Page:Notes and Queries - Series 10 - Volume 7.djvu/346

 282

NOTES AND QUERIES. [io s. VIL APRIL 13, 1907.

GROVE.

54 Woman and child taking shelter from a storm. J. Westell.

RUINS.

55. Woodman in the storm. Gainsborough.

DENS.

56. Tygress. Stubbs.

57. Lions and Lioness. Stubbs.

THIRD ROOM.

58. Nativity. Carlos Marratt.

59. Sftlvator Mundi. Carlo Dolci.

60. Madonna della sedia. Raphael.

It is noted at the end that 50, e Hubert and Arthur' ; 'Dog' (under one number: 50 and 52 ?) ; 53, ' Girl and Cat ' ; and 54, 24, ' Litter of Foxes,' in 1815 ; and 49, ' Napoleon Bonaparte,' in 1816.
 * Woman and Child,' were new in 1813 ;

Most of the titles are followed by poetical extracts. That given to ' Lodona ' is of thirty-four lines ; that of ' Jephtha's Rash Vow ' is nearly six verses from Judges.

Doubtless there were further additions to the gallery from time to time. Among the few pictures mentioned by Leigh in 1823 are the following, which are not in the 1816 catalogue: 'Moonlight' by Rubens, two landscapes by Francisco Mola, and a portrait of Miss Linwood. Among the pictures mentioned by Leigh, " ' Children in a Cottage,' by Gainsborough," probably means ' Children at the Fire ' (52), under the heading " Cottage " ; and " Dead Birds and Shell-Fish by Haughton " probably refers to ' Woodcocks and Kingfisher ' (22) or ' Part- ridges ' (23), or both, and ' Oysters ' (8). Perhaps "Rubens" stands for Joseph Wright (39).

In the 1816 catalogue "Cottage," "Grove, "Ruins," and "Dens" mean, apparently, parts or offshoots of the " Gothic Room."

If Timbs is correct in his dates, the dura- tion of this exhibition was extraordinary. It would be interesting to know whether these worsted pictures were dispersed, also what was the style of the needlework.

ROBERT PIEBPOINT.

[Other references to Miss Linwood's needlework pictures will be found at 8 S. i. 13; xii. 449, 517: 9 S. i. 314 ; ii. 275, 512 ; iii. 72.]

LONGFELLOW. (See ante, pp. 201, 222, 224, 261.) THE title ' Ultima Thule ' proved signi- ficant, for it was the last work published under Longfellow's own eye. His brother well speaks of the eighteen poems as " con- taining the sweetness of ripened grain " ; they show that the fountain of youth was

within him, and that in age the heart of the poet may " bloom into song, as the gorse blossoms in autumn and spring." Among the poems is the one dedicated to the children of Cambridge, ' From my Arm-chair.' The chair was presented to- dim on his seventy-second birthday, and was made from the wood of the village blacksmith's chestnut tree. Seven hundred children contributed to its purchase, and he found it in his library when he went there on his birthday morning.

Longfellow kept no record of the amounts he was paid for his writings after 1850. For ' The Village Blacksmith,' ' Endymion/ and ' God's Acre ' he received fifteen dollars each ; for ' The Arsenal ' and ' Nuremberg ' fifty each. The Harpers paid a thousand dollars for ' Keramos.' In 1845 (the year of 'The Poets and Poetry of America') he received 2,800 dollars. In the life of Whittier by Linton it is stated that both Longfellow" and Lowell received 1,0002. a* year each from their publishers.

I should have liked to be able to give some idea as to the sales of Longfellow's works in England, but, owing to the many publishers who have issued them, I have found this to be impossible. Mr. Sonnen- schein, of Routledge & Sons, who were the authorized publishers, informs me that the- various editions reached many hundred thousand copies, and even at the present time the sale of their " Cambridge Edition " amounts to several thousand copies annually. Their " Riverside Edition " (1886), so care- fully edited by Mr. H. E. Scudder, to which I have been greatly indebted in making these notes, has been out of print for many years, and will not be reprinted. This is the most complete that has been published, and no works unknown at that time have been since discovered. It is in eleven volumes (two prose, six verse, and three devoted to the translation of Dante), and contains many portraits.

Longfellow's birthday in 1880 was made the subject of a very interesting celebration in the public schools of Cincinnati, in which fifteen thousand scholars took part. The idea originated with Mr. John B. Peaselee, and was part of a larger plan to introduce- into the schools a series of celebrations of authors' birthdays in order to create and elevate a taste for literature among the young. The idea is such a good one that it might be carried out in our own schools.

Visitors to Craigie House on the 22nd of September, 1881, saw over the door the American flag half furled and draped in.