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 s. in. FEB. 4, i90o.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Messrs. Longman's statement that they paid the printing charges and that there is nothing in their ledgers to show that they took over the sheets from any other publisher or printer seems very conclusive. If COL. PRIDEAUX requires more confirmation he may find it in one of the foot-notes on p. xc of vol. i. of ' The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge,' ed. 1877 (of which Mr. Shepherd was the editor), where the work is described: "Omniana, or Horse Otiosiores. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-row." I ab- stained from discussing the subsidiary points raised in COL. PRIDEAUX'S former note, for the reason that they have, as it seems to me, no bearing on the question at issue, the interesting bibliographical features of 'Omniana' to which COL. PRIDEAUX calls attention being, one and all, absolutely con- sistent with the plain conclusion to which the facts, so far as they can be ascertained, obviously point, viz., that ' Omniana ' was printed for and published by the house of Longman only, and that in assigning a share in the transaction to Gale & Curtis "some one has blundered." Possibly COL. PRIDEAUX could consult once more the Shepherd memoranda with the view of dis- covering the quarter in which the mistake originated. The question really resolves itself into a balance of probabilities. That the Shepherd-Prideaux Bibliography of Cole- ridge is not at all points infallible must, I fear, be admitted. This being so, whether of the two suppositions is the likelier : that we have here an instance of the fallibility of that work, or that a complicated series of trans- actions, such as COL. PRIDEAUX'S theory postulates, should have escaped all notice in Southey's voluminous correspondence, and remained unrecorded in the books of the firm of Longman ? I have no hesitation in arriving at my own conclusion, which is not that of COL. PRIDEAUX. GRETA.

CHILDREN AT EXECUTIONS (10 th S. ii. 346, 454, 516; iii. 33). MR. HIBGAME could not have been taken to witness an execution in 1869, as public executions were abolished in the previous year. Hubbard Lingley was executed on 26 August, 1867.

EDWARD M. BORRAJO.

The Library Guildhall, E.G.

LOUTHERBOURGH (10 th S. ii. 389). Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's 'Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, 1805, does not contain a reproduction of, or reference to, the Hampstead Heath views in question. But possibly the originals are two

landscapes described in Bryan's ' Dictipnary of Painters and Engravers,' 1898, as being in the Bordeaux Museum. The Glasgow Gallery also contains some of his works executed while in England. The prices which some of bis pictures realized are given in Adolphe Siret's ' Dictionnaire Historique et Raisonne des Peintres,' 1833. In Lysons's 'Collectanea,' vol. i. p. 4, is the following handbill :

"The Breaking-up and Distribution of the first Collection of Pictures by the Artists of Great- Britain, ever formed in this country. The Last and only Day of shewing the Poets' Gallery, or Purchasing Tickets for a Chance of any part of that inimitable Collection, as the Lottery begins Draw- ing this Day and will be determined To-morrow.

Those Ladies & Gentlemen who have already

purchased Tickets, may have their Prints by send- ing for them. To those that have not seen the Prints, it is necessary to say they are the Size of General Wolf, engraved from Pictures painted by P. J. de Loutherbourg, and Mr. J. Laporte." Poets' Gallery, 11 February, 1779.

J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.

FLYING BRIDGE (10 th S. ii. 406, 491). This kind of ferry is common in America. There are a dozen or more between Pittsburg and Oil City, on the Allegheny river. The first is at Hulton, twelve miles above Pitts- burg. There is a wire cable stretched across, high above the river, and the boat is attached to this by a wire with a trolly. This is called a swing-ferry, for the current is not strong enough to make the boat fly.

O. H. DARLINGTON.

Pittsburg.

RUSKIN AT NEUCHATEL (10 th S. ii. 348, 512). Like MR. COLES I venture to think that MRS. STEPHENSON is under a misapprehension regarding Ruskin and Neuchatel. This place is probably confounded with Schaffhausen, as MR. COLE suggests. Or was MRS. STEPHEN- SON perhaps thinking of a passage in 'Modern Painters,' part iv. chap. xvii. sect. 13, and by some curious mental process transferring it to Neuchatel ? The passage runs thus :

" The first thing which I remember, as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friars' Crag on Derwentwater ; the intense ]oy r mingled with awe, that I had in looking through the mossy roots, over the crag, into the dark lake,, has associated itself more or less with all twining roots of trees ever since."

Canon Rawnsley, ' Literary Associations of the English Lakes,' vol. i. p. 148, says :

" One calls to mind that it was at the ' Crag of the Friars' that John Ruskin received one of those impulses to care for the close study of natural form that made him what he was." And at p. 150 :

"That early impression of the wonder of Friars' Crag on Ruskin's boy-mind was not effaced by all