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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No 27. 
«¢ But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, 
With his martial cloak around him.’ 
“ ¢J should have taken the whole,’ said Shelley, 
‘for a rough sketch of Campbell's.’ 
“* No,’ replied Lord Byron, ‘ Campbell would 
have claimed it, had it been his.’ 
“The Memoir contains the fullest details on the 
subject of the authorship, Mr. Wolfe’s claim_to 
which was also fully established by the Rev. Dr. 
Miller, late Fellow of Trinity, Dublin, and author 
of Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History.” 
[With regard to the French translation, professing 
to be a monody on Lally Tollendal, and to be found in 
the Appendix to his Memoirs, it was only a clever 
hoax from the ready pen of Father Prout, and first 
appeared in Bentley’s Miscellany. No greater proof 
of the inconvenience of facetiz of this peculiar nature 
can be required than the circumstance, that the jiction, 
after a time, gets mistaken for a fact: and, as we learn 
in the present case, the translation has been quoted in 
a French newspaper as if it was really what it pretends 
to be. ] 
IRON RAILINGS ROUND ST. PAUL'S. 
As the removal of the iron railing which sur- 
rounds St. Paul’s Churchyard is now said to be in 
contemplation, P. C. 8.8. imagines that it may not 
be unacceptable to the readers of “ Nores anp 
Querizs,” if he transeribes the following account 
of it from Hasted’s Kent, vol. ii. p.382., which is 
to be found in his description of the Parish of 
Lamberhurst : — 
“Tt was called Gloucester Furnace in honour of the 
Duke of Gloucester, Queen Anne’s son, who, in the 
year 1698, visited it from Tunbridge Wells. The iron 
rails round St. Paul’s Churchyard, in London, were 
cast at this furnace. ‘They compose the most mag- 
nificent balustrade, perhaps, in the universe, being of 
the height of five feet six inches, in which there are, at 
intervals, seyen iron gates of beautiful workmanship, 
which, together with the rails, weigh two hundred tons 
and eighty-one pounds; the whole of which cost 6d. 
per pound, and with other charges, amounted to the 
sum of 11,2021. Os. 6d.” 
P.C.S.S. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. 
If there was any ground, and we are inclined to 
believe there was, for the objection urged by the 
judicious few against that interesting series of 
illustrations of English history, Lodge’s Jilustri- 
ous Portraits, namely, that in engraving the por- 
traits selected, truth had often times been sacri- 
ficed to effect; so that one had a better picture, 
though a less faithful copy,—such an objection 
cannot be urged against a work to which our at- 
tention has just been directed, Harding’s Historical 
Portraits. In this endeavour to bring before us 
the men of past time, each “in his habit as he lived,” 
the scrupulous accuracy with which Mr. Hard- 
ing copies an old portrait has been well seconded 
by the engravers, so that this work is unrivalled for 
the fidelity with which it exhibits, as by a Daguer- 
rotype, copies in little of some very curious por- 
traits of old-world worthies. The collection is 
limited in extent; but, as it contains plates of in- 
dividuals of whom no other engraving exists, will 
be a treasure to illustrators of Clarendon, Gran- 
ger, &c. Among the most interesting subjects 
are Henry VIII, and Charles V., from the remark- 
able picture formerly at Strawberry Hill; Sir 
Robert Dudley, son of Elizabeth’s favourite ; Lord 
Russel of Thornhaugh, from the picture at Wo- 
burn; Speaker Lenthall; and the remarkable por- 
trait of Henry Carey Viscount Falkland, dressed in 
white, painted by Van Somer, which suggested to 
Horace Walpole his Castle of Otranto. 
Messrs. Sotheby and Co. will sell on Thursday 
next, a small but superb collection of drawings by 
modern artists ; and on the following Monday will 
commence a six days’ sale of the third portion of 
the important stock of prints of Messrs. Smith; 
comprising some of the works of the most eminent 
engravers of the continental and English schools, 
including a matchless collection of the works of 
the Master of Fontainebleau, engravers’ proofs of 
book plates, and a few fine drawings. 
We have received the following Catalogues : — 
J. Petheram’s (94. High Holborn) Catalogue, 
Part CXI., No. 5. for 1850 of Old and New Books; 
and J. Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue 
No. 5. for 1850 of Books Old and New. 
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 
WANTED TO PURCHASE, 
(In continuation of Lists in former Nos.) 
Arnot’s Puysics.— The gentleman who has a copy of this to 
dispose of, is requested to send his address. 
JoLDERVY's COLLECTION OF ENGLISH EPITAPHs, or any other. 
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS, 
Although we have this week again enlarged Notes 
AND Queries from 16 to 24 pages, in fulfilment of our 
promise to do so when the number and extent of our com- 
munications called for it, we have been compelled to omit 
many Notes, Queries, and Replies of great interest. 
Our attention has been called by more than one of our 
earliest contributors to the inconvenience of the single 
initial, which they had originally adopted, being assumed 
by subsequent correspondents, who probably had no idea 
that the A., B., or C., by which they thought to distinguish 
their communications, was already in use. Will our 
friends avoid this in future by prefixing another letter or 
two to their favourite A., B., or C. 
Errata.—No. 25. p. 398. col. 2. line 44., for “L. D.” read 
“TL. R.’; No. 26. p. 416. col. 2. line 52., for “{Beattie” read 
“Bentley”?; and the Latin Epigram, p. 422., should commence 
“Longé”’ instead of ‘“Longi,” and be subscribed * T. D.’ 
instead of ‘* W. (1).” 
