_English Translations of Erasmus' "Encomium Moriae"_ (Vol. i., p. 385.).--Perhaps JARLZBERG, who seems interested in the various translations of this admirable work, might like to know of a French translation, with designs from Holbein, which I purchased some weeks ago at a sale in a provincial French town. It is entitled _L'Eloge de la Folie, composé en forme de Déclaration par Erasme, et traduit par Mr. Guendeville, avec les Notes de Gerard Listre, et les belles Figures de Holbein; le tout sur l'Oiginal de l'Academie de Bâle_. Amsterdam, chez François l'Honore. 1735.
_Lady Slingsby_ (Vol. ii., p. 71.).--She was a professional actress, who played under the name of _Mrs_. (probably _Miss_) _Mary Lee_, from about 1672 to 1680, after which date she is called _Lady_ { 94} _Slingsby_, and she played under this title for about five years, when she seems to have quitted the stage. She survived her husband, for "Dame Mary Slingsby, _widow_, of St. James's parish, was buried at Pancras, 1st of March, 1694."
_Meaning of "Bawn"_ (Vol. i., p. 60.).--The poet Campbell uses the word _bawn_ as follows:--
"And fast and far, before the star Of day-spring, rush'd we through the glade, And saw at dawn the lofty _bawn_ Of Castle-Connor fade."
_Chantrey's Sleeping Children_ (Vol. ii., p. 70.)--Your correspondent PLECTRUM is anxious to know on what grounds I attribute to Stothard any part of the design of the monument in Lichfield Cathedral known as Chantrey's "Sleeping Children?" I will endeavour to satisfy him.
The design, suggested, as it were, by the very nature of the commission, was communicated by Chantrey to Stothard with a request that he would make for him two or three sketches of sleeping children, at his usual price. What Stothard did, I have heard my father say, was very like the monument as it now stands. The sketch from which Chantrey wrought was given to me by my father a few months before his death, and is now suspended on the wall of the room in which I write.
It is a pencil-sketch, shaded with Indian ink, and is very Stothard-like and beautiful. It wants, however, a certain sculptural grace, which Chantrey gave with a master feeling; and it wants the snow-drops in the hand of the younger sister,--a touch of poetic beauty suggested by my father.