REPLIES.

"O Socrates, pleins de philosophie,Seneque en moeurs et angles en pratique,Ovides grans en ta poeterie,Bries en parier, saiges en rethorique,Aigles tres haulte qui par ta theoriqueEnlumines le regne d'EneasL'isle aux geans, ceulx de Bruth, et qui asSemé les fleurs et planté le rosierAux ignorans dela langue Pandras;Grant translateur, noble Geoffroy Chaucier."

"O Socrates, pleins de philosophie,

Seneque en moeurs et angles en pratique,

Ovides grans en ta poeterie,

Bries en parier, saiges en rethorique,

Aigles tres haulte qui par ta theorique

Enlumines le regne d'Eneas

L'isle aux geans, ceulx de Bruth, et qui as

Semé les fleurs et planté le rosier

Aux ignorans dela langue Pandras;

Grant translateur, noble Geoffroy Chaucier."

May I ask, further, whether any particulars are known of this contemporary and admirer of Chaucer?

I hope I shall not be deemed presumptuous if I add that I should have doubted of thegenuinenessof the poem quoted from, if Sir Harris Nicolas had not stated that it had been communicated to him by "Thomas Wright, Esq., who received it from M. Paulin Paris," gentlemen in every way qualified to decide on this point, and being sanctioned by them, I have no wish to appeal from their judgment.

J.M.B.

The Coptic Language.—I read inThe Timesof this morning the following:

"The Coptic is an uncultivated and formal tongue, with monosyllabic roots andrude inflexions, totally differentfrom the neighbouring languages of Syria and Arabia,totally oppositeto the copious and polished Sanscrit."

Do you think it worth while to try if some Coptic scholar among your learned correspondents can give us some clearer account of the real position of that tongue, historically so interesting?The point is this, Is itinflected, or, does it employaffixes, or is it absolutely without inflections and affixes?

If the first, it cannot be "totally opposite" to the Sanscrit: if the second, it cannot be "totally different" from Syriac and Arabic: if the third, it cannot have "rude inflections."

J.E.

Oxford, October 23. 1850.

Cheshire Cat.—Will some of your correspondents explain the origin of the phrase, "grinning like a Cheshire cat?" The ingenious theory of somebody, I forget who, that Cheshire is a county palatine, and that the cats, when they think of it, are so tickled that they can't help grinning, is notquitesatisfactory to

K.I.P.B.T.

Mrs. Partington.—Where may I find the original Mrs. Partington, whose maltreatment of the Queen's English maketh the newspapers so witty and merry in these dull days?

IGNORANS.

Cognation of the Jews and Lacedemonians.—In the 12th chapter of the 1st Book of Maccabees the letter of Jonathan, the High Priest, to the Lacedemonians is given, in which he claims their amity. This is followed by a letter of Arcus, the Spartan king, in answer, and which contains this assertion:

"It is found in writing that the Lacedemonians and Jews are brethren, and that they are of the stock of Abraham."

Have critics or ethnographers commented on this passage, which, to say the least, is remarkable?

As I am quoting from the Apocrypha, I may point out the anomaly of these books being omitted in the great majority of our Bibles, whilst their instructive lessons are appointed to be read by the Church. Hundreds of persons who maintain the good custom of reading the proper lessons for the day, are by this omission deprived, during the present season, of two chapters out of the four appointed.

MANLEIUS.

On referring to my memoranda, I find that the copy of Fairfax's translation of theGerusalemme Liberataof Tasso, containing thethirdvariation of the first stanza, noticed in my last, has thetwoearliest pages reprinted, in order that the alteration might be more complete, and that the substitution, by pasting one stanza over another (as the book is usually met with) might not be detected. A copy with the reprinted leaf is, I apprehend, still in the library of the late William Wordsworth; and during the last twenty years I have never been able to procure, or even to see, another with the same peculiarity.

The course with the translator was, no doubt, this: he first printed his book as the stanza appears under the pasted slip; this version he saw reason to dislike, and then he had the slip printed with the variation, and pasted over some copies not yet issued. Again he was dissatisfied, and thinking he could improve, not only upon the first stanza, but upon "The Argument" by which it was preceded, he procured the two pages to be reprinted. It is, however, by no means clear to me that, after all, Fairfax liked his third experiment better than his two others: had he liked it better, we should, most probably, have found it in more copies than the single one I have pointed out.

As your readers and contributors may wish to see "The Argument" and first stanza as they are given in Mr. Wordsworth's exemplar, I transcribe them from my note-book, because, before I gave the book away, I took care to copy them exactly:—

THE ARGUMENT."God sends his angell to Tortosa downe:Godfrey to counsell cals the Christian Peeres,Where all the Lords and Princes of renowneChuse him their general: he straight appeeresMustring his royall hoast, and in that stowneSends them to Sion, and their hearts upcheeres.The aged tyrant, Judaies land that guides,In feare and trouble to resist provides."I sing the sacred armies and the knightThat Christ's great tombe enfranchis'd and set free.Much wrought he by his witte, much by his might,Much in that glorious conquest suffred hee:Hell hindered him in vaine: in vaine to fightAsia's and Affrick's people armed bee;Heav'n favour'd him: his lords and knights misgoneUnder his ensigne he reduc'd in one."

