{"collection":"myth-cosmogony","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_42787/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_42787","id":"gutenberg_42787","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42787","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - Other","Category: Humour","Category: Journals","Category: Language & Communication","Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore","Notes and Queries","Questions and answers -- Periodicals"],"text":"Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they\nare indicated by footnotes to the relevant item.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n{149}\n\nNOTES AND QUERIES:\n\nA MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES,\nGENEALOGISTS, ETC.\n\n\"When found, make a note of.\"--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNo. 172.]\nSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12. 1853\n[Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition 5d.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONTENTS.\n\n  NOTES:--                                                    Page\n\n  Italian English                                              149\n\n  St. Nicholas Church, Brighton                                150\n\n  Key to Dibdin's Bibliomania                                  151\n\n  Parallel Passages, by Harry Leroy Temple                     151\n\n  Antiquity of the Polka: a Note for the Ladies                152\n\n  Seven Score Superstitious Sayings, by J. Westby Gibson       152\n\n  MINOR NOTES:--Mormon Etymologies--Bandalore and Tommy\n    Moore--Electric Clock--Desirable Reprints--The Earldom of\n    Oxford--Literary Attainments of the Scottish Clergy in\n    the Seventeenth Century                                    153\n\n  QUERIES:--\n\n  Queries as to Mr. Collier's \"Notes and Emendations\"          153\n\n  Hone's \"History of Parody,\" by James B. Murdoch              154\n\n  The Countess of Pembroke's Letter to Sir Joseph Williamson   154\n\n  MINOR QUERIES:--Medi\u00e6val Parchment--\"Mater ait nat\u00e6\"--Fox\n    of Whittlebury Forest--Names and Numbers of British\n    Regiments--Daughters of St. Mark--Kentish Fire--Optical\n    Phenomenon--Cardinal Bentivoglio's Description of\n    England--Remarkable Signs--Old Fable--Tide Tables--Passage\n    in Ovid--Roger Pele, Abbot of Furness--Curtseys and\n    Bows--Historical Proverb--Bishop Patrick's \"Parable of a\n    Pilgrim\"--Dr. Parr's Dedications--\"K\u00f6nigl. Schwedischer\n    in Teutschland gef\u00fchrter Krieg\"--\"Officium Birgittinum\n    Anglice\"--Campbell's Hymn on the Nativity                  155\n\n  MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--\"When Our Lord falls in Our\n    Lady's Lap\"--Hobnail-counting in the Court of\n    Exchequer--A Race for Canterbury--Nose of Wax--\"Praise\n    from Sir Hubert Stanley!\"--Rosary                          157\n\n  REPLIES:--\n\n  The Rod: a Poem                                              158\n\n  The Dutch East-India Company                                 159\n\n  \"Its,\" by Thomas Keightley                                   160\n\n  Commencement of the Year                                     161\n\n  \"Penardo and Laissa\"                                         161\n\n  Robin Hood, by John D'Alton and J. Lewelyn Curtis            162\n\n  PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Originator of Collodion\n    Process--The Soiling of the Fingers--Sir W. Newton's\n    Process: Chloride of Bromium--The Collodion\n    Process--Portable Camera                                   162\n\n  REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Chaplains to Noblemen--Mitigation\n    of Capital Punishment to a Forger--Brydone the\n    Tourist--Yankee--Miniature Ring of Charles I.--Bishop of\n    Ossory: Cardinal's Hat--Hugh Oldham, Bishop of\n    Exeter--\"sic transit gloria mundi\"--Wake--\"Words given\n    to Man to conceal his Thoughts\"--Inscription on Penny of\n    George III.--\"Nine Tailors make a Man\"--On Quotations--\n    Rhymes on Places--Coins in Foundations--Fleshed, Meaning\n    of--Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh--Flemish and\n    Dutch Schools of Painting--Furmety or Frumenty--Etymology\n    of Pearl, &c.                                              163\n\n  MISCELLANEOUS:--\n\n  Notes on Books, &c.                                          168\n\n  Books and Odd Volumes wanted                                 168\n\n  Notices to Correspondents                                    169\n\n  Advertisements                                               169\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNotes.\n\nITALIAN ENGLISH.\n\nI have been favoured by a friend, who visited Italy last year, with the\nperusal of a small guidebook, which has afforded me much amusement, and\nfrom which I send you a few extracts for the gratification of your readers.\nThe title runs thus:\n\n    \"Description of the front and interior of the Cathedral of Milan the\n    first edition corrected, and increased with interesting things Milan by\n    the printer Luigi di Giacomo Pirola M.DCCC.XLVI.\"\n\nThe Preface is as follows:\n\n    \"In presenting to the learned and intelligent Publick this new and\n    brief Description of the Cathedral of Milan, i must apprise that i do\n    not mean to emulate with the works already existing of infinite merit\n    for the notions they contain, and the perspicuity with which they are\n    exposed. My idea only was to make an extract of them, not forgetting\n    the principal things of observation, with the names of the most\n    distinguished artists, and not to deprive them of all the digressions\n    and explanations required by the Scientificals, or those skilled in the\n    art, so that it might be contained in a Pamphlet, and of little\n    expence, to be offered to the amateurs of fine arts, who come to visit\n    this unique and magnificent Edifice. Therefore i have not failed to\n    include in it, all that has been done subsequently to the publishment\n    of the above works, with some other little trifles worthy to be seen,\n    and in them not mentioned. Such has been my sole design, no other\n    pretention has induced me to it, and with a similar premise, i hope to\n    be pardoned by the indulgent Reader for all the errors in which i might\n    have involuntarily incurred.\n\n    G. P.\"\n\nIn the introductory portion, giving a general account of the building, \"G.\nP.\" says:\n\n    \"Under the direction of honest, intelligent and active Administrators,\n    and by the pious munificence of our Gracious Sovereign, who bestowes an\n    annual generous donation for completing the building of the Cathedral\n    of Milan, one perceives tending with the greatest celerity to the\n    perfection of this magnificent Edifice, founded by a special vow in\n    1386 by the duke of Milan Giovanni Galeazzo Visconti. It is of fine\n    white statuary marble, extracted from the quarry of mount Gandolia,\n    which among many gifts was expressly regaled for the building by its\n    generous founder the duke Visconti above mentioned.\"\n\n{150}\n\nIn describing the \"fore-front\" he gives a catalogue of the \"bass-riliefs,\"\nfrom which a few extracts are made:\n\n    \"1st. the Tobiolo assisted by the Angel in his jounrey to Rages, ...\n    the second is the Angel that expells Adam and Eve from the Eden, by\n    Carlo Maria Giudici. The two in the second order are: Daniel in the\n    lake of the lions by the above Carabelli, and Job on the dunghill, by\n    the above Giudici. The two upper Statues that figure Saint Bartholomew\n    and Saint James Junior, are works by Buzzi Donelli and Buzzi Giuseppe.\n    The Bass-Riliefs that follow aside of the Pilaster is God appearing to\n    Moses in the ardent-brambles.... Over the great windout the Bass-Rilief\n    representing Samuel while he oints Saul king of Israel is by Carlo\n    Maria Giudici, and Angelo Pizzi a milanese, carved the vision of Jacob\n    on the side of the following Pilaster. In sight of the same Moses who\n    makes the water gush from the mountain is by Giuseppe Buzzi, and the\n    other Bass-Rilief that is placed above, represents the prophet Elia\n    presenting to the afflicted mother the resurrection of her Son, by\n    Grazioso Rusca. By Canaillo Pacetti is the Statue of Saint James\n    senior.... The Bass-Rilief over the great window represents the\n    prophetess Debora providing captain Barach with arms.... Ornamented is\n    the rest of the front with a great number of Statues managed with skill\n    by intelligent Authors, and aside of the door are the Apostles Peter\n    and Paul of ancient work and unknown Author ... as also of unknown\n    chisel is Saul who tempts to kill David.... The Angel who assures\n    Sampson's Father that his Wife, believed to be sterile, will generate\n    the strongest of Israel's sons.... On reaching the fourth door one\n    perceives in the frontispiece the Bass-Rilief that adorns it, which is\n    by Lasagni; representing Givele that with a nail kills captain\n    Sisara.... Esa\u00f9 renouncing the primogeniture to his brother Jacob....\n    Over the great window is painted Agar dying with thirst, with the son\n    of Ismael in the desert, while an Angel appears indicating a fountain\n    to her.... The first of the other four Bass-Riliefs in view figure\n    Gedeone preparing to fight the Madianites, and the second Sampson\n    suffocating the lion.... The Saints Philip and Thomas placed upwards\n    are by the egregious Pompeo Marchesi ... the second is by Ribossi,\n    representing Absatom suspended by his hair to a tree and pierced\n    through by Jacob.\"\n\nIn describing the interior, \"G. P.\" is rather more instructive, but not\nquite so entertaining: however, a number of the peculiar expressions\nalready quoted are repeated with the same confiding simplicity. A few\nextracts will suffice for this portion:\n\n    \"The ornaments of the five doors are the designment of Fabio Mangone,\n    ... the surprising vault a _chiaro-scuro_, drawn and painted in part by\n    our milanese Felice Alberti, who in the year 1827 was ravished from the\n    living by a fatal misfortune in the flower of his age ... in the inward\n    columns on both sides are two very fine Statues sitting in a very\n    melancholy action, which represent military Peace and Virtue ... under\n    the tomb-stone is another small and genteel Bass-Rilief representing\n    the Saviour afflicted, sustained by two little Angels.... The Altar of\n    Santa Tecla, which is part of the left arm of the cross, or form of the\n    Church, as is mentioned above, representing the Saint in a seraglio of\n    wild beasts, is by the Sculptor Carlo Beretta.\"\n\nLest I should have exhausted your patience, as well as that of your\nreaders, I will close with one more quotation, which displays what Mrs.\nMalaprop calls \"a nice derangement of epitaphs:\"\n\n    \"The last altar that was seen not long since on this side was dedicated\n    to the Blessed Virgin, whose image carved in wood dated a remote\n    antiquity, but as to the remnant nothing was found to be appreciable in\n    sort of art.\"\n\nA. R. X.\n\nPaisley.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nST. NICHOLAS CHURCH, BRIGHTON.\n\nIn matters touching the public weal, the Editor of \"N. & Q.\" always finds\nspace for his correspondents: a few lines are asked for the present\nsubject, as being one on which his pages have already been earnestly\ndevoted.\n\nThe rebuilding of Brighton old church has been announced, and those who\nhave frequented the salubrious breezes of that unequalled marine residence\nhave often enjoyed the commanding view of the town and noble sea, which is\nobtained from the hill on which this venerable fabric stands, and which is\nabout to disappear and perhaps \"leave not a wreck behind.\"\n\nThe church is literally lined and flagged with monuments of the dead, more\nor less noted; but all of whom have passed through the stage of this life\naway from their native localities, and many falling where they went to seek\nin vain renovated health.\n\nThe tombs in the churchyard, immediately adjoining the church, of Capt.\nTettersell, who conveyed King Charles to France after the battle of\nWorcester; and Phoebe Hassell, who fought under the Duke of Cumberland at\nFontenoy, are continually surveyed by the old visitors. In a few months it\nmay be too late to suggest to your friends interested in the preservation\nof monumental remains, and their inscriptions, to prevent such a similar\nremoval and destruction as has taken place at Lambeth, under the walls of\nthe Archbishop's residence, by the rector, church-wardens, and architects\nof Lambeth new church.\n\nA notice to those interested in the history of the county of Sussex may be\nthe means of preserving at least the inscriptions, and calling attention of\nthe amiable and respected vicar of Brighton to a consideration of the\nsubject.\n\nK. N.\n\n{151}\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nKEY TO DIBDIN'S BIBLIOMANIA.\n\nThe following key to the characters in the _Bibliomania_ (edit. 1811) has\nbeen collected with care, and will no doubt prove acceptable to some of the\nreaders of \"N. & Q.\":\n\n       Atticus             Richard Heber, Esq.\n       Aurelius            George Chalmers, Esq.\n       Alphonso            Horne Tooke?\n       Archimedes          John Rennie, Esq.\n       Bernardo            Joseph Haslewood, Esq.\n       Boscardo            James Boswell, Esq.?\n       Coriolanus          John Ph. Kemble, Esq.\n       Crassus             Watson Taylor, Esq.\n       Eumenius            J. D. Phelps, Esq.\n  (1.) Gonzalo             John Dent, Esq.\n       Hortensius          W. Bolland, Esq.\n       Honorio             George Hibbert, Esq.\n       Hippolyto           Samuel Weller Singer, Esq.\n       Leontes             James Bindley, Esq.\n       Lepidus             Dr. Gosset.\n       Lysander            Rev. T. F. Dibdin.\n       Lorenzo             Sir Mark Sykes.\n       Lavinia's Husband   J. Harrison, Esq.\n       Lisardo             R. Heathcote, Esq.\n       Licius              Francis Freeling, Esq.\n       Marcellus           Edmond Malone, Esq.\n       Mustapha            W. Gardiner of Pall Mall.\n       Menander            Tom. Warton.\n       Malvolio            Payne Knight or Townley?\n       Menalcas            Rev. Henry Drury.\n       Mercurii (III.)     Mr. Henry Foss, Mr. Triphook, and Mr. Griffiths.\n       Meliadus            R. Lang, Esq.\n       Nicas               G. Shepherd, Esq.\n       Narcottus           Rev. J. Jones.\n       Orlando             Michael Woodhull, Esq.\n       Prospero            Francis Douce, Esq.\n       Philemon            J. Barwise, Esq.\n  (2.) Phormio             Rev. H. Vernon.\n       Portius             Mr. John Cuthill.\n       Palmeria            Robert Southey, Esq.\n       Philelphus          Geo. Henry Freeling, Esq.\n       Palermo             John North, Esq.\n       Pontevallo          Duke of Bridgewater?\n       Quisquilius         George Baker, Esq.\n       Rinaldo             J. Edwards, Esq.\n       Rosicrusius         Rev. T. F. Dibdin.\n       Sir Tristram        Walter Scott, Esq.\n       Sycorax             Joseph Ritson.\n       Ulpian              Edw. Vernon Utterson, Esq.\n\n  (1.) Attributed to       Birt    } In Sir Francis\n  (2.) ----                Churton }  Freeling's copy.\n\n  Page 164.\n    Right-hand neighbor    Mr. George Nicol.\n    Left-hand ditto        Mr. R. H. Evans.\n    Opposite ditto         Mr. Thomas Payne.\n\n  Page 249.\n    Literary friend        Sir Henry Ellis.\n\nW. P.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPARALLEL PASSAGES.[1]\n\n  1.  \"In a drear-nighted December,\n        Too happy, happy tree,\n      Thy Branches ne'er remember\n        Their green felicity,\" &c.--_Keats._\n\n    \"What would be the heart of an old weather-beaten hollow stump, if the\n    leaves and blossoms of its youth were suddenly to spring up out of the\n    mould around it, and to remind it how bright and blissful summer was in\n    the years of its prime?\"--Hare's _Guesses at Truth_, 1st series, p.\n    244.\n\n  2.  \"Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,\n        One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,\n      When he call'd the flowers, so blue and golden,\n        Stars that on earth's firmament do shine.\"\n                          Longfellow, _Flowers_.\n\n     \"And daisy-stars, whose firmament is green.\"\n          Hood, _Plea of the Midsummer Fairies_, xxxvi.\n\n[And see the converse thought,--\n\n \"Stars are the daisies that begem\n    The blue fields of the sky.\"\n\nD. M. Moir, quoted in _Dubl. Univ. Mag._, Oct. 1852.]\n\n  3.  \"But she is vanish'd to her shady home\n      Under the deep, inscrutable; and there\n      Weeps in a _midnight_ made of her own hair.\"\n                  Hood, _Hero and Leander_, cxvi.\n\n     \"Within the _midnight_ of her hair,\n      Half-hidden in its deepest deeps,\" &c.\n          Barry Cornwall, _The Pearl Wearer_.\n\n                         \"But, rising up,\n      Robed in the long _night_ of her deep hair, so\n      To the open window moved.\"\n                      Tennyson, _Princess_, p. 89.\n\n  4.  \"He who for love hath undergone\n        The worst that can befall,\n      Is happier thousandfold than one\n        Who never loved at all.\"\n          M. Milnes, _To Myrzha, on returning_.\n\n     \"I hold it true, whate'er befall,\n        I feel it when I sorrow most,--\n     'Tis better to have loved and lost\n        Than never to have loved at all.