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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. No 44., Nov. 1. '56. 



and as the servants, to his astonishment, address 

 each of them by the title of " your Majesty," he 

 asks for an explanation of the pleasantry. The 

 explanations are given by the ex-sovereigns : — 

 Achmet III., Ivan (" Emperor of all the Kussias, 

 but dethroned when he was in his cradle"), Charles 

 Edward King of England, King of Poland, another 

 King of Poland, lastly, Theodore King of Corsica. 

 Theodore said to his co-sovereigns : — 



"I was called 'Your Majesty,' and at present am 

 hardly called ' Sir ; ' I have caused money to be coined, 

 and do not now possess a penny ; I have had two Secre- 

 taries of State, and I have now scarcely a servant. I 

 have sat upon a throne, and was long in a prison in 

 London upon straw," &c. 



The story is thus continued by the Quarterly 

 reviewer : 



" The five other kings heard this confession with a 

 noble compassion. Each of them gave King Theodore 

 twenty sequins to buy some clothes and shirts. Candide 

 presented him with a diamond worth two thousand se- 

 quins. 'Who,' said the five Kings, 'is this man who 

 can afford to give a hundred times as much as any of us? 

 Are you also a King ? ' ' No, your Majesties, and I have no 

 desire to be.' " 



The reviewer proceeds : 



" The last stroke is an instance of Voltaire's consum- 

 mate art, very common with him by a single phrase, 

 Avhich tells with electric rapidity and force." 



Now, I cannot see that " the last stroke is an 

 instance of consummate art;" on the contrary, I 

 think it much wanting in the terse smartness and 

 slyness of Voltaire. But my greater difficulty is, 

 tliat I cannot findthe words, which I have marked 

 above in Ital^^^n my copies, in French, of 

 Candide! I^flKs what I believe to be either 

 the first, or a very early, edition of Candide. It 

 purports to be " Candide, ou L' Oj)timisme, traduit 

 de I'Allemand de Mr. Le Docteur Ralph." There 

 is no printer's name, nor place on the title-page ; 

 and as to date, simply at its foot " mdcclix." As 

 the work was not avowed, in any way, that I am 

 aware of, this style of issue will not surpi-ise. The 

 words marked in Italics are not there : only, after 

 " as any of us" [autant que chacun de nous^, it is 

 added " et qui le donne" (and ivho gives it, as I 

 translate), and without any note of interrogation ; 

 and nothing to justify the inquiry, " Are you also 

 a King ?" &c. I have Romans de Voltaire. Stereo- 

 type, D'Herman, Paris, 1809. Candide appears 

 in its " tome premier." The words given already 

 in Italics are not there, only " et qui le donne ?" 

 having, however, a note of interrogation. 



As, I dare say, the reviewer has good ground 

 for his quotation, though my limited collection 

 does not enable me to authenticate it, — and as the 

 difference is certainly rather remarkable, — I shall 

 feel obliged by an explanation of the cause of the 

 discrepancy. A Hermit at Hampstead. 



iStltuor dhxttviti. 



George Herherfs Letter to Bishop Andreives. — 

 In Walton's Life of George Herbert occurs the 

 following notice of Bishop Andrewes : 



" And for the learned Bishop, it is observable, that at 

 that time there fell to be a modest debate betwixt tl.em 

 two about Predestination and Sanctity of life ; of both 

 which the Orator [George Herbert] did, not long after, 

 send the Bishop some safe and useful aphorisms, in a long 

 letter written in Greek ; Avhich letter was so remarkable for 

 the language and reason of it, that, after the reading 

 it, the Bishop put it into his bosom, and did often show it 

 to many scholars, both of this and foreign nations ; but 

 did always return it back to the place where he first 

 lodged it, and continued it so near his heart till the last 

 day of his life." 



Is this letter, or a copy of it, extant in any 

 public or private library ? J. Yeowell. 



Bandalore ; Robespierre, — In a French Al- 

 manac, published in Paris during the time of tlie 

 first Revolution, there is a figure, facing the title- 

 page, representing a man holding a bandalore. Is 

 there any symbolical meaning in this ? I have 

 heard it stated that Robespierre was the inventor 

 of this curious toy. The name, however, has the 

 appearance of an East Indian origin. It is not to 

 be found in \\ ebster's Dictionary. The bandalore 

 was formerly a very favourite toy, but the use of 

 it appears to be now dying out. Can any of your 

 correspondents give further information as to its 

 name and origin ? Henky T. Riley. 



Sir Robert Sale's Arms. — What were the arms 

 of the late Major-Gen. Sir Robert Sale, G. C. B. ? 



T. B. 



Archer the English Siruame. — As I am about 

 to publish a work on the English sirname of 

 "Archer," any information on the subject would 

 much oblige J. B. S, 



Edinburgh. 



Drawings in the Vatican. — I have been told 

 that it is believed there are deposited in the Va- 

 tican Library the plans and elevations of the an- 

 cient ecclesiastic^ edifices, abbeys in particular, 

 of England, representing them as they appeared 

 before the Reformation. Will any of your 

 readers who are informed on this subject oblige 

 me by saying whether this supposition is founded 

 in fact ? Jaytee. 



Can Incubating Partridges be scented by Dogs ? 

 — During the past hatching season, a well-known 

 Worcestershire sportsman more than once ob- 

 served that his dogs would pass very close to a 

 nest, on which a partridge was sitting, without 

 scenting, or disturbing, the bird. To test this 

 point thoroughly, the sportsman took there a 

 pointer of the keenest " nose," who would ap- 

 proach within a yard of the nest, and fail to scent 



