Act III. Sc. 2., we have:

"_Cal._ I say by sorcery he got this isle. From me he got it. If thy greatness will Revenge it on him--for, I know, thou dar'st; But this thing dare not. _Ste._ That's most certain. _Cal._ Thou shalt be lord of it, and I'll serve thee. _Ste._ How now shall this be compass'd? Canst thou bring me to _the party_."

ERICA.

Warwick.

_"Mater ait natæ," &c._ (Vol. vii., p. 155.).--In reply to your correspondent who asks where the following lines "Mater ait natæ," &c. are to be found, I refer him to the following note in Greswell's _Account of Runcorn_, p. 34.:

"Leland, in his _Itinerary_, mentions an old woman, a native of Over in Cheshire, who lived in the family of Downes of Shrigley, and died at the age of 140 years. Zuingerus reports of a noble lady of Worms, in the {248} archbishopric of Mentz, who lived to see the sixth generation, that she might thus address her daughter:

'(1) Mater (2) natæ die (3) natæ filia (4) natam Ut moneat (5) natæ plangere (6) filiolam.'

That is, 'The mother says to her daughter: Daughter, bid thy daughter, to tell her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.'"

ANON.

Warrington.

I have in my possession a scrap-book, compiled by one Edward King in the year 1743, which consists of extracts from newspapers of that date; and while perusing your last Number, meeting with W. W.'s (Malta) Query, I immediately recollected having noticed the quotation some short time ago. Turning to the volume I find the following extract:

"Sarum, April 30.--We hear from Limington in Hants that one Mrs. Mitchel was lately brought to bed there of a daughter, whose great-great-grandmother is still living, and has already seen her fifth generation, and all daughters. So that she may say the same that the distich doth, made on one of the Dalburgh's family of Basil:

1 2 3 4 'Mater ait natæ die natæ filia natam 5 6 Ut moneat natæ plangere filiolam.'

1 2 3 'Rise up, daughter, and go to thy daughter, 4 5 6 For her daughter's daughter hath a daughter.'

She is about 92 years of age, is in perfect health, has all her senses clear, and hopes to see five generations more."

TYE.

Norwood, Surrey.

_Gospel Place_ (Vol. vii., p. 133.).--In my parish there are two such places, both on the border of the parish: one is called "The Gospel Oak," the other "The Gospel Bush." The traditional explanation of these names is this:--that at no very ancient date, when the custom of perambulating the parish was annually observed, portions of the Gospel were read at these and other places,--_stations_, as they were anciently called.

JOHN JEBB.

Peterstow Rectory, Ross.

_Passage in Thomson_ (Vol. vii., p. 87.).--_Steaming_, as your intelligent correspondent C. says, is clearly the true reading. The word is so printed in the 4to. edition of the _Seasons_, 1730 (was not this the first collected edition of that poem?), and in every other to which I have referred. It does not, however, occur in the 4to. copy in the twenty-eighth, but in the thirty-first line. The four lines, fifteenth to eighteenth, originally given in the "Hymn," but afterwards wisely omitted by the poet, follow the words "In Autumn unconfined:"--

"Thrown from thy lap Profuse o'er Nature falls the lucid shower Of beamy fruits, and in a radiant stream Into the stores of sterile winter pours."

The _steaming_ property of the earth is well described by Dr. Carpenter, in his _Vegetable Physiology_, p. 168.:

"If a glass vessel be placed with its mouth downwards, on the surface of a meadow or grass plot, during a sunny afternoon in summer, it will speedily be rendered dim in the interior by the watery vapour which will rise into it; and this will soon accumulate to such a degree as to run down in drops. Any person walking in a meadow on which the sun is shining powerfully, where the grass has not long previously been refreshed by rain, may observe a tremulous motion in distant objects, occasioned by the rising of the watery vapour; exactly resembling that which takes place along the sea-shore, when the sun shines strongly on pebbles that have been left in a moistened state by the retiring tide."--Dr. Carpenter's _Vegetable Physiology_, p. 168. sect. 253.

