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obtained it from Hook's house at Fulham, where he once saw him in it, and heard the punster make some of his wild jokes when seated on "his double-purposed throne."

The late Lord Tennyson's cane-bottomed study chair is a modern French type, and probably may still be seen by privileged persons in the deceased Laureate's study at Haslemere, where I sketched it a few years ago, as it stood near his writing-table. The favourite seat of the painter-poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is a comfortable but sorry-looking piece of furniture, and requires a brown holland cover to hide its imperfections, while an aggressive modern chair-back, disporting sky-blue swallows on a ground of old-gold material, is spread over the back.

John Bunyan's primitive-looking arm-chair, with cushioned seat, is still preserved in the vestry of Bunyan Meeting, Bedford, and is one of the few personal relics extant of the author of "The Pilgrim's Progress." It originally had three turned spindles in the back, only one of which remains; and the legs are braced together with iron to prevent premature collapse.

The cabin chair of Lord Nelson is a valuable historical relic of England's famous admiral. It is a simply contrived affair, the wooden frame painted green, and the turned and square legs and posts having three incised parallel lines on each of the front flat surfaces; the back consists of a thin bowing top with two rows of perforations, while the seat is of rush, neatly woven. A paper