THE ARGUMENT.

"God sends his angell to Tortosa downe:Godfrey to counsell cals the Christian Peeres,Where all the Lords and Princes of renowneChuse him their general: he straight appeeresMustring his royall hoast, and in that stowneSends them to Sion, and their hearts upcheeres.The aged tyrant, Judaies land that guides,In feare and trouble to resist provides.

"God sends his angell to Tortosa downe:

Godfrey to counsell cals the Christian Peeres,

Where all the Lords and Princes of renowne

Chuse him their general: he straight appeeres

Mustring his royall hoast, and in that stowne

Sends them to Sion, and their hearts upcheeres.

The aged tyrant, Judaies land that guides,

In feare and trouble to resist provides.

"I sing the sacred armies and the knightThat Christ's great tombe enfranchis'd and set free.Much wrought he by his witte, much by his might,Much in that glorious conquest suffred hee:Hell hindered him in vaine: in vaine to fightAsia's and Affrick's people armed bee;Heav'n favour'd him: his lords and knights misgoneUnder his ensigne he reduc'd in one."

"I sing the sacred armies and the knight

That Christ's great tombe enfranchis'd and set free.

Much wrought he by his witte, much by his might,

Much in that glorious conquest suffred hee:

Hell hindered him in vaine: in vaine to fight

Asia's and Affrick's people armed bee;

Heav'n favour'd him: his lords and knights misgone

Under his ensigne he reduc'd in one."

I own that, to my ear and judgment, this is no improvement upon what we may consider the author's second attempt, although I think that the slip pasted over some (if not most) copies is better than the first experiment.

THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT.

I stand convicted by the critical acumen of your correspondent [Greek: Ph]. of having misquoted the line from Pope which heads my "note" at p. 305. I entirely agree with [Greek: Ph]. that the utmost exactness is desirable in such matters; and as, under such circumstances, I fear I should be ready enough to accuse others of "just enough of learning to misquote," I have not a word to say in extenuation of my own carelessness.

But I entirely dispute [Greek: Ph].'s inference, and am unable to see that the difference detracts in any substantial degree from the applicability of my remarks, such as they were.

What does Pope's epithet "low" mean? Is it used for "vulgar" (as I presume [Greek: ph]. intends us to infer), or simply for "small, petty, of little size or value"?

To me it appears impossible to read the line without seeing that Pope had in his mind the latter idea, that of poor, little, shabby, statureless monosyllables, as opposed to big, bouncing, brave, sonorous polysyllables, such as Aristophanes called [Greek: hræmata hippokræmna]. After all, however, it would do me very little damage to concede that he intended the meaning which [Greek: ph]. appears to attribute to the epithet "low", forif he didmean "vulgar" words, it is evident that he considered vulgarity in such matters inseparable from littleness, as the "low" words must, if his line is not to lose its point altogether, have beentenin number, that is,every one a monosyllable, a "small" word.

Take it which way you will, the leading idea is that of "littleness;" moreover, there is no propriety in the word "creep" as applied tomerely vulgarwords, while words petty in size may, with great justice, be said to "creep" in a "petty pace," requiring no less than ten steps to walk the length of a line.

Pope was criticising compositions intended to pass as poetry of the best kind. Will [Greek: ph]. point out in any existing poem of such profession and character, a single heroic line, consisting oftenwords,allwhichtenwords shall be "low" in the sense of "vulgar"? Can even the Muses of burlesque and slang furnish such an instance?

Has not [Greek: ph]. suffered himself to be carried too far by his exultation in being "down" (the last-named Muse has kindly supplied me with the expression) upon a piece of verbal carelessness on the part of

K.I.P.B.T.?

Concolinel(Vol. ii., pp. 217. 317.).—AsCalen O Custore me, after sorely puzzling the critics, was at length discovered to be an Irish air, or the burthen of an Irish song, is it not possible that the equally outlandish-looking "Concolinel" may be only a corruption of "Coolin", that "far-famed melody," as Mr. Bunting terms it in hislastcollection ofThe Ancient Music of Ireland(Dublin, 1840), where it may be found in a style "more Irish than that of the sets hitherto published?" And truly it is a "sweet air," well fitted to "make passionatethesense of hearing," and melt the soul of even Don Adriano de Armado. The transmogrification of "Coolin" into "Concolinel", is hardly more strange than that of "Cailin og astore mo" [chree] (=my dear young girl, my [heart's] darling) intoCallino castore me.

J.M.B.

DR. RIMBAULT'S communication is very interesting, but not quite satisfactory, not affording me any means of identifying the air. It would under most circumstances, have given me much pleasure to have lent DR. R. the MS., for I know no one so likely to make good use of it; but the fact is, that without pretending to compete with DR. RIMBAULT in the knowledge of old music, I have also meditated a similar work on the ballads and music of Shakspeare, and my chief source is the volume which is said to contain the air of Concolinel. It will be some time before I can execute the work alluded to, and I would prefer to see the Doctor's work published first. Whichever first appears will most likely anticipate much that is in the other, for, although Dr. R. says he has spent "many years" on the subject, the accidental possession of several MS. volumes has given me such singular advantages, I am unwilling to surrender my project. I have the music to nearly twenty jigs, and two have some of the words, which are curious.

