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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Dec. 29. 1855. 



Thomas Bewick, Wood-engravei\ — In an inte- 

 resting little publication, called May Flowers ; 

 being Notes and Notices on a Few Created Things, 

 by Acheta, London, 1855, occurs the following 

 passage : 



" It would be an aid, surely, to this important object 

 [the prevention of crueltj' to animals], if the walls of 

 every school-room, but in especial those of every na- 

 tional, Sunday, ragged, and infant school, were furnished 

 with pictures such as those which were the last to occupy 

 the benevolent heart, the imaginative mind, and the skil- 

 ful hand of Bewick. To the honour of that celebrated 

 engraver, it stands recorded that, ' on the morning of 

 his death he had the satisfaction of seeing the first proof 

 impression of a series of large engravings on wood, which 

 he had undertaken in a superior style, for the walls of 

 farm-houses, inns, and cottages, with a view to abate 

 cruelty, mitigate pain, and imbue the mind and heart 

 ■with tenderness and humanity; and this he called his 

 last legacy to suffering and insulted nature.' " 



Has this compassionate bequest ever been car- 

 ried into effect ? and, if so, where may prints from 

 the above designs be procured ? W. L. N. 



Bath, 



[Thomas Bewick died at Gateshead, Nov. 8, 1828. On 

 the Saturday before his death he received proofs of the 

 unfinished engraving noticed by our correspondent. It is 

 entitled " Waiting for Death ;" its size twelve inches by 

 nine. It was Bewick's last work, and in it he intended 

 to have carried out the improvement suggested by Papil- 

 lon, in 1768, namely, " to print a subject from two or 

 more blocks, not in the manner of chiaroscuro, but in 

 order to obtain a greater variety of tints, and a better 

 effect, than could be otherwise obtained." Though the 

 blocks were left in an unfinished state, the poor worn-out 

 horse is represented with great feeling and truth. After 

 his death (1832) his family had a few impressions of this 

 cut struck off in its unfinished state. A page of letter- 

 press, as full of sentiment and beauty as the cut itself, 

 accompanies it, and is given in the Catalogue of Works 

 illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, 4to., 1851, p. 65.] 



Robert Carr. — Wanted some account of Robert 

 Carr, a Westminster scholar about 1765. The 

 new edition of Welch's List of Queen's Scholars 

 of St. Peters College, Westminster, may perhaps 

 furnish it. R. J. 



[Welch's List of Queen's Scholars merely states that a 

 Robert Carr was admitted into St. Peter's College, AVest- 

 minster, a.d. 1693 ; and that " S. Hayes, usher of West- 

 minster School, conjointly with one Robert Carr, wrote 

 and published, in 1766, a tragedy called JSugenia.'] " 



^^ An Act at Oxford; a Comedy." — Who was 

 *'the author of the Yeoman o' Kent,'" who wrote this 

 comedy? It is printed by Bernard Lintott, 1704, 

 and has a long epistle dedicatory to Lord Dudley 

 and Ward, explanatory of the cause of the play 

 " being forbid." Cuthbert Bede. 



[The Act at Oxford is by Thomas Baker, an eminent 

 London attorney. His most popular comedy is Tunbridqe 

 No. 322.31 



Walks, or the Yeoman of Ketit. 

 Dramatica. ] 



See Baker's Biographia 



PABAVINCIN, AND DIALOGUE QUOTED BY IIIM. 



(Vol. xii., p. 105.) 



The work intended is probably DelV Anima di 

 Ferrante Pallavicino, Vigilia Seconda, Villafranca 

 (Geneva), 1665, not a "book upon the soul," 

 but a dialogue between the soul of Pallavicino and 

 his friend Henrico, upon politics and literature in 

 general, and especially on tbe crimes of the Pope 

 and the Jesuits. 



" Henrico. Mi souviene d' uno altro ch' h bellissimo." 



" Anima. Come si chiama ? " 



" Hen. Dialogo nel quale, con 1' auttorith. de' Teologi, e 

 de' santi Padri, si prova non peccarsi piti nel secolo pre- 

 sente." 



" An. Questa b una dottrina curiosissima, h che venira 

 abbracciata da tutti ; ma vorrei, che me ne daste qualche 

 prova, se ve ne ricordate." 



" Hen. Dirb qualche cosa di quello, che ho potuto ri- 

 teneve in una lettura corrente, e con pochissima applica- 

 tione." 



" An. L' udiro molto ben volontieri." 



"Hett. Prima dicono, che 1' homicidio non fe peccato, 

 perch^ s' h provocato 1' huomo per uccidere chi lo pro- 

 voca. Vim vi depellere licet. Se 1' homicidio viene per 

 un subito moto di colera, quei moti sunt in nobis .tine 

 nobis. A caso pensato, si pub uccidere un calunniatore, 

 iin testimonio falso, ed anchb un Giudice per salvare la 

 riputazione, e la vita. E tutto questo ha la prova di 

 molti Teologi, i quali anche affermano, che la madre pub 

 uccidere il figliuolo che ha nel ventre per fuggire il 

 pericolo del parto, b quelli dell' infamia, quando venisse 

 scoperto gravida. E cosi va discorrendo, con le autorit^ 

 per tutti li genere d' homicidii." 



" All. Dunque conclude, che tutti li generi d' homicidii 

 sono scusabili, e Ionian dal peccato? " 



" Hen. Cosi h punto. Hor sentite del furto. II rubbar 

 che fanno i poveri, non b peccato, perchb la necessitsl 

 esenta tutte le cose. Se il ricco rubba, e lo fa per man- 

 tenersi con decoro e riputazione, non pecca, perchb gli 

 huomini grandi devono mantenersi nel posto nel quale 

 sono nati. Nb puo essere obbligato alia restitutione, 

 perchb cio sarebbe b con sconcerto della sua fortuna, b con 

 perdita della riputazione." — Pp. 81 — 84. 



Other examples are given, so like those from 

 Escobar and Bauny in the sixth Provinciate, which 

 was published ten years before L' Anima diF. Pal- 

 lavicino, that I think, if the book mentioned by 

 Henrico really existed, it was on Pascal's side. 



The " latent spark " has but one fault as an 

 illustration — it is intelligible to lawyers only. The 

 scintilla juris is one of the most abstruse points in 

 our law of real property ; it was supposed to be 

 established in Chudley's Case, 1 Co. Pep., 120., 

 till doubted by Mr. Fearne, and disputed by Sir 

 Edward Sugden. The arguments will be found in 

 1 Sanders on Uses, 113., and in Sugden on Powers, 

 pp. 12 — 47. I cannot aspire to condense the 

 latter, without becoming unintelligible to non- 

 legal readers, but though unable to tell them what 



