5th S. IX. FEB. 23, '78.] NOTES AND QUERIES. "UXORICIDE" (5th S. ix. 105.)-I am no great ture reading, and a Northern picture of Eastern friend to new words, but this is a perfectly legiti-life," and that he has " And why is it worse than mate formation. C. F. S. WARREN, M.A. infanticide? BACON'S ESSAY "OF A KING" (5th S. ix. 108.) -This is said not to be by Bacon, and is placed in the appendix of S. W. Singer's edition of the Essays, Lond., 1857, p. 223. For this reason see p. xxxiv. ED. MARSHALL. SWEET-HEART (5th S. ix. 84, 111.)-I did not really neglect Chaucer, but quoted the phrase from 66 authorities," of him in my inquiries among the whom one objected that in Chaucer the meaning was not a lover, but merely sweet heart. I am very glad MR. SKEAT says otherwise. O. W. TANCOCK. A plain prose instance of sweetheart :"Myne owyn swete hert, in my most humylwyse, I recomaund me on to you, desyryng hertly to here of your welfare."-Paston Letters, No. 866 (Gairdner's edition), dated A.D. 1482 (from a wife to her husband). HALIFAX. MODERN GREEK BIBLE (5th S. ix. 68, 95.)—I am much obliged by MR. SCHRUMPF's reply. Will he kindly add a few words about "Oikonomos" and its bearing on the Seventy? There would seem, then, to be of the Old Testament a version by the Archimandrite Hilarion (Horne, Introd., vol. ii. part ii. p. 91) from the LXX.; another by the Archimandrite Neophytos Vambas from the Hebrew; and, besides these, one of the Bible Society from the English version of the Hebrew. Of the New Testament we have a version by Maximus Calliergi (so Horne, ii. ii. 91), Geneva, 1638, 4to. (two columns, old and new Greek), altered and printed at Chelsea and London, 1810, 12mo. (two columns, old and new), and again at London, 1814, 12mo. (new only), beside other reprints of the Genevan quarto of 1638 at the beginning of the last century. The Bible Society's New Testament, appended to their Old in the Holy Scriptures (Oxford, 1872, 8vo.), differs greatly from that in those former editions as being more anciently worded-more like to the old Greek text. The versions of Scripture in the two modern Greek editions of the Book of Common Prayer (Bagster's edition, 1820, and that of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1839) differ somewhat from each other, as they both do from the Bible Society's translation, and in a much greater degree from that of London (1814), Chelsea and London (1810), and Geneva (1638), all above mentioned. The earliest version is the most vernacular. W. J. BLEW. SHEEP LED BY THE SHEPHERD (5th S. vii. 345, 477; viii. 79, 218, 377, 478.)-CUTHBERT BEDE says that the custom on the Cheviots of the sheep following the shepherd was "a realization of Scrip never witnessed the sight CUTHBERT BEDE has only to cross elsewhere." over to this pretty seaport and take a walk into the country to see the shepherd and dog in front and the sheep following, the custom being common all over France and Italy, and from this custom came the expression sheep-followers. The chief use of the dog is to keep the sheep within bounds where there are no hedges, by parading up and down or round and round, as indicated by the simple motion of the hand of the shepherd. In Italy the shepherd usually carries one of those long, light Italian reeds, and if a sheep should stop to crop the grass he gently taps it on the back with the reed, and the sheep immediately moves on. HENRY G. ATKINSON. Quai de la Douane, Boulogne-sur-Mer. "RALPH WALLIS, THE COBLER OF GLOUCESTER" (5th S. viii. 388, 494.)—I shall be glad of a note of any tracts by, or pertaining to, Ralph Wallis, in addition to Magna Charta; More News from Rome, 1666. JOHN TAYLOR. ANTLERS OF THE RED DEER (5th S. viii. 428, verton, in his interesting Notes on the Chase of the 458.)-On this point the late Mr. Collyns of DulWild Red Deer, writes : "The ancients imagined that the horn of the stag possessed great medicinal virtues, especially the right or off horn, which it was said was rarely found, and consequently was the more highly prized. To account for the scarcity of shed or cast horns, a notion obtained currency that the hind is in the habit of eating the horn, and I think Mr. Scrope says that the late Duke of Athol of a horn that remained sticking in her throat, and once found a dead hind which had been choked by part may say that I have not found any mention of quotes this as a circumstance corroborative of the popular belief. this habit in the old works to which I have had access, on hunting were certainly men of great observation, and and which I have consulted, although the ancient writers by no means unwilling to give credence to and report any peculiar habit or property attributed to deer." During a short visit that I recently paid to Scotland, I made many inquiries on this subject, and I was informed by keepers and hillmen of great experience and undoubted veracity that it is a common occurrence for the hinds to eat the cast horns; and they go so far as to say that unless the horns are picked up within a short time after they are dropped, the chances are that they will be found mutilated and partially destroyed by the hinds. In our country I have never, from my own experience or from reliable information, discovered or ascertained that this curious habit prevails, and heade in the earthe in suche sort that a man shall hardly finde it."