The emperor ; and as he personates the empire, nd the dragon personates the emperor, it may with propriety be considered the Chinese national coat of arms. The emperor's dress is embroidered with dragons, his bedstead is the dragon's bedstead, his countenance the dragon's face. The Lord Lindsay, in his Sketches of Christian Art, says heraldry is the last remnant of ancient symbolism, and every figure has its meaning. dragon symbolized that old serpent the devil, represented by Raphael as quelled by the mere touch of the cross in the hands of St. Margaret, and transfixed by the spear of that blessed and holy martyr St. George. HENRY F. PONSONBY. "RURAL SCENES," &c. (5th S. viii. 369, 476.)Will KINGSTON and E. R. W. kindly say whether this book contains two pieces ?-one beginning, "Alackaday! the well is dry; It is so sultry hot," The use which has been made of this remark in modern controversy may be seen in Dr. Newman's Apologia, pt. v. p. 208, ed. 1864, and the Dublin Review, Aug., 1839, p. 154, where the reference is to c. iii. instead of c. iv. ED. MARSHALL. This quotation has been roughly rendered by an epigram of Talleyrand: "Everybody is cleverer than anybody." FRANCIS ANDERSON. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. New Ireland. By A. M. Sullivan. 2 vols. (Sampson Low & Co.) SOMETHING more than half a century has gone towards the last syllable of recorded time since Sir Jonah Barrington published two volumes which illustrated "Old Ireland" most emphatically. The work was as "rollicking" a work as the tipsiest and most riotous of Charles Lever's novels. It is impossible to imagine a greater contrast to Sir Jonah's book than this record of "New Ireland," by Mr. Sullivan. The latter is as full of good stories as the Irish knight's, and has more humour in it, the other entitled Selling a Horse by Auction, and therewith grave and important matter which will and ending with the line Going-gone! to Tom Toddle for seven pound ten." If so it is a book which I well remember as a child, and should like to see again. C. S. JERRAM. THE HOLY SEE AND SCOTLAND (5th S. viii. 369.) -DR. GORDON will find that subsequently to the Reformation the Pope confirmed a grant of lands made by the Bishop of Aberdeen to Lesley of Balquhaine. The confirmation is given in one of the Spalding Club books, but I cannot at present give the reference to the particular volume. MAG. BLESSING THE FISHING (5th S. viii. 349, 434.) -This custom was not peculiar to Yarmouth. I remember that in the Isle of Man the custom prevailed some years ago, and may still prevail. It was customary, too, in the Litany to insert the phrase, and the produce of the seas," in the clause in which the blessing of God was asked upon the "fruits of the earth." One night going out with the fishermen, I noticed that in nearly every boat the men, before they stood out to sea, took off their caps and reverently knelt down, offering a short prayer. WILLIAM NORMAN. Wanstead. AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. viii. 449.)— The Good St. Anthony.-The words of this song are in a song book, published by Lloyd, Salisbury Square, in penny numbers, about 1845 (No. 6, First Series). The music to be had of Duncombe, Middle Row, Holborn. G. D. T. arrest attention. The author, representative in Parliament of an Irish constituency, is not what has been called a "professional patriot," but a patriot in the best sense of the word; not without passion, but with that control over it which bespeaks a true gentleman, who has good argument on his side, and knows how to apply it, without offence, to the persons to whom it may be disagreeable. There is, in truth, a great charm in this work. National questions are dealt with in altogether a novel and attractive way, with abundance of anecdotal illustration. The chief attraction, however, will probably be found in the sketches of personal