of the fourteenth century. Mr. Hayman quotes the memoranda roll of the Exchequer of the 31st to the 35th year of Edward I., in which there is an entry relating to Martinus de Coumbe, the successor of Le Mercer in the office of collector. W. H. PATTERSON. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Christian Psychology: the Soul and the Body in their Correlation and Contrast. Being a New Translation of Swedenborg's Tractate, "De Commercio Animæ et Corporis, &c., Londini, 1769." With Preface and Illustrative Notes by T. M. Gorman, M.A., Hertford College, Oxford, some time Curate of St. Mary Abbottз, Kensington. (Longmans & Co.) WE feel ourselves bound to confess that we have but scanty acquaintance, in proportion to their dimensions, with the extensive philosophical researches of Swedenborg, and that, therefore, the Tractate, of which the translation gives rise to this book, is to us-we hope we may admit it without shame-by no means easy of mental digestion. The Appendix, which forms the bulk of this volume, is filled with extracts from physical and metaphysical writers, which are designed to illustrate and support some of Swedenborg's positions, or to exhibit the timid restrictions of material science as transcended by his soaring intellect. A perusal of this Appendix should be sufficient, we think, to convince any one who has not already attained conviction from a general acquaintance with the literature of the subject, of the inscrutable nature of the everlasting problem of soul and body and of the unseen world. Mr. Gorman may sneer at the shadows and fallacies that becloud mere human reasonings, but on this, as on all other subjects, where are we to select our guides if not from amongst those who employ these despised weapons? Religion, indeed, is above reason, and affords us lights which our unaided intellects could never attain. Swedenborg himself laid claim to privileges of insight which are bestowed only on those few whom Divine Providence selects as the instruments by means of which we obtain glimpses of the world that is beyond our senses. It is for us to accept or to reject his and similar claims; but to place the revelations of those who make the claims in competition with the theories of those who build upon nothing else than human observation is unfair to the one, and derogatory to the claims of the other class of informants. If we believe that to Swedenborg was accorded a view of heaven and hell, his revelations supersede and render unnecessary all mere human conjectures regarding the spiritual world. If, on the other hand, we place his assertions on the subject of this Tractate to the account of a mind brooding long over the questions that enchained its attention, we can set him in no higher rank than that of other gifted speculators, the result of whose labours, in the field of inquiry traversed by him, the Appendix to this book pretty well exhibits. Mr. Gorman is of opinion that Swedenborg's philosophical evolution was brought out by a special Divine call. If this opinion be correct. diatribes against unaided mortal speculations and theories are as superfluous as they are unkind. The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, with Gorleston and Southtown. By Charles John Palmer, F.S.A., &c. Vol. III. (Great Yarmouth, Hall.) TWICE already have we had occasion to speak in terms of deserved commendation of Mr. Palmer's well-directed labours to put into a form worthy of the ancient and interesting town of which he is a native, the result of the many years which he has devoted to the study of its volume, in May, 1872, we spoke of it (4th S. ix. 437) as a records and history. On the appearance of the first local history of which the author's fellow townsmen might well be and ought to be proud. The second volume fully justified that eulogium; and now that Mr. Palmer has brought his labour of love to a close by the publication of a third volume, as rich in literary interest and as profusely illustrated, and made especially available by very complete Indices, we offer him our hearty congratulations on the success of his labours, and our best wishes that he may long be spared to enjoy the reputation which must ever attach to the authorship of The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth. The Discrepancies of Freemasonry examined during a Week's Gossip with the late celebrated Brother Gilkes, and other eminent Masons, on sundry Obscure and Difficult Passages in the ordinary Lodge Lectures, which, although open Questions in Grand Lodge, constitute a Source of Doubt and Perplexity to the Craft. By the Rev. G. Oliver, D.D. With numerous Diagrams. (Hogg & Co.) THIS title-page so fully explains the nature and object of this valuable work, we need only add that a good deal of