"The atmosphere is made up of several steams, or minute particles of several sorts rising from the earth and the waters."--Locke's _Elements of Natural Philosophy_.

J. H. M.

"_Words are given to man to conceal his thoughts_" (Vol. vii., p. 165.).--The hexameter line, [Greek: hos ch' heteron], &c., is one put by Homer into the mouth of Achilles (_Iliad_, ix. 313.), when he is expressing his indignant hatred of liars.

RT.

Warmington.

_Folger Family_ (Vol. vi., p. 583.; Vol. vii., p. 51.).--Will it assist the inquiry to say that there was a family of Foulgers at Norwich? The only son was a curate at Leiston, in Suffolk, in 1832.

B. B. WOODWARD.

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The remarkable collection of Northern Irish Antiquities and Historical Relics, exhibited at Belfast on the occasion of the British Association meeting in that city, has led to the publication of _The Ulster Journal of Archæology_, which is to be conducted by gentlemen of the province, and principally devoted to the elucidation of the antiquities and ancient history of Ulster. Ulster, it will be remembered, is historically remarkable as being the last part of Ireland which held out against the English sway, and which therefore retained its ancient customs until a comparatively recent period. Ulster was also the battle-field of the ancient native Irish chieftains and the Scandinavian Vikings. The antiquaries of Ulster have therefore done wisely, while the tangled web of Northern Irish History can yet be {249} unravelled by existing aids--while the men who are now the depositories of family and local history are yet among them--to commence this Journal; and in the tact and good management displayed in the selection of the materials of their opening Number, they have not only done wisely, but done well also. May they go on and prosper!

At a moment when all eyes are looking anxiously for the new volume of Nineveh Discoveries, we have received a work of kindred character and of very high value. It is entitled _Lares and Penates, or Cilicia and its Governors; being a short historical account of that province from the earliest times to the present day, together with a description of some Household Gods of the Ancient Cilicians, broken up by them on their conversion to Christianity, first discovered and brought to this country by the author_, W. B. Barker, edited by W. F. Ainsworth; and the interest which this title naturally excites is fully maintained upon a perusal of the work. Although, by readers who care little for its archæological features, the work will be read with the highest satisfaction, it is one which will afford to the antiquary information of the greatest importance; while to many, the announcement that the remarkable monuments of the ancient Cilicians, so happily discovered by Mr. Barker, were discovered by him in the city dignified by the birth of the great apostle of the Gentiles,--and that the mutilation of these works of art, once the objects of religious regard, was probably the consequence of the missionary visit of Paul and Silas to Tarsus,--will probably be the strongest recommendation which this work could receive.

We have received three Catalogues which call for such mention as should direct to them the attention of our bibliographical friends. One is of the splendid Library of Mr. Dawson Turner, which will occupy Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson for thirteen days in its disposal. The next, _Bibliotheca Americana_, is of a most remarkable collection of American Books on sale by Mr. Russell Smith. The third is of an extensive collection of Theological Works on sale by Mr. Straker. The last two are made more valuable by the addition of useful indices.

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The Principal Portion of the very Important Library of DAWSON TURNER, Esq., extending over Thirteen Days' Sale.

MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY & JOHN WILKINSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, March 7, and five following days, and on THURSDAY, March 17, and six following days (Sunday excepted), at 1 precisely each day, the principal part of the LIBRARY of DAWSON TURNER, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., removed from Yarmouth; comprising a magnificent assemblage of Books on the Fine Arts, including very many of the splendid Galleries and Picturesque Works published during the last and present centuries. The Collection is also rich in English Topography and History, and comprises many valuable and rare Books in General Literature, Foreign and English. Some very interesting and beautifully illuminated Missals and other Books of Prayers; also some fine Books printed upon vellum. There is one remarkable feature in this important and well-known collection to which it is desirous to call particular attention, namely, that a very great portion of the works are enriched with Autograph Letters of their respective and eminent Authors, and are in very many instances illustrated with additional Engravings of much rarity, thereby adding considerable interest to the copies, and rendering them in many instances quite unique.