character. Among these we may notice, as particularly excellent, the sketches of O'Connell, Father Matthew, and James Sadleir. To those who knew these historical personages the sketches seem almost like life itself. We add an anecdote which suits our space, but there are scores which are of higher merit. We must premise that a young Blasket islander crossed, for the first time, to the mainland to get his bishop's dispensation for his marriage. The bishop was the late and much respected Dr. Moriarty, of Kerry; and he tested the young islander's knowledge of the cardinal points of the Christian doctrine by asking, in Irish, "How many gods are there, my good boy? "Well, great and holy priest," replied the islander, "in Blasketmore we have but one, but 'tis very likely there may be more than that in this great work to all who love a genuine book. We heartily recommend Mr. Sullivan's world here." Upper Egypt: its People and its Products. A Descriptive Account of the Manners, Customs, Superstitions, and Occupations of the People of the Nile Valley, the Desert, and the Red Sea Coast. With Sketches of the Natural History and Geology. By C. B. Klunzinger, M.D. With a Prefatory Notice by Dr. Georg Schweinfurth. (Blackie & Son.) FOURTEEN years ago, Dr. Klunzinger left Europe with the intention of studying zoology on the shores of the AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. viii. Red Sea. Probably, remembering that "l'homme est 470.) "Securus judicat orbis terrarum." The reference is to St. Augustine, Contr. Epist. Parmeniani, l. iii. c. iv. tom. ix. col. 72, E, ed. Ben.: "Quapropter securus judicat orbis terrarum, bonos non esse qui se dividunt ab orbe terrarum in quacunque parte terrarum." un animal," he took to study him also. The happy consequence is one of the most " taking" books that has ever been printed on the subject of Egypt and the Egyptians. Wilkinson and Lane have contributed many satisfactory chapters on this subject. Dr. Klunzinger has added to them many fresh details-details of out-ofthe-way places, persons, morals, and manners. It is all thoroughly new, and it will be a pleasant and profitable surprise to all who fancied they knew everything that could be told about Egypt, but who will find themselves here in untrodden scenes, and among a hitherto unknown people. A Vision of Hell: The Inferno of Dante. Translated into English Tierce Rhyme. By Charles Tomlinson, F.R.S. (Partridge & Co.) MR. BOUCHIER, at p. 366 of our present volume, furnished the readers of "N. & Q." with a list, to which JABEZ added at p. 417, of the translators of Dante's works. We are sure that both these gentlemen will be glad to have their attention drawn to the work whose title heads this notice. Mr. Tomlinson starts with an essay on Dante and his translators. By Wilhelm Ihne. The History of Rome. English Edition. (Longmans.) WE are glad to be able to welcome at last the third volume of this extremely valuable work-a work that must necessarily secure a prominent place on the bookshelves of every English scholar. We trust it may not be long before Mr. Ihne is enabled to increase that debt of obligation which all now owe him. TOWNSEND'S Manual of Dates (Warne), edited by Mr. F. Martin, is now at its fifth edition. In testing it we have found but one record admitting of correction: "Dr. Winsenius declares that the custom (of kissing) was unknown in England till 449, when the Princess Rowena, daughter of Hengist, King of Friesland, pressed her lips to the cup, and saluted Vortigern with a little kiss." It is not to be believed that Britain was so backward in science and practice as is here inferred. The custom, however, is not even now universal. When Captain Speke in Africa was about to kiss at parting a dusky daughter of a chief whose guest he had been, the young lady shrieked for fear and fled. She thought he was a cannibal, and was tasting as a preliminary