Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, Catalogues, etc. Of The first volume issued to the Members of the mden Society in return for the present year's subiption affords in more than one way evidence of the lity of that Society. It is an account of Moneys reved and paid for Secret Services of Charles II. and mes II., and is edited by Mr. Akerman from a MS. the possession of William Selby Lowndes, Esq. value of the book as materials towards illustrating history of the period over which the payments end, namely from March 1679 to December 1688, re can be as little doubt, as there can be that but for › Camden Society it never could have been published. a publishing speculation it could not have tempted y bookseller; even if its owner would have consented its being so given to the world: and yet that in the nple entries of payments to the Duchess of PortsJuth, to "Mrs. Ellinor Gwynne," to " Titus Oates,” the Pendrells, &c., will be found much to throw ht upon many obscure passages of this eventful riod of our national history, it is probable that ture editions of Mr. Macaulay's brilliant narrative of will afford ample proof. The Antiquarian Etching Club, which was instituted o or three years since for the purpose of rescuing m oblivion, and preserving by means of the graver, jeets of antiquarian interest, has just issued the first t of its publications for 1851. This contains twentyplates of various degrees of merit, but all of great rest to the antiquary, who looks rather for fidelity epresentation than for artistic effect. CATALOGUES RECEIVED. - G. Bumstead's (205. High lborn, Catalogue, Part LI., containing many sinarly Curious Books; James Darling's (Great Queen et, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Catalogue, Part 49. of oks chiefly Theological. CHEVALIER RAMSAY, ESSAI DE POLITIQUE, où l'on traite de la Nécessité, de l'Origine, des Droits, des Bornes et des différentes Formes de la Souveraineté, selon les Principes de l'Auteur de Télémaque. 2 Vols. 12mo. La Haye, without date, but printed in 1719, The same. Second Edition, under the title "Essal Philosophique sur le Gouvernement Civil, selon les Principes de Fénélon," 12mo. Londres, 1721. THE CRY OF THE OPPRESSED, being a True and Tragical Account of the unparalleled Sufferings of Multitudes of Poor Imprisoned Debtors, &c. London, 1691. 12mo. MARKHAM'S HISTORY OF FRANCE, Vol. II. 1830. MARKHAM'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Vol. II. 1836. Sixth Edition. JAMES'S NAVAL HISTORY. (6 Vols. 8vo.) 1822-4, Vol. VI. HUME'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND. (8 Vols. 1818.) Vol. IV. RUSSELL'S EUROPE, FROM THE PEACE OF UTRECHT. 4to. 1824. VOL II. CIRCULATION OF OUR PROSPECTUSES BY CORRESPONDENTS. The suggestion of T. E. 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Dasured and drawn from existing Examples by J. K. Co ETAILS OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTE Architect. Continued Monthly. CONTENTS. Arches from Leverington Church, Cambridgeshire. Tracery and Details from Altar Screen, Beverley Minster London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street. Printed by THOMAS CLARK SHAW, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride in the City of L published by GEORGE BELL, OF NO. 196. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan u the West, in the City of London, Pubiliter, Fleet Street aforesaid. Saturday, June 14. 1851. A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC. Page 489 490 491 On Two Passages in Dryden, by H. H. Breen Minor Notes:- Lord Edward Fitzgerald's MotherChaucer and Gray Shakspeare Family - Epitaph on Dr. Humphrey Tindall Specimens of Composition-Burke's "mighty Boar of the Forest" UERIES: Queries on Tennyson Ancient Modes of hanging Bells, by Rev. A. 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Replies to Minor Queries:- Death, how symbolised At the dispersion of the library of the late Sir James Mackintosh, striking evidence of his extensive reading appeared. It seems to have been his custom to always read with a pencil in his hand, to score the remarkable passages, and to make occasional notes; generally at the end of the book he indicates the place where, and date when he read it. One remarkable and not uninteresting example occurs in the following volume in my possession: "An Essay on the Right of Property in Land, with respect to its foundation in the Law of Nature: its present establishment by the municipal laws of Europe; and the regulations by which it might be rendered more beneficial to the lower ranks of Mankind." London, 1782, 8vo. On the inside of the cover Sir James Mackintosh has written: - An ingenious "Clapham Common, July 18, 1828. — and benevolent, but injudicious book, which is a good example of the difficulty of forming plans for the service of mankind. To the author, an accomplished recluse, a lettered enthusiast of no vulgar talent or character, I owe the cultivation of a sense of the beautiful in poetry and eloquence, for which at the distance of near half a century I feel a lively gratitude. It was written by William Ogilvie, Professor of Humanity in King's College, Aberdeen. I even now recollect passages of his Translation of the 4th Book of the Eneid.