(The last word is attached to every aforesaid) lying on a sort of crimson sofa, co- | Finis." vered with flowing blue drapery, and bears the narration.) following legend, in which a peculiarity of spell- This early-awakened curiosity was, doubtless, ing seems to heighten the prodigious character the stimulus which led to all that follows. The of the painted prodigy,-"A Mounstrous child next picture is announced as "The Effigies of a with two heads." Then comes the description: Monstrous Tartar taken in Hungary February "This mounstrous child was born att Pluviers 1664. This Tartar was taken Prisoner by Count or Pithiviers in Gastinois in France in the Ma- Sarini. A creature of extraordinary Strength ternal House of James Paris, Rue de Gastinois, and Valour, who having spent all his Arrows in he had (as the Figure represents him) two heads, fight against yo Christians, was taken alive and and a Round Excresence of a Sponge Flech be- so continues, being carefully kept in those tween the two Heads, he was born dead, and parts." Of this "Mounster," there are two rethe Mother was Delivered by the Sieur Martel, presentatives. The first is an engraving, the Famous Doctor of Phisick, and Surgeon in the second a painting. The engraving, besides the said Town, and in our House, he Having Mar- title and description, has on it: "Are to be sould ried one of my Aunts. The Occasion of this at ye Globe in the Ould Bailye," and “with Monstrous Birth was thus. About the year allowance May 23 1664. Roger Lestrange." 1680 or 81, there was an Almanak (as most "This Tartar" (whom certainly one would like of the French Almanacks are) full of Stories, to catch) is represented in all respects like a with Pictures, and Amongst them the History man, with the exception of a long thick curlof Such a Birth of a Child, of the very same ing neck like a camel, about one-third of his form and Figure, with the Picture of it: The whole length, a long flowing mane and horses' Mother was a Gentleman's wife, whose name ears; his face is human and his beard and was Mr. De Souville, who lived at a village moustaches very like what one meets with every called Souville of which he was Lord, about a day. The expression of his countenance is exLeague or two from Pluviers. this Gentle- cessively mild and amiable-as that of many woman at the time of her Conception Grew very monsters is. He is attired in a simple tunic fond Admirer of this Figure, her Husband the which reaches to his knees; his legs and feet sieur De Souville taking notice of it, took the are bare. In the engraving he holds a bow in one Almanack from her, and burnt it, but she Pro-hand and an arrow in the other, and his quiver cured herself another, and so a third, which he is full. The painting, adhering more closely also took from her, this lasted till her Longing to the description, exhibits an empty quiver. was over and the Mischief was don. when she was very big and near the time of her Delivery she Desired my Mother, Charlotte du Plessis Paris, to lett her have an appartment in our House, for her Lying in. Which was readily granted, for the convenience of being near the Midwife, Minister, and Surgeon, the two last living in our House, she There, was Delivered of this Child, who was born dead and was a Male Child. this Accident was kept very Secret, and the Child being a Monster and not having been Cristend, was wrapped in a Clean Linnen Cloth and put in a littel woodden Box and Buried very Privately, in a part of our Garden which I cal'd my Garden, being a bit of ground that was given to me, to play the Gardiner in, that I shuld not wast, the other parts. All this was kept very Secret from me, Though I was very Inquisitive and Whatchfull but having Received a Great Slap on the Face" (in the margin is added "From my Mother") "I was foarsed to leve off my Curiosity. A Few Dayes After being Buisy a Digging in my Little Garden, I Discovered a little Box, in which I found this Little Mounster, which I Buried Again, and by it I Discovered part of the Mistery which I also keept a Secret. A Little while after I found Dr. Martel's Closet open, and I found in it the foresaid Almanack, with the Relation as I give it here. In Manuscript. I have seen such another Child in all Respects, Excepting that had not the Round Excresence between the two Heads; att Mary bone near London, he was born dead and was Shown for Mony. Seen by James Paris Duplessis aged then about 15 years. Number Three is "A Man with a Mounstrous Goiter," and is thus described: "This man Grew to the age of about forty years, being Born with An Excresence like the Entrils of a Young Lamb, which grew as the boy Grew in bigness and age, he being born of poor Parents, was forced to begg his Bread about London Streets, to the Shame and Scandal of the Church Wardens, and over Seers of the poor