to eating her! The Poetical Works, the Essays, and the Life of E. J. Armstrong (Longmans), fill three volumes. The young Irishman, who died full of promise and with much accomplished at twenty-three, has found a loving and able editor in his brother. The volumes are well worth reading. Mrs. Barbauld and her Contemporaries, by Jerom Murch (Longmans), is a gossiping and readable sketch. Prometheus, the Fire Giver (Chatto & Windus), is a fairly attempted restoration of the lost first part of the Promethean trilogy of Eschylus." The work is put forth with all the care that distinguishes the firm from which it is issued, and with not more care than the scholarship and ability of the author may justly claim. WE have only space left to acknowledge the receipt of Ashburton and its Neighbourhood, by Ch. Worthy; Notes of Quaint Words and Sayings in the Dialect of South Worcestershire, by A. Porson, M.A. (Parker); Specimens of the Dialect of Westmoreland, part i. (Kendal, Atkinson); four additional numbers issued by the English Text Society (Trübner & Co.), referring to the dialects of Holdernesse, West Somerset, of the South-Western Counties, and a bibliographical list of works, published or in MS., illustrative of the various dialects of English. We have also part ii. (Longmans) of A History of the Castles, Manors, and Mansions of Western Sussex (an important work), by D. G. C. Elwes and the Rev. C. J. Robinson. The Tragedy of Macbeth, according to the First Folio, by Allan P. Paton, has some remarks on Shakspeare's use of capital letters as a means of emphasizing words. DEATH OF THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., F.S.A.-Though I do not know that he ever contributed to your columns, do not let this accomplished scholar and antiquary, whose death on the 23rd inst. I have just heard of with deep regret, pass away from us without a fitting tribute in "N. & Q." to his varied learning and the readiness with which he placed his vast stores of information at the service of his friends. While an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, he became a contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, the Foreign Quarterly, and to Fraser; and I remember in the last a very characteristic portrait of him, quite as a young man, by Maclise. He took an active part in the establishment of the Camden, Percy, and Shakspeare Societies, and edited many of the more important works published by them. Mr. Wright was as industrious as he was learned, and of the nearly forty different publications by him named in the Catalogue of the London Library, many are in Latin, some in Anglo-Saxon, some in Norman French; and it was owing to his writings in connexion with early French literature that in 1842 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Peace to his memory! AN OLD F.S.A. THE LATE HALL OF THE SCOTTISH CORPORATION, CRANE COURT.-MR. CHR. COOKE refers to a recent engraving of this edifice in The Builder and to Weld's History of the Royal Society for a view of the interior of the hall, with an engraving of Sir Isaac Newton's head. He suggests that photographs or copies should be taken of all valuable pictures for reference." Notices to Correspondents. ON all communications should be written the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. M. D. H.-Lives of the Poets-Laureate, by W. S. Austin and J. Ralph (Bentley, 1863). See also Masson's Life of Chatterton, and the Poetical Works of Chatterton, with Notices of his Life (Cambridge, Grant, 1842, 2 vols.). The life by John Dix, who afterwards assumed the name of Ross. C. F. ANKETELL will find all that is known of the bronze horses that stand over the central portal of the vestibule of St. Mark's, Venice, in Mr. Murray's admirable Handbook for Northern Italy, thirteenth edition, p. 348. M. C. (CHORLEY.)