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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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form no small division of the proposed collec- 

 tion. 



• Then, again, the faces and figures of the models 

 are generally traceable to the land of the painter : 

 there never was a race so innocent of ethnological 

 distinctions as these artists. Albert Durer's 

 " Prodigal with the Swine," for instance, a dissi- 

 pated German Herr, with a lank face, drooping 

 moustache, and hair enough to put to shame the 

 full-bottomed wigs of a later century. 



The last instance of this carelessness of the 

 flight of time was in the article of costume, in a 

 painting of a Scripture subject (in which most of 

 these anachronisms occur) by Mr. Thomas, which 

 hung in the rooms of the Academy last year. In 

 the foreground of this subject a figure was repre- 

 sented in the slashed breeches of the fifteenth cen- 

 tury ! T. Haewood Pattison. 



5ffmar ^qU&. 



Lines from a Parish Register, — Lines from a 

 blank page in the old (a.d. 1666-1695) parish 

 register at Eckington, Derbyshire : 



" Omnia fake metit tempus. 

 " Our Grandfathers were Papists, 

 Our Fathers Oliverians, 

 We their Sons are Atheists, 

 Sure our Sons will be queer ones." 



J. Eastwood. 



Plagiarism. — I know not whether the follow- 

 ing instances of plagiarism have been before 

 noticed. In Scott's Guy Mannering^ Dominie 

 Sampson rails at Meg Merrilies in Latin, but 

 translates it into complimentary English. In 

 Bulwer's Last of the Barons, Friar Bungay does 

 the same to the chief of the tymbesteres. 



Again, just as in Shakspeare (Henry IV., Part 

 I. Act II. Sc. 4.), Falstaff multiplies his men in 

 buckram in the course of his narration, so does 

 Frank Hervey his highwaymen in Reynolds's Mys- 

 teries of London, — a book I read when a boy, 

 scarcely aware of its character. 



Disraeli has been reproached for having, in his 

 Venetia, chap, xviii. book iv., plagiarised from 

 Macaulay's Essay on Byron ; but is not the ex- 

 tract, though not pointed out by quotation marks, 

 sufliciently acknowledged by the sentences : " It 

 has been well observed;" "These observations 

 by a celebrated writer" ? Thbelkeld. 



Cambridge. 



" Dublin University Calendar " for 1857. — 

 The volume for the current year, under the title 

 here given, is particularly interesting ; and con- 

 tains, with a mass of useful information, a revised 

 list of the Provosts, Fellows, and Scholars of Trinity 

 College, Dublin, from the foundation to the pre- 

 sent time. Appended to the name of each is 



professedly given a list of at least his principal 

 writings. This is very good, showing, as it does, 

 tlie groundlessness of the charge of " Silent 

 Sister ; " but there are some strange omissions on 

 the part of the editor, who justly acknowledges 

 his many obligations to Dr. Todd. For example, 

 Dr. Hales (elected Fellow in 1769), though the 

 well-known author of several learned works, does 

 not get credit in the Calendar for one ; Dr. Young 

 (elected in 1775, and subsequently Bishop of 

 Clonfert) has been similarly treated ; and the 

 same may be said of Dr. Browne (1777), the Rev. 

 Wra. Hamilton (1779), and many more. To Dr. 

 Miller (1789) has indeed been assigned the Phi- 

 losophy of Modern History; but no mention is 

 made of his other publications. These omissions 

 are strange, more especially as other Fellows have 

 credit for single sermons, or lectures, or papers in 

 the Transactions of some one or other of the home 

 or foreign societies. Similar omissions might easily 

 be detected amongst the Scholars ; but, as I said, 

 the volume is particularly interesting, and we are 

 in no small degree indebted to the editor for the 

 pains he has taken. Abhba. 



A Tailor'' s Gravestone. — Many years ago there 

 was pointed out to me in the Abbey churchyard 

 of Paisley an upright headstone to the memory 

 of a tailor. A large pair of scissors or shears 

 is cut upon it, between the expanded blades of 

 which a huge louse is suSering the pains of death. 

 Whether the latter was added by desire of tlie 

 friends of the deceased, or by the waggery of the 

 stone cutter, non liquet. G. N. 



Standard of Gold. — The following information 

 was given in The T'imes of Jan. 10, 1857, by 

 " One of the Trade." Thinking it will be more 

 easy of reference if transferred to, and indexed in, 

 the pages of " N. & Q.," I send you the substance 

 for insertion : 



" Standard of gold. — Two years ago there was an 

 alteration made in the quality of gold marked in Gold- 

 smiths' Hall, it being represented to the President of the 

 Board of Trade that it would be advantageous alike to 

 the manufacturer and the public : and instead of there 

 being only two different standards, there are now five, 

 viz. 22, 18, 15, 12, and 9 carats. If, on the purchase of a 

 watch, the cases, instead of bearing the mark of ' 18 

 carat,' the gold of which would be worth 67»-. per oz, 

 should be marked onlj' ' 12 carat,' the gold is worth only 

 45s. per oz., and the purchaser has been legally robbed 

 of the difference in value, which, supposing the cases to 

 weigh 1 oz. 10 dwts., would be 33s. 



" When purchasing a gold watch, therefore, see that 

 the cases are marked ' 18 carat ; ' if they are not so 

 marked, do not make the purchase." 



Geo. E. Fkere. 



Royden Hall, Diss. 



A Scotch Midwife. — This useful class of 

 women is now fast disappearing, except in remote 



