library of Trinity College, Dublin; and I shall have much pleasure in verifying any passages in it which he may point out. TYRO. Dublin. Whipping of Women in England (Vol. vi., pp. 174. 281.).—Extracts from the accounts of the constables of Great Staughton, Huntingdon shire: "[169] Pa in charges, taking up a dis tracted woman, watching her, and whipping her next day [17] Spent on nurse, London, for searching the woman, to see if she was with child, before she was whipped, 3 of them. Pa Tho. Hawkins for whipping 2 people yt had the small-pox [171] Pa for watching victualls and drink for Ma. Mitchell Pa for whipping her [171] P for whipping Goody Barry St. Neots. 0 8 6 020 0 0 8 00 02 06 00 00 04 00 00 04." JOSEPH RIX. "Works of the Learned" (Vol. vi., p. 271.).-M., who inquires for an account of English literary periodicals, will find the desired information in a paper by Samuel Parkes, author of the wellknown Chemical Catechism and Chemical Essays. His bibliographical paper has this title: "An Account of the Periodical Literary Journals which were published in Great Britain and Ireland, from the Year 1681, to the Commencement of the Monthly Review in the Year 1749," and was published in the Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and the Arts, vol. xiii. pp. 36-60. and 289 312. In this, which is a nearly complete account, Mr. Parkes describes thirty-one distinct literary journals previous to the Monthly Review. The thirtieth is the Literary Journal, published in Dublin, 1744 to 1749, which deserves notice, not only as an Irish production, but as filling up the chasm between the discontinuation of the octavo History of the Works of the Learned in 1743, and the commencement of the Monthly Review in 1749. It is now very rare. The library of Trinity College, Dublin, possesses only an imperfect copy; but there is a complete one in Archbishop Marsh's Library, St. Patrick's, Dublin. The Irish Quarterly Review, No. VII. (for September, 1852), supplies much interesting information as to this little known periodical. ARTERUS. Dublin. year" I cannot say, and I know no particular reason why it should." The cause of the harvest moons being longer visible than any other is, that the moon's orbit is different from the plane of the ecliptic. The moon is never full in the signs of Pisces and Aries but in our harvest months; at this time the difference in the time of her rising is little more than two hours in seven days. When the moon is in the opposite signs of Virgo and Libra, the difference in the time of the moon's rising in seven days is eight hours. So that when the moon approaches her full in harvest, she rises with less difference of time each night, and so more immediately after sunset than at any other time of the year. In Ferguson's Astronomy, I think a detailed account of the "Harvest Moon" will be found, if E. A. S. wishes to have further information on the subject. I have endeavoured to answer his Query as concisely as I could. J. S. S. "De Laudibus Sanctæ Crucis" (Vol. vi., p. 61.). In the several articles on this subject I am surprised that the ill-fated Savonarola's volume, Tri1492, has been omitted, both on account of the unphus Crucis, first published at Florence in theme and the author, of whom I think it right to remark, that although the fatal victim to the prelive and sensitive body, that was committed to the judices of the period (1498), it was his dead, not flames, for he had been previously strangled, as distinctly stated by his biographer, Picus Mirandola, the famous universal scholar, the friend, Hieronymi Savonarola, Paris, 1674, 12mo., ad too, of the unfortunate Dominican. (See Vita calcem.) Although happily much rarer in England and other Protestant countries, these immolations yet stain their records; and the principle was not formally renounced, or the law ejected from our statute book, until 1678, when that entitled De Hæretico Comburendo was repealed; but the halter, if not the stake, was the too frequent infliction of religious dissent. Of these aberrations of the human mind, the memory, it is sometimes said, should be effaced. "Excidet illa dies ævo, nec postera credant Sæcula nos certe taceamus; et obruta multa Nocte tegi propriæ patiamur crimina gentis." Statius, Sylva, v. But I think that they should be held rather in vivid recollection as deterrent warnings, "Tristia ad recordationem exempla; sed ad præcavendum simile utili documento sint," as we read in Livy, lib. xxiv. cap. 8. J. R. (Cork.) Furye Family (Vol. vi., pp. 175. 255.). - Your correspondent W. R., Surbiton, has obligingly furnished me with an answer to one part of my inquiry, as to the wife of Captain Furye (for which I thank him), but he does not state wh was the maiden name of that lady. If he, or any other of your correspondents, could give me information on that point, it would be duly esteemed. JAYTEE. Mummies in Germany (Vol. vi., pp. 53. 205.).