Andrew Lang,

Otago Witness, Issue 2761, 13 February 1907, Page 89

Andrew Lang,

You a=^k rue, Fresher, who it is

Who rhy«i"°, researches, and review*, Who sometimes write= like Gere»«i-, And sometimes for the Daily Xew« : Who jests in words that ar.gels lue And is most solemn w.th most slanj.'

Who's who olio's which, ard wh.ch is uho-e ' Who cau it be but Andrew Lang ? Qinpe, Quirks are his, and Quidditie a , The Epic ai.d the leacup Muse, Bookbindirg=, Aborigine", Ballade that bani'-u all the Blue=, Youns? married life among Yahoos An Iliad, and Orang-outang,

Triolet*. TMeirs and Tat tecs — Whc can 't be but Andrew Lang ' —Oxford Echcc-!.

— The grandfathers, grandmother 5 cou'l'.s, and aunts of all the paupers at present on the li*-t had been paupers befoie th^m. said the chairman of the Holywell Board of Guardians. — The -,ale of the Due d"Or!eans> s place, York Hou-c, Twickenham, to Mr Tata, cf Bombay, brings to mind what a favcunte place of re=idence this Thames-side resort has been for pe°pl« of note. Catherine of Aragon lived there for some years. Lord Bacon had a house at the pretty litt'e memde village, as it then was._ Pope was a it -i dent thcTe. and was buiied in the parish church Walpole's place at Strawberry Hill still remains, although much altered. Later famous residents of Twickenham were Turner and Lord Tennyson, 'who lived theie ioi sonic time.