All the Preliminaries Mr. Tickell. Irregular Ode Mr. Tickell No. 1. Ode to the New Year George Ellis 2. Ode Rev. H. Bate Dudley 3. ---- Richardson 4. Duan John Ellis 5. {115} Ossianade Unknown 6. Irregular Ode Unknown 7. Ode to the Attorney- General Mr. Brummell 8. Laureate Ode Mr. Tickell 9. New Year's Ode Mr. Pearce 10. Ode by M.A. Taylor Mr. Boscawen 11. ---- by Major Scott Lord John Towns- hend 12. ---- Irregular(Dundas) Never known to the Club 13. ---- by Warton Bishop of Ossory (Hon. William Beresford) 14. ---- Pindaric General Fitzpatrick 15. ---- Irregular Dr. Laurence 16. ---- Prettyman General Burgoyne 17. ---- Graham Mr. Reid 18. Letter, &c. and Mount- morres Richardson 19. Birthday Ode George Ellis 20. Pindaric Ode Unmarked 21. Real Birthday Ode T. Warton 22. Remaining prose Richardson. I am not certain whether Mr. Adair, to whom "Margaret Nicholson," one of the happiest of the Political Eclogues, is attributed, is the present Sir Robert Adair. If so, as the only survivor amongst his literary colleagues, he might furnish some interesting particulars respecting the remarkable work to which I have called your attention. BRAYBROOKE. Audley End, July, 1850. * * * * * NOTES ON MILTON. (Continued from Vol. ii., p. 53.) _Il Penseroso._ On l. 8 (G.):-- "Fantastic swarms of dreams there hover'd, Green, red, and yellow, tawney, black, and blue; They make no noise, but right resemble may Th' unnumber'd moats that in the sun-beams play." _Sylvester's Du Bartas._ Cælia, in Beaumont and Fletcher's _Humorous Lieutenant_, says,-- "My maidenhead to a mote in the sun, he's jealous." Act iv. Sc. 8. On l. 35. (G.) Mr. Warton might have found a happier illustration of his argument in Ben Jonson's _Every Man in his Humour_, Act i. Sc. 3.:-- "Too conceal such real ornaments as these, and shadow their glory, as a milliner's wife does her wrought stomacher, with a smoaky lawn, or a _black cyprus_." --Whalley's edit. vol. i. p. 33. On l. 39. (G.) The origin of this uncommon use of the word "commerce" is from Donne:-- "If this commerce 'twixt heaven and earth were not embarred." --_Poems_, p. 249. Ed. 4to. 1633. On l. 43. (G.):-- "That sallow-faced, sad, stooping nymph, whose eye Still on the ground is fixed steadfastly." _Sylvester's Du Bartas_ On l. 52. (G.):--