thers. Certainly, however, the moft interefting of the whole is the library of the Rev. Dr. Magoon, an eminent and popular divine of the Baptift Church.' He entered on active life as an operative bricklayer. There are, it appears, wall-plates extant, and not a few, built by his hands; and it was only by faving the earnings these brought to him, that he could obtain an education. . . . The bricklayer, however, was endowed with the heavenly gift of the high æfthetic, which no birth or breeding can fecure, and threw himself into that common ground where art and religion meet-the literature of Chriftian medieval art.'

Miscellaneous Items.

would frequent their own establishments, muft be
content to do fo in the capacity of librarians or fhow-
men, for the benefit of their numerous and uninvited
vifitors. They generally, with wife refignation, bow
to the facrifice, and, abandoning all connection with
their treasures, dedicate them to the people-nor,
as their affluence is generally fufficient to furround
them with an abundance of other enjoyments, are
they an object of much pity. But that the privacy
of our ordinary wealthy and middle claffes fhould
be invaded in a fimilar fhape, is an idea that could
not get abroad without creating fenfations of the
moft lively horror. They manage these things
differently across the Atlantic, and fo here we
have 'over' fifty gentlemen's private collections
ranfacked and anatomized. If they like it, we
have no reason to complain... . . . It is quite nat-
ural that their ways of esteeming a collection should
not be as our ways.
in Dr. Francis's collection 'a complete fet of the
Recueil des Caufes Célebres, collected by Maurice
Mejan, in eighteen volumes-a fcarce and valu-
able work-would throw any of our black-letter
knight-errants into convulfions of laughter. . . . .
The defcriptions of a remorseless investigator like
this have a fresh individuality not to be found here,
where our habitual referve prevents us from offer-
ing or enjoying a full, true, and particular account
of the goods of our neighbors, unless they are
brought to the hammer-and then they have loft
half the charm which they poffeffed as the houfe-
hold gods of fome one confpicuous by pofition or
character, and are little more estimable than other
common merchandise. It would be difficult to
find, among the countless books about books pro-
duced by us in the old country, any in which the
bent of individual taftes and propenfities is fo dif-
tinctly reprefented in tangible fymbols; and the
reality of the elucidation is increased by the fort of
innocent furprife with which the hiftorian ap-

The statement that there is SALE OF THE LIBRARY OF DR. FRAN

CIS.

MESSRS. BANGS, MERWIN & Co. have iffued the CATALOGUe of the entire PRIVATE LIBRARY, BOTH MEDICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS, OF THE LATE DR. JOHN W. FRANCIS, LL. D.

The fale is announced to begin_on Wednesday afternoon, June 4th, at four o'clock, and following days at the fame hour. The Catalogue numbers 126 pages, and embraces 3,159 lots, including old newspapers, pamphlets, odd numbers of magazines and reviews, a very liberal sprinkling of fecond-hand fchool-books, and a library-table used by Dr. Francis many The medical part of the collecyears." tion is perhaps the most important and valuable, and contains "a folio copy of Zacchias, who wrote the first treatife on Forenfic Medicine"'-a statement which will be read with surprise and shouts of laughter "There are in Dr. Wynne's book defcriptions, by any phyfician tolerably well read in the not only of libraries according to their kind, but according to their ftage of growth, from thofe hiftory of his profeffion. The miscellanewhich, as the work of a generation or two, have ous portion of the library is marvellously reached from ten to fifteen thoufand, to the col- rich in "presentation copies" of the works lections still in their youth, fuch as Mr. Lorimer of an enormous fwarm of literary infects, Graham's of five thousand volumes, rich in early whofe names have long fince juftly funk into editions of British poetry, and doubtless, by this oblivion. Indeed, if the entire library may time, ftill richer, fince its owner was lately here collecting early works on the literature of Scot- be taken as a criterion to judge of the venland, and other memorials of the land of his fa- erable Doctor's scholarship, it may be safely

proaches each lot,' evidently as a first acquaintance, about whom he inquires and obtains all available particulars, good humoredly communicating them in bold detail to his reader.

STANZAS IN THE EARLY EDITIONS OF
GRAY'S ELEGY.

THERE are early editions of Gray's Elegy in which it forms a finer work of art than in its present shape. The first stanza was originally penned thus:

These lines do not destroy the wholeness of the poem, and divert the reader's attention to a fuperfluous individual; they form an admirable close, and should be restored.

