NAL WISEMAN.

On April 28, Cardinal Wiseman, at the Manchester Corn Exchange, delivered a
lecture "On the Relation of the Arts of Design to the Arts of Production."
It occupies thirteen columns of _The Tablet_ of May 7, which professes to
give it "from _The Manchester Examiner_, with corrections and additions." I
have read it with pleasure, and shall preserve it as one of the best
discourses on Art ever delivered; but there is a matter of fact, on which I
am not so well satisfied. In noticing Bernard Palissy, the cardinal is
reported to have said:

"For sixteen years he persevered in this way; and then was crowned with
success, and produced the first specimens of coloured and beautiful
pottery, such as are to this day sought by the curious; and _he
received a situation in the king's household, and ended his days in
comfort and respectability_."

In the review of "Morley's Life of Palissy the Potter," _Spectator_, Oct.
9, 1852, it is said:

"The period of the great potter's birth is uncertain. Mr. Morley fixes
it, on probable data, at 1509; but with a latitude of six years on
either side. _Palissy died in 1589 in the Bastile, where he had been
confined four years as a Hugenot; the king and his other friends could
defer his trial, but dared not grant him liberty._"

All the accounts which I have read agree with Mr. Morley and the
_Spectator_. Are they or the cardinal right, supposing him to be correctly
reported?

H. B. C.

U. U. Club.

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Minor Queries.

_Polidus._--Can you tell me where the scene of the following play is laid,
and the names of the _dramatis personae_?--_Polidus, a Tragedy_, by Moses
Browne, 8vo. 1723. The author of this play, who was born in 1703, and died
in 1787, was for some time the curate of the Rev. James Harvey, author of
_Meditations_, and other works. Mr. Browne was afterwards presented to the
vicarage of Olney, in Bucks, where the Rev. John Newton was his curate for
several years.

A. Z.

Glasgow.

[Moses Browne was subsequently Chaplain of Morden College. The
piscatory brotherhood are indebted to him for having revived Walton's
_Complete Angler_, after it had lain dormant for upwards of eighty
years; and this task, he tells us, was undertaken at the request of Dr.
Samuel Johnson.--ED.]

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