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CONTENTS.
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A Plea for the City Churches, by the Rev. R. Hooper 51
Echo Poetry 51
Ambiguity in Public Writing 52
A Carol of the Kings 53
Sir W. Scott and Sir W. Napier 53
MINOR NOTES:--Sign of Rain--Communications with Iceland--Starvation, an Americanism--Strange Epitaphs 53
QUERIES:--
Buonaparte's Abdication 54
Death Warnings in Ancient Families 55
The Scarlet Regimentals of the English Army 55
MINOR QUERIES:--Berkhampstead Records--"The secunde personne of the Trinetee"--St. John's, Oxford, and Emmanuel, Cambridge--"Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre"-- Prelate quoted in Procopius--The Alibenistic Order of Freemasons--Saying respecting Ancient History--An Apology for not speaking the Truth--Sir John Morant--Portrait of Plowden--Temperature of Cathedrals--Dr. Eleazar Duncon--The Duke of Buckingham--Charles Watson--Early (German) coloured Engravings 56
MINOR QUERIES WITH ANSWERS:--History of M. Oufle--Lysons' MSS.--"Luke's Iron Crown"--"Horam coram Dago" 57
REPLIES:--
Hoby Family, by Lord Braybrooke 58
Poetical Tavern Signs 58
Translation from Sheridan, &c. 59
Florins and the Royal Arms 59
Chronograms, by the Rev. W. Sparrow Simpson 60
Oaths, by James F. Ferguson 61
PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE:--Splitting Paper for Photographic Purposes--Curling of Iodized Paper--How the Glass Rod is used 61
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Wooden Tombs and Effigies-- Epitaph On Politician--Defoe's Quotation from Baxter on Apparitions--Barrels Regiment--Sneezing--Does "Wurm," in modern German, ever mean Serpent?--Longfellow's Reaper and the Flowers--Charge of Plagiarism against Paley--Tin --John Waugh--Rev. Joshua Brooks--Hour-glass Stand--Teeth Superstition--Dog-whipping Day in Hull--Mousehunt--St. Paul's School Library--German Tree--Derivation of the Word "Cash" 62
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Notes on Books, &c. 66
Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 66
Notices to Correspondents 67
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_LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1854._
Notes.
A PLEA FOR THE CITY CHURCHES.
When a bachelor is found wandering about, he cares not whither, your fair readers (for doubtless such a "dealer in curiosities" as you are has many of that sex who, however unjustly, have the credit of the "curious" bump) will naturally exclaim "he must be in love," or "something horrible has happened to him." Let us, however, disappoint them by assuring them we shall keep our own counsel. If the former be the cause, green lanes and meandering streams would suit his case better than Gracechurch Street, London, with the thermometer five or six degrees below freezing point, and the snow (!) the colour and consistency of chocolate. Such a situation, however, was ours, when our friend the Incumbent of Holy Trinity, Minories, accosted us. He was going to his church; would we accompany him? We would have gone to New Zealand with him, if he had asked us, at that moment. The _locale_ of the Minories was nearly as unknown to us as the aforesaid flourishing colony. On entering the church (which will _not_ repay an architectural zealot), while our friend was extracting a burial register, our eye fell on an old monument or two. There was a goodly Sir John Pelham, who had been cruelly cut down by the hand of death in 1580, looking gravely at his sweet spouse, a dame of the noble house of Bletsoe. Behind him is kneeling his little son and heir Oliver, whom, as the inscription informs us, "Death enforced to follow fast" his papa, as he died in 1584.
And there was a stately monument of the first Lord Dartmouth, a magnanimous hero, and Master of the Ordnance to Charles II. and his renegade brother. We were informed that a gentlemen in the vestry had come for the certificate of the burial of Viscount Lewisham, who died some thirty years ago; that the Legge family were all buried here; that after having dignified the aristocratic parish of St. George, Hanover Square, and the _salons_ of May Fair, during life, they were content to lie quietly in the Minories! Does not the _high blood_ of the "city merchant" of the present clay, of the "gentleman" of the Stock Exchange, curdle at the thought? Yes, there lie many a noble heart, many a once beautiful face but we must now-a-days, forsooth, forget the City as soon as we have made our money in its dirty alleys. To lie there after death! pooh, the thought is absurd. (Thanks to Lord Palmerston, we have no option now.)
Well, we were then asked by the worthy Incumbent, "Would you not like to see my head?" Did he take us for a Lavater or a Spurzheim? However, we were not left in suspense long, for out of the muniment closet was produced a tin box; we thought of Reading biscuits, but we were undeceived shortly. Taken out carefully and gently, was produced a human head! No mere skull, but a perfect human head! Alas! its wearer had lost it in an untimely hour. Start not, fair reader! we often lose our heads and hearts too, but not, we hope, in the mode our poor friend did. It was clear a choice had been given to him, but it was a Hobson's choice. He had been _axed_ whether he would or no! He had been decapitated! We were told that now ghastly head had once been filled with many an anxious, and perhaps happy, thought. It had had right royal ideas. It was said to be the head of Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, the father of the sweet Lady Jane Grey. We could muse and moralise; but Captain Cuttle cuts us short, "When found, make a Note of it." We found it then there, Sir; will you make the Note? The good captain does not like to be prolix. Has his esteemed old relative, Sylvanus Urban (many happy new years to him!), made the note before?
