The Times of 30 April has the following more comprehensive account:-"A correspondent writes: The ranks of retired Indian Civil servants have lost a well-known and much esteemed member in the person of Mr. Michael Lloyd Ferrar, who died suddenly at his residence, Little Gidding, Ealing, on the 23rd inst., at the age of sixty-four. Mr. Ferrar, who was a native of the North of Ireland, and an ex-Scholar and graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, entered the Indian Civil Service in 1883, and was appointed to Bengal. After two years' service in that province he was transferred to udh, where he remained for nearly twenty years, distinguishing himself by carrying through the revenue settlement of the Sitapur district. Some time after the amalgamation of Oudh with the North-Western Provinces, Mr. Ferrar was transferred to the latter, where in 1891 he became the first Commissioner of the Gorakhpur Division. He held this high office until his retirement in 1896, and during his tenure of it was called upon to display courage and judgment in dealing with the cow-killing' disturbances in 1893. The Commissioner's presence at Azamgarh gave the needful support to the youthful and inexperienced local officers, and the three European officials who had to face the crisis were able to report, after a few anxious days, that the danger was past. Ferrar, who was a member of the family of Nicholas Ferrar, the well-known seventeenthcentury divine, was a man of exceptionally amiable disposition, popular among both Europeans and natives. He was especially beloved by the native gentry, as he belonged to that school of officials whose sympathies are given most actively to the aristocratic classes. But to all classes he was kind, just, and generous." of mystery. Mr. James Baker writes eulogistic lly article on the patriarch Job, to which he made concerning R. D. Blackmore. Mrs. B. A. Crackan-friendly allusion in N. & Q.'" (9th S. vii. 190]. thorp is earnest in advancing A Plea for a Reformed Theatre.' One of her demands is the abolition without compensation of the "Finance Syndicate."-One of the pleasantest articles in the Nineteenth Century is that of Mr. R. Bosworth Smith upon Bird Life at Bingham's Melcombe.' The writer is an observant naturalist, and what he has to say concerning rooks, magpies, kingfishers, &c., is of supreme interest. Sir George Arthur writes earnestly and ably on Anti-Clericalism in France and England,' and draws some striking contrasts. Sir M. E. Grant Duff points out noteworthy things in Lord Acton's Letters.' It is interesting to find Mr. Hugh Arthur Scott writing Against a Subsidized Opera.' Sir Michael Foster has an important article on The State and Scientific Research, and Sir William Broadbent a second on Dr. Maclagan and his Great Work.'-In the Pall Mall, the cover of which presents the piping of Pan, we are given, under 'Literary Geography,' 'The Country of George Meredith,' which, as it happens, is Box Hill, that of his residence. It.is conceded that Meredith has in his works no special atmosphere such as that of Blackmore. The views are those of Surrey slopes and ridges. There is also a portrait of the novelist. A very readable description, with illustrations, of Kilkenny Castle' constistutes an attractive feature. The Etiquette of Visiting Cards' copies many invitations from distinguished folk to John Wilson Croker, and is fresh and suggestive. Mr. Andrew Lang's Captain Pink' deals with an adventure in Jacobite times. Mr. Max Beerbohm has much that is interesting to say on Whistler's Writing.'-Though it appeared originally as a lecture, Canon Ainger's How I traced Charles Lamb in Hertfordshire,' in the Cornhill, is a model magazine article, and will be read with delight by lovers of Lamb. throws much light upon "Elia." No. IV. of Lady Broome's Colonial Memories' deals with Rodrigues, and is so far the most interesting. No. V. of Mr. Andrew Lang's 'Historic Mysteries' describes the curious case of Elizabeth Canning, whom, in common with Fielding, the writer regards as "a poor, honest, simple, innocent girl." Miss Betham-Edwards writes on French Brides and Bridegrooms.'-To the Gentleman's Mr. John Stuart sends a good paper on Proverbs.' What is said about It's a far cry to Lochow" is unfamiliar. Should not "Lochow' "be "Lochawe"? An Old Inventory' has antiquarian interest.-In At the Sign of the Ship' in Longman's Mr. Lang concerns himself principally with books, and discusses at some length Mr. Wilkins's 'Queen of 'Tears,' which he truly says is as good as a novel. It MICHAEL LLOYD FERRAR.-MR. FRANCIS P. MARCHANT writes:-"The gentleman whose death is mentioned in the following extract from the Times of 26 April was an occasional contributor to 'N. & Q.': 'Ferrar-On 23 April, 1904, suddenly, at Little Gidding, Ealing, Michael Lloyd Ferrar, ex-Scholar and B. A. of T.C.D., Indian Civil Service (Retired), third son of the late Michael Lloyd Ferrar, of Belfast, aged sixty-four. The funeral will leave Little Gidding to-day (Tuesday), 26th, at 2.30, for St. Matthew's Church, Ealing Common, for the service at 2.45.' I did not personally know Mr. Ferrar, but he corresponded with me over an Notices to Correspondents. 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