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LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1907.

CONTENTS. No. 181.

INOTES : The "Strawberry Hill" Catalogue, 461 Granger annotated by Caulfield, 462 Sarah Walker, "Old Cam- paigner" : " Marquis of Granby," Public-house Sign, 464 Sir William Howard Russell's Parentage The Keeper of Newgate, 465 Mr. D. M. Moore : New York under British Rule ' Cartularium Saxonicum ' Broom Plant as French Workmen's Badge Hardwicke House, Seaford, 46(5 Mrs. Hannah Glasse " Thumb-hand Side"=Right-hand Side Masonry and Religion, 467.

QUERIES : Chantries and Church Stores, 467 Dr. John- son as a Potter, 468 "As poor as rats" "Betty," a Hedge-Sparrow Princess Royal : Earliest Use of the Title American Magazine conducted by Factory Workers Maisons de Corneille Irish Girl and Barbary Pirates " Sham Abraham " Keble's ' Christian Year' J. Thomp- son, Portrait Painter, 469 Halesowen, Worcestershire The "Golden Angel" in St. Paul's Churchyard "Scivroogh" Dr. Jonnson Oxford Divinity Examina- tion, 470.

REPLIES : " Every man has his price," 470 Houses of Historical Interest, 472" Moke," a Donkey : Nicknames of the Army Service Corps Hoek van Holland The Great Wheel at Earl's Court " Ramsammy," 473 " dear, what can the matter be ? " Fleetwood of Pen- wortham, co. Lancaster ' The History of Self-Defence,' 474_Admiral Christ Epitaph O. W. Holmes on Citizen- ship "Author" used for "Editor" Dr. Johnson: Dr. John Swan : Dr. Watts" Black Horse " Inn : Dean of Killaloe, <fec., 475 Mansfield Gooseberry-tart Fair "Matross": "Topass" Tailor in Dresden China William Talman, Architect : Hampton Court Palace, 476 Magdalen College School and the ' D.N.B.' A Short Explication ' of Musical Terms, 477.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' A Tragedie of Abrahams Sacrifice ' 'A Concise Dictionary of the Assyrian Language' ' The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.'

Booksellers' Catalogues.

Obituary : Prof. Alfred Newton.

THE

STRAWBERRY HILL" CATALOGUE.

IN the volume cited at 6 S. v. 441 under the above heading will be found a curious error which, even after the lapse of twenty- five years (10 June, 1882), seems worth correcting. The contributor of the article writes :

"For the sake of completeness I may record, in limine, two volumes descriptive of the villa, published many a long year before the dispersion of its contents.

" The earlier is entitled : ' An Account of Straw- berry Hill as it was in the year 1710. By Charles, Lord Whitworth.' 8vo. Printed at Strawberry Hill, 1758. With vignette of Strawberry Hill on the title-page. The 'Advertisement' was written by Horace Walpole himself.

' " The second is : ' A Description of the Villa of Mr. H. Walpole at Strawberry Hill, with an Inven- tory of the Furniture, Pictures, Curiosities, &c. .Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1774,' 4to. A second edition of this volume, with .additions, appeared in 1784, 4to ; and its contents, with corrections, appear in the second volume of the collected works of the Earl of Orford, 1798, -4to."

The earlier volume referred to is, of course, the well-known " An Account of Russia as

it was in the year 1710. By Charles, Lord Whitworth," 1758 the fifth book printed at, and the fourth book to be issued from, the Strawberry Hill Press, but which had no further connexion with Walpole's ' ' Castle of Strawberry."

The earliest attempt at a description of any of the contents of Strawberry Hill is the ' Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill ' 1760, 8vo, pp. 8.

Martin and Lowndes, apparently follow- ing Baker, give the following title (with a date of 1772, assumed by Lowndes) :

"A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole, Youngest, Son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, at Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham, with an Inventory of the Furniture, Pictures, Curiosi- ties." Small 4to, pp. 65.

" This edition is stated by Kirgate as having been printed only for the use of the servants in she win <* the house. " Martin.

Mr. Austin Dobson, however, in the Biblio- graphy of the Press in his ' Horace Walpole : a Memoir,' says he has not met with it.

In the sale by Messrs. Hodgson & Co. in 1902 of the Strawberry Hill productions bequeathed by Walpole to Mrs. Darner are these two items, which the cataloguer suggests may possibly have been a part of the ' Description ' (of 1772) :

"Curiosities in the Glass Closet in the Great Bedchamber. Sm. 4tq, 4 pp., n.d."

"Pictures, Curiosities, &c., in the Cabinet of Enamels and Miniatures, and in the Glass Cases on Each Side of it. Sm. 4to, 18 pp., n.d." Next canie

"A Description of the Villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford, at Strawberry Hill, near Twickenham. With an Inventory of the Furniture, Pictures, Curiosities, &c. Strawberry Hill. Printed by Thomas Kir-gate 1774." 4to.

Finally appeared the definitive edition of the ' Description,' Strawberry Hill, 1784, 4to, printed by Kirgate, containing 27 plates and plans of Strawberry Hill.

Coming to the question of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, your contributor writes : " Of the Catalogue itself there are two editions." He states that the first edition contained so many blunders that it was decided to cancel the portion of the impres- sion which had not been distributed and to employ an expert to recatalogue ; also that the original issue of 250 pages contains the particulars of the entire twenty-four days, while in the corrected reissue, which "happens to extend to exactly the same number of pages, the record of the seventh and eighth days' sale is omitted, the pagination running on consecutively notwithstanding," &c.