1816, under the title
- The Gorilla,' seems occasionally to have
been accepted as Byron's genuine produc- tion. Mrs. Hemans's 'Modern Greece,' a poem somewhat in the manner of ' Childe Harold,' was published by Murray anony- mously in 1817. It seems occasionally to have been attributed to Byron. The copy in Mr. H. E. Huntington's library is stamped on the binding " By Lord Byron," and has a similar attribution written in pencil on the title-page.
Note finally that the list here submitted does not include any spurious Continuations of ' Don Juan,' with which I am to deal elsewhere. SAMUEL C. CHEW.
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania.
STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE
BRITISH ISLES.
(See 10 S. xi., xii. ; 11 S. i.-xii. passim ; 12 S. i. 65, 243, 406 ; ii. 45, 168, 263, 345 ; iii. 125, 380, 468 ; iv. 69, 207, 294, 319; v. 89.)
LOCAL WORTHIES (continued). WILLIAM LAING.
Newcastle-on-Tyne. At the junction of the Great North Road and the Jesmond Dene Road is a combined horse -trough and drinking-fountain. It is constructed of
red granite and stone, and consists of a
square base containing the water supply,
with the inscription on the west side. It is
surmounted by a short column, and that in
turn by a ball. It was
Erected by the widow of the late
William Laing
of Newcastle-on-Tyne and Gosforth in affectionate remembrance of
his lifelong interest in and
kindness to all dumb animals
1895.
COL. COTJLSON.
Newcastle-on-Tyne. On May 27, 1914, a drinking-fountain for animals, erected as a memorial to Col. Coulson, was inaugurated. It is placed in the Haymarket, nearly opposite the Palace Theatre. It consists of two troughs of unpolished Balmoral granite, surmounted in the centre by a pedestal of Heworth stone supporting a bronze draped bust of the Colonel. The' sculptor was M. Arnold Rechberg of Paris. On the pedestal is inscribed :
William Lisle Blenkinsopp
Coulson 1841-1911.
Erected by public subscription in memory of his efforts to assist the weak and defenceless among mankind and in the animal world.
The cost of the memorial was about 600Z.
COL. AND THE HON. MBS. WILLIAMSON.
Comrie, Perth. In a prominent position on a knoll of Tomperran Hill, near Comrie railway station, a granite cairn was erected in 1913 by the inhabitants of the district to commemorate the celebration of the diamond wedding of Col. and the Hon. Mrs. Williamson of Lawers. It is 22 ft. high on a base 10 ft. square. Lady Dundas performed the un- veiling ceremony. On a slab of Peterhead granite is the following inscription :
" Erected by the inhabitants of Comrie and Monzievaird, and numerous other friends, to commemorate the diamond wedding of Colonel Williamson and the Hon. Mrs. Williamson of Lawers, celebrated on the 6th January, 1913. A lasting token of brotherhood, and a mark of gratitude and affection for their self-denying labours in the public interest and their many acts of private kindness during sixty years of married life."
CLAUDE MITCHELL.
Rugby. In 1916 a massive drinking - trough of polished granite was placed in the Cattle Market by Mrs. Mitchell of Thurlaston Grange in memory of her husband. It is inscribed in gold letters on the front : " In Memory of Claude Mitchell, 1916."
