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 iv. DEC. 9,1905.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 461 LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1905. CONTENTS.—No. 102. HOTES:—Anthony Hloh, 461—Tete-a-Tet* Portraits, 4«2— • The Morning Star'—Lamb's Essay ' My Relations,' 464— "Neck and Heels " —•• Politeness "—Literary Kle^'ice— Mules: their Crying — Lincolnshire Death Folk-lore — Cowper and Voluiire —Wooden Water-pipes in London, 465 — Affery Flintwlnch in 'Little Don-it' —"Court of Reception "—" Haakon VII." — " Poltroon " — Berlin, 466 —John Lederer—Genealogies in Preparation, 467. QUERIES : — Melton Cloth: Melton Jacket — Brathwait's •Huntsman'! Raunge' — Repartee of Royalty— James Butler, Duke of Ormond, 4«7— Cassell's 'Works of Emi- nent Masters'—Authors of Quotations Wanted—Church Spoons—Pocock's Painting of the Battle of the Nile- Paul Whltehead, 468—Staines Bridge—Scotch, Irish, ami Welsh Maypoles—Tailor in Dresden China—Auslas March —London Kpiicupal Kecords—"Helper"—'Cherry Klpe ' — J. Pitts, Printer — Thomas Gery — Rev. K. Gordon Lalham—Melchior Guy Dickens, 469. REPLIES:—" Famous " Chelsea, 470—Nelson's Signal— Trafalgar, 471 — Prebend of Cantlers — Final "e" In Chaucer—' The Oxford Ramble '—The Purpose of a Flaw — Thomas Pounde, S.J., 472 — Bathilda — Minnlslnks — "That i§, be would have "—Looping the Loop: Centri- fugal Railway—'Genius by Counties,' 474—Atlas and Pleioue : the Daisy—" Skerrlck "—Suicides buried in the Open Fields—First Railway on the Continent, 475— James V.'s Poems, 476—Punch, the Beverage, 477. HOTES ON BOOKS :—Greene's Plays and Poems—Lang on the Secret of the Totem—'Madame Geoffrin'—'The Kelson Centenary: Lest We Forget'—'Punch's Alma- nack'—'The Burlington Magazine'—Reviews and Maga- zines. Obituary:—Dr. J. D. l!utI.-r, Mr. B. J. Sage. Notices t» Correspondents. ffoitc. ANTHONY RICH. ANTHONY RICH, an accomplished artist and antiquary, was the author of a work of reference which passed through three edi- tions in England and was translated into French, Italian, and German. But a memoir of him was not inserted in the 'D.N.B.,' nor does his name appear in Mr. Frederic Boase's volumes of 'Modern English Biography.' Nevertheless his life was of much interest in several ways. Anthony Rich, junior—to give him the title by which he was known for many years —was born in 1803, and was the son of Anthony Rich, solicitor, who lived at Hendon, Middlesex. His father became, about 1806, one of the side clerks in the King's Remem- brancer Office, was afterwards one of its sworn clerks, and from 1838 until the office was abolished by 5 & G Viet., cap. 86, appears in the ' Law List' as Secondary of that office. He died at Hersham, Surrey, 13 April, 1863, aged niuety-three((ren^e»Ki?i's Magazine, 1863, i. 674). The son was admitted pensioner at Caius •College, Cambridge, on 30 October, 1821, and leld a scholarship there from Michaelmas, 1821, to Lady Day, 1828. He took the degree of B.A. in 1825. In the previous year 28 January, 1824) he had been admitted a student at Lincoln's Inn, and he was duly called » the Bar. He probably remained for some refits in London pursuing his profession. On !1 April, 1841, he was elected a member of Sir De Lacy Evans and R. L. Sheil, we shall not err in assuming that he belonged to Jie more advanced section of the party. A member of that club he remained for fifty years, less seventeen days. In 1842 Rich went abroad and spent the next " seven years in the central and southern parts of Italy." Here he painted, collected aooks and engravings, and made the ac- quaintance of many artists, including John Jibson, R.A., and. Penry Williams. A rery considerable portion of the illustrations which he had drawn for his own instruction and amusement were embodied in his "Illus- trated Companion to the Latin Dictionary and Greek Lexicon, forming a Glossary of all the Words representing Visible Objects con- nected with the Arts, Manufactures, and Everyday Life of the Greeks and Romans, with Representations of nearly 2,000 Objects from the Antique. Lond. 1849." This cum- brous title was altered in the second edition into "A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities, with nearly 2,000 Engravings on Wood representing Objects from the Antique illustrative of the Industrial Arts and Social Life of the Greeks and Romans, 1860." A third edition, " revised and improved," came out in 1873. In after years Rich used to complain of the meagreness of his profits from this work; but probably, like most authors, he did not take sufficiently into account the cost of producing volumes so abundantly illustrated. A French translation, which M. Cheruel, Inspecteur de 1'Academie Iraperiale de Paris, took charge of, was issued in 1859, and the volume at once became a recognized text- book among the French enthusiasts in classical antiquities. A German translation, under the direction of Carl Miiller, came out in 1862 ; and an Italian translation, under the care of Ruggiero Bonghi, was published in 1865. Rich's illustrations were reproduced in the translations of Horace and Virgil which were brought out about 1870 by R. M. Millington. Rich published in 1851 a slight pamphlet on ' The Legend of St. Peter's Chair.' The authenticity of this chair was the subject of a controversy between Cardinal Wiseman and Sydney,
 * he Reform Club, and as his sponsors were