Notes and Queries.

K.

FATHER STATTLER'S ETHICA CHRIS

TIANA.

"The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, The lowing heards wind flowly o'er the lea, The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.' In this there is fenfe; for the curfew does IN Lady Duff Gordon's Narratives of leave the world, leaves it to darkness, and Remarkable Criminal Trials, tranflated leaves it to the poet, who meditates beft in from the German of Anfelm Ritter Von filence; but the ploughman does none of Feuerbach (London, 1846), there is a very these things. The motive for removing interesting account of the trial of Francis the third line into the firft place, was to ob- Salefius Reimbauer, a parish priest, who tain a more striking commencement, which was convicted of the murder of Anna Eichfhould found the key-note of the enfuing ftädter, one of his miftreffes. The murderer train of harmonious ideas; but this has feems to have been a profound cafuist, and been accomplished at the expense of all in his confeffion fays: connection between the two latter lines of the stanza, which are now nonfenfical. Inftead of the tedious and abfurd episode beginning

"Haply fome hoary-headed fwain may say"—
and concluding with an epigrammatic and
awkward epitaph, the following beautiful
ftanzas once occurred:

"And thou who, mindful of th' unhonour'd dead,
Doft in these lines their artless tale relate,
By night and lonely contemplation led,
To wander in the gloomy walks of Fate,

No more with reafon and thyself at ftrife,
Give anxious cares and endless wishes room;
But through the cool fequefter'd vale of life
Pursue the filent tenour of thy doom.

The thoughtless world to majesty may bow,
Exalt the brave, and idolize fuccefs;
Yet more to innocence their fafety owe,
Than power, or genius, e'er confpir'd to blefs.
Hark! how the facred calm that breathes around
Bids every fierce tumultuous paffion cease;
In still small accents whispering from the ground
A grateful earnest of eternal peace."

"Anna declared, when I met her at Ratifbon, that she would not part from me. I reprefented to her most strongly that it was impoffible for me to take her, but all in vain. My pofition, my reputation, evrything that was facred and dear to me, would be endangered by her coming to Lauterbach. I thought within myself,

What is to be done fhould fhe come?' and I fuddenly remembered the maxim laid down by Father Benedict Stattler in his Ethica Chrifliana, according to which it is lawful to deprive another of life, when honor and reputation cannot be otherwise maintained; for honor is of higher value than life, and the law of neceffity holds good against those who attack our honor, as much as against robbers. I thought over this maxim, which Profeffor St. — ufed formerly to explain to us young ecclefiaftics in his lectures; and finding that it exactly applied to my own predicament, I took it as my dictamen practicum."

In a note it is added: "The chief paffages from which Reimbauer selected his dic

tamen practicum are the 1889th, the 1891ft, Reimbauer's own account of the murder is and 1893d paragraphs of this truly anti- without a parallel for cool atrocity, and is chriftian Ethica Chriftiana, which appeared worth extracting. The murderer was not in 1789, in fix thick volumes. In the above- without precedent in giving his victim absonamed paragraphs a Christian is allowed to lution. Pope Alexander VI., who caused prevent a contumelia gravis certo pro- all of the princes whom he was stripping of vifa, aut perquam dolore molefta, aut mag- their poffeffions, to perish by the stiletto, by nopere ignominiofa,' or a 'calumnia' by the the rope, or by poison, granted to them inmurder of the injufti aggrefforis' or 'in- dulgences, in articulo mortis.

