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required to svirrender it the Governor and Council refused, 

 even resistinsj the terrors of three several writs of quo 

 warranto. Whitehall was a long way off in those days. 

 On the 31st October, 1687, Sir Edmund Andross and a 

 guard of sixty soldiers entered Hartford to seize the 

 charter by force, if necessary. The sitting of the As- 

 sembly was judiciously protracted till evening, when the 

 Governor and Council appeared about to yield the pre- 

 cious document ; it was brought in and laid on the table. 

 Suddenly the lights were put out and all was darkness 

 and silence; wlien the candles were again lighted the 

 charter had vanished. The Council had not refused to 

 give it up, but it was gone. The Governor was deposed, 

 nevertheless, and the royal orders carried out ; the charter 

 had in tlie meantime been concealed in a gigantic oak ; 

 on James's abdication the instrument was reproduced, the 

 old Governor re-elected under it, and it remained the 

 organic law of the colony till 1818. From this incident 

 sprung the veneration of the people for the * Charter 

 Oak.' It is supposed to have been a very old tree when 

 America was discovered. The day after the tree was 

 blown down the city band played solemn music over its 

 trunk for two hours, and the city bells tolled at sunset in 

 token of the public sorrow." 



T. 



Dress. — The following paragraph appears in 

 the Morning Chronicle and London Advertiser of 

 Saturday, July 29, 1780: 



" A few days ago, a Macaroni made his appearance in 

 the Assembly-room at Whitehaven in the following 

 dress : a mixed silk coat, pink sattin waistcoat and 

 breeches, covered with an elegant silver nett, white silk 

 stockings with pink clocks, pink sattin shoes and large 

 pearl buckles, a mushroom coloured stock, covered with 

 a fine point lace ; his hair dressed remarkably high, and 

 stuck full of pearl pins." 



Robert S. Salmon. 



Newcastle-on-Tyne. 



First Edinburgh Review. — The world hardly 

 knows that the earliest review of books published 

 in Britain was an Edinburgh review, an Historical 

 Account of Books and Transactions in the Learned 

 World, which commenced in 1688. The earliest 

 English review, Weekly Memorials, or an Account 

 of Books lately set forth, began a few months later, 

 in January, 1688-89. M. 



Sayings about the Weather. — I have lately met 

 (in Worcestershire) with the following weather 

 sayings, which are apropos to the present season, 

 and are (I believe) as yet unrecorded : 



" A Saturday's change, and a Sunday's full, 

 Once in seven years, is once too soon." 



Rain is foretold by the appearance of snakes and 

 the shining of glow-worms. 



CUTHBEET BeBE, B.A. 



Mr., M., Herr, Signor, Sehor, Sec — No one 

 thinks in Vienna or Berlin to introduce an English- 

 man as Mr. this and that, but of course, speaking 

 German, we titulate German, and call him Herr. 

 Whether the above silly parlances have oi'iginated 

 in the pride (!) or politeness (!) of the English, I 

 will not decide ; but they are of a comparatively 



recent date. In the playbills and announcements 

 of 1760 (or thereabouts) of the performance of 

 Le Divin du Village, at London, the author is 

 styled Mr. J. J. Rousseau, and not M. J. J. R. 

 Still earlier, in 1637, in the books on Comnenus, 

 the author is called Mr. C. I trust this Note will 

 leave no further Qnere on the relinquishment of 

 such ludicrous absurdity. J. L. 



Gower Street. 



A long Sleep. — 



"The 27th of Aprill [1546], being Tuesdaie in Easter 

 weeke, W. Foxley, potmaker for the mint in the tower of 

 London, fell asleep, and so continued sleeping, and could 

 not be wakened with pricking, cramping, or otherwise 

 burning whatsoever, till the first day of the next Terme, 

 which was full 14 dayes and 15 nights, for that Easter 

 terme beginneth not afore 17 daj'es after Easter. The 

 cause of his thus sleeping could not be knowne, though 

 the same were diligentlie searched for by the king's phi- 

 sitions and other learned men, yea the king himselfe ex- 

 amined }'« snid W. Foxloy, who was in all points found 

 at his wakening to be as if he had slept but one night, 

 and lived 41 yeeres after, to witte, till the yeere of Christ 

 1587." — Stow's Chronicle. 



Abhba. 



cauertCiS. 



OXFORD EDITION OF PAPPUS. 



Dr. Edward Bernard (1638—1697), who was 

 Savilian Professor of Astronomy (1673 — 1691), 

 conceived the plan of publishing, by the assistance 

 of the University, a collection of the ancient 

 geometers. He prepared the text of Euclid, and 

 especially of the Data. He proposed fourteen 

 volumes, as follows : 



" I. Euclid and Proclus. II. Apollonius and Serenus. 

 III. Archimedes and Eutocius. IV. Pappus and Heron. 

 V. Athenaius and Vitruvius. VI. Diophantus, Theon, 

 and Nicomachus, VII. Theodosius, Autolycus, Menelaus, 

 Aristarchus, Hypsicles. VIII. and IX. Ptolemy and 

 Theon, the Almagest ; Cleomcdes, Psellus, Manilius. 

 X. Ptolemy, Theon, Heraclius, Canones ; Ptolemy and 

 Proclus on the Sphere. XI. Ptolemy nepi <t)a<Teiav, &c., 

 and de Annalemmate ; Geminus and Aratus; Ptolemj' t/e 

 speculis; Heliodorus. XII. Ptolemy, Astrology; and 

 Firmicus. XIII. Ptolemy's Geography. XIV. Ptolemy's 

 Harmonies, with Porphyry, Brj'ennius, Aristoxenus, Ni- 

 comachus, &c." 



With these, a large number of minor writers, an- 

 cient and modern. Bernard's list, published in 

 Dr. Smith's edition (1704) of his works, as Ve- 

 tcrum Mathemaiicorum Synopsis, and reprinted, I 

 think I remember, by Fabricius, is in itself a 

 learned catalogue of suggestive memoranda. 



By mere coincidence the University of Oxford 

 published the three first volumes (but without 

 Bernard's proposed additions) in their order. 

 Gregory (1703) publl.<hed the Euclid (without 

 Proclus), making use of Bernard's collations ; and 

 thig h stiU the pnly Greek text of all that is at- 



