Caves at Settle, Yorkshire (Vol. viii., p. 412.).—Brigantia will find a very circumstantial and interesting account of these caves, and their Romano-British contents, in vol. i. of Mr. Roach Smith's Collectanea.
G. J. De Wilde.
Character of the Song of the Nightingale (Vol. vii., p. 397.; Vol. viii., pp. 112. 475.).—One poet, not so well known as he deserves, has escaped the observation of those who have contributed to your valuable pages the one hundred and seventy-five epithets which others of his craft have applied to the "Midnight Minstrel." I allude to the Rev. F. W. Faber, in his poem of the Cherwell Water Lily. This poem his now become scarce, so I send you the lines to which I refer, as the "summary of epithets" which they contain, as
well as their intrinsic beauty, render them worthy of notice:
"I heard the raptured nightingale,
Tell from yon elmy grove, his tale
Of jealousy and love,
In thronging notes that seem'd to fall,
As faultless and as musical,
As angels' strains above.