Replies to Minor Queries.

[We have much pleasure in inserting this communication, as it may be the means of drawing fresh attention to the other substances mentioned by Le Gray; for we are strongly of opinion that, notwithstanding the advantages of collodion, there are othermediawhich may prove preferable.—Ed.]

The Soiling of the Fingersmay be entirely avoided by a simple expedient. Use a slightly concave horizontal dish for sensitizing, and a depth of solution not sufficient to wet the back of the collodionized plate, and after the impressed platehas been placed on the levelled stand and developed, proceed thus: instead of holding the plate by the fingers to perform the subsequent processes, take a strip of glass (say five inches long and one and a half wide for the ordinary portrait size), put a single drop of water on it, and carefully pass it beneath the developed plate; lift the glass thereby; the adhesion is sufficiently firm to sustain the plate in any required position for the remaining manipulations till it is washed and finished.

Cokely.

Sir W. Newton's Process.—Chloride of Bromium.—May I ask, through the medium of your very excellent journal, what purposeSir W. Newtonintends to meet by the application of his wash of chloride of barium previous to iodizing?

F. Maxwell Lyte.

The Collodion Process.—Absence from London has prevented my seeing your Numbers regularly; but in one for December I seeMr. Archerhas used my name in connexion with the collodion process. He states that he called several times, and made me familiar with the process; by which he would lead persons to suppose that he taught me in fact to take pictures. Now I beg most distinctly to state that this is incorrect.Mr. Archermade, it is true, several attempts in my glass room to take a picture, but totally failed. And why? Because he attempted to follow out the process as he himself had published it. From that time I worked it out by myself, assisted by hints from Mr. Fry, who at the time I allude to was a successful manipulator, and had produced and exhibited many beautiful pictures, and at whose suggestion I commenced it in the first instance.

There is also another portion ofMr. Archer'sletter incorrect; but as this relates to the sale of collodion, I will let it pass, trusting, as you have given insertion to his, you will not refuse space for mine.

F. Horne.

123. Newgate Street.

Portable Camera(Vol. vii., p. 71.).—If India rubber should turn out to be what H. Y. W. N. thinks he has found it to be, it would be capable of being turned to excellent account. For instance, instead of having a single "portable camera," which is on many accounts very awkward to use, why should not the tourist have a light framework constructed, and covered entirely with this India rubber: in fact, an India rubber box, in which his camera, and a partitioned shelf containing his collodion, developing fluid, hypo-soda solution, &c., might be easily packed, and in which, by the aid of sleeves, &c., he might coat his plates, and develop and fix them, quite apart from his camera? Hemusthavesomethingto pack his camera, &c. in; and the above-described packing-case would be very light, and also waterproof.

J. L. S.

Chaplains to Noblemen(Vol. vii., p. 85.).—The statute in which chaplains to noblemen are first named is 21 Henry VIII. c. 13. (1529); in which, by sect. 11., it is enacted, "that every Archbysshop and Duke may have vj chapleyns;" "every Markes and Erle may have fyve chapleyns;" "every vycecount and other Byshop may have foure chapleyns;" and "the Chancellour of England for the tyme beying and every Baron or Knyght of the Garter may have thre chapleyns:" and one chaplain of each order, whether Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, or Baron, is thereby authorised to purchase "lycence or dispensacion to take, receyve, and kepe two parsonages or benefices with cure of souls" (Stat. of the Realm, vol. iii. p. 294.). I believe that X. will find a regular registry of these appointments in Doctors' Commons.

It may be interesting to add, that among the other persons named in this statute are the Master of the Rolls, who may have "two chapleyns;" and the "Chefe Justice of the Kinges Benche," who may have "one chapleyn." By another statute, 25 Henry VIII. c. 16. (1533-4), this last power to have one chaplain is extended to "every Jugge of the seid high courtes" (King's Bench and Common Pleas), "the Chaunceller and Cheffe Baron of the Exchequer, the kynges generall attorney and generall soliciter" (Ibid.p. 457.)

Edward Foss.

Mitigation of Capital Punishment to a Forger(Vol. vi., p. 614.).—I have been and still am inquiring into the two cases of mitigation, intending to send the result, when I have found satisfactory evidence, or exhausted my sources of inquiry. The communication ofWhunsideis the first direct testimony, and may settle the Fawcett case. As he was "resident at Mr. Fawcett's when the circumstances occurred," perhaps he will be so kind as to state the date and place of the conviction, and the name of the convict. By adding his own name, the facts will stand upon his authority.

