PRAED'S "ONE MORE QUADRILLE." [To TOE EDITOR OF TER "
SPRCTATOR."]
Sut,—May I point out that it is not strictly accurate to say that Praed's poem, "One More Quadrille," is printed for the first time in Mr. Godley's book of selections (see Spectator, March 26th) P The " Quadrille " was printed in an early number of that entertaining, if sometimes egregious, periodical the Court Journal in 1829, or a little later. It is unsigned, but it was not difficult to make a guess at the authorship. In your delightful article in the same issue on Lear's - nonsense rhymes there is a " reading " which is new to me. The ambitions but incompetent Lady of Rio was said, in a version current at Oxford thirty years ago, to have attempted "Hummel's Grand Trio," not Handel's, and I have sometimes thought that perhaps Hummel's best chance of immortality lay in his popularity at Rio and its commemoration in death-
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