Wife of the Poet Bilderdijk—Schweickhardt the Artist(Vol. ii., pp. 309. 349.).—JANUS DOUSA will find a very sufficient account of Southey's visit to the Dutch poet Bilderdijk, in vol. v. of theLife and Correspondence of Southey, now publishing by his son. To the special inquiry of JANUS DOUSA I can say nothing, but I would fain ask who was Katherine Wilhelmina Schweickhardt? I have in my possession a series of eight etchings of studies of cattle, by H.W. Schweickhardt, published in 1786, and dedicated to Benjamin West. My father was very intimate with Schweickhardt, and I think acted in some sort as his executor. I do not know when be died but it must be thirty years since I heard my father speak of his friend, who was then deceased, but whether recently or not I cannot say. I am rather disposed to think the event was comparatively a remote one: he left a widow. Was Mrs. Bilderdijk his daughter? The etchings are exceedingly clever and artistical; my copy has the artist's name in his own handwriting. If I am not mistaken, Schweickhardt lived, when my father knew him, at Lambeth, then a picturesque suburb very unlike the "base, common, and popular" region which it has since become. B.T. Pouncy, another clever artist of that day, and a friend of my father's, resided there also. Pouncy published some etchings which, although not professedly views of Lambeth, were in reality studies in that locality. When I was a boy I remember my father pointing out to me the Windmill, which was the subject of one of them.

The Mrs. Bilderdijk who translated Roderick, was, according to Southey, the second wife of her husband. How did JANUS DOUSA learn that her maiden name was Schweickhardt?

G.J. DE WILDE.

Noli me tangere(Vol. ii., p. 153.).—In addition to the list of artists given by J.Z.P. (p. 253.), BR. will find that the subject has also been treated by—

Duccio, in the Duomo at Siena.Taddeo Gaddi, Rinnucini Chapel.Titian, Mr. Roger's Collection.Rembrandt, Queen's Gallery.Barroccio. An altar piece which came to England with the Duke of Lucca's paintings, but I cannot say where it is now; it is well known by the engraving from it of Raphael Morgen.

B.N.C.

Chimney Money(Vol. ii., pp. 120. 174. 269. 344.).—There is a church at Northampton upon which is an inscription recording that the expense of repairing it was defrayed by a grant of chimney money for, I believe, seven years, temp. Charles II.

There is also a tombstone in Folkestone churchyard curiously commemorative of this tax. The inscription runs thus—

"In memory ofRebecca Rogers,who died August 29. 1688,Aged 44 years."A house she hath, it's made of such good fashion,The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation,Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent,Or turn her out of doors for non-payment;From chimney money, too, this cell is free,To such a house, who would not tenant be."

"In memory ofRebecca Rogers,who died August 29. 1688,Aged 44 years.

"In memory of

Rebecca Rogers,

who died August 29. 1688,

Aged 44 years.

"A house she hath, it's made of such good fashion,The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation,Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent,Or turn her out of doors for non-payment;From chimney money, too, this cell is free,To such a house, who would not tenant be."

"A house she hath, it's made of such good fashion,

The tenant ne'er shall pay for reparation,

Nor will her landlord ever raise her rent,

Or turn her out of doors for non-payment;

From chimney money, too, this cell is free,

To such a house, who would not tenant be."

E.B. PRICE.

Passage from Burke(Vol. ii., p. 359.).—Q.(2) will find the passage he refers to in Prior'sLife of Burke, vol. i. p. 39. It is extracted from a letter addressed by Burke to his old schoolfellow Matthew Smith, describing his first impressions on viewing Westminster Abbey, and other objects in the metropolis. Mr. Prior deserves our best thanks for giving us a letter so deeply interesting, and so characteristic of the gifted writer, then barely of age.

I.H.M.

Bath.

Nicholas Assheton's Journal(Vol. ii., pp. 331-2.).—If T.T. WILKINSON will turn to pp. 45, 6, 7, of this very amusing journal, published by the Chetham Society (vol. xiv., 1848), he will find some account of the Revels introduced before James the First at Hoghton Tower, in the copious notes of the editor, the Rev. F.R. Raines, M.A., F.S.A., elucidating the origin and history of these "coarse and indecorous" dances—theHuckler,Tom Bedlo, and theCowp Justice of Peace.

J.G.

Manchester.

Scotch Prisoners, 1651 (Vol. ii., pp. 297. 350.).—Heath'sChronicle(p. 301. edit. 1676) briefly notices these unhappy men, "driven like a herd of swine, through Westminster to Tuthill Fields, and theresoldto several merchants, and sent in to the Barbadoes."

The most graphic account, however, is given inAnother Victory in Lancashire, &c., 4to. 1651, from which the parts possessinglocalinterest were extracted by me in theCivil War Tracts of Lancashire, printed by the Chetham Society, with references to theother mattersnoticed, namely, Cromwell's entry into London, and the arrival of the four thousand "Scots, Highlands, or Redshanks."