-Art of Venerie, p. 42. Taunton. the name has long been a mystery. No broom grew there. Botanists could not find a specimen there or anywhere near. Old men had been told by their fathers that they had inquired of the oldest inhabitant, and no one for three generations, at least, had ever known or heard of broom growing there or anywhere else in the parish. struction of the Framlingham branch of the About twenty years ago, however, in the conG. E. R., a cutting was made through Broom Hill, and the banks of the cutting proceeded to justify the name of the place by producing the following CAROLS (5th S. viii. 491; ix. 32.)-With regard year a profuse crop of broom, which still thrives to carols, a name sometimes given to recesses in there luxuriantly. Whence came the seed? If cloisters, in my note (ante, p. 32) I ought to have it was produced by plants that flourished on and mentioned that Cornish has crow or crou, meaning gave name to the spot not less than a century a house of some kind. The three Gaelic dialects before, we have an instance of very protracted (Scotch Gaelic, Irish, and Manx) often begin words vitality. If, however, it was recent wind-borne with c or g, where the Kymric dialects (Welsh, seed, it must have come from a considerable disCornish, and Armoric) begin them with d or t.tance, and was fortunate in finding a suitable soil, At the same time each of the two groups has a in an unoccupied spot, possessing the singular adfew instances where both ways are followed. It vantage of being ready named for its reception. would take up too much space here to give a list G. O. E.. of these. THOMAS STRATTON. Inner Temple. AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (5th S. ix. 129.)— found in a cheap edition of his works published by My New Pittayatees is by Samuel Lover. It will be Charles H. Clarke, Paternoster Row, in a series called "The Parlour Library." EVERARD HOME COLEMAN. My New Pittaytees, by Samuel Lover, is given at p. of Carpenter's Penny Readings in Prose and Verse for Dec., 1865. H. G. C. 159 AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. ix. 129.)— A BOTANICAL PUZZLE (5th S. viii. 146, 294, 378; ix. 12.)-It may be added to the notes on this subject that the Rev. W. Jackson, M.A., F.R.S., in his recently published Handbook to Weston-super-Mare and its Vicinity, in speaking of Worlebury, draws attention to the occurrence of the Cochlearia officinalis, which, he says, was "unknown in the neighbourhood before the Worlebury pit circles were examined, when its seeds were thrown out from the pits and germinated after a sleep of many centuries" (p. 65). And again: | "Below Spring Cove, and near the first turnpike, the botanist may be pleased to observe Scurvywort (Cochlearia officinalis), self-sown from the ancient Celtic pits, and now abundant" (p. 165). Very abundant the plant certainly is now, with its glossy succulent leaves, amid the old hut circles,You see,' said our host, as we entered his doors, and down the rocky sides of the fortress-city. I do not gather from Mr. Jackson's work when the excavations of which he speaks were made, but from a paper by the Rev. F. Warre in the Transactions of the Somerset Arch. Society I imagine they took place in 1851. It would, I think, be very interesting to learn the precise grounds for the statement, and whether care has been taken to eliminate possible sources of error. One must in inferences of this kind beware of the post hoc ergo propter hoc theory. In a little work, The Flora of Weston, published in 1856, the plant is mentioned, with no note of its being in any way a recent introduction. Brean Down is there given as another "habitat." W. F. R. Pray less of your gilding," &c. The epigram MR. CLARKE inquires for, though he has not quoted it correctly, is no doubt one to be found at R. E. Egerton Warburton (second edit., 12mo., London, p. 159 of Hunting Songs and Miscellaneous Verses, by Longmans, 1860): Worle Vicarage. At Framlingham, in Suffolk, is a slight elevation immemorially called Broom Hill. The origin of 'I have furnished my house à la Louis Quatorze.' I have met with a note made by me in which this is ED. MARSHALL. (5th S. ix. 108, 139.) "In the glow of thy splendour." Vide a fair translation of Metastasio's Hymn to Venus ("Scendi propizia," &c.) by E. Kenealy in Ainsworth's The Life of John Milton. By David Masson. Vols. IV. and V. (Macmillan & Co.) THE new volumes of Mr. Masson's Life of Milton cover the whole period of Milton's career from the execution of Charles I. to the restoration of his wandering son. The sudden changes of English government during this epoch might have induced any biographer to stray somewhat from the strict range of his subject, but Mr. Masson falls a willing victim to the temptation. The cause of every alteration in government from Commonwealth to Protectorate the never-ending changes fell at last into disunion and anarchy, and ended in the return of Charles II.