2»d S. Xo 101., Dec. 5. '57.] 



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of which he hnd been rector. There exists an engraved 

 portrait of him. By his will the Bishop bequeathed all 

 his printed books to the Diocesan Library, which had 

 been founded by his predecessor, Bishop Otway ; and also 

 left an annual salary of 20/. to a librarian, to be appointed 

 by the Bishop of Ossory. (Cotton's Fasti Ecclesia Hiber' 

 7>ic(B, ii. 285.) Eichard Bull, Esq., writing to the Rev. 

 James Granger, Jan. 18, 1774, thus notices the Bishop: — 

 '• We all hope to see you before long, when I will show 

 you the print (called by j'ou and myself Eichardson, 

 author of Pamela), which has been sent me from Ireland, 

 as the portrait of the Bishop of Ossory : and upon my 

 expressing my doubts, on account of his being in a lay- 

 man's habit, my friend Mr. Holroyd, a very cautious 

 man, and much to be depended upon, wrote me word 

 that the Bishop himself gave it to the person in Dublin, 

 of whom he got it for me. The following is in manuscript 

 at the bottom of the print : ' The Rev. Edward INlaurice, 

 born in Ireland about the year 1690, educated in the Col- 

 lege of Dublin, was Rector of the parishes of Radormy 

 and Grennan, in the diocese of Ossorj', and thence made 

 Bishop of Ossory in the j'car 1753 ri755], and died in 

 1750. He desei'ved a place in the nighest class of his 

 contemporaries. To an extensive knowledge in his pro- 

 fession he added all the ornaments of polite learning : 

 possessed of a fine poetical genius, he wrote many things 

 in that way for his own or his friends' amusement, but 

 never published any. He translated both the //zW and 

 Odyssey into h\ank verse; but as he never intended giving 

 them to the world, so he never took the pains to revise 

 and polish them. He wrote a sacred tragedy. King David, 

 with more elegance and correctness ; wherein, among 

 other beauties, the friendship between David and Jona- 

 than is painted in lively colours, and with great tender- 

 ness. This manuscript was, after his death, lodged in the 

 library of Dublin by his executors. He was perhaps a 

 singular instance in his time of a man being raised to the 

 episcopal dignitj' without seeking it, and without any 

 other recommendation than real merit.' Thus much is 

 wrote on the print; and my friend adds in his letter to 

 me, that the Bishop was a man of some private fortune, 

 and a most amiable country gentleman as well as a di- 

 vine; and that Administration being very unpopular 

 during the Duke of Dorset's last government of Ireland, 

 by way of gaining some credit, made Maurice a Bishop, 

 without the least application from any man in his favour." 

 — Granger's Letters, 1805, p. 318.] 



The English Drama, after Shahspeare, to the 

 Civil War. — Can any of your correspondents 

 spare time to furnish, through your columns, any 

 information under this head to a German literary- 

 man, whose only means of reference are through 

 the Stuttgart library ? What is the best English 

 book upon that period in general ? Who, among 

 the many immediate successors or followers of 

 Shakspeare (leaving Ben Jonson and his school 

 out of the question), is accounted here the most 

 successful ? G. B. 



[The best modern work to consult on the English 

 Drama is The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the 

 Time of Shakspeare : and Annals of the Stage to the Re- 

 storation, by J. Payne Collier, Esq., 3 vols. 8vo., 1831. 

 The articles " Drama " in the Encyclopadia Britnnnica, 

 and "English Drama" in The Penny Cydopadia, may 

 also be consulted on this subject.] 



Miss Jane Collier. — Oan you give me any in- 

 formation regarding Miss Jane Coljier, authoress 



of a work called The Art of Tormenting, London, 

 8vo., 1753. A new edition of this book was pub- 

 lished with the following title: The Art of inge- 

 niously Tormenting, with proper Rules for the 

 Exercise of that agreeable Study, with a short in- 

 troduction giving some account of the author of 

 the work, London, 8vo., 1804. B,. Inglis. 



[Miss Jane Collier's father was rector of Langford in 

 Wiltshire : her brother. Dr. Collier of the Commons, was 

 the intimate friend of Fielding and his sister Sarah. Misa 

 Collier's sister Margaret accompanied Fielding to Lisbon, 

 and though not mentioned by name in his Journey thi- 

 ther, she is alluded to in that account. In the brief 

 notice prefixed to the third edition of The Art of Tor- 

 menting, 1805, it is stated, " Of the history of our authoress 

 little has survived : she enjoyed the friendship and confi- 

 dence of Eichardson, and probably among the number of 

 his female characters that of Miss Collier was pour- 

 trayed."] 

 • 



Theophilus : "De Biversis Artibus." — In the 

 notes to Labartes' Illustrated Handbook to the 

 Arts of the Middle Ages reference is made to a 

 translation into English by Robert Hendrie 

 (London, 1847,) of the Diversarum Artium Sche- 

 dula of the monk Theophilus. Can you inform 

 me what is the title of the translation, and by 

 whom published ? as I cannot find it in the London 

 Catalogue, or hear of it through my bookseller. 



D. 



[This work is entitled. An Essay upon Various Arts, 

 in Three Books, by Theophilus, called also Rttgerus, Priest 

 and Monk, forming an Encyclopmdia of Christian Art of 

 the Eleventh Century. Translated, with Notes, by Robert 

 Ilendrie. London, John Murray, Albemarle Street. 8vo. 

 1847. This edition contains also the original Latin text.] 



Society of Antiquaries (^Report Extraordinary). 

 — I have got fourteen pages of a volume or pam- 

 phlet with this heading, being a communication 

 by Sir Nicolas Drystick on his grandfather's 

 periwig, a quiz, I suppose, on the " F. S. A.'s." 

 Who is the author, and where can I get or see a 

 complete copy ? S. Wmsow. 



[This squib made sixteen pages, and was published in 

 1842, by John Russell Smith, of Soho, where most pro- 

 bably a copy may be procured. It is also in the British 

 Museum.] 



SRcpItejf. 



DONALD CAMPBELL OF BAKBEECK. 

 (2°* S. iv. 251.) 



Though a relative of this gentleman, yet as he 

 died before I was born, I never had the curiosity 

 to look into his book of travels until the above re- 

 ference reminded me of its existence. This book 

 has always had the reputation of being full of tra- 

 vellers' stories of the most decided character. In 

 little more than a year after it was published 

 (which was in 1796), the Dictionary of Living 

 Authors described it us " a volume which boasts a 



