May 6. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



433 



sionally heard, both in England and Ireland, pro- 

 nounced as if the first letter was an O — " Olbert" 

 — and that by people who ought to know better. 



y. s. m. 



"Caricature; a Canterbury Tale" (Vol. ix., 

 p. 351.). — The inquiry of H. as to the meaning 

 of a " Caricature," which he describes (though I 

 doubt if he be correct as to all the personages), 

 appears to ine to point to a transaction in the his- 

 tory of the celebrated " Coalition Ministry " of 

 Lord North and Fox ; in which — 



" Burke being Paymaster of the Forces, committed 

 one or two imprudent acts : among them, the restor- 

 ation of Powel and Bembridge, two defaulting sub- 

 ordinates in his office, to their situations. His friends 

 of the ministry were hardly tasked to bring him 

 through these scrapes ; and, to use the language of 

 Wraxall's Memoirs, ' Fox warned the Paymaster of the 

 Forces, as he valued his office, not to involve his 

 friends in any similar dilemma during the remainder 

 of the Session.' " 



A. B. R. 

 Belmont. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Dr. Waagen, the accomplished Director of the Royal 

 Gallery of Pictures, Berlin, has just presented us with 

 three volumes, to which, as Englishmen, we may refer 

 ■with pride, because they bear testimony not only to 

 the liberality of our expenditure in works of art, but 

 also to the good taste and judgment which have gene- 

 rally regulated our purchases. The Treasures of Art 

 in Great Britain, being an Account of the Chief Col- 

 lections of Paintinys, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated 

 MSS., §-c, as the work is designated, must become a 

 handbook to every lover of Art in this country. It is 

 an amplification of Dr. VVaagen's first work, Art and 

 Artists in England, giving, not only the results of the 

 author's more ripened judgment and extended experi- 

 ence, but also an account of twenty-eight collections in 

 and round London, of nineteen in England generally, 

 and of seven in Scotland, not contained in his former 

 work. And as the Doctor has bestowed much pains 

 in obtaining precise information regarding the art of 

 painting in England since the time of Hogarth, and 

 of sculpture since the time of Fiaxman ; and also de- 

 voted much time to the study of English miniatures 

 contained in MSS. from the earliest time down to the 

 sixteenth century ; of miniatures of other nations pre- 

 served in England ; of drawings by the old masters, 

 engravings and woodcuts ; he is fully justified in say- 

 ing that, both as regards the larger class of the public 

 who are interested in knowing the actual extent of the 

 treasures of Art in England, and also the more learned 

 connoisseurs of the history of Art, this edition offers in- 

 comparably richer and more maturely digested materials 

 than the former one. Let us add, that the value of 

 this important and most useful and instructive book is 

 greatly enhanced by a very careful Index. 



We have received from Messrs. Johnston, the geo- 

 graphers and engravers to the Queen, two maps espe- 

 cially useful at the present moment, viz., one of the 

 Baltic Sea, with enlarged plans of Cronstadt, Revel, 

 Sveaborg, Kiel Bay, and Winga Sound; and the 

 other of the seat of war in the Danubian Principalities 

 and Turkey, with map of Central Europe. 



At the Annual General Meeting of the Camden 

 Society on Tuesday last, M. Van de Weyer, Mr. Blen- 

 cowe, and the Rev. John Webb were elected of the 

 New Council in the place of Mr. Cunningham, Mr. 

 Foss, and Sir Charles Young, who retire. 



The Inaugural General Meeting of the Surrey Ar- 

 cha?ological Society is announced for Wednesday next, 

 at the Bridge House Hotel, London Bridge, Henry 

 Drummond, Esq., in the chair. Objects of antiquarian 

 and general interest intended for exhibition may be 

 sent, not later than Monday the 8th, to Mr. Bridger, 

 the curator. 



Books Received. — The present State of Morocco, a 

 Chapter of Mussulman Civilisation, by Xavier Durriew, 

 the new Part of Longman's Traveller's Library, is an 

 interesting picture of the institutions, manners, and 

 religious faith of a nation too little known in Europe. 

 — Deeds of Naval Daring, $•<;., by Edward Giffard, 

 Second Series. This new volume of Murray's Railway 

 Beading is well timed. — The Diary and Letters of 

 Madame D'Arblay, Vol. III., carries on her record of 

 the gossip of the Court during the years 1786-7.— 

 Critical and Historical Essays, §-c., by T. B. Macau- 

 lay, contains, among other admirable essays, those on 

 Walpole's Letters to Mann, William Pitt, Earl of 

 Chatham, Mackintosh's History of the Revolution, 

 and Lord Bacon. 



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Particulars of Price, &c. of the following Books to be sent 

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Essays and Sketches op Life and Character, by a Gentleman 



who recently left his Lodgings. London, 1820. 

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12mo. 



Wanted by John Martin, Librarian, Woburn Abbey. 



The Artifices and Impositions of False Teachers, discovered 



in a Visitation Sermon. 8vo. London, 1712. 

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Religions may justly be charged with Superstition, pp. 46, 8vo. 



London, 1714. 

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academic*, Auctore Gulielmo Taswell. 8vo. London, 1718. 

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1723. 

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David's Lamentations over Saul and" Jonathan ; a Pindaric 



Poem ; and the praver of Solomon at the Dedication of the 



Temple, 4to., by E. Taswell. London, 1760. 

 The Usefulness of Sacred Music, 1 Chron. 16. 30. 40. 42., by 



Wm. Taswell, A.M., Rector of Wootton-under-Edge, Glou- 

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