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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»a S. IX. April 7. '60. 



Brighton Pavilion (2 nd S. be. 163.) — "The 

 carefully-executed outline etchings of interior views 

 of apartments in the Brighton Pavilion " belong to 

 a private work on the Pavilion, prepared by order 

 of George IV. Mr. Nash, the architect, had the 

 management of it, and engaged his friend the 

 elder "Augustus Pugin (father of A.Welby Pugin) 

 to make the drawings and superintend the engrav- 

 ings. The work consisted of copper-plate engrav- 

 ings printed in colours, and afterwards carefully 

 finished by hand. The impressions in the posses- 

 sion of W. W. are probably some proofs of the 

 etchings before coloured. M. Pugin often related ; 

 in my hearing the following anecdote connected 

 with his employment on this work. He was en- 

 gaged at the Pavilion in one of the galleries 

 colouring a view ; deeply intent upon his drawing 

 he did not observe that somebody had entered the 

 apartment, but on looking round saw to his sur- 

 prise the king, who was then advancing towards 

 the spot where he was sitting. Pugin had scarcely 

 time to rise when the king passed by him, and, 

 not perceiving a stool on which the colour-box 

 was placed, accidentally overthrew it ; he stooped 

 instantly, picked it up, and presented it to Pugin 

 with an expression of apology. Pugin as a French- 

 man fully appreciated this act of condescension. 



The work in question consisted entirely of co- 

 loured engravings unaccompanied by text; and 

 though, during the lifetime of the king, it was dis- 

 tributed exclusively to his friends, yet upon his 

 majesty's death many copies remained, and were 

 then published in the ordinary manner. 



Benj. Feircey. 



A Penny " Robinson Crusoe " (2 nd S. ix. 178.) 

 — If J. O. regards Thomas Gent as guilty of so 

 high a crime against literature for melting down 

 Robinson Crusoe into a twelvepenny pamphlet, 

 what would he say to a penny version of The Life 

 and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, written by Him- 

 self? which bears the imprint, " Marsden, Printer, 

 Chelmsford," — a copy of which I purchased some 

 forty years ago for my personal (and of course, 

 juvenile,) oblectation, and still retain as a cu- 

 riosity in literature ? B. B. Woodward. 



Haverstock Hill. 



whom English history and English biography are already 

 largely indebted. The materials for the history of this 

 eventful incident, which Mr. Forster has derived from 

 the State Paper Office, are entirely new, and are worked 

 up by him with great skill. His style is clear and 

 flowing, and his narrative extremely interesting ; and 

 the result is a volume which all will read with pleasure, 

 and which adds most materially to our knowledge of the 

 stirring period to which it relates. 



The Season Ticket. (Bentley.) 



This Season Ticket is obviously a First Class Ticket. 

 Aut Slickius aut Diabolus, we felt inclined to exclaim at 

 some of the smart things scattered through its pages; 

 and although we ma}' have been wrong in so doing, we 

 would make a pretty considerable guess that the author 

 was raised not far from Slickville. 



Books Received. — 



Some Account of the Family of Smollett of Bonhill, with 

 a Series of Litters hitherto unpublished, by its Author. 

 Arranged by J. Irvine. (Printed for Private Circula- 

 tion.) 



An interesting monograph, which throws new light 

 not only on the history of the Smollett family generally, 

 but upon the biography of its most distinguished member, 

 Dr.' Tobias Smollett. 



The Romans in Gloucestershire. By the Rev. Samuel 

 Lysons, M.A. (Hamilton, Adams, & Co.) 



An extremely interesting lecture, which our readers, 

 we are sure, will not be the less pleased with when we 

 tell them that the profits from the sale of it are to be ap- 

 plied to the restoration of a District Lending Library. 



The Life and Times of Samuel Crompton, Inventor of 

 the Spinning Machine called the Mule, $c. By Gilbert J. 

 French, F.S.A. Second Edition. (Simpkin & Marshall.) 



We are glad to see our opinion of this little book justi- 

 fied by this early call for a Second Edition. 



MitteUmeaui. 

 NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Arrest of the Five Members by Charles the First. A 

 Chapter of English History rewritten. By John Forster. 

 (Murray.) 



What Hallam has declared to be " the single false step 

 which rendered his (Charles the First's) affairs irre- 

 trievable by anything short of civil war, and placed all 

 reconciliation at an inseparable distance," and which he 

 goes on to describe as " an evident violation not of com- 

 mon privilege but of all security for the independent ex- 

 istence of Parliament," forms the subject of the chapter 

 of our national annals here rewritten by a gentleman to 



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