Ancient Art," says, "The name of Apelles in Pliny is the synonym of unrivalled and unattainable excellence"; and again, "His Venus, or rather the personification of Female Grace, the wonder of art, the despair of artists: whose outline baffled every attempt at emendation, whilst imitation shrunk from the purity, the force, the brilliancy, the evanescent gradations of her tints" (Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, 1831, ii. 62-64). Apelles was not a Rhodian. Protogenes lived on that island, and was there visited by Apelles. Campbell may have remembered the circumstances of the visits, and may have imagined that both artists resided there. ONE THAT IS PUZZLED makes a singular mistake in his statement that the picture "of Polygnotus is the Venus Anadyomene that of Apelles is the famous Aphrodite rising from the sea." The Venus Anadyomene and the Aphrodite rising from the sea are one and the same, and this celebrated picture was undoubtedly painted by Apelles. Fuseli, in writing of the works of Polygnotus, makes no mention of a Venus. There is a very beautiful Greek epigram by Leonidas of Tarentum (Jacobs, i. 164, xli.) on the subject of the masterpiece of Apelles. H. P. D. HITCH" (5th S. vii. 344.)-This word is very common in America. See Webster's Dictionary, "to hook, to catch by a hook, as to hitch a bridle." The first day I landed last year at New York an American friend took me to the place where the horse-dealers most do congregate. He wanted to purchase a pair of carriage horses. I found the emporium composed of the same class of men as here in England, cunning in their eyes, lies upon their lips. My friend was shown a pair that had just arrived from Kentucky. "Have they been in double harness?" said he. The reply was, "I hitched them together yesterday, and they were sweet." My friend did not purchase. "I thought it would come to this," said the captain; we must unhitch and lie down" (see the Great Lone Land, p. 98). CLARRY. MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL (5th S. vii. 347.) -The following extract from some leaves of a diary which I have of the Rev. Philip Stubbs, B.D., Fell. Wad. Coll., Ox., First Chaplain of Greenwich Hospital, Archdeacon of St. Albans, &c., may perhaps be interesting to MR. ROBINSON: "1677. Apr. 28. After I had laid a Foundation for y Latin Tongue at Mr Speed's Free-Schole in St Mary Axe, & for y Greek at Mr Snell's Boarding Schole in Hilling-don, Mid'sx, where in a literal sense I became wiser yn my Teacher (an honest, good man, but no Clerk), I was transplanted to Merchant-Taylors for further improvem in Learning, as well as advancemt in y University by a Fellowship of St John's, for web this Schole was designed as a Seminary by ye Founder of ym both, St Thomas White, Lord Mayor of London in Q. Mary's Reign: I continued here 3 years under the Instruction of the Rev'd Mr Goad (who tho a long while a Friend to y Greek Church, and at length in K. James's days a profess'd Romanist, is sd to his Honor to have bred up not one Scholar either Papist or Dissenter), and 2 under Mr Hastcliffe; w" of a sudden upon the second me of my Father, at a juncture w" I had probably been elected to a Scholarship at St John's on the first of St Barnabas next following, I was hurried away to Oxon, & entered Comm'r at Wadham, April 1682/3," &c. Danby, Ballyshannon. H. STUBBS. in Le Duchat's edition of Rabelais (1741) answers WHO WAS ANGESTON? (5th S. vii. 327.)-A note DR. RAMAGE's question: "Ce trait regarde Paris, grand scholastique, écrivain barbare de ce apparemment Jérome le Hangeste, Docteur de temps-là from Moreri that Hangest was born at Compiègne, (p. 17, ad not.). We further learn and died at Le Mans in 1538. L. BARBÉ Bückeburg, Germany. SCOTTISH ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES (5th S. vii. 327.)-I think COL. FERGUSSON will find that there is no special reason for the use of these particular titles by the Scotch R. C. bishops. How long they may have been in use I do not know; but they have nothing more to do with Scotland than with England, Wales, or Ireland. They are, as the Colonel supposes, titles in partibus infidelium; but these were and are given very much at random, and sometimes seem altogether imaginary-taken from towns or cities which do not exist in the parts of the infidels or anywhere else. Before the Act of Henry VIII. all English suffragans bore such titles, and it is sometimes quite comical to see a list of familiarly named bishops winding up with some mighty sound like "John Philippopolis." As to the Colonel's second query, whether the writer of the Home News extract knew of these Scotch R. C. bishops, I should think he probably did, as he mentions them in so many words: "Its bishops have no local titles." Bexhill. CHARLES F. S. WARREN, M.A. Tavistock, Devon, as I learn from a native of that John were his brothers, not sons. Elkanah Settle town. There is little or no doubt that it is still | dedicates his Pastor Fido to Lady Elizabeth Deadhered to closely in both towns. laval. I hope your correspondent may be equally successful in discovering Lady Hill. WILLIAM ADAMSON. Torquay. WM. PENGELLY. The same custom is the usual one in Lincolnshire, where the napkins are called "burying towels." J. T. F. Hatfield Hall, Durham. SHELLEY'S "SCENES FROM CALDERON" (5th S. vii. 421.)