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 Revolt in La Vendée,’ 1847. 10. ‘Victories of the Saints,’ 1850. 11. ‘Stories for Children from Church History,’ 1850; 2nd series, 1851. 12. ‘The Followers of the Lord,’ 1851. 13. ‘Evenings at Sackville College: Legends for Children,’ 1852. 14. ‘The Pilgrim's Progress for the Use of Children in the English Church,’ 1853. 15. ‘History of the Church for the Use of Children,’ pt. i. (no more published), 1853. 16. ‘The Egyptian Wanderers: a Story for Children of the Great Persecution,’ 1854. 17. ‘Lent Legends: Stories from Church History,’ 1855. 18. ‘The Farm of Aptonga,’ 1856. 19. ‘Church Papers: Tales illustrative of the Apostles' Creed,’ 1857. 20. ‘Theodora Phranza; or the Fall of Constantinople,’ 1857 (an excellent story of the events preceding 1453).

In 1845 he commenced a series of tales in the Juvenile Englishman's Library, including ‘The Triumphs of the Cross: Tales and Sketches of Christian Heroism’ (vol. vi.); ‘A History of Portugal’ (vol. xvi.), ‘Stories from Heathen Mythology and Greek History for the Use of Christian Children’ (vol. xix.), ‘A History of Greece for Young Persons’ and ‘English History for Children’ (‘Triumphs of the Cross,’ 2nd ser.), and ‘Tales of Christian Endurance’ (vol. xxii.). In Parker's series of tales illustrating church history, ‘The Lazar House of Leros,’ ‘The Exiles of the Cevenna,’ ‘Lily of Tiflis,’ ‘Lucia's Marriage,’ &c., were from his pen.

IV. Neale's, translations, and editions include: 1. ‘Hierologus; or the Church Tourists,’ 1843. 2. ‘Songs and Ballads for the People,’ 1843. 3. ‘Sir Henry Spelman's History and Fate of Sacrilege’ (edited by J. M. N.), 1846. 4. ‘Songs and Ballads for Manufacturers,’ 1850. 5. ‘A Few Words of Hope on the present Crisis of the English Church’ (in reference to the Gorham controversy), 1850. 6. ‘Handbook for Travellers in Portugal,’ 1855. 7. ‘The Moral Concordances of St. Antony of Padua, translated by J. M. N.,’ 1856, ‘Mediæval Preachers.’ 8. ‘Notes Ecclesiological and Picturesque on Dalmatia, Croatia, Istria, Styria, with a Visit to Montenegro,’ 1861. 9. ‘Seatonian Poems’ (written many years before), 1864. In 1848 he issued a volume called ‘Readings for the Aged,’ and this was followed by a second series in 1854, a third series in 1856, and a fourth in 1858.

To the Cambridge Camden Society's publications he contributed ‘A Few Words to Churchwardens on Churches and Church Ornaments,’ ‘A Few Words to Church Builders,’ ‘A History of Pews,’ and a ‘Memoir of Bishop Montague,’ dedicated to his tutor at Trinity, Archdeacon Thorp, and prefixed to a reprint of Bishop Montague's ‘Visitation Articles’ (1839–41).

 NEALE, JOHN PRESTON (1780–1847), architectural draughtsman, was born in 1780. Neale's earliest works were drawings of insects, and the statement that his father was a painter of insects seems due to a misinterpretation of this fact. While in search of specimens in Hornsey Wood in the spring of 1796, Neale met John Varley [q. v.] the water-colour painter, and commenced a friendship which lasted through life. Together they projected a work to be entitled ‘The Picturesque Cabinet of Nature,’ for which Varley was to make the landscape drawings, and Neale was to etch and colour the plates. No. 1 was published on 1 Sept. 1796, but no more appeared. In 1797 Neale exhibited at the Royal Academy two drawings of insects, and sent others in 1799, 1801, and 1803. Meanwhile he was discharging the duties of a clerk in the General Post Office, but eventually resigned his appointment in order to devote his whole time to art. In 1804 he sent to the Royal Academy a drawing of the ‘Custom House, Dover,’ and continued to exhibit topographical drawings and landscapes until 1844. He contributed also to the exhibitions of the Society of Painters in Oil and Water Colours in 1817 and 1818, and from time to time to those of the British Institution and of the Society of British Artists. Some of his works were in oil-colours; but his reputation rests on his architectural drawings, which are executed carefully with the pen and tinted with water-colours. In 1816 he commenced the publication of the ‘History and Antiquities of the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster,’ which was completed in 1823, in two quarto volumes, with descriptive text by Edward W. Brayley. He next began, in 1818, his ‘Views of the Seats of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland,’ of which the first series, in six volumes, was completed in 1824. The second series, in five volumes, was published between 1824 and 1829, and the entire work comprised no less than seven hundred and thirty-two plates. He likewise in 1824–5 undertook, in collaboration with [q. v.], the en-