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I would venture now to ask, Did John Wesley wear a wig? the answer to which question I imagine to be in the negative. There is an anecdote of an old lady who went to hear a popular out-door preacher of the past century; and, on being asked as to the sermon, replied, that the crowd prevented her from getting sufficiently near for hearing, but that she was amply gratified, for she "saw his blessed wig." I forget the preacher's name whose head was covered by this anecdotal wig: perhaps it was George Whitefield, whose portraits represent him as wearing a small "bob" wig. What is the authority for the received portraits of John Wesley? I have three engravings of him now before me-full-face and three-quarter; and they agree, in every respect, with the profile portrait of him given, without a painter's name, as the frontispiece to Southey's Life (the edition of 1846, edited by the Rev. C. C. Southey). In all these the long hair falls low upon the shoulders, and its two rows of curls are so regularly arranged and neatly trimmed, as to suggest the idea of a wig. This was in Wesley's old age, when we read of him that, in the street of a crowded city, he attracted notice by "his long hair, white and bright as silver." (Southey, ii. 397.) This would seem to refer to his own hair, and not that of a wig. I fancy that Wesley had as great an antipathy to wigs as he had to tea; and, while he considered that he injured his health by drinking tea, his mother thought that his constitution was impaired by his wearing his hair to so great a length. So, here was an instance of tea versus hair. The tea he readily gave up and heartily denounced; but he was a very Absalom for his long locks, and refused to part with them. When an Oxford undergraduate, he permitted them to flow over his shoulders in an unkempt state; and when remonstrated with for the singularity they caused in his appearance, he replied that the money employed in the vile fashion of powdering and dressing the hair would be much better bestowed upon the poor. "As to my hair," he said, "I am much more sure that what this enables me to do is according to the Scripture, than I am that the length of it is contrary to it." Eventually he condescended to adopt the middle course proposed by his brother Samuel, and to cut it somewhat shorter, "by which means the singularity of his appearance would be lessened without entrenching upon his meritorious economy." (Southey, i. 63.) That exceedingly careful writer, Mrs. Charles, has, I think, made a little slip in her description of John Wesley: "a small man, rather thin, with the neatest wig," &c. (Diary of Mrs. Kitty Trevylyan, p. 41.) But, elsewhere, she quotes John Nelson's description of Wesley preaching at Moorfields: "As soon as he got upon the stand, he stroked back his hair." (See also Southey's Life for this.) In 1743, when Wesley was so brutally attacked by the mob at Walsall, they caught him "by the hair" and dragged him from the door of the house. Afterwards, cowed by his boldness and words, one of the ringleaders said, "Follow me, and not one soul here shall touch a hair of your head." (Southey, i. 393.) All this is adverse to his wearing a wig. Wesley also, in preaching on dress, inveighed against men " wearing gay, fashionable, or expensive perukes"; and although he did not, in precise words, condemn the wearing of wigs, yet, when he was asked, in the Conference of 1782, if it were well for the preachers to powder their hair and to wear artificial curls, he merely said, that to "abstain from both is the more excellent way.' The portraits of him, however, convey the idea that his long and carefully-curled hair is a wig; or, if not a wig, how were those curls produced? Wesley would appear to have thought the employment of a perruquier a sinful waste of money. Whence, too, that portrait? who was the painter ? There is a picture by an American artist, Mr. Geo. Washington Brownlow, representing Wesley preaching on his father's tomb in Epworth church He in The Borough, Letter IV., at the close of which letter he describes a sermon of Wesley's, of whom he speaks in the highest terms: "Their John the elder was the John divine." CUTHBERT BEDE yard, June, 1742. It is a charming picture, in the style of Frith, and worthy of that artist; and it has been photographed on a large scale by Mr. C. Thurston Thompson. In this picture we have the familiar figure of Wesley, with his aged features and long silvery hair with its two rows of curls. This is clearly an error, as Wesley was only thirty-nine years old at the time. preached in the evening: but the lighting of this DIFFERENT STATE OF PROOF ENGRAVINGS. picture is certainly not later than the noonday hour (as determined by the position of the church); In a recent Catalogue of Works of Art (“The and the hearers of Wesley do not answer to his valuable Stock and Collection of Works of Art of own description of the scene, either in numbers or the late Mr. John Clowes Grundy," Manchester, in the way in which they evinced their feelings- November, 1867), the different appellations of groaning, dropping down as dead, &c. This, how-proof engravings seem to me worthy of being ever, was not very well adapted for a pleasing put together and preserved in "N."