These lay on Hampstead Heath, and were thence guarded through Highgate, and behind Islington to Kingsland and Mile End Green, receiving charity as they went, and having "a cart load or two of biskett behind them." Thence they proceeded by Aldgate, through Cheapside, Fleetstreet, and the Strand, and on through Westminster.

"Many of them brought their wives and berns in with them, yet were many of our scotified citizens so pitifull unto them, that as they passed through the city, they made them, though prisoners at mercy, masters of more money and good white bread than some of them ever see in their lives. They marched this night [Saturday, Sept. 13.] into Tuttle Fields. Some Irishmen are among them, but most of them are habited after that fashion."

The contemporary journals in the British Museum would probably state some epidemic which may have caused the mortality that followed.

GEO. ORMEROD

Sedbury Park, Clepstow.

Long Friday(Vol. ii., p. 323.).—T.E.L.L. is not correct in his supposition that "Long Friday" is the same as "Great Friday". In Danish, Good Friday is Langfredag; in Swedish, Längfredag. I have always understood the epithet had reference to the length of the services.

COLL. ROYAL SOC.

The Bradshaw Family(Vol. ii., p. 356.).—The president of the pretended high court of justice, a Cheshire man, had no connexion with Haigh Hall, in Lancashire. E.C.G. may satisfy himself by referring to Mr. Ormerod'sHistory of Cheshire(vol. iii. p. 408.) for some valuable information respecting the regicide and his family, and to Wotton'sBaronetage(vol. iii. P. 2. p. 655.) for the descent of the loyal race of Bradshaigh.

J.H.M.

Bath.

Julin, the drowned City(Vol. ii., pp. 230. 282.).—I am sorry I did not state more clearly the inquiry respecting the fate ofJulin, which DR. BELL has been so good as to notice. This is partly the printer's fault. I spoke of thedrowned, not thedoomedcity.

Thedrowningwas what I desired some account of. "A flourishing emporium of commerce", extantin 1072, and now surviving only in tradition, and in "records" of ships wrecked on its "submerged ruins," does not sink into the ocean without exciting wonder and pity. I knew of the tradition, and presumed there was some probability of the existence of a legend (legendum, something to beread) describing a catastrophe that must have been widely heard of when it happened.

This I conjectured might be found in Adam of Bremen; to whose mention of Julin DR. BELL referred. But it seems that in his time the city was still existing, and flourishing ("urbs locuples").

The "excidium civitatis," if theVenetaof Helmold were Julin, must have taken place, therefore, between 1072 and 1184, when the latter account was written. If Veneta was Julin, and "aquarum æstu absorpta," there must, I suppose, be some account of this great calamity: and as I have seen in modern German works allusions to the drowning of the great city, and to the ruins still visible at times under water, I hoped to find out thewhereof its site, and thewhenof its destruction—as great cities do not often sink into the waves, like exhalations, without some report of their fate.

V. Belgravia.

Dodsley's Poems(Vol. ii., pp. 264. 343).—THE HERMIT OF HOLYPORT is informed that the first edition of Dodsley'sCollection of Poems, by several Hands, was published in 1748, 3 vols. 12mo. A fourth volume was added in 1749, containing pieces by Collins, Garrick, Lyttelton, Pope, Tickell, Thomson, &c. Those by Garrick and Lyttelton are anonymous. The four volumes were reprinted uniformly in 1755. The fifth and sixth were added in 1758.

AMICUS CURIÆ.

Shunamitis Poema(Vol. ii., p. 326.).—The titlepage to the volume of poems inquired after by E.D. is as follows:

"Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity College, Oxford.'Nec lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum.' HOR.London: printed for L. Bathurst over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, MDCCXLI."

"Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity College, Oxford.

'Nec lusisse pudet sed non incidere ludum.' HOR.

London: printed for L. Bathurst over against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet Street, MDCCXLI."

I know not the author; but I suspect either that the title of an Oxford man was assumed by a Cantab, who might fairly wish not to be suspected as the author of several of the poems; or that the author, having been rusticated at Cambridge, vide at p. 84. the ode "Ad Thomam G." (whom I take to be Thomas Gilbert of Peterhouse), transferred himself and his somewhat licentious muse to Oxford.

COLL. ROYAL SOC.

Jeremy Taylor's Works(Vol. ii., p. 271.).—It seems desirable that an advance should occasionally be made inediting, beyond the mere verification of authorities, in seeing, that is, whether the passages cited areapplicableto the point in hand, and properly apprehended. Bp. Taylor, in hisLiberty of Prophecying, sect. vi., for instance, seems incorrect in stating that Leo I., bishop of Rome,rejectedthe Council of Chalcedon; whereas his reproofs are directed against Anatolias, bishop of Constantinople, an unwelcome aspirant to ecclesiastical supremacy. (SeeConcilia Studio Labbei, tom. iv., col. 844, &c.)