\"\n          Tennyson, _In Memoriam_, xxvii.\n\n5. Boileau, speaking of himself, when set in his youth to study the law,\nsays that his family--\n\n \"... Palit, et vit en fr\u00e9missant\n  Dans la poudre du greffe un po\u00ebte naissant.\"\n\nWhile Pope, in his _Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot_, speaks of--\n\n \"Some clerk, foredoom'd his father's soul to cross,\n  Who pens a stanza when he should engross.\"\n\nHARRY LEROY TEMPLE.\n\nP.S.--At p. 123. of Vol. vi. are inserted some other parallels, noted by me\nin the course of my reading. For one of these so inserted, that relating\n{152} to Sylla, I was taken to task (see Vol. vi., p. 208.) by P. C. S. S.\nNow, the parallel between the two passages (\"_Parallel_, resemblance,\nconformity continued through many particulars, likeness,\" Johnson's\n_Dictionary_) is this: Both verses endeavour to picture the mingled red and\nwhite of the \"human face divine\" (one satirically, the other\neulogistically), by comparing their combined effect to that of the red hue\nof fruit seen through a partially superfused white medium--meal over\nmulberries, cream over strawberries. If there is not sufficient\n\"resemblance\" or \"likeness\" in the two (in the opinion of P. C. S. S.) to\njustify me in placing them _alongside of one another_ ([Greek: parall\u00eala]),\nI really cannot help it.\n\nI have now ascertained that the words\n\n \"Sylla's a mulberry sprinkled with meal\"\n\nare to be found in Langhorne's _Plutarch_, as a translation of the original\nGreek quoted by P. C. S. S.\n\n[Footnote 1: Continued from Vol. iv., p. 435.; Vol. vi., p. 123.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nANTIQUITY OF THE POLKA: A NOTE FOR THE LADIES.\n\nThe description of the _lavolta_ in Sir John Davies's poem on dancing, _The\nOrchestra_ (1596), shows that it must have closely resembled the dance\nwhich we fondly boast of as one of the great inventions of the nineteenth\ncentury. It runs as follows:\n\n \"Yet is there one, the most delightful kind,\n  A lofty jumping, or a leaping round,\n  Where arm in arm two dancers are entwined,\n  And whirl themselves with strict embracements bound;\n  And still their feet an anap\u00e6st do sound;\n  An anap\u00e6st is all their music's song,\n  Whose first two feet are short, and third is long.\"\n\nThe \"anap\u00e6st\" is conclusive; it points exactly to the peculiar nature of\nthe polka, the pause on the _third_ step. Moreover, it appears, that as\nthere is no especial figure for the polka, so there was none for the\nlavolta; for it is classed among those dances\n\n \"Wherein that dancer greatest praise has won,\n  Which, with best order, can all orders shun;\n  For everywhere he wantonly must range,\n  And turn and wind with unexpected change.\"\n\nWho can doubt after that? The polka was certainly danced before Queen\nElizabeth!\n\nTo this valuable historical parallel I may add that the galliard and\ncoranto also were apparently danced _ad libitum_ (observing only a\nparticular measure), just as our waltz and galop also are:\n\n \"For more diverse and more pleasing show,\n  A swift, a _wandering_ dance, he [Love] did invent,\n  With _passages uncertain_ to and fro,\n  Yet with a certain answer and consent,\n  To the quick music of the instrument.\"\n\nB. R. I.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nSEVEN SCORE SUPERSTITIOUS SAYINGS.\n\nMy common-place books contain a goodly number of superstitious sayings,\nnoted down as heard at different times and in various places, chiefly\nduring the last ten or twelve years. I have made a selection from them, the\ngreater portion of which will probably come under the printer's eye for the\nfirst time, should they be considered a fitting addition to the interesting\nrecords of Folk Lore in the pages of \"N. & Q.\" I reserve my comment or\nattempted illustration for future opportunities.\n\n_First Score._\n\n1. _Adder._ \"Look under the deaf adder's belly, and you'll find marked, in\nmottled colours, these words:\n\n 'If I could hear as well as see,\n  No man of life [sic] should master me!'\"\n\n(This saying was related to me by a friend, a native of Lewes, Sussex,\nwhere it is common.)\n\n2. _Adder-skin._ \"It'll bring you good luck to hang an ether-skin o'er the\nchimbly [chimney-piece].\" (Heard in Leicestershire.)\n\n3. _Beanfield._ \"Sleep in a beanfield all night if you want to have awful\ndreams, or go crazy.\" (In Leicestershire.)\n\n4. _Chime-hours._ \"A child born in chime-hours will have the power to see\nspirits.\" (A Somerset friend.)\n\n5. _Egg-shells._ \"Always poke a hole through your eggshell before you throw\nit away.\"--Why? \"If you don't, the fairies will put to sea to wreck the\nships.\" (Somerset. Query, For fairies, read witches?)\n\n6. _Eyebrows._ \"It's a good thing to have meeting eyebrows. You'll never\nknow trouble.\" (Various places.)\n\n7. _Fern-root._ \"Cut a fern-root slantwise, and you'll see a picture of an\noak-tree: the more perfect, the luckier chance for you.\" (Croydon and\nelsewhere.)\n\n8. _Flowering Myrtle._ \"That's the luckiest plant to have in your window.\nWater it every morning, and be proud of it.\" (Somerset.)\n\n9. _Harvest Spider._ \"The _harvest-man_ has got four things on its\nback,--the scythe, the rake, the sickle, and [Query the fourth?] It's most\nunlucky for the reaper to kill it on purpose.\" (From an Essex man.)\n\n10. _Holly, Ivy, &c._ \"All your _Christmas_ should be burnt on Twelfth-day\nmorning.\" (London, &c.)\n\n11. _Lettuce._ \"O'er-much lettuce in the garden will stop a young wife's\nbearing.\" (Richmond, Surrey.)\n\n12. _May-baby._ \"A May-baby's always sickly. You may try, but you'll never\nrear it.\" (Various.)\n\n13. _May-kitten._ \"You should drown a May-kitten. It's unlucky to keep it.\"\n(Somerset.) {153}\n\n14. _New Moon._ \"You may see as many new moons at once through a silk\nhandkerchief, as there are years before you will marry.\" (Leicestershire.)\n\n15. _Onions._ \"In buying onions always go in by one door of the shop, and\ncome out by another. Select a shop with two doorways. These onions, placed\nunder your pillow on St. Thomas's Eve, are sure to bring visions of your\ntrue-love, your future husband.\" (London, &c.)\n\n16. _Parsley._ \"Where parsley's grown in the garden, there'll be a death\nbefore the year's out. (London and Surrey.)\n\n17. _Ring-finger._ \"The ring-finger, stroked along any sore or wound, will\nsoon heal it. All the other fingers are poisonous, especially the\nfore-finger.\" (Somerset.)\n\n18. _Salt._ \"Help to salt, help to sorrow.\" (Various.)\n\n19. _Three Dogs._ \"If three dogs chase a rabbit or a hare, they can't kill\nit.\" (Surrey.)\n\n20. _White Cow._ \"A child that sucks a white cow will thrive better.\"\n(Wilts.)\n\nJ. WESTBY GIBSON.\n\n12. Catherine Street, Strand.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Notes.\n\n_Mormon Etymologies._--W. Richards, \"Historian and General Church Recorder\"\nof the Mormons, says:\n\n    \"Mormon is the name of an ancient prophet, and signifies _more good_.\n    'Mormonism,' a new coined word by the enemy, signifies ALL TRUTH,\n    PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE; and the 'Mormon's' creed is _the truth, the\n    whole truth, and nothing but the truth_. And this creed is what the\n    devil and all his imps are eternally fighting against, and not against\n    the believers of that creed only, so far as the _truth influences their\n    actions_.\"--_Millenial Star_, 1850, p. 341.\n\nThis certainly displays the wisdom of the serpent, if not the meekness of\nwisdom. Pray preserve it in your cabinet of literary curiosities.\n\nB. H. C.\n\n_Bandalore and Tommy Moore._--\n\n    \"What this toy was, we have no means of knowing,\" &c.--_Fraser's Mag._,\n    January, p. 5.\n\nHad our reviewer stepped in at Dunnett's toy-shop, instead of searching all\nhis French dictionaries, he would have learned, I doubt not, that bandalore\nis still a living toy, just as it was when Moore was young.\n\nAt Tunbridge it is still made in their pretty ware; and sufficiently\nportable for any kind-hearted grandpapa to carry in his pocket.\n\nJ. J. R.\n\n_Electric Clock._--It is said that the electric telegraph will annihilate\ntime and space. Of the former we have visible proof. Look at the new clock\nin West Strand. The minute-hand moves only once in each minute, and then it\njumps a whole minute at once, and occupies a second of time in doing so.\nNow, supposing the clock to indicate true time at the instant of each\nmovement, it is obvious that it must indicate untrue time at every other\ninstant: hence it only indicates true time during one second in each\nminute, twenty-four minutes in each day, and six days and two hours in the\nwhole year, or less than two years in a century; whilst, during the\nremaining ninety-eight years and more, it is _annihilating_ true time, by\nimposing upon an unwary public that which is false!\n\nJ. J. R.\n\n_Desirable Reprints._--Will you allow me to commence a series of Notes,\nwhich your readers can easily amplify, viz. suggestions of old books\ndeserving to be reprinted, with the authorities quoted recommending them.\n\n1. Glanvil's _Scepis Scientifica_.\n\n    \"Few books, I think, are more deserving of being reprinted.\"--Hallam's\n    _Literature of Europe_.\n\nJ. M.\n\n_The Earldom of Oxford._--The following is so remarkable a coincidence,\nthat I am sure many of your readers will be obliged to me for bringing it\nunder their notice, particularly those who are interested in heraldry.\n\nThe same individual who has been for many years the nearest heir _male_ to\nAubery de Vere, twentieth and last earl of Oxford of that family, who died\nin 1702, has become, by the recent death of Alfred, sixth Earl of Oxford\nand Mortimer, the nearest heir _male_ to that race also, which title is\nlikewise extinct.\n\nAN M. D.\n\n_Literary Attainments of the Scottish Clergy in the Seventeenth\nCentury._--In a deed granted by Andro Andersone, minister of Loth, in\nSutherlandshire, anno 1618, wherein he is designated \"Ministro veriti Dei\napud Loithe,\" the instrument is signed with his mark, after which is added,\n\"Cannot wreitt myself.\"\n\nKIRKWALLENSIS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQueries.\n\nQUERIES AS TO MR. COLLIER'S \"NOTES AND EMENDATIONS.\"\n\nQuery 1. Does MR. COLLIER claim a copyright in the _Emendations on the Text\nof Shakspeare_ lately published by him, and derived from MS. corrections in\nhis old copy of the folio of 1632? He seems to intimate as much in what he\nsays at p. 13. of his Introduction, when he speaks of a certain phrase\nnever being again seen in any edition of Shakspeare, \"unless it be\nreproduced by some one who, _having no right to use the emendations of our\nfolio 1632_, adheres _of necessity_ to the {154} antiquated blunder, and\npertinaciously attempts to justify it.\"\n\nI doubt much whether he is entitled to any such privilege. If the words as\nrestored were really those of Shakspeare, as is alleged, I do not see how\nthe writer of the MS. corrections could _himself_ claim any property in\nthem; and if _he_ had none, much less can MR. COLLIER have. It would be a\npity were the public to be deprived of the benefit of the corrections by\nthe use of them being exclusively confined to MR. COLLIER'S editions.\n\nQuery 2. Does the writer of the MS. corrections occasionally give reasons\nin support of the changes proposed? At p. 306., MR. COLLIER says: \"The\nmanuscript corrector _assures us_ that although the intention of the\ndramatist is evident, a decided misprint has crept into the line.\"\n\nAgain, at p. 305., MR. COLLIER says: \"For 'senseless obstinate,' the\ncorrector of the folio 1632 _states that we must substitute_ words,\" &c.\nAgain, at p. 352.: \"A _note_ in the folio 1632, induces us to believe that\nShakspeare did not use the term,\" &c. The MS. corrector is also sometimes\nmade to tell us, that a certain error is the printer's, and another that of\nthe copyist. Perhaps these are only rhetorical forms of expression, to\nintimate that certain corrections appeared on the margin of the folio 1632,\nand MR. COLLIER'S own opinion of their propriety.\n\nSCOTUS.\n\nEdinburgh.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHONE'S \"HISTORY OF PARODY.\"\n\nA small collection of the political squibs and pamphlets published by Wm.\nHone about 1820, has lately come into my possession. An advertisement in\nseveral of these announces that the large material collected for his\ndefence had induced him to prepare, and \"very speedily\" to publish, _A\ncomplete History of Parody_, \"with extensive graphic illustrations.\" This\non March 20. Again, on October 2, same year, he says: \"I take this\nopportunity of announcing that the work will appear in monthly parts, each\ncontaining at least five engravings, and that it will probably be completed\nin eight deliveries at 5s. each. I pledge myself that the First Part shall\nbe published, without fail, on the 1st January next, and respectfully\ninvite the names of subscribers. The money to be paid on the delivery of\neach Part.\"\n\nLastly, in an \"Explanatory Address,\" appended to No. 1. of his _Every-Day\nBook_, dated 31st Dec., 1824, Hone says: \"_The History of Parody_, with\nenlarged reports of my three trials, a royal 8vo. volume of 600 pages,\nhandsomely printed, and illustrated by numerous engravings on copper and\nwood, plain and coloured, is in considerable forwardness. The price will be\n2l. 2s., in extra cloth boards,\" &c.\n\nThus, though advertised more than four years previously, this work had not\nyet come out, and indeed, if not mistaken, I think it never appeared at\nall. Will some of your bibliographical correspondents inform me if my\nsurmise is correct? and if so, what has become of Hone's MSS., and the\nlarge collection he made on the subject of parody?\n\nJAMES B. MURDOCH.\n\n162. Hope Street, Glasgow.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE'S LETTER TO SIR JOSEPH WILLIAMSON.\n\nSir Joseph Williamson, Secretary of State to Charles II., having presumed\nto recommend a candidate for her borough of Appleby, she wrote him the\nfollowing spirited and well-known reply:\n\n    \"I have been bullied by an usurper: I have been neglected by a court:\n    but I will not be dictated to by a subject. Your man sha'n't stand.\n\n    \"ANNE DORSET, PEMBROKE, AND MONTGOMERY.\"\n\nThis statement is taken from _A Sermon preached at the Funeral of Anne,\nCountess of Pembroke, &c._, by Bishop Rainbow; with _Biographical Memoirs_\n(1839), page of the _Memoir_ xiii. In a note, it is observed that--\n\n    \"Mr. Lodge questions the genuineness of this letter, which appears to\n    have been first published in _The World_ in 1753.\"\n\nI concur with Mr. Lodge. The style of the letter is quite modern: the verb\n\"bully\" seems also quite a modern coinage and the signature varies from the\nusual setting forth and sequence of titles contained in the inscriptions\nwhich the Countess placed over the gateways of her castles, as she repaired\nthem, and which ran thus, the peerages being placed in the order of their\ncreation, viz.: \"Countess Dowager of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery.\" In\nsupport of the genuineness of the letter, it may be urged that Sir Joseph\nWilliamson, from an early period after the Restoration until 1674, when he\nbecame Secretary of State, held various offices about the Court that might\nhave thus brought him into collision with the Countess; that he was not a\nvery scrupulous man; that he was the \"son of a clergyman somewhere in\n_Cumberland_;\" and that his highest promotion took place before the death\nof the Countess in 1675. (For some account of him, see Evelyn's _Memoirs_,\nIndex.) To this it may be added, that the letter accords with her\ncourageous spirit. Can no earlier authority be given for it than that of\n_The World_ in 1753?\n\nJ. K.\n\n    [Although this subject has been already briefly discussed in our\n    columns (see Vol. i., pp. 28. 119. 154.), we think it of sufficient\n    interest to be renewed, now that our increased circulation will bring\n    it under the notice of so many more readers; among whom, {155} perhaps\n    one may be found in a position to solve the mystery in which the\n    authenticity of this oft-quoted letter is at present involved.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries.\n\n_Medi\u00e6val Parchment._--In what way did medi\u00e6val illuminators prepare their\nparchment? For our modern parchment is so ill prepared, that it gets\ncrumpled as soon as wet chalk for gilding, or any colour, is laid on it;\nwhilst the parchment in medi\u00e6val MSS. is quite smooth and level, as if it\nhad not been moistened at all.\n\nShould a full answer to this Query take up too much of your valuable space,\nI should be satisfied with the titles of any works on the art of\n\"illumination,\" in which special mention is made of the way of preparing\nparchment.\n\nF. M. (A Maltese.)\n\n\"_Mater ait nat\u00e6._\"--Where can the following lines, thus \"Englished by\nHakewill,\" be found?\n\n \"Mater ait nat\u00e6, dic nat\u00e6, fili\u00e2, natam\n  Ut moneat nat\u00e6 plangere[2] filiolam.\"\n\n \"The aged mother to her daughter spake,\n    Daughter, said she, arise;\n  Thy daughter to her daughter take,\n    Whose daughter's daughter cries.\"\n\nMy object in asking the above question is for the purpose of discovering if\nsuch a relationship ever existed.\n\nW. W.\n\nMalta.\n\n[Footnote 2: \"plangere\" corrected from \"piangere\".--Transcriber.]\n\n_Fox of Whittlebury Forest._--In Mr. Jessie's _Life of Beau Brummel_, I met\nwith a passage which spoke about the \"well-known fox of Whittlebury\nForest.