& Q.”:~ picture; and probably the painter may have de- proof-proof engraving with all the margin, unsignedly committed the anachronism of making mounted - remark proof-artist's proof-artist's Wesley nearly half a century older than he really proof on India paper-proof before any letter, was, in order that he might present to the public and publication line (this was a most splendid the figure with which they were most familiar. specimen of Desnoyer's "Vierge aux Poissons," When Mr. Marshall Claxton painted the picture after Raphael, marked in the Catalogue as "exof "Wesley and his Friends at Oxford"-engraved tremely rare," vide p. 69) remark proof with by Bellin-he avoided this anachronism, and rethe white jewel (a fine specimen of Biondi's presented a young man. But, I have been told Magdalene," after Carlo Dolce) - India proofthat this very truthfulness injured the sale of the lettered proof-artist's proof before the lineengraving, would-be purchasers saying "What! unfinished engraver's proof - proof: first statethat John Wesley! why, he had long white hair," brilliant proof-India print - proof before any &c. So that he passed from Scylla to Charybdis. letters-India proof before letters-proof before How, too, did Mr. Claxton get his portrait of the line or border-proof with the arms (a fine imyouthful Wesley? had he any authentic portrait pression of Garavaglia's "Madonna della Sedia," to guide him? or did he construct it from internal after Raphael) original artist's proof - enconsciousness, as the German did with the camel? graver's proof with the burr-print with the One more note on Wesley's hair, and I have number on the plate-India proof: first state first proof on India paper-remark proof with white stick (a splendid specimen of Raphael Morghen's "Noli me Tangere," after Baroccio)proof retouched-original impression before the comma (an excellent specimen of Raphael Morghen's "Last Supper" after Da Vinci)-lettered proof-impression before the retouch-engraver's proof with the burr, and before the border-proof, before the publication line and date-unfinished proof-engraver's proof with the burr on the margin-India open letter proof-proof in the first state, with the burr-presentation proof with engraver's autograph — autograph proof — first proof: original print - middle plate-engraver's proof, touched on by the painter (by Turner) — original subscriber's copy-open letter proof artist's proof signed by the painter-artist's proof signed by the painter and the engraver done. In the Life of the poet Crabbe, by his son, we are told that, one evening, Crabbe went to a dissenting-chapel at Lowestoft "to hear the venerable John Wesley on one of the last of his peregrinations. He was exceedingly old and infirm, and was attended, and almost supported in the pulpit, by a young minister on each side. The chapel was crowded to suffocation. In the course of the sermon he repeated, though with an application of his own, the lines from Anacreon "Oft am I by women told, Poor Anacreon! thou grow'st old; "Tis time to live if I grow old.' - "My father was much struck by his reverend appear-proof of the second plate-private plate: proof ance and his cheerful air, and the beautiful cadence he gave to these lines; and, after the service, introduced himself to the patriarch, who received him with benevolent politeness." Crabbe was afterwards much annoyed by the preaching of the Wesleyans in his own parish of Muston. He mentions Wesley and his followers (T. Landseer's "Man proposes and God disposes," after Sir E. Landseer)-signed artist's proof very first proof. HERMANN KINDT. "OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT." As the history of the nineteenth century will be chiefly compounded from newspapers, and The Spectator has prophesied a permanent duration to “N. & Q.,” I write to put future historians on their guard against supposing that all newspaper correspondents are such as they describe themselves. The penny provincial press delights in smart outlines of the week's work in Parliament, by "an independent member," or "a silent member," and when the membership is not directly asserted, it is implied by the correspondent saying, "we listened impatiently," 99 66 we divided," &c. &c. Not having a seat in the House, I cannot from