—It is asserted that the article an is prefixed before six words only that begin with the letter h. Is hospital one of them? The others are, I believe, heir, honest, honour, hotel, humble.
NIL NEMINI.
Tunbridge Wells.
"Black Gowns and Red Coats."
—Can any of your readers give me any information about a poem called "Black Gowns and Red Coats?" It is a satire on Oxford, which was published in 1834, at the time of the Duke of Wellington's installation as Chancellor; but the satire was so severe, that it was at once suppressed. The author is said to be dead; I should like to know something of the circumstances of its publication, for I had once seen it, and it bore the marks of very great genius. If any one has a copy to dispose of, I would gladly buy it.
S. F. C.
Oxford.
Coleridge's "Friend."
—Who is the person alluded to in the following note in Coleridge's Friend, 1st edition, No. 8. Oct. 5, 1809, p. 124.?
"He is gone, my friend, my munificent co-patron, and not less the benefactor of my intellect! he who, beyond all other men known to me, added a fine and ever-wakeful sense of Beauty to the most patient accuracy in Experimental Philosophy and the profounder researches of Metaphysical Science," &c.