1901, February 13th.

MRS. AUGUSTA MARY FREDERICA CORY. "In recognition of the self-devotion of her late husband, Dr. Robert Cory, who ruined his health by a medical experiment made in the public interest. 100l."

FINE ARTS.

1852, September 2nd (Earl of Derby). MRS. JANE PUGIN.

"Wife of Welby Pugin, Esq. In consideration of her husband's eminence as an architect, and the distressed situation in which his family are placed, from his inability, in consequence of illness, to pursue his profession. 100l."

to art by her late husband, Edward Matthew Ward, R.A. 1007."

Edward Matthew Ward, 1816-79, historical painter ('D.N.B.,' vol. lix.).

1880, March 16th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MISS MILLICENT FLORA LOUISA MACLEAY. "In consideration of the services rendered to art by her father, the late Mr. Kenneth MacLeay, a life visitor of the Royal Scottish Academy. 1007."

Kenneth MacLeay the younger, 1802-78.

1884, December 18th (W. E. Gladstone). MISS CHARLOTTE RAEBURN and MISS CAROLINE J. RAEBURN.

"In consideration of the merit of their

1875, June 19th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MRS. FRANCES PHILIP.

"In consideration of the services rendered to art by her late husband, John Birnie Philip, the sculptor. 100l."

John Birnie Philip, 1824-75 ('D.N.B.,' vol. xlv.).

1877, March 10th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MRS. FRANCES MARY NOBLE.

"In recognition of the services rendered to art by her husband, the late Mr. Matthew Noble, sculptor. 150l."

Matthew Noble, 1818-76 ('D.N.B.,' vol. xli.). 1877, June 13th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MISS MARY ANN PARRIS.

"In recognition of the services rendered to art by her father, the late Mr. Edmund Thomas Parris. 100/."

Edmund Thomas Parris, 1793-1873 ('D.N.B.,' vol. xliii.).

1878, June 19th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MRS. HARRIET AGNES WORNUM.

"In recognition of the services of her late husband, Mr. Ralph Nicholas Wornum, Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery, author of various works of art. 100l." Ralph N. Wornum, 1812-77 ('D.N.B.,' vol. lxiii.).

1879, June 19th (Earl of Beaconsfield). MRS. HENRIETTA MARY ADA WARD.

"In recognition of the services rendered

801."

John Leech, 1817-64 ('D.N.B.,' vol. xxxii.). 1887, November 29th (Marquis of Salisbury). Second grant. 10.

1892, August 23rd (Marquis of Salisbury). Third grant. 351.

1888, January 4th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. EUGENIA MOIRA.

"In recognition of the eminence of her late husband as a miniature painter, and of her destitute condition. 25l."

1889, March 5th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. MARIA JANE Graves.

"In consideration of the services of her late husband, the Rev. James Graves, to archæology and to the early history of Ireland, and of her inadequate means of support. 501."

The Rev. James Graves died on the 20th of

March, 1886. Short notice by Dr. Creighton, Athenæum, March 27th, 1886.

1889, March 5th (Marquis of Salisbury). MISS ELIZABETH GERTRUDE BIRCH and MISS JULIANA FRANCES BIRCH.

"In consideration of the services of their and of their destitute condition. 100%." late father, Dr. S. Birch, as an archeologist,

January 2nd, 1886).
Dr. Samuel Birch, 1813-85 (Athenæum,

1889, April 16th (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. W. CAVE THOMAS.

"On account of his personal service to the Royal Family, and in consideration of his services to art, and of his destitute condition. 50l."

1890, May 24th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. HENRIETTA ELIZABETH WOOD.

"In recognition of the labours of her late husband, Mr. J. T. Wood, at Ephesus, of his services to archæology, and in consideration of her inadequate means of support. 751." John Turtle Wood (1821-90) published 'Discoveries at Ephesus,' 1877 (Athenæum, April 5th, 1890).

