of Music" in full force? Has any Conservatoire or Academy of Music (royal or otherwise) been ever affiliated to the London University? I fear that the reply must be a negative one. Musical degrees have in many instances been most improperly bestowed, and in too many instances the only qualification of a candidate has been that he was a cathedral organist and a ChurchAs for what are called "Lambeth degrees," man. by Professer G. Studer in the Archiv des His- the Biographical Dict. of the Living Authors of I have heard that in one case the doctorate was C. R. C. quotes Pepys's "Lumbard St." to show VIATOR. "He [Falstaff] comes continually to Pie-corner,saving your manhoods,-to buy a saddle; and he's indited to dinner to the Lubbar's-head in Lumbert Street, to Master Smooth's the silkman."-2nd Part of K. Henry SPARKS H. WILLIAMS. CHARLES BONER (NOT BONAR) (4th S. x. 273.)-IV., Act ii. Sc. 1. H. F. T. "IT MAY BE GLORIOUS TO WRITE" (4th S. x. 272.)—The lines HERMENTRUDE asks for occur in J. R. Lowell's poem, An Incident in a Railroad Car, written in 1842. Professor Lowell would wish his lines quoted as he wrote them: they stand thus in the English edition of his "Poetical Works," Routledge & Co., 1852: "It may be glorious to write Thoughts that shall glad the two or three High souls, like those far stars that come in sight Once in a century; But better far it is to speak, One simple word, which now and then Shall waken their free nature in the weak And friendless sons of men." J. G. W. BELL INSCRIPTION AT BEX (4th S. x. 45.)— Thanks to the courtesy of Professor G. de Wyss of Zurich, I am enabled to correct an error into which I fell on the subject of an inscription on a bell at Bex. He writes me as follows: : "L'inscription dont il s'agit n'est pas particulière à Bex, ni au Canton de Vaud: elle se retrouve en Suisse et à l'étranger assez fréquemment. Elle se rapporte à Ste Agathe, considérée comme protectrice contre les incendies, Sainte dont le nom et le culte appartiennent, primitivement, à sa ville natale, Catania, en Sicile, qu'elle protégea contre les laves des éruptions de l'Etna. Le Treizième Siècle déjà connaissait une épitaphe (légendaire) de la Sainte, ainsi conçue: Mentem sanctam (habuit) spontaneam (se obtulit) honorem Deo (dedit) et Patria liberationem,'-et ce sont les mots de cette épitaphe, avec omission de ceux places en parenthèse, qu'on mit des cette époque sur les cloches destinées à servir en cas d'incendie et dédiées dans un but de piété à Ste Agathe." "OWEN" (4th S. x. 166.)-In reply to CYMRO, "Owen" simply means river; there are plenty of Owen beg, Owen more, &c., meaning black water, Owens at this moment in Ireland-Owen dhu, small water, or big water, &c. J. R. HAIG. Highfields Park, Tunbridge Wells. 198.)-The quotation of "Bane to Claapham" is just sheer nonsense. "DOWN TO YAPHAM TOWN," &c. (4th S. x. worth inserting as a curious specimen of English I give the original, which is pronunciation in use at the present moment. Compare "Down to Yapham," instead of "Down at Yapham," with the Yankeeism "to hum," instead of "at home." Also the use of the second person singular, which is almost universal in Yorkshire. 66 'Down to Yapham town end lived an oud Yorkshire tyke, 'Twas oud Tommy Towers, by that neam he wor known, So to Tommy he goes and the question he pops, What 'ilt' gie us to boot, for mine's better horse still? Abram talked a long time about summut to boot, At last Abram cried, Well, then, dyune, Tommy, dyune. Yet Tommy's was best by t'hide and four shoes. I have tried to reproduce the pronunciation in the spelling as well as I could, and can vouch for the correctness of my words. "Tyke" in Scotland and Yorkshire means a dog, but the Yorkshiremen have applied it to themselves as a familiar term-much as Hoosiers, Buckeyes, Bluenoses, are used across the Atlantic. In searching for derivations of Scottish and Yorkshire, and generally North of England words, we must remember that from time immemorial to that of Canute the whole east coast was exposed to the invasion and settlements of the Danes and Northmen in general, anciently known as Men of Lochlin, and therefore the roots of those words must rather be searched for in the Danish and Old Norse than in Anglo-Saxon. J. R. HAIG. Highfields Park, Tunbridge Wells. "MAS" (4th S. x. 295.)