Paul Whitehead, p. 92.-Member of 'a profane and riotous Club.' One of the so-called Monks of the Hell-fire Club-headquarters, Medmenham Abbey; author of Manners, a satire.

Anna Williams, p. 187.-The matron of this Institution (The Ladies' Charity School) has charge of the Minutes, which have been kept from the date of its foundation in 1702. Among its chief benefactors are the great City Companies, and conspicuous among the entries are the names of Mrs. Thrale, Anna Williams, and Johnson. What of money she had was left to this school, and, whether by bequest or transmission, some of Johnson's properties followed -the teaspoons which had been hers, and two engraved portraits of Johnson; also a chair, suggesting his bulk; his writing-desk, and a great ottoman.

There is mention in Leslie and Taylor's Reynolds of an engraved portrait of Anna Williams from a painting by Frances Reynolds, but that print I can't find, and our reproduction is from the portrait they have in the school.

Lord Chesterfield.-Introduced to the Lords the 'New Style' of reckoning bill (24 Geo. II.,

ch. xxiii.), and left a legacy of misery to the biographers.

The ghost of him paces the churchyard, erasing the dates

on the stones,

The emblems of Death protesting; the skull surmounting the bones.

Do I stand on my head or my heels? of Doubt shall I ever be rid?

If Samuel was born when he was, he couldn't have died when he did.

(v. Chesterfield's Letters, Nos. 224, 247.)

Vol. II.

Dr. Charles Burney, p. 4.-We reproduce several of Dance's drawings, and can tell from their dates the age of the sitters. The funniest is that of James Boswell, perhaps, but he has ceded his place in this book to Walpole.

Francis Barber, p. 23.-Painted by Reynolds, but not shown as a portrait, and on an engraving of recent date he is simply described as a Negro. The reproduction we publish is from a copy of the original by Henry Edridge, A.R.A. (17691821).

Vol. III.

i. Favourite Sitters.-' In Sir Joshua Reynolds's

studio, classes and opinions cross each other oddly. The Archbishops of York and Canterbury take the chair just vacated by Kitty Fisher or Nelly O'Brien, and Mrs. Abington makes her curtsy to the painter as the Chief Justice bows himself in. He painted her con amore, and always brought a large muster of the Club to her benefits. . . . The Saltram portrait of her, as Miss Prue with her thumb at her lips, is a masterpiece. . .

ii. 'Dinner Engagements.—(July 17, at six) with Miss Nelly O'Brien, in Pall Mall, next door this side the Star and Garter.' 'A constant

visitor to Reynolds's painting-room during this year, as well as Kitty Fisher, her rival.'

(From Leslie and Taylor's Reynolds.)

Dr. Thomas Campbell.-It can only be said of this portrait that it is probably rightly described. There is a space for the name in our copy which somebody's hand has supplied. (Solomon Williams pinx.; Jas. Parker sc.) The said Solomon Williams was a 'foundation member' of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and therefore a compatriot and contemporary of Mr. Campbell. The matter has been discussed with some others, and the opinion is held that we have here a

print from a private plate, or that it was done for a book, and not used. [Before we invented photography, it was not unusual to resort to this means of obtaining copies of portraits, and in the circle surrounding a clergyman, especially one so well known, they would very likely be wanted.]

Vol. v. Vestris.

Why should not Dr. Johnson add to his other powers a little corporeal agility?' (vol. v. p. 218).

Lord Charlemont gravely asked Johnson if there was truth in the rumour that he was taking lessons of the younger Vestris ?

The point of the joke is more evident to those who have read that the most famous of dancers and his son were at that time the rage in London. The House of Commons was empty on the night of the father's benefit, and Horace Walpole has this in his letters :-'Christmas Day 1780.-I shall not attempt to see Vestris till the weather is milder, though it is the universal voice that he is the only perfect being that has dropped from the clouds within the memory of man or woman. When the Parliament meets he is to be thanked by the Speaker.'

Gaetano Apolline Baldassare Vestris (17291808-Le Dieu de la danse) had two sons; Marie and Auguste. The latter, hardly less famous than his father, was with him in England, and he it is, I suppose, who is here represented (v. inf.). Si Auguste ne craignait pas d'humilier ses camarades, il resterait toujours en l'air!' so said the proud father. His son Amand, BalletMaster, King's Theatre, Haymarket, married Bartolozzi's daughter, who afterwards married Charles Mathews the elder. The print by Bartolozzi (artist unknown) is a most delightful thing altogether. A former owner of the copy we have in the British Museum has attributed the drawing to George Dance, but this, I am told, is not the official opinion.

General James Edward Oglethorpe.-His portrait by Reynolds was unfortunately lost in the fire which destroyed Belvoir Castle, the seat of the Duke of Rutland, and with it many fine works by that painter. It was painted in 1780 but never engraved, so, failing a better, the best available portrait is shown. The writer of the article in the Dictionary of National Biography has given the exact date of his birth, 1696, and the prevailing idea that he had attained to more