dedication, and therefore we may infer that it was penned before the
battle of Zut-phen. Both the dedication and the sonnet show the artist's
intimacy and friendship with that distinguished family.

There are two copies of this exceedingly rare book in the British
Museum, both slightly imperfect, but will together make a complete one,
but the more interesting copy is that in 727 c/2 31, in the Sloane
Collection. It has bound up with it thirty-seven leaves on which are
beautifully drawn and painted flowers, fruits, birds &c. There can be
little doubt that these are Le Moyne's own paintings. It is curious to
find that all these scattered works in the different departments came in
with the Sloane Collection which formed the nucleus of the British
Museum. It is to be hoped that other samples of Le Moyne's art may be
found or identified, and that all of them may be brought together or be
described as the ' Le Moyne Collection.' How Sir Hans Sloane became
possessed of them does not yet appear.

Capt. John White's name in the annals of English art is destined to rank
high, though it has hitherto failed to be recorded in the art histories
and dictionaries. Yet his seventy-six original paintings in
water-colours done probably in Virginia in 1585-1586 while he was there
with Hariot as the official draughtsman or painter of Raleigh's ' First
Colonie' entitle him to prominence among English artists in Elizabeth's
reign. There are some other works of his in the Manuscript department
mingled with those of his friend and master Le Moyne.

As Raleigh's friend and agent White's name deserves honorable mention in
the history of 'Ould Virginia.' He was an original adventurer in the '
First Colonie' and was one of the hundred and nine who spent a whole
year at and about Roanoke and returned with Drake in 1586. He went again