"Edw.Lorrain, behold the sharpness of this steel:[Drawing his sword.]Fervent desire, that sits against my heart,Is far more thorny-pricking than this blade;That, like the nightingale, I shall be scar'd,As oft as I dispose myself to rest,Until my colours be disploy'd in France:This is my final answer, so be gone."Edward III., a Play, thought to be writ by Shakspeare, Act I. Sc. 1.
"Edw.Lorrain, behold the sharpness of this steel:
[Drawing his sword.]
Fervent desire, that sits against my heart,
Is far more thorny-pricking than this blade;
That, like the nightingale, I shall be scar'd,
As oft as I dispose myself to rest,
Until my colours be disploy'd in France:
This is my final answer, so be gone."
Edward III., a Play, thought to be writ by Shakspeare, Act I. Sc. 1.
Of the two editions ofThe Raigne of King Edward the Third, consulted by Capell before publishing the play in hisProlusions, the first was printed in 1596, the second in 1599.
C. FORBES.
Temple.
—Perhaps it may not be uninteresting to OUTISto know that one of the works of Mr. Higgins called forth one, whose title I send:
"Animadversions on a Work entitled 'An Apology for the Life and Character of the celebrated Prophet of Arabia called Mohamed or the Illustrious, by Godfrey Higgins, Esq.;' with Annotations, by the Rev. P. Inchbald, LL.D., formerly of University College, Oxford.
"Ταύτα μὲν οὖν πρὸς τὰς βλασφημίας.
"Published at Doncaster, 1830."
H. J.
—This Query, although partially answered in Vol. iv., pp. 240. 302., has hitherto received no reply on the subject of the "Ritual of the Dead." Brugsch has just published theSai an Sinsin, sive Liber Metempsychosis, &c., from a papyrus in the Museum at Berlin, with an interlinear Latin translation, and atranscriptof the original inmoderncharacters, in conformity with the plan which he adopted in his interpretation of the hieroglyphic portion of the Rosetta Inscription, published in the early part of the present year. S. P. H. T. will find some of the information he requires in theformer, if not inbothof these volumes.
P. Z.
—Your correspondent SIRJ. E. TENNENT, in extracting from his volume onModern Greece(vol. ii. p. 266.), has given fresh currency to a singular error. The Council of Trullo was cited by him in 1830, and is again quoted as ordering "that thenceforth fiction and allegory should cease, andthe real figure of the Saviour be depicted on the tree;" and we are referred toCan. 82. Act. Concil.Paris, 1714, v. iii., col. 1691, 1692. But should your readers turn to the canons of that council they would be disappointed at finding nothing about the cross, and one is curious to know how an historian could have been led into so singular a mistake. Johnson (seeClergyman'sVade Mecum, Part II., p. 283. third edit.) thus gives the substance of the canon:—
"82. Whereas, among the venerable pictures, the Lamb is represented as pointed at by the finger of his forerunner [John the Baptist], which is only a symbol or shadow; we, having due regard to the type, but preferring the anti-type, determine that he be for the future described more perfectly, and that the portraicture of a man be made instead of the old Lamb: that by this we may be reminded of His incarnation, life, and death."
And though I have not the precise edition at hand to which SIRJ. E. TENNENTrefers, yet on turning to Labbé, I find that Johnson has correctly epitomized the canon in question.
"In nonnullis venerabilium imaginum picturis, agnus qui digito præcursoris monstratur, depingitur, qui ad gratiæ figuram assumptus est, verum nobis agnum per legem Christum Deum nostrum præmonstrans. Antiquas ergo figuras et umbras, ut veritatis signa et characteres ecclesiæ traditos, amplectentes, gratiam et veritatem præponimus, eum ut legis implementum suscipientes. Ut ergo quod perfectum est, vel colorum expressionibus omnium oculis subjiciatur, ejus qui tollit peccata mundi, Christi Dei nostri humana forma characterem etiam in imaginibus deinceps pro veteri agno erigi ac depingi jubemus: ut per ipsum Dei verbi humiliationis celsitudinem mente comprehendentes, ad memoriam quoque ejus in carne conversationis, ejus passionis et salutaris mortis deducamur, ejusque quæ ex eo facta est mundo redemptionis."—Labbé, Sacros. Concil.t. vi., p. 1177. Paris, 1671.
