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NOTES AND QUERIES. [9* s. vii. MAY is, 1901.

(whom he styles 'son altease Monseigneur Philip d'Auvergne, son Fils adopte') and the heiramale of his body."

There are numerous other references to this naval officer in the Gentleman's Magazine.

ARTHUR F. HOWE. Walton-on-Thames.

COUNT GIUSEPPE PECCHIO (9 th S. vi. 308, 395; vii. 51, 191). Referring to the very interesting note by IBAGUE at the last reier- ence, I should like to know whether Ugo Foscolo and the Rev. H. F. Gary, the trans- lator of Dante, were acquainted. Gary lived at one time in Park Village, Regent's Park, not far from Foscolo, and it is probable that the similarity of their tastes in literature may have brought them together. I dp not find any mention of their acquaintance in the rather meagre memoir of Gary by his son. The Italians seem to have resented Peccmo s biographical sketch of Ugo Foscolo, but 1 do not know the reason. JNO. HEBB.

EXCAVATIONS NEAR GIRENCESTER (9 th _S. vii. 327). MR. HUGHES will probably obtain the information he requires by addressing a letter to Mr. William Flux, the senior partner of Flux, Thompson & Flux, solicitors, East India Avenue, E.G. Mr. Flux has for the last fifty years been the treasurer of the Cirencester Society, which society has been in existence for at least two hundred years, and holds a dinner annually in London.

EVERARD HOME GOLEMAN.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (9 th S. vii. 90).

And Judgment at the helm was set. From a pretty poem by G. P. R. James, called ' The Voyage of Life.' I do not know when it first appeared. I saw it in a volume of the old Penny Magazine. G. 1. b.

(9 th S. vii. 330.) We live in deeds not years.

As a personal friend of many years' standing o P. J. Bailey, more generally known as "Festus Bailey, I have looked through the various edition: of ' Festus,' from the earliest to the latest, and J find that the quotation inquired for by H. J. B. C is from that work, and verbally correct so far a the first four lines are concerned ; but the last lin does not appear as a sequitur in any one of the si: editions I possess. CAROLINE STEGGALL.

Rejoice that man is hurled

From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled !

' James Lee's Wife,' vi. 14. C. C. B.

Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident. From a sonnet by Archbishop Trench. It has n title, but is the second sonnet (p. 36) in the volum of Trench's ' Poems Collected and Arranged Anew Macmillan, 1865). HADJI.

NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.

[ Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Col- lection of Pictures and Sculpture at Apsley House, London. By Evelyn Wellington. 2 vols. (Long- mans & Co.)

. ROM whatever point of view it is regarded, this york is an honour to all concerned in its pro- .uction. Readers of ' N. & Q.' who have seen n recent volumes the signature of the Duchess of Wellington to many inquiries concerning the artistic reasures at Apsley House must have been prepared or its appearance. It now comes forth in two umptuous volumes, profusely illustrated with eproductions in photogravure of the principal oil )aintings, and in an edition strictly limited to four lundred copies. In speaking of the work as an lonour to its producers we are using no words of empty compliment. It is such in almost every espect. If England may claim, as regards her art .reasures, an equality with any country and a mpremacy over most, it is on the strength less of ier great public galleries though these have been notably enriched of late than of her private col- ections, the contents of which are priceless. Amongst such the collection at Apsley House occupies a front place. This, with exemplary dili- gence and with remarkable erudition, the third duchess has catalogued, supplying to each item such information as is to be derived from Waagen, Wornura, Hazlitt, Kugler, Cumberland, Passa- vant, and other authorities, English, Spanish, and Jerman ; from original documents in the possession of her grace's family, and from researches in Spain undertaken on her behalf. It is difficult to speak in terms of praise too warm for a service such as has been rendered to art, and we think with envy of the results that will be achieved when other private possessors are moved to emulation, and anything approaching a full catalogue raisonnd of the great pictures in English galleries is obtained, to say nothing of reproductions of the principal treasures, such as are given in the present instance. The basis of the Apsley House collection, apart from the ancestral portraits, is found in the pictures captured in the baggage of Joseph Bonaparte after the rout of Vitoria. These formed part of the royal Spanish collections, and had been appro- priated by Joseph, who was attempting to carry them into France when the fortunes of war gave them into the hands of his pursuers and his all but captors. The most important among them had been removed from or cut out of the frames, and were in Joseph's private carriage, which was captured by the 10th Hussars under Capt. Wyndham and the Marquess of Worcester after Joseph had hurriedly quitted it and ridden off on the horse of one of his escort. Such plunder of conquered or invaded countries was common enough in the post- revolutionary French wars. Since that time an impression has prevailed that the pictures at Apsley House and Strathtieldsaye were, by a pro- cess customary (and perhaps defensible) in war, appropriated by the conqueror. This impression the duchess is at pains to remove, showing con- clusively that, though the charge that the duke regarded them as spoils of war was brought in the ' Viage Artistico ' of Senor Madrazo, it was base- less. The first Duke of Wellington communicated