amusement is mixed up with the instruction, and much playfulness with profound learning. The Annotated Book of Common Prayer, forming a Concise Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England. By the Rev. J. H. Blunt, M.A., F.S.A. So much has already been said in commendation of this Compendious Edition. (Rivingtons.) most useful work of Mr. Blunt's that it only remains for us to thank him for having now placed it within reach of the many. We commend to our readers' attention Mr. Blunt's note on the Te Deum, as "this most venerable hymn" has lately been a subject of discussion in these columns. How many church-goers are aware of the fact that the Jubilate was inserted originally as a substitute for the Benedictus, when the latter occurred in the Lesson or Gospel? Mr. Blunt writes:-"The days on which it (the Jubilate) should be used are therefore the following-Feb. 18, June 17, June 24 (St. John Baptist's Day), Oct. 15. The general substitution of the Jubilate for the Benedictus is very much to be depre cated." The New Quarterly Magazine. January, 1876. (Ward, Lock & Tyler.) THE only change made in this popular periodical consists in an increase of matter, and, as a new and special feature, a review of the literature of the preceding quarter. This is rather slashingly done; but if the new censor is severe, he also has the sense of fairness which leads him to quote the various judgments of other critics on the same work. This is both novel and good. The whole number is full of interest to the scholar as well as to the general reader. Miss Cobbe and Miss Constance Rothschild distinguish themselves among the ladies; and Mr. Mortimer Collins has a capital gossiping article on almanacs. A paper on Eschylus and Victor Hugo, signed R. B., should be read in conjunction with an essay on the former poet in the Cornhill Magazine. IN Time and Time-Tellers (Hardwicke) Mr. Benson has given a very interesting account of that manufacture with which his name is so intimately associated; but, as modern workmanship is included in his general survey, we may be pardoned for remarking on the absence of all mention of the great clock at Westminster. Mr. Benson tells us that it is rumoured that St. James's Palace clock is shortly to be removed to the South Kensington Coverdale also uses tre where our Authorized Version uses "wood"; in Gen. vi. 14, "Make the an Arke of Pyne tre." So, in Exod. xxv. 10, 26, "Make an Arke of Fyrre tre"; "foure pilers of Fyrre tre"; and in ch. xxvii. 1, an Altare of Firre tre." But the word terrene was used for terrestrial, earthly, as in Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, bk. v. pronounced treen. Puttenham, in his Arte of English in this work as "not unwisely eliminated from the later editions." I cannot see the wisdom of such elimination. The portraits are in themselves strikingly clever; and in my poor judgment are quite defensible. It is true that the satire contained in some of them is pungent enough; but then it is polished, and refers not to private | character, but to the characters of the personages | ch. xxxiv., “terrene powers." This might have been as they appeared to the public, and, in most cases, may be taken to imply a justifiable moral rebuke. I trust, therefore, that they will be preserved. It may not be uninteresting, looking at this same process of elimination, if a list of the portraits contained in the early edition which I read be given in "N. & Q." Those which I easily recognized were Louis Philippe, Guizot, the late Earl of Durham, Earl Russell (then Lord John), the Bishop of Exeter (Philpotts), Duke of Wellington, Lord Palmerston, Macaulay, and Disraeli. One other rather puzzled me at the time, and I may be wrong now in fancying it to be the "Rupert of debate," the late Earl of Derby. But perhaps MR. KENT will give his valuable opinion on this (I have not seen the eliminated editions):"But, like the vigour of a Celtic stream, Comes Lolod's rush of manly sense along, ILFRACOMBE (5th S. iii. 449; iv. 31, 213, 258.) -Perhaps the epitaph of the wife of Rev. Leonard Prince would be acceptable in connexion with this place. The tablet from which I copied it is now in the north chancel aisle of 'Combe Church : "In memoriam Elizabethæ filiæ Johannis Gough e comitatu Somersettensis Armigeri conjugis Leonardi Prince hujus ecclesiae pastoris quæ obiit 25° 7bris Año Domini 1655. Etatis suæ 37. Qualis erat quæras? Kpivov cognoscito Lector T. F. R. TREENWARE (5th S. iv. 308, 331.)-The following quotation clearly shows the meaning in the sixteenth century :— "Whan he toucheth an erthen vessell, it shall be broken; but the treen vessell shall be rensed with water."-Coverdale's translation of Leviticus xv. 12. Forest Hill. MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN NORMANFRENCH (5th S. iv. 449.)