-J. MACKINTOSH." I have found a corroboration of the estimate above given of this person, by another of his countrymen, James Ogilvie (who appears to have been an itinerant teacher of oratory in America) in a volume of Philosophical Essays published in Philadelphia in 1816. Speaking of a gifted native of Scotland of the name of McAllester, settled in the far west, near Bard's Town, and lamenting that he should choose to bury his talents in obscurity 510 and indolence, the writer says: 501 510 . 511 511 "He came nearer to the character of a scientific sage than any human being the narrator has ever VOL. III.-No. 86. known, with the exception of William Ogilvie, Professor of Humanity in King's College, Old Aberdeen, Author of a profound and original Essay on the Right of Property in Land."" The book itself is, in some respects at least, well worthy of attention, and especially at the present moment, when the subject it embraces presses itself upon all men's consideration. On emigration, for instance, Ogilvie has some anticipatory views: thus he observes with truth: "To increase the prosperity and the happiness of the greater number, is the primary object of government, and the increase of national happiness must be the increase of national strength. Is it not then the duty, and perhaps also the interest of every legislature in the West of Europe to promote the emigration of its less opulent subjects, until the condition of the lower classes of men at home be rendered nearly as comfortable as the condition of the same classes in the new settlements of North America?"- Pp. 50, 51. Just now, when the Property Tax is to receive the mature consideration of the legislature, the following passage, which also anticipates the public feeling as expressed lately by an influential part of the press, deserves to be cited: "Without regard to the original value of the soil, the gross amount of property in land is the fittest subject of taxation; and could it be made to support the whole expense of the public, great advantages would arise to all orders of men. What then, may it be said, would not, in that case, the proprietors of stock in trade, in manufactures, and arts, escape taxation, that is, the proprietors of one-half of the national income? They would indeed be so exempted; and very justly, and very profitably for the state; for it accords with the best interests of the community through successive generations, that ACTIVE PROGRESSIVE INDUSTRY SHOULD BE EXEMPTED, IF POSSIBLE, FROM EVERY PUBLIC BURTHEN, and that the whole weight should be laid on that quiescent stock, which has been formerly accumulated, as the reward of an industry which is now no longer exerted." - P. 207. In another work on political economy, Sir James has also recorded his opinion, and indicated some passages, which have been copied by Godwin. The work is: Doutes Proposés aux Philosophes Economistes sur l'Ordre Naturel et Essentiel des Sociétés Politiques, par M. l'Abbé de Mably: à la Haye, 1768, 8vo. "This book is a greater mixture of sense and nonsense than any other I ever read. What he says against the Political jargon of the Economists, their evidence and their despotisme légal, is perfectly well reasoned. His own system of ascribing all evils to the Institution of Separate Property is too absurd for any serious discussion." It is pleasant to have these recorded opinions of such a man as Mackintosh on, books the sub jects of which he had deeply meditated. Indeed, to me there is a great charm in such private memoranda of a distinguished and able man, giving the passing impression on his mind in the e of his reading. S. W. SINGO Mickleham, June 7. 1851. NOTES ON IRELAND, NO. I. Notes on Ireland's Freedom from Serpents. That Ireland was infested with venomous re tiles before St. Patrick's time, that he barist them, "and thut serpents cannot survive in Ireland. is a well-known tradition, and one universaly r ceived amongst the native Irish. In Chrian symbolism it was usual to designate sin or ganism by a serpent or dragon, and saints converted heathen nations, or subdued the promptings of their own nature, were representa with a serpent or dragon beneath their Thus, St. Patrick, by preaching the doctrine of se Cross, and uprooting Paganism, may be s have banished venomous serpents from Ira In his case, however, the symbol may have ha deeper meaning, if, as many (and with great bability) think, serpent worship formed part that Oriental heathenism which obtained in easy times in Ireland. Dr. Geoffry Keating, in his History of b (in the Irish language), which he completea the year 1625, says: "Saoilim gurab da naibh gairmithear naithreacha nimke i Patraic" ("I think that by the sep of in the life of St. Patrick were mean Serpents figure among the carvings and lengy phical ornaments on some of the re Irish antiquity which still puzzle our angry On Cruach Padruig, in Mayo, there is a st tarn which still bears the name of Loch na Ph or the Serpent's Lake; and one of the I Lakes," whence Gleandaloch derives its name, the same appellation. centur Solinus, who flourished at the close of the secre century, notices, I believe, the strange fact Ireland's having an immunity from reptiles: Is and Bede, in the seventh and eighth respectively repeat the assertion. Donatus, Bis of Fesula, who flourished about the middle of t ninth century, says, in a Latin poem on his nat country: “Nulla venena nocent; nec Serpens serpit in beta Nec conquesta canit garrula Rana lacu In qua Scotorum gentes habitare merentur; Inclyta gens hominum, milite, pace, fide," "Rana." A note on this word in Montgomery Poetry of Ireland declares : "However fabulous this may appear, it is cert that Frogs were formerly unknown in this coun they were first