_Humphry Repton._--To snatch from utter oblivion the once highly reputed Humphry, the king of landscape gardeners, to whom many of our baronial parks owe much of their picturesque beauty, and who, by the side of Sir Joseph Paxton, would now most duly have taken knightful station in these go-ahead days, I ask, in what publication was it, that in 1780, or thereabouts, being an indefatigable attendant at all exhibitions and sales of art, he, the said Humphry, was accustomed (as well able he was) to enlighten the public upon what was passing in matters of art now nearly three quarters of a century ago? Was it the _Bee_? Again, did he not, at his death, leave two large volumes for publication, entitled _Recollections of my Past Life_? Where are these? INQUEST. [The MS. collection of the late Humphry Repton, containing interesting details of his public and private life, has been used by Mr. Loudon in his biographical notice of Repton prefixed to the last edition of _The Landscape Gardening_, 8vo., 1840. Mr. Loudon states that 'these papers were left as a valued memorial for his children: it may be imagined, therefore, that they contain details of a private nature, which would be found devoid of interest to the world. Mr. Repton, indeed, possessed a mind as keenly alive to the ludicrous, as it was open to all that was excellent, in the variety of characters with whom his extensive professional connexions brought him acquainted; and he did not fail to observe and note down many curious circumstances and traits of character, in themselves highly amusing, but, for obvious reasons, unfit subjects for publication. Not one taint of satire or ill-nature, however, ever sullied the wit which flowed spontaneously from a mind sportive sometimes even to exuberance." His artistic critiques will be found in the following works: _The Bee_: or, a Critique on the Exhibition of Paintings at Somerset House, 1788, 8vo. _Variety_: a Collection of Essays, 1788, 12mo. _The Bee_: a Critique on the Shakspeare Gallery, 1789, 8vo. _Odd Whims_: being a republication of some papers in Variety, with a Comedy and other Poems, 2 vols. 12mo., 1804.] "_Oriel._"--I should be glad if any of your correspondents could inform me of the origin of the term _oriel_, as applied to a window? It is not, I believe, necessarily to the East. T. L. N. Jamaica.