The friend who gave me this print added a letter, with a request
that I would explain the mysterious forms by a ballad.... I bear
the image with me in peace and in war, until it has now spun
itself out into a little romance."

S.W. Singer.

Mickleham Aug. 13. 1850.


"_Noli me tangere_" (Vol. ii., p. 153.).--B.R. is informed, that one of
the finest paintings on this subject is the altar-piece in All Souls
College Chapel, Oxford. It is the production of Raphael Mengs, and was
purchased for the price of three hundred guineas of Sir James Thornhill,
who painted the figure of the founder over the altar, the ceiling, and
the figures between the windows. There may be other paintings by earlier
masters on so interesting subject, but none can surpass this of Raphael
Mengs in the truthfulness of what he has here delineated. The exact size
of the picture I do not recollect, but it cannot be less than ten feet
high.

There is a beautiful engraving of it by Sherwin.

J.M.G.

Worcester.


_Dr. Bowring's Translations_ (Vol. ii. p. 152.).--Besides the
anthologies mentioned by Jarltzberg, Dr. Bowring has published _Poets of