supposed to have been swallowed in the form of eggs or very small fry, which have developed in the stomach of the patient. I have always regarded it as impossible for such creatures to live in the human stomach, but in some of these newspaper reports the names of the persons concerned have been given, and the stories have been to some extent vouched for by medical men. I should be obliged if any reader of N. & Q' could say definitely what truth (if any) thoro is likely to be in such stories, and whether there is the slightest danger in swallowing (say) the egg of a newt. DUBIOUS.
'PARALLELS BETWEEN THE CONSTITUTIONS OF HUNGARY AND ENGLAND.'-I should be glad to have some information about this publication.
L. L. K.
NEWGATE SESSIONS -Is it known what has become of the records of Newgate Sessions held during the latter half of the sixteenth century, say from 1580 to 1590? In whose custody are they likely to be? I.
MISS GUNNING, DUCHESS OF HAMILTON. At various times there has been in illustrated papers the portrait of the beautiful Miss Gunning who was first Duchess of Hamilton and afterwards Duchess of Argyll, but the painter's name has not been given. I have Hoen what I suppose is a copy of the original, an oval picture 17 in. by 13 in., in which the high-pointed headdress is trimmed with blue ribbon. Can any one tell me who painted the original, and where it is? M. E. P. [Pictures of Elizabeth Gunning by F. Cotos, W. Hamilton, and C. Read, have all been engraved.]
AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED. - The City; or, the Physiology of London Business; with Sketches on 'Change and at the Coffeehouses. 12mo, London, Baily Brothers, 1845. A Description and History of Vegetable Sub- stances used in the Arts and in Domestic Economy. Timber Treem; Fruits. Library of Entertaining Knowledge. 12mo, 1829. From my recollection of an account-book in MS, of the Soo, Diff. U.K., Robert Mudie was paid for something of this kind, D.N.B. gives under R. Mudio: 11, Vegetable Substances, 1Smo, London, 1828. A Duke and No Duke: a Farce, acted at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Written originally by Sir Aston Cokain, and since revived with consider able alterations. [By whom?] 1776. Eminent Men and Popular Books. From the Timea. Svo, London, 1859. Halkett says by Samuel Lucas, quoting 'N. & Q, S. ii. 517, which gives an extract from the Times, stating that he was author of 'Popular Men and Books, Halkett says ascribed also to Samuel Phillips, LLD Which is correct? In Brit. Mus. Cat. it is entered as anonymous. 'D.N.B.' follows Halkett as to Lucas.
Etymological Guide to the English Language}
being a collection, alphabotically arranged, of the
principal roots, aflixos, and prefixes, with their
derivatives and compounds. By the compiler of the
Edinburgh Sessional School-Books. Third edition,
greatly enlarged. [Introduction signed J. W.)
Edinburgh, 1837.
Familiar Things: a Cyclopaedia of Entertaining Knowledge, 2 vols. A. Hall, Virtue & Co., 1852. Princess Charlotte......with an Elegiae Poem Affixed. Genuine Copy of the Last Letter written by...... 8vo, London, printed for the author, 1818. Julio de Bourg; or, the Conspirator. G. Rout- lodge & Sons, 1877,
London, 1851. 8vo, London, Charles Knight.-Wan Knight's Excursion Companion. Excursions from this by James Thorne, author of 'Handbook to the Environs of London'?
The Life of Sir Thomas Gresham, Founder of the Royal Exchange. Knight's Weekly Volume. 12mo, 1845.
Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier: including a View of the History of the Buccaneers. Edinburgh Cabinet Library. 1837.
London and its Environs; or, the General Ambu- lator...... within the circuit of Twenty-five Miles. Twelfth edition, 1820, 128. boards. I have seen somewhere that Edward Wedlake Brayley edited this, besides writing the preliminary account of London, but 'D.N.B.' gives him as the author of the whole, which appears to be not quite correct.
The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Masters. 4to, London, Jones & Co., Temple of the Muses, Finsbury Square.
the authors of Valentine and Orson, Whittington
and his Cat, Cinderella, &c. [Lyceum Theatre,
21 May, 1860.) London, Hailes Lacy.[1]— My copy
is well bound, with inscription "Albert Smith,
Esq. with the Publisher's Compl
Novelty Fair; or, Hints for 1851. An exceed- ingly premature and thoroughly apropos revue. By Oberon; or, the Charmed Horn, a romantic fairy tale in two acts. [Drury Lane, 1826.] Cumber- land's British Theatre, vol. xiii. - This is not Planche's, which was in three acts.
ADRIAN WHEELER. 9, Layard Road, Bermondsey.
RICHARD STEVENS.-Richard Stevens, who entered Winchester College in 1553, was probably an elder brother of the better- known Thomas Stevens (concerning whom see 'D.N.B.,' Supp. iii. 355). When he first went up to Now College, at the age of nine- teen, he was a Catholic, but soon became a Protestant, and after he had been private secretary to Bishop Jewell obtained some post in Archbishop Parker's household. Thus he again met his old warden, Dr. Boxall (who was in the archbishop's custody), and was by him restored to the Catholic faith. In 1573 he arrived at Douay, and began to study theology. On 27 February, 1576, he became B.D. of Douay, in the following April was ordained priest at Cambrai, and on 10 November was sont on the mission. On
- ↑ [ This appears to be by Albert Smith.]