-There can be no doubt of the signification of mas as appended to several feasts of the Church. In each case, it means the Catholic Eucharistic Mass, and thus the festival of Candlemas signifies the mass on which blessed candles are distributed and borne in procession, and the other festivals, Michaelmas, Martinmas, and Christmas, are so called from the mass being said upon them respectively in honour of our Saviour, St. Michael, and St. Martin. Mr. R. A TAYLOR asks why there is one s only in the word. The answer may be, that it arose from the pronunciation of the whole word, where the stress was always laid upon the first part, and the second was slurred over. But it may be asked with equal reason why the word mas was anciently lengthened into masse, as we find it in old records. Thus Stow, enumerating the enormous possessions of Hugh Spencer, the favourite of Edward II., enters " eighty carcases of Martilmasse beef," and an old ballad begins thus "It is the day of Martilmasse." So that saint's day was spelt in the olden time. Lammas certainly means loaf-mass, from the Saxon Hlaf-Mass, a mass being celebrated formerly on the 1st of August, in thanksgiving for the first fruits of the harvest. F. C. H. "Christmas Day has no doubt been denominated Christ's-Mass, from the appellation Christ having been added to the name of Jesus, to express that He was the Messiah, or the anointed. The Mass of Christ, as originally used by the Church, implied solely the festival celebrated, in which sense it was applied to Christ's-Mass or appears first to have been introduced into ecclesiastical ordinances in the year 394; but it then meant nothing more than the peculiar services appropriated to different persons, according to their advancement in knowledge, who quitted the congregation as soon as the prayers that particularly concerned them were ended. The Catechumens, or probationers for admittance into the society of the Christians, were first dismissed, the penitents next, and, before the Communion, all those who Latin Church the form was Ite, missa est, &c., were not prepared for the Lord's Table. In the Depart, there is a dismission of you, or you are at liberty to depart,' missa being the same with missio; hence the service was denominated Missa Catechumenorum, the Mass or Prayers of the Catechumens, which was performed for those in the first rudiments of Christianity; and that service afterwards, at the celebration of the Eucharist, was called the Missa Fidelium,' the Mass or Prayers of the Faithful."-Brady's Clavis CaleRdaria, vol. ii. p. 338. E. Č. HARINGTON. 6 The Close, Exeter. MILTON'S "AREOPAGITICA" (4th S. x. 107, 133, 188, 322.)---I do not think the first two instances quoted by E. F. M. M. will support the omission of I." The first, "I touch not, only wish," is clearly only the usual ellipsis, the pronoun having so closely preceded. So it is, I apprehend, in the passage from Paradise Lost, though the ellipsis is a little more hazardous. It is all one sentence from the middle of line 26 to the middle of line 38, and the first "I" governs the whole. It is, indeed, repeated in line 32, which, strictly speaking, it need not have been but the omission in the same line of "I" before "forget" illustrates the subsequent us before "feed." The 34th line is, of course, a parenthesis. But the passage from Paradis far to prove the point, assuming the reading to be Regained seems an excellent precedent, and goes undoubted. Indeed, "I am would be hardly tolerable, and "I'm " cannot be thought of, though authority might be found for it in the immorts. version of the Psalms by Brady and Tate. Hagley, Stourbridge. Miscellaneous. LYTTELTON. NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. Clarendon Press Series. German Classics. Lessing. Goethe, Schiller. Edited, with English Notes, &c., by C. A. Buchheim, Ph.D. Vol. II. Wilhelm Tell, by Schiller. (Macmillan & Co.) WE need say nothing here of the merits and beauty ef Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, nor of Dr. Buchheim's ability as an editor and scholar. These things are well known We have, however, an especial reason for recommending He this volume to the notice of our readers. The books and documents referring to the Tell legend are in themselves a library; but Dr. Buchheim, in an exhaustive essay prefixed to the tragedy, has condensed the contents of that library into two dozen most interesting pages. gives a history of the Forest Cantons, traces the origin and growth and spreading of the legend of Tell with a zeal and consequent completeness with which it has