p. 564., and the _Gentleman's Magazine_ for
February last, p. 143.), and it is a very interesting proof of the
continuance of her learned studies at that advanced period of her life;
and, as the curious document which records this fact is unnoticed in the
last edition of _Royal and Noble Authors_ by Mr. Park, it is probably a
misapprehension that the same task had engaged some of the hours of her
captivity; or rather is it not one of those dove-tailing conjectures in
which some of our most popular lady-biographers have recently exhibited
such extravagant and misplaced ingenuity?
JOHN GOUGH NICHOLS.
_Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--JARLTZBERG
is wrong in supposing that Richard Viscount Preston's translation
appeared _first_ in 1712. I have now before me an edition in 8vo.
"London: printed by J.D. for Awnsham and John Churchill, at the Black
Swan, in Paternoster row; and Francis Hildyard, bookseller in York,
MDCXCV." Horace Walpole, in his _Royal and Noble Authors_, states that
the publication in 1712 was the "_second_ edition corrected;" and Mr.
Park says in a note, that the first edition was in 1695, 8vo.
C.H. COOPER
Cambridge, June 24. 1850.
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