primum mobile of the Universe, received the favorable consideration of the United States Congress. Turning from its author to the 'Hoax' itself, the following data as to its origin are interesting: In the Southern Literary Messenger for June, 1835, Edgar Poe published his story of Hans Pfaall,' a journey to the Moon. Three weeks later Mr. Locke commenced the publication of his 'Moon Hoax' in the Sun. "No sooner had

I seen the paper," remarks Poe, "than I understood the jest, which not for a moment could I doubt had been suggested by my own jeu d'esprit. Some of the New York journals (the Transcript, among others) saw the matter in the same light, and published the 'Moon Story' side by side with 'Hans Pfaal,' thinking that the author of the one had been detected in the author of the other . . . . Immediately on the completion of the Moon Story' (it was three or four days in getting finished) I wrote an examination of its claims to credit, showing distinctly its fictitious character, but was astonished at finding that I could obtain few listeners, so really eager were all to be deceived, so magical were the charms of a style that served as the vehicle of an exceedingly clumsy invention."

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For Poe's analysis and demolition of the absurdities of Locke's 'Moon Story,' Mr. Proctor and his readers must refer to Poe's works, vol. i. pp. 88-91, and vol. iv. pp. 485490, Edinburgh edition. It may be added, however, that the publication of the‘Lunar Hoax' caused the author of The Raven' to forego the second half of his tale of 'Hans Pfaall,' and thus lost to the world an account of his adventures in-where he would have been so well at home-the Moon.

JOHN H. INGRAM.

THE CRAUFURD SALE.

A choice collection of books, made by the Rev. C. H. Craufurd, was dispersed by auction at Sotheby's July 10 to 14th. The catalogue embraces several books of great interest, and notably an uncut copy of the Kilmarnock edition of Burns, which, we re gret to say, is not in America, as it would

The largest price yet obtained. The fact that the book brought so much is owing to the beauty and rarity of the copy. A Kilmarnock Burns uncut would be a joy forever to a genuine Bibliomane,-one of the good old type that Dr. Dibdin writes about. Butler, Hudibras-2 vols, large paper, 1744, Illustrated by Hogarth,. Chaucer, Workes-Blackletter-Low, 1542, Cnaucer, Canterbury Tales,

Coryate, Thomas-Crudities--1611,.....
De Foe, Robinson Crusoe. The first
edition of this wonderful story-book,
(1719-20)..
The same-1

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-1831-large paper, illustrated by George Cruikshank,. . . Dibdin's Reminiscences of a Literary Life, illustrated by 280 extra plates,. . . . . Dictes and Sayengis of the Philosophers-3 leaves in fac-simile by Harris, printed by Caxton, 1477,..

Flame of the Commandments of God. Wynkyn de Worde, 1521,..

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Gould's Monograph on Humming Birds,... 62 O 0 Hakluyt's Voyages-1599.

Higden, Polychronycon, perfect copy, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495,.....

La Fontaine, Contes. The rare edition of 1762,...

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GOSSIP ABOUT PORTRAITS.

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A contemporary work, of somewhat similar character to the Baziliologia, which is a collection of portraits, engraved chiefly from publications of different engravers or print sellers, and is now rare. The title is "Herwologia Anglica, hoc est clarissimorvm et doctissimorum aliqovt [sic] Anglorvm, qvi florvervnt ab Anno Cristi M. D. vsq. ad presentem Annum M.D.C.XX. vivæ Effigies, Vitæ et Elogia "-&c. 2 vols. folio. This work contains the rst regular series of English Heads, most of them being engraved by the family of Pass. Lowndes enumerates 67 portraits, and copies a very curious account of the sources whence many of them were taken, from MS. notes, apparently contemporary, to the copy that was formerly in the possession of Sir J. W. Lake, Bart. This is in many cases so interesting, that we shall combine the two lists as given by Lowndes in the following:

1. Henry VIII.

2. Tho. Cromwell, Earl of From Richmond,

26. Chr. Carlisle, Navigator Ditto. 27. Sir Martin Frobisher, Ditto. Navigator

28. J. Hawkins, Navigator 29. Sir F. Drake, Navigator 30. W. Cecil, Lord Burleigh 31. Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke

32. Robert Devereux, Earl

of Essex

33. G. Clifford, Earl of Cum

berland

Martyr

43. John Rogers, Martyr 44. Laur. Sanders, Martyr 45. Abp. Thos. Cranmer 46. J. Bale, Bp. of Ossory 47. Bishop John Jewell 48. David Whitehead, ob.

