Miscellaneous.

"A look or motion of intelligenceFrom infant conning of the Christ-cross-row."Excurs.viii. p. 305.

"A look or motion of intelligence

From infant conning of the Christ-cross-row."

Excurs.viii. p. 305.

These lines suggest the Query, Is this term for the alphabet still in use? and, if so, in what parts of the country?

Eirionnach.

Sir Walter Scott, and his Quotations from himself(Vol. ix, p. 72.).—I beg to submit to you the following characteristic similarity of expression, occurring in one of the poems and one of the novels of Sir Walter Scott. I am not aware whether attention has been drawn to it in the letters of Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Heber, as I have not the work at hand to consult:

"His grasp, as hard as glove of mail,Forced the red blood-drop from the nail."Rokeby, CantoI. Stan. 15.

"His grasp, as hard as glove of mail,

Forced the red blood-drop from the nail."

Rokeby, CantoI. Stan. 15.

"He wrung the Earl's hand with such frantic earnestness, that his grasp forced the blood to start under the nail."—Legend of Montrose.

N. L. T.

Nightingale and Thorn(Vol. viii., p. 527.).—Add Young'sNight Thoughts, Night First, vers. 440-445.:

"Griefs sharpest thorn hard pressing on my breast,I strive with wakeful melody to cheerThe sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee,And call the stars to listen—every starIs deaf to mine, enamour'd of thy lay."

"Griefs sharpest thorn hard pressing on my breast,

I strive with wakeful melody to cheer

The sullen gloom, sweet Philomel! like thee,

And call the stars to listen—every star

Is deaf to mine, enamour'd of thy lay."

H. T. G.

Hull.

Female Parish Clerks(Vol. viii., p. 474.).—Within the last half-century, a Mrs. Sheldon discharged the duties of this post at the parish church of Wheatley, five miles from Oxford, and near Cuddesdon, the residence of the Bishop of Oxford. This clerkship was previously filled by her husband; but, upon his demise, she became his successor. It is not a week since that I saw a relation who was an eye-witness of this fact.

Percy M. Hart.

Stockwell.

Hour-glass Stand(Vol. ix., p. 64.).—There is an hour-glass stand of very quaintly wrought iron, painted in various colours, attached to the pulpit at Binfield, Berks.

J. R. M., M.A.

The Rev. Edward Trollope, F.S.A., wisely conceiving that an illustrated work, comprising specimens of the arms, armour, jewellery, furniture, vases, &c., discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum, might be acceptable to those numerous readers to whom the magnificent volumes, published by the Neapolitan government, are inaccessible, has just issued a quarto volume under the title ofIllustrations of Ancient Art, selected from Objects discovered at Pompeii and Herculaneum. The various materials which he has selected from theMuseo Borbonico, and other works, and a large number of his own sketches, have been carefully classified; and we think few will turn from an examination of the forty-five plates of Mr. Trollope's admirable outlines, without admiring the good taste with which the various subjects have been selected, and acknowledging the light which they throw upon the social condition, the manners, customs, and domestic life, of the Roman people.

As the great Duke of Marlborough confessed that he acquired his knowledge of his country's annals in the historical plays of Shakspeare, so we believe there are many who find it convenient and agreeable to study them in Miss Strickland'sLives of the Queens of England. To all such it will be welcome news that the first and second volumes of a new and cheaper edition, and which comprise the lives of all our female sovereigns, from Matilda of Flanders to the unfortunate Anne Boleyn, are now ready; and will be followed month by month by the remaining six. At the close of the work, we may take an opportunity of examining the causes of the great popularity which it has attained.

Mr. M. A. Lower has just published a small volume of antiquarian gossip, under the title ofContributions to Literature, Historical, Antiquarian, and Metrical, in which he discourses pleasantly on Local Nomenclature, the Battle of Hastings, the Iron Works of the South-East of England, the South Downs, Genealogy, and many kindred subjects; and tries his hand, by no means unsuccessfully, at some metrical versions of old Sussex legends. Several of the papers have already appeared in print, but they serve to make up a volume which will give the lover of popular antiquities an evening's pleasant reading.

We beg to call the attention of our readers to the opportunity which will be afforded them on Wednesday next of hearing Mr. Layard lecture on his recentDiscoveries at Nineveh. As they will see by the advertisement in our present Number, Mr. Layard has undertaken to do so for the purpose of contributing to the schools and other parochial charities of the poor but densely populated district of St. Thomas, Stepney.

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B. H. C.Will this Correspondent, who states(p. 135.)that he has found the termination-byin Sussex, be good enough to state the place to which he refers?

C. C.The ballad of "Fair Rosamond" is printed in Percy's Reliques, in thePictorial Book of British Ballads,and many other places; but the lines quoted by our Correspondent—

"With that she dash'd her on the mouth,And dyed a double wound"—

"With that she dash'd her on the mouth,

And dyed a double wound"—

do not occur in it.

T.Φ.Biographical notices of the author ofDrunken Barnabywill be found in Chalmers' and Rose's Dictionaries. The best account of Richard Brathwait is that by Joseph Haslewood, prefixed to his edition ofBarnabæ Itinerarium.—Gurnall has been noticed in ourSixth Volume, pp. 414. 544.

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I. R. R.The song "O the golden days of good Queen Bess!" will be found inThe British Orpheus, a Selection of Songs and Airs,p. 274., with the music.

Trench on Proverbs.We cannot possibly find space for any further discussion of the translation ofPs. cxxvii. 2.

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