-MR. BOASE will find many instances of Norman-French inscriptions in Haines's Manual of Monumental Brasses, Cutts's Incised Slabs, and Boutell's Christian Monuments. It is surely very exceptional to find, not only Norman-French, but any inscriptions on monuments, earlier than the thirteenth century. A considerable number of the thirteenth century, but still more I fancy of the fourteenth century, inscriptions were in Norman-French, which was the language of the Court. This tongue was chiefly affected by knights and ladies, whilst priests were, for the most part, held in memory in canonical Latin. I have looked through the pages of Weever's Funereal Monuments, and find the following number of inscriptions in Norman-French: diocese of Canterbury, two without date, and four of the years 1375, 1376, 1400, 1407, respectively; diocese of Rochester, four without date, and one of each of the years 1354, 1360, 1367, 1369, 1375, 1385, 1392, 1427; diocese of London, eight without date, two of 1375, two of 1400, and one of each of the years 1221, 1350, 1362, 1371, 1389, 1396, 1399, 1414; diocese of Norwich, four without date, and one of the year 1373. There is only one monument, to my knowledge, in the hundred of Scarsdale, in this county, having a Norman-French inscription, and that is in the church of Barlow. It is to the memory of Julia, the wife of Adam Fraunceis, but the inscription is imperfect and without a date. I take it, however, to be of the third quarter of the thirteenth century. J. CHARLES Cox. Chevin House, Belper. The Rev. Samuel Hayman, in his published account of the antiquities of Youghal, co. Cork, gives three of these inscriptions from ancient monuments there. They are all rather incomplete, owing to the monuments being defaced. One, which commences "Mathev: le mercer: git: yci :" commemorates Matthew Le Mercer, who was collector of customs at Youghal, and appears to have died there about the close of the thirteenth or beginning of the fourteenth century. Mr. Hayman quotes the memoranda roll of the Exchequer of the 31st to the 35th year of Edward I., in which there is an entry relating to Martinus de Coumbe, the successor of Le Mercer in the office of collector. W. H. PATTERSON. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Christian Psychology: the Soul and the Body in their Correlation and Contrast. Being a New Translation of Swedenborg's Tractate, "De Commercio Animæ et Corporis, &c., Londini, 1769." With Preface and Illustrative Notes by T. M. Gorman, M.A., Hertford College, Oxford, some time Curate of St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington. (Longmans & Co.) WE feel ourselves bound to confess that we have but scanty acquaintance, in proportion to their dimensions, with the extensive philosophical researches of Swedenborg, and that, therefore, the Tractate, of which the translation gives rise to this book, is to us-we hope we may admit it without shame-by no means easy of mental digestion. The Appendix, which forms the bulk of this volume, is filled with extracts from physical and metaphysical writers, which are designed to illustrate and support some of Swedenborg's positions, or to exhibit the timid restrictions of material science as transcended by his soaring intellect. A perusal of this Appendix should be sufficient, we think, to convince any one who has not already attained conviction from a general acquaintance with the literature of the subject, of the inscrutable nature of the everlasting problem of soul and body and of the unseen world. Mr. Gorman may sneer at the shadows and fallacies that becloud mere human reasonings, but on this, as on all other subjects, where are we to select our guides if not from amongst those who employ these despised weapons? Religion, indeed, is above reason, and affords us lights which our unaided intellects could never attain. Swedenborg himself laid claim to privileges of insight which are bestowed only on those few whom Divine Providence selects as the instruments by means of which we obtain glimpses of the world that is beyond our senses. It is for us to accept or to reject his and similar claims; but to place the revelations of those who make the claims in competition with the theories of those who build upon nothing else than human observation is unfair to the one, and derogatory to the claims of the other class of informants. If we believe that to Swedenborg was accorded a view of heaven and hell, his revelations supersede and render unnecessary all mere human conjectures regarding the spiritual world. If, on the other hand, we place his assertions on the subject of this Tractate to the account of a mind brooding long over the questions that enchained its attention, we can set him