We came away, shall we say better in mind? Yes, said we, a walk in the City may be as instructive, and as good a cure for melancholy, as the charming country. An old city church can tell its tale, and a good one too. We thought of those quaint old monuments, handed down from older churches 'tis true, but still over the slumbering ashes of our forefathers; and when the thought of the destroying hand that hung over them arose amid many associations, the Bard of Avon's fearful monumental denunciation came to our aid:
"Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves these bones."
RICHARD HOOPER.
St. Stephen's, Westminster.
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ECHO POETRY.
"_A Dialogue between a Glutton and Echo._
_Gl._ My belly I do deifie.
_Echo._ Fie.
_Gl._ Who curbs his appetite's a fool.
_Echo._ Ah fool!
_Gl._ I do not like this abstinence.
_Echo._ Hence.
_Gl._ My joy's a feast, my wish is wine.
_Echo._ Swine!
_Gl._ We epicures are happie truly.
_Echo._ You lie.
_Gl._ Who's that which giveth me the lie?
_Echo._ I.
_Gl._ What? Echo, thou that mock'st a voice?
_Echo._ A voice.
_Gl._ May I not, Echo, eat my fill?
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_Gl._ Will't hurt me if I drink too much?
_Echo._ Much.
_Gl._ Thou Mock'st me, Nymph; I'll not believe it.
_Echo._ Believe't.
_Gl._ Dost thou condemn then what I do?
_Echo._ I do.
_Gl._ I grant it doth exhaust the purse.
_Echo._ Worse.
_Gl._ Is't this which dulls the sharpest wit?
_Echo._ Best wit.
_Gl._ Is't this which brings infirmities?
_Echo._ It is.
_Gl._ Whither will't bring my soul? canst tell?
_Echo._ T' hell.
_Gl._ Dost thou no gluttons virtuous know?
_Echo._ No.
_Gl._ Wouldst have me temperate till I die?
_Echo._ I.
_Gl._ Shall I therein finde ease and pleasure?
_Echo._ Yea sure.
_Gl._ But is't a thing which profit brings?
_Echo._ It brings.
_Gl._ To minde or bodie? or to both?
_Echo._ To both.
_Gl._ Will it my life on earth prolong?
_Echo._ O long!
_Gl._ Will it make me vigorous until death?
_Echo._ Till death.
_Gl._ Will't bring me to eternall blisse?
_Echo._ Yes.
_Gl._ Then, sweetest Temperance, I'll love thee.
_Echo._ I love thee.
_Gl._ Then, swinish Gluttonie, I'll leave thee.
_Echo._ I'll leave thee.
_Gl._ I'll be a belly god no more.
_Echo._ No more.
_Gl._ If all be true which thou dost tell, They who fare sparingly fare well.
_Echo._ Farewell.
"S. J."
"_Hygiasticon_: or the right Course of preserving Life and Health unto extream old Age: together with soundnesse and integritie of the Senses, Judgement, and Memorie. Written in Latine by Leonard Lessius, and now done into English. 24mo. Cambridge, 1634."
I send the above poem, and title of the work it is copied from, in the hope it may interest those of your correspondents who have lately been turning their attention to this style of composition.
H. B.
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AMBIGUITY IN PUBLIC WRITING.
In Brenan's _Composition and Punctuation_, published by Wilson, Royal Exchange, he strongly condemns _the one_ and _the other_, as used for _the former_ and _the latter_, or _the first_ and _the last_. The understood rule is, that _the one_ refers to the nearest or _latter_ person or thing mentioned, and _the other_ to the farthest or _former_; and if that were strictly adhered to, no objection could be raised. But I have found, from careful observation for two or three years past, that some of our standard writers reverse the rule, and use _the one_ for _the former_, and _the other_ for _the latter_, by which I have often been completely puzzled to know what they meant in cases of importance. Now, since there is not the slightest chance of unanimity here, I think the author is right in condemning their referential usage altogether. A French grammarian says, "Ce qui n'est pas clair n'est pas Français;" but though French is far from having no ambiguities, he showed that he fully appreciated what ought to be the proudest boast of any language, clearness. There is a notable want of it on the marble tablet under the portico of St. Paul's, Covent Gardens, which says:
"The church of this parish having been destroyed by fire on the 17th day of September, A.D. 1795, was rebuilt, and opened for divine service on the 1st day of August, A.D. 1798."