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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 190/t.

CONTENTS. No. 53.

NOTES : British Mezzotinters, 521 Shakespeariana, 522 "The" as part of Title, 524 Genealogy of the Bonapartes Homer and Pope, 525 Sir H. M. Stanley's Grave' The Flemings in Oxford 'Lord Melbourne, 526 Plurality of Office, 527.

QUERIES : Felix Bryan Macdonough Patrick, Lord Gray Treaty of Utrecht Roman Theatre at Verulam " Phil Blia "Gabriel Butler, 527 Goettingen Hippodrome Great Seal in Gutta-percha Agnostic Poets Wilderspin " Good news to those whose light is low "Sir William Calvert Royal Artillery Officers " When she was good" Donald Cameron George Smart, 528 Lefroy Family- Queen's Surname Sir Anthony Jackson, 529.

REPLIES :-Coliseums Old and New, 529-Southev's ' Om- niana,' 1812, 530 Bell-ringing on 13 August, 1814 Epi- taphiana " Galapine" Cross in the Greek Church- Mercury in Tom Quad, Oxford, 531 " Papers," 532 Hell, Heaven, and Paradise as Place-names Seventeenth- Century Phrases Epitaphs : their Bibliography, 533 Bishop of Man Imprisoned, 534 London Cemeteries in 1860 H in Cockney " I lighted at the foot "Second Lord Erskine Parish Documents, 535 Edmond Hoyle Manor Court of Edwinstowe ' Hardyknute,' 536 Grievance Office " Jesso " Barga, Italy Cockade -Jordangate Isabelline as a Colour, 537 Northern and Southern Pronunciation Dog-bite Cure Bread for the Lord's Day Witham, 538 Governor Stephenson of Bengal O'Neill Seal, 539.

TCOTES ON BOOKS : ' La Bretagne ' Hutchinson's Edition of Shelley Burke's 'Peerage.'

Notices to Correspondents.

BRITISH MEZZOTINTERS.

(See ante, p. 481.)

VALENTINE GREEN was for some years an active member of the Society of Arts, served the office of steward, and in 1778 and again in 1787 was adjudged the Society's gold medal for " eminent services." His son Rupert, also a member, was awarded in 1781 the greater silver palette for a drawing from plaster. Mr. Algernon Graves possesses a "highly interesting correspondence between Sir Joshua Reynolds and Valentine Green, in which the latter complains bitterly, and in a very high- handed tone, that the portrait of ' Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse,' which he alleged had been promised to him for engraving in mezzotint, had been given instead to Haward, to be reproduced by the latter in his well-known print in stipple. This quarrel, indeed, ended Valentine Green's work after Reynolds." (From ' Notes Chiefly Technical,' by Mr. W. G. Rawlinson, prefixed to the Burlington iFine-Arts Club Catalogue of Exhibition of English Mezzotint Portraits, 1902, pp. 22-3.)

Joseph Grozer, as a foreigner (probably Austrian), does not rightly fall within the

category of British mezzotinters. From 1786 till 1796 he lived at 8, Castle Street,

{Leicester Square, and here George Morland

took refuge when hunted by his creditors from Queen Anne Street. Grozer subse- quently moved to 40, Gerrard Street, where he died. His will, dated 26 April, 1798, was proved (under 600.) on 15 May following (Consistory Court of London, Register 1796-8, f. 309). It is a curious, scandalous document, written in queer foreigner's English, e.g. :

" I give devise and bequeath unto Jane Moore (to whom 1 intend marriage) the sole right and

title to my property real and personal my

request if the profits arising from Business will admit (without injure to the same) to allow unto .Sarah Cooper who lived with me but now parted from her violence of temper which I could no longer submit and from continue of conduct and behaviour to me since but in remembrance for the years she cohabited with me that the Sum of ten pound or fifteen pounds a year be paid by my Executors hereafter named or ordered to be paid the same monthly or quarterly as may serve oest the said Sarah Cooper should express or use any violence towards Jane Moore (who now lives with me in affection and do intend marriage when it hereafter suits me) my request the same Income be suspended till she proves from conduct to act otherways and the same to be continued for her life only."

With delightful assurance he nominated Paul Colnaghi, of Pall Mall, printseller,and William Jennett, of Old Compton Street, apothecary, joint executors with the estimable Jane ; but these highly respectable gentlemen naturally declined to act. One of the persons men- tioned in the will, and a witness thereto, was S. Einsle. I take him to be the Austrian who mezzotinted (about 1789) the portraits of the Earl and Countess of Aid borough after Gainsborough and Hoppner respectively. His name is constantly misspelt " Einslie." He was probably Grozer's assistant.

David Loggan. The exact date of Loggan's death is at present unknown. Probably when the Harleian Society prints its volume of the St. Martin-in-the-Fields registers for the last decade of the seventeenth century, the burial entries of the fine old engraver and his wife will appear therein. Anthony Wood, in his diary, writes, under date July, 1692: "David Logan [sic], born of Scotch parents at Dantzig, the University engraver, died in his house in Leyc[ester] feildfs] in Westminster," his informant being Michael Burghers, who succeeded to Loggan's office ('Life and Times,' Oxf. Hist. Soc., iii. 394). If Wood's date is correct, Loggan must have survived the making of his will on 17 June, 1691, when he described himself as being "weak in body" for about a year. His widow and executrix Anne Loggan, when making her will (on 18 February, 1698), says :

"And whereas my said late husband made me Executrix of his last will which I never proved but