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 ioo NOTES AND QUERIES. ("12S. X. FEB. 4, 1022. real old ballad, which is quoted in Beaumont and Fletcher's ' Knight of the Burning Pestle.' IOLO A. WILLIAMS. 3. (12 S. x. 50.) "So he kept his spirits up By pouring spirits down." It is recorded in chap. iii. of Part II. of ' The Further Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, the Oxford Freshman,' that Mr. Bouncer whispered this couplet to Charles Larkyns, but I hesitate to assert that it originated with him. It savours of Hood, but I cannot trace it in his works. WlLLOUGHBY MAYCOCK. JJote* on Prints of British Military Operations. A Cata- logue Raisonne, with Historical Descriptions covering the Period from the Norman Conquest to the Campaign in Abyssinia. By C. de W. Crookshank. (London : Adlard and Son and West Newman, 22 s. ; with Portfolio, 10 10s.) THE appearance of this fine work, of which the King has accepted a copy, coincides very happily with a strong revival of interest in military history and antiquities. Lieut. -Colonel Crook- shank is secure of full appreciation, not only of the beauty and value of the finished book but also of the lavish care, the enthusiasm, and we may say the enjoyment which obviously went to the making of it. The only medieval illustrations of British military operations belonging to that period are those taken from fifteenth-century illuminated MSS. of which plates have been inserted in the 1844 edition of Froissart. These are described in the Catalogue. The next in tune which approach to being contemporary with the events delineated are three prints of Henry VIII. 's Boulogne Expedi- tion, from drawings made by S. H. Grimm in 1786, after old paintings at Cowdray, which perished in the fire there. The first action of which an illustration is here reproduced is the fight at Carberry Hill, from Vertue's engraving in Kensington Palace. The siege of Grave by Count Maurice in 1602, a contemporary French etching being a combined plan and sketch of operations is of *unusual interest. Colonel Crookshank has fifteen entries relating to the Civil War ; and reproduces Dupuis' engrav- ing of ParrocePs ' Battle of Naisby.' As he truly says, it is much to be regretted that this important chapter in the military history of Britain is so poorly represented in contemporary art and the more so because Prince Rupert himself was of no mean skill as a draughtsman and engraver. With the end of the seventeenth century we come to more numerous contemporary pictures of battles, and likewise to the amusing development of " fakes." A telling example of this is given almost at the outset in a ' Siege of Athlone ' made by altering the background and changing the numbered references of de Hooge's plate of ' Londonderri.' A very interesting plate is that of four playing-cards, by Spofforth, representing the attack on Vigo, the taking of Bonn, Maryborough's march into Germany, and the taking of Gibraltar. Coloureed plates, admirably reproduced, give us The Battle of Dettingen ' (contemporary, Pano after Daremberg) ; ' The Landing of the Cape Breton Expedition at Louis - bourg ' (contemporary, Brooks after J. Stevens) ; and ' The Taking of Quebec ' (Laurie and Whittle). ' The Conquest of Buenos Ayres,' a scarce contem- porary wood-cut (G. Thompson) will delight both the print-collector and the military historian. Under the heading ' Napoleonic Wars ' 166 prints and series of prints are catalogued, and of the Waterloo Campaign between 60 and 70. The last of the plates in the book is by A. Concanen, of whom an account will be found at ante, nicer, of the Storming of Magdala. The sixteen reproductions in the portfolio, ranging from Blenheim to Sevastopol are & delightful as they are instructive. Here is a charming view (by Clark and Hamble, after Craig) of the Cape of Good Hope, as it originally appeared, with a panel in bistre below depicting the battle of 1806. One of the most effective plates is that of the storming of Monte Video a moonlight scene by Clark and Dubourg, after Lt.- General Robinson. Another gives a most curious por- trait of Wellington, followed by his staff and principal officers and riding towards a bird's-eye view of Waterloo by Fry and Sutherland, after Heath. Colonel Crookshank has also included the fine pair of plates, each with its key, by Moses and Lewis, after Wright, of the battles of Vittoria and the Pyrenees, and a most interesting ' Battle of Chillianwalah,' engraved from a drawing by Charles Becher Young, and originally published in Calcutta. Those who have made any study of the subject will know how much such a collection will yield in the matter of what we may call regimental interest in spite of the caution with which these data have necessarily to be used. It is, then, not only the print-collector but also the military historian who has reason to be grateful to Colonel Crookshank for the extreme nicety with which the reproductions have been carried out. The operations dealt with number fifty-two, and a short summary of the history appertaining to each is prefixed to the several sections of the catalogue. JJottce* to Correspondents?, EDITORIAL communications should be addressed to " The Editor of ' Notes and Queries ' " Adver- tisements and Business Letters to " The Pub- lishers " at the Office, Printing House Square, London, E.C.4 ; corrected proofs to The Editor, ' N, & Q.,' Printing House Square, London, E.C.4. ALL communications intended for insertion in our columns should bear the name and address of the sender not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. WHEN answering a query, or referring to an article which has already appeared, correspondents are requested to give within parentheses im- mediately after the exact heading the numbers of the series, volume, and page at which the con- tribution in question is to be found. ANEUBIK WILLIAMS. Stephen Jones, editor of the ' Biographia Dramatica,' was born in London, 1763, and also died in London (in Holborn), 1827. See the ' D.N.B.'
 * p. 79, 97 a lithograph, from a sketch by a Staff