jufti calumniatoris.' This fpecies of mo"At this critical moment, Father Statrality would clearly justify a man in fecretly murdering any one who might be suspected tler's maxim again recurred to his mind, of designing a secret attack on his honor. and he seized the bread-knife and stabbed This is further proved by the 1893d para- Eichstädter with it on the right fide of her graph, in which a man is permitted to rid throat; but finding the knife too blunt, he himself of an enemy: Si non ipfa occifione dropped it, and she endeavored to defend injufti calumniatoris tantundem periculi herself; he then held her by the throat, infamia incurramus, quantum vitare de- gave her a heavy blow on the back of her clinatione calumniæ intendimus.' Alfo: head, thrust his fingers into her mouth, and "Si tantundem periculi nobis ex occifione tried to choke her, exhorting her in the calumniatoris immineat, profecto utile re- mean time to repentance and confeffion, as medium occifio effe non poteft, ac proinde fhe muft die. She replied by earnestly en'Then,' nec lictum'-that is, the murder should treating him to spare her life. only take place when it can be committed faid he, 'I took the razor out of my pockwith fecrefy and fecurity. There is noth- et, embraced her from behind, and with ing, however infamous, for which Father my right hand put the blade to her throat, Stattler's Chriftian Ethics do not afford a while with my left I forced it into her windjuftification. The 1894th paragraph per- pipe. I inftantly perceived from her fobs mits calumny to be met by calumny: Li- that I made a deep incision, and I dropped calumniam nullo the razor. cet certam gravem quæ alio remedio, hoc uno autem certo et efficaciter, de pelli poteft, enervare imponendo calumniatori falfum crimen præcife tale, nec majus quam neceffe fit, et fufficiat ad elidendam calumniatoris auctoritatem ac fidem, et famam propriam dependendam'! Riembauer, of course, reckoned Anna Eichstädter among his injuftos aggreffores. Father Stattler's book is printed cum permissu fuperiorum, and is ftill ufed in feveral places as a manual for ecclefiaftics!”·

Where may a fuller account of Father Stattler's book be found? A teacher who could produce fuch a pupil as Reimbauer, fhould receive the execrations of mankind.

She remained standing for three or four minutes, during which I said to her, "Mariandel, I pray to God and to you for pardon: you would have it fo. Pray to God for forgiveness of your fins, and I will give you abfolution." I accordingly gave it her, as it was in cafu neceffitatis. She then tottered as if her knees were failing under her; and I took her under the arms, and let her down gently; for a few minutes. longer I gave her religious confolation as fhe lay on the floor, until fhe began to kick and ftruggle, and presently breathed her last.””

NEW YORK.

M.

J. B. ROUSSEAU'S MOISADE.

M. DE VILLETT, in his Life of Voltaire, with Notes Explanatory and Illustrative (tranflated by G. P. Monke, 8vo, London, 1787), fays:

jours été de même. Il raconte que fon père a été chaffé de France du temps de Louis XIV. par fuite de la révocation de l'édit de Nantes, et a fui à Amsterdam. Il dit avoir affifté, à l'âge de 16 ans, au couronnement de la reine Anne (qui eut lieu le 3 Mai, 1702); il étoit donc né en 1686. Il vint d'Angleterre à New-York probablement au commencement du XVIIIe fiècle, mais il ne peut fe rappeler la date. Il fe trouva toutes les guerres de la reine Anne et reçut beaucoup de bleffures qu'il fait voir."

"One of the pieces of poetry that Voltaire moft eafily retained, was Numa, or the Moïfade, which was fathered upon Rousseau, and which he prudently difowned, tho' he had really written it, when he was Secretary to the Bishop of Viviers... "Ninon de l'Enclos, one day afking the Abbé de Châteneuf after his godfon, 'My dear friend,' replies the Abbé, he has been twice chriftened; it be found? but you would not believe it; for, though he is only three years old, he knows all the Moïfade by heart.'

"It happens but seldom, that in the course of life, men deviate from the principles of their early education. Few people know this Moifade: I have therefore copied it, at the end of this work, My duty as an hiftorian, is to make known the food with which Voltaire's mind was nourished in his infancy, and with which the Abbé de Chuteneuf boasted of having enriched the memory of his pupil."

ufu

I have never met with an English translation of this curious very poem, nor am I aware that there is any. Can you favor the readers of The Philobiblíon with one? As unreadable as French poetry ally is in an English drefs, yet the influence which this poem appears to have had upon the youthful mind of Voltaire might render it interesting to the reader.

REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.

C.

Has any other record been preserved of this remarkable man; and if fo, where may

C. M.

COMPLOT D'ARNOLD, ETC. WHO is the author of the Complot d'Arnold et de Sir Henri Clinton contre les Etats-Unis d'Amerique, et contre le Général Washington, Septembre, 1780 (Paris, Didot l'aîné, 1816, 8vo)? CINCINNATI.

J. G. H.

A

[The Complot d'Arnold, &c., was written by Barbé-Marbois. It was reprinted in 1831, with his name as the author. translation by Robert Walsh, Esq., is contained in the fecond volume of the American Register for 1817. See Rich, Biblioand Barbier, Dict. des Ouvrages Anonymes theca Americana Nova, vol. ii. pp. 86, 87; et Pfeudonymes, tome i. No. 2565.]

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