\" Can any of your readers kindly inform me in what the celebrity of\nthis animal consists, that Mr. Jessie takes for granted is so well known?\n\nA FOX HUNTER.\n\n_Names and Numbers of British Regiments_ (Vol. iv., p. 368.; Vol. vi, p.\n37.).--I feel disappointed that none of your numerous and well-informed\nreaders have responded to my inquiries on this subject. Hoping, however,\nthat answers may still be obtained, I venture to repeat the questions for\nthe _third_ time, viz.:\n\n1. What was the origin of giving British regiments the _name_ of a certain\nofficer, instead of _numbering_ them as at present?\n\n2. If in honour of an officer commanding the corps, was the name changed\nwhen that officer died or removed to another regiment; or what was the\nrule?\n\n3. _When_ did the present mode of _numbering_ regiments begin; and by whom\nwas it introduced?\n\n4. What was the rule or principle laid down in giving any regiment a\ncertain _number_? Was it according to the length of time it had been\nembodied?\n\n5. What is the guide now, in identifying a _named_ with a _numbered_\nregiment? For example, at the battle of Culloden, in 1746, \"Wolfe's,\"\n\"Barrell's,\" and \"Howard's Foot\" were engaged. Now, what is the rule for\nascertaining the _numbers_ of these, and other old regiments, in the\nBritish army at the present day?\n\nI shall feel greatly obliged by the above information.\n\nZ.\n\nGlasgow.\n\n_Daughters of St. Mark._--How many were adopted as daughters of the\nRepublic of St. Mark? Catherine Cornaro was one, and, I believe, Bianca\nCapello another. I think there were but one or two more: but who were they?\n\nROSA.\n\n_Kentish Fire._--What is the origin of the term \"Kentish fire,\" signifying\nenergetic applause?\n\nROSA.\n\n_Optical Phenomenon._--On the afternoon of the 20th January, at one\no'clock, as I stood on the beach of Llandudno Bay, North Wales, I observed\na rainbow, from the circumference of which passed a number of bright\npencils of light, apparently converging to a point near the invisible\ncentre of the rainbow. What is the explanation of this phenomenon?\n\nC. MANSFIELD INGLEBY.\n\nBirmingham.\n\n_Cardinal Bentivoglio's Description of England._--A MS. of this interesting\nwork exists among Bishop Tanner's MSS. in the Bodleian Library. Has it ever\nbeen printed? The account is said to have been drawn up with great care and\naccuracy, and betrays no sinister views.\n\nDid Cardinal Bentivoglio visit England in person, or how did he collect his\ninformation?\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n_Remarkable Signs._--Can any of the learned contributors of the \"N. & Q.\"\noblige a CONSTANT READER with the probable meanings or origins of the\nfollowing signs, all of which are to be found in the London Directories:\n\n  Anti-Gallican (four taverns of this name).\n  Bombay Grab.\n  Essex Serpent.\n  Fortune of War (five).\n  George and Guy (two).\n  Moonrakers (two).\n  Grave Maurice (two).\n  Sun and Thirteen Cantons (two).\n\nJ. E.\n\nFleet Street.\n\n_Old Fable._--There is a fable in the _Vicar of Wakefield_ of two brothers,\na dwarf and giant, going out to battle, and sharing the victory but not the\nwounds.\n\nThere is another, perhaps a sequel to it, which relates that the dwarf,\n\"tot bellorum superstitem,\" {156} was choked in the fraternal embrace, with\nthe sorry consolation that it was \"the giant's nature to squeeze hard.\"\n\nAre these fables wholly modern or not? I have thought that some such are\nthe key to Juvenal's meaning:\n\n \"Malim fraterculus esse gigantis;\"\n\nto the ordinary construing of which there are positive objections.\n\nJ. E. G.\n\n_Tide Tables._--Can you, or any of your subscribers, give me a rule for\nascertaining the heights of tides and times of high water, the\nestablishment of the port, and rise of springs and neaps, being known? One\ndivested of algebraic formul\u00e6 would be preferred: say--\n\n  Establishment        10 h. 58 m.\n  Springs' rise        8\u00bd feet.\n  Neaps'    \"          2 feet.\n\nR.\n\nLancaster.\n\n_Passage in Ovid._--In speaking of the rude and unscientific state of the\nearly Romans, in the third book of his _Fasti_, Ovid has the following\nverses:\n\n \"Libera currebant, et inobservata per annum\n    Sidera: constabat sed tamen esse Deos.\n  Non illi coelo labentia signa tenebant;\n    Sed sua: qu\u00e6 magnum perdere crimen erat.\"\n                                  V. 111-114.\n\nThe idea expressed in this passage is that the primitive Romans cared more\nabout war than astronomy. They did not observe the stars, though they\nbelieved them to be deities. The pun upon the word _signa_--constellations\nand military standards--is worthy of notice. But what is the meaning of\n_libera_, in the first verse? Is it nearly equivalent to _inobservata_, and\ndoes it denote the absence of the prying curiosity of men? It cannot be\nintended that the courses of the stars were less regular before they were\nthe subjects of observation, than after the birth of astronomy.\n\nL.\n\n_Roger Pele, Abbot of Furness._--Is anything known of the antecedents of\nRoger Pele, last abbot of Furness, who, after years of trouble and\npersecution, was at length constrained to execute a deed, dated 5th April,\n28 Hen. VIII., whereby he did \"freely and hollie surrender, giff, and\ngraunt unto the Kynges highnes and to his heyres and assignes for evermore\n... all his interest and titill in the said monasterie of ffurness, and of\nand in the landes, rentes, possessions, revenous, servyce, both spirituall\nand temporall,\" &c.? This deed is, I believe, given at length in the Cotton\nMSS., Cleopatra E. IV. fol. 244.\n\nRoger Pele was elevated about 1532, and became rector of Dalton, a village\nnear his old abbey, 9th Nov., 29 Hen. VIII. This rectory he held, I\nbelieve, during the remainder of his life, in spite of all the efforts made\nto dispossess him. (See Beck's _Annales Furnessienses_, p. 346. et seq.)\n\nWhat was the origin and early history of this man, remarkable for the\nfirmness and ability which so long baffled all the power and might of\nHenry, whose vengeance pursued him even into obscurity.\n\nABBATI.\n\n_Curtseys and Bows._--Why do ladies curtsey instead of bow? Is the\ndistinction one which obtains generally; and what is the earliest mention\nof curtseys in any writer on English affairs?\n\nE. S.\n\nHampton Court.\n\n_Historical Proverb._--I have frequently in youth heard the proverb, \"You\nmay change _Norman_ for a worser (worse) horse.\" This sounds like the wise\nsaying of some unpatriotic Saxon, when urged to revolt against the\nconquering invaders. If so, it is an interesting relic of the days when\n\"Englishrie,\" though suppressed, yet became peacefully victorious in\ntransmuting the intruders into its own excellent metal.\n\nJ. R. P.\n\n_Bishop Patrick's \"Parable of a Pilgrim.\"_--Can any of your contributors\ninform me of any bibliographical notice of Bishop Patrick's _Parable of a\nPilgrim_? Its singular title, and the suggested plagiarism of Bunyan,\nlately attracted my attention; but I incline to the belief that we may\nstill regard the _Pilgrim's Progress_ to be as original as it is\nextraordinary. Patrick's work appears to have been written in 1663, while\nBunyan was not committed to prison until 1660, and was released in 1673:\nhaving written, or at least composed, his extraordinary work during the\ninterval. Bunyan might therefore have seen and read Patrick's book; but,\nfrom a careful comparison of the two works, I am satisfied in my own mind\nthat such a supposition is unnecessary, and probably erroneous. I may add\nthat Patrick honestly confesses, that not even his own work is entirely\noriginal, but was suggested by an elder \"Parable of the Pilgrim\" in Baker's\n_Sancta Sophia_.\n\nGEORGE WM. BELL.\n\n_Dr. Parr's Dedications._--Dr. Parr has dedicated the three parts of\n_Bellendences de Statu_ respectively to Burke, Lord North, and Fox,\nsubscribing each dedication with the letters A. E. A. O. Can any of your\ncorrespondents explain them?\n\nBALLIOLENSIS.\n\n\"_K\u00f6nigl. Schwedischer in Teutschland gef\u00fchrter Krieg_, 1632-1648, von B.\nPh. v. Chemnitz.\"--As is known, the first two parts of this important work\nwere printed in 1648 and 1653. The continuation of the original manuscript\nexists now in the Swedish Record Office, with the exception, unfortunately,\nof the third part. The Curator of the Royal Library in Hanover, however, J.\nDan, {157} Grueber, testifies, in his _Commercium Epistolare\nLeibnitianinum_, Pars 1^{ma}, p. 119., Hanovi\u00e6, 1745, in 8vo., that the\nmissing part was then in that library:\n\n    \"Tertius tomus excusus non est, quippe imperfectus; Manuscriptum tamen\n    quoad absolutus est, inter alia septentrionis cimelia nuper repertum,\n    Bibliothec\u00e6 Regi\u00e6 vindicavimus.\"\n\nBut this manuscript is no longer to be found there. Is it possible it may\nhave been removed to England, and still to be found in one of the public\ncollections? An answer to any of the above questions would deeply oblige\n\n  G. E. KLEMMING,\n  Librarian in the Royal Library at Stockholm.\n\n\"_Officium Birgittinum Anglice._\"--\n\n    \"Integrum Beat\u00e6 Virginis Officium quod \u00e0 S. Birgitta concinnatum,\n    monialibus sui ordinis in usu publico fecit, Anglice ab anonymo quodam\n    conversum, Londini prodiit ante annum 1500 in folio, ex Caxtoni, uti\n    videtur, pr\u00e6lo editum.\"\n\nis the notice of the above translation occurring in an old Swedish author.\nInformation is requested as to whether any more detailed account can be\nobtained of the book referred to.[3] For any such the Querist will be\nespecially thankful: if it should be possible to procure a copy of the\nsame, his boldest hopes would be exceeded. If no English translation of S.\nBirgitta's revelations, or of the prayers and prophecies extracted\ntherefrom--the latter known under the name of _Onus Mundi_, should exist,\neither in print or in old manuscript, this, in consideration of the very\ngeneral circulation which these writings obtained in the Middle Ages, would\nbe a very peculiar exception. The book named at the head of this Query\nwould appear to be a translation of the _Breviarium S. Birgitt\u00e6._\n\n  G. E. KLEMMING,\n  Librarian in the Royal Library at Stockholm.\n\n[Footnote 3: [See Wharton, in his Supplement to Usher, _De Scripturis et\nSacris Vernaculis_, p. 447., edit. 1690.--ED.]]\n\n_Campbell's Hymn on the Nativity._--The hymn, of which the following are\nthe first two verses, is said to have been written by Campbell. Can any\ncorrespondent of \"N. & Q.\" say which Campbell is the author, and when and\nwhere the hymn was first printed?\n\n \"When Jordan hush'd his waters still,\n  And silence slept on Zion's hill,\n  When Bethlehem's shepherds thro' the night\n  Watch'd o'er their flocks by starry light,\n\n \"Hark! from the midnight hills around,\n  A voice of more than mortal sound\n  In distant hallelujahs stole,\n  Wild murmuring o'er the raptur'd soul.\"\n\nH. S. S.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMinor Queries with Answers.\n\n_When Our Lord falls in Our Lady's Lap._--Seeing that Good Friday in this\nyear falls on Lady Day, may I beg to ask if any of your contributors could\ninform me where the following old saying is to be met with, viz.:\n\n \"When Good Friday falls in a Lady's lap,\n  To England will happen some mishap,\"\n\nor to whom the prophecy (I hope a false one) may be attributed? I have seen\nit some years since, and have lately been asked the origin of the saying.\n\nJ. N. C.\n\nHull.\n\n    [Our correspondent has not quoted this old proverb correctly. It is\n    thus given by Fuller (_Worthies of England_, vol. i. p. 115. ed. 1840):\n\n     \"When Our Lady falls in Our Lord's lap\n      Then let England beware a sad { clap\n                                    { mishap,\n\n                  _alias_\n\n      Then let the clergyman look to his cap.\"\n\n    But Fuller shows that it refers to Easter Day, not Good Friday, falling\n    on the 25th March, when he remarks:--\"I behold this proverbial\n    prophecy, or this prophetical menace, to be not above six score years\n    old, and of Popish extraction since the Reformation. It whispereth more\n    than it dares speak out, and points at more than it dares whisper; and\n    fain would intimate to credulous persons as if the Blessed Virgin,\n    offended with the English for abolishing her adoration, watcheth an\n    opportunity of revenge on this nation. And when her day (being the\n    five-and-twentieth of March, and first of the Gregorian year) chanceth\n    to fall on the day of Christ's resurrection, then being, as it were,\n    fortified by her Son's assistance, some signal judgment is intended to\n    our state, and churchmen especially.\"\n\n    He then gives a list of the years on which the coincidences had\n    happened since the Conquest, to which, if our correspondent is curious\n    on the subject, we must refer him. Can he, or any other of our readers,\n    furnish any proof of the existence of this proverb before the\n    Reformation, or the existence of a similar proverb on the Continent?]\n\n_Hobnail-counting in the Court of Exchequer._--I shall feel obliged by your\ninforming me from what circumstance originates the yearly custom of the\nlord mayor of London counting six horse-shoes and sixty-one hobnails at the\nswearing in of the sheriff?\n\nA CONSTANT READER.\n\nChertsey.\n\n    [The best explanation of this custom will be found in the _Gentleman's\n    Magazine_ for 1804, where we read: \"The ceremony on this occasion in\n    the Court of Exchequer, which vulgar error supposed to be an unmeaning\n    farce, is solemn and impressive, nor have the new sheriffs the least\n    connexion either with chopping of sticks, or counting of hobnails. The\n    tenants of a manor in Shropshire are directed to come forth and do\n    their suit and service; on which the senior alderman below {158} the\n    chair steps forward and chops a single stick, in token of its having\n    been customary for the tenants of that manor to supply their lord with\n    fuel. The owners of a forge in the parish of St. Clement (which\n    formerly belonged to the city, and stood in the high road from the\n    Temple to Westminster, but now no longer exists) are then called forth\n    to do their suit and service; when an officer of the court, in the\n    presence of the senior alderman, produces six horse-shoes and sixty-one\n    hobnails, which he counts over in form before the cursitor baron, who\n    on this particular occasion is the immediate representative of the\n    sovereign.\"]\n\n_A Race for Canterbury._--I have just met with a little volume of sixteen\npages entitled _A Race for Canterbury or Lambeth, Ho!_ It is dated 1747,\nand was evidently written on the death of Archbishop Potter; and describes\nfour aspirants to the see of Canterbury as four rowers on the Thames:\n\n \"No sooner Death had seized the seer,\n  Just in the middle of his prayer,\n  But instantly on Thames appear'd\n  Four wherries rowing very hard.\"\n    &c.  &c.  &c.\n\nThe first is thus introduced:\n\n \"Sh----, though old, has got the start,\n  And vigorously plays his part.\"\n\nThe second:\n\n \"H---- in order next advances,\n  And full of hopes he strangely fancies,\n  That he by dint of merit shall\n  Get first to land by Lambeth wall.\"\n\nThe third:\n\n \"M--s--n moves on a sober pace,\n  And sits and rows with easy grace.\n  No ruffling passion's in him seen,\n  Indifferent if he lose or win.\"\n\nThe fourth:\n\n \"Next Codex comes with lab'ring oar,\n  And, envious, sees the three before;\n  Yet luggs and tuggs with every joint,\n  In hopes at length to gain the point.\"\n\nHaving no list of the bishops by me, of the above-mentioned date, to which\nI can refer, I should be glad if any of your correspondents can tell me who\nthese four bishops are. May I ask likewise, if it is known who was the\nauthor of this not very refined or elegant composition?\n\nJOHN BRANFILL HARRISON.\n\nMaidstone.\n\n    [The four aspirants probably were, 1. Sherlock of Salisbury; 2. Herring\n    of York, the next primate; 3. Mawson of Chichester; 4. Gibson of\n    London.]\n\n_Nose of Wax._--In so famous a public document as the _Nottingham\nDeclaration of the Nobles, Gentry, and Commons_, in November, 1688, against\nthe Papistical inroads of the infatuated King James, I find in the Ninth\nResolution that he is accused of \"rendering the laws a _nose of wax_,\" in\norder to further arbitrary ends. I have often heard the phrase familiarly\nin my youthful days; may I ask of you to inform me of its origin? Its\nimport is plain enough,--a silly bugbear, of none effect but to be laughed\nat.\n\nW. J.\n\n    [Nares explains it more correctly as a proverbial phrase for anything\n    very mutable and accommodating; chiefly applied to flexibility of\n    faith. He adds, \"It should be noticed, however, that the similitude was\n    originally borrowed from the Roman Catholic writers, who applied it to\n    the Holy Scriptures, on account of their being liable to various\n    interpretations.\"]\n\n\"_Praise from Sir Hubert Stanley!_\"--I have somewhere heard or read this,\nor a very similar phrase, ironically expressive of surprise at approbation\nfrom an unexpected quarter. I would much like a clue to its source and\ncorrect shape.\n\nW. T. M.\n\nHong Kong.\n\n    [This is from Morton's _Cure for the Heart Ache_, Act V. Sc.\n    2.:--\"Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.\"]\n\n_Rosary._--What is the origin of the term _rosary_? Is it derived from the\nLatin _rogare_?