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CONTENTS. - No. 11. -Yorkshire Schools, 205-Winchester Cathedral-Birth of Nottingham-M'Lennan's Kinship in Ancient Greece'"Dewark," 217- The Rodiad,' 218. NOTES ON BOOKS:-Lang's Highlands of Scotland' in 1750-Dickens's To be Read at Dusk'-Lewis Carroll's Three Sonnets The Stamp Collector Clergy Directory'-Magazines and Reviews-Cassell's Gazetteer.' Westminster Journal, &c., of 26 Oct., 1771. NOTES:-Smollett, 201-Ancient Zodiacs, 202-The Battle during the last years of his life Smollett, of Towton, 203-"Selion"-The Nightingale's Song, 204- who was in the most needy circumstances Vampires-"On" or "Upon "-Mr. Bumble on Literature and in a deplorable state of health, lived at Edward VI.- Bootle in Cumberland-"To Sue"-The-Monte Nero, a fashionable resort which he roigne de Méricourt, 206. visited occasionally only, or at Leghorn, an QUERIES:-" Dag daw"-Sculptors-J. Randall-"High- unattractive seaport town; it is more prolandry"-R. Gervas-Rev. R. Johnson-Saragossa SeaThe Fir-cone in Heraldry-Winchester-Josiah Childs-bable that his home was within easy reach "Buried, a Stranger," 207-Wordsworth and Burns- The of Pisa (distant some twelve miles from LegPeople's Journal'-Poem Wanted-Sepoy Mutiny-Dedication of Churches-Branwell- Secret History of the Court' horn), a noted sanatorium in his day, and a -Dame Elizabeth Holford-Rev. J. Lewis, 208-Challowe seat of learning where he had sympathetic -Great Events from Little Causes, 209. friends amongst the professors. It is certain, REPLIES:-General Wade, 209-Houses without Staircases -Through-Stone, 210-" Dressed up to the nines"-Bal- from contemporary evidence, that the novelist brennie-Dr. Whalley-Old English Letters, 211 - died "at a country house near Leghorn, on Maginn-"Crozzil"- Cope and Mitre-BibliographyFrench Prisoners of War-Willow Pattern Plate Rhyme 17 Sept., 1771," as reported by Sir Horace Rye House Plot-Col. Ferribosco, 212-Registering Births Mann, British Minister at Florence, in a P.S. and Deaths-Augustine Skottowe-Shakspeare's Grandfather, 213-" Random of a shot"-Short A v. Italian A in his own hand, in a despatch written by a Painting of Napoleon-" Sybrit," 214-"Scalinga," 215-scribe and addressed to the Earl of Rochford, "Hear, hear!"-Ocneria dispar-" Winged Skye"-Oath Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; but of Allegiance-Chester Apprentices-Kerruish-Motto of Cambridge University. 216-Todmorden-Rotten Row, presumably the death did not take place very near to Leghorn, seeing that in none of his Correspondence, whether with his chief at Florence or with the Foreign Office, does Sir John Dick, British Consul at Leghorn, make any allusion to the event, which he naturally would have done had interment taken place within the walls of the town of his official residence; and, moreover, a correct entry in its proper place would have been made in the Register of Burials.' The novelist's own cousin, James Smollett, of Bonhill, when raising the column on the banks of the Leven to the memory of his distinguished kinsman, failed to give the date or place of death, and supplies no nearer clue to locality of interment than is to be found in these words: Prope Liburni Portum In Italia Jacet Sepultus." Dr. Armstrong's epitaph in Latin, in twenty-eight lines, given in Scots Magazine, October, 1773, as being on Smollett's monument near Leghorn," is referred to by, amongst others, Sir Walter Scott, who was equally misled as to date of death and place of burial : Notes. SMOLLETT, HIS DEATH AND BURIAL. Ir may be stated with perfect truth that hitherto Smollett's biographers have been satisfied that the novelist lies interred at Leghorn, even though there are good grounds for disputing the correctness of such an assertion. The monument to his memory in the burial - ground at Leghorn still bore in 1882 the following inscription: "Memoriæ Tobie Smollett qui Liburni | animam efflavit 16 Sep., 1773, quidam | ex suis valde amicis civibus hunc tumulum | fecerunt." The misleading date is readily accounted for, insomuch as Smollett's admirers were doubt lessly guided by an entry in the consular register of burials at Leghorn, which simply records that "Dr Smollett died ye 16 September, 1773, and was buried the fol- Abbotsford, 1 June, 1821......the world lost lowing day by James Haggarth," an entry, grave at Leghorn is distinguished by a plain monuTobias Smollett on 21 October, 1771. Smollett's however, which was made subsequently to ment erected by his widow, to which Dr. Armstrong, that of a burial in 1777, and is considered to his constant and faithful friend, supplied the inbe a forgery so far as the chaplain is con-spirited inscription." 66 "Dr. cerned, who in every other instance signed I have failed to discover that such a tombhis name "Jas. Haggarth." The doctor's stone has ever existed, unless it was identical biographer in the Great Writers" series with a tomb described in a communicawas content to state that his subject died at the village of Monte Novo (Monte Nero?) some time in September, 1771, and that his grave is in the old English cemetery at Leghorn; and in the recent more important biography death and burial at Leghorn are established chiefly on the authority of the tion made to the Gentleman's Magazine (vol. lxxxviii.), May, 1818, which, it may be assumed, settles the point that the doctor's remains are not at Leghorn. "The tomb of Dr. Smollett," says that correspondent, "which is situated on the banks of the Arno between Leghorn and Pisa, is now so covered with |