of his Parish. I, James Paris saw him begg about the streets att the age of about forty years. His Excresence was something like the largest Goyters of the Peasants of the Mountains of Savoy but much bigger than the Biggest I Ever saw, it Reached from one Ear to the other round about his Chin and Contracted his mouth so as to make him Grinn horribly. I saw him many years togather, and he Dyed about the year 1690." Number Five bears this peculiar title: "A Mounstrous Hary and moldy Woman. This Mounstrous Woman was about Thirty Years old when I James Paris saw her in London she had a very handsom Face Black Hair on her Head her body was mi-parted all her Right Side was from the Shoulder to the Knee all Harry the Leg and hand of a fine Smooth white Colour without Hair the other Half side of her was a pure White Soft Smooth and White skin but all over Bestrewed with Molds of a Reddish Collour, with a few hairs upon Each of them from the Shoulder Down to the Knee her hand and foot as them on the Other Side, and so behind alike as before." This lady's hair curls gracefully over her shoulders, and for her greater adornment she wears crimson stockings, A PRODIGY HUNTER. fastened below the knees, and very neat little boots with high heels which might have been made at Paterson's. A purple cloth cinctures her waist. She is tall and slim, and but for the hair and "molds" might, let us say, have But married well -as well as Miss Biffin. perhaps she did. Number Six is "A Spotted Negro Prince," whose history is thus briefly told: "A Negro Prince Son of Hanjason Caper, King of Yelhoeomia; in Guiney. He was taken by the Pirates, at the age of 8 Years old and Made his Escape From them Upon the Coast of Virginia; where he was Entertain'd by Colonel Taylor, and there Learn't to Speak pritty Good English. Whose Body is of a Jet Black Intermixt with a Clear and Beautifull White, Spotted all Over. He was Sold in London and Show'd Publickly at the age of 10 years in 1690. Seen there by James Paris and Again in the year 1725." Colonel Taylor seems to have made the Prince pay for the entertainment he gave him. It was not a very hospitable act to sell the little fellow, but if he really resembled the painting, there is some excuse for his host, the piebald quality of the luckless young African being so very vividly delineated. her Longing, for a very Large Lobster which she had Seen in Leadenhall Market for which she had been Asked an Exorbitant Price, when she Came Home she was Taken very ill her Husband being Acquainted with the Subject Run Himself to the Said Market bought the same Lobster and Brought it to her. At the Sight of which she fainted, and when Recovered she could not endure the Sight of it, the Meschief was done when her Time of being Delivered she Brought forth this Monster which was in all Respects like a Lobster Boyld and Red Excepting that instead of a Hard Shell or crust it was a Deep Red Flech with all its Claws and Jonts it Died as soon as Born I James Paris her Son-in-Law had this Picture Drawn according to her Direction. N.B. This Monster was att his Birth almost as Big as a New Born Child, when I had this Figure Painted I Showed it to her, and she Approved of it, and said it was very much like it." The painting represents as genuine a lobster as ever flapped tail upon marble. "Borne Number Four has been omitted from its proper place in the list, on account of its presenting nothing more remarkable than the effigy of a very fat female child from the waist downIn every age, I suppose, there has been a wards. Number Nine is also a female "mounpig-faced lady. Such a personage used to be ster" of juvenile pinguidity, a relation of one the stock-in-trade of nearly every showman, no Hannah Taylor, "born in Crouched Fryers, fair was complete without one, and a searcher June the 12th, 1682." No end to its disafter the marvellous, like James Paris Du agreeable attributes are detailed in the next, but Plessis, would not be long without encountering nothing of this sorts deterred "J. P.," who, a lusus of that description. Accordingly Pic- affixing those initials to the account, says he was ture Number Seven exhibits "A Woman with "very intimately acquainted with her and her a Hog's face," and this is her story: "This mother, who lived in St. Martin's-lane, and sold Mounster was a Gentlewoman of a Good family chocolate when the girl dyed." Number Ten is and fortune, very tall and well proportioned of a female dwarf, Ann Rouse by name, a very fine fair white Skin, Black Hair on her near the City of Norwich y 24th of June 1690 head and Eyebrows, but her face Perfectly aged 27 years." (That is to say, not twentyShaped like that of a Hog or Sow, Except it seven when she was born, but when J. P. saw was not Hairry when she went abroad she Co-her.) "Being but 2 Foot 2 Inches high, very vered