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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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The people are bent upon it, and they will attain 

 their object. Since the days of the Roman em- 

 peror Julian, the chance of restoration was never 

 so good as at this moment. The only thing, pro- 

 bably, tliat keeps the Jews quiet and cautious is 

 the extreme fanaticism of the Christians, who 

 fight desperately every year about the holy places. 

 The Arabs are somewhat fanatical too about 

 Fundry holy places in Palestine ; so that if the 

 Jews were to obtain possession of their ancient 

 inheritance now, they would be sure to rouse a 

 whole nest of hornets about their ears. The 

 scream of the railway whistle, however, will make 

 the foul fiend of fanaticism take his flight from 

 eastern lands, and then the ancient but long-lost 

 Jewish nation will reappear. Theta. 



Delta's first Query is answered by a reference 

 to Modetm Judaism, or a Brief Account of the 

 Opinions, Traditions, Bites, and Ceremonies of the 

 Jews in Modern Times, by Jolin Allen, 8vo., Lon- 

 don, 1816. Lowndes notices it as " the best work 

 on modern Judaism in our language." J. F. M. 



Portrait of Swift (2"'^ S. ii. 21. 96. 158.) — 

 G. N.'s original statement was this : " Faulkner 

 printed an edition of Dean Swift's Wo7-hs\n 1734." 

 C. inferred from it, and very naturally, that there 

 was an edition prior to the well-known edition of 

 1735. I believe this to be a mistake. It now 

 appears that G. N. has only a mutilated copy of 

 a fourth volume, and he learns "from some of the 

 inside title-pages to particular tracts " that it was 

 " Printed in the year mdccxxxiv." I doubt this. 

 In the 4th vol. of edition of 1735 — 1735 observe 

 — one of the tracts, page 3 59, is stated to have 

 been "Printed in the year mdccxxxiv." But 

 others, pp. 35. and 59. are said to have been 

 " Printed in the year mdccxxxiii." The edition, 

 however, was published, as tlie title-page states, 

 in 1735, with the "Advertisement" quoted by 

 G. N., and I believe that G. N. will find the name 

 "Vert" on the miserable portrait to which he 

 refers, in the plate, on the step just above the 

 harp. If he still doubts the fact that he possesses 

 only a mutilated copy of the 4th vol. of the edit, 

 of 1735, will he have the kindness to forward it 

 for examination to the editor of " N. & Q." 



P. O. S. 



Aspasia's Wart cured hj Rose Leaves (2""* S. 

 ii. 130) — What authority the writer referred to 

 by R. T. Scott may have had, I cannot say ; but 

 the story of the wart of the young Phocajan lady, 

 and its cure, is one of the many excellent anec- 

 dotes told by iElian. The twelfth book of the 

 lloiKiXri 'IffTopta (p. 471. of Conrad Gesner's edition) 

 opens with this subject. It tells us how the little 

 Aspasia (not the "companion" of Pericles, but 

 she who was subsequently the mistress of Cyrus), 

 being afflicted with this little tumour under her 



chin, was taken by her father to a medical gentle- 

 man, who asked such a fee before he would apply 

 a remedy, that the sire, unable to pay it, took his 

 sorrowing daughter home again. It was on the 

 same night that there appeared to the latter, when 

 asleep, a charming pigeon, which transformed 

 itself into the figure of a most exquisite lady, — the 

 Queen of Love in short. The celestial visitant 

 enjoined Aspasia to have nothing to do with the 

 mercenary doctor, his salves, and his lotions, but 

 to apply to the tumour some rose-leaves from a 

 garland consecrated to Venus. This advice was 

 followed, and, of course, with the happiest results. 

 An amusingly quaint translation of this and the 

 other " divers anecdotes " of ^Elian will be found 

 in Woodcocke's edition, 1576. 



The custom of washing the statue of the god- 

 dess and decorating it with roses, is thus noticed 

 by Ovid (Fast., lib. Iv. 136., &c.) : 



" Aurea marmoreo redimicula solvite collo: 

 Demite divitias : tota lavanda Dea est. 

 Aurea siccato redimicula reddite collo: 



Nunc alii flores, nunc nova danda rosa est." 



J. DOKAN. 



Prayer for Unity (2°^ S.ii. 109.) — This beau- 

 tiful prayer is inserted in an edition of the Prayer- 

 Book in my possession, published in 1727, by 

 Baskett of Edinburgh. The Service now used on 

 the 20th of June was then used on the 1st of 

 August, being the day on which King George I. 

 commenced his rei^n. After the Service is the 

 usual notification as to its adoption, — 



"Given at our Court at St. James's the 13th day of 

 June, 1715, in the First year of Our Reign. By His Ma- 

 jesty's command. — Townshend." 



I cannot supply the name of the author of this 

 touching composition. G. L. S. 



Prologues and JEpilognes to the Westminster 

 Plays (2"^ S. ii. 68.) — C. J. Douglas will find 

 some of the Prologues and Epilogues interspersed 

 among the Selecta Poemata Anglorum, published 

 in 1774 and 1776. To one of them is annexed 

 the classic name of Vincent Bourne. Dates are 

 placed to some, but others bear neither name nor 

 date. I believe it is now usual for the head 

 master to write the Prologue and Epilogue. A 

 complete collection would indeed be interesting 

 from their reference to the contemporaneous 

 events of the times. Oxoniensis. 



Punjab (2"^ S. ii. 129.) — Your correspondent 

 G. L. S. will find all the information he requires 

 respecting the derivation of the names of the five 

 rivers in the Punjab in Thornton's Gazetteer of the 

 Countries adjacent to India, He will there see 

 tjiat the Chinab or Chenaub is sometimes called the 

 Chandi'a-Bhaga, because it proceeds from a small 

 lake of that name which means the " Garden of 

 the Moon." B. S. 