H. B. C.

U. U. Club.

Brydone the Tourist(Vol. vii., p. 108.).—A. B. C. inquires the birthplace of Brydone, "the tourist and author." I presume he refers to Patrick Brydone, who wroteTravels in Sicily and Malta, and who held, I believe, an appointment under the Commissioners of Stamps, and died about thirty years ago. Some four-and-twenty years back, I arrived, late in the evening, at the hospitable cottage of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, at Altrieve, in the vale of Yarrow. It happened to be, as it often was, too full of guests to afford me a bed; and I was transferred by my host to the house of a neighbouring gentleman, where I slept. That gentleman was Mr. Brydone, of Mount Benger,who I found was a near relative of Brydone the tourist, whose birthplace was in the Forest of Ettrick.

M. R—son.

Yankee(Vol. vii., p. 103.).—I am afraidMr. Bell'singenious speculations must give way to facts. Our transatlantic brethren donot, either willingly or unwillingly, adoptYankeeas their "collective name."Yankeewas, and is, a name given exclusively to the natives of the New England States, and was never therefore applied, by an American, to the people of New Amsterdam or New York. Here, in England, indeed, we are accustomed to call all AmericansYankees; which is about the same thing as to call all Englishmen Devonians or Lancastrians.

Y. A.

Miniature Ring of Charles I.(Vol. vi., p. 578.).—One of the four rings inquired for is in the possession of Mrs. Andrew Henderson, of 102. Gloucester Place, Portman Square, formerly Miss Adolphus. It came to her in the female line, through her mother's family. The unfortunate Charles I. presented it to Sir Lionel Walden, on the morning on which he lost his life. It bears (as the other one alluded to in Hulbert'sHistory of Salop) a miniature likeness of the king, set in small brilliants. Inside the ring are the words, "Sic transit gloria regum." Mrs. Henderson understood the four rings to have been presented as follows:—Bishop Juxon, Sir Lionel Walden, Colonel Ashburnham, and Herbert his secretary. Which of the four is now in the possession of the Misses Pigott is not mentioned.

Anon.

Bishop of Ossory—Cardinal's Hat(Vol. vii., p. 72.).—A. S. A. is quite correct, that thehatis common to all prelates, and that the distinction is only in the number of the tassels to the hat-strings; but I think he is wrong in attributing the hat topriors. I believe it only belonged toabbots, who hadblackhats and tassels; while the colour of the prelatical hats and tassels was green. (See Père Anselme'sPalais d'Honneur, chap. xxii. and plate.)

Hugh Oldham, Bishop of Exeter(Vol. vii., p. 14.).—Hugh Oldham bore for his arms, Sa. a chevron or, between three owls proper on a chief of the second, three roses gu. (See Isaacke'sMemorials of the City of Exeter; and also Burke'sArmory, under the nameOldom.) I have endeavoured to find some pedigree or particulars of his family, but as yet without success. The following Notes from what I have collected may, however, assist J. B. in his inquiries. He was of Queen's College, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Countess of Richmond (King Henry VII.'s mother), and by her interest was installed Bp. of Exeter, April 3, 1507. He was a great benefactor to Brazenose College, Oxford, and joint founder (with Richard Fox, Bishop of Winchester) of Corpus Christi. He also founded and endowed a school at Manchester, for educating boys in good and useful literature. He died June 25, 1523, under sentence of excommunication, in consequence of an action at law then pending between him and the Abbot of Tavistock; but the Pope's sanction being obtained, he was buried in a chapel built expressly for the purpose, at the upper end of the south aisle of his own cathedral.

J. T—t.

"Sic transit gloria mundi" (Vol. vi., pp. 100. 183.).—I have lately found two additional passages, which speak of this line being used at the Pope's inauguration. The first is amongst the writings of Cornelius à Lapide:

"Datus est mihi stimulus carnis meæ Angelus Satanæ, qui me colaphizet." ... "Datus est non a Diabolo sed a Deo; non quod Deus tentationis sit auctor, sed quia diabolo tentare Paulum parato, id permisit, idque tantum in specie et materia libidinis ad eum humiliandum. Ita August.de Natura et Grat., c. 27.Hic monitor, ait Hieron., Epist. 25., ad Paulum de obitu Blæsillæ,Paulo datus est, ad premendam superbiam, uti in curru triumphali triumphanti datur Monitor suggerens: hominem te esse memento. Uti et Pontifici cum inauguratur, stupa accensa et mox extincta accinitur:"Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi."Commentariain 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. cap. xii. 7.vol. ix. p. 404.: Antwerpiæ, 1705, fol.

"Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi."Commentariain 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. cap. xii. 7.vol. ix. p. 404.: Antwerpiæ, 1705, fol.

"Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi."

Commentariain 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. cap. xii. 7.vol. ix. p. 404.: Antwerpiæ, 1705, fol.

Commentariain 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. cap. xii. 7.

vol. ix. p. 404.: Antwerpiæ, 1705, fol.

The second passage is merely a repetition of the above-quoted words of A Lapide, but I may as well subjoin a reference to it: UrsiniParalipomena, lib. ii., Meletematum, p. 315.: Norimbergæ, 1667, 12mo.

Rt.

Warmington.

Wake(Vol. vi., p. 532.).—In a Wake pedigree in my possession, the name of the wife of Sir Hugh Wake, Knight, Lord of Blisworth, who died May 4, 1315, is stated to be "Joane, daughter and co-heiress of John de Wolverton." I am unable to say now on what authority.

W. S. (Sheffield.)

Sir Hugh Wake, Lord of Deeping in Lincolnshire and Blyseworth in Northamptonshire, married Joane, daughter and co-heiress of John de Wolverton. (See Kimber and Johnson'sBaronetage, 3 vols. 1771.)

Broctana.

Bury, Lancashire.

"Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts" (Vol. vi., p. 575.).—This sayingmaybe anterior to Dr. South's time, as the first number ofThe World, under the assumed name of Adam Fitz-Adam, Thursday, January 4, 1753, begins with the following:

"At the village of Arouche, in the province of Estremadura (says an old Spanish author), lived Gonzalesde Castro, who from the age of twelve to fifty-two years was deaf, dumb, and blind."

After relating the sudden restoration of his faculties, "Fitz-Adam" proceeds:

"But, as if the blessings of this life were only given us for afflictions, he began in a few weeks to lose the relish of his enjoyments, and to repine at the possession of those faculties, which served only to discover to him the follies and disorders of his neighbours, and to teach him thatthe intent of speech was too often to deceive."

It may serve to probe the matter ofageto ask, Who was "the old Spanish author" alluded to? Also, where may be found the hexameter line—

"ὅς χ' ἕτερον μὲν κεύθει ἐνὶ φρεσὶν ἄλλο δὲ βάζει."

equivalent to the common expression, "He says one thing and means another," and of which the maxim attribute to Goldsmith, Talleyrand, theMorning Chronicle, and South, seems only a stronger form?

Furvus.

St. James's.

Inscription on Penny of George III.(Vol. vii., p. 65.).—"Stabit quocunque jeceris" (it will stand in whatever way you throw it) is the well-known motto of the Isle of Mann, and has reference to the arms of the island, which are—Gules, three armed legs argent, flexed in triangle, garnished and spurred or. I venture to conjecture that the three legs of Mann were also on the penny J. M. A. mentioned.

Some curious lines about this motto are to be found inThe Isle of Mann Guide, by James Brotherston Laughton, B.A. (Douglas, 1850): one verse is—

"With spurs and bright cuishes, to make them look neat,He rigg'd out the legs; then to make them complete,He surrounded the whole with four fine Romanfeet.They were 'Quocunque jeceris stabit,'A thorough-paced Roman Iamb."

"With spurs and bright cuishes, to make them look neat,

He rigg'd out the legs; then to make them complete,

He surrounded the whole with four fine Romanfeet.

They were 'Quocunque jeceris stabit,'

A thorough-paced Roman Iamb."

The fore-mentioned work also contains a song entitled "The Copper Row," referring to the disturbances occasioned by the coinage of 1840.

Thompson Cooper.

Cambridge.

This is, I suppose, a Manx penny, with the reverse ofthree legs, and the motto, which is usually read "Quocunque jeceris stabit."

"Nine Tailors make a Man" (Vol. vi., pp. 390. 563.).—I extract the following humorous account of the origin of this saying fromThe British Apollo(12mo., reprint of 1726, vol. i. p. 236.):

"It happen'd ('tis no great matter in what year) that eight taylors, having finish'd considerable pieces of work at a certain person of quality's house (whose name authors have thought fit to conceal), and receiving all the money due for the same, a virago servant maid of the house observing them to be but slender-built animals, and in their mathematical postures on their shop-board appearing but so many pieces of men, resolv'd to encounter and pillage them on the road. The better to compass her design, she procured a very terrible great black-pudding, which (having waylaid them) she presented at the breast of the foremost: they, mistaking this prop of life for an instrument of death, at least a blunder-buss, readily yielded up their money; but she, not contented with that, severely disciplin'd them with a cudgel she carry'd in the other hand, all which they bore with a philosophical resignation. Thus, eight not being able to deal with one woman, by consequence could not make a man, on which account a ninth is added. 'Tis the opinion of our curious virtuosos, that this want of courage ariseth from their immoderate eating of cucumbers, which too much refrigerates their blood. However, to their eternal honour be it spoke, they have been often known to encounter a sort of cannibals, to whose assaults they are often subject, not fictitious, but real man-eaters, and that with a lance but two inches long; nay, and although they go arm'd no further than their middle-finger."