-We never undertake such an office. There is very good advice on such a matter in Horace:"Membranis intus positis, delere licebit Quod non edideris: nescit vox missa reverti." D. M. H. asks for the titles and publishers of a history of the Irish Rebellion, 1641, chiefly giving annals or history of Wexford, and of the worthies of Somersetshire (biographical account). KINGSTON. For "Cat-in-pan (5th S. viii. 148, 454), see "N. & Q.," 3rd S. iii. 144, 191; iv. 17. JOHN E. ROBERTS.-Consult Haydn's or Townsend's Dictionary of Dates. W. E.-Forwarded. Queries, with No. 212, Jan. 19, 1878. J INDEX. FIFTH SERIES.-VOL. VIII. [For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BOOKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED, EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, PROVERES AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS, SHAKSPEARIANA, and SONGS AND BALLADS.] A A. on Douglas queries, 472 A. (A. A.) on Mazagran, 76 A. (A. S.) on the "Honourable" Mrs. Byron, 416 Cecily (Princess), 509 Douglas queries, 471 White Rose of Scotland, 381 Aberdeen puns, 86 Alfred (King) and the cakes, 68, 179 Allnutt (W. H.) on anonymous works, 418 Alpesto on Fen: Fend, 395 Alphabet, origin of the Semitic, 35 Alton, Hants, part called Normandy, 509 America, public libraries in, 305 America, the yacht, 229, 257 American dollar mark, its origin, 179 Abhba on anonymous works, 69, 109, 129, 149, 209, American postage stamps, portraits on, 266 229, 269, 309, 370, 449 "Antiquities of Bristol," 167 April, 12th of, 269 August, 1st of, 88 English (John), D.D., 67, 359, 395 Fiennes (Rev. Pharamus), 447 "Fortune Teller," 154 Heard (Sir Isaac), 328 Heidegger's invention, 508 Omnibus, first London, 66 Waller (Edmund), 248 Abraham (P.) on Crokatt family, 208 Ache on "Lupus est homini homo," 52 Acre and Furlong, 109, 150, 192, 289, 318 Acts of the Apostles, Long-lost Chapter of, 490 Adams (B. W.) on baronial coins, 293 Irish coins, 158 Adams (E.) on Jared Leigh, 148 Scott family: Abp. Rotherham, 79, 392 A. (F. S.) on E. Whalley, the regicide, 29 Agglestone, near Poole Harbour, Dorset, 501 Albanie (Count d'), 28, 58, 92, 113, 158, 214, 274, 351, 397 Albert (Prince), his portrait by Winterhalter, 89 "Alea Evangelii," its use and origin, 128, 279 Americanisms, 186 Amicus on Tennyson's country, 166 Anglaise on Berengaria: Edith Plantagenet, 228 Anglo-Scotus on Comyns of Badenoch and Tyndale, 32 De Brus family, 123 Esquire, the title, 114 Pedigrees and pedigree makers, 5 Scott (Sir W.) and use of the cope, 126, 250 Annett (Peter), his tracts, 98, 350; metrical portrait, 350, 378 Anon. on baronial coins, 207 Fiennes (Celia), "Account of her several Journeys," 409 Hooping cough, 465 Nalson MSS., 108 Names wanted, 248 Passion Week: Holy Week, 129 Anonymous Works:- Age, The, a poem, in eight books, 90 Alexandrians, an Egyptian tale, 90 Alexis Hinkof; or, the Russian Mariner, 90 Alidia and Cloridan, 469 Almacks, a novel, 469 Bowdler (John), Memoir of, 129, 319 Caleb Stukeley, 449, 478 Cathcart (Robert), Memoir of, 229 Cheltenham Mail Bag, 29 Choose your own Path, 410, 439 Connoissance des Pavillons, 410 Crosthwaite Church, History of, 269 Cursory Observations on Churches of Bristol, 109 Deaths of some Eminent Philosophers, 69 Disquisition on Conventual Church of Tewkesbury, 149 Dorias, The, a drama, 247 Dover and its Neighbourhood, 370 Earle (Gilbert), Account of, 269, 319, 338 English and Scottish Sketches, 370 Epic of Hades, 109, 139 Epics of the Ton, 430 Epistles of Clio and Strephon, 88 Ernest; or, Political Regeneration, 38 Ernest Singleton, a novel, 418 Essays on Pleasures from Literary Compositions, 149, 239, 259 Eugene (Prince), History of, 208, 335 Fall of the Czar, 329 First-Born, a drama, 129, 159 Fortunate Employ; or, the Five Acres Ploughed, 90 Fowler (Robert), Memoir of, 129 From the Diary of C. G., 229 Gemse Fawn, English translation, 90 Glossary of Terms used in British Heraldry, 410, 478 Greece, History of, 