-I regret very much that MR. MACCARTHY'S interesting communication is too late to be of use to me, for there is one point that I should CHARLES STUART (5th S. vii. 189, 417.)-I shall assuredly like to have made a note of in Shelley's be much obliged if J. O. will tell me in what favour-that of the name Colalto belonging to an edition of Biographia Dramatica there are nine Italian family. As, however, that portion of my pieces ascribed to the above author. In my edition fourth volume is out of my hands, I can only (1782) I can only find three, namely-1. The enclose you the printed sheet, in order that you Cobler of Castlebury; 2. Ripe Fruit, or the Mar- may make such use as you please of any of the riage Act; 3. Damnation, or Hissing Hot. I notes. Fortunately, I have corrected the patroshall be very grateful for any information aboutnymic heretofore misprinted as Colatti; and I the production of these pieces or the life and family hope MR. MACCARTHY will be as much gratified as I am to know that his very acute surmise, that Shelley may have written 'race' instead of men,' " is borne out by the only MS. of this scene of the existence of which I am aware. have of course adopted that reading, as you will of the author. K. S. B. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF UTOPIAS (4th S. xi. 519; xii. passim; 5th S. i. 78, 237; ii. 252; vi. 38, 118.)Taciturna and Jocunda, or Genius; Alaciel's Journey through these Two Islands, with their Laws and Commentaries. Translated from the French. 12mo., London, 1760. Mammuth, or Human Nature displayed on a Grand Scale, in a Tour with the Tinkers into the Inland Parts of Africa. By the Man in the Moon. 2 vols. 12mo., London, 1789. Information respecting the two foregoing will be acceptable. The Age of Science. A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century. By Merlin Nostradamus [Miss Frances Power Cobbe]. London, 1877. 6 see. 66 H. BUXTON FORMAN. I [MR. FORMAN's note on the MS. to which he refers is as follows: "Whatever slight changes, whether verbal or in punctuation, have been made in the first scene without specification, are authorized by a MS. of that scene, in Mrs. Shelley's writing, which is among the papers of Leigh Hunt placed at my disposal by Mr. Townshend Mayer. This MS. is written small, as if for the post, and might be either a dictation or a transcript from rough notes: some of the variations which it shows are clearly incident to a less mature state of the translation than the printed editions show; but some are decided improvements on the received text; and, on the whole, I incline to think that Mrs. Shelley made more than one attempt to decipher and connect Shelley's rough notes, and that this was one of such attempts." by MR. MACCARTHY as containing an image not in This MS. affords a slight change in the passage quoted Calderon: "You, my friends, Go, and enjoy the festival; it will Be worth your pains. You may return for me Which dance like plumes upon a hearse;-and here MR. FORMAN's note on the Colalti passage runs thus: "In previous editions this line stands thus: One of the noble men of the Colatti, but the transcript has race for men, which is a great improvement; and, though the proper name might be read for Colatti, it is more like Colalti. That being right, must of course be adopted: the patronymic in Calderon is Colalto,-plural los Colaltos,--and Shelley plural Colalti."] seems to have adopted somewhat arbitrarily the Italian NEW YEAR'S EVE: EASTER EVE (5th S. vii. 227, 275, 318.)-Surely MR. WARREN is wrong when he says that, "liturgically speaking, the eve of a festival does not begin until about six o'clock." Liturgically the festival begins at six o'clock of the evening preceding the day itself: the eve is the whole day until 6 P.M. Thus Easter Eve is the whole of the Saturday until 6 P.M., when Easter Day liturgically commences. This is the rule both in the Eastern and Western Church. Thus Shrove Tuesday used to be called "Feasting Eve," i.e. the last day of feasting before the fast of Ash Wednesday. "When the eve is fasted it is called a vigil" (Glossary of Eccles. Terms). E. LEATON BLENKINSOPP. A SOCIETY FOR THE PUBLICATION OF CHURCH REGISTERS (5th S. vi. 484; vii. 9, 89, 131, 239, 290, 429.)-Kindly insert the following as a correction of my communication ante, p. 431: "The Close, Norwich, June 4, 1877. "Rev. and dear Sir,-As I observe you have stated in N. & Q.' that the secretary of the N. & N. A. S. restored an old register of Ingworth Church, I beg to say that the register was purchased by me in Norwich, and that you as rural dean, at my request, received it from me for the purpose of returning it to the church from which it had been taken.