St. Lucia.
Minor Notes.
_Biographical Dictionary._--May I beg for the assistance of "NOTES AND
QUERIES" to enforce a want which I am sure is daily felt by thousands of
educated Englishmen? The want I speak of is that of _a good Biographical
Dictionary_, coming down to the middle of the century; a dictionary as
good as the _Biog. Universelle_ for _foreign_ lives, and _a hundred
times better for English lives_. Every one knows how meagre and
unsatisfactory is that otherwise magnificent work in its English part.
Why should we not have an abridged translation, with the home portion
re-written?