The first division to be viewed on Friday and Saturday, March 4 and 5; the second division to be viewed on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 15 and 16. Catalogues are now ready, Two Shillings and Sixpence each; forwarded, Post free, on receipt of Three Shillings.

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Just published, demy 12mo., in cloth boards, and gilt lettered, price 10s. 6d., Vol. I. with engraved frontispiece, and illustrated with wood engravings,

SHAKSPEARE'S PUCK, and his FOLKSLORE, illustrated from THE SUPERSTITIONS OF ALL NATIONS, but more especially from the EARLIEST RELIGION AND RITES OF NORTHERN EUROPE AND THE WENDS. By WILLIAM BELL, PHIL. DR., Honorary Member of the Historic Society for Lancashire and Cheshire, and Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries for Normandy, at Caen. To whom application to be made at No. 17. Gower Place, Euston Square, and sent Free to all parts of the Kingdom for Post-Office Order for 11s.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"He (Dr. B.) has caught his tone and treatment from the ingenious and industrious scholars of that part of the Continent. There is no speculation too refined, no analogy too subtle and remote, for the employment of their time and talents; and in much that Dr. Bell advances on the same system to establish the intimate connexion between the Northern mythology and some of the popular superstitions of these islands, we concur.... At times, when we were most disposed to ridicule his positions, his learning stepped forward to his aid; and if it did not secure for him all our patience, at all events it commanded much of our respect."--_Athenæum, Oct. 2._

"Dr. Bell, whose long residence in Germany, and intimate acquaintance with the popular literature of that country, entitles him to speak with great authority upon all questions relating to the Mythology of the Teutonic race, has just published a little volume, which will be read with interest by all who, to use the words of Mr. Keightly, 'have a taste for the light kind of philosophy' to be found in this subject.... 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."--_Notes and Queries. Oct. 2._

"It is not too much to assert, that all that can be said, or has been discovered about 'The little animal' (Puck), is gathered together in Dr. Bell's most amusing and instructive volume, which not only elucidates the mystery which hangs about it, but enters largely into all illustrations of the folk-lore and the superstitions of all nations, but especially of the earliest religious rites of Northern Europe and the Wends. It has always been a marvel how Shakspeare could have possessed the information which he made available in his plays. Dr. Bell proves that he must have possessed far greater facilities than we are aware of. The work, besides possessing these features, enters into further antiquarian researches of a learned character: and is one which cannot fail to be highly appreciated wherever it makes its way into circulation."--_Bell's Weekly Messenger, Feb. 26, 1853._

_Copy of a Note, dated Royal Crescent, Cheltenham, Aug. 23, 1852._

"Accept my best thanks for the first vol. of your 'Puck.' It is a most interesting work, and I am astonished at the vast quantity of matter you have brought together on the subject: I say this on just hastily running it over. I must read it carefully. Heartily wishing you success in this volume, and the early appearance of the second, I am, &c.,

"J. B--S--TH, LL.D., F.S.A."

_From Lewes, dated Sept. 26, 1852._

"Through the kindness of our friend, C. R. S--th, I am favoured with a loan of your very curious and interesting book--M. A. L----R."

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Valuable Books, Kentish Topography, Manuscripts, &c.

PUTTICK AND SIMPSON, Auctioneers of Literary Property, will SELL by AUCTION, at their Great Room, 191. Piccadilly, on Wednesday, March 9, and Five following Days, Sunday excepted, a large Collection of interesting and useful books in most departments of Literature, including the works of standard Historians, Poets, Theologians, Greek and Latin Classics, &c., numerous works connected with the History of the County of Kent, large collections of Kentish Deeds and Documents, &c. Catalogues will be sent on application (if in the country on receipt of six stamps).

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