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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH IS, 1905.

CONTENTS.-No. 64.

NOTES Tather Sarpi's Portraits, 201 -The Cecil Lan- eua*e 202-Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy -French Proverbial Phrases, 203-Suakespeare's Pall-bearers-Irish Folk-lore -" Vicariate," 204-'D.N.B.' and 'Index and Epitome '-Cicero's Busts - 'Beyond the Church - "Mungoose," 205 -Parliamentary Quotation-Sir George Grove on Spurgeon's Scholarship- Jacobeaa Houses 111 Fleet Street, 20t5.

QUERIES :-Dickens or Wilkie Collins ? Pawnbroker's Sign and the Medici Arms, 207 -William Carroll Willes- deii Families Willesden : the Place-name Madame Parisot-Catherine of Braganza American Prayer-Rook Balances or Scales-Arms of Cumbria "Allen, 208- Carr and Chitty Families Schools First Established Sir Harry Bath : Shotover "Beating the Bounds, 209.

REPLIES : Scottish Naval and Milifarv Academy, 209 Spltt Infinitive, 210 "Undertaker" Moscow Campaign Song Wanted Sir James Cotter, 212-Burns's Letters to George Thomson " Tbe Naked Boy and Coffin Joseph Wilfred Parkins Englishmen holding Positions under Foreign Governments, 213 Horseshoes for Luck, 214 "Tongue-Twisters," 216-" Call a spade a spade - ' Diiikums" "Quandary," 217.

NOTES ON BOOKS :-Holyoake's 'Bygones Worth Re- membering ' ' Calendar of Letter-B >oks ' ' The Golden treasury ' ' Poems of Sir Lewis Morris ' ' Don Quixote Madame D'Arblay's ' Diary ' ' Poets of the Nineteenth Century 'Draper's ' Intellectual Development of Europe FitzGerald's ' Polonius' ' Who Said That ? ' ' Christian Names.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Notices to Correspondents.

FATHER PAUL SARPI'S PORTRAITS.

(See ante, pp. 44, 84, 144.)

THE earliest English references to Sarpi which have been published are contained in some letters of William Bedell to Adam New ton. Two of these letters (dated 1 January, 1607/8, and 1 January, 1608/9) were published in ' Some Original Letters of Bishop Bedell,' &c., edited by E. Hudson, Dublin, 1742. These, with a third letter dated 26 December, 1607, in which there are also references to. Sarpi, have been recently reprinted by E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., in his 'Two Biographies of William Bedell,' Cambridge, University Press, 1902. I may add that the collection of Sir Henry Wotton's letters which I hope to publish shortly will contain a good deal of hitherto unpublished information about Sarpi from Wotton's letters and other documents.

A note in regard to portraits of Sarpi in England may be of interest to the readers of Paul, states that Sarpi would never allow his portrait to be taken, and that all the pictures of him in existence were copies of one said to be in the gallery of a great king, which
 * N. & Q.' Fulgentio, in his life of Father

was taken against his will, "e con bel strata- gema"(2 ml S. iv. 122). There can be little doubt that James I. is the great king referred to, and that the " bel stratagema " was planned by Sir Henry Wotton, then James's Ambassador in Venice. On 13 September, 1607 (X.S.), Wotton wrote to Lord Salisbury that he was sending to England " a very true picture of Maestro Paulo, the Servite, taken from him at my request," as he thought it might please the king " to behold a sound Protestant " (these words in cipher), " as yet in the habit of a friar." Wotton's stratagem seems to have consisted in sending to see Sarpi on some pretence a painter who made a sketch of the Father without his knowledge. (See Wotton's letter to Dr. Collins, quoted ante, p. 45.) This portrait, however, did not reach England ; the Papal Xuncio in Venice, who kept a strict watch on Wotton's movements, sent news of it to the Pope, Paul V., who complained of it to the Venetian Ambassador at Rome ('Cal. S.P., Ven., 1607- 1610,' p. 26), and when the bearer of the por- trait reached Milan, on his way to England, he was arrested by the officers of the Inquisi- tion, thrown into prison, and the portrait confiscated. In spite of the Pope's "bel stratagema," Wotton succeeded in sending a second portrait of Sarpi to England. This was painted after the attempted assassination in October, 1607, and bore, Wotton wrote (21 December, 1607), "the late addition of his scars." From this portrait and a com- panion picture of Fulgentio frequent replicas were made, and Wotton, after his return to England, seems to have been in the habit of giving them to his friends. The letter he wrote when presenting one to Dr. Collins, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, has already been quoted in 'N. & Q.' (ante, p. 45). Another pair of these replicas (no doubt a present from Wotton) was bequeathed by Dr. Donne to Dr. King (2 m i S. vii. 350) ; another was in the rooms of Sir Xathaniel Brent at Merton College ; another at Roydon Hall (ibid ) ; and a sixth portrait of Sarpi seems to have been in the possession of a brother of the Rev. Samuel Blithe, Master of Clare Hall (letter of Edward Browne to Samuel Blithe, quoted 'Cal. S.P., Ven., 1607-1610,' p. xxxvi). The portrait of Sarpi at King's College disappeared about 1744 ('N. & Q., 2 ud S." vii. 350), that at Roydon Hall about 1827 (iv. 122), and all attempts to trace these or any other of Sarpi's portraits in England have hitherto been unsuccessful, none of those interested in the subject being aware that one of them is preserved in the picture gallery of the Bodleian. On taking