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 112 NOTES AND QUERIES. s. iv. AUGUST i, '69. University of Oxforct, 84 pi. after Nash, Pyne, Pugin, Mackenzie, &c., with text by Combe ; and the supplementary Portraits of the Founders, 32 pi. ; and the Costume, 17 pi. after Uwins. 1815, University of Cambridge, 81 pi., with 'text by Combe; and the supplementary Portraits of Founders, 16 pi. ; and the Costume, 14 pi. 1816, Colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westmin- ster, icith the Charter House, the Free Schools of St. Paul, Merchant Taylors', Harrow and Ruyby, and the School of Christ's Hospital, 48 pi., with text by Combe, except for Winchester, Eton and Harrow (text by W. H. Pyne. Mr. Hotten's memoir of Combe differently excepts Winchester, Harrow, and Rugby ; but the statement here made had the authority of Mr. Ackermann, who was not likely to except Eton if Combe had written it.) 1 820, Picturesque Tour along the Rhine, 24 pi., by J. G. von Gerning. 1820, Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ay res and Monte Video, 24 pi., with text by E. E. Vidal. 1820, Picturesque Tour of the English Lakes, 48 pi. after Fielding and Walton. 1821, Picturesque Tour of the Seine, 24 pi. after Pugin and Gendall. 1824, Picturesque Tour of the Ganges and Jumna, 24 pi., by C. R. Forrest. 1826, Scenery, fyc. of India, 24 pi., by R. M. Grindlay. 1828, Picturesque Tour of the Thames, 24 pi. after Westall and Owen. All these were described as elephant 4to except Capt. Grindlay 's atlas plates. They form a series which has not yet been paralleled, and which is likely to maintain that reputation. It is not sup- posed that these works repaid the risk (in some cases the actual cost) of production. His losses upon them were partly compensated by the ex- traordinary success of smaller publications that were illustrated in a similar manner. The chief of these was the Repository of Arts, Literature, Fashions, Manufactures, fyc., which before tlie end of its first year (1809) had attained the num- ber of 3000 subscribers, and was continued by him until the end of 1828, being during the whole of that period under the management of Frederic Shoberl as general editor, with the assistance of Lewis Engelbach as reviewer of music in criti- cisms which may be usefully studied by the most successful living contributors to the press. Its fir.st series (1809-15) was distinguished by papers called Observations on the Fine Arts, from a cor- respondent signing " Juninus," whose earliest com- munications were scarcely decipherable through his wish to be anonymous : they ceased when Mr. Ackermann transmitted in gold his apprecia- tion of the papers to the person who, he felt assured, had supplied them. That series gave Howitt's British Sports, 30 pi. 1809-11. The third series (1823-28) contained the History of the English Drama by W. C. Stafford of York. Other constant contributors were F. Accum till his exile about 1820, J. M. Lacey,and W. Carey. But the most prolific source of matter was W. Combe, who supplied the papers entitled the Modern Spectator, 1811-15; the Cogitations of Johannes Scriblerus, 1814-16 ; the Female Tatler, 1816-21; and the Adviser, 1817-22; besides Amelia's Letters, 1809-11, which were republished (with his name) as the Letters between Amelia in London and her Mother in the Country, 1824. The value of the materials in the Repository was shown by the success which attended the issue of them in separate volumes. It supplied Letters from Italy, by Lewis Engelbach, 1809-13, reprinted as Naples and the Campagna Felice, with 17 pi. by Row- landson, 1815 ; Select Views of London, 76 pi., with text by J. B. Papworth, 1810-15, rep. 1816 ; Designs for Furniture, 76 pi. (the first series), 1809-15, reprinted as the Upholsterer s and Cabi- netmaksrs Repository, 1816 ; Architectural Hints, 27 pi. by J. B. Papworth, 1816-7, reprinted as Rural Residences, 1819; Sentimetital Travels to (Tour in the) the South of France, 18 pi. after Rowlandson, 1817-20, rep. 1821 ; Picturesque Tour from Geneva to Milan by Way of the Simplon, '1818-20, 36 pi., with text by F. Shoberl, rep. 1820; Pictorial Car 'ds, 1818-9, rep. 1819; Hints on Orna- mental Gardening, 34 pi. by J. B. Papworth, rep. 1823 ; Picturesque Tour from Berne through the Olerlancl, 17 pi., 1821-22, rep. 1824 ; Designs of Household Furniture and Decoration (the second series), 1816-22, rep. 1823; Views of Country Seats of the Royal Family, Nobility, and Gentry of England, after W. Westall, T. H. Shepherd, and others, but chiefly J. Gendall (now living in Devonshire), and Frederick Wilton Litchfield Stockdale (then lately of the H. E. I. C. service ; and author, in 1824, of Excursions through Corn- wall), 50 pi., 1823-28, rep. 1828 ; and Designs for Gothic Furniture, 27 pi. after A. Pugin, rep. 1828. To these republications may be added those of the Female Fashions, chiefly engraved by J. S. A gar in the Repository, which, with the British Fashions for 1803 and 1804, will hereafter be im- portant materials for the history of costume. W. P. (To Le continued.) HORACE, CARM. I. 28. I am one who, with some of the ablest of the German critics, think I discern the hand of an interpolator in several of the odes of Horace. In the appendix to the third edition of iny Mythology of Greece and Italy I have noticed a great num- ber of these apparent interpolations, and given the grounds on which they have been suspected by myself and others ; and in a preceding volume of the present series of " N. & Q." I have added a few more. I have just discovered the following one, and with it I expect my dealings with Horace will terminate.