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LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY U, 1901.

CONTENTS. -No. 175.

NOTES : Painted and Engraved Portraits, 341 Comedy, 342 Shakespoariana, 343 Patmore and Swedenborg May Day and May Butter in 1490 Shakespeare's Epitaph in Labourdin Baskish " Inam," 345 Lotus Flowers and Lotahs Mrs. Penny's 'Fort St. George' "Crong"- Coronation of Queen Victoria, 346 Easter Monday at Hallaton H. S. Ashbee -Etymology of "Craw-craw" Title of 'H.E.D.,'347.

QUERIES: Society of Apothecaries of London Moore MS., 347 Joseph Boulmier Authors of Books John Coe and Family Henry Pagett Lines on a Skull" Snicket" City Curio Collector, 348 "British Lion": " Russian Bear " Pope's ' Dunciad ' Coco de Mer ' Rosciad ' ' The Troth of Gilbert it Beckett ' Gra8saopper-=Gingall

Humphrey Coningsby, 349 John Morice, F.S.A. " Callarda " " Fire-tanged "Apostle Spoons, 350.

REPLIES : Genealogical Research in America, 350- BlancheFane Location of Theatre Greek Pronunciation Morsay, or Count Marsay " There, but for the grace of God" "Petering, "351 Journalistic Errors Installation of a Midwife Pall-mall and Golf, 352 " Foulrice " : "Lock Elm": "Chincherer " Ipplepen, co. Devon- Col. Thomas Cooper Soldier Ancestors Flower Divina- tion "Capt. Rock" Royal Standard Campbells of Ardkinglass, 353 Ships of War on Land Dr. Forbes Watson The Buller Pedigree Old London Taverns, 354 The Bishop of London's Funeral Blue Beard Joan of Arc, 355 "Gill's Lap" "Sub": Subsist Money St. Christopher and Laughter, 356 -Queens Members of the Order of the Garter, 357 "Anyone " : " Everyone "

An American Invasion First Earl of Hyndford's Daughters Stonehenge Lay Canon Author of Verses Wanted Disguise of Man as Woman Whitgift's Hos- pital, Croydon, 358 Carlyle on "mostly fools" Towns which have changed their Sites, 359.

NOTES ON BOOKS : Hardy's Benenden Letters ' Day's 'Social Life of the Hebrews' Lawrence's 'Notes on "Dan and Scorpio' 'Journal of the Anthropological Institute.'

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PAINTED AND ENGRAVED PORTRAITS. A FEW years ago the Editor of * N. & Q.' most kindly inserted for me a list of wants by the literary man, one amongst them being a catalogue of portraits of Eng- lish, Scotch, Irish, and Welsh persons. Since that time, in my very promiscuous reading I have noticed that hardly a week has passed without the question having been asked, " Is

there a portrait of 1 " There are several

printed and MS. catalogues and lists of painted and engraved portraits, but, so far as I am aware, they have never been brought together into one comprehensive catalogue. I cannot see that this is an impossibility ; on the contrary, I am of opinion that half a dozen zealous competent workers could com- pile such a catalogue from existing materials in a comparatively moderate period of time. There are difficulties in the way, no doubt, but when we see accomplished in such tho- rough and complete manner works like the 'D.N.B.,' the 'H.E.D.,' the 'E.D.D.,' J. Fos- ter's works, Chester's ' Westminster Abbey Registers,' Hennessy's 'Rep. Ang.' and his still unpublished list of all the clergy of England from the earliest times, and many

others, despair of accomplishing an equally thorough if not altogether complete catalogue such as I suggest need not enter into the calculation as a deterrent. If a work is never to be begun unless it can be finished in a complete manner, there are many existing which would never have been commenced, but which by means of two, three, or four editions have been brought to completion and have become standard authorities.

I remember once wanting to know if a portrait painted or engraved existed of a person in whom I was interested. I consulted every catalogue and list which 1 could find. Also 1 went to every portrait dealer in Lon- don, but all without success. One dealer I visited, an old man who lived in a small street at the back of Leicester Square, when I asked him why the dealers who had all the know- ledge on the subject did not do as I now suggest, very significantly put his finger to his forehead ana said, " Here is my catalogue, " But," I said, " it is surely very selfish

sir.

to the world to keep all your knowledge of portraits to yourself, and so let it die with you and be lost for ever. Why don't you write it all down during your leisure, and leave it for the benefit of your successors 1 " " Well, you see, sir," he replied, "it is diamond cut diamond in my trade, and we must first look to ourselves for a living." But if that argu- ment is to be admitted for ever as the rule, a comprehensive catalogue can never be forth-

coming. I will mention a few authorities.

For

engraved portraits there are Ames, Jos. ; Bromley ; Daniel (his recent catalogue) ; Evans ; Granger, J. ; Jerdon and Stebbings ; Lodge ; Noble ; Pinkerton, John (Scotch) ; Ricraft; British Museum Print-Room Cata- logue ; British Museum (Musgrave's alpha- betical list in the Addl. MSS.) ; Hope Collec- tion (Oxford ; has this a catalogue yet ?) ; the Caulfield (James), Richardson, Rodd, and Wheatley (H. B.) collections. For painted portraits there are 'Diet. Nat. Biog.' (as mentioned in the several biographies) ; three exhibitions of national portraits (on loan), South Kensington Museum, catalogues ; National Portrait Gallery catalogue; Royal Academy catalogues ; the voluminous memo- randa made by the late Sir George Scharf on the portraits in several of the private collec- tions in England. I presume that the owners of those portraits would give their permis- sion to have them catalogued, as they and others have done in regard to their MSS. for the Historical MSS. Commission. There are printed lists of several of these private collections, which can be purchased at any