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oval don by Mrs. Carr, my lady's sister [Anno, wife of William Carr I ; Ld. Wharton, in a shep- herd's habit ; Mrs. Thomas, now Lady Keymis, my lady's sister [Mary, married first William Thomas," and second Sir Charles Kemys, Bart.] ; Mr. Philip Wharton, son to Sir Thomas Wharton, my lady s cousin-german ; Mr. Philip Wharton's first lady ; two knee pieces with gilt frames ; Mr. Major Dunche, his lady ; three small pic- tures in water colour of Mr. Major Dunche, his lady, Ld. Wharton (given by Sir Thomas Wharton)."

Other pictures in the inventory include nine small pictures in mezzotinto of Charles I. ; Charles II.; Queen Dowager; James II., his Queen ; Prince of Orange, his Princess ; Prince George of Denmark, his Princess ; six small pictures in mezzotinto of Sir Grevil Verney ; Madam Soams ; a draught of Bethlem ; a draught of a Lady at Con- fession ; the Elephant and Rhinoceros ; a draught of a Bevel by Mr. C.

In addition to these are mentioned Mrs. Sydley, in mezzo with lackered frame ; the Virgin Mary, in a gilt leather frame ; Lord Russel, a print ; a print, being Cupid, with an ebony frame and glass ; two Dutch pic- tures in paper, cut like point-work ; a small ' Landskip ' by Mr. Dunstall, in a silver frame ; ' The Present Queen Mary,' in mezzotinto ; Sheriff Bethel, with a spotted frame ; and ' Ye Draught of Lands at Baddes- ley.'

It would be of interest to know the present whereabouts of this fine series of family portraits. PERCY D. MTJNDY.

ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL : NELSON'S SEPULCHRE. ' Political and Moral Reflec- tions during Twelve Rambles in London ' (1810) provides the following :

" On entering it [St. Paul's], after the surprise, at the grandeur of its interior, had a little sub- sided, I thought on [sic] a gallant hero, and pensively approaching the spot, where his remains are deposited, I gazed with awe comingled with indignity, not at that splendid monument, which was voted to his memory by Parliament two years since, and which should long ere this, have formed the Mausoleum of departed greatness ; but, with shuddering, I mention it, as a few rotten boards was all that intervened between me and the shrine of Nelson !

' ' Is this,' I mentally exclaimed, while I gazed on the trophies which overhung his grave, and waved to and fro with the moaning blast in sullen majesty, as if in sympathy with my out- raged feelings, ' is this the burial-place of him who once, it may be truly said, commanded the destinies of the world ? '" &c.

This suggests that the coffin was deposited on the floor of the crypt, and remained neglected some years before the sarcophagus,

said to have been intended for Cardinal Wolsey, was brought from "Windsor and the- existing sepulchre completed.

ALECK ABRAHAMS.

" THE NINE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES OF

THE AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN MONARCHY." A

general appeal to the various peoples of the- Austro- Hungarian monarchy is reported to have been recently directed by the Com- mander-in-Chief of the Russian Army, after having entered L'v6v (or Leopolis, com- monly called Lemberg), the capital of Galicia, rendered in nine principal lan- guages of Austro - Hungary. As it may be- worth while to have them enumerated, let me briefly do so: (1) Polish; (2) Malo- or Little - Russian, or Ruthenian (which differs- from Veliko- or Great-Russian not less than Polish does, being not a mere dialect, but the language of the celebrated Malo -Russian poet Shevchenko, having its centre at L'vov) ; (3) Chekh or Bohemian ; (4) Serbo- Croatian ; (5) Slovenian (having its centre at Lyublyana, commonly called Laibach) ? (6) Rumanian ; (7) Italian ; (8) German ; (9) Magyar or Hungarian. I need hardly point out that these nine languages repre- sent the three chief groups of our Indo- European family i.e., Slavonic, Romance, and Germanic, together with the Finnish- Ugrian separate group, to which Magj r ar- Hungarian belongs. H. KREBS.

Oxford.

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WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries,, in order that answers may be sent to them direct.

MICHELANGELO'S ' DAVID ' AT FLOR- ENCE. Can any one tell me if there is more than one replica of Michelangelo's statue of ' David ' in Florence ? Mr. E. V. Lucas in his delightful book ' A Wanderer in Florence ' mentions several times that there are two r one in bronze on the Piazzale Michelangelo,, and another at the door of the Palazzo Vecchio.

I know Florence very well, but have no- recollection of this latter copy. The original statue, now in the Accademia, was removed from the Palazzo Vecchio in 1873, and the- only replica I have seen is the one on the Piazzale Michelangelo. I was last in Florence in 1910. Perhaps it has been placed there since that date, but this I do- not think is likely. J. DUNSMURE.

Edinburgh.