Walpole records the tradition that she had daneed with Richard ILL. and always affirmed that he was a very well-made man, und he quoted Fuller to the effect that on Bacon's authority the Countess "three times had a new set of teeth." He also cites a manuscript account of her by the. second Robert Dudley, Earl of, Leicester, in which her death is said to be due to a fall from a nut tree whereon she gathering nuts. Walpole in the end could not reduce he lady's age below 145 years. This picture should hang well beside the
old man.
Portrait of Parr, "the old, old, very Among the other interesting acquisitions is a portrait of George Washington painted by Gildert Stu-_ art, presented by an American, and Mr. John Collier's painting of Dr. John Clifford, presented by the Bap-The Duke of Buccleuch sented portraits of the second Doke of Montagu and the second Baron Tyrawley, both of whom were also commemorated by famous sculptors of the 18th century. The Duke of Montagu, faster General of was noted for his noble charity and kindness of heart. He was kind to animals, and Lord Hailes speaks of his keeping ugly dogs because no one else would be:
to them. Montagu is chiefly remembered to-day as the subject of Roubiliae's fine monuments in the church of Warkton, in Northamptonshire.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.