It may be noted that Lamb treats Lyciscus, which was evidently intended merely as a name, as referring to the species of dog; Virgil uses Lycisca as a dog's name in the third Eclogue. Probably Bourne was thinking of a fox-terrier, and the term wolf-dog is pompous and incongruous. Lamb's last line but three is a very lame one; it is a difficult point to determine, but did not he mean "no ungrateful hand"? The true sense of the original line is, "the slender gift of a hand which although poor is not ungrateful." Bourne shows also a remarkable observation of street life, the quaint water-side manners, the odd obscure life that eddied near the river highway and round about the smoky towers of Wren. Absent-minded he may have been, but observant he was to a peculiar degree, and that not of broad poetical effects, but of the minute detail and circumstance of every-day life. It would be easy to multiply instances, but this extract from the "Iter per Tamisin," of the bargeman lighting his pipe, will serve to show what I mean. Why does he call tobacco _pœtum_, it may be asked? The only solution that I can suggest is that Pink-eye, or Squint-eye, was a cant term for some species of the weed at the time. It can hardly be, I think, the word _peat_ Latinised. The version, as in the case of those which follow, is my own. His ita dispositis, tubulum cum pyxide magna Depromit, nigrum longus quem fecerat usus. Hunc postquam implêrat pæto, silicemque pararat, Excussit scintillam; ubi copia ponitur atri Fomitis, hinc ignem sibi multum exugit, et haustu Accendens crebro, surgentes deprimit herbas Extremo digito: in cineres albescere pætum Incipit et naso gratos emittit odores. * * * This thus disposed, a pipe with ample bowl He handles, blackened with familiar use; Stuffs with the fragrant herb, and flint prepares To strike the spark: and thence from fuel stored, Black provender, he spouts a plenteous flame, Kindling with frequent gusts of breath indrawn: Meanwhile he tends with cautions finger-tip The rising fibres; into lightest ash Whitening, they pour the aromatic fumes.