\n\nG. C. C.\n\n    [Richardson derives it from Fr. _Rosaire_; Ital. and Sp. _Rosario_; Low\n    Lat. _Rosarium, corona rosacea_, a garland or chaplet of roses. The\n    definition of it by the Abb\u00e9 Prevost is this:--\"It consists,\" he says,\n    \"of fifteen tens, said to be in honour of the fifteen mysteries in\n    which the Blessed Virgin bore a part. _Five_ Joyous, viz. the\n    annunciation, the visit to St. Elizabeth, the birth of our Saviour, the\n    purification, and the disputation of Christ in the temple. _Five_\n    Sorrowful: our Saviour's agony in the garden, his flagellation,\n    crowning with thorns, bearing his cross, and crucifixion. _Five_\n    Glorious: his resurrection, ascension, the descent of the Holy Ghost,\n    his glorification in heaven, and the assumption of the Virgin\n    herself.\"--_Manuel Lexique._ Nares, quoting this passage, adds, \"This\n    is good authority; but why each of the fives is multiplied by ten the\n    Abb\u00e9 does not explain; probably to make the chaplet of a sufficient\n    length.\"]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies.\n\nTHE ROD: A POEM.\n\n(Vol. vi., p. 493.)\n\nMy copy of this poem bears date 1754, and is not stated to be a second\nedition. It has \"an advertisement\" of three pages, deprecatory of the\nimputation of any personal allusions, or design to encourage school\nrebellions. It has also a frontispiece (\"Jas. Green, sculp., Oxon.\"),\nrepresenting two youths, one standing, the other sitting, on a form; and\nbefore them the figure of an ass, erect on his hind legs, clothed in a\npallium. A birch, doctorial hat, and books, lettered Priscian and {159}\nLycophron, form the base; and on a ribbon above is the legend, \"An ass in\nthe Greek pallium teaching.\" In other respects my copy agrees with MR.\nCROSSLEY'S description of his, except that the argument (p. 7.) commences,\n\"_The great and good_ King Alfred,\" &c.\n\nPerhaps the following lines (though I doubt their having been written at\nthe age of thirteen) may be received as germane to the subject:\n\n              THE BIRCH: A POEM.\n          _Written by a Youth of thirteen._\n\n  Though the _Oak_ be the prince and the pride of the grove,\n  The emblem of power and the fav'rite of Jove;\n  Though Phoebus his temples with _Laurel_ has bound,\n  And with chaplets of _Poplar_ Alcides is crown'd;\n  Though Pallas the _Olive_ has graced with her choice,\n  And old mother Cybel in _Pines_ may rejoice,\n  Yet the Muses declare, after diligent search,\n  That no tree can be found to compare with the _Birch_.\n    The Birch, they affirm, is the true tree of knowledge,\n  Revered at each school and remember'd at college.\n  Though Virgil's famed tree might produce, as its fruit,\n  A crop of vain dreams, and strange whims on each shoot,\n  Yet the Birch on each bough, on the top of each switch,\n  Bears the essence of grammar and eight parts of speech.\n 'Mongst the leaves are conceal'd more than mem'ry can mention,\n  All cases, all genders, all forms of declension.\n    Nine branches, when cropp'd by the hands of the Nine,\n  And duly arranged in a parallel line,\n  Tied up in nine folds of a mystical string,\n  And soak'd for nine days in cold Helicon spring,\n  Form a sceptre composed for a pedagogue's hand,\n  Like the Fasces of Rome, a true badge of command.\n  The sceptre thus finish'd, like Moses's rod,\n  From flints could draw tears, and give life to a clod.\n  Should darkness Egyptian, or ignorance, spread\n  Their clouds o'er the mind, or envelope the head,\n  The rod, thrice applied, puts the darkness to flight,\n  Disperses the clouds, and restores us to light.\n  Like the Virga Divina, 'twill find out the vein\n  Where lurks the rich metal, the ore of the brain.\n  Should Genius a captive in sloth be confined,\n  Or the witchcraft of Pleasure prevail o'er the mind,\n  The magical wand but apply--with a stroke\n  The spell is dissolved, the enchantment is broke.\n  Like Hermes' caduceus, these switches inspire\n  Rhetorical thunder, poetical fire:\n  And if Morpheus our temples in Lethe should steep,\n  Their touch will untie all the fetters of sleep.\n    Here dwells strong conviction--of Logic the glory,\n  When applied with precision _\u00e0 posteriori_.\n  I've known a short lecture most strangely prevail,\n  When duly convey'd to the head through the tail;\n  Like an electrical shock, in an instant 'tis spread,\n  And flies with a jerk from the tail to the head;\n  Promotes circulation, and thrills through each vein,\n  The faculties quickens, and purges the brain.\n    By sympathy thus, and consent of the parts,\n  We are taught, _fundamentally_, classics and arts.\n    The Birch, _\u00e0 priori_, applied to the palm,\n  Can settle disputes and a passion becalm.\n  Whatever disorders prevail in the blood\n  The birch can correct them, like guaiacum wood:\n  It sweetens the juices, corrects our ill humours,\n  Bad habits removes, and disperses foul tumours.\n  When applied to the hand it can cure with a switch,\n  Like the salve of old Molyneux, used in the itch!\n  As the famed rod of Circe to brutes could turn men,\n  So the twigs of the Birch can unbrute them again.\n  Like the wand of the Sybil, that branch of pure gold,\n  These sprays can the gates of Elysium unfold--\n  The Elysium of learning, where pleasures abound,\n  Those sweets that still flourish on classical ground.\n  Prometheus's rod, which, mythologists say,\n  Fetch'd fire from the sun to give life to his clay,\n  Was a rod well applied his men to inspire\n  With a taste for the arts, and their genius to fire.\n    This bundle of rods may suggest one reflection,\n  That the arts with each other maintain a connexion.\n  Another good moral this bundle of switches\n  Points out to our notice and silently teaches;\n  Of peace and good fellowship these are a token,\n  For the twigs, well united, can scarcely be broken.\n    Then, if such are its virtues, we'll bow to the tree,\n  And THE BIRCH, like the Muses, immortal shall be.\n\nI copy from a MS. extract-book, and shall be glad of a reference to any\nplace in which these lines have appeared in print.\n\nBALLIOLENSIS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE DUTCH EAST-INDIA COMPANY.\n\n(Vol. vi., p. 316.)\n\nThese folio volumes appeared in 1646, without name or place of either\nauthor or printer, under the title--\n\n    \"Begin ende Voortgang van de Vereenighde Nederlandsche Geoctroyeerde\n    Oost-Indische Compagnie, vervattende de voornaemste Reysen, by de\n    inwoonderen derselver provincien derwaerts gedaen, alles nevens de\n    {160} beschryvinghen der Rycken, Eylanden, Hovenen, Rivieren, Stroomen,\n    Rheden, winden, diepten, ondiepten, mitsgaders religien, manieren,\n    aerdt, politie, ende regeeringhe der volckeren, oock mede haerder\n    Specer\u00ffen, drooghen, geldt ende andere koopmanschappen; met veele\n    discoursen verryckt, nevens eenighe koopere platen verciert. Nut ende\n    dienstig alle curieuse ende andere zee-varende. Met dry besondere\n    tafels ofte registers; in twee Delen verdeelt, waer het eerste begrypt\n    veerttien voyagien den meerendeelen voor desen noyt in 't licht\n    geweest. Gedrukt in den jaere 1646.\"\n\n    (_Translation._)\n\n    Commencement and progress of the United Dutch Chartered East-India\n    Company, containing the principal travels made among the inhabitants of\n    the provinces there, together with a description of the kingdoms,\n    courts, islands, rivers, roadsteads, winds, deeps, shallows, as well as\n    religions, manners, character, police, and governments of the people;\n    also their spices, drugs, money, and other merchandise, enriched with\n    many discourses, and adorned with copperplates. Useful and profitable\n    to all curious and seafaring virtuosi. With three separate tables or\n    registers; divided into two parts, of which the first contains fourteen\n    voyages, the most part never before published. Printed in the year\n    1646.\n\nThe compiler, however, goes too far in asserting that the greatest part of\nthese voyages had never been printed. The contrary appears when we open the\nfolio catalogue of the Leyden Library, containing a fine collection of\nthese early voyages of our ancestors.\n\nThese voyages were printed consecutively in small folio before 1646; as\nalso the _Oost Indische en West Indische Voyagien_, Amsterdam, by Michel\nColyn, boekverkooper (_East Indian and West Indian Voyages_, Amsterdam, by\nMichel Colyn, bookseller), anno 1619, one volume, in the same form and\nthickness as those of 1646: some of the plates also in this volume are\nsimilar to those of 1646.\n\nThis work was dedicated, 28th February, 1619, to the Heeren Gecommitteerde\nRaden ter Admiraliteit residerende te Amsterdam (Advising Committee to the\nAdmiralty residing at Amsterdam), and begins with the _Reis naar Nova\nSembla_ (_Voyage to Nova Zembla_), printed at Enkhuizen in 1617, by Jacob\nLenaertsz Meijn, at the Vergulde Schryfboek (Gilt Writing-book), so that it\nis not improbable that the whole work was printed at Enkhuizen. Michel\nColyn also published other Dutch voyages in 1622.\n\nConcerning Cornelis Claesz (_i.q._ son of Nicholas), printer at Amsterdam,\nI have to observe that he died before 1610, but that the late Lucas Jansz.\nWagenaer had bought all his plates, maps, privileges, &c.\n\nBy a notarial act passed 16th August, 1610, at Enkhuizen, Tryn Haickesdr.,\nwidow of the above-named Wagenaer, declared that the widow of Cornelis\nClaesz might make over to Jacob Lenaertsz all the above-mentioned maps,\nprivileges, &c. See a resolution of the States-General of 13th September,\n1610, in Dodt's _Kerkel\u00ffk en Wereldl\u00ffk Archief_, p. 23. (_Ecclesiastical\nand Civil Archives_).--_From the Navorscher._\n\nELSEVIER.\n\nLeyden.\n\nJ. A. de Chalmot, in his _Biographical Dictionary of the Netherlands_, vol.\nvii. p. 251., names as author, or rather as compiler of this work, Isaak\nCommelin, born at Amsterdam 19th October, 1598, died 3rd Jan. 1676, and\nquotes Kasp. Commelin's _Description of Amsterdam_, which I have not at\nhand to refer to. The work was printed at Amsterdam without printer's name:\neach _voyagie_ or description is separately paged; some places have a\nFrench text. In the second volume is a _Generale beschryvinghe van Indien,\n&c._, naer de cop\u00ffe ghedruckt tot Batavia in de drucker\u00ffe van Gansenpen,\nanno 1638 (_General Description of India, &c._, according to the copy\nprinted at Batavia at the office of the _Goose Quill_). Whether any other\npieces which Commelin compiled had been earlier printed, I have not been\nable to discover.--_From the Navorscher._\n\nJ. C. K.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"ITS.\"\n\n(Vol. vi., p. 509.)\n\nThe following are earlier instances of the employment of _its_ by the\npoets, than any that your correspondent seems to have met with:\n\n \"How sometimes nature will betray _its_ folly,\n  _Its_ tenderness, and makes itself a pastime\n  To harder bosoms!\n                  _Winter's Tale_, Act I. Sc. 2.\n\n                 \"Each following day\n  Became the next day's master, till the last\n  Made former wonders _its_.\"\n                  _Henry VIII._, Act I. Sc. 1.\n\n \"On the green banks which that fair stream in-bound,\n  Flowers and odours sweetly smiled and smell'd,\n  Which, reaching out _its_ stretched arms around,\n  All the large desert in _its_ bosom held.\"\n    Fairefax, _Godfrey of Bulloigne_, xviii. 20., 1600.\n\nI doubt if there are any earlier instances among the poets. I have had no\nopportunity of examining the prose writers of the sixteenth century, but\nthink they must have employed _its_ earlier than the poets. As we may see\nin the version of the Bible, and other works of the time, the English, like\nthe Anglo-Saxon, long continued to use the genitive _his_ for neuters as\nwell as for masculines; and _thereof_ for our present _of it_, _its_.\n\n_Its_ leads me to reflect how ignorant people were of the old languages in\nthe last century. If ever there was a palpable forgery, it is the Poems of\nRowley: yet, if my memory does not deceive me, {161} Tyrwhitt regarded them\nas genuine; and Malone authoritatively affirmed that \"no one except the\nnicest judges of English poetry, from Chaucer to Pope, was competent to\ntest their genuineness.\" Why, this little word _its_ might have tested it.\nYou see we have not been able to trace it in poetry higher up than the end\nof the sixteenth century; and I am quite sure that it is not to be found in\neither Chaucer or Spenser: and yet, in the very first page of Rowley, we\nmeet with the following instances of it:\n\n \"The whyche in _yttes_ felle use doe make moke dere.\"\n\n \"The thynge _yttes_ (_ytte is?_) moste bee _yttes_ owne defense.\"\n\nBut there is a still surer test. We can hardly read a line of Chaucer,\nGower, or any other poet of the time, without meeting with what the French\nterm the feminine _e_, and which must be pronounced as a syllable to make\nthe metre. From one end to the other of the Poems of Rowley, there is not a\nsingle instance of it!\n\nTHOS. KEIGHTLEY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nCOMMENCEMENT OF THE YEAR.\n\n(Vol. vi., p. 563.)\n\nIt may be of service to the inquirer as to the commencement of the year, to\ncall his attention to the note appended to the \"Table of moveable Feasts\"\nin editions prior to 1752. As given by Keeling, from the editions\nantecedent and subsequent to the last review, in 1662, they are as follows:\n\n    \"_Note._--That the supputation of the year of our Lord in the Church of\n    England beginneth the xxvth day of March, the same day supposed to be\n    the first day upon which the world was created, and the day when Christ\n    was conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary\" [1604].\n\n    \"_Note._--That the supputation of the year of our Lord in the Church of\n    England beginneth the xxvth day of March\" [1662].\n\nOf course, after the act for alteration of the style (24 Geo. II. c. 23.)\nwas passed, this note was omitted. But up to that date the old supputation\nwas authoritative and legal. Reference to Hampson's _Medii \u00c6vi Kalendarium_\nmight further illustrate the point.\n\nTo this Note allow me to append a Query. After the collect for St.\nStephen's Day follows this rubric:\n\n    \"Then shall follow the collect of the Nativity, which shall be said\n    continually until New Year's Eve.\"\n\nQuery, Was this collect to be repeated from December 25 to March 24? for,\naccording to the above supputation, that would be New Year's Eve.\n\nThe following note, from the preface to Granger's _Biographical History_,\nmay not be out of place:\n\n    \"The following absurdities, among many others, were occasioned by these\n    different computations. In 1667 there were two Easters, the first on\n    the 25th of April, and the second on the 22nd of March following; and\n    there were three different denominations of the Year of our Lord\n    affixed to three state papers which were published in one week, viz.\n    his Majesty's Speech, dated 1732-3; the Address of the House of Lords,\n    1732; the Address of the House of Commons, 1733.\"--Page xxiii., edit.\n    1824.\n\nBALLIOLENSIS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\"PENARDO AND LAISSA.\"\n\n(Vol. vii., p. 84.)\n\nYour correspondent E. D. is fortunate in the possession of a rare book,\nworth a \"jew's eye\" in the good old days of the Bibliomania. It formed a\npart of the Heber Collection, where (see Part iv. p. 111.) it figures under\nthe following quaint title:\n\n    \"The First Booke of the Famous Historye of Penardo and Laissa,\n    other-ways called the Warres of Love and Ambitione, wherein is\n    described Penardo his most admirable deeds of Arms, his ambition of\n    glore, his contempt of love, with loves mighte assalts and ammorous\n    temptations, Laissa's feareful inchantment, hir relief, hir travells,\n    and lastly, loves admirabel force in hir releiving Penardo from the\n    fire. Doone in Heroik Verse by Patrik Gordon.\n\n    Printed at Dort by George Waters, 1615.\"\n\nThis copy, which was originally John Pinkerton's, cost Mr. Heber 21l., and\nwas resold at his sale for 12l. 5s., for the library of Mr. Miller, of\nCraigentenny; another is in the possession of Dr. Keith, Edinburgh.\nPinkerton, in his _Ancient Scottish Poems_, London, 1792, thus describes\n_Penardo and Laissa_:\n\n    \"Rare to excess; nor can more than two copies be discovered, one in the\n    editor's possession, another in that of an anonymous correspondent in\n    Scotland. The author was probably so ashamed of it as to quash the\n    edition, for it is the most puerile mixture of all times, manners, and\n    religions that ever was published; for instance, the Christian religion\n    is put as that of Ancient Greece.\"\n\nOf the author, Patrick Gordon, little or nothing seems to be known beyond\nthe fact of his styling himself \"gentleman,\" probably the only ground for\nPinkerton calling him \"a man of property.\" The fame of Gordon, however,\nrests upon a better foundation than the above work, he having also \"doone\nin heroik verse _The Famous Historie of the Renouned and Valiant Prince\nRobert, surnamed the Bruce, King of Scotland_,\" \"a tolerable poem,\" says\nthe same critic, \"but not worth reprinting, although it had that compliment\ntwice paid to it.\" {162}\n\nThe \"Bruce\" of our author is a concoction from Barbour and a certain _Book\nof Virgin Parchment_, upon the same subject, by Peter Fenton, known only to\nGordon, and, like _Penardo_, sets propriety at defiance, \"Christ and\nJupiter being with matchless indecorum grouped together:\"[4] it, too, came\noriginally from the press of Dort, 1615; again from that of James Watson,\nEdinburgh, 1718; and a third time, Glasgow, by Hall, 1753.