in no higher rank than that of other gifted speculators, the result of whose labours, in the field of inquiry traversed by him, the Appendix to this book pretty well exhibits. Mr. Gorman is of opinion that Swedenborg's philosophical evolution was brought out by a special Divine call. If this opinion be correct. diatribes against unaided mortal speculations and theories are as superfluous as they are unkind. The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, with Gorleston and Southtown. By Charles John Palmer, F.S.A., &c. Vol. III. (Great Yarmouth, Hall.) TWICE already have we had occasion to speak in terms of deserved commendation of Mr. Palmer's well-directed labours to put into a form worthy of the ancient and interesting town of which he is a native, the result of the many years which he has devoted to the study of its volume, in May, 1872, we spoke of it (4th S. ix 437) as a records and history. On the appearance of the first local history of which the author's fellow townsmen might well be and ought to be proud. The second volume fully justified that eulogium; and now that Mr. Palmer has brought his labour of love to a close by the publication of a third volume, as rich in literary interest and as profusely illustrated, and made especially available by very complete Indices, we offer him our hearty congratulations on the success of his labours, and our best wishes that he may long be spared to enjoy the reputation which must ever attach to the authorship of The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth. The Discrepancies of Freemasonry examined during a Week's Gossip with the late celebrated Brother Gilkes, and other eminent Masons, on sundry Obscure and Difficult Passages in the ordinary Lodge Lectures, which, although open Questions in Grand Lodge, constitute a Source of Doubt and Perplexity to the Craft. By the Rev. G. Oliver, D.D. With numerous Diagrams. (Hogg & Co.) THIS title-page so fully explains the nature and object of this valuable work, we need only add that a good deal of amusement is mixed up with the instruction, and much playfulness with profound learning. The Annotated Book of Common Prayer, forming a Concise Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England. By the Rev. J. H. Blunt, M.A., F.S.A. So much has already been said in commendation of this Compendious Edition. (Rivingtons.) most useful work of Mr. Blunt's that it only remains for us to thank him for having now placed it within reach of the many. We commend to our readers' attention Mr. Blunt's note on the Te Deum, as "this most venethese columns. How many church-goers are aware of rable hymn" has lately been a subject of discussion in the fact that the Jubilate was inserted originally as a substitute for the Benedictus, when the latter occurred in the Lesson or Gospel? Mr. Blunt writes:-"The days on which it (the Jubilate) should be used are therefore the following-Feb. 18, June 17, June 24 (St. John Baptist's Day), Oct. 15. The general substitution of the Jubilate for the Benedictus is very much to be depre cated." The New Quarterly Magazine. January, 1876. (Ward, Lock & Tyler.) THE only change made in this popular periodical consists in an increase of matter, and, as a new and special feature, a review of the literature of the preceding quarter. This is rather slashingly done; but if the new censor is severe, he also has the sense of fairness which leads him to quote the various judgments of other critics on the same work. This is both novel and good. The whole number is full of interest to the scholar as well as to the general reader. Miss Cobbe and Miss Constance Rothschild distinguish themselves among the ladies; and Mr. Mortimer Collins has a capital gossiping article on almanacs. A paper on Eschylus and Victor Hugo, signed R. B., should be read in conjunction with an essay on the former poet in the Cornhill Magazine. IN Time and Time-Tellers (Hardwicke) Mr. Benson has given a very interesting account of that manufacture with which his name is so intimately associated; but, as modern workmanship is included in his general survey, we may be pardoned for remarking on the absence of all mention of the great clock at Westminster. Mr. Benson tells us that it is rumoured that St. James's Palace clock is shortly to be removed to the South Kensington Museum. May we venture to express a hope that, for the sake of venerable associations, the familiar old dials and chimes may remain untouched? AUTHORS AND QUOTATIONS WANTED (5th S. v. 19.)— Sitting by the poisoned," &c. In reply to T. W. C., the author asked for is, I believe, Siegfried Mahlmann. The following is a translation, by a young lady, of the stanza of which the lines quoted form part: "When the gloom is deepest round thee, When the bonds of grief have bound thee, By the poisoned springs of life Thou sittest, yearning for a morrow That will free thee from the strife." "NOT LOST, BUT GONE BEFORE."