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possessed myself of soe much of his personall Estate as I could gett and have paid one hundred and forty pounds or thereabouts in discharge of his debts and bred up our Children to the vallu of that Estate or very near it," &c. Both wills were proved on 23 February 1701/2 (P.C.C. 25, Hern), by the Rev. John Loggan, the son. He was Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1700-17, and held various church preferments. There was a younger son Justinian Loggan.

In Chester's ' London Marriage Licences, ed. Foster, col. 856, is the following entry :

"David Loggan of St. Bride, London, gent., bachelor, about 26, and Anna Jordan, of St. Andrew, Holborn, spinster, about 19, consent oi father, John Jordan, gent. at St. Sepulchre London, 15 June, 1663."

William Dickinson. It would have been very gratifying to me if I could have given some biographical particulars about this brilliant engraver, whose personality must have possessed a more than ordinary interest. His transcript of Sir Joshua's 'Mrs. Pelham ' ranks as one of the masterpieces of mezzotint, yet (strange to say) this notable achievement finds no place in the list of Dickinson's works given in the new edition (" revised and en- larged ") of the dictionary referred to. According to a writer in Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts,' &c., for 1811 (v. 65), Dickinson was born in 1748 and studied under Robert Edge Pine, the painter, with whom he resided in St. Martin's Lane, but nothing is said of his parentage. He was awarded a premium by the Society of Arts in 1767, and afterwards became a member of the Society, his name appearing on the lists from 1788 until 1795. From 158, New Bond Street, he removed in 1791 to 24, Old Bond Street, where he remained until 1797. There was no relationship between him and the

Srintseller Joseph Dickinson, who hailed -om Northumberland, came to London early in the last century, and subsequently joined the water-colour painter Paul Sandby Munn, and, after the custom of that time, kept a stationer's shop (from 1814, according to the 'London Directory') at 114, New Bond Street, a business carried on after his death by two of his sons. The name is still kept up, but there has been no Dickinson con- nected with the establishment for many years past, nor is it the same kind of business. For this information I am indebted to Joseph Dickinson's eminent son, Mr. Lowes Dickin- son. Though William Dickinson ultimately removed to Paris, he would seem to have resided occasionally in England, as in the lists of artists appended to Arnold's ' Annals of the Fine Arts' for 1817 and 1819 his name

appears with the address " Montpelier Row

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Twickenham.

In conclusion, I may observe that in this- thoroughly up-to-date dictionary most of the articles on the minor British painters, like those on the engravers, have been simply "lifted " from the antiquated editions. Take Katherine Read for instance. This pleasing portrait painter is known to have migrated to India in 1770 or 1771. " On her return to England," we are told, "she continued to exercise her talent with respectable success until her death, which happened about the year 1786." Three trifling alterations excepted, this amazing nonsense is to be found word for word in the original edition (ii. 714),. published eighty-eight years ago. According to reliable authority Miss Read died on 15 December, 1778, while the statements as to her returning to England, &c., are mere guesswork. The facts are as follows. She- made her will at Fort St. George, Madras, on 29 June, 1778, and being in feeble health, gave instructions for her "private interment in the usual burying ground " of the settlement. Her only relative near at hand was a nephew, Ensign Alexander Read, stationed at Madras. Numerous Scottish relations and friends are benefited under her will. Miss Read did not die at Fort St. George, but "on board the Dutch East India ship the Patriot" (Pro- bate Act Book, P.C.C., 1779). Her will was proved at London on 26 October, 1779 (regis- tered in P.C.C. 428, Warburton).

GORDON GOODWIN.

SHAKESPEARIANA.

' TEOILUS AND CRESSIDA,' V. i. 20 (10 th S. ii.

343). The suggested emendation, " male-

larlot " for " male varlet," is very old. Here

are the comments upon it in vol. xv. of

he fifth edition of Johnson and Steevens's

Shakespeare,' p. 426 :

" Sir T. Hanmer reads male harlot, plausibly mough, except that it seems too plain to require he explanation which Patroclus demands. John- on.

" This expression is met with in Decker's 'Honest Whore': "Tis a male varlet, sure, my lord ! ' ^armer.

" The person spoken of in Decker's play is Bella- ronte, a harlot, who is introduced in boy's clothes.

have no doubt that the text is right. Malone.

"There is nothing either criminal or extraordinary

n a male varlet The sense requires that we

hould adopt Hanmer's amendment. M. Mason.

"Man mistress is a term of reproach thrown out >y Dorax, in Dryden's 'Don Sebastian, King of ^ortugal.' See, however, Professor Heyne's 17th Excursus' on the first book of the '' dit. 1787, p. 161. Steevens."