-is minutely described. Under all these varied forms of rule the services of Milton were employed in state administration, and many of the changes were supported by his pen. While we allow that his biographer could not omit to mention the actions in Church and State in which he was engaged, we cannot but add that in Mr. Masson's volumes the life of the poet and letter-writer is often sacrificed to the discussion of internal politics. In the first sixty-four pages of the fourth volume the name of Milton is mentioned but once. More than one hundred and fifty pages of its successor are occupied with the history of the Protectorate of Richard Cromwell and the events which led to the restoration of Charles; in only two of them will the name of Milton be found. The industry and accuracy of Mr. Masson must ever extort admiration, but for a living picture of Milton's life we must wait until a biographer has arisen who can make a fit use of the materials which Mr. Masson's labours have collected. Exactly a fortnight after the king's death, and four days after the publication of Eikon Basilike, Milton issued a bold and singularly opportune vindication of the conduct of the Parliament in deposing and killing their sovereign. This pamphlet secured for him the prominent position of "Secretary for Foreign Tongues to the Council of State, and led them to impose upon him the task of counteracting the sympathy roused in every heart by the circulation of thousands of copies of the royal book. From that time he was immersed in controversy with Salmasius and his satellites. They poured upon him all the expressions of abuse which their knowledge of the refined vocabulary of the Latin language could supply, and received in return a good deal more than they gave. For these controversies Milton's dream of a History of England was neglected, for them the compilation of a Latin dictionary was abandoned as soon as it was contemplated. The lines of Paradise Lost which were written in these years can be counted on the fingers of the hands. Poetry was discarded for politics, and when Milton was not engaged in his chamber in repelling the attacks of foreign disputants, he was summoned to the council chamber to turn into Latin Cromwell's stirring despatches on behalf of the suffering Protestants of the Continent. Only a few sonnets remain to prove that his affection for the Muses was undiminished, but these must be ranked among the highest products of his poetic genius. The stateliness of thought embodied in the noble sonnets to Cromwell and Vane, and the deep feeling breathing through the simple words of his sonnet to his "late espoused saint," he never surpassed. Though the chapters which depict the struggles of English politics must draw from the reader the frequent expression of a wish that Mr. Masson had adhered more closely to the legitimate lines of his biography, they often throw fresh light on the events of English history. There are many lessons to be learned from the list of members (v. 453) of the restored Rump Parliament of 1659, carefully annotated to show the parts they had played in the successive changes of the Commonwealth. The substance of a crowd of pamphlets is condensed in the histories of the new sects (v. 15-27) which swarmed in the first Protectorate of Cromwell. In a few pages Mr. Masson has sketched the careers of the English men of letters during the rule of Cromwell, and has drawn up instructive tables of those who cordially adhered to his cause, and those who tacitly obeyed or actively opposed his government. His researches have illustrated the lives of Marvell, Needham, and the friends who solaced by their conversation the vacant hours of the blind poet. In the last days of 1651 Milton was forced by ill health to remove from his chambers in Whitehall Palace to a "pretty garden-house" in York Street, Westminster. Sadly had the neighbourhood deteriorated in two centuries and a quarter, but the house still remained (to use the words of Jeremy Bentham's tablet) "Sacred to Milton, Prince of Poets," and but little altered in its structure from the time when the blind bard groped from one room to another. Never more will the eager pilgrim forget the squalor of the neighbourhood in gazing on the house of Milton; last year it vanished, and his desire to realize its appearance must be satisfied by the descriptions of Hazlitt and Mr. Masson. Milton entered it in December, 1651, and he occupied it until the threatening pamphlet of L'Estrange, full of eager anticipations of the vengeance of Charles against the controversialist who had justified the death of his royal father, warned him to seek safety in obscurity. Mr. Masson's next and last volume will deal with Milton's life in seclusion, and there will be less justification in his forgetting the subject of his biography in