-I am, &c., KIRBY TRIMMER. "The Rev. E. T. Yates." Burgh, Norfolk. E. T. YATES. the subject. Further accounts of rushbearing customs, with an engraving, and extracts from Brand, Bridges, Drake, Whitaker, &c., will be found in Hone's Year Book for 1832, where a correspondent states that he visited Grasmere Church in 1828: "Judge my surprise when I tell you I found the very seat floors all unpaved, unboarded, and the bare ground only strewed with rushes" (p. 1108). CUTHBERT BEDE. AN INVOCATION TO LINDLEY MURRAY (5th S. vi. 534; vii. 137, 210, 355.)-ST. SWITHIN, quoting Dean Alford, speaks of the decided bias which the translators of the Bible had towards the use of the subjunctive. We must not forget, however, that in the substantive verb what is now the form of the present subjunctive was then used also as another form of the present indicative - Genesis xlii. 32, "We be twelve brethren "; Psalm iv. 6, "There be many that say," &c. We find the same usage in Shakspeare: "There be land rats and water rats." When, therefore, the translators of the Bible make "be" follow a conditional conjunction, we cannot be sure that they intended a present subjunctive and not a present indicative. St. Paul's E TIS WILLIAM HOGARTH (5th S. vii. 108, 256, 294.)|aper, Phil. iv. 8, rendered "If there be any -I am much obliged to Jos. J. J. for the very virtue," might have been rendered quite graminteresting and valuable information he has given.matically, "If there is any virtue." Allow me to supplement it with some further information which I have discovered. The Hogarts came originally from Kirby Thore, a place five miles north of Appleby, and were, I believe, an old family. The name seems originally to have been written and pronounced Hogart, and to have been derived from Saxon heah, high, and eeand, earth; or Old English hoogh, high, and aerd, nature or heart the latter is, I think, the more probable. Hogarth's grandfather lived in the vale of Bampton, fifteen miles north of Kendal, West-dent apothecary there, exhibited her skull to the morland. E. T. M. WALKER. RUSHBEARINGS (5th S. vi. 144, 186, 297, 498; vii. 319.)-Grasmere Church was dedicated in the name of St. Oswald, whose day is observed on the Sunday nearest to August 1, which day is chosen for the rushbearing, in honour of the patron saint. The sweet-scented flag, Acorus calamus, which gives out a pleasant smell when trodden under foot, was used for these festivals, until some clever person discovered that it could be profitably utilized for breweries under the name of "quassia"; wherefore the common flag has since been substituted. A writer in Hone's Table Book (ii. 277), under date July 21, 1827, has given a long description of rushbearing, in which "the Opium Eater," together with "Mr. and Mrs. Wordsworth, Miss Wordsworth, and Miss Dora Wordsworth,' took part. The evening terminated with a dance. "Wordsworth is the chief supporter of these rustic ceremonies." One of his sonnets is devoted to R. M. SPENCE, M.A. AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. vii. 269, 299, 339.)— Posthumous Fragments of Margaret Nicholson.-The word "posthumous" is unwarranted. Margaret Nicholthe book, 1810. I shall be glad to know the date of her son lived, I think, nearly twenty years after the date of death, which I have not been able to find in the Annual Register and similar works. She died in Bethlehem Hospital, and about the year 1830. Dr. Wright, then resi Phrenological Society, and gave a short account of her. She was an inoffensive old woman without characteristics, quite fresh, as if recently cleared. It is now in my colof poor intellect, but not mad. The skull then looked lection. H. B. C. AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. vii. 269.)— "It is better to be sitting," &c. The lines asked for by X. Y. Z. are, I believe, an imperfect version of a Hindoo proverb, expressive of the indolent supineness of that race, which runs thus:-"It is better to walk than to run; it is better to stand than to walk; it is better to sit than to stand; it is better to JAMES T. PRESLEY. lie than to sit." Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. The History of Cheshire. By George Ormerod, Esq., appears, and his readers, experto crede, will certainly partake in this pleasant feeling. Ormerod's Cheshire, thus edited, promises to stand at the head of books, or among those that are at the head of books of this very important class. In addition to the usual varied contents of county history, the present part contains some curious illustrations of individual character. Among them is a sketch of Dean Arderne, a staunch adherent of James II. The dean's will especially curious. He bequeaths his "best suit, gown, cassock, hat, silk stockings, doublet, and breeches" to his curate, Peter Morrey; with a special recommendation, not to say "command," to his executors to see that Mr. Morrey obtains preferment, "he leaving a very good place to come to me." The will further speaks of the testator (in the bequest of a laudatory epitaph on, and by, himself) as "the brother of Sir John Arderne," and as a man "who, though he bore a more than common affection to his private relations, yet gave the substance of his bequeathable estate to this cathedral, which gift his will was should be mentioned, that clergy men may consider whether it be not a sort of sacrilege to sweep all away from the Church and Charity into the possession of their lay kindred, who are not needy." In this case property was alienated from kindred to whom it would have legally belonged at the dean's death, and it went, at least most of it, to limbs of the law, and not, as Arderne intended it, "ad majorem Dei gloriam" and his own glorification. In reading th account of the manor, &c., of Helsby, many noble and gentle persons are found who derive their names from the place. The name itself is most creditably supported in the person of the editor; and as to the place, all its natural beauty is being stamped out by labour and its accompaniments, which Mr. Helsby (while indulging in the sentimental appreciation of the romantic beauty still existing) hopes will prove gratifying to future generations. Remarks on Shakespeare, his Birthplace, &c. By C. Roach Smith. (Bell & Sons.) MR. ROACH SMITH'S interesting pamphlet should make his readers as enthusiastic as himself. In thirty-one pages he has compressed a great amount of information, and also of observations marked by good sense. The suggestion to make a class-book of Shakspeare's works is an excellent one. In some places this suggestion has been put into action, and certain of the plays have been edited for that purpose. Moreover, there are ready to hand for young students Bowdler's family edition, that of the plays which Charles Kemble read in public, and, especially, Mr. Cundell's Boudoir Shakespeare (Low & Co.), which, as a contribution to the same end, contains Cymbeline, Merchant of Venice, As You Like It, King Lear, and Much Ado About Nothing, to be followed, it is hoped, by the remainder of Shakspeare's works. THE MAGAZINES. Of the articles in The Nineteenth Century there are three, wide as the poles asunder, which will absorb the interest of all who are deeply concerned in Church matters. One is Mr. Froude's uncompromising article (of which the first instalment is here) on Thomas Beckett; the second, Mr. Mackonochie's paper on Disestablishment and Disendowment; and the third, Cardinal Manning's version of the history of the Vatican Council. An individual reader seems to be living in three ages as he peruses these essays on Church subjects and history. -The Cornhill attracts speculative readers with the subject, "Is the Moon Dead?"-The Biographical Magazine (Trübner & Co.) has made a capital start with articles on Bismarck, Gortchakoff, Hobart Pasha, and the Khedive, and two instalments of the biographies of Carlyle and George Sand.-Temple Bar will attract many of our own readers by an article entitled "Voltaire in the Netherlands." The most un-French of Frenchmen visited Holland several times. He was so hospitably received, that to him is characteristically ascribed the famous saying, "Adieu canaux, canards et canaille." But these words are also attributed to Boileau, and again to a French general who caught the gout in Holland, and was glad to get back to France to cure it. The phrase, however, is "all over "Voltairean; and it is to be remembered that, though Voltaire had been enthusiastically received by, and had always spoken highly of, the Dutch, he went away, on his last visit, after a violent quarrel with Dutch booksellers. MESSRS. MACMILLAN & Co. have added to their Globe series the poetical works of Milton, in a single volume of 625 pages. The type, though small, is clear. The Introductions are by Prof. Masson, whose name has now become almost inseparable from that of Milton. Mr. W. M. Egglestone, of Stanhope, Darlington, is preTHE Stanhope Memorials of Bishop Butler, edited by paring for publication by subscription. The contents will comprise:-An Introductory Chapter; Stanhope Church; Early Life of Joseph Butler; Butler at Stanhope; Butler's Church Property; Butler's Church; The Substantial Men who Conversed with Butler; His Curates, Clerk, and Sexton; Butler's Stanhope Tradesmen; Bishop Butler, &c. ROYAL ARCHEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE. - June 1.-Lord Talbot de Malahide, President, in the chair. At this meeting a paper on the curious wall paintings recently discovered in the churches of Slapton and Raunds, in Northamptonshire, was read by Mr. J. G. Waller, and some tracings of the subjects exhibited. A carved bone comb, Anglo-Saxon, was shown by Mr. Soden Smith; a petronel and a tile with maker's name inscribed by Mr. Bernhard Smith; and many other notable objects by Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy, and others. 