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W.P.
_Butchers' Blue Dress_ (Vol. ii., p. 266.).--A blue dress does not show
stains of blood, inasmuch as blood, when dry, becomes of a blue colour. I
have always understood this to be the explanation of this custom.
X.Z.
_Chaucer's Portrait by Occleve_ (Vol. ii., p. 442.).--This portrait is
engraved in Strutt's _Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities_.
J.I.D.
[And we may add, in the edition of Tyrwhitt's _Canterbury Tales_,
published by Pickering--ED.]
_Chaucer's Portrait_ (Vol. ii., p. 442.).--His portrait, from Occleve's
poem, has been engraved in octavo and folio by Vertue. Another, from the
Harleian MS., engraved by Worthington, is in Pickering's edition of
Tyrwhitt's _Chaucer_. Occleve's poem has not been printed; but see Ritson's
_Biblioth. Poetica_, and Warton's _H.E.P._ A full-length portrait of
Chaucer is given in Shaw's _Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages_;
another, on horseback, in Todd's _Illustrations of Gower and Chaucer_.
W.P.
_Lady Jane of Westmoreland_ (Vol. i., p. 103.).--I think your correspondent
Q.D. is wrong in his supposition that the two following entries in Mr.
Collier's second volume of _Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers'
Company_ refer to a composition by Lady Jane of Westmoreland:--
"1585-6. Cold and uncoth blowes, of the Lady Jane of Westmorland.
1586-7. A songe of Lady Jane of Westmorland."
My idea is, that the ballad (for Mr. Collier thinks that both entries
relate to one production) was merely one of those metrical ditties sung
about the streets of London depicting the woes and sufferings of some
unfortunate lady. The question is, who was this "unfortunate lady?" She was
the wife of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland, who was attainted about the year
1570, and died in Flanders anno 1584. I learn this from a MS. of the
period, now before me, entitled _Some Account of the Sufferinges of the
Ladye Jane of Westmorlande, who dyed in Exile. By T.C._ Perhaps at some
future time I may trouble your readers with an account of this highly
interesting MS.
EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
_Gray and Dodsley._--As the HERMIT OF HOLYPORT has repeated his Queries on
Gray and Dodsley, I must make a second attempt to answer them with due
precision, assured that no man is more disposed than himself to communicate
information for the satisfaction of others.
1. _Gray_: In the first edition of the _Elegy_ the epithet in question is
_droning_; and so it stands in the _Poems of Gray_, as edited by himself,
in 1753, 1768, &c.
2. _Dodsley_: The first edition of the important poetical miscellany which
bears his name was published in 1748, in three volumes, 12mo.
BOLTON CORNEY.
* * * * *
MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.
_The New Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology, and History_, may be
considered as the third in that important series of Classical Dictionaries
for which the world is indebted to the learning of Dr. Smith. As the
present work is distinguished by the same excellencies which have won for
the _Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities_, and the _Dictionary of
Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology_, the widely-spread reputation they
enjoy, we shall content ourselves with a few words explanatory of the
arrangement of a work which, it requires no great gift of prophecy to
foretell, must ere long push Lempri�re from its stool. The present
Dictionary may be divided into three portions. The Biographical, which
includes all the historical names of importance which occur in the Greek
and Roman writers, from the earliest times down to the extinction of the
Western Empire; those of all Greek and Roman writers, whose works are
either extant or known to have exercised an influence upon their respective
literatures; and, lastly, those of all the more important artists of
antiquity. In the Mythological division may be noticed first, the
discrimination, hitherto not sufficiently attended to, between the Greek
and Roman mythology, and which in this volume is shown by giving an account
of the Greek divinities under their Greek names, and the Roman divinities
under their Latin names; and, secondly, what is of still more consequence,
the care to avoid as far as possible all indelicate allusions in the
respective histories of such divinities. Lastly, in the Geographical
portion of the work, and which will probably be found the most important
one, very few omissions will be discovered of names occurring in the chief
classical writers. This brief sketch of the contents of this _New Classical
Dictionary_ will satisfy our readers that Dr. Smith has produced a volume,
not only of immense value to those who are entering upon their classical
studies, but one which will be found a most useful handbook to the scholar
and the more advanced student.
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