W. DN.
—May I be allowed to re-open the question as to the origin of this name, by suggesting that it may arise from the woollen stuff calledrateen? A "Rateenrowe" occurs in 1437 in Bury St. Edmund's, which was the great cloth mart of the north-eastern parts of the kingdom; and where, at the same time, were a number of rows named after trades, as "Lyndraper Row," "Mercer's Row," "Skynner Rowe," "Spycer's Rowe," &c. What is the earliest known instance of the word?
BURIENSIS.
—Watkins'Copyholdsfurnishes in its appendix a list of the customs of different manors, and therein specifies those which are subject to the custom of Borough-English. With regard to there being any instance on record of its being carried into effect in modern times, there must not be a mistake between the custom which now exists, and that which some authors assert was the origin of it. The custom is, that the youngest son inherits in exclusion of his eldest brothers; this is exercised, or it could not exist. But the custom to which reference has been made, as having been stated by some authors to be the origin of the existing custom of Borough-English, is not mentioned by Littleton as such. He gives a different reason, namely:
"Because the younger son, by reason of his tender age, is not so capable as the rest of his brethren to provide for himself."
And Blackstone adduces a third from the practice of the Tartars, among whom, on the authority of Father Duhalde, he states that this custom of descent to the youngest son also prevails, and gives it in these words:—
"That nation is composed totally of shepherds and herdsmen; and the elder sons, as soon as they are capable of leading a pastoral life, migrate from their father with a certain allotment of cattle, and go to seek a new habitation. The youngest son, therefore, who continues latest with the father, is naturally the heir of his house, the rest being already provided for. And thus we find that among many other northern nations, it was the custom for all the sons but one to migrate from the father, which one became his heir. So that possibly this custom, wherever it prevails, may be the remnant of that pastoral state of our British and German ancestors, which Cæsar and Tacitus describe."
T. COPEMAN.
Aylsham, Norfolk.
—This very ancient family did not become extinct, as conjectured by your correspondent J. B. (Manchester). Jonathan Tonge of Tonge, gent., by will, dated Sept. 7, 1725, devised his estate "to be sold to the best purchaser," and appointed his brother Thomas Tonge, gent., who had a family, one of his executors. In the year following, the whole estate was purchased for 4350l.by Mr. John Starky of Rochdale, a successful attorney, in whose representative it is now vested. The Tonges deduced their descent from Thomas de Tonge,probablya natural son of Alice de Wolveley (herself the heiress of the family of Prestwich of Prestwich), living 7 Edw. II. 1314, as appears by an elaborate pedigree of the family (sustained by original evidences), in my possession, and at the service of J. B.
F. R. R.
Milnrow Parsonage.
—"That monster queen Brunéhaut!" For these two centuries there have been writers, beginning with Pasquier, and apparently gathering weight and influence, who are by no means disposed to bestow that epithet upon Brunéhaut, whose executioners were monsters certainly at any rate.
C. B.
—In "the Forest," two or three miles from Bishop Stortford, is the ruin of an old oak, from which the parish no doubt takes its name of Hatfield Broad Oak. There is a print of this tree in Arthur Young'sSurvey of Essex.
If the rural readers of "N. & Q." will observe whether the finest specimens of oaks have theiracorns growing, on long or short stalks (quercus sessilifloraorpedunculata), they might throw much light on the questions, Have we two distinct English oaks? and, if so, Which makes the largest and best timber? The timber used inside old buildings, and erroneously often called chesnut, is supposed to be the sessiliflora variety of oak, placed inside because it is not so durable as the quercus pedunculata. But I have been lately informed this variety is in Sussex selected, as the best, for Portsmouth Dockyard!
In the year 1783 my grandfather first drew attention to the two varieties of English oaks, in theGentleman's Magazine, p. 653. He was brother of Gilbert White of Selborne, and an equally acute observer of Nature. Loudon, in hisArboretum, has collected much information, but has left the question pretty much where it was seventy years since. Surely it is time we knew precisely what is the tree of which our wooden walls are made.
A. HOLTWHITE.
Brighton.
—Your correspondent M. A. LOWERsays with truth, that the passage about frozen voices was not to be found in the knight's published work; but neither he nor any other of your contributors seems to have found the original of it. In theTatler, No. 254., the illustrious Isaac Bickerstaff informs us that some manuscripts of Mandeville's and of Ferdinand Mendis Pinto's, not hitherto included in their published works, had come into his hands, from which he purposed making extracts from time to time; and then proceeds to give us the identical story which your correspondent J. M. G. appears to have taken for a real bit of Mandeville, in ignorance or forgetfulness of its origin: for I cannot suppose any one so dull as to take the passage in theTatlerin sober earnest. Steele no doubt took the story from Rabelais or Plutarch, and fathered it upon one whose name (much better known than his works) had become proverbial as that of a liar.
