NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[No. 285. 



tbat as it may, the water was certainly detestable 

 during the whole voyage. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Henry Peacham (Vol. xi., p. 217.). — The 

 father of Henry Peacham, author of The Compleat 

 Gentleman, was the Rev. Henry Peacham, who 

 was rector of the north mediety of the parish of 

 Leverton, near Boston in Lincolnshire, in 1597, 

 and from thence to 1605 ; and was probably so 

 considerably after the latter date, but the registers 

 of the parish are imperfect. The next entry of 

 the name of a rector is in 1637, when Francis 

 Bowman occupied that position. 



Besides the publications of Henry Peacham 

 mentioned in your 282nd Number, I find the fol- 

 lowing : 



"Henry Peacham's Square Caps turned into Round 

 Heads, or the Bishops' Vindication and the Brownists' 

 Conviction ; a Dialogue showing the folly of the one and 

 the worthiness of the other : dto., with a curious woodcut, 

 published in 1642." 



PisHEY Thompson. 



Stoke Newington. 



Weldons of Cornwall (Vol. x., p. 404.). — In 

 answer to your Sydney correspondent, I beg to 

 state that in 1838 there was a family of the name 

 residing at Dorchester, New Brunswick, near the 

 head of the Bay of Fundy. Andrew Weldon kept 

 the little tavern there ; a respectable, gentlemanly 

 person, who had been well educated, and appeared 

 to have once moved in a higher sphere. A. C. M. 



Exeter. 



Franklins Parable (Vol. x., pp. 82. 169. 252.). 

 — Although there can be no doubt that Franklin 

 borrowed the parable in question from Jeremy 

 Taylor, it is not yet, I think, clear in what edition 

 of The Liberty of Prophesying the parable first 

 appeared. Bishop Heber says (" N. & Q.," p. 169.) 

 that it was " introduced in the second, nott\iQ first 

 edition," but my copy of the "second edition cor- 

 rected, octavo, printed for the assigns of Luke 

 Meredith, 1702," has it not. Will any of your 

 readers tell me the date of the earliest edition in 

 which the parable is to be found ? G. 



Titles of Wellington and Marlborough (Vol. vi., 

 p. 516.). — Sir Arthur Wellesley is there stated 

 to have selected Wellington as adjacent to the 

 village of Wensley, quasi Wesley, the genuine 

 family name ; certainly a strange reason. Can 

 any reason, strange or otherwise, be assigned for 

 Churchill's selection of Marlborough ? J. W. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



At a time like the present, when Art forms so important 

 an element in all our educational systems, it is not to be 



wondered at that a work like the Handbook of Painting. 

 The Italian Schools, translated from the German of Kugler, 

 by a Lady. Edited with Notes by Sir Charles L. Easilahe, 

 F.R.S., President of the Royal Academy. With more than 

 One Hundred Illustrations from the Works of the Old 

 Masters, drawn on Wood by George Scharf Jun., should 

 so speedily have reached a third edition. Such, however, 

 is the fact ; and whether we regard the merits of Kugler 

 as an art-critic, and the vast amount of historical and 

 biographical materials with which his critical descriptions 

 of the various Italian scliools are enriched — or the manner 

 in which Sir Charles Eastlake has adapted the work to 

 the English public, supplying, where occasion requires, 

 the notes necessary to a more perfect following up of 

 Kugler's views — or whether we look to the delicate 

 handling and artistic spirit with which Mr. Scharf has 

 drawn upon the wood the innumerable outlines of the 

 masterpieces of Italian art by which the book is illus- 

 trated, — while we do not wonder at its having reached this 

 third edition, we still feel that its doing so is a sure sign 

 of a healthy taste among us. Kugler's Handbook is, in- 

 deed, a very complete epitome of all that has been written 

 upon the subject: while those who would study that 

 subject yet more deeply, will find in the first volume a 

 well-executed catalogue of the " literary materials for the 

 study of Italian painting." 



Books Received. — A Handbook of Domestic Medi- 

 cine, popularly arranged by a Physician. This new volume 

 of Bohn's Scientific Library is an attempt to supph' the 

 place of Buchan with a book which shall exhibit the im- 

 provement in domestic practice, which results from our 

 increased medical knowledge. 



Poetical Works of James Thomson, edited by Robert Bell, 

 Vol. II., completes the Thomson for the Annotated Edition 

 of the English Poets. To show how industriously Mr. Bell 

 collects his materials, we may state that in the supple- 

 mental notes he has quoted Mr. Carruthers' interesting 

 communication on TTiomson's Effects at Kew Foot Lane, 

 from « N. & Q." of the 17th ult. 



A Plea for' Painted Glass, being an Inquiry into its 

 Nature, Character, and Objects, and its Claims as an Art, 

 by F. W. Oliphant A brief but earnest endeavour to 

 give such a view of this beautiful art as may lead to a 

 fuller development of its capabilities. 



BergeVs Historical Pocket Annual for 1855, containing a 

 Chronological Summary of the Events of 1854. A shilling's 

 worth of well-condensed information on the most remark- 

 able events of the last eventful year. 



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