Sigma.

Sunderland.

On Quotations(Vol. vi., p. 408.).—There can be no doubt that quotations have frequently been altered, to make them more apt to the quoter's purpose, of which I believe the following to be an instance. We frequently meet with the quotation, "Nullum numenabest, si sit prudentia," with a reference to Juvenal. I have not been able to find the passage in this shape, and presume it is an alteration from the address to Fortune, which occurs twice in hisSatires, Sat. x. v. 365, 366., and Sat. xiv. v. 315, 316.:

"Nullum numenhabes, si sit prudentia: nos teNos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, cœloque locamus."

"Nullum numenhabes, si sit prudentia: nos te

Nos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, cœloque locamus."

The alteration is evidently not a mere verbal one, but changes entirely the meaning and allusion of the passage.

J. S. Warden.

Rhymes on Places(Vol. v., pp. 293. 374. 500.).—In addition to the local rhymes given in your pages, I call to mind the following, not inserted in Grose. They are peculiar to the North of England:

"Rothbury for goats' milk,And the Cheviots for mutton;Cheswick for its cheese and bread,And Tynemouth for a glutton."

"Rothbury for goats' milk,

And the Cheviots for mutton;

Cheswick for its cheese and bread,

And Tynemouth for a glutton."

"Harnham was headless, Bradford breadless,And Shaftoe pick'd at the craw;Capheaton was a wee bonny place,But Wallington bang'd them a'."

"Harnham was headless, Bradford breadless,

And Shaftoe pick'd at the craw;

Capheaton was a wee bonny place,

But Wallington bang'd them a'."

Thecraw, in the second rhyme, alludes to theCrasters, ancientlyCrancester, an old family in the parish of Hartburn, who succeeded to the estates of the Shaftoe family.

Edward F. Rimbault.

Coins in Foundations(Vol. vi., p. 270.).—I have a manuscript notice of an early example of this custom. It is in a hand of the earlier half of the seventeenth century. The Bostonians knew better, however, than to bury their "great gifts;" and all who travel the Great Northern Railway will be glad to preserve the names of the great givers, who afforded so noble a relief to the tedium of Boston station.

"The buylding of Boston Steeple."Md.That in the yeere of orLord God 1309, the steeple of Boston, on the Monday next following Palme Sunday, was digged wt many myners till Mydsomer; and by that time they were deeper than the bottom of the haven by fyve fote, and there they found a ball of sande nigh a fote thick, and that dyd lye uppon a spring of sand neere three fote thick, and that dyd lye uppon a bed of clay, the thicknesse thereof could not be known. And there, uppon Monday nexte after the feast of St. John Baptist, was layd the first stone, and that stone layd Dame Margaret Tylney, and thereuppon layd she vl.sterling. The nexte stone was layd by SrJohn Tattersall, prson of Boston, who layd down thereuppon vl.sterling. And Richard Stevenson, merchant of the Staple, layd the third stone, and thereuppon vl.sterling. And these were all the great guifts that at that time were given thereunto. Remaining amongst the records at Lincolne.Tho. Turner."

"The buylding of Boston Steeple.

"Md.That in the yeere of orLord God 1309, the steeple of Boston, on the Monday next following Palme Sunday, was digged wt many myners till Mydsomer; and by that time they were deeper than the bottom of the haven by fyve fote, and there they found a ball of sande nigh a fote thick, and that dyd lye uppon a spring of sand neere three fote thick, and that dyd lye uppon a bed of clay, the thicknesse thereof could not be known. And there, uppon Monday nexte after the feast of St. John Baptist, was layd the first stone, and that stone layd Dame Margaret Tylney, and thereuppon layd she vl.sterling. The nexte stone was layd by SrJohn Tattersall, prson of Boston, who layd down thereuppon vl.sterling. And Richard Stevenson, merchant of the Staple, layd the third stone, and thereuppon vl.sterling. And these were all the great guifts that at that time were given thereunto. Remaining amongst the records at Lincolne.

Tho. Turner."

H. T. H.

Sheffield.

