" which has since been republished in a volume of
collected poems with his name to them, many of which are strikingly unlike
it in character. The gay _Etonian_ is now the vicar of Rugby; and the story
of his experiences has been told by himself with a singular charm in his
"Dream of a Life."

Strange it is that the contributions of Macaulay to Knight's _Quarterly
Magazine_ should not, ere now, have been reprinted. Some few of them have
been so, and are become familiar as household words on both sides of the
Atlantic. The others are as obscure as if still in manuscript. What does
the public at large know of the "Fragments of a Roman Tale," or the "Scenes
from Athenian Revels;" in which the future historian tried his powers as a
romancer and a dramatist--in the one case bringing before us Caesar and
Catiline, in the other Alcibiades and his comrades. There are essays too by
Macaulay in Knight's _Quarterly Magazine_ of a lighter character than those
in the _Edinburgh Review_, but not less brilliant than any in that splendid
series which now takes rank as one of the most valuable contributions of
the present age to the standard literature of England. It would not be one
of the least weighty arguments against the extended law of copyright, which
Macaulay succeeded in passing, that the public is now deprived of the
enjoyment of such treasures as these by the too nice fastidiousness of
their author. As on two former occasions, we suppose that they are likely
to be first collected in Boston or New York, and that London will
afterwards profit by the rebound.

M. T. W.

"_La Langue Pandras_" (Vol. ii., pp. 376. 403.).--It is merely a
conjecture, but may not the word _Pandras_ be the second person singular in
the future tense of a verb derived from the Latin _pando_, "to open?" I am
not aware of the existence of such a word as _pander_ in old French; but I
believe that it was by no means an unusual practice among the writers of
Chaucer's time to adapt Latin words to their own idiom.

HONORE DE MAREVILLE.

Guernsey.

_Cranmer Bibles_ (Vol. ix., p. 119.).--S. R. M. will be gratified to learn,
that the death of Mr. Lea Wilson has not, as he conjectures, led to the
dispersion of the curious collection of Cranmer Bibles, which he had been
at so much pains in forming, but to its being rendered more accessible.
They were all purchased for the British Museum.

M. T. W.

_Voisonier_ (Vol. ix., p. 224.).--A corruption of _vowsoner_