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Curiosities, &c., in the Cabinet of Enamels and Miniatures, and in the Glass Cases on each side of It. 1 This is a small quarto of 18 pages, numbered 1 to 18 inclusive, in the familiar bluish-grey wrapper. It contains the larger part of the items which appear in the 1774 'Description' on pp. 78-97 inclusive, the principal differences being that the ' Description ' has some thirteen items under the head-line " Other pictures and curiosities in the same room," and some additional notes.

The ' Pictures, Curiosities, &c., ? is undated, but may, I think, be properly assigned to 1772, as it contains the Cellini silver bell obtained in February, 1772 (' Letters, 1 Toyn- bee, viii. 151) ; while in July, 1773, Walpole wrote, evidently in reference to the 1774 catalogue : "As this [the nase in which Selina was drowned] and* much of my collection is frail, I am printing the Cata- logue >J (' Letters, 1 viii. 312), and in July, 1774, he wrote to the Rev, William Cole : "I have finished the Catalogue of my Collection n (' Letters,' ix. 19).

The other small piece which appeared in the 1902 sale, ' Curiosities in the Glass Closet in the Great Bed Chamber, 4 4 pp., small quarto, n.d., I have not had the opportunity of examining. This can possibly, but not positively, be assigned to 1772, as in the account of the contents of the Glass Closet in the 1774 ' Description l is included the Goa stone given to Walpole by the poet Gray's executors in August, 1772 (' Letters,' viii. 196-7). Kirgate is said to have stated that the 65-page edition was for the use of the servants in showing the house ; and it seems likely that these two smaller pieces, of 18 and 4 pp. respectively, were struck off for the same purpose, and that all three were prior to 1774.

The ' Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill,'- 8 pp., 1760, I also have not had the opportunity of examining personally. It passes for the first attempt at cataloguing any of the contents of Strawberry Hill, and appeared in the Hodgson sale catalogue of 1902 under date of 1760, which there seems no reason to question, as the Holbein Chamber had just been completed in the fall of 1759.

Any attempt at a bibliography of Straw- berry Hill publications is surrounded with some difficulties. Walpole's list of the publications as it appears in the ' Descrip- tions * of 1774 and 1784 is not complete, nor'can it be entirely relied upon. He said

himself : "I hope future edition-mongers will say of those of Strawberry Hill, they have all the beautiful negligence of a gentle- man " ('Letters,* viii. 278). His hope has been, I think, fully realized.

I may conclude by saying that the ' Ser- mon on Painting l included in the ' ^Edes Walpolianae,' and mentioned by L. A. W. (ante, p. 34), was written by Horace Walpole, and preached by his father's domestic chaplain :

" In the summer of 1742 I wrote a Sermon on Painting for the amusement of my father in his retirement. It was preached before him by his chaplain ; again, before my eldest brother at Stanno, near Houghton ; and was afterwards published in the ' ^des Walpoliana3.' " Wal- pole's ' Short Notes of my Life,' ' Letters,' Toyn- bee, i. xxxvii.

The Sermon appears in the 1752 edition of the ' ^Edes Walpolianse,* and I suppose also in the first edition, although I cannot speak from personal examination.

E. P. MEBBITT.

Boston, U.S.A.

[We cannot publish any more on this subject.]

'ALONZO THE BBAVE* (11 S. i. 167). In correcting MB. MAYCOCK as to the author- ship of ' Alonzo the Brave l your two corre- spondents have themselves fallen into error. The lugubrious ballad, or recitation, or poem, of ' Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogene l is by " Monk " Lewis, but MB. MAYCOCK alluded to a burlesque scena of the same name by Hugo Vamp, which was the pseudonym of an entertainer by the name of O'Neill. An account of him will be found in Donaldson's ' Recollections of an Actor, 1 1865, pp. 309-12. Vamp composed several of these musical sketches, one being on 'Macbeth/ and one called 'Evil Brewin',' having reference to the Crimean War.

A. RHODES.

It would appear that the song which Samuel Cowell sang was a burlesque of "Monk n Lewis's poem. See the Memoir of Cowell, by his brother-in-law, the late Rev. J. W. Ebsworth, in the ' Dictionary of National Biography.' WM. DOUGLAS.

125, Helix Road, Brixton Hill.

PETEBSFIELD OLD INNS (11 S. i. 169). The leading inns of Petersfield in 1765 were "The Red Lion n (probably the same as given in the rent-roll of 1696-7), "The Dolphin," "The White Hart, ?i and "The Castle." all of them in their day celebrated coaching houses. " The Castle " is now a