Fleshed, Meaning of(Vol. vi., p. 578.).—Johnson (edit. 1823) glossesto flesh(from Sidney), to harden in any practice. An old author, in a passage which I have lately read, though I cannot now refer to it, talks of vice beingfleshed(i.e.ingrown) in a man.

W. Barnes.

Dorchester.

Robert Wauchope, Archbishop of Armagh, 1543(Vol. vii., p. 66.).—I know of no detailed account of this prelate, and am unable to furnish any particulars in addition to those stated by A. S. A., except that "he died in a convent of Jesuits at Paris, on the 10th of November, 1551," as stated by Ware, vol. i. p. 94. of hisWorks, Dublin, 1739. I may also add the following remark, which I find in a note, by M. Le Courayer, to his French translation of Fra-Paolo Sarpi'sHistory of the Council of Trent(London, 1736), tome i. p. 221.:

"La raillerie que fait de lui Fra-Paolo, en le louant de bien courir la poste, et qu'il a tirée de Sleidan, vient apparemment du nombre de voyages qu'il fit en Allemagne, en France, et ailleurs, pour exécuter différentes commissions, dont il fut chargé par les Papes."

Tyro.

Dublin.

Flemish and Dutch Schools of Painting(Vol. vii., p. 65.).—Karelvan Glander,Leven der beroemdste Schilders, Hollandsche en Vlaamsche(Lives of the most celebrated Dutch and Flemish Painters). This work is of the beginning of the seventeenth century. A better work is theLevens der beroemdste Hollandsche en Vlaamsche Schilders, by Immerzeel, published in 1836.

H. v. L.

Furmety or Frumenty(Vol. vi., p. 604.).—Ericaasks iffurmetycan claim descent from the once popular dish plum-porridge, mentioned in theTatlerandSpectator.

Though not a direct answer, the following quotation from Washington Irving'sSketch Bookwill show that it was in request at the season whenplum-puddingabounds, notwithstanding the orthodoxy of its use on Mid-Lent Sunday. In his account of the Christmas festivities at Bracebridge Hall, speaking of the supper on Christmas Eve, he says:

"The table was abundantly spread with substantial fare, but the Squire made his supper offrumenty, a dish made of wheat cakes boiled in milk, with rich spices,being a standing dish in old times for Christmas Eve."

W. H. Cotton.

Etymology of Pearl(Vol. vi., p. 578.; Vol. vii., p. 18.).—Sir Emerson Tennentinquires as to the antiquity of the wordpearlin the English language.Pærloccurs in Anglo-Saxon (Bosworth in v.), and corresponding forms are found in the Scandinavian languages, as well as in the Welsh and Irish. The old German form of the word isberille. Richardson in v. quotes an instance of the adjectivepearledfrom Gower, who belongs to the fourteenth century. The use ofunionforpearl, cited bySir E. Tennentfrom Burton, is a learned application of the word, and never was popular in our language.

I may add that Muratori inserts the wordperlain theItalian Glossary, in his 33rd Dissertation on Italian Mediæval Antiquities. He believes the origin of the word to be Teutonic, but throws no light on the subject. It appears from Halliwell'sArch. and Prov. Dictionary, that white spots in the eyes were anciently calledpearls. M‘Culloch,Commercial Dictionaryin v., particularly speaks of the pear-shaped form of the pearl; and, on the whole, the supposition thatperulais equivalent topear-ling, seems the most probable.

Folkestone(Vol. vi., p. 507.).—Various etymologies have been given with a view of arriving at the right one for this town. I have to inform you that the places of that part of Kent where Folkeston, so properly spelt on the seal of the ancient priory, is situated, receive their etymologies from local or geological distinctions. Folkeston forms no exception to the general rule. The soil consists of a most beautiful yellow sand, such as theRomans distinguished by the wordFulvus. This the Saxons contracted into Fulk, which word has become a family prenomen, as in Fulke-Greville, Fulk-Brooke; in other terms, the yellow Greville or yellow Brook; and Folkeston is nothing more than the yellow town, so called from the nature of the soil on which it is built.

The Curfew Bell(Vol. vi., p. 53.).—

"During the last 700 years, the curfew bell has been regularly tolled in the town of Sandwich: but now it is said it is to be discontinued, in consequence of the corporation funds being at so low an ebb as not to allow of the payment of the paltry sum of some 4l.or 5l.per annum."—Kentish Observer.

Anon.

Confirmation Superstition(Vol. vi., p. 601.).—It is singular, that though the office is called "the laying on ofhands," the rubric says, "the bishop shall lay hishandon the head of every one severally." When was theἐπίθεσις χειρῶν(Heb. vi. 2.) changed into anἐπίθεσις χειρὸς?