J. S. WARDEN.
Balica.
—In Christ Church, Birmingham, the males are (or were) separated from the females, which gave rise to the following lines, which I quote from Allen'sGuide to Birmingham:
"The churches and chapels we generally find,Are the places where men unto women are join'd;But at Christ Church, it seems, they are more cruel-hearted,For men and their wives are brought there to be parted."
"The churches and chapels we generally find,
Are the places where men unto women are join'd;
But at Christ Church, it seems, they are more cruel-hearted,
For men and their wives are brought there to be parted."
ESTE.
—Besides streams and sunk wells, there is of course another source of water arising from natural springs; and there are some on both sides of the Banstead Down, which are very considerable. The chief, probably, is the source of the River Wandle, at Carshalton, pronounced (with the same omission of therwhich P. M. M. notices) as if it was speltCase-, orCays-horton.
But there is a very strong one at Merstham. These are both at the foot of the Chalk hills. P. M. M. does not mention the geological causes on which the relations between wells or springs depend. About thirty-five years ago the spring at Merstham, which feeds a considerable spring, failed, and there was a great dispute whether it was owing to excavations in the neighbourhood. An action was brought, which decided that it was not attributable to them; upon which I believe Mr. Webster and Mr. Phillips, eminent geological authorities, were examined, and which led, perhaps, to their respective accounts, in theGeological Transactions, of the structure of that valley. The story was, that, after having gained the cause, the proprietor of the quarries said, "I think we may let them have their water back again." Certain it is that after some time the water did return.
The Galt clay almost everywhere underlies chalk: this at Merstham is 200 feet thick, and upon the pitch and situation of it many apparently strange phenomena of wells would depend, as is noticed with regard to another clay stratum at Norton St. Philips, near Bath, in Conybeare and Phillips'Geology.
There are very deep wells throughout the London clay, and other beds below it, perhaps, at Wimbledon and at Richmond Park. The deep well at Carisbrook Castle is well known. That is in the chalk; and where, the chalk being thrown into a vertical position, it may be still farther to the bottom of it.
C. B.
—I am glad to find, from the communication by H. A. B., that a book of the above description is likely to appear. The want of such a book has long been felt, and its appearance will fill up a gap in literature: how it could so long have escaped the notice of publishers is a mystery. "Though lost to sight, to memory dear," the author of which H. A. B. inquires for, is, I think, not likely to be found in any author. My impression is, that it cannot be traced up to any definite source: I remember it only as a motto on a seal which was in my possession nearly thirty years ago.
MANCUNIUM.
Manchester.
—It was reprinted by Charles Knight in thelast(oroctavo) series of thePenny Magazine, vol. ii., p. 223. With it is the companion called "The Cavalier's March to London." It will notbe very easy for authors to shake off their juvenile productions, while "N. & Q." is in existence; nor need Mr. Macaulay be ashamed of these ballads. They are spirited, and pleasant to read.
M.
—An extract from Mr. Bellenden Ker's account of the origin and meaning of these words, will answer M. W. B.'s question in the affirmative.
DUCKS AND DRAKES.
"As the boys play by skimming a flat stone along the surface of the water; so as to cause it to make as many bounds or ricochets as the skimmer's strength and dexterity can enforce. The superiority, in the play, is decided by the greatest number of times the stone touches and bounds upon the surface, in consequence of the way it is slung from the hand of the performer.D'hach's aen der reyckesq.e.the hazard[event]is upon the touches; the issue of the game depends upon the number of bounds [separate touchings] made on the surface of the water. When we say,he has made ducks and drakes of his money, it is merely in the sense of, he has thrown it away childishly and hopelessly; and the stone is the boy's throw for a childish purpose, and sinks at the end of its career, to be lost in the water."—Essay on the Archæology of our Popular Phrases and Nursery Rhymes, vol. ii., p. 140.
C. FORBES.
Temple.
