J. C.
Francis, a name so indissolubly associated both with the _Athenaeum_
and _Notes and Queries_. Mr. Hake writes as follows:
Ever since the publication of _Aylwin_ I have, at various times, seen
in _Notes and Queries_, the _Daily Chronicle_, the _Contemporary
Review_, and other organs, inquiries as to the identification of the
characters that appear in that story. And now that an inquiry comes
from so remote a place as Libau in Russia, I think I may come forward
and say what I know on the subject. But, of course, within the limited
space that could possibly be allotted to me in _Notes and Queries_, I
can only say a few words on a subject that would require many pages to
treat adequately. Until _Aylwin_ appeared, Mr. Joseph Knight's
monograph on Rossetti in the 'Great Writers' series was, with the sole
exception of what has been written about him by his own family and by
my late father, Dr. Gordon Hake, in his _Memoirs of Eighty Years_, the
only account that gave the reader the least idea of the man--his
fascination, his brilliance, his generosity, and his whimsical
qualities.
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