1571.

49. Abp. Mathew Parker 50. Thomas Becon

Ditto. Ditto.

From the Cecilian Gallery. From the Pembrokian Gallery.

From York House.

From a shop in the Strand. From the Cecilian Gallery.

From the Charterhouse.
From one done by

Isaac Oliver.

From a shop in Fleet Street. From a shop in the Strand.

Ditto.

From a shop in Blackfriars.
Ditto.
Ditto.

From Lambeth House.

From a shop in Blackfriars.

Ditto.

From Lambeth House. From his picture with works in Engl., fol.

From Caius College, Cambridge.

From Lambeth House.

53. James Montagu, Bp. of From one in Winchester

It is a pity we have not a similar list of authorities for portraits published in other works and as frontispieces to books.

Of 17 copies of this work, sold at different times, quoted by Lowndes, the prices vary from £5 5s. to £18, except one, a presentation copy, to Robert, Earl of Leicester, by Henry Holland, which sold for £27 16s. 6d.

These collections were the forerunners of the different series of Portraits published by Vander Enden in Amsterdam (after Van Dyck); by Lombart, the engraver, of the Ladies of the Court of Charles I., after Van Dyck; by Faber, mezzotints of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II., after Kneller; and by Houbraken, Vertue, and others, until they became too numerous to be detailed after the publication of the Catalogue of Engraved Portraits, with notes, by the Rev. J. Granger, entitled "The Biographical History of England." This work was written with the assistance, principally, of Horace Walpole, and Vertue, the Engraver, who was also a most painstaking antiquarian in matters connected with art. It enumerates and describes in chronological order almost every known engraved English portrait up to 1688; and to each individual mentioned there is a short biographical notice enlivened with character. istic anecdotes, and occasional remarks of the editor. The first edition was published in 1769-74 in 3 vols. 4to, but it was afterwards revised and greatly extended, and has

Passed through several editions since 1775, when the second edition in 4 vols. 8vo. was published. The fifth edition in 6 vols. 8vo. was published in 1824, and another has only recently been issued. A supplement to this well-known work was written, on the same plan, by the Rev. Mark Noble, bringing the information up to the end of the reign of George I., and published in 3 vols. 8vo. This also is very useful, but the biographical notices want the spirit and force of those by Granger. It was published at a time when there was a growing inclination to "illustrate" works, by inserting, or inlaying in blank sheets, engravings of portraits of persons mentioned in them. The Biographical History of England became itself a great favorite for this especial purpose, and in some instances was illustrated at an immense expense with the rarest and finest portraits that could be procured. Among those who were induced to commence the "illustration of Granger's work on its first appearance was James Bindley, Esq., the well-known book collector, and he continued to form his collection of prints for this purpose, for nearly 60 years! This collection was sold at his death, by Mr. Sotheby, in 1819, in a 19 days. sale, and realized the sum £5555.

Sir Mark Masterman Sykes was another zealous amateur of this period, and his collection of portraits even exceeded in interest and value that of Mr. Bindley. It contained most of the earliest and finest prints known, and when they were at last brought to the hammer, also at Sotheby's, and also forming (with the portraits of a date subsequent to Granger's History), a 19 days' sale, they realized the sum of £7597. Such was the value of an "Illustrated Granger!" The number and beauty of the works of Faithorne in Sir M. Sykes' collection were extraordinary. Almost every known portrait engraved by him was there, many of them proofs or in early states, and so fine that these alone sold for nearly £1300.