—I do not observe that any one has replied to the Query of DR. RIMBAULT, as to the birth-place ofJohn Holywood, the Mathematician. I presume he meansJohannes a Sacrobosco, who died in ParisA.D.1244, and was the author of the treatiseDe Sphærâand other works. In Harris'sHistory of the County of Down: Dublin, 1744., p. 260., a claim to the honour of his birth is made on behalf of the town of Holywood, about four miles from Belfast, where he is said to have been a brother of the order of the Franciscans, who had a friary there. Some of the sculptured stones of the building may still be seen in the walls of the ruined church which stands upon its site; and its lands form part of the estate of Lord Dufferin and Clandeboy.
J. EMERSONTENNENT.
London.
—From the tone of X.'s inquiry into the meaning of this antithesis, it is tolerably plain that no answer will makehimconfess that it is intelligible; yet it was familiar in the best times of our philosophical literature, and the words, according to this, their philosophical opposition, occur in Johnson'sDictionary. I think it is desirable to avoid this phraseology, but the meaning of it may be made clear enough to any one who wishes to understand it. Theobjecton which man employs his senses or his thoughts, are distinct enough from the man himself, thesubjectin which the senses and the thoughts exist. Several years ago an Edinburgh Reviewer complained that Germans, and Germanized Englishmen, were beginning to useobjectiveandsubjectiveforexternalandinternal. This is a sort of rough approximation to the meaning of the terms. But perhaps the distinction is better illustrated by examples. We call Homer an objective, Lucan a subjective, poet, because the former tells his story about external objects and wants, interposing little which belongs to himself. Lucan, on the other hand, is perpetually introducing reflections arising from the internal character of his own mind. Objective truth is language which agrees with the facts, correctness. Subjective truth is language which agrees with the convictions of the speaker, veracity.
Perhaps X. will allow me to ask in turn, what is "a physical ignoramus," the character in which he begs some of your intelligent readers to enlighten him.
I have said above that I think this mode of expressing the antithesis better avoided; I will state why. It puts the man who thinks, and the objects about which he thinks, side by side, as if they were alike and co-ordinate. It implies the view of some one who can look at both of them; whereas, the thing to be implied is the opposition between being looked at and looking. Hencesubjectiveis a bad word; a man is not, in ordinary language, thesubjectof his own senses or of his own thoughts, merely because they are in him. The antithesis would be better expressed in many cases, by the wordsobjectiveandmental, orobjectiveandcogitative. But different words would be eligible in different cases.
W. W.
—In turning over some papers I found the following paragraph:
"Major Alvord has discovered a singular plant of the Western Prairies, said to possess the peculiarity of pointing north and south, and to which he has given the name of Silphium Laciniatum. No trace of iron has been discovered in the plant; but, as it is full of resinous matter, Major Alvord suggests that its polarity may be due to electric currents."
JOHNC. WHISTAIR.
—In Milman's edition ofGibbon's Autobiography, there occurs a passage respecting his ancestor, Lord Treasurer Say, from which it appears that the great historian doubted the accuracy of Shakspeare's allusion (which he quotes). I have not the book with me, or I would refer MR. FRAZERto the page. I think Gibbon would not have rested content with a mere assertion of his opinion, if a fact so creditable to his ancestor's understanding were capable of proof.
NICÆENSIS.
—Since the note on the age of trees appeared, my attention has been called to a discussion of the subject in an article on Decandolle'sVegetable Physiology, written I believe by Prof. Henslow, in theForeign Quarterly Review, vol. xi. p. 368-71. With respect to the yew near Fountains Abbey, he remarks as follows:
"In the first of these examples, we have thetestimony of historyfor knowing that this tree was in existence, and must have been of considerable size, in the year 1133,it being recordedthat the monks took shelter under it whilst they were rebuilding Fountains Abbey."—p. 369.
Query: Where is this historical testimony to be found? Nothing is said on the subject in the account of Fountains Abbey in Dugdale'sMonasticon, vol. v., p. 286. ed. 1825.
With respect to the Shelton Oak (Vol. iv., p. 402.) the movements of Owen Glendower, at the time of the battle of Shrewsbury, are accurately detailed in the life of him inserted in Pennant'sTours in Wales, vol. iii., p. 355. (ed. 1810); and the account there given is inconsistent with the story of his having ascended a tree in order to count Percy's troops. It appears that at the time of the battle he was at Oswestry, at the head of 12,000 men.