never yet been treated, and he leaves the reader with a conviction that, though the Forest Cantons must give up Tell, they are not called upon to surrender a particle of the glory which they earned, as a body, by fighting for freedom, and nobly winning the prize for which they fought. The October number of the Quarterly Review has not an uninteresting article in it. The most important, "The Duke of Wellington as a Cabinet Minister," is a chapter in political history which throws light on many an unexplained incident during the Duke's career as a statesman. There is the matter of an ordinary volume in this able article. A paper on the proposed completion of St. Paul's is in the "slashing" style against pretenders to An article on dogs the knowledge and practice of art. manner. Two is full of pleasant reading; it does not close the gates of a paradise against those faithful quadrupeds. articles will especially attract the general reader-one on the late Baron Stockmar, the other a review of a book Journal of a French Diploby Henri d'Ideville, the matist in Italy." The first abounds in sketches of personages at the English Court, from the time of the marriage of Prince Leopold with the Princess Charlotte down to 1857. The second is equally rich in portraits of personages at the Court of Victor Emmanuel, including the King himself, and all handled in the broadest and firmest Under the title "Velasquez," the reader will find a noble essay on a noble artist and his art; and if he turn to an article on the "East African Slave Trade," he will probably be as much horrified as astonished to find that such a condition of things can still exist. The political article, "The Position of Parties," speaks cheerfully of Conservative prospects, and closes thus: "In vigilantly practising the duties of Opposition they will be exercising real power; in accepting office prematurely, they will be seeking, not power, but servitude in dis guise." It is, throughout, an excellent number; even where we are forced to dissent, we cannot gainsay the ability. HILLINGDON HALL. NIMROD'S LIFE OF A SPORTSMAN. THE WANDERER. By Owen Meredith. LAMONT'S SEASONS WITH THE SEA HORSES. CYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. PUNCH. Set of. Wanted by J. C. Hotten, 74 and 75, Piccadilly, W. BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL. By Lowndes. GOUGH'S ALIEN PRIORIES. Wanted by J. S., 1, Richmond Gardens, Bournmouth, Hants. Wanted by Captain H. A. Kennedy, Waterloo Lodge, Reading. Notices to Correspondents. O. B.-"Tea was brought to Europe by the Dutch, 1610. It is mentioned as having been used in England on very rare occasions prior to 1657, and sold for 6l. and even 101. a pound." Haydn. "I did send for a cup of tea (a China drink), of which I never had drunk before."Pepys, 25 Sept., 1660. H. L.-Here is an example: "Is it a blind contingence of events?" Dryden's Amphitryon, act i. sc. 1. ""Twas in Trafalgar bay We saw the Frenchmen lie." G. H. S. states that Dr. Byrom was the author of the GRAY'S ELEGY.-Prosaicus asks, Can any one say what hymn, Christians awake, salute the happy morn. is the precise meaning of the well-known line "E'n in our ashes live their wonted fire." H. P.-The "Royal George," 108 guns, went down, off was careening at the time, with some of her upper ports Spithead, 29 August, 1782, in the middle of the day. She Kempenfelt and from 600 to 800 persons perished. open, when a sudden rush of wind overset her. Admiral P. M., living in Scotland, should have ample information on the subject upon which he writes. Sir Simon, afterwards Lord, Harcourt's arms were, Gules, two bars, or. A grant The Archiepiscopal Library of Lambeth Palace was re-opened last week, after the autumn recess. of money by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners is now being applied to the thorough repair of the MSS. and books. The Carew papers, which have been lent for some time for the purpose of editing, &c., will shortly be returned to the Lambeth Library, of which valuable historical coHection they form no small part. BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES WANTED TO PURCHASE. M.S. "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" is from the Mr. William Holder of 33, Brewer Street, Golden Square, picture dealer, requests us to state that he is not the Mr. Holder whose name is before the public in connexion with the Shakspeare picture. Particulars of Price, &c., of the following books to be sent direct to for "this ancestor of Aristotle" read "this anecdote of the gentlemen by whom they are required, whose names and addresses are given for that purpose: ABRAHAM DE LA PRYME'S DIARY. MORTON'S CYCLOPEDIA OF AGRICULTURE. Parts I., II., III. A RELATION OF GHOSTS AND APPARITIONS, which commonly appear in DON QUIXOTE, Cruikshank's Plates. Wanted by Kerr & Richardson, Queen Street, Glasgow. ERRATA.