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evidence than this he has in his possession Bruce s
original MSS. of the poem ' Lochleven,' and the
story is not there either in the form or extent in
which it appears as published the story ends by
simply painting her fear and her flight from the Giant to the side of the lake into which she plunged herself." ,-
And again :
" He [Logan] has certainly imitated Bruce's man- ner very happily. Nearly 200 lines of the story are entirely Logan's."
These extracts alone seem pretty conclusive. It will be noticed that Dr. Baird's reference is to the Giant." As has been already mentioned, Logan makes the hero a hunter. But in addition to all this external evidence there are many parallelisms which point to Logan as the author of 'Levina.' Nor is it altogether without significance to note that the name Levina, although not Logan's creation, reappears in a slightly altered form in Elvina the heroine of 'Runnamede,' which was not published till thirteen years after the first issue of Bruce's poems. Here then are some of the more important parallel- isms :
Levina. A Tale.
Each height'ning each, Something unseen o'er
effus'd o er all her form all her form A nameless grace, the Did nameless grace im-
beauty of the mind. part.
The patriarch of the A patriarch in the vale of
plains ; ne'er by his peace
door
The needy pass'd or the He liberal dealt his
way-faring man. store ;
And called the stranger
to his feast, The beggar to his door.
His only daughter, and An only daughter in his
his only joy,
I feed my father's flock.
age
Solaced a father's care.
Than the sweet lily of Queen of the vale, the
the lowly vale, lily fair.
The Queen of flowers.
, Runnamede.
Parents, happy in a You, Albemarle,
child so fair. Are happy in a daughter
fair.
Come, let us crop the Give us again the wild- roses of the brook, ness of our woods. And wildings of the wood. Act I. sc. i.
The Lovers. Yet at his frugal board And friendship sits a
Health sits a guest. constant guest.
To strew the bridegroom's For thee the virgins way, and deck his bed. deck the bed.
Ode to Man of Letters. And now the Morning.... The rose unfolds her
put on her robes, robe of light.
Her beauteous robes of light Ode written in Spring.
the Naiad streams The loosen'd streamlet
loves to stray Flowed down the dale. And echo down the dale.
Levina. Ode written in Spring.
Her breast was fairer O come, thou fairer than
than the vernal bloom the bud
Of valley-lily, opening in Unfolding in a shower ! a shower.
where, hand in hand, Trip hand in hand the
Eternal Spring and Au- circled green, tumn rule the year.
Runnamede.
When hand in hand we sported in your hall.
A few parallelisms taken from Logan's 'Sermons' may also be cited. In Sermon VI.
vol. i. will be found "They walk hand in
hand through the paths of childhood," which is similar to quotations given above from the poems. " Keeps as the apple of his eye " occurs in Sermons II. and XV. of vol. i. In the address before the "serving of the third table " at the Lord's Supper, Logan's poetic taste is seen in the introduction of the some- what uncalled-for injunction, " Strew his path with flowers," following the exclamation " Rejoice, behold thy King is come." It corresponds well to what is found in 'Levina': "in quest of flowers to strew the bridegroom's way." Also, " crop the unblown flower " and " crop the blossoms," from Sermons III. and XII. respectively of vol. i., closely resemble " crop the roses of the brook" in 'Levina.' There is also great similarity in the ideas expressed in this extract from ' Levina ' (1. 228 et seq.\ " High in
the midst, an enchanted tree grew ever
green Here every bride two golden
apples gathered the pledge of nuptial
concord and delight," to those in this sentence from the twentieth sermon of vol. ii., " Amid the Garden of Eden a tree arose, the sacramental pledge of life."
A. M. MCDONALD.
108, Gilmore Place, Edinburgh.
LADY WHITMORE (9 th S. x. 268, 318, 395).
We have in our care at the present time for
cleaning and varnishing an oil painting of
Lady Whitmore, by Sir Peter Lely. The
inscription painted on the picture is,
"Frances, youngest daughter of Sir W m
Brooke, B fc , Wife of Sir Thomas Whitmore,
K.B. Interred in Twickenham Church, 1690."
A picture of Sir George Whitmore, Lord
Mayor of London, painted by Cornelius
Janssen, has also recently passed through
our hands. WHITEHOUSE & JAMES.
30, St. George's Place, S.W.
I have to thank COL. PRIDE AUX for his long and exhaustive note. Lady Whitmore's portrait by Zurbaran has never been cata- logued, but has been seen by experts. It