my own knowledge say that these articles are not written by those who have; but, as I often sit in Westminster Hall, I feel warranted in noticing some strange things which appeared in one of the best country papers on Saturday, Nov. 30, in a letter headed"Gossip in Westminster Hall, by a Bencher of the Back Benches." After a welldeserved eulogy on a living judge, who, by the way, was appointed during the ministry of Lord Palmerston, the barrister says: : "There are Judges and Judges. The public out of doors are very apt to imagine that when a man becomes a Judge he casts his slough like a caterpillar, and becomes a full-blown Judge-wise, judicious, discreet-on the instant. When Judges were chosen for other than political reasons, this might have been partially true. But if it ever was true, it is an error now, so gross that no being above twelve years of age should entertain it. Let me concede that Lord Palmerston was a great statesman, wise, and anything else you please; and I will say, that if all his best acts and virtues were massed together they would not balance the mischief caused by the mode of appointing Judges he introduced. It may be nothing to have political thimble-rigging extolled as a virtue, but when that thimble-rigging is extended to a wholesale corruption of justice, by the exaltation of inferior and incapable men-poisoning the waters of truth in the well -then, if the nation could see it, the country is in as fair a way of declining, as by any process I can conceive. Lord Palmerston cared nothing for justice, or, in his cynicism, believed that any politician sufficed for the bench. But we here see the difference." The three chiefs have generally been active politicians. When a vacancy occurs, it is usually, not invariably, filled by the Attorney or SolicitorGeneral. The twelve puisne judges are appointed by the Lord Chancellor, and I never heard that any Premier of our time had interfered even to influence the selection. I may say that if there had been any such gossip, I must have heard it. From the same letter I take one more bit of gossip, which may have been uttered in Westminster Hall, by some barrister who thought that knowledge of law might be inferred from ignorance of literature: "But here, before going further, I am tempted to moralise. Where are all the poet laureates buried? Where are the works of all the poets that even Samuel Johnson has immortalised? Who has read Sprat's poems, or Tickell's? Probably one reader in Birming ham; but who else in the habitable globe? Mr. Tennyson is a great man; but will it be believed--I had it from an eye-witness-that when Southey's 'Thalaba' was published a queue of expectant readers waited for hours the arrival of the coach that was to bring the first impression to Edinburgh? But then Southey was laureate, and, perhaps, fifty years hence it will be as hard to find believers Tennyson admirers think this nonsense. But have you in Maud as in 'Thalaba.' Of course we are wiser. The read Thalaba'?" The first edition of "Thalaba" was published at Bristol by Biggs and Cottle in 1797. Of its success, Southey says in his preface to the edition of 1837, p. xii. : — "I was in Portugal when the first edition of 'Thalaba' was published. Its first reception was very different from that with which 'Joan of Arc' had been welcomed. In proportion as the poem deserved better it was treated worse." Southey was not laureate till 1813, when he succeeded Pye. AN INNER TEMPLAR. "SIR,-I have thought it worthy of public record that Mr. William Plank, an old inhabitant of this town, has this day attained the remarkable age of 100 years, having still the use of all his faculties, with the exception of that of vision, which he lost eleven years ago. He has been an inhabitant of Harrow, occupying the same house, 56 years. He is the son of James and Hannah Plank, of Wandsworth, Surrey, where he was born on Saturday, Nov. 7, 1767, and baptised Nov. 29 of the same year. It may be of further interest to record that for a year (viz. in 1780) he was a schoolfellow of the late Lord Lyndhurst. They were at the school of Mr. W. Franks, of Clapham. Mr. Plank left in 1781, leaving young Copley still at the school. "Mr. Plank was originally intended for commercial pursuits, and was bound apprentice at Salters' Hall, City, on the 22nd March, 1782, to his elder brother. a calico Plank is and has been for many years 'father' of the printer and a member of the Salters' Company. Mr. Salters' Company. He was admitted to the freedom and livery of the company and the city on the 20th October, 1789, and therefore may be considered almost to a certainty the father of the City of London. I saw him out walking, with the assistance of a friend, the day before yesterday, and at his house to-day. He is quite cheerful, and well able to receive the congratulations of his friends and neighbours.