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NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Benry F. Sewall, 1 ; Mr. Augustin Daly, 1 ind Mr. Joseph McDonough, 1,

After the publication of this paper I dis- covered another copy, which' was in the ibrary of the late Hon. Samuel J. Tilden. This made fourteen copies in this city in March, 1888.

At the present time there are four copies in the New York Public Library,* viz., the two which were in the Lenox, and those which were in the Astor and Tilden Libraries.

The copies which in 1888 were in Columbia College Library, and in the possession of Mr. Elihu Chauncey, Mr. Robert Hoe, and Mr. Augustin Daly, are still in the same col- lections. The copy at that time owned by Mr. Brayton Ives now belongs to Mr. W. A. White, Brooklyn, New York. I am not sure of the present location of the other five copies described in my paper.

In addition to these copies, and to those enumerated by ME. INGLEBY, are the fol- lowing : Mr. E. D. Church, New York, N.Y., 1 ; Mr. Theodore Irwine, Oswego, N.Y., 1 ; Boston Public Library, Boston, Mass., 1 ; Congressional Library, Washington, D.C., 1 ; Library of the late Mr. Francis B. Hayes, Lexington, Mass., 1 ; Horace Howard Furness, LL.D., Philadelphia, Pa., 1 ; L. Z. Leiter, Washington, D.C., 1 ; Library of the late Mr. George Leib Harrison, Philadelphia, Pa., 1.

There are, therefore, in this country at least twenty-two copies, and possibly, and I may add probably, more.

WM. H. FLEMING. New York.

In the north drawing-room of Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, there is a copy of each of the three editions of Shakspeare's plays, 1623, 1632, 1664.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

A copy of the first folio Shakespeare is in the library of the Reform Club.

CHAS. W. VINCENT, Librarian.

Add Bishop Cosin's Library, Durham.

J. T. F. Bishop Hatfield's Hall, Durham.

In connexion with the catalogue of first folios (1623) it may be of interest to note that David Garrick's copy of the second folio (1632) is in the possession of Mr. C. E. S. Wood, of this place, who lent it to me last

been consolidated, and are now the New York Public Library.
 * The Astor, Tilden, and Lenox Libraries have

winter for collation. It contains Garrick's book-plate, and is in good condition.

RICHARD H. THORNTON. Portland, Oregon.

NAPOLEON'S ATTEMPTED INVASION OF ENG- LAND IN 1805 (8 th S. xii. 481 ; 9 th S. i. 16). I was both pained and astonished to read H. S. V.-W.'s reply to my note on the above subject.

Mr. Warden was surgeon on the Northum- berland, which conveyed Napoleon to St. Helena. His book bears every internal evidence of truth ; the medical details of the voyage and afterwards are most minute and credible. Moreover, Mr. Warden was dis- missed from the Naval Medical Service for writing the book, which placed Napoleon's character in a too favourable light for the per- sons then in office of whom I presume John Wilson Croker was one. He was warmly supported by Lord Holland, who wished him to start a consulting practice in London, so high was his professional reputation ; but having been advised by a nobleman (whose name I have heard, but have forgotten) to rest quiet and he would see him reinstated, he did so, and was in a short time appointed surgeon to one of our large dockyards Sheer- ness, I think where he lived and died an honourable, upright, and truthful man. His family still retains several relics which Napo- leon I. presented to Mr. Warden some gold buckles in especial, given to Mr. Warden on his last visit to St. Helena.

Whether he employed Dr. Combe, or any one Ise, to lick his rough letters into shape, cannot at this distance of time be stated, though I do not believe it, as he was quite capable of writing letters so well expressed. The family tradition says they were written to the young lady to whom he was then engaged, and who afterwards became his wife, were shown about, and, at the request of many friends, were finally slightly altered in form and published, to the great annoyance of the then Lords of the Admiralty and the Government. That the work went through a good many editions in a year is a proof that most people accepted it as authentic. To turn to the pages of the Quarterly Review QY of. Blackwood's Maga- zine for a fair review on the work of an opponent, or of the advocates of an opponent, is not historically helpful, and in the present day should be impossible. No blame to the periodicals in question. Bludgeons were the universal weapons of the day, equally used on both sides ; but to seek for the character of Leigh Hunt, for instance, in the pages of Blackwood would be as wise as it is to seek