Nov. 17. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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of that kind, or tending in any way towards the 

 illustration of music in general ; and no doubt he 

 Avould greatly facilitate Mr. Husk's requirements 

 by forwarding a list of what he may have of the 

 odes in question to "N. & Q," with and without 

 the music. I am inclined to think he is possessed 

 of the most extensive collection, if not all, that 

 has been published on St. Cecilia. The subject is 

 certainly interesting. C. Hamilton. 



Pentonville. 



Captain Baillie (Vol. xii., p. 186.)> — I ft^'t ex- 

 tremely obliged by the interesting particulars 

 which you subjoined to my late inquiry relative to 

 Captain Baillie and his Wo7-ks. It was a very 

 sufficient answer as to the Captain's personal 

 history, but I still hope to receive some informa- 

 tion from your correspondents as to the publica- 

 tion of his collected Works. Can I be referred to 

 any complete list of them ? The copy which I 

 possess is, I believe, a tolerably complete collection, 

 and I should be happy to furnish you with a cata- 

 logue of them, if not too large for insertion in your 

 pages. Such a list of the engravings would, in- 

 deed, be the simplest way of arriving at a complete 

 knowledge of all the engravings which belong to 

 Captain Baillie's Works. My copy contains about 

 106. 



But, I should wish to ascertain how is it that 

 these separate prints are so generally found in the 

 catalogues of booksellers, under the uniform title 

 of " Captain Baillie's Works " ? Did the Captain 

 himself ever publish them collectively ? Or were 

 they thus assembled together by individual and 

 separate collectors ? 



These are points familiar, no doubt, to many, 

 and I shall feel greatly obliged to receive any 

 light on the subject. Delt. and Sculpt. 



" Did Edmund Burke write Sir Joshua Reynolds's 

 Lectures?" (Vol. xii., p. 325.).— The statement 

 made, in Walker's Hibernian Magazine for 1810, 

 of Mr, Burke being the author of Sir Joshua's Lec- 

 tures^ seems entirely corroborated by that given 

 in the Memoirs of Burke by Charles M'Cormick, 

 LL. B. (2nd edit., London, 1798). At pp. 91 — 94. 

 96, and 97. it is stated : 



" We turn our attention to a public discourse delivered 

 at the opening of the Hoyal Academy, a few months be- 

 fore, bv Sir Joshua lleynoids, but written by Mr. Burke, we 

 shall lind new reasons to admire the versatility of his 

 talents, the almost unbounded expansion of his genius. 

 . . . As the Academy was to be opened on the second of 

 January, 1769, with'an address from the President, Mr. 

 Burke prepared for the task with all the enthusiastic 

 ardour which friendship, gratitude, and a noble con- 

 sciousness of his equality to the attempt could inspire . . . 

 It is not eas}' to resist the temptation of making larger 

 extracts from this wonderful performance, and from the 

 other discourses prepared by the same writer, executed in 

 the same style, and delivered by the President at the an- 

 nual distribution of prizes during his continuance in the 

 chair. ... Sir Joshua first made out a sketch of the sub- 

 No. 316.] 



ject, and furnished such hints as chiefly related to paint- 

 ing and sculpture. These Mr. Burke took for his text; 

 but did not restrain the effusions of his own genius upon 

 any topic arising out of, or natural!}' connected with 

 them. A copy was then sent to Sir Joshua, who, at his 

 leisure, superadded any new ideas that occurred to him ; 

 and returned the performance, interlined Avith those fur- 

 ther suggestions ... It must be observed, that Sir Joshua 

 himself was very willing to encourage the idea of his 

 being under an obligation of that sort to Dr. Johnson, 

 with a view, no doubt, of diverting conjecture from his 

 real assistant. 'Whatever merit,' says he, speaking of 

 his discourses, * they have, must be imputed in a great 

 measure to the education which I may be said to have 

 had under Dr. Johnson. I do not mean to say he con- 

 tributed even a single sentiment to them, but be qualified 

 my mind to think'justly.' ... Sir Joshua died on 23rd 

 Feb., 1792, . . not forgetting to give Mr. Burke a strong 

 proof of his liberal and sincere regard. He cancelled a 

 bond for two thousand pounds he had lent to Mr. Burke, 

 and added to that favour a bequest of two thousand 

 pounds more." 



G.N. 



Bacchanalian Rules. — The version of these 

 Latin lines, to which I have been accustomed, 

 varies from those given (Vol. xii., p. 335.) in the 

 last line : 



" Si bene commemini, causce sunt quinque bibendi, 

 Hospitis adventus, praBsens sitis, afque futura, 

 Aut vini bonitas, aut quaslibet altera causa." 



The following translation is said to have been 

 by the celebrated Dean Aldrich : 



" There are, if I do rightly think. 

 Five reasons why a man may drink : 

 Good wine, a friend, or being dry, 

 Or lest you should be \>y and by, 

 Or any other reason why." 



J. G. 

 Oxon. 



Portrait of Andrei!) Marvell (Vol. xii., p. 243.). 

 — The painter's name of the portraits of Andrew 

 Mai'vell is not given in any known list of engraved 

 British portraits. Thomas Hollis, of Lincoln's 

 Inn, F.R.S., had a portrait of Marvell painted in 

 the year 1660, engraved by Cipriani. Mr. Net- 

 tleton, governor of the Russia Company, had an 

 original portrait of the same remarkable rnan ; 

 and there is another in the library of the British 

 Museum. Is the one in the possession of J. W. 

 of Dublin a fourth painting. M. J. 



Mytens the Painter (Vol. xii., p. 264.). — Sub- 

 scriber is informed, that this artist was born at 

 the Hague in the year 1636; that he went to 

 Italy when still very young, from whence he re- 

 turned to his native place in the year 1664; and 

 died there in the year 1688, aged fifty-two, never 

 having been married. An Original Subscriber. 



Poesies on Wedding Rings (Vol. xii., pp. 113. 

 194.). — On the ring given by Henry VIII. to 

 Anne of Cleves, were inscribed the words, " God 

 send me well to kepc," in allusion to the fate of 

 Anne Boleyn. Cetkep. 