A. A. D.

Degree of B.C.L.(Vol. vii., p. 38.).—On Feb. 25, 1851, a statute was passed at Oxford, by Convocation, which requires that the candidate for the degree of B.C.L. should have passed his examination for the degree of B.A., and attended one course of lectures with the Regius Professor of Civil Law. In the case of particular colleges, twenty terms must have been kept: by members of other colleges, twenty-four terms must have been completed. The examination is upon the four books, or any part of them, of theInstitutes of Justinian, or works which serve to illustrate them in the science of civil law, of which six months' notice is previously given by the Regius Professor.

At Cambridge, a B.A. of four years' standing can be admitted LL.B. The candidate must have passed the previous examination; attended the lectures of the professor for three terms; be examined; and after four years' standing, and residence of three terms, keep his act.

Mackenzie Walcott, M.A.

Robert Heron(Vol. vi., p. 389.).—The literary career of this individual in London is selected by D'Israeli as an illustration of hisCalamities of Authors. Some farther particulars of him, in an editorial capacity, will be found inFraser's Magazine, vol. xx. p. 747.

William Bates.

Birmingham.

Shakspeare's "Twelfth Night"(Vol. vii., p. 51.).—If the term "case," as applied to apparel, requires any further elucidation, it may be found in the "Certaine opening and drawing Distiches," prefixed to Coryat'sCrudities, 4to., 1611. And the engraved title, which the verses are intended to explain, places before the eye, in a most unmistakeable form, the articles which compose a man's "case."

F. S. Q.

Catcalls(Vol. vi., pp. 460. 559.).—For a long and humorous dissertation upon this instrument, I beg to refer your sceptical correspondent M. M. E. to page 130. of a scarce and amusing little work, entitledA Taste of the Town, or a Guide to all Publick Diversions, &c.; London, printed and sold by the booksellers of London and Westminster, 1731, 12mo. The passages are not unworthy of transcription; but, I fear, would be too long for insertion in your columns.

William Bates.

Birmingham.

"Plurima, pauca, nihil," (Vol. vi., p. 511.; Vol. vii., p. 96.).—The following couplet will be found in Jo. Burch. MenckeniiDe Charlataneria Eruditorum Declamationes, page 181. of the edit. Amst. 1727. The lines are there given as a specimen of "versus quos Galli vocantrapportez:"

"Vir simplex, fortasse bonus, sed Pastor ineptus,Vult, tentat, peragit, plurima, pauca, nihil."

"Vir simplex, fortasse bonus, sed Pastor ineptus,

Vult, tentat, peragit, plurima, pauca, nihil."

N. B.

I have met with the following metrical proverb, which may afford satisfaction to your correspondent, which dates certainly before 1604:

"Modus retinendorum amicorum.Temporibus nostris quicunque placere laborat,Det, capiat, quærat, plurima, pauca, nihil."

"Modus retinendorum amicorum.

Temporibus nostris quicunque placere laborat,Det, capiat, quærat, plurima, pauca, nihil."

Temporibus nostris quicunque placere laborat,

Det, capiat, quærat, plurima, pauca, nihil."

Also this:

"Plurima des, perpauca petas, nil accipe: si nilAccipias, et pauca petas, et plurima dones,Gratus eris populo, te mille sequentur amici.Si nihilum trades, citò eris privatus amico:Plurima si quæres, multam patiêre repulsam:Si multa accipias, populus te dicet avarum.Nil cape, pauca petas, des plurima, habebis amicos."

"Plurima des, perpauca petas, nil accipe: si nil

Accipias, et pauca petas, et plurima dones,

Gratus eris populo, te mille sequentur amici.

Si nihilum trades, citò eris privatus amico:

Plurima si quæres, multam patiêre repulsam:

Si multa accipias, populus te dicet avarum.

Nil cape, pauca petas, des plurima, habebis amicos."

W. C. H.

Ben Jonson's adopted Sons(Vol. v., pp. 537. 588.).—I had made some Notes on this subject, but have never seen stated that their number was limited totwelve. I have gottenonmylist, but am unable at present to give my authorities; but I can assure yourInquirer, at p. 537., that their names arehonestlycome by:

"Thomas Randolph, Richard Brome, William Cartwright, Sir Henry Morrison, James Howell, Joseph Rutter, Robert Herrick, Lord Falkland, Sir John Suckling, Shackerly Marmion."

S. Wmson.

Mistletoe(Vol. vi., p. 589.).—Mistletoe grows onone oakin Hackwood Park, near Basingstoke, where it is extremely plentiful on hawthorns.