describing the history of his times. Poetry for Children. By Charles and Mary Lamb. To which are added Prince Dorus and some Uncollected Poems by Charles Lamb. Edited, Prefaced, and Annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd. (Chatto & Windus.) Ar length Charles Lamb's many lovers have the luck to recover the lost "Poetry for Children, Entirely Original, by the Author of Mrs. Leicester's School." Every collection of Lamb's works hitherto made has had to do without it, because no copy was forthcoming to print it from till last year. Now Messrs. Chatto & Windus gain much credit by the issue of a careful, handy, pretty reprint of this collection, of the newly recovered humorous poem "Prince Dorus," known to be Lamb's by an entry in Crabb Robinson's Diary, and of a few other uncollected trifles of Lamb's that were worth collecting. Mr. R. H. Shepherd, as editor, gives useful bibliographical details, and attempts to apportion the Poetry for Children between Lamb and his sister-not very successfully, but also by no means dictatorially. Lamb told Manning that his poems were "but one-third in quantity of the whole "; three poems are known to be his; and Mr. Shepherd suggests twenty-six others on supposed internal evidence. They are by no means the twenty-six best; and one point in the evidence is in some cases fallacious thus, three poems are left to Mary Lamb's account because we "cannot imagine" Charles "making sex rhyme with protects,...withdrawn with forlorn,...or Anna with manner"; yet, in the course of the poems ascribed to Lamb, we find such desperate rhymes as Louisa with please her, and Rebecca with Quaker (p. 9), lady with baby (p. 20), dessert she with curtsy (p. 150), and at p. 158 the unimaginable inversion "I find in all this Fine description, you've only your young sister Mary Been taking a copy of here for a fairy"while in his acknowledged poem "The Three Friends" (p. 74) is no less lax a rhyme than feature and greater. The book is a priceless one, and all lovers of Lamb must get it; but the apportionment of the poems will probably have to wait till some authentic and decisive document turns up, as in the case of Hood and Reynolds's Odes and Addresses to Great People. Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, and House of Commons and the Judicial Bench, 1878. (Dean & Son.) FOURTEEN years ago we welcomed the reappearance of Debrett amongst the Peerages as that of an old friend with a new face, adding that Debrett was for years the (if not the only) Peerage which the fashionable world consulted. We may now add that so many improvements have taken place in it, and such additions made to its usefulness, that it bids fair to resume the important place which it once held as a high authority on all matters connected with the titled classes of this country. One only has to compare Debrett of the past year with that for the present one to appreciate the improvements that have been effected by Dr. Mair. A special feature of the present issue is that the succession to Peerages, which will be separated on the demise of the present incumbents, is set forth in a manner at once brief and intelligible. MESSRS. PARKER & Co., Oxford, and Mr. Murray, London, have just published two volumes of very remarkable interest-The Catacombs of Rome and Tombs in and near Rome, Sculpture among the Greeks and Romans, Mythology in Funeral Sculpture, and Early Christian Sculpture. These are two more splendid volumes, giving additional illustrations of both life and death in ancient and in Christian Rome, which volumes we owe to Mr. John Henry Parker, C.B., to whom we are already in debted for an attractive volume on the Colosseum as compared with other amphitheatres. Although the reader may not invariably agree with his learned and modest guide, Mr. Parker's volumes deserve the highest praise. The text is sufficient for the reader, who may pleasantly and profitably spend hours over the numerous illustrations, all giving a history and offering suggestions to be thought over independent of what may be found in the author's text. Between text and plates the reader passes through very unwholesome places without any fear of catching the Roman fever, though these books may well tempt him to risk the malaria. "GOD SAVE THE KING" AND HENRY CAREY. - In the controversy at present going on in the Times, respecting God Save the King, errors are so abundant that it would require many pages to expose them all. The latest assertion is that Carey spelt his name without an e. Fact is better than fiction, and I possess over two hundred works published by himself, in all of which he spells his name Carey. The same form was adopted by his son, John Saville Carey. I may add that it is my intention to write the history of God Save the King, and to publish, for the first time, evidence I have recently acquired respecting Bull's MS. and also two forgeries in connexion therewith. W. H. CUMMINGS. Brackley Villa, Thurlow Park Road, Dulwich, S. E. 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