It is somewhat singular that the writer of this notice never suspected that the _author_ of the second part, and the _collector_ of the first part of the volume, was Samuel Colvil, whose celebrated poem, _The Whigg's Supplication, or the Scotch Hudibras_, went through so many editions, from 1667 to 1796. This "mock poem", as the author terms it, turns upon the insurrection of the Covenanters in Scotland in the reign of Charles the Second. An interesting notice of it, and other imitations of Hudibras, will be found in the _Retrospective Review_, vol. iii. pp. 317-335. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. * * * * * Queries. HUBERT LE SOEUR'S SIX BRASS STATUES. In a curious MS. Diary of the early part of the seventeenth century, lately come into my possession, I find the following entry concerning the sculptor, Hubert le Soeur:-- "March 7. 1628. Had an interview with y^e famous and justly renowned artiste H. le Sueur, who, being late come to this countrie, I had never seene before. He showed me several famous statues in brasse." This is probably the earliest notice of the celebrated pupil of John of Bologna after his settlement in England. Dallaway, in his _Anecdotes of the Arts in England_ (p. 395.), after stating that Hubert le Soeur arrived here about the year 1630, says,-- "If he was associated with Pierre Tacca, who finished the horse in the equestrian statue of Henry IV. in 1610, left incomplete on the death of his master, John of Bologna, two years preceding, he must have been far advanced in life. Three only of his works in bronze are now known with certainty to exist: the equestrian statue of Charles I. [at Charing Cross], a bust of the same monarch with a casque in the Roman style [now at Stourhead], and a statue in armour of William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, Lord High Chamberlain and Chancellor of Oxford. The last was given to the University by T., Earl of Pembroke, about the time of the restoration." The "several famous statues in brasse" alluded to by the writer of the Diary above quoted, were probably those which afterwards ornamented the gardens of St. James's Palace. Peacham, in his _Complete Gentleman_ (2nd edit., 4to. 1634), having spoken of the collection of statues at Arundell House, says:--