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LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2U, 1907.

CONTENTS.-NO. 191.

NOTES : Samuel Foote's Comedies, 141 Jubilee of ' The City Press,' 142 The Racial Problem of Europe Mr. Watts- Dunton on Sorrow's ' Wild Wales,' 145 The Old Sessions House, Old Bailey Hampstead's Historical Houses, 146 Thomas Keyes " Cabollicking "=Gossiping "Bus" for "Omnibus" Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury,' 147.

QUERIES : Mahony or O'Mahony Family "Abbey" Miss Watson: Married Woman's Settlements Court Leet in Portland, Dorset Canning : Costello : Scott, 148 Clergy in Wigs French Refugee Bishops in British Territory Mrs. Marsh, Authoress of 'The Valley of a Hundred Fires,' 149 Amintas Legend Authors of Quota- tions Wanted School for the Indigent Blind Spoon and Hair Hodson=Ferrers, 150.

REPLIES : " Yeoman service," 150 Albert Moore and the 'D.N.B.' J. Thompson, Portrait Painter, 152 "Caveac" Tavern Marshall's ' Genealogist's Guide ': a Supplement Musical Services on Church Towers Authors of Quotations Wanted Cemetery Consecration, 153 Greensted Church, Ongar : Oak v. Chestnut Rood- LoftsVoltaire and Rousseau, 154 Mirage Hamlet as a Christian Name, 155" Cortel" Clocks Littleton's 'His- tory of Islington ' " Hubbub"=Disturbance Hampstead Omnibus, 156 Pie : Tart T. L. Peacock : Contributions to Periodicals De Lhuys or Norderloose, 157 Col. Howe Beddoes Surname" Wy " in Hampshire Sir Thomas Bloodworth, Lord Mayor 1665-6 Hackney Celebrities Cromwell and Milton : a Famous Picture, 158.

NOTES ON BOOKS : ' The Cambridge Modern History ' ' The Scots Peerage,'' The Age of Justinian and Theo- dora ' ' The Abbaye of the Holy Ghost ' ' The Frere and the Boye ' ' Folk-Lore ' ' L'Intenne'diaire.'

Notices to Correspondents.

SAMUEL FOOTE'S COMEDIES.

THE names of many of the persons satirized in the plays of the " British Aris- tophanes " will be found in Genest's ' Account of the London Stage,' and a list is given in Lowe's edition of Dr. Doran's ' Annals of the English Stage.' Since neither cata- logue is sufficiently comprehensive, I have ventured to draw up a new one, in the hope that the readers of ' N. & Q.' will be able to make additions. Several characters should be easily identified. For instance, Which of the nabobs was ridiculed in the part of Sir Peter Pepperpot in ' The Patron ' ? and who was Mr. C n, satirized as Sir Luke Limp in ' The Lame Lover ' ?

I have given also the dates of the produc- tion of each play as far as I am able. In the edition of Foote's dramatic works there is no information on the subject. Reference to the advertisement columns of contem- porary newspapers will fill up the blanks.

1. 'The Knights,' Haymarket, March (?), 1748. According to W. Cooke the part of Hartop was intended to represent " a gentle- man of the West of England."

2. 'Taste,' Drury Lane, 11 Jan., 1752.

The profits of this play, which satirized the follies of the connoisseur, were given to James Worsdale, the painter, who acted the part of Lady Pentweazle.

3. ' The Englishman in Paris,' Covent Garden, 24 March, 1753. This and the following play ridiculed the fashion of sending young men to complete their educa- tion by foreign travel.

4. ' The Englishman returned from Paris,' Covent Garden, 3 Feb., 1756.

5. ' The Author,' Drury Lane, 5 Feb., 1757. The parts of Cadwallader and his wife, played respectively by Foote and Mrs. Clive, were supposed to represent a Mr. and Mrs. Aprice or Apreece.

6. ' The Minor,' Crow Street, Dublin, 28 Jan., 1760. In ridicule of the Methodists. Shift =Tate Wilkinson (Doran says the Rev. George Whitefield). Loader == Lookup, the gambler. Smirk Langford, the auctioneer. Mrs. Cole=Jane Douglas of Covent Garden, the procuress.

7. ' The Lyar,' Covent Garden, 12 Jan., 1762.

8. ' The Orators,' Haymarket, Summer season, 1762. In this comedy Foote ridi- culed Thomas Sheridan in the part of the Lecturer, and George Faulkner, the Dublin printer, who brought an action against him, in the part of Peter Paragraph.

9. ' The Mayor of Garratt,' Haymarket, July, 1763. A satire against the militia. Major Sturgeon = Justice Lamb of Acton. Matthew Mugg=Duke of Newcastle.

10. ' The Patron,' Haymarket, summer season, 1764. The part of Sir Thomas Lofty was intended for Bubb Dodington, Baron Melcombe.

11. 'TheCommissary,' Haymarket, June(?) 1765. Mr. C. Van Noorden informs me that the part of Zac Fungus, the Commissary, was aimed at Peter Taylor of Portsmouth, and that of Isaac Fungus at his son, Robert Paris Taylor. Dr. Arne, the composer, was satirized as Dr. Catgut.

12. ' The Devil upon Two Sticks,' Hay- market, 30 May, 1768. Dr. Squib = Dr. Brocklesby. President of the College of Physicians Sir William Browne. Mrs. Mac- aulay, the historian, was satirized in the first act.

13. ' The Lame Lover,' Haymarket, 22 June, 1770. This comedy was a satire upon the " Female Coterie " as well as upon the lawyers. According to The Town and Country Magazine, ii. 294, the part of Sir Luke Limp was supposed to represent Mr. C n, " a gentleman well known in the circles