-4th S. x. 184, col. 2, first line from bottom, Aristotle."-4th S. x. 302, col. 2, last line of note, for "make" read "snake." NOTICE. We beg leave to state that we decline to return communications which, for any reason, we do not print; and to this rule we can make no exception. To all communications should be affixed the name and address of the sender, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. All communications should be addressed to the Editor, at the Office, 43, Wellington Street, W. C. The LIFE of CHARLES DICKENS. The ENGLISHMAN'S GREEK CONCORDANCE 1842-1852. By JOHN FORSTER. With Portraits and Illustrations. * The Third Volume will complete the Work. The LIFE of CHARLES DICKENS. Vol. I. Twelfth Edition. The SECOND EDITION of the FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW for OCTOBER. [Ready this day. ROME. By Francis Wey. With an Introduction by W. W. STORY, Author of "Roba di Roma." Con of the New Testament: being an attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts; including a Concordance to the Proper Names; with Indexes, Greek-English and English-Greek. Sixth Edition. Royal 8vo. cloth, price 21, 28. The HEBRAIST'S VADE MECUM: a first attempt at a Complete Verbal Index to the Contents of the Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures. Arranged according to Grammar -the Occurrences in full. Demy 8vo. price 158. London: SAMUEL BAGSTER & SONS, 15, Paternoster Row. BOOKS, MISCELLANEOUS, some rare and curious. A CATALOGUE of 5,000 vols., post free.-C. HERBERT, &. Goswell Road, London. Libraries and old Books purchased. taining 246 beautiful Illustrations. Forming a magnificent Volume BOOKS BOUGHT to any amount, in super-royal 4to. Price 34. AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, &c.-WALLER'S CATALOGUE, Part 93, now ready, gratis, 58, FLEET STREET, E. C., containing important Specimens of Arthur Wesley (Duke of Wellington) Barry the Painter, Theodore Beza, Napoleon Bonaparte, Dr. Burney, Catharine of Navarre, Beatrix of Hungary, Charles I. and 11., John Dryden, Queen Elizabeth, Fleetwood, C. J. Fox, George Washington, Harvey discoverer of the circulation of the blood), only one other specimen known, Haydn, Horace Walpole, Dr. Johnson, James I. and 11., Lord Rodney, Southey, Wordsworth, &c. The TEMPLE BOOK DEPOT. and the utmost price given for them in cash, saving the delay, uncertainty, and expense of Auction, by a Secondhand Bookseller. thirty years of Newgate Street. 20,000 Volumes or Books Catalogne for one stamp. Manuscript Sermons bought or sold-THOMAS MILLARD, No. 79, St. Paul's Churchyard. “OLD ENGLISH” FURNITURE. Reproductions of Simple and Artistic Cabinet Work from Country Mansions of the XVI. and XVII. Centuries, combining good taste. sound workmanship, and economy. COLLINSON & LOCK (late Herring), 109, FLEET STREET, E.C. Established 1782. TAPESTRY PAPERHANGINGS. Imitations of rare old BROCADES, DAMASKS, and GOBELIN TAPESTRIES. COLLINSON & LOCK (late Herring), DECORATORS, 109, FLEET STREET, LONDON. Established 1782 DEATH OR INJURY FROM ACCIDEent, WITH THE CONSEQUENT LOSS OF TIME AND MONEY, PROVIDED FOR BY A POLICY OF THE Railway Passengers' Assurance Company, AGAINST ACCIDENTS OF ALL KINDS. An Annual Payment of £3 to £6 5 insures £1,000 at Death, or an allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. £650,000 have been paid as Compensation, ONE out of every TWELVE Annual Policy Holders becoming a claimant EACH YEAR. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 64, CORNHILL, and 10, REGENT STREET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. VIAN, Secretary 4th S. X. Nov. 2, '72.] NOTES AND QUERIES. LONDON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1872. CONTENTS. - N° 253. Effect of Accent in Word-Formation, 346-Cumberland's Scotland-Cuckoo-A Baby of Importance-Northern Light, and Use of Books-St. Sunday - Jacobite Post-prandial 349-John Partridge-A Chinese Superstition-The Value Argument, 350. QUERIES:-Dr. Tomson-Cardinal Camerlengo-The Blood of St. Januarius-Duke of Buckingham-Will Durston shall conceive and bear (♫ yolédeth) a son.' So that here, without doubt, I think, the two ideas NOTES:-The Homeric Deities, 345-Mistaken Identity-are focussed, and the Homeric Leto appears in Secret Mission, 347-Heraldry of Smith in Scotland-function, and almost in name, identical with the Tennyson's Arthurian Poem, 348-Handy One-Volume Eng- Christian yolédeth (or, as it would be in the lish Dictionaries-The Crescent, Rose, and Fleur-de-lys in Chaldaic dialect & lédto), the Blessed Virof whom, in conjunction with Athenè, Mr. Gladgin. The next instance I have to offer is Apollo, "Unless we explain their position in stone says: the Olympian system by the aid of the Hebrew traditions, it offers to our view a hopeless solecism." Now this name Apollo, according to its radical (Apll). According to the pointing of the received consonants, we have in 1 Chronicles, ii. 37, Were the Seventy afraid of the too Αφαμὴλ. Hebrew text, we read Ephlal. In the Sept. it is great similarity of the original name to the heathen deity? Some such feeling seems sometimes to have prevailed in their translation; but this by the way. (Ephlal), we get a meaning of sinTaking the name "Apollo," then, as radically the Hone's MSS. and Correspondence - Marriage of Priests on Church Doors "It won't hold water"-"Italy and her Masters"-Epitaph at Sonning, Berks, 352. REPLIES:-Semple Family, 353-Walter Scott and "Caller Herrin'," 354-Shakspeare's Marriage, 355-Thor drinking up Esyl-"Nescio quod," &c.—First Land discovered by Columbus-Nelson Memorial Rings-Pedestrianism-Ancient Garment, 356-The Stamford Mercury- Mnemonic Lines on the New Testament-The Sea-Serpent-Measurements of English Cathedrals, 357-"Killing no Murder"-An "End"-Sir Joshua Reynolds-John Heathen-Ants, 358-Robert Burns and Nathaniel Hawthorne-The Last Load: Harvest Home as "John Bon and Mast Person"-Coin-"I came in the stantine Rhodocanakis, 359-Lorna Doone: the Doones of Memorials-The Miserere of a Stall, 361-"Little Billee" cottage," 363. Notes. same as gular, appropriateness to the son of Leto. The root (palal) in the Piel conjugation means “to judge," "to execute judgment"; and in the Hithpael means "to intercede"; so that Apollo, the son of Leto, is literally and simply the judge and intercessor, the son of her who brings forth. The correspondence of these results, obtained quite fairly, with the results reached by Mr. Gladstone in his Juventus Mundi by a different road, is remarkable. In other instances there are striking similarities of sound in Semitic roots which harmonize with the are specially connected with Phoenician influences. functions of some of the Homeric personages, who Cadmus, from, is the man from the East. Danaus, from 1, to judge, or rule. Minos, from root to consecrate, devote. Hephaistos seems to sug- THE HOMERIC DEITIES. The following remarks upon the names of some of the Homeric deities and worthies are intended a subsidiary evidence to the theory so conclusively drawn out from the text of Homer by the author of Juventus Mundi, as to the Phoenician origin of certain portions of the Olympian mythology. Assuming the truth of this theory, we are to appoint, constitute. Hermes, from not surprised to find the Semitic languages contributing no little support to it, and especially in one most important instance, viz., the name of her who, "without origin, without function, seems to be a mother, and nothing more than a mother," the goddess Leto. Not only have we the root, i.e. the radical consonants, in the Hebrew (yalad), to bring forth, but we have, in the Chaldaic dialect of the Targum Jonathan, as nearly as possible the very sound itself, in the meaning of a parturient In Isaiah, xiii. 8, the Chaldaic Paraphrase has NT (klédto); ke=as, like; ledto, the feminine participle, parturiens. The corresponding form in Hebrew ( yolédeth), where, though the radical consonants are seen, yet the similarity of sound is not so well preserved, occurs in the very important verse, Isaiah, vii. 14: "Behold a virgin woman. Now Tyre does not appear in Homer, but Sidon is familiar; in fact, Zoovin in Odys. xiii. 285, seems to stand for Phoenicia. May not, then, Poseidon, "the main key to the Olympian mythology," be simply a (Bel-tsidon), the tenuis P being substituted for the media B, and the L first assimilated and then dropped? And I may add, is not Athenè (Ethan) the mighty and terrible? Southwell. R. F. SMITH. |