J. P. O.

The Camden Society has, after a long silence, just issued a volume,The Camden Miscellany, Volume the Second, which from the variety and interest of its contents, cannot but be acceptable to all the members. These contents are, I.Account of the Expenses of John of Brabant, and Henry and Thomas of Lancaster, 1292-93.—II.Household Account of the Princess Elizabeth, 1551-52.—III.The Bequeste and Suite of a True-hearted Englishman, written by William Cholmeley, 1553.—IV.Discovery of the Jesuits' College at Clerkenwell in March, 1627-28.—V.Trelawny Papers.—VI.Autobiography of William Taswell, D. D.This, which is the first book for the year 1852-53, will be immediately followed by a volume ofVerney Papers, editing by Mr. Bruce; and this probably byThe Domesday of St. Paul's, editing by Archdeacon Hale, orThe Correspondence of Lady Brilliana Harley, editing by the Rev. T. T. Lewis. Early in the ensuing Camden year, which commences on the 1st of May, two volumes of considerable interest may be looked for, namely,The Roll of the Household Expenses of Richard Swinfield, Bishop of Hereford, in the years 1289-90, with illustrations from other and coeval Documentsby the Rev. John Webb; andRegulæ Inclusarum, The Ancren Rewle, A Treatise on the Rules and Duties of Monastic Life, addressed to a Society of Anchorites by Simon of Ghent, a work valuable for philology, for it is written in the semi-Saxon dialect of the thirteenth century, and curious for its illustration of ancient manners. It will be accompanied by a translation by the Rev. James Morton, the editor.

The Architectural, Archæological, and Historic Society for the County, City, and Neighbourhood of Chester, has just published the Second Part of its Journal, in which objects of local interest are made available for much instructive information; and to accomplish which the conductors have, and as we think wisely, preferred a great number of apt illustrations, executed without any pretence to artistic skill, to afewexpensive and highly-finished engravings.

Our Dutch neighbours seem to enjoy as much as ourselves the humour of Charles Dickens. Not only isBleak Houseregularly translated as it appears, but in a bookseller's circular which has just reached us, we see announced translations of theSketches by Boz, and of aSelection from Household Words.

There is much tact required in writing for children, and no small share of this is exhibited in aHistory of France for Children, which Viscount Cranborne has just compiled for the use of his nieces. The principal events are brought forward in succession, and related in a plain, unaffected style, well calculated for youthful readers.

Books Received.—Joan of Arc, by Lord Mahon, the new number of Murray'sRailway Library, is a reprint, from the noble author'sHistorical Essays, of his careful summary of Joan's extraordinary history.—Cyclopædia Bibliographica, a Library Manual of Theological and General Literature, the fifth part of Mr. Darling's most useful guide for authors, preachers, students, and literary men.—Synodalia, a Journal of Convocation, Nos. 1. to 4.; four parts of a monthly periodical, instituted not so much for the purpose of securing immediately synodical action in the Church, as with the view of preparing the public mind for its reception.—Ferdinand I. and Maximilian II. of Austria, or a view of the Religion and Political State of Germany after the Reformation.An able and instructive essay by Professor Von Ranke, well translated forLongman's Traveller's Libraryby Sir A. and Lady Duff Gordon.—Kidd's Own Journal for January, 1853. The new number of a journal which deserves the notice of all lovers of natural history and keepers of pets.—Remains of Pagan Saxondom, principally from Tumuli in England, by J. Y. Akerman; Part III., containingBeads, Crystal Ball, and Bullafrom Breach Down, andGlass Vasefrom Cuddesden, drawn of their original size and coloured.

WANTED TO PURCHASE.

Chronon-ho-ton-thologos, byH. Carey.

The Dragon of Wantley, byH. Carey.

Gammer Gurton's Story Books, edited byAmbrose Merton. 13 Parts (Original Edition).

Hayward's British Museum.3 Vols. 12mo. 1738.

Theobald's Shakspeare Restored.4to. 1726.

Illustrated Commentary on the Old and New Testaments.Vol. I. 1840. Knight.

History of the Old and New Testament, byPrideaux. Vol I. 1717-18.

Menageries—Quadrupeds: "Library of Entertaining Knowledge," Vol. II.

Peter Simple.Illustrated Edition. Saunders and Otley. Vols. II. and III.

Historical Memoirs of Queens of England, byHannah Lawrance. Vol. II.

Ingram's Saxon Chronicle.4to. London, 1823.

Newman's Ferns.Large Edition.

