another may be collected from a well-authenticated anecdote. When FRERE had completed the first part of _The Loves of the Triangles_, he exultingly read over the following lines to CANNING, and defied him to improve upon them:— “‘Lo, where the chimney’s sooty tube ascends, The fair TROCHAIS from the corner bends! Her coal-black eyes upturned, incessant mark The eddying smoke, quick flame, and volant spark; Mark with quick ken, where flashing in between, Her much-loved _Smoke-Jack_ glimmers through the scene; Mark, how his various parts together tend, Point to one purpose,—in one object end; The spiral grooves in smooth meanders flow, Drags the long chain, the polished axles glow, While slowly circumvolves the piece of beef below:’ “CANNING took the pen and added— “‘The conscious fire with bickering radiance burns, Eyes the rich joint, and roasts it as it turns’. “These two lines are now blended with the original text, and constitute, we are informed on the best authority, the only flaw in FRERE’S title to the sole authorship of the First Part. The Second and Third Parts were by CANNING. “By the kindness of [the late] LORD HATHERTON, we have now before us a bound volume containing all the numbers of _The Anti-Jacobin_ as they originally appeared, eight pages quarto, with double columns, price sixpence. On the fly-leaf is inscribed: ‘This copy belonged to the Marquess Wellesley, and was purchased at the sale of his library after his death, January, 1842. H.’ On the cover is pasted an engraved label of the arms and name of a former proprietor, CHARLES WILLIAM FLINT, with the pencilled addition of ‘Confidential Amanuensis’. In this copy CANNING’S name is subscribed to (amongst others) the following pieces, which are also assigned to him (along with a large share in the most popular of the rest) by the most trustworthy rumours and traditions:—_Inscription for the Door of the Cell in Newgate where Mrs. Brownrigg, the Prenticide, was confined previous to her execution; The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder_; the lines addressed _To the Author of the Epistle to the Editors of The Anti-Jacobin_; _The Progress of Man_ (all three parts); and _New Morality_.[1] “With the single exception of _The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder_, no piece in the collection is more freshly remembered than the _Inscription for the Cell of Mrs. Brownrigg_, who “‘Whipp’d two female ’prentices to death, And hid them in the coal-hole’. “The Answer to _The Author of the Epistle to the Editors of The Anti-Jacobin_ is less known, and it derives a fresh interest from the fact, recently [_c._ 1854] made public, that _The Epistle_ (which appeared in _The Morning Chronicle_ of January 17, 1798) was the composition of WILLIAM LORD MELBOURNE. The beginning shows that the veil of incognito had been already penetrated.