her face with a Large Black Velvet Mask. She had a Grountling Voise like that of a Hog, very Disagreable, but Spoke very Distinctly, she Lived in St. Andrew's Parish in Holborn, London." Her dress is a very gay one: an under garment of crimson satin, over which flows a blue silk train; her crimson sleeves are lined with blue; her bodice is black with zigzag embroidery. She wears lace ruffles, and a blue ribbon, curiously plaited, is on her head, of an embattled form, with crimson knots and long lace streamers or lappets. A saffron-coloured apron falls from her very slender waist. She holds a mask in one hand and a fan in the other, and, but for her unmistakable snout, would be good-looking. Number Eight introduces us to the brotherin-law of James Paris Du Plessis, described as A Child in the form of a Lobster," and how this resemblance came to pass is thus set forth: "This Monster was born of a Woman near Moorfields the Mother of it was named Mary Rosel wife of James De Senne a french Protestant of Deep in Normandy one of whose Daughters I Married. The occasion of this Monstrous birth was Caused by her Loosing well shaped, well Proportion'd and very Strait" This being is dressed like the Pig-faced lady, and, minus the snout, looks very like her cut down. John Eleven is the lively portraiture of a very truculent-looking character, Worrenbergh of Houtshousen in Swisserland foot 7 inches high, at Thirty 9 years old, seen by me James Paris, in the year 1689 in London, was drowned in the year 1695 att Rotterdam in Holland, by Accident, being Carried in his Box Over a Plank from the Key on Bord of a Ship, the Plank Braking the Porter and he fell in the River Mease, and he being in Closed in his Box was Drowned he was as big in all his Members as any full-grown man, and as strong." This worthy is attired in the full costume of the period, very splendid and warlike, but extremely puffy, and seemingly quite overwhelmed with a sense of his own importance-a condition of mind common to dwarfs. Number Eleven represents "The least man, woman and horse, that ever were seen Together a Live." The party consist of " A Black Prince, his wife, a Fairy Queen, and a little Turkey horse," which is a horse and not a turkey. Number Twelve carries us back to the in tensely prodigious. It is "A Man with a Head Growing out of his Belly," of whom we learn as follows: "This man was a Tall and well Shaped man, att his Navel came out of his Body a Head and neck down to the Breast, the face Perfectly well Shaped with Eyes nose mouth chin forehead and Ears all well shaped and a Live but could not Speak Eat nor Drink nor open its Eyes though it had two Eyes and Showed no Sign of Life it had a good Colour and two Long Locks of Hair on its head, of a Black Colour, and a Downny Beard it had Teeth wee could not see if it had a Toung for it did not Speake. Its Brother was Born so and in all other Respects a perfect man of Good Sense and Understanding Healthi and Strong. Eat and Drank very Hartily, Spoke and Rit Several Languages as Latin, French, Italian, High Dutch, and Pritty good English. He was born about the year 1678, ncar Ratisbonn in Germany and was seen by me James Paris in London in the year 1698, in the mounth of December." This gentleman wears a full-flowing periwig, a scarlet coat, with gold buttons, blue velvet breeches, stockings turned over at the knees (which are very feeble), and rather hoofish boots. His shirt is open, in order to display his little brother, who issues from his centre, apparently asleep. he slept in Holland when he was 10 years of Age, for 7 Weeks Together, the 5 of August his the Time of his falling a' Sleep, he as Sleept thus 22 years as did his Mother before him the same Number of Dayes and Nights I James Paris saw him in his Sleep the 10 of August 1713 he could not be Waked neither by Shaking pinching Pricking nor Holding Strong Spirets to his Nose Docter Woodward put some of the Strongest Spirets into his nose none of them had any Effect but a few Grains of Sal Ammoniack being put deep into his Nostrills made him Cough but did not wake him. N.B. many Docters of Phisick Members of the Royal Society Watched by him Night and Day, to see that he was not an imposter, and they Declared that he was no Cheat." Nicholas Hart is represented sleeping in a neat bed,-very like what is advertised as "an Arabian bedstead," half tester with green curtains,-he wears a scarlet nightcap in which, possibly, may abide some soporific virtue. The history of William Foxley, another remarkable sleeper, of the time of Henry the Eighth, follows this account of Nicholas Hart, but his history is told in Stow's Survey of London. Numbers Fifteen and Sixteen, exhibit opposite views of two fair sisters,-"mounstrous girls" J. P. calls them,--who were born "conIn Number Thirteen we have "Two Brothers