FITZGERALD'S " ETJPHRANOR."
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—I have just read your review of Edward FitzGeraM's " Euphranor " (Spectator, June 20th), and think that it may interest some of your readers to know that during the author's last visit to my father, three days before the death of the latter, he wrote the following note on the flyleaf of a copy now in the possession of my brother, who was his godson :— "W. K. Browne, from Edward FitzGercad.
This little book would never have been written had I not known my dear friend William Browne, who unconsciously supplied the model. E. E.G. Goldington, Sunday, March 27, 1859."
My father was educated at Bedford Grammar School, then under Dr. Brereton, not at Westminster, as your reviewer surmises. He made the acquaintance of FitzGerald at Tenby in 1832, and they were fast friends till the day of his death just after FitzGerald's visit. In 1856 the two went to Heidelberg with George Crabbe, the son of the poet, and this may explain the allusion to Heidelberg in the passage quoted by your reviewer.—I am, Sir, &c., E. ICENWORTRY BROWNE.
North Stoneham, Rectory, Southampton.
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