A passage frown Jerome'sEpistle to Evangelusis often quoted in works on church government, as equalising, or nearly so, the office of bishop and presbyter; but the drift of the argument seems to be, to show that thesiteof a bishop's see, be it great or small, important or otherwise, does not affect the episcopaloffice. Some readers will perhaps offer an opinion on these two questions.

NOVUS.

Ductor Dubitantium.—The Judge alluded to by Jeremy Taylor in the passage quoted by A.T. (Vol. ii., p. 325.), was Chief-Justice Richardson; but the place where the outrage was committed was not Ludlow, as stated by the eloquent divine, but Salisbury, as appears from the following marginal note in Dyer'sReports, p. 1886—a curious specimen of the legal phraseology of the period:—

"Richardson, C.J. de C.B. at Assizes at Salisbury in Summer 1631 fuit assault per Prisoner la condemne pur Felony; que puis son condemnation ject un Brickbat a le dit Justice, que narrowly mist. Et pur ceo immediately fuit Indictment drawn pur Noy envers le Prisoner, et son dexter manus ampute et fixe al Gibbet, sur que luy mesme immediatement hange in presence de Court."

EDWARD FOSS.

Aërostation(Vol. ii., p. 317.).—The account published by Lunardi of his aërial voyage, alluded to by M., is, in the copy I have seen, entitled

"An Account of the First Aërial Voyage in Britain, in a series of letters to his guardian, the Chevalier Gherardo Compagni, written under the impressions of the various events that affected the undertaking, by Vicent Lunardi, Esq., Secretary to the Neapolitan Ambassador. 'A non esse nec fuisse non datur argumentum ad non posse.' Second edition, London: printed for the Author, and sold at the Panther; also by the Publisher J. Bell, at the British Library, Strand, and at Mr. Molini's, Woodstock Street, MDCCLXXXIV."

The book contains printed copies of the depositions of witnesses who beheld Lunardi's descent; and Mr. Baker, who, as a magistrate, took those depositions on oath, to establish what he thought so wonderful a fact, erected on the spot where the balloon descended, in a field near Colliers End, in the parish of Standon, Herts, on the left of the high road from London to Cambridge, a stone with the following inscription on a copper plate. It is stilllegible, though somewhat defaced. It is engraved in lines of unequal length, but to save your space I have not adhered to those divisions.

"Let posterity know, and knowing, be astonished, that on the fifteenth day of September, 1784, Vincent Lunardi of Lucca, in Tuscany, the first aërial traveller in Britain, mounting from the Artillery Ground in London, traversing the regions of the air for two hours and fifteen minutes, in this spot revisited the earth. On this rude monument for ages be recorded, that wondrous enterprise, successfully achieved by the powers of chemistry and the fortitude of man, that improvement in science, which the great Author of all knowledge, patronising by His providence the inventions of mankind, hath graciously permitted to their benefit and His own eternal glory."

COLL. ROYAL SOC.

Gwyn's London and Westminster(Vol. ii., p. 297.).—A reference to Mr. Croker'sBoswell(last edit. 1847, p. 181.) may best satisfy § N. "Gwyn," says Mr. Croker, "proposed theprinciple, and in many instances thedetails, of the most important improvements which have been made in the metropolis in our day." Was this copied into theLiterary Gazette?

Mr. Sydney Smirke speaks favourably of Gwyn's favourite project, "the formation of a permanent Board or Commission for superintending and controlling the architectural embellishments of London." (Suggestions, &c., 8vo. 1834, p. 23.)

J.H.M.

Bath.

Gwyn's London and Westminster(Vol. ii., p. 297.).—Under this head § N. inquires, "Will you permit me, through your useful publication, to solicit information of the number and date of theLiterary Gazettewhich recalled public attention to this very remarkable fact:" namely, that stated by Mr. Thomas Hunt, in hisExemplars of Tudor Architecture(Longmans, 1830), to the effect that theLiterary Gazettehad referred to the work entitledLondon and Westminster Improved, by John Gwynn. London, 1766, 4to., as having "pointed out almost all the designs for the improvement of London which have beendevisedby the civil and military architects of the present day."

In answer to the above, your correspondent will find two articles in theLiterary Gazetteon this interesting subject; the first in No. 473., Feb. 11. 1826, in which it is mentioned thatMr. Gwynn, founding himself in some degree upon the plan ofSir C. Wren, proposed

"To carry a street from Piccadilly through Coventry Street, Sydney's Alley, Leicester Fields, Cranbourn Alley, and so to Long Acre, Queen Street, and Lincolns Inn Fields, and thus afford an easy access to Holborn; he also recommendsthe widening the Strandin its narrow parts," &c.

I need hardly notice that by the removal of Exeter Change, the alterations near Charing Cross, and the more recent openings from Coventry Street, along the line suggested by Mr. Gwynn, his designs have been so far carried out.

The second paper in theLiterary Gazettewas rather a long one, No. 532., March 31. 1827. In it Mr. Gwynn's publication is analysed, and all the leading particulars bearing on the "old noveltiesof our modern improvements" are brought to light.

The whole is worth your reprinting, and at your service, if you will send a copyist to theLiterary Gazetteoffice to inspect the volume for 1827.

