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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON. SATUSDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1859. 



No. 208. — CONTENTS. 



NOTES :^ Archbishop Leighton's "Works, 507— Lesrend of Jersey i the 

 Seigneur dc Hambie, 509— Frongipani, by D. Hanbury, lb. 



MiKon Notes : — Contents of Old Book Covers — Nicknames on Mem- 

 bers of Parliament — Beltalue — Square Words — Machine Hexa- 

 meters, 511. 



QUERIES : — " Familiar Epistles on the Irish Stage," 512. 



Minor Qoeribs : — Hymns _ The Book of Hy-Many — Terence — 

 Spoon Inscription — Was Lady Jane Grey buried at Bradgate? — 

 Henry Mnclellan—" The Death of Lord Chatham " — Anno Regul 

 Regis — Quotation — Richard Harliston, 512. 



Minor Queries with Answers: — BaatXtxov Acupov — Founders of Wes- 

 leyan Methodism _" March Hares " — Thomas Aquinas — " Irish 

 Pursuits of Literature," 513. 



REPLIES: — Why is Luther Represented with a Goose? by R. S. 



Chamock, 51 5— Dr. John Anderson, by C. D. Lamont, lb " Domi- 



nua regnavit & ligno," by G. Offer, &c. , 516 — Henry Lord Poer, by 

 J. D'Alton, &c., 518 — Skelmufeky,519_Dr. Hewett's Son, by CI. 

 Hopper, &c., lb. 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Arithmetical Notation — Mr. Willett, 

 Pictures purchased by, &c. — William Andrew Price — Malabar Jews, 



— Triforium — Francis Pole — Owenson the Player — Ephemeral Li- 

 terature —The Battiscombe Family — Meaning of the Word "End " 

 as applied to Places — Imitation of Claudian — Plough — Passage in 

 Grotms — William Marshall — Stratford Family— Death Warrants 



— Seals — Registration without Baptism — Heraldic Drawings and 

 Engravings — Rings, their Uses and Mottoes — Mole and Female 

 Swans, 520. 



ARCHBISHOP LEIGHTON's W0BK9. 



{^Continued from p. 64.) 



It is very remarkable, and not easy to account 

 for, that Leighton's eminent position as a great 

 English Classic is not generally recognised. A 

 striking illustration of this is furnished by Mr. 

 Robert Chambers's Cydopcedia of English Literu' 

 ture^ a second edition of which has recently ap- 

 peared under the editorial care of Mr. Robert 

 Carruthers, who also assisted in the preparation 

 of the former edition. I am well acquainted with 

 the edition of 1842, and do not hesitate to charac- 

 terise it as one of the most valuable works in the 

 English language — a work standing by itself, and 

 of singular excellence. The new edition I have 

 not yet had time to examine, but can well imagine 

 that it is admirable. Now in this bright Circle, 

 Leighton shines not ; in each edition he is passed 

 over ! We have Tillotson, and Paley, and Blair, 

 et hoc genus omne, — but Leighton is ignored, and 

 that by his own countrymen, highly intelligent 

 and cultivated though they be ! 



Archbishop Leighton calls forth our warmest 

 affection and admiration, whether we regard him 

 as a Divine, or (to use his own expression), 

 ®e6ffo<pos, as a Philosopher and Christian Platonist, 

 or as an English Author. He had essentially the 

 genius of a Poet — all a Poet's imagination, vivid 

 sense and ardent love of the Beautiful, felicity of 

 diction, and power of expression. His learning 

 too, so rich and rare, and so happily applied, con- 

 tributes largely to the charm of his writing, and 

 affords '' matter of most delightful Meditation." 

 But that which adds so peculiar a zest to his com- 



positions, as Mr- Pearson rightly observes (p. 

 clxvi.), is the quality usually denominated Unc- 

 tion. His mouth spake out of the abundance of 

 his heart ; and he strikingly exemplifies his own 

 quotation from St. Bernard, — Utilis Lectio, utilis 

 Ervditio, sed magis Unctio necessaria, quippe quoe 

 sola docet de omnibus* Indeed, we may apply to 

 all of Leighton's Works what Dr. Fall says in 

 speaking of the Praslections, and that without 

 hyperbole : — 



" Surely, even those who have the least divine dispo- 

 sition of mind, will make it the principal business of their 

 life, and their highest pleasure, to stray through those 

 delightful Gardens, abounding with such sweet and fra- 

 grant Flowers, and refresh their hearts with the Coelestial 

 Honey that may be drawn from them ; nor is there any 

 ground to fear that such supplies will fail ; for how often 

 soever you have recourse to them, you will always find 

 them blooming, full of juice, and swelled with the Dew 

 of Heaven ; nay, when by deep and continual Medita- 

 tion, you imagine you have pulled the finest Flower, it 

 buds forth again ; and what Virgil writes concerning his 

 fabulous Golden Bough is, in strictest truth, applicable in 

 this case : 



" ' . . Uno avulso, non deficit alter. 

 Aureus.' " 



Abp. Leighton lives in his Works f, and they 

 accordingly breathe the spirit of his Life, which 

 was indeed what Plotinus calls A Flight of the 

 Alone to the Alone. J He was in the World yet 

 not of the World, but apart from it ; and realised, 

 as fully as ever man did, the truth of that pro- 

 found saying of the Ancients — Nascentes morimur : 

 Morientes nascimur. Thus it was that he regarded 

 the World as an Inn, and himself as a Pilgrim 

 travelling towards Eternity. His feelings on the 

 subject are well expressed in his own description 

 of a Christian Traveller : — 



" There is a diligence in his calling, and a prudent re- 

 gard of his affairs not only permitted to a Christian, but 

 required of him. But yet in comparison with his great 

 and high calling (as the Apostle terms it), he follows all 

 his other business with a kind of coldness and indifier- 

 ency, as not caring very much which way they go ; his 

 Heart is elsewhere ! The Traveller provides himself as 

 he can with entertainment and lodging where he comes; 

 if it be commodious, it is well, but if not, it is no great 

 matter. If he find but necessaries, he can abate delica- 

 cies very well ; for when he finds them in his waj', he 

 neither can, nor, if he could, would choose to stay there. 

 Though his Inn were dressed with the richest hangings 



* Comment on St. Peter, iii. 19., Pearson's edit., vol. ii. 

 p. 227. 



t Mr. Wogan (not Dr. Fall, as I inadvertently said), 

 in prefixing Some Account of the Life of Abp. Leighton 

 to his valuable edition of the XVIII. Sermons, observes: 

 " Indeed our Author so lives in his Works, that the 

 History of his Life would appear less necessary to be in- 

 serted, were it not of use to throw some light on many 

 passages in these Sermons." 



X The celebrated passage in Plotinus, ending with 

 " *uy7) fiovov jrpbs MONON," has been most happily- and ap- 

 propriately chosen as the Motto for Leighton's Works in 

 Mr. Pearson's edition. One is almost tempted to trans- 

 late it A Flight of the Sole to the Alone. 