joyned" at Szony in Hungary, A.D. 1701. Their Born Conjoyned." "This man,' says J. P., names were Helen and Judith, and they are dewas born as the Figure Represents him a Per-scribed as very handsome and accomplished, fect man from Head to foot well Proportioned, speaking three languages, "Hungarian or High from his Right Side Issued a Little above the Dutch, Low Dutch, and French,' and when hip a Body of a man from the Middle upwards J. P. saw them in London, in 1710, they were Perfectly well Shaped with Hands Arms and learning English. They died two years afterHead very much like his Brothers it was a Male wards in France,-"one Dyed 3 Dayes after Child as was supposed after he was Cum to the other in very Great Pains." Number Sevenage of man by its Beard which was of the same teen is "A Mounstrous Youth," without legs, Colour and Thickness as his Brothers he could seated on a cushion, and looking very like Eat and Drink with a Good Apitite had a very one of those objects who say, on a placard, good Sight, and could speak as distinctly as his that they have "lost their precious limbs ;" Brother I James Paris Asked him if he could feel formerly it used to be "in battle," now "by a weather he had Thighs and Leggs in his Brothers railroad accident." Instead of full-grown limbs Body but he said he felt nun nor his Brother this young gentleman has stumpy thighs terfelt Nothing of any motion in his Body Neather minating in two Breasts, in all points like a did it apear by the form of his Belly that was Woman, on which he Stands and Walks, he as flat as that of another Man of the Same age Climes and Leaps from the Ground upon a and Biguess the Whole man Held the other up Table, and sits on a Corner of it, but Three with his Right Hand. N.B. I have seen these Quarters of an Inch Broad, Leaps, Dances and two Brothers thus Conjoyned the 10 of June shews more Artfull Tricks Than any other Person 1716 they was aged about 23 years as they said Can do with Thighs and Leggs, he speaks DifJ. P." The "whole man" looks like a mild prize- ferent Languages, as High Dutch" (this seems fighter stripped to the waist, with highlows, white to be a general accomplishment with these prostockings, and blue velvet shorts. digies) Sclavonian, French and English, he as We come next, in Number Fourteen, to been Seen with General Satisfaction by the Em"Nicholas Hart the Sleeping Man," whose bio-perour, Emperess of Germany, Prince Eugene graphy is as follows: "Nicholas Hart was born at Layden in Holland the 5 of August 1684, his Mother had Been 48 hours a Sleep when she was Delivered of him, yet it did not Disturb her, for she Continued her Sleep 48 Hours after he was Born, he was Thought to be Born ded, Being fast a' Sleep, and so Remained till after his Mother Awak'd and every Year he has Slept since the first Day of his Birth, Somptimes longer and sumtinies Shorter. He says of Savoy, as alsoe by the Kings, Queens and 66 some years ago, who, besides being nearly seven feet high, had a beard like a Sapeur. On my leaving the room in which she was exhibited, her showman presented his hat with the request of "Quelque chose pour entretenir la parure de Number Twenty-three is called "A Second Samson,"-a man, "born in the Dukedom of Wirtemberg in the Year 1690, and was to be Seen Publicly in London in 1720 being aged 30 years he was the Stronghest" (a good way of signifying strength, spelling it so) man that Ever I have Seen." Then follows an enumeration of all the things he could do, which is the more marvellous when one looks upon the miserable knock knees and shambling legs of the strong man's effigy.-Number Twenty-four I pass over, the subject being fitter for Sir Hans Sloane's collection than its description for insertion here.-Number Twenty-five represents a child "born dead in St. Thomas is Parish in Southwark, with a pair of Horns on its Head like the Horns of a Young Lamb, of Three Months old and Much of the Same Substance." Number Nineteen figures "An Ingenious Man born Without Hands," and, indeed, with nothing at all, from the scapula, which, when his cocked-hat, periwig, and crimson breeches are taken into consideration, give him very much the air of Captain Macheath, pinioned for exe-Madame," gladly accepting coppers. cution. It is with his feet that this individual (who was a German, named John Valerius) performs all the extraordinary feats ascribed to him, which, after a long enumeration of them, are such, says J. P., as "it his Impossible to Express." Number Twenty is "A Wild Mounstrous Hairy Man," who was "Taken Naked in the Black Forest in Germany, he was Six Foot and Nine Inches High, his Ears were like them of a Hair but Longer and Wider and very Pecked and Stiff and" (a blot here) " of a Reddish Brown Complection he was Thick sett with Long Black Hair the Hairs of his Head and Beard