2'«i S. X Aug. 4. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



91 



Andronicus. — Who is the author of the follow- 

 ing work, and did he publish a Second Part, as 

 stated ia the Preface he would, if the First Part 

 met with acceptance ? — 



" A Key to the Pilgrim's Progress, designed to assist 

 the admirers of that excellent book to read it with 

 understanding and profit as well as pleasing entertain- 

 ment: in a Series of Letters to a Friend. By Andronicus. 

 London, printed by J. Barfield, No. 422. Oxford Street, 

 for the author, and sold by him at No. 12. Great Distaff 

 Lane, Friday Street. Sold also by H. D. Symonds, Pater- 

 noster Row ; Mr. Nulle3', Kensington ; and by all the 

 booksellers in town and country, mdccxc." 



Who was Andronicus ? R. W. 



^xitvit^ to its ^nSiuorS. 



Song Wanted. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents inform me where I can meet with the an- 

 swer to " Phillida Flouts me," by A. Bradley ? 



C. J. D. Ingledew. 



Northallerton. 



[It is printed in The Musical Miscellany, vol. ii. p. 136., 

 published by John Watts, 1729 — 31, and in The Hive, ii. 

 274., edit. 1727. It commences, — 



" Oh ! Where's the plague in Love, 



That you can't bear it ? 

 If men would constant prove. 



They need not fear it.1 

 Young maidens, soft and kind, • 



Are most in danger; 

 Men waver with the wind. 



Each man's a ranger : 

 Their falsehood makes us know, "i 

 That two strings to our bow >• 

 Is best, I find it so : J 



Barnaby doubts me."] 



" Ode to the Cuckoo." — In a work to which 

 there are a number of contributors, inconsisten- 

 cies are pardonable ; and this, I presume, must be 

 taken as the excuse for the following contradic- 

 tory statements in the current edition of the 

 Encycloposdia Britannica. In the notice of Mi- 

 chael Bruce the authorship of the beautiful " Ode 

 to the Cuckoo" is ascribed to him; while in that 

 of Logan it is said that the evidence of the same 

 authorship greatly preponderates in favour of the 

 latter. Has it been ascertained which account is 

 the correct one ? T. 



[The authorship of the " Ode' to the Cuckoo," has 

 been the subject of a keen controversy, and will probably 

 never be conclusively settled. The question is fully dis- 

 cussed in Anderson's edition of The British Foets, vol. xi. 

 p. 1027. : in the Life of the Rev. John Logan, prefixed to 

 his Poems, 12mo., 1805 ; and in the Life of Michael Bruce, 

 prefixed to Lochleven, and other Poems, 12mo., 1837. Con- 

 sult also Chambers's Biog. Diet, of Eminent Scotsmen, in. 

 490.] 



Bibliography. — Is there any book, in English, 

 French, or German, published within the last ten 

 years, giving anything like a complete history of 

 the art of printing ? especially examining, in the 



light of modern researches, the different theories 

 concerning its origin. What I wish to find is 

 something that will fill up the outlines Didot has 

 so well sketched in an article in one of the recent 

 French Encyclopa3dias. 



Can any of your readers also tell me what is the 

 best modem history of paper and paper making, 

 and whether there is any modern book of au- 

 thority upon general bibliography, corresponding 

 to Home's Introduction? in other words, Home 

 brought down to the present day ? R. E. H. 



[Our correspondent may consult with advantage the 

 article " Bibliography " in the eighth edition of the JEn- 

 cyclopcedia Britannica, [which contains a notice of the 

 principal works on this subject. After all there is yet 

 room for some useful work on this wide field of literary 

 inquiry. The most recent work on paper is Richard Her- 

 ring's Paper and Paper Making, Ancient and Modern, 2nd 

 edit., 8vo., 1856.] 



Druses. — Where can I find some notices of the 

 Druses, particularly of their religious principles. 

 Their atrocities in Syria are now exciting consi- 

 derable notoriety. J. P. W. 



[An interesting and extended account of the Druse 

 religion will be found in Churchill's Mount Lebanon, the 

 Manners, Customs, and Religion of its Inhabitants, Histo- 

 rical Records of the Mountain Tribes, Sj'c. 3 vols. 8vo. 

 1863.] 



Lewis Sharpe. — Can you give me any bio- 

 graphical particulars regarding a dramatic poet of 

 the reign of Charles I., viz. Lewis Sharpe, author 

 of The Noble Stranger, a play, 4to., 1640? Is 

 Watt's Bihliotheca Britannica correct in attri- 

 buting to him the authorship of the two following 

 works? 1. The Reward of Diligence, Svo., 1^7^. 

 2. The Church of England Doctrine of Non- 

 Resistance justified and vitidicated, and the dam- 

 nable Nature of rebellious Resistance represented, 

 4to., 1691. R. Inglis. 



[The author of the last two works was the Rev. Tewis 

 Sharpe, rector of Moreton-Hampstead, in Devon, a differ- 

 ent person from the author of The Noble Stranger.J 



Papal Tiara. — Will you inform me who the 

 Popes were, and the occasion on which the several 

 crowns were added to the Papal tiara ? R. P. 



[The Rev. E. B. Elliott (Horce Apocalypticce, iii. 154.) 

 has the following note on the tiara: — "As to the three 

 crowns of the Papal tiara, though said by some with Sir 

 Isaac Newton, to represent the three States of the Church, 

 yet the circumstance of the first being not assumed on 

 the episcopal mitre till about 1160 by Alexander III., 

 the second by Boniface VIII. as late as the year 1300, 

 and the third soon after by Benedict XII. or Urban V. 

 (see Ducange and his Supplement on Regnum, also Fer- 

 rario, ii. 428.) it seems to me very questionable whether 

 the third might not have been added, as other writers 

 have said, in token of the Papal prophetic character, as 

 well as that of Priest knd King : or else, very possibly, 

 of the Papal authority in heaven, earth, and hell, or 

 purgatory. It signified, says the Cereman. Roman., the 

 ' sacerdotalis et imperialis "summa dignitas atque po- 

 testas.' "] 