Lord Campbell, in hisLives of the Chief Justices, describes the suicide of Sir William Hankford, Chief Justice in the reigns of Henry V. and VI., who is said to have contrived to get himself shot at night by his own keeper. Lord Campbell quotes Prince, the author of theWorthies of Devon, p. 362. as stating that—
"This story is authenticated by several writers, and the constant traditions of the neighbourhood; and I, myself, have been shown the rotten stump of an old oak under which he is said to have fallen, and it is calledHankford's Oakto this day."—SeeLives of the Chief Justices, vol. i., c. 4. p. 140.
L.
—Your correspondents appear to have overlookedOffandíc,Wodnesdíc(so often mentioned in the Saxon charters), andEsendike—doubtless so named in memory of Esa, the progenitor of the kings of Bernicia—andGugedíke, which I suspect is an old British form for Gog's dike (Fr.Yagiouge), as well asGrimanleáh(Wood of Horrors), andGrimanhyl. It is true we find theGrimsetane-gemáeroin Worcestershire (Cod. Dipl., No. 561.); but we also findWódnesbeorg(Id.No. 1035.). Allow me to give you the substance of a remark of Professor H. Léo of Halle on this subject. (Ang. Säch. Ortsnamen, p. 5.)
"Wild, dismal places are coupled with the names of grim, fabulous creatures: thus, in Charter 957, King Eadwig presented to Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury, a territorial property at 'Hel-ig' (on the Islet of Helas). A morass is cited which is called, after the ancient mythological hero,Grindles-mère; a pit,Grindles-pytt; a small islet surrounded with water—which was to an Anglo-Saxon a "locus terribilis"—was calledThorn-ei(the thorn tree being of ill omen). And thus, in order to express the ordinary associations connected with neighbourhood, recourse was had rather to mythic personages, than to abstract expressions."
I would here observe that theOrtsnamenhas been for some time in course of translation, with the Professor's sanction and assistance, with a view to its publication in England.
B. WILLIAMS.
Hillingdon.
—E. N. W. is assured that the petition for the recall of the Duke of Wellington was presented. Being too ill to travel several miles to a public library, I can only refer to works in which a reference to it will be found. In No. XIX. of the lateBritish and Foreign Quarterly, published by Messrs. Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, is an extract from the admirable letter of his Grace to Lord Liverpool on the subject; and in Colonel Gurwood's edition of theWellington Dispatches, on which the article alluded to is written, and which contains much interesting matter relating to his Grace not to be found any where else, is the whole dispatch. I asked for information relative to the petition, because I had heard that it had been destroyed, and it was too droll a document to be allowed to be lost.
ÆGROTUS.
—Tour in Scotland, fourth edition of Pennant's works. Mine was Dr. Latham's copy.
Description of print of Catherine, Countess of Desmond, quite correct as to face, hair, and cloak. There is no button, but over the breast it is laced. In the inside of the black hood is a damask pattern waved with flowers.
C. J. W.
—In theWonders of the Universe, or Curiosities of Nature and Art, vol. ii., p. 555., will be found the account of this affair. The culprit was named Louise Mabrée, a midwife in Paris; the corpses of no less than sixty-two infants were found in and about her house: she was sentenced to be shut up in an iron cage with sixteen wild cats, and suspended over a slow fire. When the cats became infuriated with heat and pain, they turned their rage upon her; and after thirty-five minutes of the most horrible sufferings, put an end to her existence,—the whole of the cats dying at the same time, or within two minutes after. This occurred in 1673.
J. S. WARDEN.
Balica, Oct. 1851.
—These are the commencing lines of a short original poem called "The Negro's Triumph." It is to be found in theParent's Poetical Anthology, edited by Mrs. Mant, p. 231. 5th edition, 1849.
T. H. KERSLEY, B.A.
—Some drawings and descriptions of the modes of blessing by the hand are to be found, in the "Dictionary of Terms of Art," published in one of the early numbers of theArt Journalfor this year.
ESTE.
—A. A. D. will surely thank me, if his Note on the subject do not contain it, for therationale, which Sir Thomas Brown gives,Religio Medici, Part ii. p. 9., of the occurrence of verses in Latin prose:
"I will not say with Plato, the soul is an harmony, but harmonical, and hath its nearest sympathy unto music: thus some, whose temper of body agrees, and humours the constitution of their souls, are born poets, though indeed all are naturally inclined unto rhythm. This made Tacitus, in the very first lines of his story, fall upon a verse (Urbem Romam in principio regis habuere); and Cicero, the worst of poets, but declaiming for a poet, falls, in the very first sentence, upon a perfect hexameter:In quā me non inficior mediocriter esse."