Nothing in engraved portraiture can exceed in beauty the productions of this greatly admired artist. He was born in London, and worked under Peake, afterwards Sir William Peake, the printseller, with whom he

joined the forces of Charles I. at the breaking out of the civil war. He was taken prisoner at Basingstoke, by the Parliamentary army, and confined in Aldersgate, where, however, he contrived to exercise his art as engraver. After some time he was permitted to retire to France, where he studied under Nanteuil, and on his return to England about 1650, he set up as an engraver and printseller for himself, at the sign of the Ship, outside Temple Bar. Here he engraved some of his finest prints, and became as celebrated as the famous Nanteuil, not only as an engraver, but as a painter in crayons and water colors. His heads of Sir William and Lady Paston (Mr. Holloway gave £70 for the two, at Mr. Marshall's sale) and of Margaret Smith, Lady Herbert, after Van Dyck, are among his best works. Not inferior is that of Charles the second, in armor, which, in the first state, before the introduction of the Royal arms, and with six English verses at bottom beginning, "The second Charles, heire of the Royal Martyr,” is a print, as are the preceding, of great rarity, and worth from £40 to £50. (One sold in 1864 for £45 at Sotheby's.) Another of his prints, almost unique, is a portrait of Sir Francis Englefield, which sold at Sir James Lake's sale for the sum of 70 guineas, being bought by Sir M. Sykes against the Marchioness of Bath. These prints may be seen in the Print Room of the British Museum, where is an almost complete series of the works of Faithorne, some of which are exhibited in frames, in the King's Library there. About the year 1680, Faithorne retired to a more private life, living in Printing-house-yard, but still exercising his art, until his death in May, 1691. He is buried in St. Anne's, Blackfriars. He had a son, William, who engraved in mezzotint, and another who was much patronized as a bookseller.

We have a few occasional notices of Faithorne, and other engravers and printsellers, in the writings of Evelyn, Aubrey, etc., but they are not always accessible, and the least notices, therefore, that give any idea of the engravers and their doings may be welcomed by the amateur of their works.

There are several entries in Pepys's Journal that create longings among collectors to have lived in his time!

"1666, Nov. 7. buy some prints for my wife to draw by this winter, and here did see my Lady Castlemaine's picture, done by him from Lilly's in red chalke and other colors, by which he hath cut it in copper to be printed. The picture in chalke is the finest thing I ever saw in my life, I think; and I did desire to buy it; but he says he must keep it awhile to correct his copper plate by, and when that is done he will sell it me."

Called at Faythorne's, to

"1666, Dec. I. By coach home in the evening, calling at Faythorne's buying three of my Lady Castlemaine's heads printed this day, which indeed is, as to the head, I think, a very fine picture, and like her."*

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'1667-7, Jan. 9. Thence to Faythorne and bought a head or two: one of them my Lord of Ormond's, the best I ever saw."

These visits to the printsellers at that time were made, I daresay, much as they are now The general purchaser would be served with the ordinary prints in the outer shop, as Sir Walter Scott describes the habitation of old Ramsay, the watchmaker; whilst the "Collector" or 66 Connoisseur" would be ushered into the snug little room at the back, and tempted with first impressions and proofs just taken of the new print "the inscription not yet sculptured thereon!" And whilst the fashionables would stop for awhile at Sir W. Peake's or Faithorne's, the antiquaries would seek less known abodes, and "pick up" bargains at Hollar's or find out the hidden lodging of Grinling Gibbons at Deptford.

In an interesting letter by Evelyn to Pepys, in the Cockerell collection, printed by Lord Braybrooke, we have a short statement of the most eminent engravers of portraits in England up to this time.

*This print is remarkably rare now. One was bought by Mr. Woodburn, at Bindley's sale, in 1819, for £79! Yet it is a curious illustration of the uncertainty of value in prints of this class, that the same impression, when sold in the collection of the late John Corrie, Esq., in 1863, brought only £36!

(TO BE CONTINUED.)