1891, May 2nd (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. CLARA MARGARET REDFERN.

"In consideration of the services of her late husband, Mr. James Redfern, sculptor, to art, and of her inadequate means of support. 1002."

James Frank Redfern, 1838-76 (Redgrave's Dictionary of Painters'; 'D.N.B.,' vol. xlvii.).

1891, June 10th (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. HARRISON WEIR

"In recognition of his merits as an artist, and in consideration of his inadequate means of support. 1007."

Harrison William Weir, born May 5th, 1824 ('Men of the Time').

1892, November 29th (W. E. Gladstone). MR. ROBERT BROWN, Jun. "In consideration of his merits as a student of archæology. 100l."

'The Unicorn: a Mythological Investigation,' Longman, 1882 (Sonnenschein's 'The Best Books').

1897, June 2nd (Marquis of Salisbury). MISS MAY MARTHA MASON and MRS. MARY CAROLINE FLORENCE WOOD.

"In recognition of the originality and merit of the work of their father, the late Mr. George Mason, in painting. 60%."

George Heming Mason, 1818-72 ('D.N.B.,' vol. xxxvi.).

1899, June 14th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. HANNAH MARIA BATES.

"In consideration of the merits of her late husband, Mr. Harry Bates, A.R.A., as a sculptor. 601.”

1899, June 14th (Marquis of Salisbury). MR. EDWARD DALZIEL.

"In consideration of his services to wood engraving and the art of illustration.

100%."

1899, June 14th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. ANNIE MATILDA GLEESON WHITE. "In consideration of the services rendered to art by her late husband, Mr. Joseph Gleeson White. 351."

A catalogue of books from the library of Gleeson White, together with a bibliography, |

and a tribute to his memory by Prof. York Powell, of Christ Church, Oxford, with portrait, was published by A. Lionel Isaacs, 1899.

1899, August 18th (Marquis of Salisbury). MISS MARGUERITA HOGAN, MISS KATE HOGAN, and MRS. SUSAN MACSWINEY.

"In consideration of the merits of their late father, Mr. John Hogan, as a sculptor, and of their inadequate means of support. 997."

John Hogan, 1800-1858. A portrait of him appeared in the Dublin University Magazine in 1850 (D.N.B.,' vol. xxvii.).

1900, March 13th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. EUPHEMIA HILL MACALLUM.

"In consideration of the merits of her late husband, Mr. Hamilton Macallum, as a painter, and of her inadequate means of 1001."

support: School of Painting,' by Ernest

Chesneau (Cassell, 1885).

1901, February 13th (Marquis of Salisbury). MRS. HARRIETTA LOUISA STEVENSON.

"In consideration of the eminence of her late husband, Mr. Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson, as an art critic. 100%."

Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson (18471900), cousin of Robert Louis Stevenson. His great work was a monograph on the art of Velasquez (Athenæum, April 21st, 1900).

MISS

DRAMA.

NEWBERY THE BOOKSELLER, JAMES'S POWDERS, AND OLIVER GOLDSMITH. BROWSING around the "no man's land" of my library, I have found a curious document which should, I think, be deposited in the British Museum or in the library of some bibliophile who makes a speciality of the Newbery publications or of Goldsmith, but which should first be noted in the encyclopaedic pages of 'N. & Q' I seem to have acquired it from some bookseller, whose catalogue description of it runs as follows:

"The Original (Autograph MS.) Account-Book of F. Newbery, Bookseller in St. Paul's Churchyard, as Agent for the sale of Dr. R. James's Fever Powders and Pills, from Feb., 1768, to July, 1798, original MSS. with the signatures of R. and F. Newbery to the various accounts. Woodcut of John Newbery receiving Goldsmith on the Introduction of Dr. Johnson, and cuttings inserted, cr. 8vo."

