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NOTES:-- Further Notes on Derivation of the Word "News", by Samuel Hickson 81 More Borrowed Thoughts, by S. W. Singer 82 Strangers in the House of Commons, by C. Ross 83 Folk Lore:--High Spirits considered a Presage of impending Calamity, by C Forbes 84 The Hydro-Incubator, by H. Kersley 84 Etymology of the Word "Parliament" 85 "Incidis in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim," by C. Forbes and T. H. Friswell 85 A Note of Admiration! 86 The Earl of Norwich and his Son George Lord Goring, by CH. and Lord Braybooke 86
QUERIES:-- James Carkasse's Lucida Intervalla 87 Minor Queries:--Epigrams on the Universities--Lammas'Day--Mother Grey's Apples--Jewish Music--The Plant "Haemony"--Ventriloquism-- Epigram on Statue of French King--Lux fiat-Hiring of Servants-- Book of Homilies--Collar of SS.--Rainbow--Passage in Lucan--William of Wykeham--Richard Baxter's Descendants--Passage in St. Peter-- Juicecups--Derivation of "Yote" or "Yeot"--Pedigree of Greene Family--Family of Love--Sir Gammer Vans 87
REPLIES:-- Punishment of Death by Burning 90 To give a Man Horns, by C. Forbes and J.E.B. Mayor 90 Replies to Minor Queries:--Shipster--Three Dukes--Bishops and their Precedence--Why Moses represented with Horns--Leicester and the reputed Poisoners of his Time--New Edition of Milton--Christian Captives--Borrowed Thoughts--North Sides of Churchyards--Monastery--Churchyards--Epitaphs--Umbrellas-- English Translations of Erasmus--Chantrey's Sleeping Children, & c. 91
MISCELLANIES:-- Separation of the Sexes in Time of Divine Service--Error in Winstanley's Loyal Martyrology--Preaching in Nave only 94
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, Sales, & c. 95 Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 95 Notices to Correspondents 95 Advertisements 96
NOTES
FURTHER NOTES ON DERIVATION OF THE WORD "NEWS".
"Yet nature is made letter by no mean But nature makes that mean."
"At the same time it was noised abroad in the realme"
Cleopatra, catching but the least noise of this, dies instantly.
SAMUEL HICKSON.
St. John's Wood, June 15, 1850.
MORE BORROWED THOUGHTS.
"O quante nolili ingegni si perdono che riuscerebbe mirabili se dal seguir le inchinazione loro non fossero, ? d? loro appetiti ? da i Padri loro sviati."
"Your poem must eternal be Dear Sir! it cannot fail; For 'tis incomprehensible, And without head or tail."
"Thy verses are eternal, O my friend! For he who reads them, reads them to no end."
JOB'S LUCK, BY S. T. COLERIDGE, ESQ.
"Sly Beelzebub took all occasions To try Job's constancy and patience; He took his honours, took his health, He took his children, took his wealth, His camels, horses, asses, cows,-- Still the sly devil did not take his spouse. "But heav'n, that brings out good from evil, And likes to disappoint the devil, Had predetermined to restore Two-fold of all Job had before, His children, camels, asses, cows,-- Short-sighted devil, not to take his spouse."
This is merely an amplified version of the 199th epigram of the 3d Book of Owen:
"Divitias Jobo, sobolemque, ipsamque salutem Abstulit Satan. Omnibus ablatis, miser?, tamen una superstes, Quae magis afflictum redderet, uxor erat."
S.W. SINGER.
Mickleham, 1850.
STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
As far as my observation extends, i.e. the last thirty-one years, no alteration has taken place in the practice of the House of Commons with respect to the admission of strangers. In 1844 the House adopted the usual sessional order regarding strangers, which I transcribe, inserting within brackets the only material words added by Mr. Christie in 1845:--
"That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this house do, from time to time, take into his custody any stranger or strangers that he shall see or be informed of to be in the house or gallery while the House or any committee of the whole House is sitting, and that no person so taken into custody be discharged out of custody without the special order of the House.
"That no member of the House do presume to bring any stranger or strangers into the house, or the gallery thereof, while the House is sitting."
This order appears to have been framed at a time when there was no separate gallery exclusively appropriated to strangers, and when they were introduced by members into the gallery of what is called the "body of the house." This state of things had passed away: and for a long series of years strangers had been admitted to a gallery in the House of Commons in the face of the sessional order, by which your correspondent CH. imagines their presence was "absolutely prohibited."
When I speak of strangers being admitted, it must not be supposed that this was done by order of the House. No, every thing relating to the admission of strangers to, and their accommodation in the House of Commons, is effected by some mysterious agency for which no one is directly responsible. Mr. Barry has built galleries for strangers in the new house; but if the matter were made a subject of inquiry, it probably would puzzle him to state under what authority he has acted.
C. Ross.
ED. S. JACKSON.
FOLK LORE.
C. FORBES
June 19.
THE HYDRO-INCUBATOR.
Most, if not all, of your readers have heard of the newly-invented machine for hatching and rearing in chickens, without the maternal aid of the hen; probably many of them have paid a visit at No. 4. Leicester Square, where the incubator is to be seen in full operation. The following extract will, therefore, be acceptable, as it tends to show the truth of the inspired writer's words, "There is no new thing under the sun:"--
Could Sir Kenelm return to the scenes of this upper world, and pay a visit to Mr. Cantelo's machine, his shade might say with truthfulness, what Horace Smith's mummy answered to his questioner,--
"--We men of yore Were versed in all the knowledge you can mention."
The operations of the two machines appear to be precisely the same: the only difference being the Sir Kenelm's was an experimental one, made for the purpose of investigating the process of nature; while Cantelo's, in accordance with "the spirit of the iron time," is a practical one, made for the purposes of utility and profit. Sir Kenelm's Treatise appears to have been first published in the year 1644.
HENRY KERSLEY.
Corpus Christi Hall, Maidstone.
ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "PARLIAMENT."
FRANCISCUS.
"INCIDIS IN SCYLLAM, CUPIENS VITARE CHARYBDIM."
"-- Quo tendis inertem Rex periture, fugam? Nescis, heu perdite, nescis Quem fugias: hostes incurris dum fugis hostem. Incidis in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim."
where the poet apostrophises Darius, who, while flying from Alexander, fell into the lands of Bessus.
C. FORBES.
This celebrated Latin verse, which has become proverbial, has a very obscure authority, probably not known to many of your readers. It is from Gualtier de Lille, as has been remarked by Galeottus Martius and Paquier in their researches. This Gualtier flourished in the thirteenth century. The verse is extracted from a poem in ten books, called the "Alexandriad," and it is the 301st of the 5th book; it relates to the fate of Darius, who, flying from Alexander, fell into the hands of Bessus. It runs thus:--
JAMES H. FRISWELL.
A NOTE OF ADMIRATION!
Sir Walter Scott, in a letter to Miss Johanna Baillie, dated October 12, 1825, , says,--
"I well intended to have written from Ireland, but alas! as some stern old divine says, 'Hell is paved with good intentions.' There was such a whirl of laking, and boating, and wondering, and shouting, and laughing, and carousing--" "so much to be seen, and so little time to see it; so much to be heard, and only two ears to listen to twenty voices, that upon the whole I grew desperate, and gave up all thoughts of doing what was right and proper on post-days, and so all my epistolary good intentions are gone to Macadamise, I suppose, 'the burning marle' of the infernal regions."
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