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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 127. 



St. Christopher (Vol. v., p. 265.). — I know not 

 ■whether Mr. Drake's explanation (referred to by 

 E. A. H. L.) be the same as that given in Sacred 

 and Legendary Art, but the latter seems suffi- 

 ciently satisfactory. 



" It was believed that in consequence of his prayer, 

 those who beheld the figure of St. Christopher were 

 exempt during that day from all perils of earthquake, 

 fire, and flood. The mere sight of his image, that type 

 of strength, was deemed sufficient to inspire with 

 courage those who had to struggle with the evils and 

 casualties of life, and to reinvigorate those who were 

 exhausted by the labours of husbandry. . . . Hence it 

 became a custom to place his image in conspicuous 

 places, to paint it of colossal size on the walls of 

 churches and houses, where it is sometimes seen occu- 

 pying the whole height of the building, and is visible 

 from a great distance, being considered as a good omen 

 for all those who look upon it. A mountain in 

 Granada, which is first seen by ships arriving from the 

 African coast, is called San Christobal, in allusion to 

 this poetical superstition." — S. and L. Art, p. 262. 



J. Eastwood. 



White Livers (Vol. v., p. 127.). — The super- 

 stition, that a man or woman who survives several 

 wives or husbands has a white liver, is common 

 among the lower orders in Lancashire. P. P. 



TorsheVs Design to harmonise the Bible (Vol. v., 

 p. 199.). — This rare and valuable tract is reprinted 

 in TAe Phenijc, 1707, vol. i. pp. 96—113. 



John I. Dbedge. 



KOTES on BOOKS, ETC. 



The success which has attended the endeavour to 

 supply, by means of the London Library in St. James's 

 Square, the want so long felt by scholars and reading 

 men, of a library of circulation of works of a higher 

 class than those to be met with in ordinary subscription 

 libraries, has just been rendered evident by the publi- 

 cation of the second volume of its Catalogue. 



From this it appears that there are now in this ad- 

 mirable collection — for it is an admirable one — fifteen 

 thousand distinct works (upwards, we believe, of forty- 

 five thousand volumes), comprising the best and most 

 expensive works in every department of learning, which 

 scholars and men of learning may have the use of in 

 their own studies for the small subscription of two 

 pounds a year. There is little wonder that the plan has 

 succeeded, for it has been well carried out, — thanks to 

 the zeal of the Managing Committee, and to the care 

 and attention of Mr. Cochrane, its able and most eflS- 

 cient Librarian. 



The History of the Re:'loration of Monarchy in France, 



by Alphonse de Lamartine. Volume the Second 



The brilliant and eloquent narrative contained in this 

 volume includes the period between Napoleon's de- 

 parture from Fontainebleau and his abdication. In 

 "he course of this history we are presented with scene 



after scene which dazzle us with all the gorgeous 

 colouring of a panorama ; but which, when we come 

 to look into their details, are found to be almost as 

 obscure and indefinite as the objects in those attractive 

 works of art to which we have likened them. The 

 work has all the charms of a romance ; but we fear 

 purchases this reputation by sacrificing the more sober 

 requirements of a history. 



Lectures and Addresses in Aid of Popular Education^ 

 by the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle. — It would 

 be difficult to find a more faithful or a more gratifying 

 type of the present age than this new part of The Tra- 

 veller's Library, in which we see one of England's 

 " belted earls," and one of the most amiable and accom- 

 plished men of his time, recording the experiences of 

 his travels ; and inviting to join him in the delights 

 which he has gathered from literary pursuits, — not a 

 crowd of titled listeners, but " a band of the hard-handed 

 working men" fresh from the anvil and the loom. 



Were Heretics ever burned at Rome ? A Report of the 

 Proceedings of the Roman Liquisition against Fidgentio 

 Manfredi, taken from the Original Manuscript brought 

 from Italy by a French Officer, and edited, with a paral- 

 lel English Version, and Notes, by the Rev. Richard 

 Gibbings, M. A. — The Dublin Review for June 1850 

 having boldly asserted as a fact, that " the Roman In- 

 quisition — that is to say, the tribunal which was im- 

 mediately subject to the control and direction of the 

 Popes themselves, in their own city, has never been 

 known to order the execution of capital punishment'* 

 — the Rev. Richard Gibbings has published, in con- 

 tradiction of such assertion, this important document, 

 in the history of Father Fulgentio, who was hanged 

 and burned in the Campo di Fiore. 



BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES 



WANTED TO PURCHASE. 



Scott's Continuation of Milner's Chuhch History, Vol. IL 

 Part II. 8vo. 



Winkelman's Reflections on the Painting of the Greeks, 

 translated by Fuseli. London, 17f>5. 8vo. 



Royal Proclamations in England in the Year 1G88, extend- 

 ing TO AND INCLUDING THE YeAR 1707. LondOH, folio. 



Tyrwitt's Solid Reasons for Philosophizing. Winchester, 



Bentley's Miscellany. \The first two Volumes. In Numbers 



preferred. 

 Marvell's Works. 3 Vols. 4to. i 



Marvell's (Andrew) Life. 

 KiNGSTON-oN-HuLL, any work upon. 

 Edwin AND Emma. Taylor, 1776. ."w. will be given for a perfect 



copy. 

 Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society. Vol. V. 



Part I. 



Vols. VIII. and IX. in Numbers. 



Pope's Works, by Warton, 1797. Vol. IV. 



Roscoe's Novelist's Library.— Tristram Shindy. Vol. II. 



Lingard's History of England. 4to. edit. Vol. VII. 



Lebeuf. Tbaite historique sur le Chant ecclesiastique. 



Notes and Queries. No. 19. 



(iEMM* et Sculpture antique depict*: in Latinum Vers«, 



per Jac. Gronovium. Amstelodatni, 1685. 

 Swalbaci Dissertatio de CicoNiis, &c. Spirae, 1630. 

 Syntagma Herbabum encomiasticum, Abr. Ortelio inscbip- 



TUM. Ex officina Plantin. 1614. 

 Tybwhitt, Tho. Conjectur/e in Strabonem. London, 1783. 

 Crakanthorp's Defence of Justinian the Emperor against 



Cardinal Baronius. London, 1616. 

 Halleri (A.) Elementa Physiologi;e Corporis Humani. 



8 Vols. 4to. Lausannae and Lugd. Batav. 1757-66. Vol. III. 

 Raccolta di Opuscuu SciENTiFici, «cc., dal Padre Calogera. 



Venezia, 1728-57. 



