Jan. 17. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



63 



of honour may create a noble, it may be ques- 

 tioned whether it would not require something 

 more than a breath to wwmake him ? 



[We have received many other excellent defences of 

 the original reading of this passage in Goldsmith, We 

 have selected the present aa one of the shortest among 

 those which first reached us. We will add to it a post- 

 script from the communication of another correspondent, 

 J. S. W., showing a curious typographical error which 

 has crept into the recent editions of Goldsmith.] 



Passage in the Traveller. — There is a line in 

 the Traveller, I may observe, into which an error 

 of the press, or of some unlucky critic, has in- 

 truded. Goldsmith, speaking of the Swiss, says 

 that he 



" Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes." 



In some editions it is given — 



" Breathes the keen air," &c. 



Breasts was doubtless the original word, for it is 

 quoted in Johnson's Dictionary, imder the %vord 

 Breast. This alteration, however, does not, like 

 the supposed change of unmakes into can make, 

 affect the sense. J. S. W. 



Stockwell. 



BOGATZKY. 



(Vol.iii., pp.478. 526. ; Vol. iv., p. 44.) 



Perhaps the following Note may prove interest- 

 ing, as a contribution to the literary history of 

 Bogatzky's popular work, and as explanatory of 

 the statement of R. D. H. (Vol. iii., p. 526.), that 

 the book was almost entirely re-written by the 

 Rev. H. Venn. 



The Golden Treasury was introduced to English 

 readers through the late excellent John Thornton, 

 Esq. This gentleman having met with a copy of 

 the German work, caused it to be translated into 

 English. Of this translation (in which many of 

 Bogatzsky's papers are exchanged for extracts 

 from English writers) a single copy was printed, 

 interleaved, and sent to the Rev. John Berridge, 

 of Everton, for final revision. This copy is now 

 before me. The title runs thus : A Golden Trea- 

 sury for the Children of God, whose Treasure is in 

 Heaven; consisting of select Texts of the Bible, 

 with practical Observations in Prose and Verse, for 

 every Day in the Year. By C H. v. Bogatzsky : 

 with some Alterations and Improvements by various 

 Hands. Also a Preface on the right Use of this 

 Book. Together with a few Forms of Prayer for 

 private Use. " Where your Treasure is, there will 

 your Heart be also." Matt. vi. 21. London : 

 Printed in the Year mdcclxxv. Then follows the 

 Preface (pp. iii. — xvi.), written by Mr. Thornton. 

 The rest of the book extends to 374 pages of a 

 small oblong form. The whole is very copiously 

 annotated by Mr. Berridge, whose corrections are 



most important and judicious. He greatly im- 

 proved and simplified the language, his chief aim 

 evidently being to accommodate the book to the 

 use of as large a number of readers as possible. 

 The humour of the man breaks out ever and anon 

 in cutting rebukes and sarcasms directed against 

 unsound doctrine : neither Calvinist nor Arminian, 

 Pharisee nor Antinomian, escape his lash. A con- 

 siderable number of papers are either entirely re- 

 written, or very largely altered; e.g. Jan. 29 (by 

 J. Thornton) ; Feb. 10, 19; April 8, 26; May 2, 

 3, 16, 20; June 19, 22 ; Sept. 9, 17, 18, 21, 25; 

 Oct. 10; Nov. 18; Dec. 1, &c. About forty- 

 three papers are left untouched, and twenty others 

 have only some verses added by Mr. Berridge. 

 Next, as to the extracts from English authors : in 

 the interleaved copy the sources are indicated in 

 Mr. Thornton's handwriting for the first six 

 months ; beyond which there is no indication of 

 the kind. I subjoin a list of the authors from 

 whom extracts have been made : — 



Aberdeen Bible, Feb. 17, 22, April 1, 18, 

 June 8 ; Mr. Adams, March 28 ; Mr. Beidley, 

 Jan. 1, 12, April 21; 31?: Brewer, April 15; 

 Darracot's Scripture Marks, March 5, April 3 ; 

 Mr. De Coetlogon, June 5 ; Mr. Fletcher, May 4, 

 5 ; Mr.Forster, Feb. 10, 20; Dr. Guise, June 11; 

 Bishop Hall, Feb. 12, 26, March 12, May 3, 

 June 9 ; Mr. Howe, March 1, April 6 ; Mr. 

 Keask (J), Feb. 1 ; Mr. King, Jan. 31, Feb. 8; 

 Mr. Law, June 4; Mr. Mason, March 29, 30; 

 Mr. Newton, April 17 ; Dr. Owen, Feb. 21, 

 March 15, 21; Mr. Romaine, Jan. 29 ; Spencers 

 Storehouse, Feb. 16, March 19, 31, April 20, 30, 

 May 29, June 14, 17; Mrs. Thornton, March 10; 

 3Irs. Wills, April 19. 



I will only add that most of the corrections of 

 Mr. Berridge were adopted by Mr. Thornton, and 

 have consequently appeared in the London editions 

 in current use. C. P. Ph***. 



MORAVIAN HYMNS. 



(Vol. iv., p. 502.) 

 ' John Wesley was at one time of his life a pupil of 

 the Moravians, and Southey's Life of that remark- 

 able man, like most of his works, pregnant with in- 

 terest and erudition, affords a satisfactory answer to 

 your correspondent's Query. I quote from the 

 3rd edition of the Life, 2 vols., 1846. Of the 

 Moravians he says : — 



" Madness never gave birth to combinations of more 

 monstrous and blasphemous obscenity than they did in 

 their fantastic allegories and spiritualizations. In such 

 freaks of perverted fancy the abominations of the 

 Phallus and the Lingam have imquestionably origi- 

 nated; and in some such abominations Moravianism 

 might have ended, had it been instituted among the 

 Mingrelian or Malabar Christians, where there was no 

 antiseptic influence of surrounding circumstances to 



