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ClaverJwuse, compiled chiefly from " original pa- 

 pei'S " recently discovered by Mark Napier, Esq., 

 author of the Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose, 

 published in 1856. It is expected to be published 

 in a few months, and then will be seen and known 

 a little more of the character and conduct of the 

 grossly maligned " Bloody Clavers," and the false 

 history and vulgar errors relating to him cleared 

 up, &c. < T. G. S. 



Edinburgh. 



Granger, in vol. iv. p. 277. of his Biographical 

 History of England (4th edit., in 4 vols. 8vo., 

 1804), states that a portrait of this nobleman is at 

 Longleat ; and he specifies four engraved portraits 

 of him. Bromley also mentions three of these 

 engraved portraits in p. 169. of his Catalogue of 

 engraved British Portraits, 4to., 1793. In the 

 ninth volume of Lodge's Po7'traits (12 vols. imp. 

 8vo., 1823 — 1834) is a beautifully engraved por- 

 trait of John Graham, Viscount Dundee, " from 

 the original of Lely, in the collection of the Right 

 Hon. the Earl of Strathmore." W. H. W. T. 



Somerset House. 



Sir William 'Go7'e, Lord Mayor of London (2°'' 

 S. v. 129.) — According to Stow's Survey of Lon- 

 don, edited by Strype, 1720, Sir William Gore of 

 Sandy-Chappel, Surrey, was Lord Mayor of Lon- 

 don in 1702 [not 1709, as stated by your corre- 

 spondent Genealogus] ; and Sir John Goare was 

 Lord Mayor in 1624, and is stated to have been 

 the son of Gerrard Goare, who was the son of 

 John Goare of London. The arms of Sir John 

 Goare and Sir William Gore, the Mayors, are very 

 nearly alike. There is no other Lord Mayor of 

 London by this name mentioned in Stow ; the 

 nearest approach to it is that of Sir John Gayre in 

 1647, but the arms also are different. Genealo- 

 gus says, that " in the church at Tring, where Sir 

 Wm. Gore resided, is a handsome monument to 

 him and Lady Gore. In the inscription it is said, 

 but erroneously, that he was the third Lord Mayor 

 of London of that name and family." Now may 

 not Genealogus have made a mistake in the 

 name as well as the date ? For Strype, after stat- 

 ing that Sir Samuel Garrard, Bart., was Lord 

 Mayor in 1710, adds that he "succeeded his bro- 

 ther Sir John Garrard of Lammon, in Hertford- 

 shire, in that Honour, son of John Garrard of 

 Whelthampstead in the same county. It is ob- 

 servable, that three of this Name and Family have 

 been Maiors in three several Queens' Reigns, viz. 

 Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, and Queen Anne." 



W. H. W. T. 



Somerset House. 



Indigenous Evergreens (2°^ S. i. 399. ; v. 178.) — 

 The arbutus and the box rest their claims on 

 much the same ground. They are each found 

 growing abundantly in one place — Boxhill, and 



Killarney. The box can all but be proved to have 

 been planted at Boxhill by an Earl of Arundel. 

 The arbutus has been so long at Killarney that 

 the first planter is not now likely to be discovered. 

 Lord Macaulay says : " The myrtle loves the soil. 

 The arbutus thrives better than even on the sunny 

 shore of Calabria." Methinks his Lordship is my 

 witness. A. Holt White. 



Bath. 



Egyptian Sculpture (2"'^ S. v. 88.) — The fol- 

 lowing extract from Egyptian Antiquities (U. K. S. 

 i. 369.), will put this matter in a correct point of 

 view : — 



" Now we find both in the painted reliefs on the walls, 

 and in all the various kinds of sculpture, that certain 

 fixed forms, attitudes, and emblems are assigned to the 

 representation of the deity and his worship. The art of 

 sculpture, then, as well as painting, became subject to 

 strict laws, which the priest caste were careful not to let 

 the artists violate. Hence we see in all the sacred figures 

 of Egypt a resemblance, or rather identity, which renders 

 it very difficult to fix the relative antiquity of the re- 

 maining specimens of Egyptian sculpture." 



Egyptian sculpture was mechanical rather than 

 artistic. Diodorus Siculus (i. 98.) says : — 



" The Egyptians do not judge of the proportion of a 

 statue by the eye alone, as the Greeks do, but when they 

 have cut out a block of stone and finished it, thej" divide 

 it into a number of parts, and then using this small statue 

 as a model, they apply the same proportion of parts to 

 the large one. They divide the whole figure into twentj'- 

 one parts and a fourth, in which are comprised all the 

 proportions of the body. Therefore, when the sculptors 

 have agreed on the size of the statue, they can work sepa- 

 rately, each on his portion of the figure ; and it is sur- 

 prising how well they succeed in producing pieces that 

 will exactly fit to one another." 



All existing Egyptian statues are however made 

 of a single block : and we have no other evidence 

 than the above of such division of labour by sepa- 

 rating the stone into a number of parts (jovs 

 XiQovs KaTaKodvcoffi Kal ixepiffavres Karfpyaffcavrat) . 



If Diodorus could be supposed to have made a 

 mistake, and what he says of stone to apply to 

 wood — for he had just previously spoken of the 

 wooden statue at Samos, half made by Telecles 

 and the other half by Tlieodorus — the difficulty 

 in reconciling his statement with existing monu- 

 ments would be obviated. T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Bowel Hive Grass (2"'i S. v. 48.) — Though I 

 cannot resolve the Query of Menyanthes, as to 

 the nature of the disease called " bowel hive," I 

 may as well insert in your columns the following 

 notes respecting the plant to which he refers, and 

 the species allied to it. 



The English name (generic) of the plant is lady's 

 mantle; mantle of our Lady (the Virgin), not 

 ladies' mantle, says Sir William Hooker in his 

 British Flora. 



A, arvensis is mentioned by Camden : " at 



