_Objective and Subjective._--I tried, a little while ago, to show in your pages that this antithesis, though not a good pair of terms, is intelligible, and justified by good English usage. But I must allow that the writers who use these terms, do all that is possible to put those who justify them in the wrong. In a French work at least, recently published, I find what appears to me a curious application of the corresponding words in that language. M. Auguste Comte, in the preface to the third volume of his _Système de Politique Positive_, speaks of some of his admirers who had by their "cotisations," or contributions, supported him while he was writing the work; and he particularly celebrates one of them, Mr. Wallace, an American, adding: "Devenu jusqu'ici le principal de mes souscripteurs, Wallace a perpétué _subjectivement_ son patronage _objectif_, en me leguant une annuité de cinq cent francs." I must confess that the metaphysics according to which a sum paid by a living man is _objectif_, and a legacy _subjectif_, is beyond my depth. {171} While I write, as if writers of all kinds were resolved to join in perplexing the use of these unfortunate words, I read in a journal, "objective discussion in the sense of hostile or adverse discussion, discussion which proposed _objections_." I think this is hard upon the word, and unfair usage of it. W. _Lucy Walters, the Duke of Monmouth's Mother._--The death of this unfortunate woman is usually stated to have taken place at Paris. The date is not given, and the authority cited is John Evelyn. But Evelyn's words have been misunderstood. He says, speaking of the Duke of Monmouth's execution: "His mother, whose name was Barlow, daughter of some very mean creatures, was a beautiful strumpet, whom I had often seen at Paris; she died miserably, without anything to bury her."--_Diary_, July 15, 1685. This passage surely does not imply that she _died_ at Paris? In the Parish Registers of Hammersmith is the following entry: "1683, June 5, Lucy Walters bur." which I am fully persuaded records the death of one of King Charles's quondam mistresses. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.