KNowi.i.nr.K. 



Frhrtaky. I'JK 



represents a corpulent oflicer witli a f^rotescpic lu iui. 

 wearing a lingo cocked liat and standing up in a 

 tiny boat, which is being rowed by a diminutive 

 sailor. I'nder his arm is a huge official portfolio, 

 and besitie him a letter addressed to Lady Hamilton. 

 NapoK'on evidently knew tin- weak point in his 

 atlversary"s armour. Sir Charles Cust has himself 

 specialized in the w;iy Commantlcr I\oi)inson 

 indicates. We are told that: — 



He has gathered together every engraving which in any way 

 ilhistrales his own particular subject — British battles by sea. 

 The collcclor who acts nn ihese lines, and selects a definite 

 subject possessing a personal .ittraction and connection, has one 

 great advantage over the more orthodo.x coinioissenrof prints; 

 for lie does not want to worry about " states" or " margins," or 

 other points which re(|uirc special knowledge, if not a thorough 

 technical education. The intrinsic v.iluc of the print for him 

 will rest in its subject, and although he may desire and .ippre- 

 ciate technical beauty if he can get it, it will be less an object 

 than human and historical interest. The pleasure of picking 

 up — perhaps as a bargain — yet another example, and adding it 

 to one's gallery or cabinet, can only be .adetjuatelv realised bv 

 the ardent collector. 



Sir Charles Cust has succeedeil in olitaining no 

 less than seven hundred aquatints, engravings and 

 lithographs relating to British naval achievements at 

 sea. He begins witli Julius C;esar's invasion of 

 Britain in 55 B.C.. and ends with the operations at 

 the entrance of the Pei-Ho River on June _'5th. 

 1859. For Sir Charles Cust the piquant satirical 

 print has apparcntl\' no charm, nor is any nietitioii 

 made of the numerous glass-pictures which for long 

 years decorated the mariner's cottage and kejit green 

 the memor\- of Nelson, the Dorset Hoods ami Sir 

 Thomas Hardy. .\t least twenty of these (piaint 

 illustrations relate to the tragedy of Trafalgar. A 

 few of them possess a certain amount of artistic merit. 

 To those who reside on or near the English littoral 

 this book will prove exceptionally interesting. Many 

 of the keenly-contested engagements whicli lia\e 

 been fought within sight of our shori's are almost 



forgotten. Most Dorset men, for instance, are aware 

 of the discomfiture of the Sjianish .Armadaoff Portland 

 Bill in the eventful summer of 1588, but some 

 seventy years later a scarcely less important action 

 took |)lace in the same waters. The second "l^attle 

 of Portland" took place in February, 165.5. and 

 lasted three days. The best known of the Fnglish 

 admirals engaged were Blake, Monck, Peacock, 

 .Martin and Penn, and in the end they gained a 

 signal triimiph over Tromp and de Kuyter: — 



About twenty luiglish ships were first to engage the enemy, 

 .md were nearly annihilated by the overwhelming number of 

 the Dutch, but as soon as the remainder of the fleet arrived 

 the Hutch endeavoured to make their escape, and on the 19th 

 arrived olf the Isle of Wight. Hlake (who had previously won 

 .in abundant crop of laurels on land at Bridgwater, Taunton 

 and Lyme Regis) then reengaged with great desperation, and 

 after a most valiant fight drove the enem\- before him and 

 captin-cd or destroyed eleven ships of war and sixty merchant- 

 men. One thousand five hundred men were killed and seven 

 hundred taken prisoners. 



Sir Charles Cust has discovered no less than four 

 illustrations of this comparatively little-known 

 engagement — one of Fnglish origin (dated 1803). 

 and three Dutch. M. Kiisell jiublished an etching 

 of the battle as early as March 24th. 1653. 

 Curiously enough, the name of that gifted artist, 

 Tho)nas Kowlandson, docs not appear in Mr. Parker's 

 carefully i)reparcd index. This is probably explained 

 1)\- the fact that Rowlandson's naval pictures were 

 not, strictK' speaking, descriptive of actual engage- 

 ments, although the reproductions of the two original 

 (haw ings in the present writer's collection obviously 

 relate to na\al warfare. .\s far as the writer is 

 aw are, engravings froin these admirable water-colours 

 do not exist. They may be supplemented very 

 efte(ti\i'I\ by the spirited and striking sketch by 

 ■ W. H. " which shows the " \'ictory " as she 

 apjjcared just fifty years after Nelson's death and 

 the date of Rowlandson's drawings. 



THE ROVAI. .\NTIlR<)l'()T.O(^,ir AT, IXSTITUTE. 



Mk. Ai.frkd p. M.xudslay, F.S.A.. I'.K.C.S.. 

 delivered his Presidential .Address at the Annual 

 General Meeting of the Roval Antliro|)ological 

 Institute, on Tuesday, January i.inl. .Mr. Maudslay 

 said that even at the present day the idea that the 

 origin of man does not form a tit subject for 

 scientific enquiry has not yet entirely died out. and 

 this feeling has militated against anthropology 

 becoming a popular study. Meanwhile the im- 

 mediate and energetic [irosecution of anthropological 

 studies is of vital necessity, since the material with 

 which this science deals is becoming rarer every 

 year, as primitive customs \ield to civilization. 

 The fact that man's plusique is less subject to 

 alteration gives a permanent \alue to the stud\- of 

 physical anthropolog\-. 



Mr. Maudslay confined the bulk of his remarks to 

 certain points in the aichaeologN- of Ameiira. while 



there are traces of many extinct civilisations. He 

 iiicidentallv jujintedout that manymisunderstandings 

 between European and barbarous races might be 

 avoided by a knowledge of elementary- anthropolog\-, 

 and inentioned that the Institute had never ceased 

 to press upon the Government the advisability of 

 establishing in this country an anthropological 

 bureau, which would be of material assistance to 

 colonial administration. 



The address terminated with an appeal to all 

 fellows of the Institute to do their utmost to make a 

 success of the International Congress of .Americanists 

 in London, which will be held during May. 1912, 

 saving that though we possess in luigland more 

 pre-Columbian objects of interest than are preserved 

 in aiiv other European country, it is the first 

 time that we have acted as hosts to the leaders 

 of .American research. 



