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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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Portraits of Swift (2"* S. ii. 21. 96.) — I possess 

 Faulkner's edition of my ancestor Dean Swift's 

 Works, published, not in 1734, but in 1738, with 

 this general title, " The Works of J. S. D. D. D. 

 S. P. D. in Six Volumes." It was the Dean's 

 own copy, was bought at the sale of his library in 

 1745-6, and bears the book-plate of "Edward 

 Synge." I acquired it at the auction of the late 

 Sir E. Synge's books by Sotheby in 1843. Not 

 any one of its volumes has the Dean's autograph : 

 but the fifth is marked by himself — and I well 

 know his handwriting — "read thorow." The 

 first volume has his portrait in a plain oval frame, 

 with the inscription, " The Reverend Dr. J. Swift, 

 D.S.P.D.," and the engraver's name, " G. Vertue." 

 The second volume (dated 1737) has his medallion 

 portrait, surrounded with sunbeams, emblematic 

 female figures, the half- concealed bust of 1-know- 

 not-whom, books, and a scroll with " The Poetical 

 Works of the Rev. D. S. * * D. S. P. D. 1734," 

 the motto " Quis speret idem ? — Hor." and the 

 engraver's name, " P. Simms, Sc." The fourth 

 volume has a frontispiece, differing from that de- 

 scribed by your correspondent G. N. in the table 

 having books, pens and ink, &c., Avhile the coins 

 are spread on the lower step before his Deanship's 

 chair. The engraver's name, whereof G. JM. pro- 

 pounds a Query, is legible enough, " G. Vertue." 



It is hardly worth explanation that, valuing the 

 antiquity of my fau)ily beyond its incidental dis- 

 tinction of the Dean (unto whom our only obliga- 

 tions are his hindrance of my grandfather's ad- 

 vancement and the loss of a large portion of my 

 paternal estate), I have long resumed our early 

 signature, Edmund Lenthal Swifte. 



Worthing. 



" It " (P' S. passim.) — In some parts of Ireland, 

 the word it is used in the genitive case, instead of 

 ifs. A man said to me to-day, pointing to an old 

 gate, " That gate. Sir, has done it duty," for " it's 

 duty." And this is the common language of the 

 country : " The horse fell and broke it knees." 



Is this an old English idiom ? The neuter it 

 is not found, I believe, in the genitive form it^s, in 

 the English Bible or in Shakspeare. I suspect, 

 therefore, that the peculiarity I have noticed (like 

 many other phrases common in Ireland) is a rem- 

 nant of the English of the fifteenth and sixteenth 

 centuries, when we Irish learned that language 

 for the first time. S. N. D. 



Dublin. 



"Allow" (2"" S. il. 10.) — In the north of Ire- 

 land this word is used in the sense of command, 

 order, direct. Being on a visit with a friend near 

 Armagh, some years ago, 1 found a labourer in 

 the act of cutting down a Inurel. I said to him, 

 " Why do you cut that tree ? " His answer was, 

 "The master alloived me:" meaning the master 



ordered me to do so. On another occasion, I was 

 on a visit with a clergyman still farther north. 

 One of his parishioners, a very poor man, came to 

 him one day when I was by, and informed him 

 that he wished to be married to Biddy O'Neill. 

 " Paddy," said the clergyman, " are you in your 

 senses ? Both you yourself and Biddy O'Neill 

 are every winter in the greatest distress, coming 

 to me and others for support. How are you to 

 live if you marry, and how are you to maintain 

 your family ?" " O, please your reverence," said 

 the man, " may be the Lord would allow that we 

 should have no childer." S. N. D. 



Dublin. 



The Weather (2"^ S. i. 431.) — In addition to 

 the observations as to the change in the prevailing 

 winds in this country, I have a further fact to 

 communicate, as to the extraordinary decrease of 

 force in the trade winds in late years. Two nau- 

 tical men have made the same observation to me, 

 that ever since their boyhood the difference was 

 most remarkable. Can any cause be discovered 

 for this ? E. E. Btng. 



Apostle Spoons (2"^ S. ii. 112.) — W. T. is re- 

 ferred to Hone's Every-Day Book, vol. i. p. 175., 

 and to The Table Book, p. 817., for a sketch of 

 " a set of Apostle Spoons," and for the history 

 thereof. Everard Home Coleman. 



79. Wood Street, Cheapside. 



Samuel Rolle (2"'' S. ii. 88.) — See Darling's 

 Cyclo. Bibliographica, col. 2584. ; Calamy's Ac- 

 count, p. 108.; Continuation, p. 144.; Palmer's 

 Nonconformists' Memorial, 1802, vol. i. p. 298.; 

 Dr. Owen's Works, by Goold, 1851, vol. ii. p. 276. ; 

 Orme's Life of Owen, 1820, p. 380.; Wood's 

 Athence Oxon., by Bliss, vol. iv. 106. 108. 203. 



John I. Dredge. 



Olovensis, Bishopric of (2°'^ S, ii. 88.) — The 

 see in question was probably Olena, and the 

 bishop styled Olenensis. Olena is a see in par- 

 tibus, and was the title of Dr. Griffiths, the late 

 Vicar Apostolic of the London district. It is now 

 called Caminizza, and is in the Morea, easily mis- 

 taken for Mauritania. It formed one of the four 

 suffragan sees of the metropolitan of Patras. 



F. C. H. 



Aristotle's " Organon" (2"'' S. ii. 81.) — It is 

 singular that Professor De Morgan, in his ar- 

 ticle on the " Logic of Aristotle," should not 

 mention Waltz's edition of the Organon, which is 

 by far the best that has been hitherto published. 

 Nor has he mentioned the Prologomena Logica of 

 Mr. Mansel, nor his new edition of Aldrich, works 

 which have thrown immense light on the logical 

 treatises of the Stagyrite. Indeed it is very doubt- 

 ful, now that Sir W. Hamilton is dead, it there is 

 anybody in this country that understands Aris- 



