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taken in hand by a Mr. Lombard, who showed him the town and a collection of pictures which had been saved from the

From such spectacles as the monstrous First Folio exhibited in the King's Library, British Museum, the atrocious copy of the

burning of Moscow,rich in examples of Du | Stratford monument in the National Portrait

' Gallery, and this volume, it would appear that the public really likes these illusory exhibitions in connexion with Shakespeare.

Jardin, Van der Velde, &c. From Geneva he traversed

the Rhone

valley to Brieg, and so over the Simplon by moonlight, "faring sumptuously " at the village of Sempione next day, and reaching Domo d'Ossola to sleep in Italy. Thence the artist passed, enchanted, along the dreamy western shore of Maggiore to Arona and Milan. He mentions with pride his ascent of the marble spire of the Duomo and the magnificent panorama viewed from it. In the church of S. Angelo

" many well-dressed females were kneeling ; their fine forms were beautifully relieved by the crimson damask on the walls, whose rich colour was rendered quite dazzling by a stream of sun- shine falling through the opposite windows."

5, Sussex Place. N.W

EDWARD B. HARRIS.

MILTON AND THE COMPANY or COOPERS : EARLY JURY LIST. A little pamphlet has lately been issued by Messrs. Hutchings & Romer, of 39, Great Maryborough Street, entitled ' London Citizens in 1651.' It con- sists of a transcript of Harleian MS. 4778, which is a list of signatures of the members of twenty- two City companies, of approxi-

mate date 1650 or 1651. Company of Coopers,

Among those of the which appears on

At the Brera he specially admired a ' Descent from the Cross l by Tintoretto : ' ' replete with expression and effect.' 1 He was shockec at the oppressive taxation by the Austrians and praises the character and bearing of the Milanese under their burden.

At Milan he joined a party in hiring carriage to take them to Florence in five days, via Bologna. M. Drouet, the great flute -player, was one of them, and another was a priest going back to Rome. They left on 24 April, and passed by Parma and Modena

warbling on our star-lighted path .... At every tep one beholds the very landscapes and back- grounds so beautifully painted by the old masters, and I saw them lighted up in that season when all nature is fresh, blooming, and young."
 * ' the nightingales delighting us by plaintive

They reached Bologna on 27 April, 1824. ST. CLAIR BADDELEY.

SHAKESPEARE THIRD FOLIO : THE JONES COPY. A few days ago, on closely examin- ing this volume (1664) in the Jones Bequest, South Kensington, I found that the title- page exhibited to the public is a very clever pen-and-ink facsimile ; but no intimation that this is otherwise than genuine is given on the printed ticket describing the volume, and I imagine that the public has always, like myself hitherto, assumed this title-page to be genuine. It would be interesting to know whether Leigh Hunt, R. H. Home, G. H. Lewes, W. Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Charles Knight, and the others who have signed their names on this title - page, were aware that they were putting their names to a facsimile, and not to an original.

folio 16, occurs that of John Milton, which is stated by the editor to be similar to that of the poet. This seems a fact worth putting on record.

The pamphlet concludes with ' A List of the Grand Jury of the Quarter Sessions, October, 1661,* which is stated to be the earliest known annotated Middlesex or Lon- don Jury List. It is transcribed from B.M. pamphlet 1891 d. 1.

W. R. B. PRIDE AUX.

WARREN HASTINGS 's FATHER IN BARBA- DOS. Mr. Darnell Davis, C.M.G., the well- known authority on Barbadian history, contributes to the Barbados Agricultural Reporter for 26 January last a transcript of the will of the Rev. Penyston Hastings. In introducing it Mr. Davis says :

" Through the facilities afforded to students of the history of this island by Mr. Lindsay Haynes, the Registrar, it can now be shown that Barbados was the last home of Parson Hastings, whose age must have been only some thirty years at the time of his death in this island. The year in which Penyston Hastings, clerk, arrived in Barbados is not at present known. What is clear, however, is that he celebrated Christmas Day, 1737, by getting married for the third time, as is attested by entries in the parish registers of St. Michael's and Christ Church, as follows :

1 St. Michael's : 1737, December 25 : ' The Reverend Peniston Hastings to Mrs. Jemima Mascoll.'

1 Christ Church : 1737, December 25 : ' The Reverend Pennystone Hastings and Jemima Mascoll.'

The entry in the Christ Church Register may lave been made on account of the parson's being the rector of that parish.

" His first wife, Hester, was the daughter of

gentleman named Warren, who owned a small

estate in Gloucestershire. She died a fe\v days

after giving birth to Warren, who thus never