Walker of St. Valeri. With George Steevens he was on terms of great intimacy. Their first meeting was at White's the bookseller's shop in Fleet-street, where Steevens told Douce that he was projecting a new edition, saying, "I doubt not you have some observations you can give me, for I lay every one under contribution." Mr. Douce acknowledged that he had made some remarks on his favourite author, but modestly added they were not worth Mr. Steevens's notice. At length, however, he consented to communicate them, and Steevens called on him the next morning, and received them from him. From this period for three or four years he paid Mr. Douce a visit every morning at his chambers at 9 o'clock, staying till 10. Mr. Douce was used to speak of his intercourse with Steevens with great pleasure; he was delighted with his gentlemanly manners, his wit, and command of language, which gave great zest to his conversation. With another commentator on Shakspere, the eccentric and unfortunate Ritson, Mr. Douce was also upon intimate terms, and was one of the very few persons visited by him. He also patronised Pinkerton on his first coming to London.

Mr. Douce to the last lived in habits of friendly intercourse with Malone, T. Park, S. Weston, G. Ellis, D'Israeli,* Sidney Hawkins,† Wilbraham, Dibdin, Haslewood, Hamper,§ and others. His collections, and his richly-stored mind, were opened to all who

* Isaac D'Israeli, Esq. died January 19, 1848, aged 82. See memoir of him in Gent. Mag. for July, 1848, p. 96. Two letters of Mr. D'Israeli to Dr. Vicesimus Knox are printed in the same Magazine, p. 29; and two letters of Mr. D'Israeli to Mr. Nichols in the same volume, p. 133, in one of which letters Mr. D'Israeli thus speaks of the "Literary Anecdotes," which were submitted to him whilst passing through the press :-"I have nearly explored this your mine of literary history; but I remain like a famished man,-I am hungering after more! Any you can supply me with will be most opportune. I congratulate you on your having accomplished this important work, which will now rank on our shelves with Wood's Athenæ-a great favourite with me; yet you have the advantage of a more interesting period, from the superiority of the works, and the authors.' Afterwards, in speaking of the Index to the Literary Anecdotes, compiled by Mr. Samuel Bentley, Mr. D'Israeli adds, "In the numerous references I verified, I could not discover three errors in this numerals; and, considering how many thousands there are in this unparalleled Index, its correctness is not the least extraordinary part of it." Numerous notices of Mr. D'Israeli will be found in Lit. Anecd. Index, VII. 111, 552.

John Sidney Hawkins, Esq. F.S.A. died Aug. 12, 1842, in his 85th year. See memoir of him in Gent. Mag. 1842, ii. 662; and Lit. Anecd. Index, VII. 173, 588. Lit. Illust. Index, VIII. 52.

Joseph Haslewood, Esq. F.S.A. died Sept. 21, 1833, in his 64th year. He was the fidus Achates of Dr. Dibdin (see his "Reminiscences" in Index, p. 24), aud the assistant of Sir Egerton Brydges in his bibliographical works. See a memoir of him in Gent. Mag. 1833, ii. 467; and a defence of his character, and account of the Sale of his Library, in Gent. Mag. for 1834, i. p. 286-288, 606.

§ William Hamper, Esq. F.S.A. died May 3, 1831, aged 54. For a good memoir of this able antiquary, by his friend Thomas Sharp, Esq. F.S.A. see Gent. Mag. June, 1831, p. 566; and notices of him in Britton's AutoBiography, vol. I. Index, 387. He was a valuable correspondent to Mr. Nichols in his History of Leicestershire, and contributed numerous drawings and articles to the Gentleman's Magazine.

cultivated the study of antiquities, with a liberality rarely equalled With the distinguished orientalists, Sir George Staunton and Sir William Ouseley, Mr. Douce was in constant habits of intercourse; and a host of younger literary friends, among whom may be mentioned Sir Henry Ellis, Sir Francis Palgrave, Utterson, Markland, Ottley, Sir Frederick Madden, Gage-Rokewode,* Singer, Payne Collier, Thoms, and, in short, all who cultivated the study of antiquity either in literature or art. He was also in correspondence with several distinguished foreign antiquaries, among others his old friend the Abbé de la Rue, Raynouard, Millan, and the Abbé Tersan.

Mr. Douce's love of art had induced him to cultivate the acquaintance of artists of eminence, to whom his collections and his richly-stored mind were alike open upon all occasions; the veteran Stothard greatly benefited by them upon many occasions. This led to his acquaintance with Mr. Nollekens; an event which, though it increased his fortune, did not add to his happiness. Mr. Douce's health shortly afterwards gave way, and it may be doubtful whether his mind ever recovered its tone, from the vexations of a protracted suit, and the unfounded aspersions upon his character.

