The difference mentioned by DR. RIMBAULT between the initials in the title-page and those appended to the dedication, occurs also in Mr. Smith's edition. But the dedication to which the initials R.P. are affixed, speaks of the book as the work of the writer in the most unmistakeable terms. Was the S. in the place of the P. a typographical error, perpetuated by carelessness and oversight; or a mystification of the author, adopted when the success of the book was uncertain, and continued after the dedication had contradicted it, by that want of attention to minutiae which was more frequently manifest in former times than at present? Mr. Leigh Hunt informs us that the Countess of Northumberland, to whom the dedication is made, was the lady to whom Percy addressed his _Reliques of Ancient Poetry_. "She was a Wriothesley descended of Shakspeare's Earl of Southampton, and appears to have been a very amiable woman." Permit me to take this opportunity of saying, that there is a misprint in the poem by Barry Cornwall (Vol. ii., p. 451.), by which the title of a poem from which a quotation is made, appears as the name of a _dramatis persona_. "Paris" is the title of a poem by the Rev. Geo. Croly, from which the "motto" is quoted. G.J. DE WILDE. _Peter Wilkins_ (Vol. ii., p. 480.).--In the preface to a garbled and mutilated edition of this work, which appeared Lond. 1839, sq. 12mo., it is stated that the author was Robert Pultock, of Clement's Inn, which is in accordance with the initials to the dedication. Those of R.S. on the title I consider as mere fiction. Lowndes gives the 1st ed. 1750, 2 vols. 12mo. and I have a note of a reprint, Dublin, Geo. Falkner, 1751, 2 vols. 12mo., "illustrated with several cuts." My copy is Lond. 1816, 2 vols. 12mo., with a few indifferent engravings. F.R.A. _"The Toast," by Dr. King_ (Vol. ii., p. 480.).--DR. RIMBAULT will find the _key_ to the characters named in this poem printed in Davis's _Second Journey round the Library, &c._, p. 106. F.R.A. [W.A. informs us that there is a key to this work in Martin's _Account of Privately Printed Books_.] _The Widow of the Wood_ (Vol. ii., p. 406.).--The history of this publication can hardly be given without raking up a piece of scandal affecting an honourable family still in existence. If DR. RIMBAULT wishes to see the book, and has any difficulty in meeting with it, I shall be happy to forward him my copy by the post on learning his address. I inclose you mine, and will thank you to communicate it to him if he should wish for it. The maiden name of this "widow" was Anne Northey. Her second husband was Sir Wm. Wolseley; her _fourth_, Mr. Hargrave, father of the celebrated jurist. Every copy of the work which could be found was destroyed by the latter gentleman. H.C.