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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — Page 



The Pantheon at Paris - - - - - 73 



Churchill the Poet - - - - - - 74 



English Medals: William III. and Grandval, by W. D. 

 Haggard - - - - - - - 75 



Readings in Shakspeare, No. I. - - - - 75 



Folk Lore: — Salting a New-born Infant — Lent Crock- 

 ing — Devonshire Superstition respecting Still-born 

 Children - - - . - . -76 



Goldsmith's Pamphlet on the Cock Lane Ghost, by Jas. 



Crossley - - - . - . -77 



Minor Notes : — Traditions of remote Periods through 

 few Links — Preservation of Life at Sea — Epigram - 77 

 Queries : — 



Minor Queries: —Count Konlgsmark— " O Leoline ! 

 be absolutely just" — Lyte Family — Sir Walter Ra- 

 leigh's Snufr-l)ox — " Poets beware " — Guanahani, or 

 Cat Island — Wiggan, or Utiggan, an Oxford Student 



— Prayers for the Fire of London — Donkey — French 

 and Italian Degrees — The Shadow of the Tree of 

 Life — Sun-dials — Nouns always printed with Capital 

 Initials — John of Padua — St. Kenelm — Church - 78 



Minor Queries Answered : — Hieroglypliics of Vagrants 

 and Criminals— Muggleton and Reeve— Rev. T. Adams 



— The Archbishop of Spalatro — Bishop Bridgeman — 

 Rouse, the Scottish Psalmist — " Count Cagliostro, or 

 the Charlatan, a Tale of the Reign of Louis XVI." — 

 Churchyard Well and Bath - - _ - - 79 



Repiies : — 



Collars of SS. 81 



On the First, Final, and Suppressed Volume of the only 



Expurgatory Index of Rome, by the Rev. J. Mendham 82 

 The First Paper-mill in England, and Paper-mill near 



Stevenage, by A. Grayan - - - - - 83 



The Pendulum Demonstration - - - - 84 



The Cross and the Crucifix, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent 85 

 Yankee Doodle, by C. H. Cooper - - - - 86 



Perpetual Lamp - - . _ . - 87 



Kibroth Hattavah and Wady Mokatteb : Num.xi. 26. 



critically examined, by Moses Margoliouth - - 87 



Replies to Minor Queries : — " Theophania"— Royal 



Library— Reichenbach's Ghosts — Marriage Tithe in 



Wales — Paul Hoste— John of Halifax — Age of Trees 



— "Mirabilis Liber " — Caesarius, &c.— Tripos — 

 " Please the Pigs " — Basnet Family—Serjeants' Rings 

 — " Crowns have their Compass "—Hell paved with the 

 Skulls of Priests — Cooper's Miniature of Cromwell — 

 King Street Theatre— Groom, Meaning of— Schola 

 Cordis, &c. - - - . . - 88 



Miscellaneous : 



Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. - - - 94 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - . - 94 



Notices to Correspondents - . - - 94 



Advertisements - - . . . - 95 



THE PANTHEON AT PARIS. 



Among the circumstances wliicli have attracted 



notice in the remarkable events of the present 



French revolution, the restoration of the Pantheon 



to Its primitive ecclesiastical name and destination 



Vol. v. — 1^0.117. 



has been specially adverted to, and certainly not 

 without reason from its implied — indeed, its ob- 

 vious purpose, — that of propitiating the feelings 

 and courting the adhesion at least of the agricul- 

 tural population of the country to the new order 

 of things ; for, indifferent as Paris, with other 

 cities, may be to religious sentiments or practice, 

 the unsophisticated inhabitants of the provinces 

 still conscientiously pursue the forms and exercise 

 the duties of their long-established worship. No 

 surer means of obtaining their suffrages could 

 have been adopted by the French President than 

 by gaining the favour of the parish priests, whose 

 influence is necessarily paramount on such occa- 

 sions over their flocks. 



In the accounts Avhich have appeared in our 

 journals of the Pantheon and its varied fate, 

 several errors and deficiencies having struck me, 

 I beg leave briefly to correct and supply both, with 

 your permission, by a general history of the beau- 

 tiful edifice. 



The church dedicated to St. Genevieve, pa- 

 troness of Paris, originally begun by Clovis, and 

 finished by his widow, St. Clotilda, in the sixth 

 century (see Butler's Lives of Saints, January 3rd, 

 and June 3rd), had fallen into decay, when Louis 

 XV. determined to construct one near it, upon 

 a large and magnificent scale. Designs presented 

 by the eminent architect Soufllot were adopted, 

 and on the 6th of September, 1764, the king, as 

 stated by Galignani and others, laid the first 

 stone. But scarcely had it emerged from the 

 foundation, when the wide-spreading impiety of 

 the age made it probable that it would eventually 

 be diverted to uses wholly at variance with its 

 destined purpose, and so the following lines fore- 

 told so long since as 1777 ; and never has a pre- 

 diction been more literally in many respects, and 

 for a considerable time more completely, fulfilled : — 



" Templum augustum, ingens, regina assurgit in urbe, 

 Urbe et patrona virgine digna domus, 



Tarda nimis pietas vanos moliris honores ! 

 Non sunt ha3C, Virgo, factis digna tuis. 



Ante Deo summa quam templum extruxeris urbe, 

 Impietas teraplis toilet et urbe Deum." 



The French translation thus impressively ren- 

 ders the sense : — •'" 