propagated here from spawn istrais as an experiment by a Fellow of Trinity College, D in 1696." Joceline of Furnes, Sir James Ware, Fr Moryson, and several others, notice the absence of serpents in Ireland. A Belfast correspondent to the Dublin Penny Journal, June, 1834, mentions some cases of introducing reptiles into Ireland: "About 1797, a gentleman is said to have imported from England into Wexford, a number of vipers: " they died immediately after. He continues: "We are sorry to record that the virtues of the good old times have passed away, as snakes are at this moment (June, 1834) free denizens of the County of Down, and gambolling in its shrubberies and plantings." The particulars are as follows: "In the summer of 1831, a gentleman, by way of experiment to ascertain whether snakes would survive in Ireland, brought from Scotland a few pair of what are usually called the common snake (Coluber natrir). These he put into a plantation at Milecross, near Newtownards, where they soon from their number gave evidence of becoming as fruitful as if they had been placed in South Carolina." I have not heard how long the snakes continued at Milecross, but I believe they are not there now. The Marquis of Wd, I have heard, in a similar freak, endeavoured, but unsuccessfully, to propagate snakes on his property. The usual Irish word for serpent is nathair; Welsh, gnadr; German, natter; Anglo-Saxon, nædre; Latin, natrix; English, adder. The epithet nimhe, poison, is often added, and a compound word made, nathair-neimhe. Peist, a word I have before alluded to, is analogous with the Latin best-ia, and means a worm, a beast, as well as a serpent. EIRIONNACH. CANONS AND ARTICLES OF 1571. Yours of the 4th I showed to Mr. Baker, who lesires me to tell you, that the Canons of 1571, with the subscriptions, are (as the Articles) in per bound up in the same volume of the Synoalia, and stand there next to the "Articles of 571" subscribed by the Archbishop and ten Bishops. I agree with you that the MS. of 1562 was signed to be subscribed without alterations; at your reasons do not satisfy me that the alrations were posterior to the subscription, for twithstanding the alterations it appeared very in to the subscribers what they subscribed to, d there needed no memorandum to them that e lines of minium were designed to exclude that was scored; and the care that was taken alter the account of the number of lines and ticles of the several pages conformably to the erations made by the lines of minium was olly unnecessary, and to no purpose, except the scriptions were to follow, in the middle of ch the subscribers own the exact number of Articles and lines in every page, and therefore this care was necessary that their subscription might be true; but supposing they subscribed before the alterations, the lines of minium were sufficient to show what alterations were to be made in the new copy of the Articles, and not the least occasion for adjusting the number of Articles and lines at the end to the foregoing pages. But both and the main point does not depend upon them, these are but conjectures on your and my part, designed for the Publick Record, and that it was which is in my opinion, whether this MS. could be not I think the want of such a memorandum as you speak of, as well as the Archbishop leaving it to C. C. C. as his own property, is a sufficient evidence though I must confess I am apt to I take to be printed from the record in Renald think the postscript in the Publick Record (which Wolfe's edition of 1563 referred to by your adversary) refers to this MS., and the subscriptions to it of both houses. Mr. Baker nor I had Gibson's Synod. Anglicana; but this morning I got a sight of it from the booksellers, and have sent it to Mr. Baker, who I hope will make a better use of it than I am able to do; the passage you refer to favours an opinion that I have had, that the subscriptions were left in the keeping of the President of the Convocation, the Publick Record (different from that with the Archbishop or Bishop of London; but that a subscriptions, and left with the President) was engrossed in parchment, and preserved in its proper place, the Registry of the Convocation; and thus that which Archbishop Laud found at Lambeth might be left there. I cannot tell exactly the number of blank pages (whether three or more) between the subscription of the Bishops and of the Lower House in 1562. Both Mr. Baker and I omitted to take so much notice of it; but we both remember that there might be room in the MS. for the clause in the beginning of the twentieth Article, partly in the space between the nineteenth and the twentieth Article, and partly in the margin; or in the margin there might be room enough for the whole clause. Rogers' first edition was 1579, under this title: "The English Creed, wherein is contained in tables an Exposition on the Articles, which every one is to subscribe unto. Where the Article is expounded by Scriptures and Confessions of all the Reformed Churches and Heresies displayed, by Thomas Rogers. Printed for Andrew Mansell, 1579, in fol.” This title I transcribe from Andrew Mansell's printed Catalogue of Books, published 1595. I mentioned to you another edition in 1585, the first part, and 1587, the second part, with a new title and pretty great additions; and I think I told you the second part began with the twentieth Article. It may seem from thence that his first edition in 1579 was not upon all the Articles; but I believe it was |