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of which were so deservedly admired, and ran thus:

The statue placed, the busts between,

Adds to the satire strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly at full length."

In the errata at p 234 we are told : " For pump-room read Wiltshire's ballroom" In the second edition of the 'Life,' published later in the same year, Goldsmith wrote (p. 131) :-

"To add to his honours, there was placed a full length picture of him, in Wiltshire s- Ball-room, between the busts of Newton and Pope. It was upon this occasion that the Earl of Chesterfield wrote the following severe but witty epigram : Immortal Newton never spoke

More truth than here you '11 find ; Nor Pope himself e'er pen'd a joke Severer on mankind.

This picture placed these busts between,

Gives satire its full strength ; Wisdom and Wit are little seen,

But Folly at full length.

" There is also a full length picture of Mr. Nash in Simpson's Ball-room ; and his statue at full length in the Pump-room, with a plan of the Bath- Hospital in his hand."

These quotations, which I have taken first- hand from copies of the books in my pos- session, show that Goldsmith was not mis- taken in his original statement that a statue of Nash adorned the Pump Koom, but it was not placed between the busts of Newton and Pope. What became of the portraits in Wiltshire's and Simpson's Ball-rooms I have no information to show.*

It will be remembered that Mr. Edmund Gosse, in his 'Gossip in a Library,' 1892, p. 229, points out how far more desirable the second edition of Goldsmith's ' Life ' is than the first. The latter "has no dedication, no it actually omits many of the best stories." Mr. Gosse therefore advises the wise biblio- phile to eschew it and try to get the second edition. But in my humble opinion the wise bibliophile will try to get copies of both editions, for though the second is fuller in matter and corrects several of the mistakes of the first, the latter possesses a much finer
 * advertisement,' and very few notes, while

1902, p. 92, quotes from Fielding's Covent-Garden Journal: "Bath, Aug. 24th [1752]. Last Monday a very curious Statue, in white Marble, of Richard Nash, Esq. ; done by Mr. Prince Hoare, was erected in the Pump- Room of this City. The Expence is defray' d by several of the principal Inhabitants of this Place, out of Gratitude for his well-known prudent Management for above forty Years, with Regard to the Regulations of the Diversions, the Accommodations of Persons resorting hither, and the general Good of the City."
 * Mr. Austin Dobson, in his ' Side- Walk Studies,'

impression of the portrait of the Beau en- graved by Anthony Walker after the paint- ing by William Hoare, of Bath, the plate having become somewhat worn when the later issue was put through the press. So far as my own experience goes, the second edition is more seldom to be met with than the first. W. F. PEIDEAUX.

In 'A Guide to all the Sea Bathing and Watering Places,' &c. (1806), it is stated that Nash died in 1761. A quotation from Anstey's 'New Bath Guide' is given, and then fol- lows :

"In 1790 a subscription was set on foot by the ingenious Dr. Harrington, of Bath, to erect a monument to his memory in the abbey church ; the Dr. likewise contributed the subsequent classical epitaph :

Adeste O Gives, adeste lugentes !

Hie silent leges

Ricardi Nash armig.

Nihil amplius imperantis ;

Qui diu et utilissime

Assumptus Bathonise

Elegantise arbiter.

Eheu !

Morti (ultimo designatori).

Haud indecore succubuit.

Ann. Dom. MDCCLXI. ^Etat. Suae LXXXVII.

Beatus ille qui sibi imperiosus ! If social virtues make remembrance dear,

Or manners pure on decent rule depend ; To his remains consign one grateful tear,

Of youth the guardian, and of all the friend. Now sleeps dominion ; here no bounty flows ; Nor more awakes the festive scene to grace, Beneath that hand which no discernment shews,

Untaught to honour, or distinguish place. Under this inscription is sculptured the arm of Death, striking his dart at a falling crown and sceptre, with the motto

u3qua pulsat manii. Hor."

JOHN T. PAGE. West Haddon, Northamptonshire.

SKIPWITH (9 th S. xii. 229). According to the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography \ vol. ii., October, 1894, p. 421, Sir Grey Skip- worth, Bart., married the widow of Edmond Kemp, a justice for Lancaster county. Her Christian name was Ann. but her maiden name does not appear. She, with her son Matthew Kemp, witnessed the will ^ of Richard Kemp (first Secretary to Virginia), dated 8 May, 1683. Matthew Kemp, the son, in his will of 4 May, 1715, mentions his "father" (1 stepfather) Sir William Skip- worth and the latter's son Grey Skipworth. The Virginia Magazine contains much detail concerning the Skipworth family, and may assist your correspondent. It is singular that Sir Henry Skipworth married Anne (otherwise Amy) Kempe, daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas Kempe, Knt., of