same authority it was based upon one of the writer’s own novels, _Henrietta_, published in 1758. Though tainted with the prevailing sentimentalism, _The Sister_ is described by Forster as ‘both amusing and interesting’; and it is probable that it was not fairly treated when it was acted. Mrs. Lenox (1720–1804), daughter of Colonel Ramsay, Lieut.-Governor of New York, was a favourite with the literary magnates of her day. Johnson was half suspected of having helped her in her book on Shakespeare; Richardson admitted her to his readings at Parson’s Green; Fielding, who knew her, calls her, in the _Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon_, 1755, p. 35 (first version), ‘the inimitable author of the Female Quixote’; and Goldsmith, though he had no kindness for genteel comedy (see _ post_, p. 228), wrote her this lively epilogue, which was spoken by Mrs. Bulkley, who personated the ‘Miss Autumn’ of the piece. Mrs. Lenox died in extremely reduced circumstances, and was buried by the Right Hon. George Ross, who had befriended her later years. There are several references to her in Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_. (See also Hawkins’ _Life_, 2nd ed. 1787, pp. 285–7.) PROLOGUE TO ‘ZOBEIDE.’ _Zobeide_, a play by Joseph Cradock (1742–1826), of Gumley, in Leicestershire, was produced by Colman at Covent Garden on Dec. 11, 1771. It was a translation from three acts of _Les Scythes_, an unfinished tragedy by Voltaire. Goldsmith was applied to, through the Yates’s, for a prologue, and sent that here printed to the author of the play with the following note:—‘Mr. Goldsmith presents his best respects to Mr. Cradock, has sent him the Prologue, such as it is. He cannot take time to make it better. He begs he will give Mr. Yates the proper instructions; and so, even so, commits him to fortune and the publick.’ (Cradock’s _Memoirs_, 1826, i. 224.) Yates, to the acting of whose wife in the character of the heroine the success of the piece, which ran for thirteen nights, was mainly attributable, was to have spoken the prologue, but it ultimately fell to Quick, later the ‘Tony Lumpkin’ of _She Stoops to Conquer_, who delivered it in the character of a sailor. Cradock seems subsequently to have sent a copy of _ Zobeide_ to Voltaire, who replied in English as follows:— 9e. 8bre. 1773. à ferney. Sr. Thanks to yr muse a foreign copper shines Turn’d in to gold, and coin’d in sterling lines. You have done to much honour to an old sick man of eighty. I am with the most sincere esteem and gratitude Sr. Yr. obdt. Servt. Voltaire. A Monsieur Monsieur J. Cradock.