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Brawn, or Braun (P' S. xi. 366. ; 2"'^ S. ii. 

 196.) — That this man was a famous cook, and 

 kept a house of entertainment, there can be no 

 doubt : and from contemporary references, the 

 house appears to have been one of a somewhat 

 equivocal character. In the Court Poems (Part 

 II.), Cloe says — 



" Did I for this my garter'd B disdain, 



Th' alhiring dessert, and the bright champaign? 

 Where he, still aiming at his former station, 

 Gave to Favillia a grand collation. 

 .Brmm's was the house — where many a favorite toast. 

 Has found a lover, and her honour lost. 

 Beware, ye Belles, of Brauri's luxurious skill ! 

 Nature's nice store, and Braun's luxurious art, 

 Conspir'd in vain to captivate my heart." 



Henry Carey too, if he wrote the Dissertation on 

 Dumpling, assumes Braun, or Braund, as he calls 

 him, to have been the direct descendant in the 

 male line of his imaginary Brawnd, knighted by 

 King John for his unrivalled skill in making 

 dumplings, and who subsequently resided, as he 

 tells us, at " the ancient manor of Brands alias 

 Braund's, near Kilburn, in Middlesex." Curious 

 the accident that found Beau Brummel's "Aunt 

 Brawn" a resident at Kilburn a century after the 

 Dissertation on Dumpling was written. Carey 

 dedicates to Braund. 



" Let mercenary authors," he says, " flatter the great, 

 &c., but — 



' Tu mihi Mecaeaas Eris I ' 



" Braund, my patron ! my pleasure ! my pride ! . . . 

 suspend a while your momentous cares, and condescend 

 to taste this fricassee of mine. I write not this to bite you 

 by the ear (i.e.) flatter you out of a brace or two of 

 guineas ; No, as I am a true dumpling -eater, my views 

 are purely epicurean, and my hopes center'd in par- 

 taking of some elegant quelque-chose tost up by your 

 judicious hand. I regard money but as a ticket which 

 admits me to your delicate entertainment. . . The plague 

 and fatigue of dependance and attendance, which calls 

 me so often to the Court-end of the town, were insup- 

 portable but for the relief I find at Austin's, your in- 

 genious and grateful disciple, who has adorned New Bond 

 Street with your graceful effigies." 



Here then we have not only Braun himself, 

 but his very " effigy," in proof of his celebrity. 

 No wonder that a descendant was celebrated for 

 savoury pies. 



Austin must have been an early inhabitant of 

 New Bond Street, the building of which was 

 begun only in 1720-1, and the Dissertation was 

 published in 1726. B. O. 



Figure of the Horse in HieroglypMcs (2""* S. ii. 

 87.) — Mb. Hackwood may like to .see the ex- 

 planation which Swedenborg has given of the 

 symbolism of the horse, whether occurring in the 

 hieroglyphics, in the mythologies, or in the Scrip- 

 tures. 



It may be noted that Swedenborg, in assigning 



his symbolisms, does not treat them as being any- 

 thing arbitrary, but natural and necessary, as is 

 the case with those universally admitted symbols 

 of the will and the intellect, the head and the heart, 

 or heat and light : 



" In the prophetical parts of the Word, much mention 

 is made of horse and horseman ; but heretofore no one 

 has known that horse signifies the principle .of intelli- 

 gence, and horseman an intelligent person 



"The signification, as denoting the intellectual prin- 

 ciple, was derived from the ancient church to the wise 

 round about, even into Greece. Hence it was, that in 

 describing the sun, by which is signified love (see n. 2441, 

 2495.), they placed therein the god of their wisdom and 

 intelligence, and attributed to him a chariot and four 

 fiery horses ; and in describing the god of the sea, inas- 

 much as by seas were signified sciences in general (see 

 n. 28. 2120.) they also allotted horses to him. Hence too, 

 when they described the birth of the sciences from the 

 intellectual principle, they feigned a flying horse, which 

 with his hoof burst open a fountain, where were virgins, 

 who were the Sciences : nor was anything else signified 

 by the Trojan horse but an artful contrivance of the un- 

 derstanding to destroy walls. At this day, indeed, when 

 the intellectual principle is described, agreeable to the 

 custom received from the ancients, it is usually described 

 by a flying horse, or Pegasus, and erudition by a foun- 

 tain ; but it is known scarce to any one, that horse, in a 

 mystical sense, signifies the understanding; and that a 

 fountain signifies truth. Still less is it known that 

 these significations were derived from the ancient church 

 to the Gentiles." — Arcana Calestia, vol. iii., numbers 

 2761, 2762. 



A. R. 



Can Fish be tamed? (2°'» S. ii. 173.) — The 

 following extract is from Jesse's Country Life : — 



" I was ordered to take the cutter I commanded to 

 Port Nessock, near Port Patrick. On landing, I was in- 

 formed of Colonel M<=Doweirs sea fish-pond, and went to 

 look at it. On arriving, I fed the large Cod out of my 



hand, from some mussels which I had in a basin 



This fish allowed me to pat it on the back, and rested its 

 head on the stone upon which I was standing, just like a 

 dog. The other fish came to me, and fed on the mussels 

 I threw to them ; but would not let me handle them, 

 though I patted^ome of them." — P. 62. 



I have myself often heard gentlemen in Scot- 

 land speak of Colonel M'^Dowell's fish-pond, and 

 do not believe the above account to be at all ex- 

 aggerated. I ought to state that Mr. Jesse quotes 

 the above from a correspondent. I do not know 

 if this pond still exists. Sigma Theta. 



I lately saw gold and silver fish at Bordeaux, 

 which regularly come to be fed. I have also ob- 

 served a similar occurrence at Brussels. I re- 

 member to have read in an old book on angling, 

 that fish in ponds could be taught to come at 

 stated times to be fed. This is as much as we 

 can expect fish to do. B. H, C. 



Masvicius" Virgil (2"*^ S. ii. 174.) — Having had 

 occasion, at an early age, to read through the 

 whole of the text, the minor pieces excepted, of 

 that edition of Virgil respecting which Oxoni- 