Mr. Douce's published works were few: they consist only of the "Illustrations of Shakspeare and Ancient Manners," in 2 vols. 8vo. a work which, though it was seized upon at the time of publication by a leading journal as a vehicle for an attack upon the votaries of the Black Letter, has received the meed of universal applause ; "A Dissertation upon the series of beautiful designs known by the title of the Dance of Death," which embraces much curious information on the subject of early engraving, &c.; some interesting papers in the Archæologia; and many communications to the Gentleman's Magazine. He also contributed to John Thomas Smith's† "Antient Topography of London," 1815. But if all that Mr. Douce added to the illustration of literature and art, through the medium of others, was fairly before the world, a more just estimate of the rich stores of antiquarian knowledge with which his mind was fraught might be formed.

It is to be lamented that he should have directed the sealing-up of his literary remains until the close of the present century. His collections and common-place books upon the subject of the History of Arts, Manners, Customs, Superstitions, Fictions, Popular Sports, and Games of Ancient Times, will afford a rich mine to the antiquaries of a future age.

Mr. Douce left his very curious and valuable library, his prints, drawings, and medals, and coins to the Bodleian Library; and

* John Gage-Rokewode, Esq. F.R.S. F.L.S. Director of the Society of Antiquaries, died Oct. 14, 1842, aged 56. See a memoir of him in Gent. Mag. 1842, ii. 659.

John Thomas Smith, a very clever draughtsman and engraver. He published numerous Illustrations of London and Westminster, and other works. He died March 8, 1833, aged 67. See account of him in Gent. Mag. ; and also a memoir, accompanied by a portrait of him, by J. Jackson, R.A., in "The Cries of London" a posthumous work of Mr. Smith's, 1839.

Author of Nollekens and his Times, Antient Topography, &c. &c.

Engraved by W. theton, from an Original Drawing by L. Sackson "sq" RA.

bequeathed his collection of antique paintings, carvings, and other curiosities to his friend Sir S. R. Meyrick, and they are now preserved at Goodrich Court. Sir Samuel wrote a "Descriptive Catalogue" of them, which is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1836, volumes v. and vi. of the new series.* The gentlemen to whom he left the residue of his property were the Rev. Mr. Goddard and W. Weller Singer, Esq.

In manners Mr. Douce was a perfect gentleman of the old school; a little reserved on first acquaintance; but, when this was passed, easy, affable, and kind, and no one could be more alive to the common courtesies of life which make intercourse agreeable. He was passionately fond of music, and was well acquainted with the works of Handel, Corelli, and the great composers of the last century. He had also in early life been a toxophilite and an angler; and retained to the last a love of the latter sport, which he sometimes practised in his annual visits to the country, which also afforded him facilities for the study of entomology, in which he took much pleasure. He expired on March the 30th, 1834, in his 77th year.t

P. 703, 1. 7. See Croker's edition of Boswell's Life of Johnson, i. 373.

P. 718, 1. 15, add note, "See Mr. Denne's remarks on the pillars in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral, in Archæologia, vol. x. p. 41."

P. 721, note, 1. ult. add, "George Risdale (probably his son, called nephew to Mr. Windham) was captain, and marine paymaster and storekeeper at Bombay. His widow, Elizabeth, died Dec. 16, 1821."

P. 725, 1. 3. "Mr. William Julius Mickle died Oct. 28, 1788; and his widow, daughter of Mr. Robert Tomkins, Feb. 20, 1811." (See Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary.)

P. 727. Dr. John Buckner, Bishop of Chichester, died May 2, 1824. See a memoir in Gent. Mag. May, 1824, p. 459; and his portrait in Dallaway's History of Chichester; see also Lit. Illust. Index, VIII. 15.

P. 728, 1. 11 from bottom, "A tablet of white marble was, in 1820, placed in the south transept of Hereford Cathedral, to the memory of Dr. Napleton, with the following inscription by the Rev. John Guard, Rector of Pembridge:

'Sacred to the memory of John Napleton, D.D. Canon Residentiary of this Cathedral, and Chancellor of the Diocese, who died on the 9th of Dec. 1817, in the 80th year of his age; worthy

*Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, K.H. LL.D. F.S.A. died on the 2d April, 1848, in his 65th year, and a memoir of him was given in the Gentleman's Magazine for July, 1848, p. 92.

† Abridged from a memoir in the Gentleman's Magazine. Such parts of the memoir as relate to dissensions between Mr. Douce and his family, and the circumstances connected with Mr. Nollekens' property, are omitted, as they were contradicted in the Gent. Mag. for Dec. 1834, p. 338. A copy of Mr. Douce's will, itself a literary curiosity, follows the memoir in Gent. Mag. for August 1834, p. 216.