P. MATHIEU'S LIFE OF SEJANUS

In a letter from Southey to his friend Bedford, dated Nov. 11, 1821 (*Life and Correspondence*, vol. v. p. 99.), he desires him to inform Gifford that "In a volume of tracts at Lowther, of Charles I.'s time, I found a life of Sejanus by P.M., by which initials some hand, apparently as old as the book, had written Philip Massinger. I did not read the tract, being too keenly in pursuit of other game; but I believe it had a covert aim at Buckingham. I have not his Massinger, and, therefore, do not know whether he is aware that this was ever ascribed to that author; if he is not, he will be intere…