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<)' S. II. SEPT. 10, '98.]


NOTES AND QUERIES.


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1. Engraved by James Caldwell from an original picture painted by Robert Walker. On copper. Size of engraving, 5| in. by 7s in.

2. " Oliverius Cromwell exercituum angliaj dux." Cromwell with staff in left hand, leaning his arm upon the decapitated heads of Charles I. and the Royalists. On copper. 4| in. by 6| in. No de- signer's name, no engraver's, no wart.

.3. Oliver Cromwell, ob. 1658. From the original of Walker in the collection of the Right Hon. the 'Earl Spencer. Nearly 4 in. by 4 in. Engraved by H. Kobinson. Cromwell in armour, holding a staff in right hand ; a boy tying a sash about nis \vaist. No wart.

4. Side face of Cromwell, painted in miniature by S. Cooper, engraved by John T. Wedgwood. Published September, 1821. 1| in. by 2| in.

5. Bust of Cromwell, drawn and engraved by W. Bond from a half-length portrait painted by Walker in 1655, in the possession of Oliver Cromwell, Esq. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, London, 1 January, 1820. Wart directly over the nose. This appears to be from the same paint- ing as No. 3. About 4 in. by 4 in.

6. Bust in panel, body facing right, head turned to left of print. " N. Risley, gest. v. Gottschick. Zwickau, b. d. Geb. Schuman.' On copper. 3 in. by 5| in. No wart.

7. A fine head and bust in armour, face resem- bling Milton's. No inscription ; possibly engraved by Hopwood.

8. " Cromwel, publi6 par Fume, Paris." Geof- froy sc. About 4 in. by 3| in. Bust with armoured collar, buckled belt over right shoulder, curled moustache, wart over left brow, flaring hat with huge feathers.

9. "OLIVER, Lord Protector of the Common- wealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. Sould by P. Stent." Bust in armour; uo wart. 4 in. by 5 in.

10. "Olivier Cromwel, Luytenant Generael van <le Armee van 't Parlement van Engelandt." Bust in oval. 3| in. by 2 in. (Cromwell with a huge, fat, crooked Dutch nose !)

11. Bust in oval, beneath which is scene of Crom- well's refusing the crown. T. Cook sculp. 4| in. by 8 in. This is from the miniature by Cooper, facing opposite direction to No. 4.

12. Stipple engraving from a bust of the Pro- tector in the possession of his Grace the Duke of <irafton. Engraved by J. K. Sherwin. Wart over right brow. 2| in. by 4.J in.

13. A print (7| in. by 5i in.) emblematic of Cromwell's fame, with Cromwell in armour standing upon the prostrate effigy of "Babilon" and on the hydra "Error"; about his head a wreath, in his left hand an open book, in his right a sword girded by three crowns, with ribbon bearing the inscrip- tion, "I will never fail thee nor forsake thee." On his left is a column bearing panels, with Anglia, Scotia, and Hibernia each offering a wreath. On his right in the background Fame Wows a trumpet, from which hangs the banner of the three countries. About a score other symbolic scenes are in this plate. "Published by Geo. Smeeton, St. Martin's Church Yard."

14. Bust with youthful face in panel. "E. Scriven, s. London, published 1810, by J. Carpen- ter and W. Miller." 2| in. by 3J in. No wart.

15. Half - length in oval ; right hand with ill- drawn fingers resting on a book. Entitled " Oli- narius Cromwel, Luyteuant Generael van 't


Parlement. Peeter Huybrechts fecit et exc." 3| in. by 5 in. Two warts beneath the left eye.

16. Bust the reverse of No. 7 with wart over left brow, in oval. Panel, with scene of refusal of the crown beneath. Gimbrede sc., N.Y. 3 in. by 6 in.

17. "The Lord Protector lying in state at Somerset House." An old print on copper.

18. A copy of above "engraved by James Cald- well from the original print in the collection of John Towneley, Esq." 4| in. by 3^ in. Very curious.

19. 8vo. print, engraved by Daret, 1652.

20. 8vo. print, engraved by P. Aubrey, 1650.

21. Royal 8vo. print on horseback. Van Dyck pinx. , F. Holl sculp.

22. Folio print, engraved by Morellon La Case.

23. "Oliver Cromwell discovering Mr. Jeremiah White, his chaplain, on his knees before Lady Frances, his daughter." Obi. fol. J. B. Cipriani del., F. Bartolozzi sculp. 1787.

24. Folio print in Rapin's ' History of England.' A surly face, bust in armour. Published 1816. Wart over right brow.

WM. GUSHING BAMBUEGH. El Mora, Elizabeth, N. J., U.S.


SHAKSPEARIANA.

' OTHELLO,' I. i. 21 (5 th S. xi. 383 ; 9 th S. i. 83, 283, 422, 483). I am sorry to have offended DR. SPENCE. I had not reckoned on such sensitiveness in one who has upon occasion treated me with a healthy vigour I never thought of resenting. May I withdraw the offending phrase, and say that the line as DR. SPENCE would read it is awkward, am- biguous, and harsh-sounding, and is therefore trebly un-Shakspearian ? If Shakspeare's meaning had been

A fellow all wise in affairs must damn, he would probably have put it so.

It is not the sense but the sound of the line that, primarily, I object to. For this DR. SPENCE is responsible, not I. A tem- porary lack of intelligence in taking "affairs wise " to mean " in wise affairs," after it had been explained otherwise, I must admit. I had not sufficiently recovered from the shock of hearing such a discordant line attributed to Shakspeare to pay much attention to what followed. If this again sounds "dis- courteous" to DR. SPENCE I shall again be sorry, but it is the plain truth. C. C. B.

Dr. Johnson was a great man in many ways, but he was not a good commentator. Shakspeare's line needs no alteration : A fellow, almost damned in a fair wife. This may be compared with Horace's lines, which have a somewhat similar idea:

Lydia, die, per omnea Te deos oro, Sybarin cur properas amando Perdere ? Book i. Ode 8.

Cassio, like Sybaris, had nearly damned