s. in. FEB. 4, i90o.] NOTES AND QUERIES.
Messrs. Longman's statement that they paid
the printing charges and that there is nothing
in their ledgers to show that they took over
the sheets from any other publisher or printer
seems very conclusive. If COL. PRIDEAUX
requires more confirmation he may find it in
one of the foot-notes on p. xc of vol. i. of
' The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel
Taylor Coleridge,' ed. 1877 (of which Mr.
Shepherd was the editor), where the work is
described: "Omniana, or Horse Otiosiores.
London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees,
Orme and Brown, Paternoster-row." I ab-
stained from discussing the subsidiary points
raised in COL. PRIDEAUX'S former note, for
the reason that they have, as it seems to
me, no bearing on the question at issue,
the interesting bibliographical features of
'Omniana' to which COL. PRIDEAUX calls
attention being, one and all, absolutely con-
sistent with the plain conclusion to which
the facts, so far as they can be ascertained,
obviously point, viz., that ' Omniana ' was
printed for and published by the house
of Longman only, and that in assigning
a share in the transaction to Gale & Curtis
"some one has blundered." Possibly COL.
PRIDEAUX could consult once more the
Shepherd memoranda with the view of dis-
covering the quarter in which the mistake
originated. The question really resolves
itself into a balance of probabilities. That
the Shepherd-Prideaux Bibliography of Cole-
ridge is not at all points infallible must, I
fear, be admitted. This being so, whether of
the two suppositions is the likelier : that we
have here an instance of the fallibility of that
work, or that a complicated series of trans-
actions, such as COL. PRIDEAUX'S theory
postulates, should have escaped all notice in
Southey's voluminous correspondence, and
remained unrecorded in the books of the
firm of Longman ? I have no hesitation in
arriving at my own conclusion, which is not
that of COL. PRIDEAUX. GRETA.
CHILDREN AT EXECUTIONS (10 th S. ii. 346, 454, 516; iii. 33). MR. HIBGAME could not have been taken to witness an execution in 1869, as public executions were abolished in the previous year. Hubbard Lingley was executed on 26 August, 1867.
EDWARD M. BORRAJO.
The Library Guildhall, E.G.
LOUTHERBOURGH (10 th S. ii. 389). Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's 'Romantic and Picturesque Scenery of England and Wales, 1805, does not contain a reproduction of, or reference to, the Hampstead Heath views in question. But possibly the originals are two
landscapes described in Bryan's ' Dictipnary
of Painters and Engravers,' 1898, as being in
the Bordeaux Museum. The Glasgow Gallery
also contains some of his works executed
while in England. The prices which some of
bis pictures realized are given in Adolphe
Siret's ' Dictionnaire Historique et Raisonne
des Peintres,' 1833. In Lysons's 'Collectanea,'
vol. i. p. 4, is the following handbill :
"The Breaking-up and Distribution of the first Collection of Pictures by the Artists of Great- Britain, ever formed in this country. The Last and only Day of shewing the Poets' Gallery, or Purchasing Tickets for a Chance of any part of that inimitable Collection, as the Lottery begins Draw- ing this Day and will be determined To-morrow.
Those Ladies & Gentlemen who have already
purchased Tickets, may have their Prints by send- ing for them. To those that have not seen the Prints, it is necessary to say they are the Size of General Wolf, engraved from Pictures painted by P. J. de Loutherbourg, and Mr. J. Laporte." Poets' Gallery, 11 February, 1779.
J. HOLDEN MACMlCHAEL.
FLYING BRIDGE (10 th S. ii. 406, 491). This kind of ferry is common in America. There are a dozen or more between Pittsburg and Oil City, on the Allegheny river. The first is at Hulton, twelve miles above Pitts- burg. There is a wire cable stretched across, high above the river, and the boat is attached to this by a wire with a trolly. This is called a swing-ferry, for the current is not strong enough to make the boat fly.
O. H. DARLINGTON.
Pittsburg.
RUSKIN AT NEUCHATEL (10 th S. ii. 348, 512). Like MR. COLES I venture to think that MRS. STEPHENSON is under a misapprehension regarding Ruskin and Neuchatel. This place is probably confounded with Schaffhausen, as MR. COLE suggests. Or was MRS. STEPHEN- SON perhaps thinking of a passage in 'Modern Painters,' part iv. chap. xvii. sect. 13, and by some curious mental process transferring it to Neuchatel ? The passage runs thus :
" The first thing which I remember, as an event in life, was being taken by my nurse to the brow of Friars' Crag on Derwentwater ; the intense ]oy r mingled with awe, that I had in looking through the mossy roots, over the crag, into the dark lake,, has associated itself more or less with all twining roots of trees ever since."
Canon Rawnsley, ' Literary Associations of the English Lakes,' vol. i. p. 148, says :
" One calls to mind that it was at the ' Crag of the Friars' that John Ruskin received one of those impulses to care for the close study of natural form that made him what he was." And at p. 150 :
"That early impression of the wonder of Friars' Crag on Ruskin's boy-mind was not effaced by all
