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Memoir of William Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L., Author of "Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers," &c. By Theodore Martin. With an Appendix. (Blackwood.) William Edmondstoune Aytoun was a scion of the same house with Sir Robert Ayton, a scholar and a poet whose name has figured recently in these columns. Professor Aytoun was born in Edinburgh on June 21, 1813; and closed his too short, but useful and blameless life, at the comparatively early age of fifty-one, at Blackhills, Elgin, on August 4, 1863. This useful and blameless life has found a faithful chronicler in his old friend and literary associate Mr. Theodore Martin. The book is thoroughly genial; and whether Aytoun's social relations, his professional career, or his varied and admirable literary studies, pursuits, and successes, form the subject under consideration, Aytoun is almost always made to tell his own story in his own words. The result is a biography which endears the subject of it to us. We feel that we have known and esteemed him; and tracing with deep interest his whole career, we close the book, feeling how truly his biographer describes him as "a truehearted gentleman"; who "died honoured by his fellow citizens, and deeply mourned by those who had the happiness to know him as a friend." Mr. Martin's Memoir of Aytoun will not be the book with which Mr. Martin's name will be least favourably associated.

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RALPH THOMAS. A Tour in Quest of Genealogy is by Richard Fenton. See "N. & Q." 3rd S. fi. 331.

R. "To return by Weeping Cross" was a proverbial expression for deeply lamenting an undertaking, and repenting of it. See Nares's Glossary, and "N. & Q." 1st S. i. 154.

H. T. ELLACOMBE. The Townley MSS. are in the British Museum, as stated in "N. & Q." 1st S. iv. 103; vii. 407.

WM. RAYNER. The definition of an ambassador attributed to Talleyrand rightly belongs to Sir Henry Wotton, who unluckily for himself wrote the following sentence in Christopher Flecamore's album: "Lepatus est vir bonus, peregrè missus ad mentiendum Reipublicæ causa."--See Walton's Life of Sir Henry Wotton.

J. H. D. For the origin of the inn sign, "The Case is Altered," consult" N. & Q." 2nd S. iv. 188, 235, 299, 418. Ben Jonson wrote "A Plea sant Comedy called The Case is Altered," Lond. 1609, 4to.

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