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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9 th s. VIL MARCH 23, 1901.

an address from the archiepiscopal throne; and at the close of the service, standing in the throne with the cross in his hand, the arch- bishop pronounced the blessing.

ARTHUR HUSSEY. Tankerton-on-Sea, Kent.

EPITAPH OF JOHN NICHOLS (9 th S. vii. 189). Permit me to correct an error in this query. John Nichols, F.S.A., the apprentice to Wil- liam Bowyer, printer, and subsequently editor of the Gentleman's Magazine for fifty years, died on Sunday, 26 November, 1826, not 1827, which day fell on a Monday. He was buried in Islington Churchyard, in a grave near to the house which saw his birth, where the remains of his parents and seven children, all of whom died before him, are deposited.

EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. 71, Brecknock Road.

SIMON ERASER (8 th S. x. 156, 223 ; 9 th S. vi. 157, 338, 433 ; vii. 16, 51, 75, 115, 192). It is not easy to know what MR. J. Ross ROBERT- SON means by the ''picture "of Simon Eraser, which he wants If he wishes to find an oil picture, I cannot help him. If by " picture " he simply means " portrait," I can tell him that two prints exist which represent Simon Eraser of Lovat, Brigadier - General (ob. 1777). One is a mezzotint by J. Watson, in an oval frame, after an original by J. Scouler, and was scraped in the year after Fraser's death. The other is a medallion, etched by T. Worlidge. Neither of these, I believe, would be very hard to find at one of the greater print-dealers' stores.

JULIAN MARSHALL.

I possess the whole series of Hogarth's engravings from the original plates, bound in an immense volume, which is interesting as having been presented to my late father by Count d'Orsay in the year 1840. The explanations of the subjects of the plates are by John Nichols, Esq., F.S.A. In this collection there is a full-length portrait of

" Simon, Lord Lovat [seated in a chair]. Drawn from the Life and Etch'd in Aquafortis by Will 1 " Hogarth. Publish'd according to Act of Parliament August 25 th, 1746."

The size of the plate is 14 in. by 9 in., and the following description of it is given by Mr. Nichols :

" The portrait of Simon, Lord Lovat, here given was drawn by Hogarth in 1746, at the White Hart Inn in St. Albans, where his lordship rested on his way to town from Scotland, and where our artist was invited by Dr. Webster, a physician of that place, for the express purpose of being introduced to his lordship. His lordship rested two or three days at St. Albans, and was under the immediate care of Dr. Webster, who seemed to think his

patient's case was more feigned than real, and arose principally from his apprehension of danger on reaching London.

"Hogarth said himself that 'this portrait was taken in the attitude of relating on his fingers the number of the rebel forces, " Such a general had so many men," &c.,' and remarked that 'the muscles of Lord Lovat's neck appeared of unusual strength, more so than he had ever seen.'

" When the plate was finished a printseller offered its weight in gold for it. The impressions could not be taken off as fast as they were wanted, though the rolling press was at work all night for a week together. For several weeks afterwards Hogarth is said to have received at the rate of twelve pounds a day."

C. A. PYNE.

35, Beverley Road, Anerley.

ALLUSION IN WORDSWORTH (9 th S. vii. 188). The lady to whom Wordsworth addressed the poems ' Upon the birth of her firstborn child, March, 1833' (xxxii. and xxxiii. of ' Poems of Sentiment and Reflection '), was his daughter-in-law, the wife of his eldest son John, then vicar of Brigham. This lady was a member of the Curwen family of Cumberland, a family claiming descent from the Saxon kings. This will explain the allusion to "Alfred" in the passage quoted by F. C. JOHN HUTCHINSON.

Middle Temple Library.

AUTHOR OF HYMN WANTED (9 th S. vii. 188). I was wandering and weary When my Saviour came unto me, &c.

There were seven verses in all in the hymn, called 'The True Shepherd,' which is by F. W. Faber. It is to be found in ' Hymns selected from Faber' (London, Daldy, Isbister & Co., 56, Ludgate Hill, 1875), and might be obtained of Mr. Higham, bookseller, Farring- don Street. R. A. POTTS.

14, St. James's Terrace, Regent's Park.

[Very numerous replies to the same effect are acknowledged. One of many copies of the poem has been sent to MR. ALEXANDER.]

" BOB-BAW ! " (9 th S. ii. 226, 354.) German mothers use the same interjectional bah-baJi (a as in far) or ba-ba '(short a], in order to deter their babies from doing something nasty or tasting some offensive substance. I think most of our interjections expressing contempt or disgust begin with a labial sound : bah, pah, poh, signify contempt ; phui, English fie, French fi, disgust ; puh, English pooh-pooh. I must leave it to physio- logists to account for the natural reason of this. DR. G. KRUEGER.

Berlin.

SOME LAMB JOTTINGS (9 th S. vi. 481).!. This " hero with many friends" has left to us a