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. LECTOR.-There was never such a magazine, nor a writer so named; nor was the line quoted ever traceable to any source. L. B.-The offer will be very acceptable, if you are quite sure that the papers have never been printed. A. N. (Cambridge); H. C. C.; R. J. (Ashford); and N. S. S.-Next week. NOTES:-Lord Albemarle's Reminiscences: Old Westminster, 461-Egyptian Obelisks: Cleopatra's Needles, 463-Shakspeariana, 464-Old Sermons in Lambeth Library: St. Paul's School Feast, 465-Slang and Proverbs- A Mythological Papyrus at Herculaneum-Temple Bar-"The long Eleventh of June"-Nine Men's Morrice, 466. QUERIES:-The Promised Lives of the Archbishops of York REPLIES:-The First Publication of Gray's "Elegy," 469- 477-Jacobello del Fiore-Heraldic-The Old Testament: Notes. LORD ALBEMARLE'S REMINISCENCES: OLD WESTMINSTER. My suggestions, which only touched upon two or three changes of this nature, reached Lord Albemarle too late to be of any use, the last sheets of his third edition having just been sent to press and, with his characteristic good nature, he urged me to send them to "N. & Q." So here they are. It was the noble lord's good fortune to have been educated at Westminster School. It is my one regret with regard to my early life that I was not; for, as I might say with Goethe, "Auch Ich war in Arcadien geboren." I should very probably have had that good fortune but for the school's reputation for excessive flogging and fagging, which made my kind mother successfully resist her only child being placed under one to whom, as we learn from these amusing memoirs, might well be applied, with a "slight variation," what Pope said of his namesake,— "Hard words and flogging, if your master's Page." Lord Albemarle's recollections of the little World at Westminster (the paper published under that title was somewhat after our author's time) are very interesting, and of course include many references to Tothill Fields-a fine old name, which | is now, I grieve to say, euphemized into Vincent Square. Dean Vincent was a ripe scholar and worthy man, who, if consulted, would never have consented to this change, but would probably have spoken in the spirit which led good Dean Turton to tell me how pleased he was, when made Dean of Westminster, to find himself connected with one of our old Toot Hills. It would have gladdened the heart of Jacob Grimm to have heard that kindly scholar discourse about the ancient Theuth, or Thoth, to whom the invention of letters was formerly ascribed. I wonder how many Toot Hills, or Tothills, are now left in England! It is in his curious references to this locality, its celebrated inhabitants and its surroundings, that the few slight oversights of the noble reminiscent occur. I have just been reading Fifty Years of my Life, by George Thomas, Earl of Albemarle, and, in common I believe with all who have done so, have been greatly delighted, more especially with those parts of which I recognized the truthfulness by the recollections which they awakened in me. Nor was my interest in the book at all diminished by the fact that I had previously heard some of When he "boarded at Mother Grant's" the the incidents which are recorded in it, and some Westminsters, as now, went "up Fields" to play which are not, told by the noble author's own lips. cricket; but then "Fields" was only separated This latter fact led me to call Lord Albemarle's from the rest of the open by a dry ditch. There attention to one or two points connected with the was in the north-west corner, opposite to the neighbourhood from which I am writing, and present police court, the "Duck," afterwards known which he left upwards of sixty years since, during as the King's Scholars Road. But, besides a cricket which thousands of acres, which were then noted ground for the Westminsters, "Fields" was the (to use Strype's words) "for supplying London scene of many a bull-bait and many a fight-not and Westminster markets with asparagus, arti- between Westminsters (their encounters always chokes, cauliflowers, and musk melons, and the took place in the "Fighting Green" in the Cloisters), like useful things that the earth produces," have but between professional pugilists, though somebeen transformed into a fashionable suburb, first times between the Westminsters and the Scies. christened Cubitopolis and now known as Belgravia. At Easter and Whitsuntide, Gooseberry Fair was What wonder, then, if Lord Albemarle's memory held "up Fields"; and lastly, as we read (i. p. 326), should mislead him as to one or two old land-"these same backslums were honoured with the marks, when I, who saw them obliterated, can scarcely trace their whereabouts or know what stands where they did? presence of the most gorgeous of monarchs, and on the most gorgeous day of his reign-the coronation day of George IV." |