-On this quotation a correspondent sends us the following:-"As to the referring of this phrase to Seneca, is it generally known that what he says in his Sixty-third Epistle, winding up præmissus est,' is an amplification of what Antiphanes, with the expression, 'Fortasse, quem putaris periisse, one of the Gnomic poets, wrote four centuries before him? His words are: ου γαρ τεθνασιν, άλλα την αυτην ὁδον, ἣν πασιν ἐλθειν ἐστ ̓ ἀναγκαίως έχον, προεληλυθασιν. Or, in the translation, Nec enim perierunt, sed eam quam necessitas indixit cunctis, antevorterunt viam.' If the remaining stanzas are desired, they will be found Possibly Antiphanes was not the first to express the in Mrs. Gore's novel, Peers and Parvenus. "If Heaven be pleased," &c. The lines quoted by A. C. O. have been applied to other persons besides Bonner. It is recorded that on a window at the inn at Aust Passage, near Bristol, was written the following: "On John Stokes, Attorney-at-Law, in New Inn, London. "So near, so very near to God," &c. This is one verse of a hymn by C. Paget, which commences, "A mind at perfect peace with God." LAYCAUMA will find it as No. 7 in the London Hymn Book, or No. 247 in the Presbyterian Collection. I fail to discover it in other hymn books of which I have copies, and they are not few. HERMENTRUDE. "THE LATE EDMUND LENTHALL SWIFTE, ESQ." (I. L. S. writes)," was the younger son of Theophilus Swifte, Esq., of Goodrich, Herefordshire, and grandson of Deane Swifte, Esq., of Worcester, and Castle Rickard, county Meath. The latter gentleman was the nephew of the great Dean. Although descended from the two great regicides, Mr. Swifte was a royalist of the highest order. With him loyalty was a principle, without which no man could be a gentleman. His attachment to the reigning dynasty made it a proud distinction for him to have borne arms in 1798. He was the oldest volunteer. An accomplished scholar and authority on the English language, Mr. Swifte had few equals. He has left a large and comparatively young family to lament his loss. He lived to see his descendants of the fifth generation. Born on June 20, 1777, dying on Dec. 28, 1875, he was consequently in the ninety-ninth year of his age, and in possession of his great faculties." The Dublin Warder has the following additional facts" He was the last of a generation of the same blood of extraordinary longevity, four of whom have died at, or very near, the same age, within the last twelve months. He was closely allied in kindred to the family of Swifte, of Swifte's Heath, Kilkenny. He occupied for the greater part of half a century a post of high trust under Government as Keeper of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. At an advanced age he retired on a handsome pension, with the view of spending the rest of his days in the more genial climate of France. Mr. Swifte married four wives, by each of whom he had a family, amounting in the aggregate, it is said, to thirty. He was the second son of Theophilus Swifte, a pugna idea. JOHN MACPHERSON." TEXT FOR INSCRIBING OVER A DINING-ROOM DOOR.him; and the report of his good housekeeping will be "Whoso is liberal of his meat, men shall speak well of believed."-Ecclesiasticus xxxi. 23. J. L. CLIFFORD SMITH. Notices to Correspondents. C. M. TORLESSE (Stoke by Nayland.)-Our learned correspondent, MR. F. G. STEPHENS, writes:-"There is a copy of this broadside in the British Museum, Collection of Satirical Prints, No. 1465. When I catalogued the same I made considerable search into all the county and other local histories, wherever it appeared there was a chance of getting information. I had no success, and was forced to leave the thing as it is. Probably there is nothing to explain beyond what we may learn from the text, which is plain enough." says, A. M. D.-Gibbon, in the fifty-fourth chapter of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Luther maintained a corporeal, and Calvin a real, presence of Christ in the Eucharist; and the opinion of Zuinglius, that it is no more than a spiritual communion, churches." a simple memorial, has slowly prevailed in the Reformed F. J. V.-MR. SKEAT writes:-"I had not observed the correction in the Two Noble Kinsmen suggested by F. J. V., or I would gladly have acknowledged it. The emendation occurred to me independently; and, as it is not difficult, I rather wonder that Mr. Dyce should have missed it." LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1876. CONTENTS.