\n\nJ. O.\n\n[Footnote 4: Irving's _Scottish Poets_.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nROBIN HOOD.\n\n(Vol. vi., p. 597.)\n\nIreland, too, is associated with the fame of this renowned wood-ranger.\nThis \"_pen_-ultima Thule,\" which received and protected the refugees of\nRoman oppression and the victims of Saxon extermination, was looked to in\nlater times as a sanctuary where crime might evade punishment; and in the\n_Annals of Robin Hood_ this national commiseration was evinced.\n\n    \"In the year 1189,\" writes Holinshed, \"there ranged three robbers and\n    outlaws in England, among which 'Robert' Hood and Little John were\n    chieftains, of all thieves doubtless the most courteous. Robert, being\n    betrayed at a nunnery in Scotland, called Bricklies, the remnant of the\n    'crue' was scattered, and every man forced to shift for himself;\n    whereupon Little John was fain _to flee the realm_ by sailing into\n    Ireland, where he sojourned for a few days at Dublin. The citizens\n    being 'doone' to understand the wandering outcast to be an excellent\n    archer, requested him heartily to try how far he could shoot at random,\n    who, yielding to their behest, stood on the bridge of Dublin and shot\n    to a hillock in Oxmantown (thereafter called Little John's shot),\n    leaving behind him a monument, rather by posterity to be wondered than\n    possibly by any man living to be counterscored.\"--_Description of\n    Ireland_, fol., p. 24.\n\nThe danger, however, of being taken drove Little John thence to Scotland,\nwhere, adds the annalist, \"he died at a town or village called Moravie.\"\n\nJOHN D'ALTON.\n\nI may perhaps be allowed to subscribe to the opinion expressed by H. K.,\nthat \"though men of the name of Robin Hood may have existed in England,\nthat of itself could afford no ground for inferring that some one of them\nwas the Robin Hood of romantic tradition;\" and at the same time to express\nmy dissent from the conclusion, that \"any pretence for such a supposition\nis taken away by the strong evidence, both Scotch and French,\" which H. K.\nhas \"adduced in support of the opposite view.\"\n\nThe inferences which I draw from the facts adduced by H. K. are, that the\nfame of the hero of English ballads probably extended to France and\nScotland, and that the people of Scotland probably sympathised with this\ndisturber of the peace of the kingdom of their \"aulde ennemies.\"\n\nI must, however, confess that I have not met with any portion of \"the\ndiscussion about the nature of Robin Hood,\" excepting that contained in\nRitson's Notes and Hunter's Tract, and that the evidence adduced in the\nlatter publication, in support of the tradition handed down to us in the\nballad entitled _A Lyttel Geste of Robyn Hode_, seems to me to\nsatisfactorily show that \"the Robin Hood of romantic tradition really\nexisted in England in the time of Edward II.\"\n\nJ. LEWELYN CURTIS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nPHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES.\n\n_Originator of Collodion Process_ (Vol. vii., pp. 47. 92. 116.).--The\nfairest way of deciding M. Le Gray's claims would be, to quote what he\nreally says.\n\nWillat's pamphlet, published in 1850, entitled _A Practical Treatise, &c._,\nby Gustave Le Gray, translated by Thomas Cousins, ends with an appendix,\nwhich runs thus:\n\n    \"I have just discovered a process upon glass by hydrofluoric ether, the\n    fluoride of potassium, and soda dissolved in alcohol 40\u00b0, mixed with\n    sulphuric ether, and afterwards saturated with collodion; I afterwards\n    re-act with aceto-nitrate of silver, and thus obtain proofs in the\n    camera in five seconds in the shade. I develope the image by a very\n    weak solution of sulphate of iron, and fix with hyposulphite of soda. I\n    hope by this process to arrive at great rapidity. Ammonia and bromide\n    of potassium give great variations of promptitude. As soon as my\n    experiments are complete I will publish the result in an appendix. This\n    application upon glass is very easy: the same agents employed with\n    albumen and dextrine, give also excellent results and very quick. I\n    have also experimented with a mucilage produced by a fucus, a kind of\n    sea-weed, which promises future success. I hope by some of these means\n    to succeed in taking portraits in three or four seconds.\"\n\nI know not at what time of the year the pamphlet came out, nor whether the\nappendix was subsequently added; but any copy containing it was bought\nabout the middle of August, 1850.\n\nTHOS. D. EATON.\n\n    [We have much pleasure in inserting this communication, as it may be\n    the means of drawing fresh attention to the other substances mentioned\n    by Le Gray; for we are strongly of opinion that, notwithstanding the\n    advantages of collodion, there are other _media_ which may prove\n    preferable.--ED.]\n\n_The Soiling of the Fingers_ may be entirely avoided by a simple expedient.\nUse a slightly concave horizontal dish for sensitizing, and a depth of\nsolution not sufficient to wet the back of the collodionized plate, and\nafter the impressed plate {163} has been placed on the levelled stand and\ndeveloped, proceed thus: instead of holding the plate by the fingers to\nperform the subsequent processes, take a strip of glass (say five inches\nlong and one and a half wide for the ordinary portrait size), put a single\ndrop of water on it, and carefully pass it beneath the developed plate;\nlift the glass thereby; the adhesion is sufficiently firm to sustain the\nplate in any required position for the remaining manipulations till it is\nwashed and finished.\n\nCOKELY.\n\n_Sir W. Newton's Process.--Chloride of Bromium._--May I ask, through the\nmedium of your very excellent journal, what purpose SIR W. NEWTON intends\nto meet by the application of his wash of chloride of barium previous to\niodizing?\n\nF. MAXWELL LYTE.\n\n_The Collodion Process._--Absence from London has prevented my seeing your\nNumbers regularly; but in one for December I see MR. ARCHER has used my\nname in connexion with the collodion process. He states that he called\nseveral times, and made me familiar with the process; by which he would\nlead persons to suppose that he taught me in fact to take pictures. Now I\nbeg most distinctly to state that this is incorrect. MR. ARCHER made, it is\ntrue, several attempts in my glass room to take a picture, but totally\nfailed. And why? Because he attempted to follow out the process as he\nhimself had published it. From that time I worked it out by myself,\nassisted by hints from Mr. Fry, who at the time I allude to was a\nsuccessful manipulator, and had produced and exhibited many beautiful\npictures, and at whose suggestion I commenced it in the first instance.\n\nThere is also another portion of MR. ARCHER'S letter incorrect; but as this\nrelates to the sale of collodion, I will let it pass, trusting, as you have\ngiven insertion to his, you will not refuse space for mine.\n\nF. HORNE.\n\n123. Newgate Street.\n\n_Portable Camera_ (Vol. vii., p. 71.).--If India rubber should turn out to\nbe what H. Y. W. N. thinks he has found it to be, it would be capable of\nbeing turned to excellent account. For instance, instead of having a single\n\"portable camera,\" which is on many accounts very awkward to use, why\nshould not the tourist have a light framework constructed, and covered\nentirely with this India rubber: in fact, an India rubber box, in which his\ncamera, and a partitioned shelf containing his collodion, developing fluid,\nhypo-soda solution, &c., might be easily packed, and in which, by the aid\nof sleeves, &c., he might coat his plates, and develop and fix them, quite\napart from his camera? He _must_ have _something_ to pack his camera, &c.\nin; and the above-described packing-case would be very light, and also\nwaterproof.\n\nJ. L. S.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nReplies to Minor Queries.\n\n_Chaplains to Noblemen_ (Vol. vii., p. 85.).--The statute in which\nchaplains to noblemen are first named is 21 Henry VIII. c. 13. (1529); in\nwhich, by sect. 11., it is enacted, \"that every Archbysshop and Duke may\nhave vj chapleyns;\" \"every Markes and Erle may have fyve chapleyns;\" \"every\nvycecount and other Byshop may have foure chapleyns;\" and \"the Chancellour\nof England for the tyme beying and every Baron or Knyght of the Garter may\nhave thre chapleyns:\" and one chaplain of each order, whether Duke,\nMarquess, Earl, Viscount, or Baron, is thereby authorised to purchase\n\"lycence or dispensacion to take, receyve, and kepe two parsonages or\nbenefices with cure of souls\" (_Stat. of the Realm_, vol. iii. p. 294.). I\nbelieve that X. will find a regular registry of these appointments in\nDoctors' Commons.\n\nIt may be interesting to add, that among the other persons named in this\nstatute are the Master of the Rolls, who may have \"two chapleyns;\" and the\n\"Chefe Justice of the Kinges Benche,\" who may have \"one chapleyn.\" By\nanother statute, 25 Henry VIII. c. 16. (1533-4), this last power to have\none chaplain is extended to \"every Jugge of the seid high courtes\" (King's\nBench and Common Pleas), \"the Chaunceller and Cheffe Baron of the\nExchequer, the kynges generall attorney and generall soliciter\" (_Ibid._ p.\n457.)\n\nEDWARD FOSS.\n\n_Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger_ (Vol. vi., p. 614.).--I have\nbeen and still am inquiring into the two cases of mitigation, intending to\nsend the result, when I have found satisfactory evidence, or exhausted my\nsources of inquiry. The communication of WHUNSIDE is the first direct\ntestimony, and may settle the Fawcett case. As he was \"resident at Mr.\nFawcett's when the circumstances occurred,\" perhaps he will be so kind as\nto state the date and place of the conviction, and the name of the convict.\nBy adding his own name, the facts will stand upon his authority.\n\nH. B. C.\n\nU. U. Club.\n\n_Brydone the Tourist_ (Vol. vii., p. 108.).--A. B. C. inquires the\nbirthplace of Brydone, \"the tourist and author.\" I presume he refers to\nPatrick Brydone, who wrote _Travels in Sicily and Malta_, and who held, I\nbelieve, an appointment under the Commissioners of Stamps, and died about\nthirty years ago. Some four-and-twenty years back, I arrived, late in the\nevening, at the hospitable cottage of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, at\nAltrieve, in the vale of Yarrow. It happened to be, as it often was, too\nfull of guests to afford me a bed; and I was transferred by my host to the\nhouse of a neighbouring gentleman, where I slept. That gentleman was Mr.\nBrydone, of Mount Benger, {164} who I found was a near relative of Brydone\nthe tourist, whose birthplace was in the Forest of Ettrick.\n\nM. R--SON.\n\n_Yankee_ (Vol. vii., p. 103.).--I am afraid MR. BELL'S ingenious\nspeculations must give way to facts. Our transatlantic brethren do _not_,\neither willingly or unwillingly, adopt _Yankee_ as their \"collective name.\"\n_Yankee_ was, and is, a name given exclusively to the natives of the New\nEngland States, and was never therefore applied, by an American, to the\npeople of New Amsterdam or New York. Here, in England, indeed, we are\naccustomed to call all Americans _Yankees_; which is about the same thing\nas to call all Englishmen Devonians or Lancastrians.\n\nY. A.\n\n_Miniature Ring of Charles I._ (Vol. vi., p. 578.).--One of the four rings\ninquired for is in the possession of Mrs. Andrew Henderson, of 102.\nGloucester Place, Portman Square, formerly Miss Adolphus. It came to her in\nthe female line, through her mother's family. The unfortunate Charles I.\npresented it to Sir Lionel Walden, on the morning on which he lost his\nlife. It bears (as the other one alluded to in Hulbert's _History of\nSalop_) a miniature likeness of the king, set in small brilliants. Inside\nthe ring are the words, \"Sic transit gloria regum.\" Mrs. Henderson\nunderstood the four rings to have been presented as follows:--Bishop Juxon,\nSir Lionel Walden, Colonel Ashburnham, and Herbert his secretary. Which of\nthe four is now in the possession of the Misses Pigott is not mentioned.\n\nANON.\n\n_Bishop of Ossory--Cardinal's Hat_ (Vol. vii., p. 72.).--A. S. A. is quite\ncorrect, that the _hat_ is common to all prelates, and that the distinction\nis only in the number of the tassels to the hat-strings; but I think he is\nwrong in attributing the hat to _priors_. I believe it only belonged to\n_abbots_, who had _black_ hats and tassels; while the colour of the\nprelatical hats and tassels was green. (See P\u00e8re Anselme's _Palais\nd'Honneur_, chap. xxii. and plate.)\n\nC.\n\n_Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter_ (Vol. vii., p. 14.).--Hugh Oldham bore for\nhis arms, Sa. a chevron or, between three owls proper on a chief of the\nsecond, three roses gu. (See Isaacke's _Memorials of the City of Exeter_;\nand also Burke's _Armory_, under the name _Oldom_.) I have endeavoured to\nfind some pedigree or particulars of his family, but as yet without\nsuccess. The following Notes from what I have collected may, however,\nassist J. B. in his inquiries. He was of Queen's College, Cambridge, and\nchaplain to the Countess of Richmond (King Henry VII.'s mother), and by her\ninterest was installed Bp. of Exeter, April 3, 1507. He was a great\nbenefactor to Brazenose College, Oxford, and joint founder (with Richard\nFox, Bishop of Winchester) of Corpus Christi. He also founded and endowed a\nschool at Manchester, for educating boys in good and useful literature. He\ndied June 25, 1523, under sentence of excommunication, in consequence of an\naction at law then pending between him and the Abbot of Tavistock; but the\nPope's sanction being obtained, he was buried in a chapel built expressly\nfor the purpose, at the upper end of the south aisle of his own cathedral.\n\nJ. T--T.\n\n\"_Sic transit gloria mundi_\" (Vol. vi., pp. 100. 183.).--I have lately\nfound two additional passages, which speak of this line being used at the\nPope's inauguration. The first is amongst the writings of Cornelius \u00e0\nLapide:\n\n    \"_Datus est mihi stimulus carnis me\u00e6 Angelus Satan\u00e6, qui me\n    colaphizet._\" ... \"Datus est non a Diabolo sed a Deo; non quod Deus\n    tentationis sit auctor, sed quia diabolo tentare Paulum parato, id\n    permisit, idque tantum in specie et materia libidinis ad eum\n    humiliandum. Ita August. _de Natura et Grat._, c. 27. _Hic monitor_,\n    ait Hieron., Epist. 25., ad Paulum de obitu Bl\u00e6sill\u00e6, _Paulo datus est,\n    ad premendam superbiam, uti in curru triumphali triumphanti datur\n    Monitor suggerens: hominem te esse memento_. Uti et Pontifici cum\n    inauguratur, stupa accensa et mox extincta accinitur:\n\n       \"Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi.\"\n\n      _Commentaria_ in 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. cap. xii. 7.\n        vol. ix. p. 404.: Antwerpi\u00e6, 1705, fol.\n\nThe second passage is merely a repetition of the above-quoted words of A\nLapide, but I may as well subjoin a reference to it: Ursini _Paralipomena_,\nlib. ii., Meletematum, p. 315.: Norimberg\u00e6, 1667, 12mo.\n\nRT.\n\nWarmington.\n\n_Wake_ (Vol. vi., p. 532.).--In a Wake pedigree in my possession, the name\nof the wife of Sir Hugh Wake, Knight, Lord of Blisworth, who died May 4,\n1315, is stated to be \"Joane, daughter and co-heiress of John de\nWolverton.\" I am unable to say now on what authority.\n\nW. S. (Sheffield.)\n\nSir Hugh Wake, Lord of Deeping in Lincolnshire and Blyseworth in\nNorthamptonshire, married Joane, daughter and co-heiress of John de\nWolverton. (See Kimber and Johnson's _Baronetage_, 3 vols. 1771.)\n\nBROCTANA.\n\nBury, Lancashire.\n\n\"_Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts_\" (Vol. vi., p.\n575.).--This saying _may_ be anterior to Dr. South's time, as the first\nnumber of _The World_, under the assumed name of Adam Fitz-Adam, Thursday,\nJanuary 4, 1753, begins with the following:\n\n    \"At the village of Arouche, in the province of Estremadura (says an old\n    Spanish author), lived Gonzales {165} de Castro, who from the age of\n    twelve to fifty-two years was deaf, dumb, and blind.\"\n\nAfter relating the sudden restoration of his faculties, \"Fitz-Adam\"\nproceeds:\n\n    \"But, as if the blessings of this life were only given us for\n    afflictions, he began in a few weeks to lose the relish of his\n    enjoyments, and to repine at the possession of those faculties, which\n    served only to discover to him the follies and disorders of his\n    neighbours, and to teach him that _the intent of speech was too often\n    to deceive_.\"\n\nIt may serve to probe the matter of _age_ to ask, Who was \"the old Spanish\nauthor\" alluded to? Also, where may be found the hexameter line--\n\n \"[Greek: hos ch' heteron men keuthei eni phresin allo de bazei.]\"\n\nequivalent to the common expression, \"He says one thing and means another,\"\nand of which the maxim attribute to Goldsmith, Talleyrand, the _Morning\nChronicle_, and South, seems only a stronger form?\n\nFURVUS.\n\nSt. James's.\n\n_Inscription on Penny of George III._ (Vol. vii., p. 65.).--\"Stabit\nquocunque jeceris\" (_it will stand in whatever way you throw it_) is the\nwell-known motto of the Isle of Mann, and has reference to the arms of the\nisland, which are--Gules, three armed legs argent, flexed in triangle,\ngarnished and spurred or. I venture to conjecture that the three legs of\nMann were also on the penny J. M. A. mentioned.