confusion has hence arisen concerning their respective works. The most eminent amongst them was Marten De Vos of Antwerp (15311603), the pupil and subsequent coadjutor of Tintoretto, and the painter of the Medici family. There is no record of a "V. De Vos," concerning whom L. A. W. inquires; but a race of painters of this surname continues in Holland to the present time. One of these may be the painter of the picture to which L. A. W. refers. Has he deciphered the signature correctly? H. D'ALTON ST. CLARE. WELTJE'S CLUB (10 S. xii. 167).-I have before me a copy of an engraved portrait of Louis Weltje, after C. Bretherton, jun., inscribed "Published Nov. 1st, 1781," with the following words written in pencil : "Weltje-the Prince of Wales's cookkept the Cocoa-nut, St. James's Street." As the written words appear to be contemporaneous, it would seem that "Weltje's Club," which preceded the Cocoa Tree (or Nut), had an existence before 1781, when W. B. H. the print was published. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The Shakespeare Classics.-The Chronicle of King Leir. Edited by Sidney Lee, Litt. D. (Chatto & Windus.) THE 'Chronicle,' which is the source of Shakespeare's greatest play, now being acted at the Hay. market, is laid before readers in admirable print and form in this volume. All who are interested in Shakespeare's "sources" should procure it. It shows clearly how the genius of the poet made of the old drama, in combination with Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia,' which supplied the by-plot of the Duke of Gloucester and his sons, a play incomparable in style and effect, except, perhaps, for that similar masterpiece of Sophocles, the Edipus at Colonus.' Mr. Lee's Introduction is a good example of his scholarly and lucid work. All that he says is to the point, and foot-notes are added which will suggest further material for study. We are glad to see mention in this place of Dr. Perrett's 'Story of King Lear from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Shakespeare,' which traces with ample research the legend through English literature, and may escape the notice of the student, as it appeared in Palestra, 1904. As Dr. Lee points out, "it remained for Shakespeare to associate the old King with his youngest daughter's death, and thus convert Lear's fate into inexorable tragedy." The seventeenth-century ballad, which closes with a similar double catastrophe, is uncertain in date, and borrows, Dr. Lee thinks, in this respect from Shakespeare. Of the adorable Fool, whose early disappearance from the play Swinburne justly regrets, there is no trace in any earlier version. Some commentators have supposed that Lear's reference to "my poor fool" means both his darling daughter and the wise purveyor of folly who left him after the great storm; but this seems impossible. How greatly Shakespeare has improved on his text may be seen at the outset of the old play, where for their father. Nothing, indeed, is more extrathe three daughters are asked to express their love ordinary than the few words Shakespeare has given to Cordelia throughout the play. The tremendous impression she makes is conveyed in under fifty lines of speech, a fact we could not believe until we examined her part one day. The general reader may be unaware that 'Lear’ as a tragedy was for many years of our stage superseded by Nahum Tate's perversion of the text, in which the final catastrophe was changed. A strong article on the subject may be found in an unlikely place. the miscellaneous writings of Dickens, newly discovered, and now added to the "Gadshill" and "National" editions of his works. At the end of Dr. Lee's excellent edition will be found a Glossary.' notes on the text, and the complete text of Warner's story of King Lear as narrated in his Albion's England.' The student has, in brief, a full opportunity of examining the material out of which the greatest of English plays is made. By his booklet Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield (Worcester, Deighton), Mr. Stapleton Martin hopes, he says in his Preface, to "resuscitate interest in the poetess, and in the literary circle over which she reigned supreme.' As she died in 1809, she might have a centenary this year; but Mr. Martin's entertaining pages show us clearly enough that the Swan of Lichfield was not a leading figure of the sort that deserves permanent remembrance, or that general feeling of keenness implied in a revival and celebration. The book-lovers, however, who cherish the by-ways of literature, and the half-forgotten heroes and heroines of some particular place or period, may be induced by the fifty pages or so before us to take a fresh interest in Miss Seward. 66 The author has a very just idea of her achievements, which do not, we fear, when critically considered, amount to much of permanent value. The Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics' ignores her muse. Her work has shown, after the lapse of a century, a natural alacrity in sinking," at which we cannot wonder. Her sense of humour cannot have been strong. Her style was abominably. affected, as Mr. Martin's well-chosen extracts witness. Her "astonishment and disgust" rose to their utmost height when she read Wordsworth's poem on The Daffodils.' Her self-conceit and pedantry were ludicrous; and flattery led her to take biased views of greater lights than herself. Still, she had strong sense and an affectionate nature. It would have been well, as Macaulay suggests, if she had always written as simply as she did about her father's death. If she is to be generally remembered at all, it will, we think, be by her place as Walter Scott's friend in Lockhart's Life' of him, or by the marginalia of Macaulay referred to above, and now added to Sir George Trevelyan's masterly biography of his uncle. Mr. Martin has some pleasant side-lights on those who lived or corresponded with Miss Seward, especially the beautiful Honora Sneyd. MR. J. G. COMMIN'S Exeter Catalogue 254 contains a number of works under Napoleon, including Maitland's narrative of his surrender and life on the Bellerophon, and Warden's letters written on board the Northumberland and at St. Helena. American items include Whitefield's sermon at Philadelphia, 24 Aug., 1746, wanting one leaf. There are some curious Yorkshire and other pamphlets. Items under Devon include Risdon's Survey,' 1811, 27. 