C. W. B.
—As I was the querist concerning this work and its author, and wanted the information, I was very thankful for the satisfactory answers given. The books referred to by R. G. are not inaccessible: whether then it be needful to occupy your columns with the "particulars" required by E. A. M. (Vol. iv., p. 458.) may be a query too. The first word of the title is as above (not Blackloanæ, as your correspondents have it). E. A. M. will find that Blacklow, or Blakloe, is a soubriquet, as well as Lominus.
P. S.—On examining the book, however, I am not convinced that Peter Talbot was its "real author," though extensive use is made of what he had written; or that "Lominus" is an "imaginary divine," even if the name be a feigned one. On what ground do these assertions rest?
S. W. RIX.
Beccles.
—A MEMBER OF THESOCIETY OFFRIENDS, who writes on the subject of aQuaker Expurgated Bible, appears to be unaware of the existence of a work once (I believe) well known in that body. This was an epitome or compendium of the Bible by John Kendall; it contained the greater portion of the Word of God, such parts being excluded as the editor did not consider profitable. It is probably to this book that the authoress ofQuakerismrefers; I have, however, never seen her work. This mutilated Bible of John Kendall was frequently to be met with formerly in the houses of members of the Society of Friends; as I have not seen it for more than twenty years, I cannot tell what its exact date may be; it was, however, published in the days when all religious publications of the Society of Friendsweresubject to the approval of a committee. In 1830, George Witley published a list of those chapters in the Bible which were "suitable" for reading in "Friends'" families; amongst other portions he excluded (I believe) the 16th of Leviticus and Psalm xxii. Inprivatehe thought the whole might be read; but he says that he prepared this index because of having heardvery unsuitablematter read aloud! This information may be new to your correspondent.
SIMONIDES.
—E. H. D. D. is in error; the Wyle Cop at Shrewsbury isnotan artificial bank, but a natural eminence overlooking the Severn; and I cannot agree with him in the immateriality of the meaning attached toWyle. The associations connected with names are frequently of great topographical and historical value. There are many singular names of streets, &c., in Shrewsbury, which I should be glad if any of your correspondents can interpret, such as "Mardol," "Shop latch," "Bispestanes," and "Dogpole;" also the derivation of "Shut" in the sense ofpassageor entry, a synonym with the Liverpool "Wient," which seems equally uncertain.
Βολις.
If it be true, as we are inclined to believe, that there is no one subject in the whole wide range of speculative studies, to which the well-worn saying of Hamlet, that there are more things true than are dreamt of in our philosophy, may be applied with so much propriety as Animal Magnetism,—so we are also inclined to believe that a perusal of the two volumes recently published by Mr. Colquhoun under the title ofAn History of Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism, will tend to convince our readers that to the same subject may be applied the yet older saying, that there is nothing new under the sun. Mr. Colquhoun, who many years since published hisIsis Revelata, has long been a diligent inquirer into the nature and origin of the different phenomena of animal magnetism; and it would appear from the work before us, he has also been a persevering reader of all the various accounts of magic, witchcraft, and other so-called popular delusions, recorded by the writers of antiquity, and the chroniclers of the middle ages; as well as of those more modern mysteries (such asthe Gustavus Adolphus Story, the Death of Ganganelli, &c.) which seem to increase in interest just in proportion as they approach to our ownmore enlighteneddays. As in all the extraordinary tales which he brings forward, our author sees only manifestations of well-known mesmeric phenomena, it may well be imagined that, in recording the result of these examinations and studies, he has probed two volumes which, if they do not satisfy all our requirements upon the subject, will be found of most considerable interest, not only to all who believe in Animal Magnetism, but to all who care to investigate the nature of the human mind, its organization, and the laws which govern its action.
The success which has attended the publication of Mr. Buckley's translation ofThe Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, and the approbation bestowed upon that work by several of the highest dignitaries of the English Church, have led him to publishThe Catechism of the Council of Trent translated into English with Notes; and there can be little doubt, from the anxiety which now exists to learn, from sources which cannot be disputed, both the points on which we differ from Rome, and those on which we agree with Rome, that the success which followed Mr. Buckley's translation of the Decrees will be extended to his English version of theCatechism of the Council of Trent.
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