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CONTENTS.-N° 128. NOTES:-The "Strawberry Hill" Catalogue, 441-Shelley's Ode to Mont Blanc, 443-A Court-Martial Sentence-The Phrygian Cap, 444 -Shakspeariana-St. Jerome and Chaucer -Assumption of Christian Names-The Murder of Lord F. Cavendish and Mr. Burke, 445-Irish Party Names-The Popular Estimate of Southey Eighty Years Ago-A StingingNettle on Oak-Apple Day-The Corby Pole Fair, 446. QUERIES:- St. M'Loo's Stone, 446- Crocodile's Tears "Lady's Smock": "Lucy Locket"-"Gressome" - P. Carey's Poems-The Owl an Emblem of Death-Duromagus, 447-"Quid hoc," &c.-Cannon or Canon (of a Bell)-The Toad and the Centipede-Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough Grosny Castle-St. Giles's Fair-Rev. .... Pelham-Fleetwood Shelley-Rev. R. Johnson - The Squire Papers"Poker," 448-"Fletcher"-"Sangre Azul"-"Umbrageous"-"Olives" for Primroses - Sir R. WorthingtonAndrew Hunter, Abbot of Melrose-"Quives"-Authors

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Notes.

THE "STRAWBERRY HILL" CATALOGUE. The celebrated collection of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill-whether we regard the number, variety, and historical value of its contents, the celebrity of the sources from which they were obtained, the charm conferred by the place of their conservation, or the interest attaching to everything associated with the extraordinary man by whom it was formed-must ever be an object of importance, alike to the antiquary, the literary man, the art collector, and the curio hunter. Thus the bulky catalogue-the most perfect record that now exists of the renowned museum-becomes of itself a document of no inconsiderable value, and any circumstances connected with its publication will probably be thought worthy of commemoration. A few of these which happen to have become known to me I shall now proceed to jot down as they occur, confining myself strictly to matters bibliographical, and carefully avoiding all reference to the fascinating and discursive contents. For the sake of completeness I may record, in

*"The collection was made out of the spoils of many renowned cabinets-Lord Oxford's, Dr. Mead's, Lady Elizabeth Germaine's, the Duchess of Portland's, and about forty more of celebrity.-HORACE WALPOLE."

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"A Description of the Villa of Mr. H. Walpole at Strawberry Hill, with an Inventory of the Furniture, Pictures, Curiosities, &c. Strawberry Hill: Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1774." 4to.

A second edition of this volume, with additions, appeared in 1784, 4to.; and its contents, with corrections, appear in the second volume of the collected works of the Earl of Orford, 1798, 4to. I now come to the sale catalogne, a thick quarto volume, of 250 pages, of which the following is the magniloquent and ungrammatical title:

"Strawberry Hill, the Renowned Seat of Horace Walpole. Mr. George Robins is honoured by having been selected by the Earl of Waldegrave, to sell by Public Competition, the valuable contents of Strawberry Hill, and it may fearlessly be proclaimed as the most distinguished Gem that has ever adorned the annals of Auctions. It is definitively fixed for Monday, the 25th day of April, 1842, and Twenty-three following days (Sundays excepted). And within will be found a repast for the lovers of Literature and the Fine Arts, of which bygone days furnish no previous example, and it would be in vain to contemplate it in times to come.

"The Catalogue (at 7s. each) will admit Four Persons to the Public View, and be a passport to the Purchaser throughout the Sale; they may be had at 'Galignani's Journal,' in Paris; of Mr. J. A. G. Weigel of Leipsic; at Strawberry Hill; at the Auction Mart; and at Mr. George Robins' Offices, Covent Garden. A few copies are printed upon large paper, at 12s. each.

"The Private View will commence on the 28th day of March, and the Public will be admitted on Monday, April 4th."

There are prefixed a lithographed portrait of Horace Walpole on India paper, from the oil picture in the Strawberry Hill collection, painted by Eckhardt in 1754; a woodcut title-page, representing various objects of antiquity, engraved by Landells from a drawing by W. Alfred Delamotte; and seventeen pages of "Prefatory Remarks," in which is embodied, with the beautiful woodcut illustrations by Delamotte and Landells, an article here attributed to the late W. Harrison Ainsworth, but more probably written by his coadjutor, Dudley Costello, which, with reference to the approaching sale, had just previously appeared in the first volume of Ainsworth's Magazine. In the same volume, it is well to mention, are two further articles on the same subject, also with woodcut illustrations, which are not here reproduced. One of these (Ainsworth's Mag., vol. i. Pp. 168-76) is entitled "Strawberry Hill Revisited, by Dudley Costello "; and the other (ib.,

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