— A. A. refers to the church on the Kreutzberg, near Bonn, where the dead monks are shown as dry as mummies. At St. Thomas, in Strasburg, there are the bodies of a Count Nassau Saarmerden, and his daughter, in a shrivelled state, having been kept above a century. I have also seen a head of a woman of the Brazilian aborigines, whose features were quite perfect, though dried up, with jet black hair between four and five feet long, and supposed to be five hundred years old at the least. AGMOND. A far larger collection of these than that at Kreutzberg exists at a Capuchin convent near Palermo. Here the bodies are placed in a series of niches in a subterranean cloister; out of which they hang, horribly grotesque, in every variety of attitude. Besides the bodies of members of the order, there are those of others who have chosen to be buried in their habit; ladies too, dressed in every sort of finery, and carefully placed standing or lying behind glass or wires. In one place a number of children form a sort of cornice to the vault; in another they are preserved in glass cases like stuffed birds. Besides these, the floor is half covered with piles of coffins of all shapes and colours, duly ticketed with the names of their occupants. The process by which the bodies are preserved is said to be simply the enclosing them for six months in an air-tight cell, after which period the cell is opened, and they are found completely mummified. CHEVERELLS. In your 142nd Number I find stated, that the bodies of certain monks in a church on the Rhine have been preserved, as it is thought, by the "peculiar character of the atmosphere." They are described as soft as in life, but of a brownish hue. I have recently seen seven bodies in St. Michan's Church, Dublin, which are preserved solely by natural causes peculiar to the vaults of that church, perhaps in common with those existing in the church of Kreutzberg alluded to by your correspondents; and, as I see, the same is observed in a church at Bordeaux. In the vaults of St. Michan's Church, however, the bodies are not soft, but dry, and the skin rather hard like parchment, and of a brownish colour. C. F. M. Remarkable Trees (Vol. vi., p. 254.).— On_the west side of the churchyard of Winchelsea, Susis a wide-spreading ash, which the inhabitants that interesting old town point out as the tree sex, The road MR. HODGES mentions is a continuation Roman Road in Berkshire (Vol. vi., p. 271.).— of that which, under the name of the Devil's Ditch, or Gryme's Dyke, passes from Buckinghamshire through a corner of Oxfordshire, and, crossing the Thames near Wallingford into Berkshire, is con tinued in the direction which MR. H. describes. On the Oxford side of the Thames, between Mongewell and Nuffield, it extends for about two miles, a double bank with a deep trench between. It is marked in the Ordnance Map, and I see that it is indicated in Walker's map also. It is, I believe, the Ikenield Way, but there is some doubt respecting it. In the excellent Map of Ancient Britain published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the Ikenield Street (under the name of the West Ridge) is made to cross the Thames a few miles below Wallingford, i. e. near Streatley. Your correspondent has doubtless in his "country walks" in the neighbourhood come upon the traces of its prolongation westward along the summit of the Ilsley Downs, and away to the range of the White Horse? Kennington. J.TH. St. Augustinus "De Musica" (Vol. v., p. 584.; Vol. vi., p. 88.).-St. Augustine's treatise is chiefly on the laws of versification, but interspersed with such observations on the nature of consonances, as show him to have been very well skilled in the science of music as then practised. It may be found in the Basel edition of his works, 1569, tom. i. p. 310.; and in the Antwerp edition, 1700, tom. i. p. 329. Two ancient MSS. of the De Musica of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries are preserved in the British Museum, Royal MS. II. E. xi., and Harl. MS. 5248. The Bodleian Library is said to contain a MS. tract on music by St. Augustine, different from the "six books" which form the above-named treatise. EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. Raspberry Plants (Vol. vi., p. 222.).— Some eight or ten years since, in one of my summer excursions, I fell in with the proprietor of some extensive nursery and garden grounds, who told me that a year or two before he had been present at the opening of a tumulus, wherein lay the skeleton of a young person; that towards the lower part of the back bone a lump of something was discovered which, upon examination, he pronounced to be a mass of raspberry seeds. He took some or all of them with him, saved them, and obtained a crop of raspberry plants. So far I believe my memory to be correct, but further it fails me. I cannot find the memorandum I made at the time, and now forget the locality. I think, however, that the nursery grounds were near Southampton, and that the facts were recorded in the local papers. E. H. The Book of Destinies (Vol. vi., p. 245.). — The work inquired after by CYRUS REDDING is the Cymbalum Mundi of Bonaventure Des Periers. The English translation was, I think, made from the French edition published by Prosper Marchand. I have a copy, but it is mislaid. In 1841, a selection from the works of Des Periers, including the Cymbalum Mundi, with a key, and biographical and bibliographical notices, was published by Gosselin, Rue St. Germain des Prés, Paris. R. J. R. "Lord Stafford mines" (Vol. vi., p. 222.).