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 4 th S. IV. AUGUST 7, '69.] NOTES AND QUERIES. LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 18C9. CONTENTS. NO 84. NOTES : Rudolph Ackermann, of the Strand, Publisher, 109 Horace, Carm. i. 28, 122 Miss Banger : " The Percy Anecdotes," 113 Book Inscription The Photographer's Adage John Wesley Chaucer's " Schippes Hoppe- steres" Birds' Eggs unlucky to keep Sir John Her- schel at the Cape Notice of the Discovery of a Cornish Mystery Play, 113. QUERIES : Descendants of Lieutenant Wade and Ensign Maylem, 114 Arval-Bread : Arval-Supper : a Funeral Feast in Yorkshire Alcuin's Bible Bibliographical Queries Bland-dyke, or Blan-dyke, a Term for a Day of Recreation at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire Cheroi- type Castles in the Air Ercilla's " Araucana " Haif- a-Dozen Historical Queries Hogarth's "Lady's last Stake" Metrical Prophecy Miss Monk, Wife of Wil- liam D'O.vley Arms of Archbishop Parker of Tuam Peli Pellico's " Francesca da Rimini " Pillory at East Looe, Cornwall Engraved Portrait Printing Query Quotations wanted, &c., 115. QUERIES WITH ANSWERS : " L'Empire c'est la Paix " Parliament Lunch The Rev. Dr. Fellowes Shake- speare, 117. REPLIES: Janet Little, 119 The Stirling Case, 76. Robert Blair, Author of " The Grave," and Norris of Bemerton, &c., 120 Velocipedes, 121 Sir Francis Pem- berton Bedlam Beggars and Rosemary Giles Lawrence for Dissenting Churches Signification of the Word " Pu- pillus " La Salette " Fysch-hole " Plessis : Park Rhyme to Ralph Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes Cartulari s. &c. of Faversham Abbey and Davington Priory Bradwardine Family Kidnap'ping, &c., 122. Notes on Books, &c. RUDOLPH ACKERMANN, OF THE STRAND, PUBLISHER. With some slight corrections, it will be good to adopt an account, which appeared in the Didas- kalia (Frankfurt am Main), No. 103, April 13, 1864, of Rudolph Ackermann. He is therein cited as having occupied one of the first places among those who, by far-sighted and active occu- pation, accompanied by philanthropic exertions for the benefit of his fellow creatures, had raised the character of the natives of Germany to a high point of esteem in other countries. Born April 20, 1764, at Stolberg, in the Saxon Harz, his sym- pathies with the misfortunes of others were so warmly excited by the misery seen around him in the famine of 1772-3, that he frequently in later years excused the zeal, which he showed on other occasions, by pictures of the distress that he experienced when he, at the age of eight years, was employed for hours daily in distributing food and money. In 1775 his' father removed to Schneeberg his business of coach-building and harness-making. There Rudolph received in the local school his education till he was fifteen years old, and s' owed a decided predilection for literary pursuits ; but as his father's pecuniary position did not warrant the choice of that line of life by more than one son, Rudolph was obliged to yield and to enter the paternal factory. An elder brother, Frederick, had set him the example ; and, being a good draughtsman, gave up his leisure in order to instruct Rudolph in the use of the simplest in- struments. The younger one soon busied himself m the drawing-office more willingly than in the workshops j but, perhaps unknown to himself, he had there made an acquaintance with details which subsequently were as highly important to him as his^ subsequent visits to Dresden, the towns on the Rhine, and Hueningen near Basle. While he resided in Paris he was the friend as well as the best pupil of Carrossi, who at that time was the most esteemed designer of equipages. Thence he proceeded to London, where he was delighted to find that carriage -building was one of the most active occupations, and that the exercise of his talents might be handsomely rewarded. So for eight or ten years (till 1795, Didaskalia) he was employed in furnishing the principal coachmakers with designs and models for new and improved carriages. The models of the state coach built at a cost of nearly 7000/. for the lord-lieutenant of Ireland in 1790,' and that for the lord mayor of Dublin in 1791, exhibited his skill and taste. Here was a sufficient career for a bachelor ; but in that period he had married an Englishwoman, who is chronicled (in a truly German point of view) as having no other dowry than all the domestic virtues; and he provided for the sup- port of the expected family by establishing at 96, Strand, a trade in prints, which that family might be able to manage if his death were to occur at any early period : this was removed about 1796 to 101, Strand. Previously, in addition, the prudent man had revived a drawing school at 101, Strand. It was held in a room 65 ft. long, 30 ft. wide, and 24 ft. high, to which there was an entrance by a private door in Fountain Court. This room had been erected upon part of the court-yard of Beaufort House, probably when that mansion was converted into the Fountain Tavern. The place had been previously occupied by the drawing academy of William Shipley (founder of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce), brother of Jonathan Shipley, bishop of Llandaff and of St. Asaph. Among the pupils were W. Pars, who died young at Rome, C. Smart, and R. Cosway, R.A, The last-named artist possessed a pane of glass inscribed with the words : " Oh ! through what various scenes of life we run : Are wicked to be great ; and being great, undone. SIMON FRASER." These were supposed to have been written by Lord Lovat, with his diamond ring, when he took refreshment at the Tavern on the way from his trial in Westminster Hall to the Tower" The tra- dition (or the truth) gives a curious impression of the manners of the times that allowed such a halt ; but, on recollecting the scenes of the processions
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