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Travels in the South Seas, -with ice thrown in ad libitum. The portrait purport- 

 ing to be of Sontag, one of Kane's officers, was altered from a portrait of a high- 

 wayman in the National Police Gazette. An engraving regresenting the oeculta- 

 tion of Saturn, was produced by altering an eclipse of the sun from an old 

 geography. There was more of the same sort. If this is the way Philadelphia 

 publishers bring out the crack books of the season, they deserve to be as world- 

 famous as the Philadelphia lawyers." 



ADDISON S PORTRAIT. 



Among the favorite literary Englishmen of the eighteenth ^century, it might 

 surely be assumed, with unhesitating confidence, that none is better known to us, 

 in all that pertains to his life and social habits, and above all to his external 

 appearance, than Addison. His portrait, engraved and re-engraved, is familiar to 

 all of us ; his statue forms one of the fitting ornaments of Poet's Corner, ia 

 Westminster Abbey ; his features have been commented upon by successive 

 biographers, and brought under review in the graphic essay of Macaulay, as 

 those of a face well-known to all men. Yet it would seem that we have been 

 hoaxed, or hoaxing each other all along. The " Addison " of the portraits and of 

 Poet's Corner is no Addison at all ; and the critics are now busy proving that the 

 Sir Andrew fountain, who has been masquerading under the name of Addison, 

 in Westminster Abbey, for half a century, is nevertheless no charlatan, but a very 

 respectable gentleman, thrust in there deservedly enough, though by no deed of 

 his own. 



" It is not very long," says one writer, " since the curious incident occurred 

 of a portrait, sold in a private collection, which had long been catalogued as a 

 ' King of Denmark,' being discovered to be an engraved portrait of James II. of 

 England. Within these few days another discovery in portrait-lore has been 

 made which will excite no little surprise, and some regret perhaps, amongst 

 cognoscenti. At Holland House, as we all know, is a portrait long supposed to 

 be that of Addison, which has been prized as one of the gems of the art collection 

 of the noble owner. So highly was it esteemed in this light that when some 

 years ago Mr. Leslie was employed by the late Lord Holland to paint the por- 

 traits of his Lordship and Lady Holland, the Addison picture was also included, 

 occupying a prominent position in the foreground. And further, so excellent a 

 likeness was this portrait considered, that when, under the auspices of the late 

 Lord Holland, an agitation was got up which resulted in the production of a statue 

 of Addison for Westminster Abbey, the Holland House portrait was adopted by 

 Sir R. Westmacott, as the authority for his work. Wow it happens that this 

 portrait turns out to be no portrait of Addison at all. On a visit recently made 

 to Holland House by Mr. Fountain of Narford, himself a distinguished collector, 

 he identified the picture as a counterpart of a portrait of his ancestor. Sir Andrew 

 Fountain, which had long been in possession of the family. In addition to a 

 portrait, of which the Holland House portrait is probably a copy, Mr. Fountain 

 possesses a miniature repetition of the same original by Zincke, and a full length 

 of Sir Andrew, in his robes, as Lord Chamberlain to Caroline, Queen Consort of 

 George II., and in all these works the likeness is strikingly identical. How the 