269, 319 Handful of Prose and Verse, 329 Health without Physic, 309 Hereford, History and Antiquities of, 149 Historical Enquiry into the Unchangeable Char acter of a War in Spain, 449 History against Colenso, 209 Inquiry into the Constitution, &c., of Churches of Christ, 209, 239 Ireland in Past Times, 90 Jane Conquest, a poem, 430 Anonymous Works: John Gilpin, Latin versions of, 19 Johnson, Doctor, his Religious Life and his Journal d'un Voyage de Cinq Semaines, 129 Karl the Martyr, 219, 280, 458, 479 Letters of Rusticus, 269, 319 Long-lost Chapter of Acts of the Apostles, 490 Mare Mediterraneum, 49 Melancholy, as it proceeds from Habit, &c., 288 Millennium, The, a dramatic poem, 410 Mirrour of Majestie, 410 Modern Athens, 149, 179, 199 Mount Leinster; or, the Prospect, 229 New Apostles; or, Irvingism, 269 New South Wales, Public Surveys of, 149 Notes on Church of St. John, Slymbridge, 109, 139 Notes on Scripture, 269 Nuns and Nunnerics, 269 Old Roads and New Roads, 229 Parliamentary and Political Miscellanies, 269 Passing Clouds, 410, 439 Patriotic and Military Instructions, 149 Penscellwood Papers, 370, 399, 418 Peregrinations of the Mind, 149 Persecutor, and other Poems, 370 Pilgrimage, The, 449 Poems addressed to M. A. J. R., 129 Poetical Essay on the Te Deum, &c., 410 Popular Opinions, 370, 399 Primitive Church in its Episcopacy, 418 Reflections on Communities of Women, 188 Reflections suggested by Study of Scriptures, 129 Reminiscences of Cheltenham College, 69, 99 Revenge Defeated and Self-punished, 329 Scriptural Confutation, &c, 209 Shakespeare, Religious and Moral Sentences from, 309 Solace of an Invalid, 90 Specimens of the Earlier English Poets, 309 Sure Methods of improving Health, 309 Symbola Heroica, 410 Things in General, 14 Thinks I to Myself, 469 Thoughts on Scriptural Expectations, 209 Touchstone for Gold and Silver Wares, 349, 399 Tutor and Student, 309 Victim, The, in Five Letters to Adolphus, 69 Whole Duty of Man, 389, 515 Wild Beast Show, a poem, 430 William Wyrcestre Redivivus, 109, 139 Zadok, the Israelite, 229 Anpiel on "Letters of Rusticus," 319 Anthems, national English and Prussian, 168, 209 Antiquitas on Podmore family, 349 "Antiquités Westphaliennes," 467 Apis on "Tableaux des Mœurs du Temps," 31, 136 Apsley family of Thakeham, co. Sussex, 409 Ariosto (Ludovico), Stewart Rose's translation, 447 Arms, "Fifth Nobility" Roll of, 203; at South Kilvington Church, 249, 353 Arnold (Dr. Thomas) and Wesley, 385 Art, a neglected, 67 Arundell (Sir Thomas), his identity, 208, 255 Associated Artists in Water Colours, their catalogues, 408 Astronomical query, Hebrew, 329 Audley (James Touchet, Lord), 127 "Aurea Armillæ," Lugduni, 1554, 329 A. (W. H.) on anonymous works, 319 Key as an emblem, 177 Nothing like leather," 109 Potatoes, their Scriptural prohibition, 9 Railways a "judgment" on innkeepers, 29 Redwood Library, 445 Axtell family, 14 B B. on Sir Nicholas Bond: Johannes Bonde, 448 Little Horkesley Church, 388 "New Republic," 337 B. (A.) on Shack, its meaning, 413 Titmouse, the long-tailed, 158 Bablakes, a local name, 136 Bagster (Eunice), her death, 180 Bailey (Mrs. Fanny), a centenarian, 265 Bailey (J. E.) on use of the word Battle, 86 Bugby family, 115 Cryptography, works on, 169 Bailey (Nathan), his dictionaries, 52, 178 Peuesy: "p'tum sepale," 518 B. (Alice) on "The Silvery Tide," 418 Bancroft (Thomas), his ancestry, 228 Banks (John), author of "History of Prince Eugene," 335 "Banquet of the Seven Sages," 37 Bar anecdote, 85 Barbé (L.) on battle of the Boyne, 21 Englishmen, "tailed," 326 Holy Week: Passover Week, 216 Marlow (C.), his "Faustus," 54 Poems on towns and countries, 194 Barbers' forfeits, 77 Bardsley (C. W.) on Cutlack surname, 455 "Baron of the Court of Exchequer," 15 Baronial coins, 207, 293 Barow, in Brabant, 106 Bar-Point on the word Woman, 58 Barrett (Dr.), Vice-Provost of Trin. Coll. Dublin, 307, |