—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, "WM. WINKLEY, F.S.A. "Harrow, Nov. 7. "P.S.-Before he came to Harrow he was frequently ailing." H. FISHWICK. [This is the best authenticated case of centenarianism which has yet been produced in our columns. Mr. Plank had been for many years "Father" of the Salters' Company, and at the dinner after the Monthly Court held by them for the transaction of business on the 7th November last, the presumed centenary of Mr. Plank's birth, the Company received from him the following telegram : "Mr. Plank, Harrow, to the Master Warden and Court of Assistants. "Mr. Plank has this day completed his 100th year, and is in good health and spirits. A party of friends dine with him to-day." To this telegram an answer was returned, announcing "That the Company were then drinking the health of their centenarian colleague." Mr. Plank died twelve days after, viz. on the 19th November. We have ascertained that Mr. William Plank was apprenticed to Mr. James Plank to learn the trade of a calico printer, on 28th May, 1782, at which time he must have been upwards of fourteen years of age; and the indenture has this endorsement: "Took up his freedom in the Salters' Company, Oct. 20th, 1789," at which time Mr. Plank must have been upwards of twenty-one years of age. The Register of Wandsworth shows that William, son of James and Hannah Plank, was christened 29th November, 1767. The only evidence which is wanting to establish that Mr. Plank was a centenarian is the proof that he was born on the 7TH NOVEMBER; but common repute may surely suffice upon this point; and if so, Mr. Plank had unquestionably attained, at the time of his death, the REMARKABLE age of one hundred years and twelve days!-ED. " N. & Q."] DEAN SWIFT: BROB-DIN-GRAG.-Old "N. & Q."' should be the repository for the following note, which appears in the Daily News of Nov. 30: "SIR,-Saturday, Nov. 30, 1867, will be the 200th anniversary of Dean Swift's birth. Let it be marked in your columns by the insertion of the following extract from this month's Fraser, which corrects a long-standing error, and obliterates a juvenile difficulty: It is very strange that the printer's mistake of Brobdingnag (which Swift himself pointed out in the letter from Captain Gulliver, prefixed to the edition of 1727) should be perpetuated to this day. Let this unpronounceable and blundering word be universally dropped for the future, and the oftmentioned country of giants be known by its true name of BroB-DIN-GRAG.'-I am, &c. "A. J." Penge. E. S. GOLD IN AUSTRALIA. In the Freemason's Magazine for June, 1793 (p. 63), there is a paragraph referring to a reported discovery of gold at Port Jackson. This would be from some other publication, and relate to the year 1792. HYDE CLARKE. "THE PRICKE OF CONSCIENCE."-In the preface to the valuable edition of this specimen of old English literature, lately published by Mr. Morris, no reference is made to several MSS. ci the poem contained in the Douce collection o MSS. in the Bodleian Library. I am unable to speak as to the importance of the Douce MSS.. but as it is most likely, from his silence regarding existence of the MSS. in question, I venture to them, that Mr. Morris was unacquainted with the mention them as being probably worthy of notice by Mr. Morris, in the event of a new edition of his work being required. Several other productions of Richard Rolle, of Hampole, are enumerated in the Douce Catalogue, and might “furnish material for the study of a most important English dialect, the published vocabulary of which is confessedly very meagre; and the influence of which upon the classical or written language has as yet received but little attention." (See Mr. Morris's Preface.) J. MACRAY. Oxford. "HYMNS FOR Infant Minds," FIRST EDITION. It may be well to record what appears to be unknown to the Rev. J. Taylor, author of The Family Pen, a lately published account of the Taylor family, that the above work was first published in 1810, 18mo, front. (dated June 20), title, preface, and contents, pp. viii.-100. It contains seventy hymns; while the 35th edition, 1844. the last revised by Mrs. Gilbert (Ann Taylor) has ninety-three, the additions being Nos. 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 25, 29, 33, 37, 38, 39, 44, 48, 49, 50, 54, 58, 64, 70, 77, 84, 91. In this there are many alterations, but no hymn in the original edition is omitted. A curious illustration of the rarity of first editions of children's books is furnished by the fact, that the earliest in the possession of that indefatigable collector of the works of our British poetesses, the late Rev. F. J. Stainforth, was the eighth, dated 1816. EDWARD RIGGALL. Bayswater. |