Gaudentio di Lucca._--Sir James Mackinstosh, in his _Dissertation on the
Progress of Ethical Philosophy_, adverts to the belief that Bishop Berkeley
was the author of _Gaudentio di Lucca_, but without adopting it.

"A romance," he says, "of which a journey to an Utopia, in the centre
of Africa, forms the chief part, called _The Adventures of Signor
Gaudentio di Lucca_, has been commonly ascribed to him; probably on no
other ground than its union of pleasing invention with benevolence and
elegance."--_Works_, vol. i. p. 132. ed. 1846.

Sir J. Mackintosh, like most other modern writers who mention the book,
seems not to have been aware of the decisive denial of this report, by
Bishop Berkeley's son, inserted in the third volume of Kippis's _Biographia
Britannica_.

L.

_George Wither, the Poet, a Printer_ (Vol. ii., p. 390.).--In addition to
DR. RIMBAULT'S extract from Wither's _Britain's Remembrancer_, showing that
he printed (or rather composed) every sheet thereof with his own hand, I
find, in a note to Mr. R.A. Willmott's volume of the _Lives of the English
Sacred Poets_, in that interesting one of George Wither, the following
corroboration of this singular labour of his: the poem, independent of the
address to the King and the praemonition, consisting of between nine and ten
thousand lines, many of which, I doubt not, were the production of his
brain while he stood at the printing-case. A MS. note of Mr. Park's, in one
of the many volumes of Wither which I possess, confirms me in this opinion.

"Ben Jonson, in _Time Vindicated_, has satirized the custom, then very
prevalent among the pamphleteers of the day, of providing themselves
with a portable press, which they moved from one hiding-place to
another with great facility. He insinuates that Chronomastix, under
whom he intended to represent Wither, employed one of these presses.
Thus, upon the entrance of the Mutes,--

"_Fame._ What are this pair?

_Eyes._ The ragged rascals?

_Fame._ Yes.

_Eyes._ These rogues; you'd think them rogues,
But they are friends;
One is his printer in disguise, and keeps
His press in a hollow tree."

From this extract it should seem that Wither not only composed the poem at
case (the printer's phrase), but worked it off at press with his own hands.

J.M.G.

Worcester.

"_Preached as a dying Man to dying Men_" (Vol. i., p. 415.; Vol. ii., p.
28.).--Some