The first page is occupied by a florid autograph of "Francis Newbery, Jun"; the third by the woodcut above mentioned, printed on card; and the fourth by two advertisements, cut from contemporary newspapers, of "Dr. James's Powder for Fevers, the Small Pox, Measles, Pleurisies, Quincies [sic], Acute Rheumatisms, Colds, and all Inflammatory Disorders," with full descriptions of the qualities of this celebrated nostrum. The first of these is dated (in MS.) 1751, and the second (in print) 14 June, 1763.

The first entry records the receipt by "Robt Newbery," on 19 February, 1768, of "Twelve Gross Powder," of the value of 127. The sale appears to have been enormous, the first page recording the delivery to Newbery, between February and October, of ninetynine gross of powders. The receipts are signed by Robert and Francis Newbery and various of their clerks, and on 17 March, 1772, the account is "Settled and Ballanced in full to Janry, 1772," and signed by Dr. James and "Francis Newbery Junior." These "settlements" appear in 1773 and 1774, and at this point two sheets of paper are inserted bearing the following observations in the handwriting of Dr. James :

Death of Oliver Goldsmith,
April 4th, 1774.

On the afternoon of Friday the 25th of March he took to his bed, and at eleven o'clock at night a Surgeon Apothecary named Hawes, whom Goldsmith was in the habit of consulting, was sent for. He found Goldsmith complaining of voilent [sic] pains, extending over all the forepart of his head; his tongue moist, his pulse at ninety, and his mind made up that he should be cured by Jame's [sic] fever-powders. He had derived such benefit from this fashionable medicine in previous attacks, that it seems to have left him with an [sic] obstinate a

sense of its universal efficacy, as Horace Walpole had, who swore he should take it if the house was on fire. Mr. Hawes saw at once that such a remedy would be dangerous, and he implored him not to

think of it.

urging the probable danger: but unable to prevail For more than half an hour he sat by the bed-side him [sic] to promise that he would not resort to it. Hawes after great difficulty got his permission to send for Dr. Fordyce, who, arriving soon after warning against the fever-medicine as strong, but Hawes had left, seems to have given Goldsmith a as unavailing. Hawes sent medicine and leeches, and in the hope that Fordyce would succeed, did not send the fever-powders. The leeches were brought them was sent back for a packet of the applied, the medicine rejected, and the lad who powders.

Such is the narrative of Hawes: which there is in formal statements subsequently published by no ground for disputing, Other facts appeared Francis Newbery, to vindicate the fame of the medicine.

As soon as Goldsmith took the powder sent him from the surgery of Hawes, he protested it was the wrong powder, was very angry with Hawes, and threatened to pay his bill next day, and disfrom Newbery's. In the afternoon and night of patched Eyles (his servant) for a fresh packet Saturday, two of the fresh powders were adminis tered. The nurse was sent for another apothecary, who came, but declined to act as matters stood. Such is the substance of the evidence of the servants.

The statement breaks off here, and the powder accounts continue. I have not the D.N.B.' at hand, but this relation curiously amplifies that given in the 'Encyclopædia Britannica,' which merely records that by prescribing for himself Goldsmith aggravated his malady, and died on 3 April, 1774. Chambers ascribes his death mainly to his insistence upon taking James's powders. The 'Life' prefixed to the Aldine edition of his poems gives an outline of the above story, referring for further details to the Monthly Review, 1774, vol. i. p. 404, and a pamphlet by Mr. Hawes purporting to set forth the facts. A more detailed account appears in the introduction to Routledge's Complete Works of Oliver Goldsmith' (London, 1890), but it is extremely interesting to have Dr. James's autograph account of the matter. Charles Welsh gives a very interesting account of the relations existing between the Newberys and Dr. James in his 'Bookseller of the Last Century' (London, 1885), and of the death of Goldsmith under the circumstances recorded; and Mr. Welsh speaks ex cathedrá as a member of the firm of "Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, successors to Newbery & Harris," and consequently in command of such documents as may exist bearing upon this matter.

Mr.

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