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this respect led him to challenge me to make fur- ther inquiries of a similar character, when baffled in his endeavours to discover and make a note of the point of any caricature; for his collection was not only systematically catalogued, but carefully annotated, as all who had occasion to avail them-
CONTENTS. - N° 158. NOTES:-The Story of "Notes and Queries," 1-The First Public Meeting-Niam-Niam Folk-Lore, 2-Shakspeariana, 3 -Biographia Dramatica-Specialists upon Books, 4-Wesley in "The Dunciad," 5-Curious Epitaph-The Duchess of Devonshire-Mr. B. Thornton-The Island of Barataria-selves of the liberality with which he placed his Right of Way, 6.
portfolios at the service of his literary friends will testify. Mr. Wright, in his England under the House of Hanover, has paid a grateful tribute to Mr. Hawkins for the kindness with which he placed his large collections at his service.
QUERIES:-" Ogre' -"Roma Vetus," &c.-Wales called "Letamia" Prince Eugene's Prayer-Napoleon I., 7— "Hudibras"-"Superior" and "Inferior"-Heraldic-Pil- grim Family - Gilliam Family - Lancashire Clergymen Facies"-Old Song Book, 8-Thomson's "Hymn to the Creator"-"A Help to English History"-"Flanderkin Millers' Sons-Thorwaldsen's Bust of Byron, &c., 9. Upon the death of Mr. Hawkins the Trustees of REPLIES:-A Society for the Publication of Church Re- the British Museum became the purchasers of his gisters, 9-Haydon's "Autobiography," 11-Style and Title caricatures, and I may here record an act of great -Birds named in Drayton's "Polyolbion," 12-Missing Ancient Hindu Grant-Rev. R. S. Hawker, of Morwenstow, liberality on the part of Mr. Hawkins's repre- 13-" Adversity needs not," &c.-H. Ingles-The Sin-Eater sentatives which deserves to be made known. -Shakspeare and the Bible-Lochleven Castle and its Keys, All those who have paid any attention to this class 14-Old Collect for Christmas Day-Common Lias Fossil- + Clemant +Tosear - J. Bingham-St. Nathalan - Pro- of satirical works must have experienced the diffi- claiming an Earl's Titles at the Altar-Sir B. Gascoigne, culty of arranging them in chronological order 15-Scot: Scotland: Scotia - The Mews, Charing Cross- Female Burials in St. Peter's, Rome-"Dromedary," 16- from the grossness and indecency by which many Knox and Welsh Families-St. Alkeld-Scandinavian Myth of them are disfigured, and are compelled, if they ology-"La Coquette Corrigée "-"Facciolati et Forcellini desire to make their collections complete, to keep Lexicon," 17-"To catch a crab"-Dr. Homer's "Biblio- theca Americana Universalis "-Records of Long Service- separately the most objectionable ones. Mr. Haw- "Man-a-Lost"-Autographs of Sir J. Reynolds-Mrs. Cuth-kins adopted this very proper course; a separate bertson-Sheridan's Begum Speech-Voltaire upon Racine, 18-Umbrellas-"Infants in hell," &c., 19. Notes on Books, &c.
THE STORY OF "NOTES AND QUERIES." (Continued from 5th S. vi. 222.)
Every week added new and distinguished names to the list of avowed contributors, while others no less able preferred to identify their communica- tions by pseudonyms or initials only. Thus, in the fourth number, appeared articles from the pens of Mr. Edward Hawkins, Mr. Singer, and the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott.
It was my privilege to be acquainted for many years with the learned, frank, outspoken, and straightforward Kepeer of the Antiquities in the British Museum, who was possessed of a great variety of information on matters totally distinct from the department over which he presided with so much advantage. For in- stance, no man in England had so thorough an acquaintance with the history of caricature in this country; and his collection of the works of our caricaturists was the most complete that had ever been formed. Many a pleasant morning have I passed in examining that collection; and it was my good fortune on one occasion to discover the point of a small satirical print in his possession, which had baffled the inquiries not only of Mr. Hawkins himself, but of the late Mr. John Wilson Croker and Lord Holland. The print I allude to is that described in the Third Series of "N. & Q.," vol. ii. p. 401, and vol. x. p. 323. My success in
portfolio contained those caricatures which were most offensive, but many of which were among the most valuable (historically) in his collection. Some two or three years after it had been deposited in the Museum, I fancied I had found a clue to one of these objectionable caricatures relating to a distinguished personage, and on my next visit to the British Museum visited the Print Room for the purpose of ascertaining whether or not I was right. To my surprise the print was not to be found. Mr. Reid had never seen it, and it was not until he had referred to Mr. Hawkins's MS. catalogue, and found it duly recorded there, that he was satisfied that I had seen it in Mr. Hawkins's possession. Two or three other references to the catalogue for prints of a similar character_soon established the fact that the portion of Mr. Haw- kins's collection to which they belonged had never reached the Museum. The fact was the portfolio containing them, having been kept separately from the rest, had been overlooked by the family, who, on being applied to, most handsomely handed it over to the Museum, although it had never been seen by the gentleman who valued the collection, and who must have added a considerable sum to the estimated value if it had been submitted to his inspection.
The name of Samuel Weller Singer had for some years ceased to figure in literary journals, until Mr. Singer was induced to emerge from his pleasant library at Mickleham, and give the world, in "N. & Q.," some of the fruits of his long literary leisure; for, as he told me some weeks afterwards, when I met him at the publisher's, "N. & Q." had served to call him into a new
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