were also Black but Longer than those that Covered his Body all over from Head to toe, Exsepting the Inside of his Hands and the Soles of his feet where their was no Hairs at all, he Spoke High Dutch, very Unperfectly, and with a Rude and Disagreable acscent, he had no manuer of Edu--Number Twenty-six exhibits "Two Children cation" (where should he have got it ?) "he Eat born United Together," and Number TwentyRoots, Herbs and fruits, very Greedily, and also six "A Child with a Frogs Face," that feature Raw flech, he Slept better upon Boards than upon being, by J. P., pronounced "Perfect." Una Soft Feather bed, he was never Baptized, hav- fortunately no story-not even the legend of ing no manner of Religion, he knew Nither Fa- Latona-is attached to the picture of this prother nor Mother nor the Place of his Nativity." digy, which was preserved in the cabinet of Pliny tells a curious story of a man with a hairy curiosities of Mr. Claudius Du Puy.-Number heart, who would have delighted J. P. He says: Twenty-seven is "A Child with But one finger "It is reported of some men that they have hearts to Each Hand and but one Toe to Each foot,' all hairy and those are held to be exceeding-born in 1714 and "still alive in 1731, begging strong and valorous. Such was Aristomenes the its bread about the Streets of London." Messenian, who slewe with his owne hands 300 Number Twenty-eight we have the portrait of Lacedæmonians." How it came to be discovered Hannah Warton, of Leeds, who, at twenty years that the heart of Aristomenes was hairy, was after of age, was "but 2 foot 5 Inches High, very this fashion: "Himselfe being sore wounded Stright and well Shaped, she Could Sing, and taken prisoner, saved his own life once, and Dance, and Play with the Castanets Exelently made an escape out of the cave of a stone well,"-and her attitude betokens the liveliness quarrie, where he was kept as in a prison; for of her disposition. Number Twenty-nine is “A he got forth by narrow fox-holes under the Mounstrous Child" which-like some of the ground. Being caught a second time, whiles figures of whom Sir John Maundevile gives his keepers were fast asleep, he rolled himself pictures, "was born with no Nose and but one to the fire, bound as he was, and so, without Eye,"-which was "Directly over his Mouth," regard of his own bodie, burnt in sunder the and-to make assurance of description doublebonds wherewith he was tied. And at the third sure,-"no other Eye but that one Eye." This taking, the Lacedæmonians caused his breast to party also came from the cabinet of Mr. Claudius be cut and opened, because they would see what Du Puy, whose tastes appear to have been conkind of Heart he had; and there they found it genial with those of James Paris Du Plessis. In all overgrown with hair." J. P. speaks, in the Number Thirty we have "Four Children born margin, of having seen two other hairy men, and at a Birth," the offspring of "Phillis the Wife he also tells the story of Peter the wild boy, of George Rockow a Tayler in Blackmoor Street who " was in all Respects like the a foard Said near Drury Lane, and were baptis'd by the man (John Valerius), Excepting his Long Ears | Rev. Mr. Spavan then Curate of St. Clement and Hariness." Numbers Twenty-one and Danes on the thirteenth Day of February 1714 Twenty-two present nothing more remarkable by the following names, viz., George, Thomas, than the pictures of a young man seven feet five inches and a woman seven feet high: the first wears a long scarlet coat, reaching to his knees, and the second is bedizened like the Queen of Sheba. It suits the nature of the female giantess, who is not generally a strong-minded woman, to wear fine clothes. I remember to have seen a French lady on the Boulevard du Temple, in Paris, In Christian, Wilhelmina-Caroline" (an eye here to a royal present; as in our own time), and are now to be seen preserv'd in Spirits in Blackmoor Street afores at Mr. Rockow's House, who together with his Wife is still living and have had several Children since, the last of which was born in the present Year, 1731. Seen there by me James Paris." To this ac count is attached, without pictures, a variety of examples of numerous births, the memorable one of the lady who had 365 children at once being, of course, not omitted. "A Famous Fire-eater" comes next (in Illustration Number Thirty One), with a very difficult name to pronounce when once the difficulty of writing it is overcome it is that of Mr. "De Hightrehight, who was born in the Valley of Annici in Savoy (French, now) Amongst the Alps that Devides Italy from Switzerland." This gentleman "Eats burning Coals of Fire" (he is doing it in the picture, helping himself with a spoon, and seems, in defiance of the text, to have burnt his mouth) "he shews flaming Brimstone and Swallows it, licks a Red Hot