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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2nd s. No 31., Ara. 2. '56. 



Rev. Charles Hotham (2"^ S. ii. 10.) — was a 

 son of Sir John Hotham, the celebrated governor 

 of Hull who was beheaded on Tower Hill, by his 

 second wife, Anne, daughter of Ralph Rokeby, 

 Esq., of York. He was rector of Wigan, Lan- 

 cashire, and married Eliz., daughter of Stephen 

 Thompson of Hambleton, Esq., and from him the 

 present family of Hotham descends. 



SOCIUS DCNELM. 



''Paraph" (2"* S. i. 373. 420. 481. 521.) — 

 All the correspondents with " N. & Q." who have 

 written in answer to my inquiries, as to the diplo- 

 matic usages of this word, have passed unnoticed 

 this question. 



" As the King of France had his particular paraph, said 

 to have been a grate, are Ave to presume that each state 

 had its own ? " 



Vossim on Catullus (quoted by Menage) intro- 

 duces us to a very difl'erent custom, under the 

 same name, from any that has yet been noticed : 



" Qui rainio, cocco, et rubrica, ]ibros exornabant, 

 etiam illi ■rTapaypa.4>ti.v dicebantur. Et hinc est, quod ju- 

 risconsultorum rubriciB rABAGRApiii adpeilantur." 



Q. 



Bloomsburv. 



MiittWKmaxxi* 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



It was well said by Sir Joshua Reynolds, a few months 

 after the death of Gainsborough, that, " if ever this 

 nation should produce genius sufficient to acquire to us 

 the honourable distinction of an English School, the name 

 of Gainsborough will be transmitted to posterity, in the 

 history of the Art, among the very first of that rising 

 name : " yet, high as is the reputation which Gainsborough 

 now enjoys as one of the best as well as earliest masters 

 of the English School, no biography worthy of his great 

 talents has appeared of him until the present moment. 

 A small volume, compiled with great care and attention, 

 at length furnishes the admirers of Thomas Gainsborough 

 with the particulars of his early strivings after art — his 

 progress, and ultimate triumph. The. Life of Thomas 

 Gainsboroiigh, by the late George William Fulcher, edited 

 by his Son, was commenced by one who esteemed it a 

 privilege to have been born in the same town, educated 

 at the same school, and loved the same scenes as Thomas 

 Gainsborough ; he availed himself to the fullest of these 

 advantages, and, although not spared to complete the 

 labours which he had so zealously commenced, the 

 volume has perhaps gained somewhat in interest by 

 the fact that it is itself a tribute of filial affection. It 

 does not, however, require this adventitious help to repu- 

 tation : it has been industriously and honestly worked at, 

 and wo have no doubt will, from its completeness, take a 

 permanent place among English Art Biographies. 



Rogers tells a story, in proof of Robertson's good nature, 

 of the great historian spreading out a great map of Scot- 

 land on the floor, and sprawling on his hands and knees 

 to show him the best routes through the country. There 

 was then no Black's Picturesque Tourist of Scotland, with 

 its numerous maps, views, &c. We live in better days. 

 The railroad carries us to the North in a few hours, and 

 when there, thanks to the worthy M.P. for Edinburgh, 

 we are at no loss to know what is best worth seeing, or 



how it may best be seen. No wonder that this vear's 

 edition of this most useful guide should bear on its "title- 

 page the recognition of its merits implied bv the words, 

 " Twelfth Edition." 



The new number of The North British Review is a very 

 pleasant one. The articles on the Ottoman Empire, the 

 Crimean Campaign (a series of corrections of the French 

 mis-statements), and on the Annexation of Oude, will 

 interest the politician. The religious reader will peruse 

 with interest those on Christian Missions, and the Mart3TS 

 and Heroes of Holland. There is a good article on the 

 Microscope for the scientific, while the literary papers 

 — on the life of Perthes, the Literary Tendencies of 

 France, and the Life and Times of Samuel Rogers, — give 

 an agreeable variety to the number. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCIIASH. 



Particulars of Price, &c. of the foUowins Booka to be sent (Mtec.t to 

 the gentlemen by whom they are required, and wlioss names and ad- 

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Some Remarks on Hamlet, Prince op Denmark. Sto. London, 



1736. 

 MrscELLAXEous Observations on thb Tragedv of Hamlet. 8vo. 



London, 1752. 

 An Essay on the Learning op Shakspeare. By Dr. Farmer. 1821. 

 An E,^say on the Character of Hamlet as performed ry Mr. 



Hknoerson. 8vo. No date. 

 A Philosophical Analysis and Illustration of some of Shakspeare's 



Dramatic Characters. [By Wm. Richardson.] Latest Edition. 

 Essays on Richard III., &c. By Wm. Richardson. 12mo. London, 



1784. 

 Essay on the Character of Hamlet. By the Rev. T. Robertson. 



4to. London, 1788. 

 Observations on Hamlet. By James Plumtre. 8vo. Cambridge, 



1796, and the Appendix. 8vo. London, 1797. 

 Ulrici's Shakspeare's Dramatic Art. English Translation. 

 W. S. Landor's Work on Shakspeare (?) 

 IIazlitt's Characters of Shakspeare's Plays. 1338. 



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England's Forgotten Worthies. 



Wanted by J. W. II., Islington Literary Society. 



Lady Jane Grey. 

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 Royston Gower. 

 Rural Sketches. 



All by Thos. Miller, Basket-Maker. 



Also Vols. VIII. and X. of Eliza Cook's Journal. 



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Among other valuable communicationi which we are compelled to post- 

 pone until next week is an inedited letter b;/ Gustavus Adolphus in favour 

 of Patrick Ruthven, and a mast admirable Oxford Jen d'Esprit of the 

 beginning of the last century. 



We are remindc'l of an inaccuracy in the account of tlie family of 

 Athenian Stuart in our last number. The '^fine boy" at Mr. Bnrney s 

 boardinp-school teas John Georf/e Hardinge Stuart, who ivas subsequently 

 a midshipman in the Royal Navy, and died of the yellow fevei; at Mar- 

 tinique, tn the West Indies, in the year 1800. Lieut. James Stuart, R. N., 

 now Uving.was aposthumoug child, born April 13. 17SS, shortly after the 

 death ofhisfather. 



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