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1-1-1|-r:-1. _- ivfagf- -1-f_.._.~ wr- - -rf-#~ -- _ _ 58 NOTES AND QUERIES. t9"~s. v1.Jm.r 21,19oo. articulars concerning his walking feats the fbllowing works should be consulted : the ‘Dictionary of National Biogra hy’ ; Cham- bers’s ‘ Book of Days,’ ii. 633 ; Tliom’s ‘ Pedes- trianism,’ 1813 ; ‘A Short Sketch of the Life of Foster Powell,’ London, 1793; and ‘Mr. Foster Powell’s Journey on Foot from London to York,’ 1793. T. SEYMOUR. 9, Newton Road, Oxford. For an account of this remarkable pedes- trian, who was born at Horsforth, near Leeds, in 1734Mand of his feats, see Gra1nger’s ‘Wonderful useum,’ ii., 1804; ‘Wonderful Characters] i., 1821; ‘Wonders of Human N ature,’ Glasgow, 1842; Eccentric Magazine, 1814, in all of which works a rportrait is given; but in Kirby’s ‘Wonde ul and Eccentric Museum,’ iv., 1820, there is no illustration. EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road. ‘THE DISPRNSARY ’ (9“' S. v. 496).-My copy is the tenth edition, 1741, with a “Compleat Ke ” at the end, from which I find that William III. is referred to as “ Nassau,” and there are several laudatory passages in various parts of the book. In canto 1. p. 9, l. 16, he says :- The Peals of N assau’s Arms these eyes unclose, Mine he molests, to ive the World Repose. That Ease I offer wifli Contempt He flies, His Couch a Trench, his Canopy the Skies. Nor Climes nor Seasons his Resolves controul, Th’ }Equator has no Heat, no Ice the Pole. With Arms resistless o’er the Globe he flies, And leaves to J ove the Empire o’ the Skies. The reference in canto vi. pp. 83-4 is too long to quote. Dr. Garth in his ‘ Claremont] which is bound up in the same volume, at p. 35, has :- Again shall Romulus in Nassau reign ; Great Numa, in a Brunswick Prince, ordain Good Laws; and Halcyon Years shall hush the World again. WM. NORMAN. William III. is frequently referred to in this poem under the designation Nassau, which, it may be noted, is intended to be Sronounced as in French. Perhaps the lines esired by H. T. B. are those in canto vi.:- And hence on Daphne’s laurel’d forehead grow Immortal wreaths for Phoebus and Nassau. W. T. LYNN. [Similar replies received.] HARRISON WEIR’S BOOK ON CATS'(9“h S. v. 515).-If SINOL were to write direct to Mr. Harrison Weir at Sevenoaks-quite sufficient address to find so well known a man--he would get all the information he seeks. As a Lewes man he is well known here, and from a friend with whom he often stays I could possibly get details. She possesses an original edition given to her by him. CAROLINE STRGGALL. Lewes. This work was published in 1889 by R. Clements dz Company, Mount Pleasant, Tunbridge Wells. J. T. Becken am. . " Uisrzllxmnus. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Dictiona of National Biograph . Edited by Sidneyriee. Vol. LXIII. (Smith, Elder & Co.) WE have at last to congratulate our readers on the completion of the most truly national undertaking that English letters have yet known. The con- cluding volume of the ‘Dictionary of National Biography’ is now in the hands of the public, and the good y row of volumes, containing full infor- mation concerning every En lishman of eminence from the beginning of our History-shall we say with Boadicea ?-to “him that did but tyesterday suspire,” stretches out on the shelves o the sub- scri ers. A coupge of volumes of supplement, giving short lives of t ose who have die while the work was in progress, are promised for next year. Our duty in the present case is light-lighter than it has previousliy been. From the task o congratulating the foun ers and executants of this fine work we are freed, inasmuch as that duty has been taken up by the nation. Royalty has not withheld its gatron- alge, and the municipality of London has, t rough t e Lord Mavor, commemorated the conclusion of the work. What further recognition, if any, mag bein store for those whose energy, capacity, an munificence have brought this treasury into our possession we know not. We are, at east sure that across the Channel such an occasion would not pass without a liberal bestowal of honours. Addi- tional interest attends the last volume, which gives, from editorial sources, an all but complete istory of the inception and execution of the work. From this we learn that the editor is responsible for three volumes of the series, and t-hat no fewer than eighteen contributors have supplied a volume or over. So full of matter, and so pregnant in interest, is this that we commend a close study of it to our readers, a matter the more easily accom- plished, since the statistical account is issued separately in pamphlet form. _ urning to this concludinlg volume, we find it contains one of the sixteen ongest and most im- ortant articles-the life of Wyclifi`e the reformer, by the Rev. Hastings Rashdall. Mr. Leslie Stephen concludes his series of literary' portraits with ives of Wordsworth and Young of t e ‘ N ight Thoughts] while the editor supplies admirab e studies of Tudor life and literature in his lives of Sir Henry Wotton, the two Sir Thomas Wyatts, father an son, and the Wriothesleys. Under the head ‘ Henry Wriothesley, Third Ear of Southa.m(pton,’ Mr. goes over §ain much of the group traversed in is life of hakespeare. He olds that the view that the majority of Shakespeare’s Sonnets were addressed to Southampton is powerfully supported bg internal evidence, and he sees a possibility that t e rival in the earl’s affection might have been