W.J., ED.

"Regis ad Exemplum totus componitur Orbis" (Vol. ii., p. 267.).—This hexameter verse, which occurs in collections of Latin apophthegms, is not to be found in this form, in any classical author. It has been converted into a single proverbial verse, from the following passage of Claudian:

"Componitur orbisRegis ad exemplum: nec sic inflictere sensusHumanos edicta valent, ut vita regentis."De IV. Consul. Honor., 299.

"Componitur orbis

Regis ad exemplum: nec sic inflictere sensus

Humanos edicta valent, ut vita regentis."

De IV. Consul. Honor., 299.

St. Uncumber(Vol. ii., pp. 286. 342.).—Sir Thomas More details in hisDialoge, with his usual quaintness, the attributes and merits of many saints, male and female, highly esteemed in his day, and, amongst others, makes special mention ofSt. Uncumber, whose proper name, it appears, wasWylgeforte. Of these saints he says—

"Some serve for the eye onely, and some for a sore breast.St. Germayneonely for children, and yet will he not ones loke at them, but if the mother bring with them a white lofe and a pot of good ale: and yet is he wiser thanSt. Wylgeforte, for she, good soule, is, as they say, served and contented with otys. Whereof I cannot perceive the reason, but if it be bycause she sholde provyde an horse for an evil housebonde to ride to the Devyll upon; for that is the thing that she is so sought for, as they say. In so much that women hath therefore chaunged her name, and in stede ofSt. Wylgeforte call her St. Uncumber, bycause they reken that for a pecke of otys she will not fayle to uncumber theym of theyr housbondys."—(Quoted in Southey'sColloquies, vol. i. p. 414.)

St. Wylgeforteis the female saint whom the Jesuit Sautel has celebrated (in hisAnnus Sacer Poeticus) for herbeard—a mark of Divine favour bestowed upon her in answer to her prayers. She was a beautiful girl, who wished to lead a single life, and that she might be suffered to do so free from importunity, she prayed earnestly to be rendered disagreeable to look upon, either by wrinkles, a hump on the back, or in any other efficacious way. Accordingly the beard was given her; and it is satisfactory to know that it had the desiredeffect to the fullest extent of her wishes. (Vid. Southey'sOmniana, vol. ii. p. 54., where Sautel's lines are quoted.)

J.M.B.

West (James), President of Royal Society(Vol. ii., p. 289.).—T.S.D. states there "has certainly never been a president or even a secretary of the Royal Society, of the name of James West." Your readers will remember that West is mentioned by Mr. Cunningham in hisLondon, as having filled the former distinguished office: his statement, which T.S.D. thus contradicts, is perfectly correct.

Mr. West's election took place 30th of November, 1768, and he filled the chair until his death in July, 1772.

J.H.M.

[Mr. Cooper, of Cambridge, J.G.N., and other correspondents, have called our attention to this oversight.]

The idea of selecting from theSpectatorthose papers in which the refined taste of Addison, working on the more imaginative genius of Steele, has embodied that masterpiece of quiet thorough English humour which is exhibited in the portrait of Sir Roger de Coverley, is a most happy one,—so excellent indeed, and when done, it is so obviously well that it is done, that we can only wonder how it is, that, instead of having now to thank Messrs. Longman for the quaintly and beautifully got up volume entitledSir Roger de Coverley. By the Spectator. The Notes and Illustrations by Mr. Henry Wills: the Engravings by Thompson, from Designs by Fred. Tayler,—as a literary novelty—such a selection has not been a stock book for the last century. Excellent, however, as is the idea of the present volume, it has been as judiciously carried out as happily conceived. Mr. Tayler's designs exhibit a refined humour perfectly congenial with his subject, and free from that tendency to caricature which is the prevailing fault of too many of the comic illustrators of the present day; while the pleasant gossiping notes of Mr. Wills furnish an abundance of chatty illustration of the scenes in which Sir Roger is placed, and the localities he visited, and so enable us to realise to ourselves, in every respect, Addison's admirable picture of the worthy knight, "in his habit as he lived." May we add that, on looking through these amusing notes, we were much gratified to find Mr. Wills, in his illustration of the passage, "his great-grandfather was inventor of that famous country-dance called after him," speaking of "the real sponsor to the joyous conclusion of every ball" as having "only been recently revealed, after the most vigilant research," since that revelation, with other information contained in the same note, was procured by that gentleman through the medium of "NOTES AND QUERIES."

Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson are now selling the last portion of the Miscellaneous Stock of the late Mr. Thomas Rodd. This sale, which will occupy eleven days, will close on Friday next: and on Saturday they will sell the last portion of Mr. Rodd's, books, which will consist entirely of works relating to Ireland, including several of great curiosity and rarity.

Messrs. Puttick and Simpson will sell on Monday next a Collection of Books from the library of the late well-known and able antiquary, Dr. Bromet, together with his Bookcases, Drawing Materials, &c.

