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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1904.

CONTENTS.-No. 2.
NOTES:-Capt. G. W. Manby, 21-Carpenter's Geography
Delineated,' 22-St. Margaret's Churchyard, Westminster,
23-Leonardo da Vinci's 'Last Supper' - Japanese New

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Dawson Turner's library (1853) was withdrawn, although printed in italics in the catalogue. In 1854 Capt. Manby died, and nothing more is heard of the Manbeiana until sold in 1859 as lot 292 in the sale of the manuscript library of Dawson Turner, fetching seventeen shillings only. The present possessor I cannot trace.

Athenæum, 15 Nov., 1851. MY DEAR CAPTAIN MANBY,-In giving up to my son-in-law, Mr. T. Brightwen, the management of the Yarmouth Bank, I also relinquished to him the house, from which it was consequently necessary to remove my books and papers. These, therefore, have been carried to an empty house in Chapel Street, where they are under lock and key, and must remain so till I can come down and get a new house for myself and place them in it. This, I am sorry to say, is at present out of my power; for the severe illness with which I was attacked at Edinburgh so hangs upon me that I am forced to remain in London under medical advice, and nobody can find anything in my absence. Still, though I cannot just now do what you wish, I feel that I can serve you more effectively. Tell the person who has been applying to you to call upon me at this home, and send me the name of the eminent publisher he proposes to employ, and I will see them both, and shall soon know if they propose what is likely to be honourable and profitable to you. If they do, I will gladly co-operate with them to the utmost extent of my power, but I too well know the state of the book-trade at the present time to have much hopes, and I far more fear that you are likely to be made a dupe of by some designthree or four previous cases from which I had the ing persons, just as has been already attempted in satisfaction of saving you. I am, dear sir, very truly yours, DAWSON TURNER. The second letter is as follows:

MY DEAR CAPTAIN MANBY, -Very glad indeed was I to find by your letter that you are now not only in the land of the living, but, apparently, in the enjoyment of good health, with the exception of failings. Have no fear, I pray you, for the safety your eyesight, which is always one of a man's first of anything relating to yourself that may be in my possession. What I am about to dispose of is only such of my printed books as I cannot store in this house.

CAPT. GEORGE WILLIAM MANBY, 1765-1854. THE following two letters have recently come into my possession. Their writer, Dawson Turner, a man of great taste and intense enthusiasm as a collector of autographs, is a familiar name to most. Capt. Manby, the addressee, deserves greater posthumous honours than have hitherto been accorded him. The inventor of apparatus for saving life from shipwreck, and author of a number of treatises on this and allied subjects, he had printed at Yarmouth in 1839 an octavo volume of very interesting reminiscences. This was not published. The author presented a copy to the British Museum, and his friend Dawson Turner, in addition to a unique copy on vellum, acquired the manuscript. It is this evidently that had been inquired after when the first letter was written; but about the same time, with a view to his biography being written, Capt. Manby had lent Turner a number of manuscripts and printed documents, letters, copies of correspondence, &c., collectively referred to as "Manbeiana." The only use made of this material was a memoir privately printed I am, my dear sir, very truly yours, DAWSON TURNER. about 1851. For some reason this was No. 26, Castelnau Villas, Barnes, Surrey, suppressed. A copy included in the sale of

is, as I informed you, safe nailed down and corded Whatever concerns you, and whatever is private, in boxes, but not at present here within my reach. I hope it may shortly be so; as soon as it is, the volumes of Manbeiana shall be taken to pieces, and what I have received from you shall be returned to do so; for my wish is to place them intact in the you if you desire it. But you are very wrong to British Museum, where they will be ready for any future biographers, and can never be sold or turned to any unworthy purpose, but will be a lasting monument to your honour, as long as England

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NATHANAEL CARPENTER'S 'GEOGRAPHY
DELINEATED,' 1625.

FOR the sake of bibliographical accuracy, it may be as well that I should here reproduce the exact wording of the title page :

"Geography Delineated Forth in Two Bookes. Containing The Sphæricall And Topicall Parts Thereof. By Nathanael Carpenter Fellow of Exceter Colledge in Oxford. Ecclesiast. I. One generation commeth, and another goeth, but the Earth remaineth for euer. (Printer's ornament.] Oxford, Printed by Iohn Lichfield and William Tvrner, Printers to the Famous Vniversity, for Henry Cripps. An. Dom. 1625."