— The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt," &c. MSS. Epigram by Owen (Vol. vi., pp. 191. 280.).— J. R. R. would have been at no loss "to what and whom " his first epigram refers, had it not escaped | his recollection that Charles I. of Spain took for his device the pillars of Hercules, with the motto "Plus ultra" (in contradistinction to the "Nihil ultra" of the ancients), in allusion to the discovery of the New World, which the covetous man seeks in his eager desire to participate in the "diggings." J. J. A. B. Penzance. Episcopal Sees (Vol. iii., pp. 168. 409.).— The Almanach du Clergé de France for 1852 contains no such statistical account of the episcopal sees in Roman Catholic Christendom as might fairly have been expected from the following announcement in the preface to last year's publication: "Si les dimensions du volume actuel n'avaient pas dépassé toutes nos prévisions, nous y aurions fait entrer un travail complet sur tous les siéges épiscopaux du monde catholique. Nous avons dû, à notre grand regret, renvoyer cette statistique à l'année prochaine, ainsi que divers," &c. E. H. A. Chronogram (Vol. v., p. 585.; Vol. vi., p. 97.).— I send you another specimen of a chronogram, from Fuller's Worthies, if you think it worth inserting: Cops} "Iohannes PrIDeaVXVs EpIsCopVs VVIgorniæ MortVVs est 1650." E. H. A. Spur Sunday (Vol. vi., p. 242.). The verb spur" is the one almost invariably used in Yorkshire to denote the publication of "banns of marriage." To put in the spurrings (? speerings or askings) is to give notice to the clergyman to have had the banns published for three Sundays. publish the banns; "to be spurred up" is to Mr. Hunter, in his Glossary of Hallamshire Words, says: "To spurr is an old English word, equivalent to ask. In one of the Martin Marprelate tracts, an interlocutor in a dialogue says, I pray you, Mr. Vicker, let me spurre a question to you, if I may be so bold.' ” Again, in Lillie's Mother Bombie: "I'll be so bold as spur her what might a body call her name.' J. EASTWOOD. Ecclesfield, Sheffield. Statuta Exonia (Vol. vi., p. 198.). In the 14 Edw. I. a statute of this kind was passed, but no heading to it among the obsolete acts; and immediately afterwards follows its provisions, under the term "Articuli Statuti Exoniæ." There may have been other statutes passed at Exeter about the same period, which might give rise to the term "Statutes of Exeter." The only one I have seen occurs in the collection of public statutes, published, with an index and appendix, in 1786, by the Queen's Printers, but, as before observed, there may have been other statutes passed at that place which have not come under my notice. JOHN NURSE CHADWICK. "The Boiled Pig" (Vol. vi., p. 101.). - I have heard from an old Hanoverian that the name of the author of this poem was Lloydd. I wished to have seen a copy of the poem, in which, perhaps, you can assist me. G. E. F. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Dr. Bell, whose long residence in Germany, and intimate acquaintance with the popular literature of that country, entitle him to speak with great authority upon all questions relating to the mythology of the Teutonic races, has just published a little volume, which will be read with great interest by all who, to use the words of Mr. Keightley, "have a taste for the light kind of philosophy" to be found in the subject. It is entitled Shakspeare's Puck and his Folk Lore, illustrated from the Superstitions of all Nations, but more especially from the earliest Religion and Rites of Northern Europe and the Wends; and if we cannot agree with all the views advocated by Dr. Bell (and we think a want of arrangement in his materials in many cases weakens his argument), we cheerfully admit that they are maintained with considerable ingenuity, great learning, and, which is too rarely the case in the present day, a distinct reference to his authorities. There is one, how ever, probably not used by Dr. Bell, certainly not specified by him, to which we think right to allude. In 1847 Mr. Thoms published in The Athenæum a series of papers on the Fairy Mythology of Shakspeare, under the title of The Folk Lore of Shakspeare ; several of these related directly to Puck, his names, &c. Seeing, therefore, the similarity between the title and subject of these papers, and the title and subject of Dr. Bell's volume, the omission, although doubtless accidental, is curious. Dr. Bell has displayed in the work before us an amount of original investigation so much beyond what is generally found among recent writers upon Folk