We have received the following Catalogues:—W. Brown's (No. 130. and 131. Old Street) List of English and Foreign Theological Books; W. Nield's (46. Burlington Arcade) Catalogue, No. 4., of very Cheap Books; W. Pedder's (18. Holywell Street) Catalogue Part IX., for 1850, of Books Ancient and Modern; J. Rowwell's (28. Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn) Catalogue, No 39., of a Select Collection of Second-hand Books; W. L. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster Road) Sixty-second Catalogue of English, Foreign, Classical, and Miscellaneous Books.

T. NAOGEONGUS—REGNUM PAPISTICUM. 8vo. 1553.

BARNABE GOOGE'S POPISH KINGDOM. 4to. 1570.

BERRY'S HERALDRY, 9 Vols. Supplement.

SHAKSPEARE (Whittingham's Chiswick Edition), Vol. IV. 1814.

Letters, stating particulars and lowest price,carriage free, to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleer Street.

As we again propose this week to circulate a large number of copies of "NOTES AND QUERIES" among members of the different provincial Literary Institutions, we venture, for the purpose of furthering the objects for which our paper has instituted, to repeat the following passage from our 52nd Number:—

It is obvious that the use of a paper like "NOTES AND QUERIES," bears a direct proportion to the extent of its circulation. What it aims at doing is, to reach the learning which lies scattered not only throughout every part of our own country but all over the literary world, and to bring it all to bear upon the pursuits of the scholar; to enable, in short, men of letters all over the world to give a helping hand to one another. To a certain extent, we have accomplished this end. Our last number contains communications not only from all parts of the metropolis, and from almost every country in England, but also from Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and even from Demerara. This looks well. It seems as if we were in a fair way to accomplish our design. But much yet remains to be done. We have recently been told of whole districts in England so benighted as never to have heard of "NOTES AND QUERIES;" and after an interesting question has been discussed for weeks in our columns, we are informed of some one who could have answered it immediately if he had seen it. So long as this is the case the advantage we may confer upon literature and literary men is necessarily imperfect. We do what we can to make known ourexistence through the customary modes of announcement, and we gratefully acknowledge the kind assistance and encouragement we derive from our brethren of the public press; but we would respectfully solicit the assistance of our friends upon this particular point. Our purpose is aided, and our usefulness increased by every introduction which can be given to our paper, either to a Book Club, to a Lending Library, or to any other channel of circulation amongst persons of inquiry and intelligence. By such introductions scholars help themselves as well as us, for there is no inquirer throughout the kingdom who is not occasionally able to throw light upon some of the multifarious objects which are discussed in our pages.

OXONIENSISis thanked. His inclosure shall be made use of.

Volume the First of "NOTES AND QUERIES," with very copious Index, price 9s. 6d. bound in cloth, may still be had by order of all Booksellers.

The Monthly Part for October, being the Fifth ofVol. II.,is also now ready, price1s. 3d.

In the quotation from Jacob Behmen, p. 356., for "Gate of Deep "read "Gate oftheDeep."

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LIBRARY OF THE LATE WILLIAM BROMET, ESQ., M.D., F.S.A., BOOKCASES, ENGRAVINGS, DRAWING MATERIALS, &c.

PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will Sell by Auction at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on Monday, Nov. 4th, the Library of the late Wm. Bromet, Esq., M.D., F.S.A., consisting of useful Works in General Literature, Topographical and Antiquarian, many of which contain additional illustrations, &c. Catalogues will be sent on application.

On the 1st of November, No. II., price 2s.6d.

DETAILS of GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE, measured and drawn from existing Examples, by J.K. COLLING, Architect. The work is intended to illustrate those features which have not been given in Messrs. Brandon's "Analysis:" it will be uniform with that work, and also the "Gothic Ornaments." Each Number will contain five 4to. Plates, and be continued monthly.

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In Four Volumes, Post 8vo., price 2l.2s.,

ROMANCE OF THE PEERAGE. By GEORGE LILLIE CRAIK, M.A. With Portraits. Vol. IV. will be published on 9th Nov., with a Portrait of the Duchess of Monmouth and Buccleuch.

HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, and of the Nineteenth till the Overthrow of the French Empire. By F.C. SCHLOSSER. Vol. VII., thick 8vo. 15s.(9th Nov.)

(Vol. VIII., completing the work, with a copious consulting Index, is preparing for early publication.)

London: CHAPMAN AND HALL, 186. Strand.

WEEKLY SALE OF BOOKS, PRINTS, &c.

MR. L.A. LEWIS will Sell at his house, 125. Fleet Street, on Thursday 7th, and Friday 8th November, a Miscellaneous Collection of Books, including a Circulating Library of 1000 Volumes from the country, Modern School Books, Framed and Unframed Prints, &c. Mr. L.A. Lewis will have Sales of Libraries, Parcels of Books, Prints, Pictures, and Miscellaneous Effects, every Friday during the Months of November and December. Property sent in on Saturday will be certain to be sold (if required) on the following Friday.

On the 2nd of December will be published, in post 8vo., 6s.cloth,

THE ANTEDILUVIAN HISTORY, and NARRATIVE OF THE FLOOD; as set forth in the early portions of the Book of Genesis; critically examined and explained. By the Rev. E.D. HENDELL, of Preston.