From this it will be seen that the work is divided into two books, and, I may add, with

I may mention that the edition of 1635 is stated on the title-page to be "The Second Edition Corrected."

A work of this kind does not afford much in the way of quotation; but there are a few passages which may fitly find a place in these pages. Here is a pleasant reference to Columbus (book i. p. 9):

"Especially of Columbus the Italian, who (as one wittily alluding to his name) like Noah's Doue plucking an oliue branch from this Land, gaue testimony of a portion of Land as yet vnknown, and left naked vnto discouery. And no question can be made, but a great quantity of land, not yet detected by our European Navigators, awaites the industry of this age. To which alludes the Poet in these verses (Seneca in 'Medeâ,' Act II.) :

In after yeares shall Ages come,
When th' Ocean shall vnloose the bands
Of things, and shew vast ample lands;
New Worlds by Sea-men shall be found,
Nor Thule be the vtmost bound."

"Here I cannot but remember a merry answer of

like question. Being once invited vnto his Table, and hauing entred into some familiar discourses concerning Astronomicall suppositions: I asked him what he thought of the Hypothesis of Copernicus, who held the Sunne to stand fixt, and the Earth to he cared not which were true, so the Apparences be subiect to a Triple Motion: His answere was ; were solued, and the accompt exact: sith each way either the old of Ptolomy, or the new of Copernicus, would indifferently serue an Astronomer: Is it not all one (saith he) sitting at Dinner, whether my Table be brought to me, or I goe to my Table, so I

separate title-pages. The first book is dedi-Sir Henry Savile, and a very pleasant little The next reference is to the distinguished cated "To the Right Honovrable William, bit of personal history it is (book i. p. 143):-Earle of Pembroke, Lord Chamberlaine," and the second book "To the Right Honovrable Philip, Earle of Montgomery," the "Incom-that great Atlas of Arts, Sir Henry Sauile in the parable Paire of Brethren," to whom Shakespeare's Folio of 1623 is dedicated. In addition, the first named is supposed to have been the "Mr. W. H." of Shakespeare's 'Sonnets.' He died in 1630, when he was succeeded in the title by his brother Philip, and, notwithstanding, Carpenter retains the dedications in the edition of 1635 exactly as they appeared in the edition of ten years before. In the edition of 1635 the author has a metrical address "To my Booke"; but as my copy of the first edition is slightly imperfect, I am in consequence not in a position to say whether the lines are common to both. I extract the following; but, with this exception, all the quotations given below are from the edition of 1625 :

Goe forth thou haplesse Embrion of my Braine,
Vnfashion'd as thou art; expresse the straine
And language of thy discontented Sire,
Who hardly ransom'd his poore Babe from fire,
To offer to the world and carelesse men
The timelesse fruits of his officious pen.
Thou art no louely Darling, stampt to please
The lookes of Greatnesse; no delight to ease
Their melancholy temper, who reiect
As idle toyes but what themselues affect.
No lucky Planet darted forth his Rayes
To promise loue vnto thy infant-dayes:
Thou maist perhaps be marchandize for slaues,
Who sell their Authors wits and buy their graues:
Thou maist be censur'd guilty of that blame,
Which is the Midwifes fault, the Parent's shame:
Thou maist be talke for Tables, vs'd for sport
At Tauerne-meetings, pastime for the Court :
Thou maist be torne by their malicious phangs,
Who nere were taught to know a Parents pangs.

eat my meat?

transcribing the following (book i. p. 167):—

It is not much in itself; but I cannot help

"It is written of that learned man Erasmus

Roterodamus, that hauing seene 50 yeares, he was that vndertaking to write Comments on the Acts of delighted so much with these Geographicall Mappes, the Apostles, he had alwayes in his eye those Tables, where he made no small vse for the finding out of the site of such places whereof he had occasion to treate."

And then follows this rather bitter reflection by our author :

"And it were to be wished in these dayes, that yong Students insteed of many apish and ridiculous pictures, tending many times rather to ribaldry, then any learning, would store their studies with such furniture."

I may quote here another of our author's reflections (book i. p. 93):

"To these haue associated themselues another sort, more to be regarded, as more learned; the Critickes (I meane) of our Age, who like Popes or Dictatours, haue taken vpon them an Vniuersall authority to censure all which they neuer vnderstood. Had these men contained themselues in

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