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a paper, containing other fourth or fifth answers, is pasted. Dr. | Svo or 18mo; 1659, Svo, 12mo, or 18mo: also in Owen's Walton received more or less assistance from Archbishop Usher, Drs. Edmund Castell, Thomas Hyde, Edward Pocock and Lightfoot, and Messrs. Alexander Huish, Samuel Clarke, Louis de Dien, John Seiden, Thomas Greaves, Abr. Whelock, Herbert Thorndike, Bruno Ryves, Dudley Loftus, Thomas Pierce, &c. The work is not so handsome as either of the three preceding Polyglotts, (the Complutensian, the Antwerp, the Parisian,) but is more useful than these. Nine languages are used in it. though no one book of the Bible is printed in so many. In the New Testament the four Gospels are in six languages; the other books, in five; those of Judith and the Maccabees, in three.

"All the preceding Polyglots were eclipsed in use and excellence, if not in splendour and size, by that which is called the English and London Polyglot."-CARPZOVIUS.

"Walton's Polyglott is the most complete biblical apparatus in any language."-Williams's Chris. Preacher, 5th ed., 1843, 268.

"This Polyglot is of the utmost importance to a critic, not only on account of the extracts which it contains from a variety of important MS., but particularly on account of the Oriental versions, from which he must collect various readings to the New Testament."-Bishop Martin's trans. of Introduc. to the New Test, by Michaelis.

See, also, Marsh's Divinity Lects., Pt. 1, 2d ed., 1810, Lect. VII. 6; Bliss's Wood's Fasti, ii. 82: Le Long's Bibl. Sacra; Simon's Hist. crit. du Vieux-Test., 541; Butler's Horæ Biblicæ, i. 138-149; Dr. A. Clarke's Bibl. Diet., i. 248-270, ii. 1-12; Dibdin's Classics, 4th ed., 1827, 20-35, and his Lib. Comp., 7; Orme's Bibl. Bib., 355; Pott's and Ruperti's Sylloge Comment. Theolog., i. 100-137; Horne's Bibl. Bib., 15, 37; Lowndes's Brit. Lib., 7, 112, and Bohn's Lowndes, i. (1857) 170; Class. Jour., iv. 355-361; Darling's Cye. Bibl., i. 283, ii. 42; Brunet's Manuel, 5th ed., i. (1860) 852; and references at end of this article.

3. Dissertatio, in quâ de Linguis Orientalibus, Hebraica, Chaldaica, Samaritana, Syriaca, Arabica, Persica, Armena, et Copta, et de Textuum et Versionum quæ in Complutensibus, Regiis, Parisiensibus, et Anglicanis Polyglottis Bibliis, habentur, antiquitate, authoritate et usu, breviter disseritur; accessit Johanni Wouveri Syntagma de Græca et Latina Bibliorum Interpretatione, Daventriæ, 1658, 12mo. See Bibl. Sussex., vol. i. Pt. 2. 74. This should be used as a preface to No. 1. It was republished as follows: I. Briani Waltoni Biblieus Apparatus Chronologico-Topographica-Philologicus; adjiciuntur Johannis Drusii de Proverbiis Sacris duæ, Tiguri, 1673, fol. With a preface by J. H. Heidegger. II. Briani Waltoni in Biblia Polyglotta Prolegomena, Præfatus est J. A. Dathe, Lipsia, 1777, 8vo. Briani Waltoni, S.T.P., in Biblia Polyglotta Prolegomena Specialia recognovit Dathianisque et Variorum Notis suas immiscuit Franciscus Wrangham, A.M., S.R.S.. Clevelandiæ Archidiaconus, Cantab., Typis ac

III.

Sumptibus Academicis, 1828, tom. i. et ii., pp. 520, 621,

8vo; I. p., r. 8vo.

"These Prolegomena contain an inestimable treasure of Oriental literature."-BISHOP MARSH,

"A never-failing theological and critical treasury, which I earnestly recommend to the attention of every biblical and Oriental student. The preface by Dathe is of the highest critical importance."-H. J. TODD.

"Prolegomena Waltoniana pretiosum continent eruditionis sacræ thesaurum."-KENNICOTT.

"Habebunt sane tirones in hoc libro compendium utilitissimum, ex quo omnium eorum quæ ad Criticami Sacram utriusque Testamenti pertinent notitiam sibi acquirere possunt, quam deinde adjuncta recentiorum scriptorum lectione eo felicibus augebunt. Quod ut a multis fiat, in rei Christianæ utilitatem etiam atque etiam opto."-DATHE.

Notices of Wrangham's excellent edition will be found in Horne's Bibl. Bib., 169, Brit. Critic, vi. 346–362, and Lon. Mon. Rev., 1828, ii. 501-506. Add to it, Dissertations sur les Prolegomènes de Walton, très-utiles à tous

ceux qui veulent entendre la Sainte-Ecriture, Liege, (Lyon,) 1699, 8vo. Attributed to P. Emery de l'Oratoire. See the Dict. des Anonymes, No. 4443.

"On n'aurait pas du entituler ce livre Dissertations sur les Prolegomènes de Walton, mais plutôt les Prolegomènes traduits en Français et tronqués. Il y a pourtant certaines choses d'ajoutées qui sont assez curieuses.”—MS. note in a copy.

The excellent John Owen (p. 1472, supra) was not one of those who considered Walton's Polyglott a valuable addition to Christian literature: he thought that the latter had greatly exaggerated the number of various readings, and feared that his admissions and critical principles would lead to popery or infidelity. These views he was rash enough to give to the world in A Vindication of the Purity and Integrity of the Hebrew and Greek Texts of the Old and New Testaments, in some Considerations on the Prolegomena and Appendix to the Late Biblia Polyglotta: published in his treatise of the Divine Original, &c. of the Scripture, &c., Oxf., 1658,

Collective Works. This elicited from Walton-4. The Considerator Considered, or a Brief View of Certain Considerations upon the Biblia Polyglotta, the Prolegomena and Appendix thereof, Lon., 1659, 8vo, 12mo, or 18mo; 1660, s. 8vo; repub. in Todd's Memoirs of Walton. Walton's vindication was complete. See Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon., iv. 106, and Fasti, ii. 85; Thomson's Life of Owen; Chalmers's Institutes of Theology, i. 287: On Scripture Criticism. We have already indicated some proper companions for the Polyglott and the other works above named: see BEVERIDGE, WILLIAM; CASTELL, EDMUND: POOL, or POOLE, MATTHEW, after No. 7. Add, also, Paraphrasis Chaldaica in Librum Priorem et Posteriorem Chronicorum; Auctore Rabbi Josepho, Rectore Academia in Syria: cum Versione Latina Davide Wilkins, Cantab., 1715, 4to; Amst., 1725, 4to. The MS. from which this was printed was written in 1477. The Targum is correctly printed, and the Latin version is said to be good. Proposals for new editions of Polyglott Bibles were issued by Rev. Josiah Pratt. Oxf., 1797, 4to, (4to Bible,) and Lon., 1799, 8vo, (Svo Bible.) and by Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke, 1810, fol., (see Class. Jour., iv. 493– 497, Bibl. Sussex., 66-68;) but these projects came to naught. Dr. E. Williams also contemplated a Britannic Polyglott Bible: see Williams's Christian Preacher, 5th ed., 1843, 270. New editions of Walton's Polyglott and Castell's Lexicon, (now sold together for £30 to £40,) brought up to the present stage of Biblical learning, are much needed.

The Memoirs of Walton have been already referred to: see TopD, HENRY JOHN, No. 13. See, also, Biog. Brit.: Lloyd's Memoirs; Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon., iii. 535, 812, 840, iv. 107, 238, 280, 302, 429, 525, and his Fasti, ii. 81; Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy; Twells's Life of Pocock; Nichols's Lit. Anec., vii. (Index) 444, 705.

"Here awaiteth the sound of the last trump Brian Walton, Lord Bishop of Chester. Reader, look for no farther epitaph on him whose very name was epitaph enough. Nevertheless, if thou lookest for a larger and louder one, consult the vocal oracles of his fame, and not of this dumb marble. . . . So that the Old and New Testament may well be his monum nt, which he erected with no small expense of his own. Therefore he little needs the pageantry of pompous titles emblazoned, or displayed in heralds' books, whose name is written in the book of life."-From the translation in Bliss's Wood's Fasti, ii. 84, 85. inscription on his monument in St. Paul's Cathedral, English

Walton, Rev. Daniel. The Witness of the Spirit; a Treatise on the Evidence of the Spirit's Adoption, N. York.

Walton, Elijah. 1. The Camel: its Anatomy, Pro

portion, and Paces, with Plates, Lon., 1865, fol., £4 48.

"This work will indeed be most useful to the anatomist, natu ralist, and artist."-Lon. Reader, 1865, i. 93.

2. Peaks and Valleys of the Alps, 21 chromo-lithographs, with Descriptive Letter-Press by Rev. T. G. Bonney, Dec. 1866, fol., £S 88. 3. Clouds: their Forms and Combinations, 1868, 4to, £3 38.; 2d ed., 1869, 4to. 4. Flowers from the Upper Alps, 12 chromos, with Descriptive Letter-Press by Rev. T. G. Bonney, 1869, fol.

Walton, George A., b. in South Reading, Mass., 1822. With COLBURN, DANA P., The First Steps in Numbers, Bost. Largely circulated. Mr. Walton has contributed to periodicals.

Walton, H. Haynes, Surgeon to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital and to St. Mary's Hospital. 1. Treatise on Operative Ophthalmic Surgery, Lon., 1853, 8vo; Edited by Squire Littell, M.D., Phila., 1853, 8vo; 2d ed., Lon., 1861, Svo.

"It stamps his character at once as a sound and experienced ."-Lon. Med. Times.

ophthalmic surgeon."

Also commended by Brit. and For. Med.-Chir. Rev., &c. Walton, Izaak, the "Father of Angling," b. at Stafford, August 9, 1593, after acquiring moderate competency as a London sempster or linendraper, retired from business in 1643, and, after enjoying for forty years afterwards the society of his books, his angle, his friends,some of them among the most famous Englishmen of their time.-d. at Winchester, at the house of his son-inlaw, Dr. William Hawkins, Prebendary of Winchester Cathedral, Dec. 15, 1683, in his 91st year. He was twice married: first, in 1626, to Rachel Floud, a descendant of Archbishop Cranmer, who d. 1640; secondly, about 1647, to Anne Ken, half sister of Bishop Ken, who d. 1662. Walton acquired merited honours as the historiographer and eulogist of angling and as a biographer; and it is safe to predict for his name in both capacities a literary immortality.

EDITIONS OF THE COMPLETE ANGLER; OR, THE CONTEMPLATIVE MAN'S RECREATION.

The figures do not indicate the numbers of the editions, unless the latter be stated.

I. 1st ed., Lon., 1653, 16mo, pub. at 18. 6d. Utterson, in 1852, £11 158.; Pickering, £11 11s.; G. Daniel, in 1864, with MS. notes by Wm. White, of Crickhowel, £27 108. A copy now in the library of R. S. Holford, of Park Lane, was priced by a bookseller £31 108.: see Lon. Reader, 1864, ii. 196. Fac-simile reprint of 1st ed.. 1810, sq. 12mo.

II. 2d ed., 1655, 16mo. Utterson, in 1852, £6 12s. 6d. ; Pickering, £7 10s.

III. 3d ed., 1661, 16mo. Utterson, in 1852, £3 13. 6d. Pickering, £. Again, (really 4th ed., but called 3d ed. on title,) 1664, 16mo. Haworth, 897, £1. IV. 4th ed., 1668, 16mo. Pickering, £4; J. Lilly's Cat., Sept.-Oct. 1858, p. 45, £6 168. 6d.

V. 5th ed., including the 1st ed. of Charles Cotton's (q. v.) Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream, (also pub. separately, 1676, 16mo,) 1676, 16mo. Towneley, 805, £4 88.; Sotheby's, Jan. 11, 1864, cut down, and stained, £1 78. Another issue of the 5th ed., containing, besides Parts 1 and 2, the Experienced Angler, or Angling Improved, by Col. Robert Venables, (q. r,) 4th ed., the whole entitled The Universal Angler, 1676, 12mo. A series of these first five edits..all that appeared in Walton's lifetime,-in 6 vols., bound in morocco by F. Bedford, in Harward's sale, 1858, £42: resold, R. Cutlar Ferguson, 1860, £44. Another set, in 5 vols., (all called 12mo, instead of 4 in 16mo and 1 in 12mo,) bound in olive morocco, tooled on the sides with gold, gilt edges, in the old style, J. Lilly's Cat., Sept.-Oct. 1858, p. 46, £31 108. As each of these five editions varies from the others, the collector must

have all.

VI. By Moses Browne, 1750, 12mo.
VII. By Moses Browne, 1759, 12mo.

VIII. By John (afterwards Sir John) Hawkins, with plates by Wale and Ryland, 1760, 8vo. Strawberry Hill copy, G. Daniel, 1864, £24 108. With new title, 1764;

with new title, 1766, 8vo.

IX. By Moses Browne, 1772, 12mo.
X. By Sir J. Hawkins, 1775, 8vo.

XI. By Sir J. Hawkins, 4th ed., 1784, 8vo.
XII. By John Sidney Hawkins, 1792, 12mo.

XIII. 1797, 12mo: 50 copies on fine paper. Without the large plates.

XIV. By Sir J. Hawkins, 1808, demy 8vo; 1. p., r. 8vo; largest p., 4to.

XV. By Sir J. Hawkins, with Addit. Notes by Mr. (afterwards Sir) Henry Ellis, 1815, demy Svo: 1. p., r. 8vo. XVI. By Sir J. Hawkins, edited by T. Gosden, 1822, 8vo: 1825, 8vo.

XVII. Major's 1st ed., 1823, fp. 8vo, 18.; 1. p., er. 8vo, £1 168. With 77 wood-cuts and 14 engravings by Cook and Pye. Reviewed in Blackw. Mag., xiv. 473.

XVIII. Major's 2d ed., 1824, fp. 8vo, 188.; 1. p., with proofs, 8vo, £1 168. See Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1824, 404.

Plates rebit.

XIX. Chiswick, 1824, 2 vols. 24mo; 1826, 2 vols. 24mo.

XX. Pickering, 1825, 48mo; 1826, 48mo. XXI. Pickering, 1826, (engraved title, 1827,) 32mo. XXII. With original Notes and Memoirs by Sir N. Harris Nicolas, illustrated by (61) Engravings, from Designs by T. Stothard and Inskipp, Pickering, 1832-36, imp. Svo, 12 Parts at 98. 6d. ea., (in 2 vols., £6 6.;) or India proofs, 16. ea. Part, (in 2 vols., £10 108.) The illustrations separate, 4to, proofs before the letters, £10 10%.

"The text has been printed from the Fifth Edition, and the material variations between it and the four previous impressions published in the author's lifetime, together with original and selected Notes, are introduced at the foot of each page. The Memoirs of Walton and Cotton will contain numerous particulars relating to them, and to many of their eminent contemporaries, which have never before been published."-Pickering's Advertisement. See, also, Lon. Athen., 1832, 398.

I. R. Bernal, Feb. 1855, illustrated and extended to 3 vols., elephant size, morocco, £40. II. Utterson, in 1857, illustrated, morocco, £14. III. John Allan, May, 1864, 3137, with about 260 portraits and plates, and 48 head and tail pieces, many on India paper, extended to 4 vols., green morocco, $600.

"Dr. Bethune, who had every thing on Angling, admitted that he had nothing to equal this; and the writer, having catalogued Dr. Bethune's books, can add his testimony to the same effect."Note in Allan's Cat., by J. Sabin.

IV. Little, Brown & Co.'s Cat., Sept. 1, 1864, with duplicate impressions of the plates, in green morocco by Hayday, $200, V. W. F. Fowle, Dec. 1864, 754, with the additional set of plates, artists' proofs, India paper, VI. J. Penington in green levant by Hayday, $180. £ Son's Cat., Jan. 1865, $100. VII. T. H. Morrell, Jan. 1869, 551, green levant by Riviere, $340.

UNIQUE COPY, illustrated and extended into 4 thick volumes, royal octavo, by the addition of 240 extra plates, consisting of Portraits, Views, Fish, and Fishing Subjects, mostly fine proofs, and all early impressions. Many of the Portraits, &c. are rare, including some by Hollar, etc. This copy has been illustrated con amore with the greatest care, and in the most complete manner. There are four extra titles, (one to each volume,) beautifully executed by hand in pen-and-ink. The binding aud condition of the book is superb, each leaf having a separate guard."-Part of Note in Morrell's Cat.

Reissued with same sheets and plates, reprinted under same date, by Nattali & Bond; and by same, 1860, 2 vols. imp. Svo, £3 38.; or with the plates on India paper, £4 48.

XXIII. Major's 3d ed., 1835, fp. 8vo; again, L. A. Lewis, 1839, p. 8vo, 1. p., 8vo; again, Washbourne, 1842, fp. 8vo. 12s. See No. XXVII.

XXIV. Pickering, 1835, 32mo.

XXV. By Rev. J. Rennie, 1836, 12mo: 1839, 12mo; 184-, 12mo; Manches., 1851, 12mo. See Blackw. Mag., xliv. 187.

XXVI. Groombridge, 1837, 2 vols. 24mo.

XXVII. Major's 4th ed., with new plates, drawn by J. Absolon and engraved by Willmore, Bogue, 1844, fp. Svo, 188.; red. to 128., 1847; 1. p., cr. 8vo, £1 168. Of the 12 copper-plates by Absolon and Willmore, and also the 62 wood-cuts illustrating Major's 3d ed., (XXIII., supra,) 12 sets were taken off, 1847, r. 8vo. See No. XXXII.

XXVIII. With Copious Notes, for the most part Original, A Bibliographical Preface, &c., by the American Editor, (see BETHUNE, GEORGE W., D.D.,) &c., N. York, 1847, (also 1848, 1852.) 12mo or p. 8vo, $1.00; illust., $1.75: antiquarian, I. p., r. 8vo, 50 copies, $10. Andrew Wight, June, 1864, 3932, illustrated and extended to 2 vols. New ed., 1865, 12mo.

"The annotations to this work are by far the most complete that have yet appeared, and exhibit a great amount of research. Jesse alludes to it in terms of commendation. Unfortunately, the introduction of some English plates by the publisher prohibited its sale in England, and it is, consequently, not so well known there as in the United States."-Wynne's Private Libraries of New York, 1860, 103, n.

XXIX. Causton, 1851, 12mo; 1853, 12mo.

XXX. By Major, Bohn, 1853, 12mo; 1854, 12mo. XXXI. By Ephemera, (Edward Fitzgibbon, Esq., author of A Hand-Book of Angling, 1847, fp. Svo; 1848, 12mo; 1853, fp. 8vo,) 1853, p. 8vo; 1854, 12mo; 1859, p. 8vo.

XXXII. With Variorum Notes, &c., ed. by Ed. Jesse,

Esq., and H. G. Bohn, Esq., Illust. with upwards of 200 wood engravings and 26 steel engravings, 1856, p. 8vo. (Bohn's Illust. Lib.) The plates and notes of Major's editions are incorporated in this edition. Price, 78. 6d., or without the steel engravings, 58. See, also, Bohn's Lowndes, 2829.

XXXIII. In German, Hamburg, 1860.

XXXIV. Bell & Daldy, (Pocket Vols.,) 1863, 32mo. See Lon. Reader, 1863, ii. 60.

XXXV. Bell & Daldy, (Elzevir Series,) 1864, sm. fp. 8vo.

XXXVI. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, Edited by John Major, with 12 engravings on steel, and 74 wood-cuts, 1867, 18mo, $4.50; 1. p., 100 copies, 8vo.

XXXVII. A. Murray & Son's Reprints of edit. of 1653, 1869, er. 8vo, 18.

I must give a few opinions on this charming pastoral: "Whether we consider the elegant simplicity of the style, the ease and unaffected humour of the dialogue, the lovely scenes which it delineates, the enchanting pastoral poetry which it contains, or the fine morality it so sweetly inculcates, it has hardly its fellow among any of the modern languages."-SIR JOHN HAWKINS.

"Let me take this opportunity of recommending the amiable and venerable Isaac Walton's Complete Angler; a work the most singular of its kind, breathing the very spirit of contentment, of quiet, and of unaffected philanthropy, and interspersed with some beautiful relics of poetry, old songs, and ballads." Rev. W. L. BOWLES: Bowles's Pope, i. 135.

"Indeed, the Complete Angler, whether considered as a treatise on the art of angling, or a beautiful pastoral, abounding in exquisite descriptions of rural scenery, in sentiments of the purest morality, and in unaffected love of the Creator and his works, has long been ranked among the most popular compositions in our language."-SIR N. HARRIS NICOLAS.

"Among all your quaint readings, did you ever light upon 'Walton's Complete Angler'? I asked you the question once

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"Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David. I think he was an attorney, but he seemed to lead an independent life, and talked all about fishing. Dr. Johnson advised him to read Walton's Angler, repeating some verses from it."-Piozzi MS., in Croker's Boswell's Johnson, ed. 1848, 415, n.

"Izaak Walton's Complete Angler, which, from the bare title. might be thought only a sporting book, but will be recognized by every student of English literature as one of the most precious gems in the language."-DR. G. W. BETHUNE: Advert. to the American Edition.

"Certainly it was not the least among the many excellencies of Izaak Walton's charming book that he helped to render popular so many pure and beautiful lyrics."-MISS MITFORD: Lit. Recollec., ch. xv.

"Walton's Complete Angler, published in 1653, seems by the title a strange choice out of all the books of half a century; yet its simplicity, its sweetness, its natural grace, and happy intermixture of graver strains with the precepts of angling, have rendered this book deservedly popular, and a model which one of the most famous among our late philosophers, and a successful disciple of Isaac Walton in his favourite art, [Sir Humphry Davy, has condescended in his Salmonia] to imitate."— HALI AM: Lit. Hist. of Europe, 4th ed., 1854, iii. 360.

See, also, Blakey's Lit. of Angling, 1856, 120, 136, 191, 331: Walton and Cotton's Club Rules and Regula. tions, privately printed, 1821, 4to,-published Pickering, 1840, 8vo: one copy on vellum, Pickering, Part 2, £2 108.; Waltonian Chronicle, 1834, 12mo; A Journey to Beresford Hall, in Derbyshire, the Seat of Charles Cotton, Esq., &c., by W. Alexander, Esq., F.S.A., 1841, cr. 8vo; Retrospec. Rev., vi. 356; Lon. Gent. Mag., 1832, i. 342, n., 416; Edin. Rev., xlii. 59; Blackw. Mag., xxiv. 250, xlix. 304; Fraser's Mag., 1835; Knicker., xxx. 381.

Isaac Walton, a Drama, (still in MS.,) priced by Pickering £2 12s. 6d.. by Charles Dance, was performed at the Royal Olympic in London in 1839: see Specimens in Blakey's Lit. of Angling, 136. At the end of Blakey's volume, pp. 293-335, will be found A Bibliographical Catalogue of Books on Angling, by J. Russell Smith. This is based on the Catalogue of Sir Henry Ellis, published in the British Bibliographer in 1811, Pickering's Bibliotheca Piscatoria, 1836, 12mo, and the Waltonian Library appended to Dr. Bethune's edition of the Complete Angler, 1847, pp. 151-196. I add the titles of some books published within the last few years:

I. The Chronicle of "The Compleat Angler" of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Being a Bibliographical Record of its Various Phases and Mutations, Editions, Illustrations, &c. &c., by Thomas Westwood, 1864, sm 4to, 58. Commended by Lon. Reader, Aug. 13, 1864, ii. 196. II. Tweed and Don; or, Recollections and Reflections of an Angler for the Last Fifty Years, by James Locke, Esq., 1860, cr. 8vo.

"Written in a true Waltonian spirit. A pleasing and instructive volume."-Lon. Times, Oct. 17, 1860.

III. The American Angler's Book, &c., by Thad. Norris, Phila., 1864, sm. 4to. See No. VII., infra.

IV. Index to the Original and Inserted Illustrations contained in "The Complete Angler," (Walton and Cotton:) Pickering, Publisher. Five Volumes, with 1026 Illustrations, comprising Portraits, Views, Zoological Plates, Original Drawings, Oil Paintings, Pen-and-Ink Sketches, Coloured Engravings, &c. &c., N. York: Privately Printed, 1866, 4to: 50 copies.

V. A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Waltonian Library belonging to the Estate of Robert W. Coleman, deceased, late of Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, N. York; printed for private circulation, 1866, r. 8vo. pp. 149. Worth in 1870 about $3.

"The collection of this Waltonian Library was the life-long

labour of the late Rev. G. W. Bethune, deceased, from whose estate it was purchased by Mr. Coleman, who has added somewhat to it, and who had intended that it should become a complete Waltonian Library. This catalogue was prepared during Mr. Coleman's lifetime, and seventy-five copies only have been printed in fulfilment of his cherished intention."

VI. A Book on Angling, with Plates, &c., Lon., Mar. 1867. p. 8vo, 158.; 2d ed., Sept. 1867, p. 8vo. VII. American Fish Culture, by Thad. Norris, Phila., 1868. See No. III., supra; ROOSEVELT, ROBERT B., Nos. 1, 2; VENABLES, ROBERT.

I conclude this division of my subject with a few lines which I think will not displease my "Waltonian" readers:

"I have been a great follower of fishing myself, and in its cheerful solitude have passed some of the happiest hours of a sufficiently happy life."-Paley's Natural Theology.

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EDITIONS OF WALTON'S LIVES.

1. Life of John Donne, D.D., prefixed to his Eighty Sermons, 1640, fol.; 2d ed. of Life, 1658, 12mo. 2. Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, with Life of Sir Henry Wotton, 1651, sm. 8vo; 2d ed., 1654, 12mo; 3d ed., 1672, 8vo; 4th ed., 1685, 8vo. See WOTTON, SIR HENRY, No. 7. 3. Life of Richard Hooker, 1665, 12mo; 2d ed. in Hooker's Works, 1666, fol., and frequently since: see Bohn's Lowndes, 1107; HOOKER, RICHARD, (supra.) Prefixed to Keble's edit. of Hooker's Works, 4th ed., Oxf., Clar. Press, 1863, 3 vols. 8vo, or Keble's Notes, 2 vols. 8vo. Of Keble's Christian Year the sale had reached 250,000 copies by June, 1866. See, also, A Memoir of the Rev. John Keble, by the Rt. Hon. Sir J. T. Coleridge, 1869, 2 vols. cr. 8vo, and in 1 vol. cr. 8vo. 4. Life of George Herbert, with his Letters, 1670, 12mo; again, with The Temple, &c., 10th ed., 1674, 12mo; and frequently since pub. with Herbert's writings: see Bohn's Lowndes, 1048; HERBERT, GEORGE, (supra.) The preceding Lives (Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4) were pub, together in one vol., 1670, sin. 8vo; 4th ed., 1675, sm. 8vo; 5th ed., 1679, sin. 8vo. 5. Life of Dr. Robert Sanderson, Bishop of Lincoln, with some Short Tracts on Cases of Conscience, written by the said Bishop, 1678, 8vo; 1685, 12mo; and frequently with his Sermons: see SANDERSON, ROBERT, D.D., No. 9, et infra. Walton's Lives are all repub. in Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Biography. It is to be regretted that Walton did not carry into execution his design of writing the Lives of Sir Henry Savile and John Hales. COLLECTIVE EDITIONS OF WALTON'S LIVES OF DONNE, WOTTON, HOOKER, HERBERT, AND SANDERSON.

I. With Notes, and the Life of the Author, by Thomas Zouch, D.D., York, 1796, 4to; l. p., r. 4to: White Knight's, 4603, £4 58.

"Well and ably edited by Dr. Zouch."-Lon. Quar. Rev., iv. 95. See, also, Lon. Mon. Rev., xxiv. 136.

II. Oxford, Clar. Press, 1805, vols. fp. 8vo.

III. Zouch's 2d ed., to which is now first added Love and Truth, (pub. separately by Zouch, 1795, Svo,) by Isaac Walton, York, 1807, 8vo. Love and Truth, in Two Modest and Peaceable Letters, by R. W., Lon., 1680, 4to, are ascribed to Walton by Archbishop Sancroft; but it is doubtful if Walton was more than the editor. IV. Zouch's 3d ed., York, 1817, 2 vols. 8vo. V. London, 1823, 12mo.

VI. Oxford, Clar. Press, 1824, 8vo.

VII. Major's ed., 1825, 12mo, 188.: 1. p., with India proofs, cr. 8vo, £2 28. See Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1825, 551, 566, 597. Of the 11 portraits and 52 wood-cuts, 6 sets of proofs before letters were taken off, 1825, 4to. This ed. was intended as a companion to Major's edits. of The Complete Angler. It was repub., with a new set of plates, Bogue, 1844, fp. 8vo, 188.; 1. p., £1 168.

VIII. Pickering, 1827, 32mo and 48mo; some on India paper.

IX. Pickering, 1835, 32mo. An ed. of The Lives was pub. by Rivington, 58. 6d.

X. Washbourne, 1838, p. 8vo, 98.; 1848, p. 8vo, 98.; 1. p., half mor., 158. Founded on Major's ed., 1825, but with some variations. An ed. of the Lives was pub. 1840, 12mo.

XI. W. Smith, 1845, med. 8vo.

XII. With Zouch's Life of Walton, N. York, 1846, 12mo.

XIII. With Zouch's Life of Walton, N. York, 1848, 12mo or cr. 8vo.

XIV. Causton, 1852, p. 8vo.

XV. Cooke, (Univ. Lib.,) 1853, r. 8vo.
XVI. New York, 1854, 12mo.

XVII. Washbourne, With an Original Memoir of Walton, by William Dowling, new illustrated edition, 1857, cr. 8vo, cl., 108. 6d.; half-bd., 128.; calf antique, 158. XVIII. Groombridge, (Min. Class. Lib.,) 1858, 2 vols. 32mo.

XIX. With Zouch's Life of Walton and Illustrative

Notes, Bost., 1860, 12mo; 1862, 12mo: see N. Amer. Rev.,

xci. 577.

tended as a companion to EDITIONS OF THE COMPLETE XX. Bell & Daldy, (Pocket Vols.,) 1864, 32mo. InANGLER, &c., supra, No. XXXIV.

XXI. Bell & Daldy, (Elzevir Series,) 1864, sm. fp. 8vo.

XXII. Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, red. to 38., 1869, 12mo.

Some opinions on Walton's Lives will probably be ex pected:

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These Lives, in the estimation of an eminent prelate, "not only do ample justice to individual piety and learning, but throw a mild and cheerful light upon the manners of an interesting age, as well as upon the venerable features of our mother-church.... Dr. Zouch's ample notes unite rich instruction and very agreeable entertainment."-BISHOP JEBB, "To swell the lists of eulogists of these delightful pieces of biography were an idle and perhaps unprofitable task. ...

1. Present State of the

Walton, William, British Resident at St. Domingo, d. at Oxford, 1857, aged 73. Spanish Colonies, Lon., 1810, 2 vols. 8vo. Reviewed, not favourably, in Edin. Rev., xvii. 372, and Lon. Quar. Rev., vii. 235. 2. Historical Account, &c. of Peruvian Sheep, 1811, (some 1812,) 8vo. 3. Sketch of the United States of America, 1800-1810, by Le C. F. de Beaujour; trans., 1814, 8vo. Reviewed in N. Amer. Rev.. ii. 68. 4. Exposé of the Dissentions of Spanish America, 1814, 8vo. 5. Inquisition Unmasked; by D. A. Puigblanch; trans., 1816, 2 vols. 8vo. 6. Memoirs of the Ionian Islands, by Genl. G. de Vaudoncourt, 1816, 8vo. 7. State of the

Dr. Zouch (as his Life of Sir Philip Sidney, 1808, in 4to, too pal Philippine Islands; by T. de Comyn; trans., 1821, 8vo.

pably testifies) was not a fit editor of Walton."-DR. DIBDIN: Lib. Comp., ed. 1825, 526, n.

"He Dr. Johnson] talked of Isaac Walton's Lives,' which was one of his most favourite books. Dr. Donne's Life he said was the most perfect of them."--BOSWELL: Life of Johnson, Croker's ed., 1818, 452. See, also, Index.

"The Tragedy of Othello, Plato's records of the last four scenes of the career of Socrates, and Isaac Walton's Life of George Herbert are the most pathetic of human compositions."-WM. WORDSWORTH: Memoirs by C. Wordsworth.

Biography, considered as an art, has been destroyed by the greatest of all biographers, James Boswell. His success must be forgotten before Plutarch or Isaac Walton will find either rivals or imitators."-SIR J. STEPHEN: Edin. Rev., lxvii. 180.

Mr. Hallam, (Lit. Hist. of Europe, 4th ed., 1854, ii. 25, n.,) questioning some stories in the Life of Hooker, remarks that Walton "seems to have been a man always too credulous of anecdote." See, also, Blackw. Mag., xlv. 309, 312, xlviii. 201; Amer. Mon. Rev., iii. 30.

"There are no colours in the fairest sky

So fair as these. The feather whence the pen
Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men,
Dropped from an angel's wing. With moistened eye
We read of faith and purest charity

In statesman, priest, and humble citizen.
O could we copy their mild virtues, then
What joy to live, what blessedness to die!
Methinks their very names shine still and bright
Apart-like glow-worms in the woods of spring,
Or lonely tapers shooting far a light

That guides and cheers-or seen, like stars on high,
Satellites burning in a lucid ring

Around meek Walton's heavenly memory."

WORDSWORTH.

Walton was also the author of several sets of verses prefixed to volumes published by his contemporaries, and of some other minor literary performances: see the Life of Izaak Walton, including Notices of his Contemporaries, by Thomas Zouch, D.D., 1823, (some 1824,) fp. 8vo, 1. p., 4to. 1826, 12mo; and Works by, and ascribed to, Isaac Walton, in Bethune's ed. of The Complete Angler, 1847, &c., 199-203. See, also, CHALKHILL, JOHN, (repub. by S. W. Singer, Chiswick, 1820, 12mo,) proved by Sir N. H. Nicolas to have been a relation of Walton's second wife, (a copy of Thealma and Clearchus is priced in Bibl. Anglo-Poet., 120, £8 88.;) SKEFFINGTON, SIR JOHN. We add to our references Bowles's Life of Bishop Ken; Imp. Dict. of Univ. Biog., vi., 1866: Dubl. Univ. Mag., xx. 432, 537; U. S. Lit. Gaz., i. 233; Amer. Whig Rev., i. 384.

"Happy Old Man! whose worth all mankind knows Except thyself,-who charitably shows The ready way to virtue and to praise, The way to many long and happy days." THOMAS FLATMAN, died 1672. "Not many English authors have possessed a more attractive or more strictly idiomatic style, not many have exhibited a wider variety of expression, than Izaak Walton; but Walton had no classical learning, and his orthography hogoe for haut goût (Complete Angler, edition of 1653, p. 160) shows that he knew as little of French."-G. P. MARSH: Lects. on the Eng. Lang., 1860, Lect. IV.

I am pleased to be able to conclude this article by the announcement that Walton's townsmen of the present generation (I write in 1870) propose to pay a longneglected debt of their predecessors, by erecting in Stafford a memorial to one who did so much to commemorate the virtues and accomplishments of his own contemporaries. Walton, J., and Henry, J. New System of Teaching Arithmetic, (with or without Key,) Lon., 1848, 12mo. Walton, J. H. Hereafter, Lon., 1860, 12mo. Walton, Jonathan, D.D., Rector of Birdbrook, Essex, and Rural Dean, b. 1774, d. 1846. 1. Serm., 1810, 8vo. 2. Serm., 1813, 8vo. 3. LV. Serms., 1822, 2 vols. 8vo. 4. Lects. on Repentance, the Prodigal Son, &c., 1833. 12mo. Commended by Lon. Chris. Rememb. 5. The Glory of the Latter House; a Serm., 1842, 8vo. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1846, i. 645, (Obituary.)

Walton, W. L. Amateur's Drawing-Book, Lon., 1846, ob. fol. Commended by Lon. Lit. Gaz. and Lon. M. Post.

8. Report on Mines in Hayti, 1825, 8vo. 9. Memoir on Slavery in Brazil, by J. B. d'A. e Silva; trans., 1826, 8vo. 10. Spain; or, Who is the Lawful Successor to the Throne, 1834, 8vo. 11. Revolutions of Spain, 1808-1836, &c., 1837, (some 1838,) 2 vols. 8vo.

"Throws a flood of light on the real nature of the contest now raging in the Peninsula," &c.-Blackw, Mag., xli. 576, (by Sir A. Alison, and repub. in his Essays, 18530, ii. 382.)

12. The Alpaca: its Naturalization in the British Isles, &c., 1844, fp. 8vo. He contributed to Reviews and Magazines. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1857, ii. 96, (Obituary.) Walton, William. Calculator's Sure Guide or Reckoner, Lon., Svo.

Walton, William, of Trinity College, Cambridge. 1. Problems in Theoretical Mechanics, Camb., 1812, 8vo; 2d ed., 8vo. 2. Treatise on the Differential Calculus, 1846, 8vo. 3. Collection of Problems in Hydrostatics and Hydrodynamics, 1847, 8vo; 2d ed., 1855, 8vo. 4. Problems in Plane Co-ordinate Geometry, 1851, 8vo. 5. With MACKENZIE, C. F., of Caius College, Problems and Riders, 1854, 8vo. 6. With CAMPION, W. M., of Queen's College, Problems and Riders, 1857, 8vo. 7. Collection of Problems in Elementary Mechanics, 1858, 8vo. 8. Edited The Mathematical and other Writings of Robert Leslie Ellis; with a Biog. Memoir by the Very Rev. Harvey Goodwin, D.D., Dean of Ely, 1864, 8vo. See, also, GREGORY, DUNCAN FARQUHARSON.

Walton, William C. See Life of, by J. W. Danforth, Hartford, 1837, 12mo; Chris. Quar. Spec., x. 193, (by E. G. Smith.)

Waltz, E. L., Lutheran pastor, Hamburg, Penna. Erklärung des Calenders, nebst Unterricht über die Himmelskörper, Reading, 1830, pp. 315.

Walwin, William. 1. Wiles; or, The Manifestators Manifested, Lon., 1649, 4to. 2. Juries Justified; or, An Answer to Henry Robinson's Seven Objections against Juries, 1651, 4to. See ROBINSON, HENRY, No. 6.

Walworth, Rev. C., a Roman Catholic divine, a brother of the Order of Paulists, in the city of New York, is a son of Reuben Hyde Walworth, (infra.) The Gentle Skeptic; or, Essays and Conversations of a Country Justice on the Authenticity and Truthfulness of the Old Testament Records; Edited, N. York, 1863, 12mo, pp. 368; 2d ed., 1864, 12mo. This answer to Bishop Colenso was commended in N. Amer. Rev., xcvii. 282, (by A. P. Peabody, D.D.)

Walworth, Mansfield Tracy, of the New York Bar, brother of the preceding, was b. in Albany, 1830, and graduated at Union College, 1849.

2.

1. The Mission of Death; a Novel, N. York, 1853, 16mo; 12 edits. to April, 1863; Lon., 1854, 18mo. Lulu; a Tale of the National Hotel Poisoning, N. York, 1863, 12mo; 1864, 12mo. 3. Hotspur; a Novel, 1864, 12mo. 4. Stormcliff: a Novel, 1866, 12mo. 5. Warwick; or, The Lost Nationalities of America; a Novel, 1869, 12mo. Contributor to Metropol. Mag., and author of lectures (some published) before literary associations He is, or was, engaged upon The Lives of the Chancel lors of New York.

Walworth, Reuben Hyde, LL.D., b. in Bozrah, Conn., 1788, was appointed a Master in Chancery, and a County Judge in 1811; served as an officer of Volunteers in the War of 1812, and in 1814, at the siege of Plattsburg, was Acting Adjutant-General of United States forces; was M.C. during the 17th Congress, 1821-23; a Circuit Judge in N. York, 1823-28, and Chancellor of the State of N. York, 1828-48; d. at Saratoga, New York, Nov. 28, 1867.

1. Rules and Orders of the Court of Chancery of the State of New York, as Revised and Established by Chancellor Walworth, &c., Albany, 1829, 8vo. Revised edits.: 1834, 8vo; 1837, 8vo; 1839, 8vo; 1844, 8vo. 2. Hyde Genealogy; or, The Descendants in the Female as well as in the Male Line from William Hyde of Nor

wich, 1864, 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 1446, with 22 steel portraits, $12. He contributed articles on the De Lamater Family and the Mason Family to N. Eng. Hist. and Genealog. Register, vols. xiv. and xv. His Decisions whilst Circuit Judge will be found in Cowen's Sup. Court Reports, N. York, 1824-30, 9 vols. 8vo; his Decisions as Chancellor, in Paige's Reports, 1830-48, 11 vols. 8vo, and Barbour's Reports, 1847-49, 3 vols. 8vo; and most of his Opinions in the Court for the Correction of Errors, in Wendell's Reports, 1829-42, 26 vols., Hill's Reports. 1842-47, 7 vols. 8vo, and Denio's Reports, 1846-50, 5 vols. 8vo.

"No court was ever under the guidance of a judge purer in character or more gifted in talent than the last Chancellor of New York. His matured decisions, embracing the whole circle of equity. Never, perhaps, were so many decisions made where so few were inaccurate as to facts or erroneous in law." -WILLIAM KENT: editorial note in 1 Kent, Com., 548, 8th ed., 1854.

"The late Justice Story declared him to be the greatest equity jurist now living; and the late Chancellor Kent also bore the most ample testimony to the merits of his decisions." -Men of the Time, New York, 1848, 524.

Walwyn. Abstract of Small Debts Act, Lon., 1846,

12mo.

Walwyn, Robert. Particular View of the Fundamentals of Christian Religion, Part 2, Lon., 1660, 8vo. Walwyn, William. God Save the King: or, A Sermon of Thanksgiving for his Majestie's Happy Return to his Throne, Lon., 1660, 4to.

Walwyn, William. Physick for Families, Lon., 1681, 8vo.

Wampole, Jacob F., Lutheran pastor, Paxinos, Peuna. Report on the Religious and General Condition of American Colleges, 1855.

Wandesforde, Christopher, Viscount Castlecomer, an eminent statesman, b. at Bishop Burton, Yorkshire, 1592, d. 1640. He left in MS. a religious work entitled Instructions to his Son, which was published by his (the author's) great-great-grandson, Thomas Comber, LL.D., (p. 417, supra,) Camb., 1777, 12mo. To this Comber added, Memoirs of the Life and Death of the Rt. Hon. the Lord-Deputy Wandesforde, 1778, 12mo. He also left MS. Remarks on the Bible, and Collections in Divinity, never published, and probably long since lost.

"In him [Wandesforde] is lost the richest magazine of learning, wisdom, and piety that these times could boast."-EARL OF STRAFFORD, on his death.

"A man of great prudence, moderation, integrity, and virtue."-LODGE: Peerage of Ireland, iii. 198.

See, also, Park's Walpole's R. & N. Authors, v. 183. Wanless. Metre Psalm Tunes, 1702. 8vo. Wanley, Humphrey, a learned antiquary, son of the succeeding, b. at Coventry, Mar. 21, 1671-2, after leaving the University of Oxford, became Secretary to the P.C.K. Society, and subsequently librarian to the Earls of Oxford. and d. whilst librarian to the second Earl, July 6, 1726. 1. Grounds and Principles of the Christian Religion; out of French into English, (revised by Dr. Stanhope,) Lon., 1704, 8vo. Often repub.

"A work highly deserving of notice."-BISHOP WATSON. Whilst at Oxford, he assisted Mill (see MILL, JOHN, D.D.) in his Greek Testament, 1705, fol.; as underkeeper of the Bodleian Library, aided in making the indexes to the catalogue of MSS., and wrote the Latin preface thereof; in London became assistant to Dr. Hickes, and in this capacity drew up a catalogue of AngloSaxon MSS., translated by the care of Edward Thwaites into Latin,-Catalogus Libb. Vet. Septentrionalium,— and pub. as vol. iii. of HICKES, GEORGE, D.D., No. 4. He first began to compile the catalogue of Lord Oxford's MSS., and proceeded as far as No. 2407 of the present printed Catalogue; he also contributed a paper entitled How to Judge of the Age of MSS., the Style of Learned Authors, Painters, Musicians, &c., to Phil. Trans., 1705, Abr., v. 227. See Nichols's Lit. Anec., vii. (Index) 445, 705; Nichols's Illust. of Lit., viii. 114, (Index ;) Masters's Life of Baker, 27: Pref. to Cat. of the Harleian MSS., 1808, 3 vols. fol.; Letters from Em. Persons, 1813, 3 vols.; Original Letters by Sir H. Ellis, 1843, 4to, (Camden Soc. Pub.)

"But see yonder the rough rude features of Humphrey Wanley peering above the crowd. All hail to thy honest physi. ognomy-for thou wert a rare Book-wight in thy way! and as long as the fame of thy patron Harley shall live, so long, honest Humphrey, dost thou stand a sure chance of living for aye' in the memory of all worthy bibliomaniacs."-DR. DIBDIN: Bibliomania, ed. 1842, 346, (q. v.)

Wanley, Nathaniel, father of the preceding, b. at Leicester. 1623, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford,

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became minister at Beeby, Leicestershire, subsequently Vicar of Trinity Church, Coventry, and d. 1680. 1. Vox Dei; or, The Great Duty of Self-Reflection upon a Man's Own Ways, Lon., 1658. 2. The Wonders of the Little World; or, A General History of Man, 1678, fol.; 1774, 4to; 1788. 4to: 1798, 4to. With Additions, by William Johnston, 1806, 2 vols. r. 8vo.

"A work to be classed with Clark's Examples,' 2 vols. fol., or Turner's Remarkable Providences,' containing a vast assemblage of remarkable anecdotes, &c., many of which keep credulity on the stretch."-Chalmers's Biog. Dict., xxxi. 94.

3. The History of Man; or, The Wonders of Human Nature in Relation to the Virtues, Vices, and Defects of both Sexes, 1704. 8vo.

Wanostrocht, N. 1. French Grammar, Lon., 1780, 12mo; Bost., 1819, 12mo; Phila., 12mo; 23d ed., by J. C. Tarver, Lon., 1855, 12mo; last ed., 1860, 12mo. 2. Recueil Choisi, &c., 1785, 12mo; N. York, 1820, 12mo; Phila., 12mo; last ed., Lon., 1862, 12mo. 3. Petit Tableau, 1806, 12mo. Other works: see Lon. Catalogues, 1800-1855. Also, On the Use of a Cricket-Bat, &c., 1845, 4to. See FELIX, N.,-pseudonym.

Wansey, Henry, a Wiltshire clothier.

1. Journal

of an Excursion to the United States of North America in the Summer of 1794, Salisbury, 1796, Svo: 2d ed., with Additions, 1798, 12mo. See Collec. of N. Jersey Hist. Soc., v. (1858) 484.

"For his deficiencies in correctness of style and method, in deed, he has made amends by his diligence, having in a very short time collected much useful information."-Lon. Mion. Rev 1796, í. 424.

2. Strictures on Wool and the Woollen Manufactory, 8vo. 3. Thoughts on Poor-Houses, 1801, 8vo. 4. Visit to Paris in 1814, 8vo.

Waple, Edward, Preb. of Bath and Wells, 1677; Archdeacon of Taunton, 1682: Preb. of Winchester, 1690; d. 1712. 1. Book of the Revelation Paraphrased, 3 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., with Life, 1729, 3 vols. 8vo. 1693, 4to: 1715, 4to. 2. Seventy Sermons, 1714-18-20,

Wapshare, James. Harmony of the Word of God in Spirit and in Truth, containing the Epistles to the Romans and to the Corinthians, with a Spiritual Interpretation, Lon., 8vo: vol. i., 1849.

Wapul, George. The Tyde Taryeth no Man: A
most pleasant and merry Commody, &c., Lon., 1576, 4to:
Bibl. Heber., Part 1, 6410, £52 10%.; new ed., 1611, 4to.
Repub. by J. P. Collier as No. 16 of his Illustrations of
Early English Popular Literature, 1863, sm. 4to.
Waræus. Anglice Ware.
Warburton, Acton. Rollo and his Race; or, The
Footsteps of the Normans, Lon., 1848, 2 vols. p. 8vo;
2d ed., Nov. 1848. 2 vols. p. 8vo. This journal of a tour
Rev., viii. 103, and Lon. Athen., 1848, 237.
in Normandy is reviewed unfavourably in Brit. Quar.

Lon., 1856, 3 vols. p. 8vo.
Warburton, C. Sunshine and Shadow; a Novel,

Warburton, Eliot Bartholomew George, b. College and Trinity College, Cambridge; was called to near Tullamore, Ireland, 1810, and educated at Queen's the Irish Bar, but soon abandoned the law for the overforeigu travel, and literature. He was lost in the Amazon sight of his Irish estates and the pleasures of society, Royal Mail steam-packet, destroyed by fire on the passage to the West Indies, Jan. 4, 1852. 1. The Crescent Travel, Lon., 1844, 2 vols. p. 8vo; N. York, 1845, 12mo; and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Providence, 1854, 12mo; 15th Lon. ed., 1859, p. 8vo; Phila., 1859, 12mo. Portions of this work were first

pub. in Dubl. Univ. Mag., (Episodes of Eastern Travel;)

and it was by the advice of the editor, Charles Lever, that the book was composed.

"Mr. Eliot Warburton, whose glowing descriptions of the East, rivalling those of Beckford himself, are so indelibly engraven on the national mind," &c.-SIR A. ALISON: Hist. of Europe, 1815-1852, ch. v.

See, also, KINGLAKE, JOHN WILLIAM.

"Eliot Warburton, seductive enchanter !"-SIR E. G. E. L. B. LYTTON.

305, &c., Lon. Spec., Lon. Sun, Britannia, &c. See, also, Also commended by Lon. Quar. Rev., 1xxv. 532, lxxviii. reviews in Dubl. Univ. Mag., xxv. 116; South. Quar. Rev., ix. 285; Lon. Athen., 1844, 1041; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1844, 782, 802.

2. Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cavaliers, ineluding their Private Correspondence: now first Published from the Original Manuscripts, Lon., 1849, 3 vols. 8vo.

"The story of the Cavaliers is told in these volumes with Athen., 1849, 481. much spirit, we wish we could add, with impartiality."-Lon.

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