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the glorious landscape which he studied and loved in other parts of England, or on the Continent. Speaking to a friend a few years ago Raskin said, ' The scene from Friars' Crag is one of the three or four most beautiful views in Europe.' "

The view from Schaffhausen was evidently " one of the three or four most beautiful views in Europe"; which were the others'? But whichever or wherever they may be, it was incontrovertibly at Friars' Crag that Ruskin received his first revelation of the glories of nature. J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

BEN JONSON AND BACON (10 th S. ii. 469 ; iii. 35). Those interested in the relations between Jonson and Bacon should read a singularly little-known work entitled ' The Tale of the Shakespeare Epitaph, by Francis Bacon (Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans).' The only edition I know is one published by Belford Clarke & Co., in Chicago and New York, in 1888. EDWARD HERON- ALLEN.

Although there is no evidence that Jonson was Bacon's secretary, in his ' Baconiana ' Archbishop Tenison writes regarding the 'Essays' of Bacon :

" The Latine translation of them was a work performed by divers hands ; by those of Dr. Hacket {late Bishop of Lichfield), Mr. Benjamin Johnson (the learned and judicious Poet), and some others, whose names I once heard from Dr. Rawley, but I cannot now recal them."

This Dr. Rawley was Bacon's chaplain.

GEORGE STRONACH.

"DOGMATISM is PUPPYISM FULL GROWN" (10 th S. iii. 5). This mot "has been assigned to Douglas Jerrold " with perfect justice, and may be found on p. 28 of 'The Wit and Opinions of Douglas Jerrold.' The sentence, which properly runs " Dogmatism is puppy- ism come to its full growth," originally occurs in one of his plays, which one I cannot recall at the moment; when I can I will supple- ment this information. WALTER JERROLD.

Hatnpton-on-Thames.

HERALDIC (10 th S. ii. 408 ; iii. 33). I notice that MR. WATSON gives "crawe" as a variant of "crab." Is this so? Is it not equivalent to "crow"? A crow in the dialect of the North of England is " a craw." R. B R.

South Shields.

'THE NORTHAMPTON MERCURY' (10 th S. iii. 5). The cutting from the Daily Mail sent by MR. J. T. PAGE is incorrect. Robert Raikes the philanthropist was born 14 September, 1735 ; the reference is probably to his father, also Robert Raikes, who founded The Glou- .cesttr Journal in 1722.

Robert Raikes the younger succeeded to the printing business at the death of his father, which took place 7 September, 1757. R. L. MORETON.

Greenford, Middlesex.

COUNT A. DE PANIGNANO : HOLLOWAY (10 th S. iii. 8). There can be no question as to the purchaser of the autographs sold by Puttick & Simpson in December, 1853. The lot mentioned by MR. MASON (No. 94) was bought by my old friend Marseille Middleton Holloway, a well-known printseller, then living at No. 14, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden ; but what became of these MSS. I know not. The only thing I can now suggest is that they passed into the hands of Mr. John Benjamin Heath, a staunch friend and patron of young Holloway, who has now been for some years dead. He retired from affairs, leaving an only son, who carried on his father's business at Bedford Street, Covent Garden, but did not long survive him.

FRED. NORGATE.

MR. MASON may find some information re the first of these personages in Mr. Puttick's MS. list of sales in the British Museum (Newspaper Room). The name may have been an imaginary one to conceal the identity of the real owner. Holloway was an auto- graph dealer ; the firm was at one time Holloway & Sons. I once possessed a copy of one of their excellent catalogues, but find that I cut out such entries as interested me and threw the remainder away. There may possibly be copies in the B.M.

W. ROBERTS.

DUELLING (10 th S. iii. 49). 'The British Code of Duel,' 1824, is perhaps the book referred to in the second edition of 'Duelling and the Laws of Honour,' by J. C. Bluett, p. ix, where the author is said to be Joseph Hamilton, Esq. Although the second edition of Bluett's book bears the date 1836 on the title-page, it cannot have been published before the year 1840. W. S.

BACON OR USHER? (10 th S. ii. 407, 471.) Farnaby was not the only contemporary who attributed to Bacon the verses beginning " The world 's a bubble." A copy of the lines was found among Sir Henry Wotton's papers with the name " Francis, Lord Bacon," at the bottom (see 'Reliquiae Wottonianre,' p. 513). Wotton, it may be recollected, was an inti- mate friend of Bacon, whose epitaph he wrote on the monument at St. Albans.

Another credible witness is Joshua Sylves- ter, whose 'Pauthea' was published in 1630, about three years after Bacon's death. The