\n\nSome curious lines about this motto are to be found in _The Isle of Mann\nGuide_, by James Brotherston Laughton, B.A. (Douglas, 1850): one verse is--\n\n \"With spurs and bright cuishes, to make them look neat,\n  He rigg'd out the legs; then to make them complete,\n  He surrounded the whole with four fine Roman _feet_.\n        They were 'Quocunque jeceris stabit,'\n          A thorough-paced Roman Iamb.\"\n\nThe fore-mentioned work also contains a song entitled \"The Copper Row,\"\nreferring to the disturbances occasioned by the coinage of 1840.\n\nTHOMPSON COOPER.\n\nCambridge.\n\nThis is, I suppose, a Manx penny, with the reverse of _three legs_, and the\nmotto, which is usually read \"Quocunque jeceris stabit.\"\n\nC.\n\n\"_Nine Tailors make a Man_\" (Vol. vi., pp. 390. 563.).--I extract the\nfollowing humorous account of the origin of this saying from _The British\nApollo_ (12mo., reprint of 1726, vol. i. p. 236.):\n\n    \"It happen'd ('tis no great matter in what year) that eight taylors,\n    having finish'd considerable pieces of work at a certain person of\n    quality's house (whose name authors have thought fit to conceal), and\n    receiving all the money due for the same, a virago servant maid of the\n    house observing them to be but slender-built animals, and in their\n    mathematical postures on their shop-board appearing but so many pieces\n    of men, resolv'd to encounter and pillage them on the road. The better\n    to compass her design, she procured a very terrible great\n    black-pudding, which (having waylaid them) she presented at the breast\n    of the foremost: they, mistaking this prop of life for an instrument of\n    death, at least a blunder-buss, readily yielded up their money; but\n    she, not contented with that, severely disciplin'd them with a cudgel\n    she carry'd in the other hand, all which they bore with a philosophical\n    resignation. Thus, eight not being able to deal with one woman, by\n    consequence could not make a man, on which account a ninth is added.\n    'Tis the opinion of our curious virtuosos, that this want of courage\n    ariseth from their immoderate eating of cucumbers, which too much\n    refrigerates their blood. However, to their eternal honour be it spoke,\n    they have been often known to encounter a sort of cannibals, to whose\n    assaults they are often subject, not fictitious, but real man-eaters,\n    and that with a lance but two inches long; nay, and although they go\n    arm'd no further than their middle-finger.\"\n\nSIGMA.\n\nSunderland.\n\n_On Quotations_ (Vol. vi., p. 408.).--There can be no doubt that quotations\nhave frequently been altered, to make them more apt to the quoter's\npurpose, of which I believe the following to be an instance. We frequently\nmeet with the quotation, \"Nullum numen _abest_, si sit prudentia,\" with a\nreference to Juvenal. I have not been able to find the passage in this\nshape, and presume it is an alteration from the address to Fortune, which\noccurs twice in his _Satires_, Sat. x. v. 365, 366., and Sat. xiv. v. 315,\n316.:\n\n \"Nullum numen _habes_, si sit prudentia: nos te\n  Nos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, coeloque locamus.\"\n\nThe alteration is evidently not a mere verbal one, but changes entirely the\nmeaning and allusion of the passage.\n\nJ. S. WARDEN.\n\n_Rhymes on Places_ (Vol. v., pp. 293. 374. 500.).--In addition to the local\nrhymes given in your pages, I call to mind the following, not inserted in\nGrose. They are peculiar to the North of England:\n\n \"Rothbury for goats' milk,\n    And the Cheviots for mutton;\n  Cheswick for its cheese and bread,\n    And Tynemouth for a glutton.\"\n\n \"Harnham was headless, Bradford breadless,\n    And Shaftoe pick'd at the craw;\n  Capheaton was a wee bonny place,\n    But Wallington bang'd them a'.\"\n\nThe _craw_, in the second rhyme, alludes to the _Crasters_, anciently\n_Crancester_, an old family in the parish of Hartburn, who succeeded to the\nestates of the Shaftoe family.\n\nEDWARD F. RIMBAULT.\n\n{166}\n\n_Coins in Foundations_ (Vol. vi., p. 270.).--I have a manuscript notice of\nan early example of this custom. It is in a hand of the earlier half of the\nseventeenth century. The Bostonians knew better, however, than to bury\ntheir \"great gifts;\" and all who travel the Great Northern Railway will be\nglad to preserve the names of the great givers, who afforded so noble a\nrelief to the tedium of Boston station.\n\n    \"_The buylding of Boston Steeple._\n\n    \"_Md._ That in the yeere of o^r Lord God 1309, the steeple of Boston,\n    on the Monday next following Palme Sunday, was digged wt many myners\n    till Mydsomer; and by that time they were deeper than the bottom of the\n    haven by fyve fote, and there they found a ball of sande nigh a fote\n    thick, and that dyd lye uppon a spring of sand neere three fote thick,\n    and that dyd lye uppon a bed of clay, the thicknesse thereof could not\n    be known. And there, uppon Monday nexte after the feast of St. John\n    Baptist, was layd the first stone, and that stone layd Dame Margaret\n    Tylney, and thereuppon layd she vl. sterling. The nexte stone was layd\n    by S^r John Tattersall, prson of Boston, who layd down thereuppon vl.\n    sterling. And Richard Stevenson, merchant of the Staple, layd the third\n    stone, and thereuppon vl. sterling. And these were all the great guifts\n    that at that time were given thereunto. Remaining amongst the records\n    at Lincolne.\n\n    THO. TURNER.\"\n\nH. T. H.\n\nSheffield.\n\n_Fleshed, Meaning of_ (Vol. vi., p. 578.).--Johnson (edit. 1823) glosses\n_to flesh_ (from Sidney), to harden in any practice. An old author, in a\npassage which I have lately read, though I cannot now refer to it, talks of\nvice being _fleshed_ (_i.e._ ingrown) in a man.\n\nW. BARNES.\n\nDorchester.\n\n_Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh, 1543_ (Vol. vii., p. 66.).--I know\nof no detailed account of this prelate, and am unable to furnish any\nparticulars in addition to those stated by A. S. A., except that \"he died\nin a convent of Jesuits at Paris, on the 10th of November, 1551,\" as stated\nby Ware, vol. i. p. 94. of his _Works_, Dublin, 1739. I may also add the\nfollowing remark, which I find in a note, by M. Le Courayer, to his French\ntranslation of Fra-Paolo Sarpi's _History of the Council of Trent_ (London,\n1736), tome i. p. 221.:\n\n    \"La raillerie que fait de lui Fra-Paolo, en le louant de bien courir la\n    poste, et qu'il a tir\u00e9e de Sleidan, vient apparemment du nombre de\n    voyages qu'il fit en Allemagne, en France, et ailleurs, pour ex\u00e9cuter\n    diff\u00e9rentes commissions, dont il fut charg\u00e9 par les Papes.\"\n\nTYRO.\n\nDublin.\n\n_Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting_ (Vol. vii., p. 65.).--Karelvan\nGlander, _Leven der beroemdste Schilders, Hollandsche en Vlaamsche_ (Lives\nof the most celebrated Dutch and Flemish Painters). This work is of the\nbeginning of the seventeenth century. A better work is the _Levens der\nberoemdste Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Schilders_, by Immerzeel, published in\n1836.\n\nH. v. L.\n\n_Furmety or Frumenty_ (Vol. vi., p. 604.).--ERICA asks if _furmety_ can\nclaim descent from the once popular dish plum-porridge, mentioned in the\n_Tatler_ and _Spectator_.\n\nThough not a direct answer, the following quotation from Washington\nIrving's _Sketch Book_ will show that it was in request at the season when\n_plum-pudding_ abounds, notwithstanding the orthodoxy of its use on\nMid-Lent Sunday. In his account of the Christmas festivities at Bracebridge\nHall, speaking of the supper on Christmas Eve, he says:\n\n    \"The table was abundantly spread with substantial fare, but the Squire\n    made his supper of _frumenty_, a dish made of wheat cakes boiled in\n    milk, with rich spices, _being a standing dish in old times for\n    Christmas Eve_.\"\n\nW. H. COTTON.\n\n_Etymology of Pearl_ (Vol. vi., p. 578.; Vol. vii., p. 18.).--SIR EMERSON\nTENNENT inquires as to the antiquity of the word _pearl_ in the English\nlanguage. _P\u00e6rl_ occurs in Anglo-Saxon (Bosworth in v.), and corresponding\nforms are found in the Scandinavian languages, as well as in the Welsh and\nIrish. The old German form of the word is _berille_. Richardson in v.\nquotes an instance of the adjective _pearled_ from Gower, who belongs to\nthe fourteenth century. The use of _union_ for _pearl_, cited by SIR E.\nTENNENT from Burton, is a learned application of the word, and never was\npopular in our language.\n\nI may add that Muratori inserts the word _perla_ in the _Italian Glossary_,\nin his 33rd Dissertation on Italian Medi\u00e6val Antiquities. He believes the\norigin of the word to be Teutonic, but throws no light on the subject. It\nappears from Halliwell's _Arch. and Prov. Dictionary_, that white spots in\nthe eyes were anciently called _pearls_. McCulloch, _Commercial Dictionary_\nin v., particularly speaks of the pear-shaped form of the pearl; and, on\nthe whole, the supposition that _perula_ is equivalent to _pear-ling_,\nseems the most probable.\n\nL.\n\n_Folkestone_ (Vol. vi., p. 507.).--Various etymologies have been given with\na view of arriving at the right one for this town. I have to inform you\nthat the places of that part of Kent where Folkeston, so properly spelt on\nthe seal of the ancient priory, is situated, receive their etymologies from\nlocal or geological distinctions. Folkeston forms no exception to the\ngeneral rule. The soil consists of a most beautiful yellow sand, such as\nthe {167} Romans distinguished by the word _Fulvus_. This the Saxons\ncontracted into Fulk, which word has become a family prenomen, as in\nFulke-Greville, Fulk-Brooke; in other terms, the yellow Greville or yellow\nBrook; and Folkeston is nothing more than the yellow town, so called from\nthe nature of the soil on which it is built.\n\nS.\n\n_The Curfew Bell_ (Vol. vi., p. 53.).--\n\n    \"During the last 700 years, the curfew bell has been regularly tolled\n    in the town of Sandwich: but now it is said it is to be discontinued,\n    in consequence of the corporation funds being at so low an ebb as not\n    to allow of the payment of the paltry sum of some 4l. or 5l. per\n    annum.\"--_Kentish Observer._\n\nANON.\n\n_Confirmation Superstition_ (Vol. vi., p. 601.).--It is singular, that\nthough the office is called \"the laying on of _hands_,\" the rubric says,\n\"the bishop shall lay his _hand_ on the head of every one severally.\" When\nwas the [Greek: epithesis cheir\u00f4n] (Heb. vi. 2.) changed into an [Greek:\nepithesis cheiros]?\n\nA. A. D.\n\n_Degree of B.C.L._ (Vol. vii., p. 38.).--On Feb. 25, 1851, a statute was\npassed at Oxford, by Convocation, which requires that the candidate for the\ndegree of B.C.L. should have passed his examination for the degree of B.A.,\nand attended one course of lectures with the Regius Professor of Civil Law.\nIn the case of particular colleges, twenty terms must have been kept: by\nmembers of other colleges, twenty-four terms must have been completed. The\nexamination is upon the four books, or any part of them, of the _Institutes\nof Justinian_, or works which serve to illustrate them in the science of\ncivil law, of which six months' notice is previously given by the Regius\nProfessor.\n\nAt Cambridge, a B.A. of four years' standing can be admitted LL.B. The\ncandidate must have passed the previous examination; attended the lectures\nof the professor for three terms; be examined; and after four years'\nstanding, and residence of three terms, keep his act.\n\nMACKENZIE WALCOTT, M.A.\n\n_Robert Heron_ (Vol. vi., p. 389.).--The literary career of this individual\nin London is selected by D'Israeli as an illustration of his _Calamities of\nAuthors_. Some farther particulars of him, in an editorial capacity, will\nbe found in _Fraser's Magazine_, vol. xx. p. 747.\n\nWILLIAM BATES.\n\nBirmingham.\n\n_Shakspeare's \"Twelfth Night\"_ (Vol. vii., p. 51.).--If the term \"case,\" as\napplied to apparel, requires any further elucidation, it may be found in\nthe \"Certaine opening and drawing Distiches,\" prefixed to Coryat's\n_Crudities_, 4to., 1611. And the engraved title, which the verses are\nintended to explain, places before the eye, in a most unmistakeable form,\nthe articles which compose a man's \"case.\"\n\nF. S. Q.\n\n_Catcalls_ (Vol. vi., pp. 460. 559.).--For a long and humorous dissertation\nupon this instrument, I beg to refer your sceptical correspondent M. M. E.\nto page 130. of a scarce and amusing little work, entitled _A Taste of the\nTown, or a Guide to all Publick Diversions, &c._; London, printed and sold\nby the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1731, 12mo. The passages are\nnot unworthy of transcription; but, I fear, would be too long for insertion\nin your columns.\n\nWILLIAM BATES.\n\nBirmingham.\n\n\"_Plurima, pauca, nihil_,\" (Vol. vi., p. 511.; Vol. vii., p. 96.).--The\nfollowing couplet will be found in Jo. Burch. Menckenii _De Charlataneria\nEruditorum Declamationes_, page 181. of the edit. Amst. 1727. The lines are\nthere given as a specimen of \"versus quos Galli vocant _rapportez_:\"\n\n \"Vir simplex, fortasse bonus, sed Pastor ineptus,\n    Vult, tentat, peragit, plurima, pauca, nihil.\"\n\nN. B.\n\nI have met with the following metrical proverb, which may afford\nsatisfaction to your correspondent, which dates certainly before 1604:\n\n \"Modus retinendorum amicorum.\n\n  Temporibus nostris quicunque placere laborat,\n  Det, capiat, qu\u00e6rat, plurima, pauca, nihil.\"\n\nAlso this:\n\n \"Plurima des, perpauca petas, nil accipe: si nil\n  Accipias, et pauca petas, et plurima dones,\n  Gratus eris populo, te mille sequentur amici.\n  Si nihilum trades, cit\u00f2 eris privatus amico:\n  Plurima si qu\u00e6res, multam pati\u00eare repulsam:\n  Si multa accipias, populus te dicet avarum.\n  Nil cape, pauca petas, des plurima, habebis amicos.\"\n\nW. C. H.\n\n_Ben Jonson's adopted Sons_ (Vol. v., pp. 537. 588.).--I had made some\nNotes on this subject, but have never seen stated that their number was\nlimited to _twelve_. I have got _ten_ on _my_ list, but am unable at\npresent to give my authorities; but I can assure your INQUIRER, at p. 537.,\nthat their names are _honestly_ come by:\n\n    \"Thomas Randolph, Richard Brome, William Cartwright, Sir Henry\n    Morrison, James Howell, Joseph Rutter, Robert Herrick, Lord Falkland,\n    Sir John Suckling, Shackerly Marmion.\"\n\nS. WMSON.\n\n_Mistletoe_ (Vol. vi., p. 589.).--Mistletoe grows on _one oak_ in Hackwood\nPark, near Basingstoke, where it is extremely plentiful on hawthorns.\n\nJ. P. O.\n\n{168}\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMiscellaneous.\n\nNOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.\n\nThe Camden Society has, after a long silence, just issued a volume, _The\nCamden Miscellany, Volume the Second_, which from the variety and interest\nof its contents, cannot but be acceptable to all the members. These\ncontents are, I. _Account of the Expenses of John of Brabant, and Henry and\nThomas of Lancaster, 1292-93._--II. _Household Account of the Princess\nElizabeth, 1551-52._--III. _The Bequeste and Suite of a True-hearted\nEnglishman, written by William Cholmeley, 1553._--IV. _Discovery of the\nJesuits' College at Clerkenwell in March, 1627-28._--V. _Trelawny\nPapers._--VI. _Autobiography of William Taswell, D. D._ This, which is the\nfirst book for the year 1852-53, will be immediately followed by a volume\nof _Verney Papers_, editing by Mr. Bruce; and this probably by _The\nDomesday of St. Paul's_, editing by Archdeacon Hale, or _The Correspondence\nof Lady Brilliana Harley_, editing by the Rev. T. T. Lewis. Early in the\nensuing Camden year, which commences on the 1st of May, two volumes of\nconsiderable interest may be looked for, namely, _The Roll of the Household\nExpenses of Richard Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, in the years 1289-90,\nwith illustrations from other and coeval Documents_ by the Rev. John Webb;\nand _Regul\u00e6 Inclusarum, The Ancren Rewle, A Treatise on the Rules and\nDuties of Monastic Life, addressed to a Society of Anchorites by Simon of\nGhent_, a work valuable for philology, for it is written in the semi-Saxon\ndialect of the thirteenth century, and curious for its illustration of\nancient manners. It will be accompanied by a translation by the Rev. James\nMorton, the editor.\n\n_The Architectural, Arch\u00e6ological, and Historic Society for the County,\nCity, and Neighbourhood of Chester_, has just published the Second Part of\nits Journal, in which objects of local interest are made available for much\ninstructive information; and to accomplish which the conductors have, and\nas we think wisely, preferred a great number of apt illustrations, executed\nwithout any pretence to artistic skill, to a _few_ expensive and\nhighly-finished engravings.\n\nOur Dutch neighbours seem to enjoy as much as ourselves the humour of\nCharles Dickens. Not only is _Bleak House_ regularly translated as it\nappears, but in a bookseller's circular which has just reached us, we see\nannounced translations of the _Sketches by Boz_, and of a _Selection from\nHousehold Words_.\n\nThere is much tact required in writing for children, and no small share of\nthis is exhibited in a _History of France for Children_, which Viscount\nCranborne has just compiled for the use of his nieces. The principal events\nare brought forward in succession, and related in a plain, unaffected\nstyle, well calculated for youthful readers.