Enigmatical Entertainer.Nos. I. and II. 1827 and 1828. Sherwood & Co.

Northumbrian Mirror.New Series. 1841, &c.

British Diary for 1794, byCotesandHall.

Reuben Burrow's Diarie, 1782-1788.

Marrat's Scientific Journal.New York.

Mathematical Correspondent(American).

Leeds Correspondent.Vol. V., Nos. 1, 2, and 3.

Mathematical Miscellany.1735.

Whiting's Select Exercises, withKey.

Walton and Cotton's Angler, byHawkins. Part II. 1784.

De la Croix's Connubia Florum.Bathoniæ, 1791. 8vo.

Reid's Historical Botany.Windsor, 1826. 3 Vols. 12mo.

Anthologia Borealis et Australis.

Florilegium Sanctarum Aspirationum.

Laderchii Annales Ecclesiastici, 3 tom. fol. Romæ, 1728-1737.

Townsend's Parisian Costumes.3 Vols. 4to. 1831-1839.

The Book of Adam.

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, the Sons of Jacob.

Massinger's Plays, byGifford. Vol. IV. 8vo. Second Edition. 1813.

Spectator.Vols. V and VII. 12mo. London, 1753.

Costerus (François) Cinquante Meditations de toute l'Histoire de la Passion de Nostre Seigneur.8vo. Anvers, Christ. Plantin.; or any of the works of Costerus in any language.

Guardian.12mo.

What the Chartists are.A Letter to English Working Men, by a Fellow-Labourer. 12mo. London, 1848.

Letter of Church Rates, byRalph Barnes. 8vo. London, 1837.

Colman's Translation of Horace De Arte Poetica.4to. 1783.

Boscawen's Treatise on Satire.London, 1797.

Johnson's Lives(Walker's Classics). Vol. I.

Titmarsh's Paris Sketch-book.Post 8vo. Vol. I. Macrone, 1840.

Fielding's Works.Vol. XI. (being second of "Amelia.") 12mo. 1808.

Holcroft's Lavater.Vol. I. 8vo. 1789.

Otway.Vols. I. and II. 8vo. 1768.

Edmondson's Heraldry.Vol. II. Folio, 1780.

Sermons and Tracts, byW. Adams, D.D.

Ben Jonson's Works.(London, 1716. 6 Vols.) Vol. II. wanted.

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***Letters, stating particulars and lowest price,carriage free, to be sent toMr. Bell, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES" 186. Fleet Street.

J. F. (Halifax).How can a letter be addressed to this Correspondent?

J. O.,who inquired respectingJohanna Southcote.How can we forward a letter to him?

Mousey.A cat is calledGrimalkin,or more properlyGray Malkin,from the name of a Fiend supposed to assume the shape of a cat. Shakspeare, in hisMacbeth,makes the First Witch exclaim,

"I come, Graymalkin."

E. J. G.We must refer our Correspondent to the critical commentators on the passage: Lowth or Wintle, for instance.

Inquisitor,who writes respectingRotten Row,is referred to our1st Vol., p. 441.; 2nd Vol., p. 235.;and our5th Vol., pp. 40. 160.

F. R. D. (Dublin).The arms on the impression of the seal forwarded by our Correspondent are obviously German, from the helmet, the style of lambrequin, and more particularly from the charges or bearings of which the coat is composed. It is probably of the date assigned to it byF. R. D.

Shaw's StaffordMSS.We have a note for our Correspondent on this subject, N. C. L.Where shall it be sent?

O. G.Will our Correspondent kindly favour us with the notices of Dr. Deacon contained in Townshend'sCommon-Place Book,for the benefit of another member of the literary brotherhood, who, we know, has been for some time past making collections for a Life of that remarkable Nonjuring bishop?

Replies to Photographic Correspondentsnext week.

An Anxious Inquirershould state more precisely what branch of Photography he intends to pursue. Professor Hunt'sManual of Photography,of which the Third Edition has just been published, is the fullest which has yet appeared in this country. He will obtain Lists of Prices of Lenses, Cameras, &c. from any of the Photographic Houses whose Advertisements appear in our columns.

Photographic Society.All communications respecting this Society should be addressed to the Honorary Secretary, "Roger Fenton, Esq., 2. Albert Terrace, Albert Road, Regent's Park."

Errata.—No. 171. p. 136. col. 2. line 48. for "with" read "in;" and p. 137. col. 1. l. 18. for "remark" read "mask."

"Notes and Queries"is published at noon on Friday, so that the Country Booksellers may receive Copies in that night's parcel, and deliver them to their Subscribers on the Saturday.

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