10s. The first edition, in three volumes, of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall,' 1848, is 7s. 6d.; and a manuscript commonplace book in green morocco, with painted fore-edge, 1830, 47. 15s. There are chapbooks, children's books, 1803-6, and a good general list. Mr. Henry Davey's Catalogue 18 opens with a list of works on America. There are several Court memoirs. Under Corn Law are three tracts, 1766, 10s. 6d. ; and under Free Trade is a biographical history of the Pioneers, 2 vols., Manchester, 1852, 68. 6d. London items include Mayhew's 'London Labour and the London Poor,' 4 vols., 12s. 6d. ; and Vol. XIII. of the Encyclopædia Londinensis,' containing a history of London, 4to, half-calf, rare, 1815, 27. 10s. Other works are Funk & Wagnalls's 'Dictionary,' 2 vols., 4to, full morocco, 17. 18s. Grose's Military Antiquities,' 2 vols., 4to, half. calf, 1801, 17. 158.; Green's Short History,' 4 vols., half-calf, 21. 2s.; and Leigh Hunt's A Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla,' original boards, 1848, 15s. 6d. Mr. William Glaisher's List 366 contains publishers' remainders. We note a few, the first prices given being those at which the works were originally published: Liberia,' by Sir Harry Johnston and others, 2 vols. (2. 2s.), 12s.; The FrancoGerman War,' translated by Maurice (17. 18.), 10s.; Keltie's 'Africa,' 2 vols. (2. 2s.), 68.; Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary' (12s.), 3s.; Mary Boyle, Her Book' (10s. 6d.), 3s.; the Thornton Edition of the Bronte novels, including Life, 12 vols. (37. 10s.), 1. 108.; Don Quixote,' Motteux's translation, 4 vols., royal 8vo (34. 12s.), 11. 2s. 6d.; Jeyes's 'Life of Mr. Chamberlain' (16s.), 4s.; The Correspondence of Cowper,' edited by Thomas Wright, 4 vols. (31. 3s.), 17. 4s.; and Ditchfield's City Companies (1. 18.), 98. J. J. Foster's True Portraiture of Mary, Queen of Scots,' Edition de Luxe, limited to 175 copies, folio, half-morocco (107. 10s.), is 47. 4s.; Joseph Foster'sDe Walden Library, 3 large 4to vols. (67. 6s.), 17. 10s.; and Sverdrup's Four Years in the Arctic Regions,' 2 vols. (17. 168.), 8s. There are also a number of medical remainders. Mr. Robert McCaskie's new Catalogue contains prints and crawings. These include a series of large aquatint views of India and Abyssinia. Under Turner is The Fallacy of Hope,' the print issued to the public in 1851; see Mr. Bicknell's account in The Atheneum of the 16th of January last. There are many portraits, including Mrs. Sarah Porter, Queen of the Touters, Tunbridge Wells. Among autograph letters is one of Carlyle, 1843, on the "rights and liberties" of the Colonies as compared with those of the United States, with contemporary portrait, 17. 10s. Among books are works relating to Scotland; Shaw's Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages,' 1813, 2. 158.; Strutt's 'Antiquities,' 4to, russia, uncut. 1773, 178.; and LetterBooks of the Earl of Bristol,' 4 vols., 1874, 188. 6d. There are Tracts relating to the Civil War; a collection of Art Sale Catalogues (about 70, many priced), 2 vols., 15s.; and street songs on Free Trade, &c., about 1846. devoted to Topography, and is most interesting, Messrs. James Rimell & Son's Catalogue 217 is the part relating to London being particularly full. Three highly finished water-colours of the Guildhall Library and Museum are 37. 10s.; View of Hungerford Market,' in frame, 1834, 51. 58.; The Four-inHand Club in Hyde Park,' in frame, 10/. 10s.; "The Thames near London Bridge,' an aquatint. and another, near Westminster, 1786, 167. 168.; Pano27. 188.; Pennant's London,' extra illustrated, rama of the Thames, London to Richmond,' 1820, extending the work to 4 vols., royal folio, 1793, 247. (including 862 insertions carefully mounted, many being rare); Lysons's Environs, 5 vols., imperial 4to, full russia extra, 1800-11, 31. 13s. 6d.; Black's Leathersellers' Company, privately printed, folio, morocco, 1871, 31. 10s.; paper, extra illustrated, 1806, 71.; Hassell's 'PicLambeth Palace,' large turesque Rides,' 2 vols., 1817, 4. 158. Jesse's Memorials,' 4 vols., first editions, 1847-50, 67.; Ackermann's 'Microcosm,' 3 vols., 4to, full morocco, a fine copy, scarce, 1808, 20.; Parrott's 'London from the Thames,' 1841, 4. 48.; and Papworth's 'Select Views,' Ackermann, 1816, rare, royal 8vo, calf, 20. Gough's Sepulchral Monuments in Great Britain,' is 9. 15s. Under Oxford is a collection of 46 drawings by Augustus Hare, 11. 11s. Windsor items include Nash's ' Views,' 1848, 57. 58. ; and Pyne's 'Royal Residences,' 1816, 28. 5s. Under Cambridge are a fine copy of Loggan's 'Cantabrigia Illustrata,' original old red morocco, 1688, 157.; and Ackermann's History, 2 vols., royal 4to, half-russia, rare, 1815, 18. Under Ireland we find Malton's 'Dublin,' 1793, 77. There are some beautiful collections of water-colours under Lake District, while scattered through the Catalogue are many works on heraldry and family history. [Reviews of other Catalogues held over.] E. H. MARSHALL.-On Friday, the 10th inst., a frequent correspondent of N. & Q.' in former Years passed away at Hastings at the age of fifty-eight E. H. Marshall, M.A. of Oriel College, Oxford. For many years he had been Librarian of the Brassey Institute in that town, where his Tuesday, the 14th, at Sandford St. Martin, Oxfordservices were invaluable. He was interred on shire, the Manor House of which belonged to him. His father, the Rev. E. Marshall, F.S.A., contributed many valuable articles to the pages of 'N. & Q.' in days long gone by. J. P. 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