Lore, that he can well afford to have this slight omission pointed out. The death of the Duke of Wellington has filled every heart with a desire to possess some record of one who has exercised so great and beneficial an influence on the destinies of his country; and all the old favourite portraits of the great departed are putting forth their claims to public attention. Among these the admirable likeness painted by the late Count D'Orsay holds a foremost place, not less for its own great merit, than for the curious fact that the Duke having occasion to select a portrait on which affix to his autograph, for the purpose of presentation to a literary gentleman who had solicited that favour from him, chose an engraving from the D'Orsay picture for that purpose. Mr. J. Talboys Wheeler, who, encouraged by the success which has attended the Analyses and Summaries of the Old Testament History, Thucydides, and Herodotus, now avows himself the author, as well as the publisher, of those most useful volumes, has just added to his good service thereby rendered to students, by the publication of An Analysis and Summary of New Testament History, including, 1. The Four Gospels harmonized into one continuous Narrative; 2. The Acts of the Apostles and continuous History of St. Paul; 3. An Analysis of the Epistles and Book of Revelation; 4. An Introductory Outline of the Geography, Critical History, Authenticity, Credibility, and Inspiration of the New Testament the whole illustrated by Copious Historical, Geographical, and Antiquarian Notes, and Chronological Tables. The objects which Mr. Wheeler has proposed to himself, namely, that of reproducing the Gospels and Acts in a typographical style best calculated to fix them on the memory; and of incorporating with these narratives such historical information as should render the whole as easy of comprehension as a modern history, and of storing the mind of the student with every species of illustration necessary for the complete understanding of the narrative, will, we think, be admitted by all who examine the book, to have been most satisfactorily accomplished by him. BOOKS RECEIVED.- Mr. Bohn has commenced the logical Library; the first volume of which is one which will be deservedly welcome to a large, and, we believe, increasing class of readers, namely, A Manual of the History of Philosophy, translated from the German of Tennemann, by the Rev. Arthur Johnson, M.A. Revised, enlarged, and continued, by J. R. Morell. In the Scientific Library of the same publisher there has appeared another volume of his reprint of The Bridgewater Treatises, namely, the sixth edition of Dr. Kidd On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, principally with reference to the Supply of his Wants, and the Exercise of his Intellectual Faculties. GIBELIN'S MONDE PRIMITIF. Vols. II. and III. New Edition of 1787. SIR R. K. PORTER'S LETTERS FROM SPAIN. DR. RICHARD GREY'S SERMON at the Re-opening of Steane Chapel. THEOBALD'S SHAKSPEARE RESTORED. 4to. MAHON'S (LORD) HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Vol. IV., 8vo. BATT'S GLEANINGS IN POETRY. Letters, stating particulars and lowest price, carriage free, to be sent to MR. BELL, Publisher of "NOTES AND QUERIES," 186. Fleet Street. Notices to Correspondents. PHOTOGRAPHY. Professor Stephens, G. R. L., Pluto-Photography, and other Correspondents, shall receive due attention next week. GERONIMO. The work to which our Correspondent refers is not of a character to be discussed in our pages. The fact that è may have furnished "pretty full sketches" to the writer accused of copying from it marks its character very distinctly. E. A. H. L. is referred to pp. 149. 279. of the present Volume for Notes, &c. relative to Portraits of Wolsey. C. W. (Bradford). We only this week ascertained the address of this Correspondent. The letters from H. W. (Manchester) and E. T. W. (Caldecott) have been duly forwarded. JARLTZBERG. The Satire is Defoe's well-known Poem, "The True-born Englishman." Will this Correspondent say how letter may be addressed to him? GLASGUENSIS. If our Correspondent will condense his Query respecting Steel-Bow and Steel-bowing, we will give it early insertion. How can we address a letter to him? Errata. Vol. vi., p. 252. col. 2. 1. 32., for Asby Fotoile read Ashby Folvile; p. 304. col. 2, for Public Letters read Public Lectures.-P. 228. col. 2., for Gange O' May read Gauze o'Mary; for Augustus read Angusta; for Izeologos read Theologos; after "the ch. of SS. G. e P." read in Venice; for Saudrey read St. Audrey; for handicraftsman read manipulator; add after Ephe sus, Again, the place first called ad Jacobum Apostolum afterwards became Giacomo Postolo, and finally Compostella." "Serpent Eating," for Doba read Doko.-P. 264. L. 11., for light read sight; 1.9., for Eccles. read Ecclus.; 1. 43., for "application made of" read "application made by."-P. 290. col. 1., for Murray's read Macray's; col. 2. 1. 3. for "1762" read "1672." 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