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 io« s. iv. NOV. n, 1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 383 said to be " paralysed, blind, and bedridden in an obscure lodging of the Rue d'Amsterdam at Paris." 'The War Passages in "Maud,"1 though rejecting the author as a practical adviser, renders "fall, though superfluous honours to his poetical powers. Only on the theory that a moral purpose u indispensable to poetry, can it be denied that he is one of the greatest of poets. His works are per- haps the moat intellectual luxury the world ever enjoyed." The last article is a review of a novel in one volume, a rare limit in those days. Novel- writers may welcome this hint:— " The one-volume novel has its duties as well as its privileges. While it is allowed to be short, it ought to be very perfect." JOHN C. FEANCIS. (To be continued.) CONSUL SMITH AND HIS WILL. (Seean<e, pp. 221, 282.) XVth1)' There being prepar'd and preparing for the Press, and with a design to be made Publick, three sundry works, towards which I have already made a considerable expense, viz., 1. ' Museum Smi thianum,'or be it' Dactyliotheca Srnithiana,' being my collection of Gemms, illus- trated by the late learned Anton Francesco Gori of Florence, to which is prefixed * Historia Glypto- graphica,' by the same Author, of which work 500 copies in Folio are already printed. 2. ' L'architettura di Andrea Palladio.' folio, copy'd exactly from the Author's own Edition, E rioted at Venice in the year 1570, with no other ut the amended difference that instead of the original Plates which are engrav'd on wood in this Edition they are on copper traced with the most scrupulous precision from Palladio's original, and that to this new Kdition will be prefix'd the Author's Life (now ready for the Press) wrote by Tomaso Temanza, most capable of such a work, which with great dilligence he hath been several years collecting materials for compiling, and more- over this Edition will be enriched with the Portrait of Palladio engraven from an original Painting (and the only one extant in his younger Years) done by Pordenone ; of which work the said Portrait and the Plates (except four or five as the Engraver of them Pietro Monaco assures me) are all finished. 3. "Gli Error!degli Architetti," by Galliccini with the additions and observations by Antonio Visentini, of which work (impatiently expected by the true lovers of sound Architecture) the greatest part of the Copper Plates are finished and the rest are in hand. Now my will is that respectively as these three works shall be published a copy of each be given to Sir James Gray Bar, His Majesties Envoy Extra- ordinary and Plenipotentiary at Naples, to Thomas Hollis Esq. of Bedford Row, London, to George Jackson Esq. of Leghorn and to the Abbot Dr. Facciolati, Professor in the University of Padpua, of which I desire their acceptance as a testimonial of my Esteem and respect and of my grateful sense of the friendship that for so many years they have honoured me with. These books, bound in red Marocco leather gilt and with my coat of arms impressed on their covers, be trans- mitted to them free of all charge, and one more- copy of each in like manner I desire may be favoured with a place in the Library of John Murray Esq. the King's Resident at Venice. I dye in perfect charity with every one and with an humble Hope to find mercy with Almighty God for my sins only by and through the Merits and Satisfaction of my Redeemer Jesus Christ. If I dye at Venice or in the State of Venice my de- sire is to be bury'd at the usual Place on the Island of Lido assigned for the interment of Protestants in such decent and frugal manner as my Widow shall think fit, and the same to be observed should I happen to dye in any other country, in which, case my Widow is to direct where I shall be buryed, but in whatever Place I shall happen to dye, in v will and desire is not to be buryed till on the fourth day after to all appearance I shall have resigned my spirit to my Creator. As the Principal Part of my Estate consists of the considerable collections I have made in forty years and better and allow'd by all who have examined them, to be all, in their different kinds, well chosen, and whereas my Relict will very probably be minded to realize by selling all or great part thereof, to establish thereby a decent and comfortable settlement for the remainder of her life, I think it not impropper to say something, upon this head by way of information and advice in such case, and so to cooperate even after I shall be no more, to her future happiness. I was always desirous that some entire classes of my collection might remain united, such as my Library, Drawings, Gemms or Pictures, and with- this view a treaty was commenced on the Part of a. Royal Purchaser for my Library, according to the printed Catalogue, made public, in which that collection is brought down to the year 1752, and for which the said Treaty was upon the foot of Twenty Thousand Sequins, but by reason of the present war breaking out about that time nothing was concluded. The Drawings consist of numbers of Original Pieces by the greatest masters, particularly are among them the three large Volumes, formerly collected in the time of the Caracci, by the family of Bonfiglioli of Bologna, and upon the Death of Sigr Bartolomeo, were purchased by the Noble Venetian Zaccaria Sagredo, and cost 3,000 sequins, as appears by a Letter printed about that time wrote by Anton Maria Zanetti of Venice to his Friend the Cavalier Gaburri of Florence. In this collection also are four Volumes containing original drawings by Gio. Bendetto [«'c] Castiglione great) part whereof are the most capital of his Performance, these likewise belonged to the said Nobleman Sagredo, purchased by him at twice,* and it was then said cost him 1,500 sequins. Of the rest I need say nothing, but to the volumes themselves refer the examination, and to the Intelligence, to discover their real worth, and observe with what care and judgement they have been collected ; among these are entire volumes of Sebastiano and Marco Ricci, and Antonio Canal; and the rest in general of noted Masters, and the same may be said with, respect to the Originality and Excellency of the others which are in eight frames with Cristal Glasses before them. lui acquistati in due volte." 'Da
 * Sic. The Italian sworn translation reads