\n\nBOOKS RECEIVED.--_Joan of Arc, by Lord Mahon_, the new number of Murray's\n_Railway Library_, is a reprint, from the noble author's _Historical\nEssays_, of his careful summary of Joan's extraordinary\nhistory.--_Cyclop\u00e6dia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theological and\nGeneral Literature_, the fifth part of Mr. Darling's most useful guide for\nauthors, preachers, students, and literary men.--_Synodalia, a Journal of\nConvocation_, Nos. 1. to 4.; four parts of a monthly periodical, instituted\nnot so much for the purpose of securing immediately synodical action in the\nChurch, as with the view of preparing the public mind for its\nreception.--_Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II. of Austria, or a view of the\nReligion and Political State of Germany after the Reformation._ An able and\ninstructive essay by Professor Von Ranke, well translated for _Longman's\nTraveller's Library_ by Sir A. and Lady Duff Gordon.--_Kidd's Own Journal\nfor January, 1853_. The new number of a journal which deserves the notice\nof all lovers of natural history and keepers of pets.--_Remains of Pagan\nSaxondom, principally from Tumuli in England_, by J. Y. Akerman; Part III.,\ncontaining _Beads, Crystal Ball, and Bulla_ from Breach Down, and _Glass\nVase_ from Cuddesden, drawn of their original size and coloured.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nBOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES\n\nWANTED TO PURCHASE.\n\nCHRONON-HO-TON-THOLOGOS, by H. CAREY.\n\nTHE DRAGON OF WANTLEY, by H. CAREY.\n\nGAMMER GURTON'S STORY BOOKS, edited by AMBROSE MERTON. 13 Parts (Original\nEdition).\n\nHAYWARD'S BRITISH MUSEUM. 3 Vols. 12mo. 1738.\n\nTHEOBALD'S SHAKSPEARE RESTORED. 4to. 1726.\n\nILLUSTRATED COMMENTARY ON THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS. Vol. I. 1840. Knight.\n\nHISTORY OF THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, by PRIDEAUX. Vol I. 1717-18.\n\nMENAGERIES--QUADRUPEDS: \"Library of Entertaining Knowledge,\" Vol. II.\n\nPETER SIMPLE. Illustrated Edition. Saunders and Otley. Vols. II. and III.\n\nHISTORICAL MEMOIRS OF QUEENS OF ENGLAND, by HANNAH LAWRANCE. Vol. II.\n\nINGRAM'S SAXON CHRONICLE. 4to. London, 1823.\n\nNEWMAN'S FERNS. Large Edition.\n\nENIGMATICAL ENTERTAINER. Nos. I. and II. 1827 and 1828. Sherwood & Co.\n\nNORTHUMBRIAN MIRROR. New Series. 1841, &c.\n\nBRITISH DIARY FOR 1794, by COTES and HALL.\n\nREUBEN BURROW'S DIARIE, 1782-1788.\n\nMARRAT'S SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL. New York.\n\nMATHEMATICAL CORRESPONDENT (American).\n\nLEEDS CORRESPONDENT. Vol. V., Nos. 1, 2, and 3.\n\nMATHEMATICAL MISCELLANY. 1735.\n\nWHITING'S SELECT EXERCISES, with KEY.\n\nWALTON AND COTTON'S ANGLER, by HAWKINS. Part II. 1784.\n\nDE LA CROIX'S CONNUBIA FLORUM. Bathoni\u00e6, 1791. 8vo.\n\nREID'S HISTORICAL BOTANY. Windsor, 1826. 3 Vols. 12mo.\n\nANTHOLOGIA BOREALIS ET AUSTRALIS.\n\nFLORILEGIUM SANCTARUM ASPIRATIONUM.\n\nLADERCHII ANNALES ECCLESIASTICI, 3 tom. fol. Rom\u00e6, 1728-1737.\n\nTOWNSEND'S PARISIAN COSTUMES. 3 Vols. 4to. 1831-1839.\n\nTHE BOOK OF ADAM.\n\nTHE TESTAMENTS OF THE TWELVE PATRIARCHS, THE SONS OF JACOB.\n\nMASSINGER'S PLAYS, by GIFFORD. Vol. IV. 8vo. Second Edition. 1813.\n\nSPECTATOR. Vols. V and VII. 12mo. London, 1753.\n\nCOSTERUS (FRAN\u00c7OIS) CINQUANTE MEDITATIONS DE TOUTE L'HISTOIRE DE LA PASSION\nDE NOSTRE SEIGNEUR. 8vo. Anvers, Christ. Plantin.; or any of the works of\nCosterus in any language.\n\nGUARDIAN. 12mo.\n\nWHAT THE CHARTISTS ARE. A Letter to English Working Men, by a\nFellow-Labourer. 12mo. London, 1848.\n\nLETTER OF CHURCH RATES, by RALPH BARNES. 8vo. London, 1837.\n\nCOLMAN'S TRANSLATION OF HORACE DE ARTE POETICA. 4to. 1783.\n\nBOSCAWEN'S TREATISE ON SATIRE. London, 1797.\n\nJOHNSON'S LIVES (Walker's Classics). Vol. I.\n\nTITMARSH'S PARIS SKETCH-BOOK. Post 8vo. Vol. I. Macrone, 1840.\n\nFIELDING'S WORKS. Vol. XI. (being second of \"Amelia.\") 12mo. 1808.\n\nHOLCROFT'S LAVATER. Vol. I. 8vo. 1789.\n\n{169} OTWAY. Vols. I. and II. 8vo. 1768.\n\nEDMONDSON'S HERALDRY. Vol. II. Folio, 1780.\n\nSERMONS AND TRACTS, by W. ADAMS, D.D.\n\nBEN JONSON'S WORKS. (London, 1716. 6 Vols.) Vol. II. wanted.\n\n*** _Correspondents sending Lists of Books Wanted are requested to send\ntheir names._\n\n*** Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, _carriage free_, to be\nsent to MR. BELL, Publisher of \"NOTES AND QUERIES\" 186. Fleet Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nNotices to Correspondents.\n\nJ. F. (Halifax). _How can a letter be addressed to this Correspondent?_\n\nJ. O., _who inquired respecting_ Johanna Southcote. _How can we forward a\nletter to him?_\n\nMOUSEY. _A cat is called_ Grimalkin, _or more properly_ Gray Malkin, _from\nthe name of a Fiend supposed to assume the shape of a cat. Shakspeare, in\nhis_ Macbeth, _makes the First Witch exclaim_,\n\n \"I come, Graymalkin.\"\n\nE. J. G. _We must refer our Correspondent to the critical commentators on\nthe passage: Lowth or Wintle, for instance._\n\nINQUISITOR, _who writes respecting_ Rotten Row, _is referred to our_ 1st\nVol., p. 441.; 2nd Vol., p. 235.; _and our_ 5th Vol., pp. 40. 160.\n\nF. R. D. (Dublin). _The arms on the impression of the seal forwarded by our\nCorrespondent are obviously German, from the helmet, the style of\nlambrequin, and more particularly from the charges or bearings of which the\ncoat is composed. It is probably of the date assigned to it by_ F. R. D.\n\nSHAW'S STAFFORD MSS. _We have a note for our Correspondent on this\nsubject_, N. C. L. _Where shall it be sent?_\n\nO. G. _Will our Correspondent kindly favour us with the notices of Dr.\nDeacon contained in Townshend's_ Common-Place Book, _for the benefit of\nanother member of the literary brotherhood, who, we know, has been for some\ntime past making collections for a Life of that remarkable Nonjuring\nbishop?_\n\nREPLIES TO PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENTS _next week_.\n\nAN ANXIOUS INQUIRER _should state more precisely what branch of Photography\nhe intends to pursue. Professor Hunt's_ Manual of Photography, _of which\nthe Third Edition has just been published, is the fullest which has yet\nappeared in this country. He will obtain Lists of Prices of Lenses,\nCameras, &c. from any of the Photographic Houses whose Advertisements\nappear in our columns._\n\nPHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. _All communications respecting this Society should be\naddressed to the Honorary Secretary, \"Roger Fenton, Esq., 2. Albert\nTerrace, Albert Road, Regent's Park.\"_\n\n_Errata._--No. 171. p. 136. col. 2. line 48. for \"with\" read \"in;\" and p.\n137. col. 1. l. 18. for \"remark\" read \"mask.\"\n\n\"NOTES AND QUERIES\" _is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country\nBooksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcel, and deliver them to\ntheir Subscribers on the Saturday_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nM. GUIZOT ON THE FINE ARTS.\n\nNow ready, medium 8vo., cloth extra, 14s.\n\nTHE FINE ARTS: THEIR NATURE AND RELATIONS. With detailed Criticisms on\nCertain Pictures of the Italian and French Schools. By M. GUIZOT.\nTranslated from the French, with the assistance of the Author, by GEORGE\nGROVE. With 17 Illustrations, drawn on Wood by GEORGE SCHARF, Jun.\n\nLondon: THOMAS BOSWORTH, 215. Regent Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTo Members of Learned Societies, Authors, &c.\n\nASHBEE & DANGERFIELD, LITHOGRAPHERS, DRAUGHTSMEN, AND PRINTERS, 18. Broad\nCourt, Long Acre.\n\nA. & D. respectfully beg to announce that they devote particular attention\nto the execution of ANCIENT AND MODERN FAC-SIMILES, comprising Autograph\nLetters, Deeds, Charters, Title-pages, Engravings, Woodcuts, &c., which\nthey produce from any description of copies with the utmost accuracy, and\nwithout the slightest injury to the originals.\n\nAmong the many purposes to which the art of Lithography is most\nsuccessfully applied, may be specified,--ARCH\u00c6OLOGICAL DRAWINGS,\nArchitecture, Landscapes, Marine Views, Portraits from Life or Copies,\nIlluminated MSS., Monumental Brasses, Decorations, Stained Glass Windows,\nMaps, Plans, Diagrams, and every variety of illustrations requisite for\nScientific and Artistic Publications.\n\nPHOTOGRAPHIC DRAWINGS lithographed with the greatest care and exactness.\n\nLITHOGRAPHIC OFFICES, 18. Broad Court, Long Acre, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENNETT'S MODEL WATCH as shown at the GREAT EXHIBITION. No. 1. Class X., in\nGold and Silver Cases, in five qualities, and adapted to all Climates, may\nnow be had at the MANUFACTORY, 65. CHEAPSIDE. Superior Gold London-made\nPatent Levers, 17, 15, and 12 guineas. Ditto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 4\nguineas. First-rate Geneva Levers, in Gold Cases, 12, 10, and 8 guineas.\nDitto, in Silver Cases, 8, 6, and 5 guineas. Superior Lever, with\nChronometer Balance, Gold, 27, 23, and 19 guineas. Bennett's Pocket\nChronometer, Gold, 50 guineas: Silver, 40 guineas. Every Watch skilfully\nexamined, timed, and its performance guaranteed. Barometers, 2l., 3l., and\n4l. Thermometers from 1s. each.\n\nBENNETT, Watch, Clock, and Instrument Maker to the Royal Observatory, the\nBoard of Ordnance, the Admiralty, and the Queen,\n\n65. CHEAPSIDE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThis day is published, 8vo., sewed, price 2s. 6d., or by Post, 3s.\n\nTHE GHOST OF JUNIUS: or, the Author of the celebrated \"Letters\" by this\nAnonymous Writer identified with Lieut.-General Sir Robert Rich, Bart. By\nFRANCIS AYERST.\n\n \"Look, my Lord, it comes!\"\n              _Hamlet_, Act I. Sc. 4.\n\nLondon: THOMAS BOSWORTH, 215. Regent Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nIn 8vo., price 6s. 6d., the Third Edition of\n\nSOME ACCOUNT OF THE WRITINGS AND OPINIONS OF JUSTIN MARTYR. By JOHN KAYE,\nD.D., Lord Bishop of Lincoln.\n\nRIVINGTONS, St. Paul's Church Yard, and Waterloo Place;\n\nOf whom may be had, by the same Author,\n\n1. CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA. 8vo. 10s. 6d.\n\n2. TERTULLIAN. Third Edition. 11s. 6d.\n\n3. THE COUNCIL OF NIC\u00c6A, in Connexion with the LIFE of ATHANASIUS. (Nearly\nready.)\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThis day, fcap. 8vo., 3s.\n\nON THE LESSONS IN PROVERBS. Five Lectures. By RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH, B.\nD., Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Oxford; and Professor of\nDivinity, King's College, London.\n\nBy the same Author.\n\nON THE STUDY of WORDS. Six Lectures. Fourth Edition. 3s. 6d.\n\nNOTES on the PARABLES. Fifth Edition. 12s.\n\nNOTES on the MIRACLES. Third Edition. 12s.\n\nLondon: JOHN W. PARKER & SON, West Strand.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOn 1st of February, price 1s., No. II. New Series.\n\nTHE ECCLESIASTIC.\n\n          CONTENTS:\n\n  The Religion of the Fine Arts.\n  Master on the Occasional Services of the Church.\n  Bishops, Patrons, and Presentees.\n  The New Editions of Bishop Wilson.\n  Greek Hymnology.\n  Cambridge Edition of Minucius Felix.\n  Religious Opinions in Ireland.\n  Reviews and Notices.\n\nAlso, price 1s. 6d. No. XCIV. (LVIII. New Series) of\n\nTHE ECCLESIOLOGIST. Published under the Superintendence of the\nEcclesiological, late Cambridge Camden Society.\n\nCONTENTS:--Ely Cathedral; The Rood-Screen and the Iconostasis (No. I.); Mr.\nBeckman on Swedish Churches and Church Offices; \"Godwin's History in\nRuins;\" The Department of Practical Art and the Architectural Museum; The\nEcclesiological Motett Society; Messrs. Bowman and Crowther; \"Churches of\nthe Middle Ages;\" English Service Books at Cambridge; The Munich Glass in\nKilndown Church; Architectural Institute of Scotland; Transactions of the\nExeter Diocesan Architectural Society; New Churches and Restorations; Mr.\nHelmore's Lecture at Brighton; Wells Cathedral; Reports, &c.\n\nLondon: J. MASTERS, Aldersgate Street, and New Bond Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMONASTICON DIOCOESIS EXONIENSIS.\n\nTHE REV. DR. G. OLIVER'S MONASTICON DIOCOESIS EXONIENSIS: being a\nCollection of Records and Instruments illustrating the Ancient Conventual,\nCollegiate, and Eleemosynary Foundations in Devon and Cornwall. Folio,\ncloth boards (published at 4l.), now reduced to 1l. 16s. 1846. The same,\nhalf bound in morocco, tops gilt, 2l. 6s. 1846.\n\nJust published, gratis, and post free,\n\nA. HOLDEN'S EXETER BOOK CIRCULAR. Parts II. and III. A Catalogue of\nSecond-hand Books, of all classes, in good condition.\n\nExeter: A. HOLDEN. London: NATTALI & BOND.\n\n{170}\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nROSS'S PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE LENSES.--These lenses give\ncorrect definition at the centre and margin of the picture, and have their\nvisual and chemical acting foci coincident.\n\n_Great Exhibition Jurors' Reports_, p. 274.\n\n    \"Mr. Ross prepares lenses for Portraiture having the greatest intensity\n    yet produced, by procuring the coincidence of the chemical actinic and\n    visual rays. The spherical aberration is also very carefully corrected,\n    both in the central and oblique pencils.\"\n\n    \"Mr. Ross has exhibited the best Camera in the Exhibition. It if\n    furnished with a double achromatic object-lens, about three inches\n    aperture. There is no stop, the field is flat, and the image very\n    perfect up to the edge.\"\n\nCatalogues sent upon Application.\n\nA. ROSS, 2. Featherstone Buildings, High Holborn.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nJust published, price 1s., free by Post 1s. 4d.,\n\nThe WAXED-PAPER PHOTOGRAPHIC PROCESS of GUSTAVE LE GRAY. New Edition.\nTranslated from the last Edition of the French.\n\nGEORGE KNIGHT & SONS., Foster Lane, London.\n\nManufacturers of Photographic Apparatus and Materials, consisting of\nCameras, Stands, Coating Boxes, Pressure Frames, Glass and Porcelain\nDishes, &c., and pure Photographic Chemicals, suited for practising the\nDaguerreotype, Talbotype, Waxed-Paper, Albumen and Collodion Processes,\nadapted to stand any Climate, and fitted for the Requirements of the\nTourist or Professional Artist.\n\nSole Agents in the United Kingdom for VOIGHTLANDER & SON'S celebrated\nLenses for Portraits and Views.\n\nGeneral Dep\u00f4t for Turner's, Whatman's, Canson Fr\u00e8res', La Croix, and other\nTalbotype Papers.\n\nInstructions and Specimens in every Branch of the Art.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPHOTOGRAPHY.--XYLO-IODIDE OF SILVER, prepared solely by R. W. THOMAS, has\nnow obtained an European fame; it supersedes the use of all other\npreparations of Collodion. Witness the subjoined Testimonial.\n\n    \"122. Regent Street\n\n    \"Dear Sir,--In answer to your inquiry of this morning, I have no\n    hesitation in saying that your preparation of Collodion is incomparably\n    better and more sensitive than all the advertised Collodio-Iodides,\n    which, for my professional purposes, are quite useless when compared to\n    yours.\n\n             \"I remain, dear Sir,\n                 \"Yours faithfully,\n                     \"N. HENNEMAN.\n\n          Aug. 30. 1852.\n      to Mr. R.W. Thomas.\"\n\nMR. R. W. THOMAS begs most earnestly to caution photographers against\npurchasing impure chemicals, which are now too frequently sold at very low\nprices. It is to this cause nearly always that their labours are unattended\nwith success.\n\nChemicals of absolute purity, especially prepared for this art, may be\nobtained from R. W. THOMAS, Chemist and Professor of Photography, 10. Pall\nMall.\n\nN.B.--The name of Mr. T.'s preparation, Xylo-Iodide of Silver, is made use\nof by unprincipled persons. To prevent imposition each bottle is stamped\nwith a red label bearing the maker's signature.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO PHOTOGRAPHERS.--Pure Chemicals, with every requisite for the practice of\nPhotography, according to the instructions of Hunt, Le Gray, Br\u00e9bisson, &c.\n&c., may be obtained of WILLIAM BOLTON, Manufacturer of pure chemicals for\nPhotographic and other purposes.\n\nLists of Prices to be had on application.\n\n146. Holborn Bars.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPHOTOGRAPHY.--Collodion (Iodized with the Ammonio-Iodide of Silver).--J. B.\nHOCKIN & CO., Chemists, 289. Strand, were the first in England who\npublished the application of this agent (see _Athen\u00e6um_, Aug. 14th). Their\nCollodion (price 9d. per oz.) retains its extraordinary sensitiveness,\ntenacity, and colour unimpaired for months: it may be exported to any\nclimate, and the Iodizing Compound mixed as required. J. B. HOCKIN & CO.\nmanufacture PURE CHEMICALS and all APPARATUS with the latest Improvements\nadapted for all the Photographic and Daguerreotype processes. Cameras for\nDeveloping in the open Country. GLASS BATHS adapted to any Camera. Lenses\nfrom the best Makers. Waxed and Iodized Papers, &c.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO PHOTOGRAPHERS.--MR. PHILIP DELAMOTTE begs to announce that he has now\nmade arrangements for printing Calotypes in large or small quantities,\neither from Paper or Glass Negatives. Gentlemen who are desirous of having\ngood impressions of their works, may see specimens of Mr. Delamotte's\nPrinting at his own residence, 38. Chepstow Place, Bayswater, or at\n\nMR. GEORGE BELL'S, 186. Fleet Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPHOTOGRAPHY.--HORNE & CO.'S Iodized Collodion, for obtaining Instantaneous\nViews, and Portraits in from three to thirty seconds, according to light.