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ii s. VIIL AUG. 16, i9i3.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

135 The following extract from Mr. P. M. Barnard's latest catalogue may interest the querist:—

RICHARD PABKES BONINGTON (11 S. vii. 486 ; viii. 73). In case MR. LANE is un- acquainted with it, may I supplement my reply at the second reference by pointing out the following work :

" A Series of Subjects from the Works of the late R. P. Bonington, drawn on stone by J. D. Harding. .... London : Published by J. Carpenter & Son .... Printed at C. Hullmandel's lithographic estab- lishment, 49, Gt. Marlborough Street [1829]." Imperial 4to.

The volume contains (as frontispiece) a portrait of the artist, with facsimile auto- graph beneath, vignette title, and twenty plates. My ovm copy is one of the few issued as " India proofs," of which one other copy appeared at auction in 1906.

Beneath the vignette on title is printed the following extract from a letter written by Sir Thomas Lawrence to Mrs. Forster, daughter of Banks the sculptor :

" Alas ! for Bonington. Your presage has been fatally verified ; the last duties have been paid to him this day. Except in the case of Mr. Harlowe I have never known in my own time the early death of talent so promising and so rapidly and obviously improving. If I may judge from the later direction of his studies, and from remembrance of a morning's conversation, his mind seemed expanding every way and ripening into full maturity of taste and elevated judgment, with that generous ambition which makes con- finement to the lesser departments in the art painfully irksome and annoying."

WM. JAGGARD.

Rose Bank, Stratford-on-Avon.

BRADDOCK FAMILY (US. viii. 50). The surname of Braddock is entirely confined to Cheshire, especially Macclesfield.

Thomas Braddock appears under the names of persons in the grants under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation in the Records of Ireland. Phillimore's ' Parish Registers of Cheshire ' and all county histories of the same should be consulted.

R. USSHER.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH'S ' DESERTED VIL- LAGE ' (11 S. viii. 26). There is a still closer parallel to the lines quoted from ' The Satires of Juvenal Paraphrastically Imi- tated ' in another of Goldsmith's pieces, earlier by a good deal, if my memory serves me, than ' The Deserted Village,' namely, the ' Description of an Author's Bed- chamber.' The lines referred to run :

A nightcap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night a stocking all the day !

C. C. B.

W. B. H. has forgotten 'The Citizen of the World,' letter 30, the Authors' Club, where the poet reads to his fellow -authors part of a poem closing with

A nightcap decked his brows instead of bay,

A cap by night a stocking all the day 1 This was published in 1760, three years before the imitation of Juvenal quoted, which therefore must have borrowed the idea from Goldsmith, instead of the reverse. I think even this verse of Goldsmith had been written earlier yet, and is to be found in his letters or fragments, but have not the material at hand at the moment to search. The humorous antithesis was evidently a favourite with Goldsmith.

FORREST MORGAN.

Hartford, Conn.

AMBIGUOUS POSSESSIVE CASE : " ONES n (11 S. viii. 25, 91). Another unlovely feature in modern English is the excessive use of "one" and "ones." "His books are such beautiful ones " should be "So beautiful are his books." Nor is there any reason for saying " Jones's garden is the one that I liked best," instead of "It Was Jones's garden," &c., or " The garden that I liked best was Jones's."

Some anomalies may be excused for the mirth which they afford to any one with a sense of language and of humour: e.g., " The choir gave an exquisite rendering of Stainer's anthem, while the Bishop preached...." W. E. B.

SIR JOHN MOORE'S BROTHER, SUR- GEON JAMES MOORE : HIS BURIAL-PLACE

EQUALLY STRANGE (11 S. Viii. 66). 1 must

agree to differ from MR. J. HARRIS STONE, who writes of the death by cholera of Sir John Moore's brother in the island of Ischia in 1834 (?), and his burial within the crater of an extinct volcano. Surely it could not be in Mont' Epomeo.

I was several times in Ischia from 1871 to 1874, and both saw and heard that Sir