ing the liberty to leave him where I think him wide
of the prophet's meaning."]

_Heralds' College._--Are the books in the Heralds' College open to the
public on payment of reasonable fees?

Y. S. M.

[The fee for a search is 5s.; that for copying of pedigrees is 6s. 8d.
for the first, and 5s. for every other generation. A general search is
2l. 2s. The hours of attendance are from ten till four.]

_Pope._--Where, in Pope's Works, does the passage occur which is referred
to as follows by Richter in his _Groenlandische Prozesse_, vol. i.?

"Pope vom Menschen (eigentlich vom Manne) sagt, 'Er tritt auf, um sich
einmal umzusehen, und zu sterben.'"

A. E.

Aberdeen.

["Awake my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
_Than just to look about us, and to die_)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man."--_Essay on Man_, Epist.
i. l. 1-5.]

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Replies.

BLANCO WHITE'S SONNET.

(Vol. vii., pp. 404. 486.)

This sonnet first appeared in _The Bijou_, an annual published by Pickering
in 1828. It is entitled:

"NIGHT AND DEATH.

_A Sonnet: dedicated to S. T. Coleridge, Esq._
_by his sincere friend Joseph Blanco White._

Mysterious night, when the first man but knew
Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew,
Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame,
Hesperus, with the host of heaven came,
And lo! creation widen'd on his view.
Who could have thought what darkness lay concealed
Within thy beams, O Sun? Or who could find,
Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood reveal'd,
That to such endless orbs thou mad'st us blind?
Weak man! Why to shun death this anxious strife?
If _light_ can thus deceive, wherefore not _life_?"

In a letter from Coleridge to White, dated Nov. 28, 1827, he thus speaks of
it:

"I have now before me two fragments of letters _begun_, the one in
acknowledgment of the finest and most graceful sonnet in our language
(at least it is only in Milton's and Wordsworth's sonnets that I {470}
recollect any rival, and this is not my judgment alone, but that of the
man [Greek: kat' exochen philokalon], John Hookham