_Lines on Woman_ (Vol. viii., p. 350).--Your correspondent F. W. J. has
occasioned me some perplexity in tracing the quotation which he refers
to Vol. viii., p. 204., but which is really to be found at p. 292. He
appears to have fallen into this error by mistaking the number on the
right hand for the paging on the left. As accuracy in these matters is
essential in a publication like "N. & Q.," he will excuse me for setting
him right. The name of the author of the poem of "Woman" was not Eton
Barrett, but Eaton Stannard Barrett. He was connected with the press in
London. Your correspondent is correct in stating that the Barretts were
from Cork. Eaton Stannard Barrett was a man of considerable ability. He
published several works anonymously, all of which acquired celebrity;
but I believe the poem of "Woman," published by Mr. Colburn, was the
only work to which he attached his name. He was the author of the
well-known political satire called _All the Talents_; of the mock
romance of _The Heroine_, in which the absurdities of a school of
fiction, at that time in high favour, are happily ridiculed; and of a
novel which had great success in its day, and is still to be found in
some of the circulating libraries, called _Six Weeks at Long's_. Eaton
Stannard Barrett died many years ago in the prime of his life and
powers. His brother, Richard Barrett, is still living, and resides in
the neighbourhood of Dublin. He is the author of some controversial and
political pamphlets, of which the principal were _Irish Priests_, and
_The Bible not a Dangerous Book_. He afterwards conducted _The Pilot_
newspaper, established for the support of Mr. O'Connell's policy in
Ireland, and was one of the persons who suffered imprisonment with Mr.
O'Connell, and who were designated in the Irish papers as the "martyrs."