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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the connexion," or taking a sudden departure 

 from some embarrassing position. Mr. Timbs 

 refers, as its probable origin, to an expression of 

 Walpole in 1770, in reference to bis being able to 

 walk without a stick after a severe fit of ill- 

 ness. But if the cant term does not simply refer 

 to cutting a walking-stick in the hedge on the 

 occasion of any sudden journey, it may by pos- 

 sibility have some remote connexion with the 

 following unique passage in the pi'ophet Zecha- 

 riah, in which the cutting of a stick is described 

 as the symbol of abrogating a friendly covenant, 

 or abruptly breaking off the brotherhood between 

 two parties : — 



".Chap. xi. 4.— Thus saith the Lord my God, feed the 

 flock of the slaughter. 



G. For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the 

 land, saith the Lord ; but lo, I will deliver the men every 

 one into his neighbour's hand. 



7. And I will feed the flock of the slaughter; even 

 j'ou, oh poor of the flock. And I took unto me two 

 staves ; the one I called Beaut}', and the other I called 

 Bands, and I fed the flock. 



8. Three shepherds also I cut oft" in one month ; and 

 my soul loathed them, and their soul also abhorred me. 



10. xYnd I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it 

 asunder, that I might li-eak 'iny covenant which I had made 

 with all the people. 



11. And it was broken in that da}- ; and so the poor of 

 the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word 

 of the Lord. 



12. And I said unto them, if ye think good, give me 

 mj' price ; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my 

 price thirty pieces of silver. 



14. Then I cut asunder mine other staff', even Bands; 

 that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and 

 Israel." 



J. Emerson Tennekt. 



"Night, a Poem'' (2"'' S. viii. 11.) — Ebenezer 

 Elliott, afterwards known as the "Corn Law 

 E-hymer," published a work, of which the follow- 

 ing is the title-page " Night, a Descriptive Poem, 

 Part I., in 4 Books : London, printed for Baldwin, 

 Cradock, & Joy, Paternoster Row, 1818." It was 

 printed at llotherham by a Mr. de Camps. The 

 author's reply to the Monthly Reviewer, Peter 

 Faultless to his Brother Simon, Talcs of Nighty and 

 other Poems, was suppressed by him a iavf years 

 before his death, and all the copies on which he 

 could lay his hands were bought up and destroyed. 

 Is J. O. correct in stating that his copy of Night 

 has the imprimatur " Glasgow, 1811?" If so, I 

 should esteem it a favour if he would furnish me, 

 through you, with an exact copy of the title-page. 



Epsilon. 



" The style is the man himself " (2"'' S. viii. 54. 

 111.) — Some remarks which I forwarded to you 

 in reply to Andrew Steinmetz (p. 54.) were an- 

 ticipated, and more than supplied, by the complete 

 and authoritative exposition from M. de Ciiasles 

 (p. 111.). I was glad to find that a native and 

 competent critic confirmed what I, as a mere 

 foreign student of the French language, had, with 



' some diffidence, suggested : that le style est de 

 I'homme seemed "an obvious truism, unenlivened 

 \ by any vivacity or sententiousness in the expres- 

 ! sion of it" (vii. 502.). 



I In place of my superseded remarks, I will offer 

 ■ you a few examples that have fallen in my way 

 I of figurative expression not dissimilar to that 

 ' which has been the subject of this discussion. 

 : Buffon himself thus turns his phrase In another 

 \ Discours (Reponse ix M. de Duras), "Ne nous 

 ; identlfions avec nos ouvrages ; disons qu'ils ont 

 , passe par nous, mais qu'ils ne sont pas nous ; se- 

 parons en notre existence morale." Charron {La 

 \ Sagesse) says, " la langue est tout le monde, en elle 

 I est le bien et le mal, la vie et la mort." " The mind 

 is the man and the knowledge of the mind. A man 

 I is but what he kuoweth," Bacon (In Praise of 

 Knowledge). " Expressions are a modest clothing 

 I of our thoughts, as breeches and petticoats are of 

 our bodies," Dryden. " Language is the dress of 

 thought," Dr. Johnson. " Style is not the dress 

 of thought, but the body of thought," Edward 

 Young. " You see in the'style, not the writer and 

 his labour, but the man in his own natural charac- 

 ter," Blaii-. "Quant on volt le style naturel, on 

 est tout etonne, est ravi ; car on s'attendoit de voir 

 un auteur, et on trouve un homme,'* Pascal. And 

 see the observations of Wordsworth and De 

 Quincy cited, 2"" S. vii. 502. 't C. J. B. 



Philadelphia, I'enn. 



Sigismund and Henry Alexander (2"* S. viii. 

 292.) — Sigismund and Henry Zinzano, als 

 Alexander, were buried in the chancel of Tyle- 

 hurst church, near Reading. I send a copy of 

 their tombstone, which I took previous to the re- 

 building of the said church. It is now covered 

 over with encaustic tile, and lost to the eye, as 

 are several others. The Zinzanos and Vanlores 

 were related to Miss Kendrick, the Berkshire 

 lady. An account of her I published several 

 years ago, with the ballad. 



" Here lyeth Interr'd 

 Ye Bodj' of Henry Zinzano 

 Als Alexander of this Parish, 

 Esq., Eldest Son of S'^ Sigismvnd 

 ZixzANOK, who died Nov. ye 

 13 An. Dom. 1G7G, 

 And Jacoba His Wife the 

 Eldest Daughter of S"" Petek 

 Vanloke Ye j'ounger Bar', 

 who died ye 22'> Day of June, 1G77." 



Arms — Azure, a falcon with wings exp<i ppr., on a 

 rock, or. On the dexter canton side, an estoile of the last. 

 Crest. — Hawk displayed over a helmet. 



Julia R. Bockett. 



Bradney, near Burghfield, Reading. 



Sir Anthony Poiilett, Knt. (2'"i S. vii. 435.)— In 

 answer to Mr. Hart, Sir Anthony Poulett is 

 buried in the church of Hinton S. George, near 

 Crewkerne, co. Somerset, where a monument to 



