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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 115. 



^^ Racked hy pain, hj shame confounded" (Vol.iv., 

 p. 7.). — These are the commencing lines of a short 

 original poem called " The Negro's Triumph." 

 It is to be found in the Parent's Poetical Anthology, 

 edited by Mrs. Mant, p. 231. 5th edition, 1849. 



T. H. Kersley, B.A. 



Blessing by Hand (Vol. iii., pp. 477. 509.). — 

 Some drawings and descriptions of the modes of 

 blessing by the hand are to be found, in the 

 "Dictionary of Terms of Art," published in one 

 of the early numbers of the Art Journal for this 

 year. Este. 



Verses in Latin Prose (Vol. iv., p. 382.). — 

 A. A. D. will surely thank me, if his Note on the 

 subject do not contain it, for the rationale, which 

 Sir Thomas Brown gives, Religio Medici, Part ii. 

 p. 9., of the occurrence of verses in Latin prose : 



" I will not say with Plato, the soul is an harmony, 

 but harmonical, and hath its nearest sympathy unto 

 music : thus some, whose temper of body agrees, and 

 humours the constitution of their souls, are born poets, 

 though indeed all are naturally inclined unto rhythm. 

 This made Tacitus, in the very first lines of his story, 

 fall upon a verse ( Urhem liomam in principio regis 

 habuere) ; and Cicero, the worst of poets, but declaim- 

 ing for a poet, falls, in the very first sentence, upon a 

 perfect hexameter : In qua me non inficior mediocriter 

 esse. " 



C. W. B. 



Blahloance Ilmresis (Vol. iv., pp. 193. 239. 240.). 

 — As I was the querist concerning this work and 

 its author, and wanted the information, I was very 

 thankful for the satisfactory answers given. The 

 books referred to by R. G. are not inaccessible : 

 whether then it be needful to occupy your co- 

 lumns with the " particulars" required by E. A.M. 

 (Vol. iv., p. 458.) may be a query too. The 

 first word of the title is as above (not Blackloanse, 

 as your correspondents have It). E. A. M. will 

 find that Blacklow, or Blakloe, is a soubriquet, as 

 well as Lominus. 



P. S. — On examining the book, however, I am 

 not convinced that Peter Talbot was its "real 

 author," though extensive use is made of what he 

 had written ; or that " Lominus" is an " imaginary 

 divine," even if the name be a feigned one. On 

 what ground do these assertions rest ? S. W. Rix. 



Beccles. 



Quaker Bible (Vol. Iv., pp. 87. 412.). — A 

 Member of the Society of Friends, who writes 

 on the subject of a Quaker Expurgated Bible, ap- 

 pears to be unaware of the existence of a work 

 once (I believe) well known In that body. This 

 was an epitome or compendium of the Bible by 

 John Kendall ; it contained the greater portion of 

 the Word of God, such parts being excluded as 



the editor did not consider profitable. It is pro- 

 bably to this book that the authoress of Quakerism 

 refers ; I have, however, never seen her work. 

 This mutilated Bible of John Kendall was fre- 

 quently to be met with formerly in the houses of 

 members of the Society of Friends ; as I have not 

 seen It for more than twenty years, I cannot tell 

 what Its exact date may be ; It was, however, 

 published in the days when all religious publica- 

 tions of the Society of Friends were subject to the 

 approval of a committee. In 1830, George WItley 

 published a list of those chapters in the Bible which 

 were "suitable" for reading In "Friends'" families; 

 amongst other portions he excluded (I believe) the 

 16th of Leviticus and Psalm xxli. In private he 

 thought the whole might be read; but he says that 

 he prepared this index because of having heard 

 very unsuitable matter read aloud ! This informa- 

 tion may be new to your correspondent. 



SiMONIDES. 



Wyle Cop (Vol. Iv., pp. 116. 243. 509.).— E. H. 

 D. D. is In error ; the Wyle Cop at Shrewsbury is 

 not an artificial bank, but a natural eminence over- 

 looking the Severn ; and I cannot agree with him 

 in the Immateriality of the meaning attached to 

 Wyle. The associations connected with names are 

 frequently of great topographical and historical 

 value. There are many singular names of streets, 

 &c., In Shrewsbury, which I should be glad if any 

 of your correspondents can interpret, such as " Mar- 

 dol," " Shop latch," " BIspestanes," and " Dog- 

 pole;" also the derivation of "Shut" in the sense 

 of passage or entry, a synonym with the Liverpool 

 " WIent," which seems equally uncertain, 



BoAis. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



If it be true, as we are inclined to believe, that there 

 is no one subject in the whole wide range of speculative 

 studies, to which the well-worn saying of Hamlet, that 

 there are more things true than are dreamt of in our 

 philosophy, may be applied with so much propriety as 

 Animal Magnetism, — so we are also inclined to believe 

 that a perusal of the two volumes recently published 

 by Mr. Colquhoun under the title of An History of 

 Magic, Witchcraft, and Animal Magnetism, will tend to 

 convince our readers that to the same subject may be 

 applied the yet older saying, that there is nothing new 

 under the sun. Mr. Colquhoun, who many years 

 since published his Isis Revelata, has long been a dili- 

 gent inquirer into the nature and origin of the different 

 phenomena of animal magnetism ; and it would appear 

 from the work before us, he has also been a persevering 

 reader of all the various accounts of magic, witchcraft, 

 and other so-called popular delusions, recorded by the 

 writers of antiquity, and the chroniclers of the middle 

 ages ; as well as of those more modern mysteries (such as 