\n\nPortraits obtained by the above, for delicacy of detail rival the choicest\nDaguerreotypes, specimens of which may be seen at their Establishment.\n\nAlso every description of Apparatus, Chemicals, &c. &c. used in this\nbeautiful Art.--123. and 121. Newgate Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nUNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY: established by Act of Parliament in\n1834.--8. Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, London.\n\nHONORARY PRESIDENTS.\n\n  Earl of Courtown\n  Earl Leven and Melville\n  Earl of Norbury\n  Earl of Stair\n  Viscount Falkland\n  Lord Elphinstone\n  Lord Belhaven and Stenton\n  Wm. Campbell, Esq., of Tillichewan\n\nLONDON BOARD.\n\n_Chairman._--Charles Graham, Esq.\n_Deputy-Chairman._--Charles Downes, Esq.\n\n  H. Blair Avarne, Esq.\n  E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., F.S.A., _Resident_.\n  C. Berwick Curtis, Esq.\n  William Fairlie, Esq.\n  D. Q. Henriques, Esq.\n  J. G. Henriques, Esq.\n  F. C. Maitland, Esq.\n  William Railton, Esq.\n  F. H. Thomson, Esq.\n  Thomas Thorby, Esq.\n\nMEDICAL OFFICERS.\n\n_Physician._--Arthur H. Hassall, Esq., M.D., 8. Bennett Street, St.\nJames's.\n_Surgeon._--F. H. Tomson, Esq., 48. Berners Street.\n\nThe Bonus added to Policies from March, 1834, to December 31, 1847, is as\nfollows:--\n\n  ---------+----------+--------------------+----------\n    Sum    |   Time   |   Sum added to     |   Sum\n  Assured. | Assured. |      Policy        | Payable\n           |          +--------------------+ at Death.\n           |          | In 1841. In 1848.  |\n  ---------+----------+---------+----------+----------\n      \u00a3    |          |   \u00a3 s.d.|   \u00a3  s.d.|    \u00a3  s.d.\n     5000  | 14 years | 683 6 8 | 787 10 0 | 6470 16 8\n   * 1000  |  7 years |  -  -   | 157 10 0 | 1157 10 0\n      500  |  1 year  |  -  -   |  11  5 0 |  511  5 0\n  ---------+----------+---------+----------+----------\n\n* EXAMPLE.--At the commencement of the year 1841, a person aged thirty took\nout a Policy for 1000l., the annual payment for which is 24l. 1s. 8d.; in\n1847 he had paid in premiums 168l. 11s. 8d.; but the profits being 2\u00bc per\ncent. per annum on the sum insured (which is 22l. 10s. per annum for each\n1000l.) he had 157l. 10s. added to the Policy, almost as much as the\npremiums paid.\n\nThe Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and only\none-half need be paid for the first five years, when the Insurance is for\nLife. Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident\nDirector.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE GERMAN LANGUAGE.--MR. EGESTORFF, translator of Klopstock's Messiah,\nrespectfully announces that he is forming Classes for reading the German\nDrama, his own English versions, and the German original. The Readings may\ntake place either at his Lodging, No. 8. Gillingham Street, Pimlico, or at\nthe residence of one of the members.\n\nParticulars may be obtained on application to MR. EGESTORFF. The Readings\nwill commence with Schiller's Wallenstein, Mary Stuart, the Maid of\nOrleans, some Lyric Poems, &c. &c.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO PHOTOGRAPHERS.--To be sold, a splendid Achromatic Double Combination\nLens. The apertures, seven and eight inches, applicable for portraits, or\none of the Lenses for views; the Proprietor leaving England. Apply\nimmediately to A.B., 3. Jewin Crescent, Aldersgate Street. To save trouble,\nprice 60l.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPHOTOGRAPHIC PICTURES.--A Selection of the above beautiful Productions may\nbe seen at BLAND & LONG'S, 153. Fleet Street, where may also be procured\nApparatus of every Description, and pure Chemicals for the practice of\nPhotography in all its Branches.\n\nCalotype, Daguerreotype, and Glass Pictures for the Stereoscope.\n\nBLAND & LONG, Opticians, Philosophical and Photographical Instrument\nMakers, and Operative Chemists, 153. Fleet Street.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER.--Negative and Positive Papers of Whatman's, Turner's,\nSanford's, and Canson Fr\u00e8res' make. Waxed-Paper for Le Gray's Process.\nIodized and Sensitive Paper for every kind of Photography.\n\nSold by JOHN SANFORD, Photographic Stationer, Aldine Chambers, 13.\nPaternoster Row, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE AND ANNUITY SOCIETY.\n\n3. PARLIAMENT STREET, LONDON.\n\nFounded A.D. 1842.\n\n  _Directors._\n\n  H. E. Bicknell, Esq.          | J. H. Goodhart, Esq.\n  W. Cabell, Esq.               | T. Grissell, Esq.\n  T. S. Cocks, Jun. Esq., M.P.  | J. Hunt, Esq.\n  G. H. Drew, Esq.              | J. A. Lethbridge, Esq.\n  W. Evans, Esq.                | E. Lucas, Esq.\n  W. Freeman, Esq.              | J. Lys Seager, Esq.\n  F. Fuller, Esq.               | J. B. White, Esq.\n                                | J. Carter Wood, Esq.\n\n                           _Trustees._\n  W. Whateley, Esq., Q.C.; L. C. Humfrey, Esq., Q.C.; George Drew, Esq.,\n  _Physician._--William Rich. Basham, M.D.\n  _Bankers._--Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing Cross.\n\nVALUABLE PRIVILEGE.\n\nPOLICIES effected in this Office do not become void through temporary\ndifficulty in paying a Premium, as permission is given upon application to\nsuspend the payment at interest, according to the conditions detailed in\nthe Prospectus.\n\nSpecimens of Rates of Premium for Assuring 100l., with a Share in\nthree-fourths of the Profits:--\n\n  Age       \u00a3   s.  d. | Age       \u00a3   s.  d.\n   17       1  14   4  |  32       2  10   8\n   22       1  18   8  |  37       2  18   6\n   27       2   4   5  |  42       3   8   2\n\nARTHUR SCRATCHLEY, M.A., F.R.A.S., Actuary.\n\nNow ready, price 10s. 6d., Second Edition, with material additions,\nINDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT and EMIGRATION: being a TREATISE ON BENEFIT BUILDING\nSOCIETIES, and on the General Principles of Land Investment, exemplified in\nthe Cases of Freehold Land Societies, Building Companies, &c. With a\nMathematical Appendix on Compound Interest and Life Assurance. By ARTHUR\nSCRATCHLEY, M.A., Actuary to the Western Life Assurance Society, 3.\nParliament Street, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       * {171}\n\n\nINCORPORATED ACCORDING TO ACT OF PARLIAMENT.\n\nATHEN\u00c6UM INSTITUTE FOR AUTHORS AND MEN OF SCIENCE, 30. SACKVILLE STREET,\nLONDON.\n\n  _Vice-Presidents._\n  The Most Hon. the Marquis of Bristol, &c.\n  The Right Hon. the Lord Justice Knight Bruce, &c.\n  The Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, M.P., &c.\n  Lieut.-General Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, G.C.H., &c.\n  The Right Hon. Viscount Goderich, M.P., &c.\n  The Right Hon. Lord Viscount Monck, M.P.\n  Sir George Thomas Staunton, Bart., D.C.L, F.R.S., M.P., &c.\n\n  _Honorary Directors._\n  The Hon. J. Master Owen Byng.\n  William Coningham, Esq.\n  William Ewart, Esq., M.P.\n  Charles Kemble, Esq.\n  Edward Miall, Esq., M.P.\n  Benjamin Oliveira, Esq., M.P.\n  Apsley Pellatt, Esq., M.P.\n  Henry Pownall, Esq.\n  Wm. Scholefield, Esq., M.P.\n  The Hon. C. Pelham Villiers, M.P.\n  James Wyld, Esq.\n\n  _Treasurer._\n  Sir John Dean Paul, Bart.\n\n  _Trustees._\n  Thomas J. Arnold, Esq.\n  Herbert Ingram, Esq.\n  F.G.P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S.\n\n  _Auditors._\n  Alexander Richmond, Esq.\n  William Smalley, Esq.\n\n  _Business Directors._\n  _Chairman._--Lieut.-General Palby, C.B.\n  _Deputy-Chairman._--J. Stirling Coyne, Esq.\n\n  Bayle Bernard, Esq.\n  Shirley Brooks, Esq.\n  W. Downing Bruce, Esq.\n  J. B. Buckstone, Esq.\n  Thornton Hunt, Esq.\n  G. H. Lewes, Esq.\n  Cyrus Redding, Esq.\n  Angus B. Reach, Esq.\n\n  _Managing Director._\n  F. G. Tomlins, Esq.\n\n  _Secretary._\n  Wm. Dalton, Esq.\n\n  _Solicitor._\n  G. E. Dennes, Esq., F.L.S.\n\n  _Consulting Actuary._\n  R. Thompson Jopling, Esq., F.S.S.\n\n  _Bankers._\n  Messrs. Strahan, Paul, Paul, and Bates. 217. Strand.\n\n  _Agent._\n  Mr. C. Mitchell, Newspaper Press Directory Office, Red Lion Court, Fleet\n      Street.\n\nCONSTITUTION.\n\nThe Athen\u00e6um Institute is legally incorporated as a Mutual Benefit Society,\nand the rank and public status of its Vice-Presidents, Honorary Directors,\nTrustee, and Treasurer, and the well-known character of its business\nDirectors, present a security to Authors, Journalists, and all connected\nwith Literature, that it is based on sound principles, and will be\nconducted with fidelity and honour.\n\nIt consists of two classes of Supporters.\n\n    _Non-Participating or Honorary Subscribers_, who, it is hoped, may\n    include THE ROYAL FAMILY and great Officers of the state, on account of\n    the political and moral influences of Authors; NOBLEMEN and MEN OF\n    FORTUNE who have manifested a marked predilection for Literature;\n    AUTHORS OF FORTUNE and others sympathising with, and interested in the\n    labours of literary men.\n\n    _Participating Subscribers_, consisting of PROFESSIONAL AUTHORS, and\n    that large mass of writers who produce the current literature of the\n    age in Works of Science, Imagination, Education, and the Periodical and\n    Newspaper Press of the Empire.\n\nThe Constitution of the Society is such that the general body of its\nmembers hold the directing power. The Board of Business Directors is\nelected by it, and their powers and duties, as well as those of the\nofficers, are clearly defined by the laws and rules of the Institute, which\nare in strict conformity with the elaborate requirements of the Friendly\nSocieties' Act (14th and 15th Victoria, chap. 115.).\n\nTHE QUALIFICATION OF MEMBERSHIP is authorship in some shape, but a large\nand liberal will be the most just interpretation of the term. As close a\ndefinition as can be given perhaps is, that it intends to include all who\nuse the pen with an intellectual aim, women as well as men. The printed\nforms (which can be had on application) will show more minutely what is\nrequired to constitute membership.\n\nREVENUE.\n\nThe distinguishing feature of the Institute is its applying the principle\nof Life Assurance in all its transactions.\n\nThe _Subscriptions_ of the _Honorary Subscribers_ are applied to an\nAssurance of the Life of the Donors.\n\nFor instance,--The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, Esq., sends a\nDonation of Twenty-five Pounds, which is immediately invested on an\nAssurance on his life, and will ultimately produce to the Institute an\nEndowment of 42l. Or to take another instance,--The Right Hon. Lord\nViscount Goderich subscribes Two Guineas per year, which is invested in\nlike manner on an Assurance on his life, and will ultimately Endow the\nInstitute with 100l. And thus the Honorary Subscriptions, instead of being\nspent as soon as received, are made to form a Capital Fund, which will be\nultimately available, as the Lives fall in, to the Provident Members and\nParticipating Subscribers.\n\nThe application of the subscriptions of the Honorary Members to assuring\ntheir lives, has these advantages:--It tends to create a large capital\nfund--It enables the Honorary subscribers to see that the undertaking is\nsuccessful, before their money is expended--It transforms such\nsubscriptions from being an alms-giving for personal purposes, into an\nEndowment for the general benefit of Literature--It is not like most alms\nsubscriptions to go in casual relief, but to produce a permanent result;\nsuch as the foundation of a Hall and chambers, and ultimately the complete\norganisation of Literature as a recognised profession; to endow permanent\nannuities, and otherwise aid Literature by succouring Authors.\n\nBy this arrangement a very strong inducement is given to the Working\nLiterary Men to subscribe to this Institute and Society beyond all others:\nas they will not only have all the benefits and profits arising from their\nown subscriptions, but participate in the Capital Fund, which, there can be\nno doubt, will be augmented by Donations, Legacies, and Endowments. There\nis also the special advantage peculiar to such an Institution, of\nNOMINATING A WIFE OR CHILD to receive immediately the Amount ASSURED at\ndecease IRRESPECTIVE OF ALL OTHER CLAIMS.\n\n_The Subscriptions of the Participating Class_ are as follows:--\n\nONE GUINEA must be subscribed by every member, which goes towards the\nexpenses of the Institute and the support of the Philanthropic Fund. For\nthis he is entitled to be a candidate for assistance from the Philanthropic\nFund; has a Vote at all the General Meetings of the Institute; and will be\nentitled to certain benefits from the Education and Protective Branches of\nthe Institute when they are brought into operation.\n\nEVERY GUINEA SUBSCRIBED ANNUALLY _beyond_ the first Guinea above mentioned,\nproduces the Subscriber an Assurance on his life, according to the Tables\nspecially calculated by the Consulting Actuary of the Institute, and which\nare in compliance with the Act of Parliament regulating such matters. The\nPolicies are issued by the Institute under the Friendly Societies' Act, and\nwhich are legally guaranteed by the Athen\u00e6um Life Assurance Society, which,\nalso appealing more particularly to Literary and Scientific Men, has made\nan arrangement that is liberal and advantageous to the Athen\u00e6um Institute.\n\nBy this arrangement every Provident Member is equally safe, whether the\nmembers of the Institute be few or many.\n\nOne Subscriber is thus rendered as secure as a thousand.\n\nAnnual Subscribers of Two Guineas or more are entitled to become Directors:\nand in awarding relief, regard will always be had to the amount subscribed.\n\nIt will be perceived by these arrangements, that every member of the\nAthen\u00e6um Institute has the full value returned to him of _every_ Guinea\nsubscribed _beyond_ the first, in a Policy on his life; and that he also\nhas a participation in the Capital Fund formed by the Subscriptions,\nDonations, and Endowments of the Honorary Subscribers; a privilege which it\nis probable will add from fifty to a hundred per cent. to his individual\ncontributions.\n\nThe Friendly Societies' Act, under which the Institute is registered, will\nnot permit a member to make an Assurance beyond 100l., the Institute is\ntherefore limited to this amount: but the Athen\u00e6um Life Assurance Society,\nwhich so liberally assists the Institute, will insure to any amount, and in\nany mode. It is desirable that the members of the Institute should assure\nup to the 100l. allowed by the Act, and the Tables will shew the annual\namount required, according to the Age of the Subscriber. The power of\nNOMINATING A WIFE OR CHILD, irrespective of all other claimants, is also a\ngreat inducement to assure in the Institute to the utmost amount, namely,\n100l.\n\nIt is contemplated, as the Institute progresses, to add PROTECTIVE and\nEDUCATIONAL Branches.\n\nThe union of numbers has established the various Commercial and\nPhilanthropic Institutions of the Empire, and it is earnest urged that\nAuthors and Journalists should take advantage of their numbers. Nothing can\nbe accomplished without numbers--with them everything. The appeal now made\nis universal in its application to Literary workers, and it is hoped it\nwill be responded to so as to neutralise all cliquism, whether arising from\nliterary sectarianism, or the antagonism of political sentiments.\n\n  F. G. TOMLINS, Manager,\n      30. Sackville Street, London.\n\n*** Members are admitted by the Directors (who meet monthly) according to\nforms which will be transmitted on application.\n\nPost Office Orders to be made payable to the Managing Director at Charing\nCross Money Order Office.\n\nThe Rules of the Institute, as legally drawn up by high professional\nauthority, and as certified by the Registrar, can be had, price 1s. 6d., or\n2s. by post, pre-paid.\n\nProspectuses (with Tables calculated especially for this Society) may be\nhad, gratis, at the Office, 30. Sackville Street, or of Mr. Charles\nMitchell, Agent to the Institute, Newspaper Press Directory Office, 12. Red\nLion Court, Fleet Street, London.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n{172}\n\nNEW WORKS.\n\nI.\n\nLIFE OF JOAN OF ARC. An Historical Essay. By LORD MAHON. Fcap. 8vo. 1s.\n(Murray's \"Railway Reading.\")\n\nII.\n\nLIVES OF THE EARLS OF ESSEX, in the Reigns of Elizabeth, James I., and\nCharles I. Including many unpublished Letters and Documents. By HON. CAPT.\nDEVEREUX, R.N. 2 Vols. 8vo. 30s.\n\nIII.\n\nA FORTNIGHT IN IRELAND. By SIR FRANCIS HEAD, Bart. Second Edition. Map.\n8vo. 12s.\n\nIV.\n\nLIVES OF LORDS FALKLAND, CAPEL, AND HERTFORD, the Friends and\nContemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon. By LADY THERESA LEWIS. 3 Vols.\n8vo. 42s.\n\nV.\n\nHISTORY OF THE ROMAN STATE. By LUIGI FARINI. Translated by the RIGHT HON.\nW. E. GLADSTONE, M.P. Vol. III. 8vo. 12s.\n\nVI.\n\nA SCHEME for the GOVERNMENT OF INDIA. By GEORGE CAMPBELL. Maps. 8vo. 4s.\n\nVII.\n\nCRIME: ITS AMOUNT, CAUSES, and REMEDIES. By FREDERIC HILL, late Inspector\nof Prisons. 8vo. 12s.\n\nVIII.\n\nMY HOME IN TASMANIA, during a Residence of Nine Years. By MRS. CHARLES\nMEREDITH. Woodcuts. 2 Vols. Post 8vo. 18s.\n\nIX.\n\nA CHURCH DICTIONARY. By REV. DR. HOOK, Vicar of Leeds. Sixth Edition,\nenlarged. 8vo. 16s.\n\nX.\n\nTHE PERIL OF PORTSMOUTH; or, FRENCH FLEETS AND ENGLISH FORTS. By JAMES\nFERGUSON, Esq. 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Fleet\nStreet aforesaid.--Saturday, February 12. 1853.","title":"Notes and Queries, Number 172, February 12, 1853: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.","tradition":"myth-cosmogony","translated_text":null,"word_count":21990}