- N° 108. QUERIES:-Sir Henry Wotton-Lady Greenvill-Pagano, or history of the dissemination of popular traditions, which had been overlooked by those accomplished scholars, as it has been since by Keightley, Price, and other subsequent writers. Having given the subject much consideration, and collected what I thought strong evidence of the soundness of my views, I ventured to consult my kind and learned friend, the late Mr. Douce, and I was warmly encouraged by him to pursue my inquiries; some years afterwards I received similar advice from Dean Milman; yet, though I have many "priefs of it in my note-book," formed a collection of books on the popular songs, legends, and superstitions of different nations perhaps unrivalled,-written a few papers on Shakspeare's Folk-lore,--coined that same word folk-lore, and REPLIES:-The O'Neills of France and Spain, 69- "Brandnew" and "Spick and Span New," 70-"Hon-Rabanus published a long and perhaps deservedly forgotten Maurus-Poets the Masters of Language, 72-Registrum little book, Lays and Legends of Various Nations, Sacrum Batavianum, 73-St. Joseph-Watch Seals-Arch--all the time, thought, and labour bestowed by deacons' Seals-Shakspeare's Seal Ring-"Wilie Beguile "Mind your Ps and Qs, 74-Strawberry Leaves on Ducal me on this subject has ended in nothing. Coronets-Dr. Homer's "Bibliotheca Universalis Ameri- But, though not a line has ever appeared of cana" Philadelphia Authors- Christmas Mummerswhat I once hoped would win me some reputation, Whatton Family-" Miltonis Epistola ad Pollionem "The Present State of London"-Irish Pronunciation of I have been led, partly by force of circumstances, English Words, 75-London Bridge-Numismatic-" Firm- partly by what I felt to be an act of duty, to pubing"-R. Brandon, the Executioner-"St. Irvyne; or, the Rosicrucian"-" Ness "-Pre-Reformation Church' Plate-lish two books which I certainly never contem"Furmety"-Hamoaze-Title of "Right Honourable ". Rev. Dr. George Walker, 76-Henry Clarke, LL.D.— Shaking Hands-Ghauts, 77-Louise Lateau-The late Joseph Clark of Hull-Dermid O'Meara, 78. Notes on Books, &c. Notes. " DR. WILMOT'S POLISH PRINCESS. Among the many interesting topics discussed and questions investigated by the learned author of The Curiosities of Literature, Calamities of Authors, &c., I do not recollect any inquiry as to why many books came to be written: I allude more particularly to books on subjects quite foreign to the pursuits of the writers, and which may be said to owe their origin to accident. Yet the subject is one which his extensive reading would have enabled him to treat amusingly and instructively. I believe literary men may often say with Hamlet, "There's a divinity doth shape our ends, Rough-hew them how we may"; and that circumstances often lead men to write what they never contemplated, and to leave unwritten books on the preparation of which they have bestowed much thought, time, and labour. Nearly half a century ago, when I began to dabble in literature, some charming papers by Sir Walter Scott, Sir F. Palgrave, and others, on the "origin and diffusion of popular fictions," attracted my attention. The subject so fascinated me that I pursued it with earnestness, and was eventually rewarded by the discovery of what I then believed, and still believe, to be an important element in the plated. How, being neither physiologist nor statist, I was led to publish a volume, The Longevity of Man, developing, for the first time in a book devoted to the subject, those views which a medical dissentient from them has designated the "Thomsian theory," I pass by at the present moment. How, being neither lawyer nor politician, I have been led, I believe I may truly say, as an act of duty to undertake the exposure of the innumerable falsehoods of Mrs. Serres, is more germane to the present communication. Two great lawyers, one a great politician, were accessories before the fact. When on a visit to Lord Brougham, in 1858, he gave me a copy of Mrs. Ryves's Appeal for Royalty, which had just been sent to him by post. I read it, and told him, when he asked my opinion of it, that I thought it just as absurd and untruthful as her mother's attempt to prove that Dr. Wilmot was "Junius," which I had read some twenty years before. A long and curious conversation with Lord Brougham led me to feel an interest in the subject which I had never felt before; and when the Ryves trial took place in 1866, I watched its progress with great curiosity. A day or two after its conclusion the Lord Chief Baron (Pollock) asked me if I had any copious history of Poland, and explained that his object was to ascertain some particulars of Poniatowski, whose sister or daughter Dr. Wilmot was said to have married. No such history exists to my knowledge; but a reference to the Annual Register and Gentleman's Magazine gave me a few dates, and I promised the learned judge that I would endeavour to answer his query. |