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ARITHMETICAL BOOKS AND AUTHORS, from the Invention of Printing to the Present Time. Royal 12mo., 6s.

ELEMENTS OF ARITHMETIC, Fifth Edition. Royal 12mo. 5s.

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NOTICES OF SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS IN ENGLISH CHURCHES. With Illustrations, price 3s.6d.By W. HESTINGS KELKE, Rector of Drayton Beauchamp.

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GLIMMERINGS IN THE DARK; or, LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF THE OLDEN TIME. By F. SOMNER MERRYWEATHER.

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BIBLIOMANIA; or, THE LOVE OF BOOKS IN THE MIDDLE AGES.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE for NOVEMBER contains, among other articles: The Prelude, Wordsworth's Autobiographical Poem; Rejoicings on the Birth of the Son of James II.; The Castle and Honour of Clare (with Engravings); Original Letters of Bishop Bedell; Memoir of Thomas Dodd, author of the "Connoisseur's Repertorium" (with a Portrait); Chaucer's Monument, and Spenser's Death, by J. Payne Collier, Esq.; Christian Iconography, the Heavenly Host, Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones, by J.G. Waller, Esq.; Gothic Windows, by Sharpe and Freeman; Diary of John, Earl of Egmont, Part II., Memoir of André Chenier; Parker's Introduction to Gothic Architecture; The British Museum Catalogue and the Edinburgh Review. With Notes of the Month; Review of New Publications; Reports of Archæological Societies; Historical Chronicle; and OBITUARY, including Memoirs of the Queen of the Belgians, the Right Hon. C.W.W. Wynn, Vice-Chancellor Shadwell, the Rev. Dr. Ingram, the Rev. Walter Davies, &c., &c. Price 2s.6d.

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MR. MURRAY'S ANNOUNCEMENTS OF NEW BOOKS.

I. THE DEFENCELESS STATE OF GREAT BRITAIN. BY SIR FRANCIS B. HEAD, Bart. Post 8vo. (Ready.)

II. THE COURTS OF LONDON AND VIENNA AT THE END OF THE 17TH CENTURY. Being Extracts from the Correspondence of LORD LEXINGTON, British Minister at Vienna, 1694-1698. Edited by the Hon. H. MANNERS SUTTON, 8vo.

III. MILITARY EVENTS IN ITALY, 1848-9. Translated from the German. By the EARL OF ELLESMERE. Post 8vo.

IV. NAVAL GUNNERY With detailed Descriptions and Explanations of the New Guns introduced since the War in 1813. By LIEUT. GEN. SIR HOWARD DOUGLAS, Bart. Third Edition. 8vo.

V. HUMBOLDT'S COSMOS: Third and last Volume. Translated from the German. By Col. and MRS. SABINE. Post 8vo.

VI. A MANUAL OF ELEMENTARY GEOLOGY; OR, THE ANCIENT CHANGES OF THE EARTH AND ITS INHABITANTS. By SIR CHARLES LYELL, KF.R.S. Third Edition, thoroughly revised. Woodcuts. In One Volume. 8vo.

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VIII. CHRISTIANITY IN CEYLON. Its Introduction and Progress under the Portuguese, Dutch, British, and American Missions. By SIR JAMES EMERSON TENNENT. Woodcuts. 8vo.

IX. THE PALACES OF NINEVEH AND PERSEPOLIS RESTORED. Being an Attempt to explain the Architecture of the Ancient Buildings now remaining in Assyria and Persia. By JAMES FERGUSSON, Esq. Woodcuts. 8vo.

X. LIFE OF THOMAS STOTHARD, R.A. With Personal Reminiscences. By MRS. BRAY. With Illustrations. Small 4to.

XI. KUGLER'S HANDBOOK OF ITALIAN PAINTING. Edited by CHARLES LOCK EASTLAKE, R.A. Revised Edition. With 100 Woodcuts. Post 8vo.

XII. A NEW CLASSICAL DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY, MYTHOLOGY, AND GEOGRAPHY, FOR YOUNGER STUDENTS. By WILLIAM SMITH, L.L.D. 1 vol. 8vo. (Ready.)

XIII. SALMONIA; OR, DAYS OF FLY-FISHING. By SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. New Edition. With Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo.

XIV. CONSOLATIONS IN TRAVEL; OR, THE LAST DAYS OF A PHILOSOPHER. By SIR HUMPHRY DAVY. New Edition. With Woodcuts. Fcap. 8vo.

XV. SAMUEL T. COLERIDGE'S TABLE-TALK. New Edition. Fcap. 8vo.

XVI. REJECTED ADDRESSES. By JAMES SMITH and HORACE SMITH. New Edition. Portraits. Fcap. 8vo.

XVII. INDEX TO THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. From Vol. 61 to 79 inclusive. 1 vol. 8vo.

XVIII. MODERN DOMESTIC COOKERY. Founded upon Principles of Economy and Practical Knowledge, and adapted for the Use of Private Families. By MRS. RUNMELL. A New Edition, most thoroughly corrected and much enlarged. By A LADY. With Woodcuts. Fcap.

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