"The Right Divine of Kings to govern wrong" (Vol. iv., p. 125).
—I cannot concur in MR. CROSSLEY'S conjecture that the marks of quotation affixed to this line in the eighteenth book of the Dunciad may have been a mere error of the press; because, in the first place, I do not find that the Dunciad is more negligently printed than other works of the day. I should say rather less so; but (which is more important) any one who will look at the successive editions will, I think, be satisfied that the remarkable typography of the line, carefully reproduced in all, could not be accidental. This matter is less trifling than it at first sight may seem, because there are several lines in Pope's works similarly marked as quotations, on which questions have arisen; and my belief is that everything so marked will turn out to have really been a quotation, though in this case, and in that other,
"No Lord's anointed but a Russian bear,"
we have, as yet, failed to find the original.
C.
Fairlight Church (Vol. iv., p. 57.).
—The old church was Early English; the original windows were lancet-shaped. It was built, like all the adjoining churches, of stone; but it had been repaired with brick, and the roof of the tower had been covered with tiles instead of shingles. The earliest brick building in Sussex, after the Roman period, is Herstmonceux Castle, built by Sir Roger de Fynes, treasurer of the household to Henry VI.
W. D. COOPER
Dogmatism and Puppyism (Vol. iv, p. 102).
—The quotation your correspondent writes about to be found in MR. DOUGLAS JERROLD'S A Man Made of Money, p. 252.: