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We have to announce a new edition of this Dictionary. It first appeared at the end of '87, and was quickly disposed of. A larger (and corrected) issue came out in the spring of 1889, and is now out of print. The Third, published on July 14, contains a large accession of important matter, in the way of celebrated historical and literary sayings and mots, much wanted to bring the Dictionary to a more complete form, and now appearing in its pages for the first time. On the other hand, the pruning knife has been freely used, and the excisions are numerous. A multitude of trivial and superfluous items have thus been cast away wholesale, leaving only those citations which were worthy of a place in a standard work of reference. As a result, the actual number of quotations is less, although it is hoped that the improvement in quality will more than compensate for the loss in quantity. The book has, in short, been not only revised, but rewritten throughout, and is not so much a new edition as a new work. It will be seen also that the quotations are much more "racontés" than before, and that where any history, story, or allusion attaches to any particular saying, the opportunity for telling the tale has not been thrown away. In this way what is primarily taken up as a book of reference, may perhaps be retained in the hand as a piece of pleasant reading, that is not devoid at times of the elements of humour and amusement. One other feature of the volume, and perhaps its most valuable one, deserves to be noticed. The previous editions professed to give not only the quotation, but its reference; and, although performance fell very far short of promise, it was at that time the only dictionary of the kind published in this country that had been compiled with that definite aim in view. In the present case no citation-with the exception of such unaffiliated things as proverbs, maxims, and mottoes-has been admitted without its author and passage, or the "chapter and verse in which it may be found, or on which it is founded. In order, however, not to lose altogether, for want of identification, a number of otherwise deserving sayings, an appendix of Adespota is supplied, consisting of quotations which either the editor has failed to trace to their source, or the paternity of which has not been satisfactorily proved. There are four indexes-Authors and authorities, Subject index, Quotation index, and index of Greek passages. Its deficiencies notwithstanding, Classical and Foreign Quotations' has so far remained without a rival as a polyglot manual of the world's famous sayings in one pair of covers and of moderate dimensions, and its greatly improved qualities should confirm it still more firmly in public use and estimation.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1905.

CONTENTS.-No. 64.
NOTES:-Father Sarpi's Portraits, 201-The Cech Lan-
guage, 202-Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy'-French
Proverbial Phrases, 203-Shakespeare's Pall-bearers-Irish
Folk-lore - Vicariate," 204-D.N.B.' and 'Index and

Epitome -Cicero's Busts 'Beyond the Church
"Mungoose," 205-Parliamentary Quotation-Sir George
Grove on Spurgeon's Scholarship-Jacobean Houses in
Fleet Street, 206.

QUERIES:-Dickens or Wilkie Collins? - Pawnbroker's
Sign and the Medici Arms, 207-William Carroll-Willes-
Madame
den Families - Willesden: the Place-name
Parisot-Catherine of Braganza-American Prayer-Book

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Balances or Scales-Arms of Cumbria-"Allen," 208

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Split Infinitive, 210-"Undertaker"-Moscow Campaign

Joseph Wilfred Parkins-Englishmen holding Positions under Foreign Governments, 213-Horseshoes for Luck, 214-"Tongue-Twisters," 216-"Call a spade a spade"Dinkums"- "Quandary," 217.

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Notes.

FATHER PAUL SARPI'S PORTRAITS.

(See ante, pp. 44, 84, 144.)

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THE earliest English references to Sarpi which have been published are contained in Bedell to Adam some letters of William Newton. Two of these letters (dated 1 January, 1607/8, and 1 January, 1608/9) were published in Some Original Letters of Bishop Bedell,' &c., edited by E. Hudson, Dublin, 1742. These, with a third letter dated 26 December, 1607, in which there are also references to Sarpi, have been recently reprinted by E. S. Shuckburgh, M.A., in his Two Biographies of William Bedell, Cambridge, University Press, 1902. I may add that the collection of Sir Henry Wotton's letters which I hope to publish shortly will contain a good deal of hitherto unpublished information about Sarpi from Wotton's letters and other documents.

A note in regard to portraits of Sarpi in England may be of interest to the readers of N. & Q. Fulgentio, in his life of Father Paul, states that Sarpi would never allow his portrait to be taken, and that all the pictures of him in existence were copies of one said to be in the gallery of a great king, which

was taken against his will, "e con bel strata-
gema" (2nd S. iv. 122). There can be little
doubt that James I. is the great king referred
"bel stratagema" was
to, and that the
planned by Sir Henry Wotton, then James's
Ambassador in Venice. On 13 September,
1607 (N.S.), Wotton wrote to Lord Salisbury
that he was sending to England "a very true
picture of Maestro Paulo, the Servite, taken
to behold a sound
from him at my request," as he thought it
might please the king
Protestant" (these words in cipher), “as yet
in the habit of a friar." Wotton's stratagem
seems to have consisted in sending to see
Sarpi on some pretence a painter who made a
sketch of the Father without his knowledge.
(See Wotton's letter to Dr. Collins, quoted
ante, p. 45.) This portrait, however, did
not reach England; the Papal Nuncio in
Venice, who kept a strict watch on Wotton's
movements, sent news of it to the Pope,
Paul V., who complained of it to the Venetian
Ambassador at Rome ('Cal. S.P., Ven., 1607-
1610,' p. 26), and when the bearer of the por-
trait reached Milan, on his way to England,
he was arrested by the officers of the Inquisi-
tion, thrown into prison, and the portrait
confiscated. In spite of the Pope's "bel
stratagema," Wotton succeeded in sending a
second portrait of Sarpi to England. This
was painted after the attempted assassination
in October, 1607, and bore, Wotton wrote
(21 December, 1607), the late addition of
his scars." From this portrait and a com-
panion picture of Fulgentio frequent replicas
were made, and Wotton, after his return to
England, seems to have been in the habit of
giving them to his friends. The letter he
wrote when presenting one to Dr. Collins,
Provost of King's College, Cambridge, has
already been quoted in 'N. & Q.' (ante, p. 45).
Another pair of these replicas (no doubt a
present from Wotton) was bequeathed by Dr.
Donne to Dr. King (2nd S. vii. 350); another
was in the rooms of Sir Nathaniel Brent at
Merton College; another at Roydon Hall
(ibid); and a sixth portrait of Sarpi seems
to have been in the possession of a brother
of the Rev. Samuel Blithe, Master of Clare
Hall (letter of Edward Browne to Samuel
Blithe, quoted Cal. S.P., Ven., 1607-1610,'
p. xxxvi). The portrait of Sarpi at King's
College disappeared about 1744 (N. & Q.,
2ud S. vii. 350), that at Roydon Hall about
1827 (iv. 122), and all attempts to trace
these or any other of Sarpi's portraits in
England have hitherto been unsuccessful,
none of those interested in the subject being
aware that one of them is preserved in the
picture gallery of the Bodleian. On taking

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