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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd S. JTtt 70., May 2. '57. 



Mortimer, with whom he was on terms of the most 

 intimate friendship, and both were choice spirits. 

 Probably the oval portrait adverted to by one of 

 your querists may have been by the American 

 artist, Gabriel Stuart, of which there surely is 

 occasionally met with a small circular etching, I 

 forget by whom, but merely the head, as Hender- 

 son died suddenly at the period. 



But better than any may be (when it is pro- 

 duced) that portrait by Romney, of which the 

 print is well known, showing him in the study of 

 a character and in half armour. J. H. A. 



Mental Condition of the Starving (2"'' S. ii. 288.) 

 — Some minute information may be gained by re- 

 ferring to Dante, Inferno, xxx. ; Don Juan, ii. ; 

 Godolphin, Ixi. ; Passages from the History of a 

 Wasted Life (Kershaw), passim; Famine in the 

 American Ship ^ Peggy;' and a clever paper en- 

 titled " Lost in the Marsh," in the Boy's Own 

 Magazine, vol. ii. p. 81. Thbelkeld. 



Cambridge. 



University Hoods, ^c. (2°'^ S. iii. 308.) — The 

 M.A. hood, at Oxford, is lined with crimson silk, 

 at Cambridge with white satin, at Durham with 

 lilac or violet silk, at Dublin with purple silk ; but 

 the forms are different. 



The B.A. hood, at Oxford, is of black silk, 

 trimmed with white fur ; at the other Universities 

 of serge, lined with sheepskin. The Licentiate 

 in Theology of Durham wears a hood of black 

 stuff trimmed with velvet. 



The D.D. hood, at Oxford, scarlet cloth with, 

 black lining ; at Cambridge of scarlet cloth, lined 

 with rose-coloured silk. At Oxford, the D.C.L. 

 hood is of scarlet cloth, lined with crimson silk. 



The Eegent M.A. and LL.B. hood of Cam- 

 bridge is black. The B.C.L. hood of Oxford is 

 blue, trimmed with white fur ; and the S.C.L. 

 hood has not the latter ornament. The S.C.L. 

 hood of Cambridge is the same as a B.A.'s. The 

 St. Bees' degree-hood is, as I believe, a hybrid 

 tricolour, black, red, and white ; compiled from 

 the two Universities. The Admonitio pro habitu 

 Gradui competente, at Oxford, is the following : — 

 The Proctor says : 



" Item tu teneris, qubd sis habiturus intra quindenam, 

 habituin de proprio Gradui competentem, et ipsum vel 

 similem servabis, quamdiii in Universitate contigerit te 

 morari ; ad efFectum, ut non soliim in eo actus scliolasticos 

 possis exercere ; veriim etiam Universitatem Matrem 

 nostram, in processionibus et aliis Universitatis negotiis 

 (ciim vocatus et prjemonitus fueris,) cum eodem valeas 

 honorare ; idque sub pcenis in statutis Universitatis Hmi- 

 tatis." 



Mackenzie Walcott, M.A. 



Waterspouts on Land (2""^ S. ii. 32^.) — As Mr. 

 Taylor's question has not yet been answered, 

 perhaps I may be allowed to state that accounts of 

 waterspouts on land may be found in the 23rd, 



30th, 46th, and 47th volumes of the Transactions 

 of the Royal Society. According to a letter in 

 The Times newspaper of the 1st inst., a water- 

 spout was observed at Whitchurch (Salop) on the 

 evening of the 30th March. Vespebtilio. 



Quotation wanted (2"^ S. iii. 290.) — In answer 

 to Rosalie's inquiry the following is the nearest 

 I can obtain. The quotation is taken from the 

 29th Ode (Anacreontic) of Moore, vide 1st vol. of 

 his 10 vol. ed., 1853, p. 122. : 



" Yes, loving is a painful thrill, 

 And not to love more painful still ; 

 But oh, it is the worst of pain, 

 To love, and not be lov'd again." 



John Nurse Chadwick. 



" Of all pains, the greatest pain 

 It is to love, and love in vain." 



This is plainly a translation, very likely Moore's, 

 of Anacreon : 



" XaXeTrbf to (oiri <^iA^crai, 

 XoAeTrbi/ Se Kai <^tA.^crat' 

 XaA.eTrioTaTOi' 8e rravrtov 

 'XiTOTvyxO'Veiv c^iAovi/Ta." 



Quaere, Whence are the following lines ? They 

 have something of the ring of Dryden : 



" As in smooth oil the razor best is whet, 

 So wit is by politeness sharpest set. 

 The want of edge by the offence is seen ; 

 Both pain us least when exquisitely keen." 



Durham. 



Quotation Wanted (2""^ S. iii. 330.) — 

 " Whence did the wondrous mystic art arise ? &c." 

 Is not the following that which your correspon- 

 dent D. is searching for ? It is to be found in 

 Elegant Extracts, vol. ii. p. 272. : 



" Tell me what Genius did the art invent, 

 The lively image of the voice to paint? 

 Who first the secret how to colour sound, 

 And to give shape to reason wisely found ? 

 With bodies how to clothe ideas taught, 

 And how to draw the picture of a thought? 

 Who taught the hand to speak, the eye to hear, 

 A silent language, roving far and near? 

 Whose softest noise outstrips loud thunder's sound, 

 And spreads her accents thro' the world's vast round ? 

 A voice heard by the deaf, spoke by the dumb ; 

 Whose echo reaches long, long time to come ; 

 Which dead men speak as well as those alive — 

 Tell me, what Genius did this art contrive ? " 

 The Answer. 



« The noble art to Cadmus owes its rise. 

 Of painting words and speaking to the eyes ; 

 The first in wondrous magic fetters bound 

 The airy voice, and stopp'd the flying sound. 

 The various figures by his pencil wrought 

 Gave colour, form, and body to the thought." 



P. B. 



Quotation (1" S. xii. 264.) — 



" An angel now, and little less before." 

 If this Query has not been previously answered (I 



