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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tions in Ireland while churning, which I believe 

 are still cherished in the West and South. 



In the county of Galway they will not allow 

 anything to be given or lent out of the "cabin" 

 during the process. I remember some harsh 

 words passing between a friend who went into a 

 cabin to light his pipe, and one of the women 

 there. She would neither give him a light, nor 

 allow him to take it ; and her voluble tongue 

 poured forth a torrent of eloquence — " hot and 

 heavy" — on my friend for asking "a light" 

 while churning. In some places the visitor is ex- 

 pected " to take a turn at the dash," if of their 

 own class; but the "quality" merely touches it, 

 with the expression — " God bless your work." 

 This last salutation is universal. It sounds very 

 odd to hear one say, while admiring your new 

 gig or car, "A fine gig, God bless it." 



George Llotd. 



" Three Kings of Colon" (2"" S. viii. 431.) — 

 The anthem of the " Three Kings" was probably 

 the following, which is printed, with other devo- 

 tions to the ^' Three Kings," in the Parva caleste 

 Palmetum, Colonise Agrippinae, 1764 : — 



" Sancti ires Reges Caspar, Melchior et Baltliasar, 

 orate pro nobis peccatoribus nunc et in hora mortis nos- 

 tra:, Amen. 



" V. Tria sunt munera pretiosa. 

 E. Qusa obtulerunt Magi Domino. 

 Oremus. 



"Deus, qui tres Magos Orientales Sanctosquc Reges 

 Casparem, Melchiorem et Baltbasaram, ut recens natum 

 in Bethlehem Filium tuum inviserent ac honaraient, 

 mirabiliter illustrasti, quiESumus, ut eorum exeraplo et 

 intercessione adjuti, veraque fide in hujus mundi tenebris 

 illuminati, te lumen asternum agnoscamus, atque inter 

 prospera et adversa tuto gradiamur, donee ad te, qui 

 lucem habitas inaccessibilem, remotis impedimentis om- 

 nibus expedite perveniamus. Per Christum Dominum, 

 etc." 



F. C. H. 



" Travelling of sound experimentally proved" (2"* 

 S. vii. 380.) — In his account of a visit to the 

 Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris, Sir 

 Francis Head relates what follows : — 



« All of a sudden a drum beat, on which, just as if they 

 heard its roll, they all instantly desisted from their 

 games, fell into line, and by beat of drum with which 

 their feet kept perfect time, they marched away following 

 the drummer-boy, who was also deaf and dunib. ' They 

 cannot be perfectly deaf,' I said, « if they hear that drum.' 



" In reply nij- guide informed me its roll had no effect 

 on their ears, but created an immediate vibration in their 

 chests, which, although in describing it he had put his 

 hand thereon, he termed dans I'estomac." — Faggot of 

 French Sticks, ii. 130. 



E. H. A. 



The Excellent Woman (2"'> S. viii. 432.) — My 

 copy of this book is an octavo, in two parts, pp. 

 304. and 336. Printed for John Wyat, 1695. 

 At the end of the second part, two books by 

 Theophilus Dorrington, are advertised, which is, 



to me, a sufficient key to the T. D. On the title- 

 page of the Excellent Woman. J. O. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Diaries and Correspondence of the Right Hon. 

 George Rose ; containing Original Letters of the Most Dis- 

 tinguished Statesmen of his Day. Edited by the Rev. L. 

 Y, Harcourt. 2Vols."8vo. (Bentley.) 



This new contribution to the history of this country 

 during a very eventful period in the reign of George III., 

 is extremely valuable in three distinct points of view. 

 In the first place, it adds greatly to our knowledge of the 

 personal character and administrative zeal of that emin- 

 ent and thoroughly English minister, Mr. Pitt, and fully 

 justifies his policy in the great struggle upon which he 

 was so long engaged, — a struggle in which it is clear 

 from these volumes he was most unwillingly compelled to 

 enter, — for he desired peace, that he might develop the 

 energies and resources of England, — but which when en- 

 gaged in, he carried on with all the vigour and energy 

 which became the son of Chatham. In the next place 

 these volumes throw new and pleasing light on the cha- 

 racter of the honest, intelligent, but certainly obstinate 

 monarch, George III. And lastly, they do justice to one 

 of the most valuable public servants which this country 

 has ever known, George Rose himself — the sincere and 

 devoted friend of Pitt — and as such the constant butt of 

 all Whig witlings — but who here stands revealed as an 

 able, clearheaded, straightforward, honest man of busi- 

 ness, whose steady industry, devoted for years to the 

 service of the State, won for him, and most deservedly, 

 not only political importance, but the personal regard of 

 his sovereign, and indeed of all who knew him. The 

 friends and family of George Rose may turn with pride 

 to this record of his political life, this proof of his high 

 character. 



Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. A Biography. By 

 James Craigie Robertson, M.A., Canon of Canterbury. 

 (Murraj-.) 



Canon Robertson, the learned author of the History of the 

 Christian Church, has in this small volume reproduced, 

 with certain changes as to form, and additions, the result 

 of fresh materials, the subject of two papers which ap- 

 peared some years since in the English Review. The 

 result is a biography of the great Churchman, narrated 

 with great skill and impartialitj', more complete, and 

 certainly more interesting, than any which has yet been 

 laid before the English reader. Never was a piece of our 

 early history more pleasantly and instructively set forth. 



Memoirs of Early Italian Painters, and of the Progress 

 of Painting in Italy from Cimabue to Bassano. By Mrs, 

 Jameson. A New Edition, revised throughout by the 

 Author, and with much additional matter. (Murray.) 



These last words, pointing out the claims of this new , 

 edition to attention, render it almost superfluous on our 

 part to do more than chronicle the appearance of a book 

 so well calculated to Turnish that part of the entertain- 

 ment derived from the contemplation of a work of art 

 which springs from our knowing to whom to attribute it, 

 and then to know its history. Mrs. Jameson does this in 

 a way which leaves her without a rival. 



Tragic Dramas from Scottish History : Heselrig, Wal' 

 lace, James the First of Scotland. (Constable & Co.) 



Shakspeare's great example of making the incidents of 

 his country's history the subject of Historical Dramas, has 

 been judiciously followed by the author of the present 