Heater then hoalds it in his Mouth Between his Teeth and puts it into a Box of Iron then Takes it out again into his Mouth with his Teeth and then Dashes it out into the Chimney, he puts a Coal into his Mouth and Kindles it upon his Tongue, then Broils a Little Piece of Beef or other Flech upon it, as it Lies in his Mouth, and while the Meat is Broiling he suffers the Coal to be Blown with a pair of Bellows." Other fire-cating exploits are also recorded which he exhibited before countless Kings and Princes. This Swiss with the hard name was "Twice in the Inquisition in Italy for a Wizzard once in Piedmont, and then at Bologna ;" but how he got out of the Inquisitor's hands is not stated. Perhaps the sons of St. Dominick thought that in the attempt to burn such a salamander they should have their labour for their pains. inger did "many other strange things," and though he was said to have died at Cork in 1722, he was seen by J. P. in London in 1731. Number Thirty-three is "A Man with very Flat Leggs," who begged about London streets. These lower limbs of his were "as flat as an Inch Board all the Calf of his Leggs Joyned togather in the Manner of a Taylor's Leggs and foalded under him but could not be parted nor Extended." It is a comfort, however, to think that the flat-legged worthy, who is called "a very poor man," but is dressed like a courtier,— had the benefit of "a Good Education." Number Thirty-Four is "A Skeleton Born of a Woman." As a recompense for the Woman's extraordinary sufferings, the parents "Got a Hansom Lively Hood by it," the only lively attribute pertaining to the prodigy. Number Thirty-Five is "A Wild and Hairy Irishman,' whose hirsute proportions, pictorially represented, far exceed those of John Valerius. The last on the list of the illustrated series is "A Woman with a Horn on her Head," whose name was Elizabeth French, born at Tenterden "in the Wild of Kent." 23 I close here my description of the volume of James Paris Du Plesiss-not at all for lack of matter but rather because of its excess-for the next two hundred pages the prodigious record treating not of what the author himself saw, but rather of what he had read of. Such, for instance, as the old who became young,— vampyres, "prolifix" women,-women with "vast grey beards,"―enormous eaters,-people of extreme old age,-children with inscriptions in their eyes, and Dutch women who sang French perfectly "and understood it not." One example of what is told here may suffice. It is the account of A Mounstrous Devil of a Woman," of whom J. P. tells us that "In the Anatomy School in the University of Oxford, Among other Curiosities, they Show you the Skeleton of a Woman who had Ten Husbands Successively, and was Hanged at 36 Years of Age, for the Murder of Four of them." This lady certainly made good use of her time. As appears by a memorandum on the fly-leaf of this volume, the price set upon it by the author was one guinea. Here the inscription is: "J. Paris Du Plessis 1730 £1. 1. 0. Colector of these Boock, Anno 1733." Number Thirty-Two, described as "A Man Without Hands or Leggs," is the portrait of the celebrated Matthew Buckinger, whose history I have read elsewhere, more to his disadvantage than J. P. relates it. He was a German, "who had Married two Wives, one after the Other" (therefore no bigamist) "he got a Great deal of Mony, but his Last Wife was a very Perverse Woman, who Would Spend all his Mony very Prodigally and Luxuriously, in Nice Eating, Drinking and Clothes; and would not Permit him to Eat nor Drink as she did, and did Beat him Cruelly, which he had Bore very Patiently but one Day, she having Beat him before Company that so Provoked him that he flew at her with such force that he Threw her down; and did so Beat her with His Stumps that he almost Killed her, Threatening to treat her in the Same Manner if she Ever did so Any More; and she Became Ever after a very Dutifull and Loving SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S NEW WORK, Wife." Matthew Buckinger was full of accomplishments. "He did with his Stumps what Many Could not doe with their Hands At the completion, in March, of A STRANGE STORY, Will be commenced and Feet, so well as he, as Playing at Cards, A NEW NOVEL, BY MR. WILKIE COLLINS. Dice, Ninepins Shuffel Board, Rollypolly, &c., he Plade of Several Musikal Instruments, as the Trumpet, Hautbois, Flute, Flageolet, Drum, Kettle-drum, &c."-which et cætera probably means "lute, harp, dulcimer, sackbut,' and all the instruments which constituted the private band of King Nebuchadnezzar. Matthew Buck Now Ready, price Fourpence, TOM TIDDLER'S GROUND. FORMING THE EXTRA DOUBLE NUMBER The right of Translating Articles from ALL THE YEAR ROUND is reserved by the Authors. Published at the Office, No. 26, Wellington Street, Strand. Printed by C. WHITING, Beaufort House, |