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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"dS, No48,Nov. 29. '56. 



Paternoster Row, without date ; but probably 

 about 1809, in which these words are translated 

 as follows : 



" ' Who can this private person be,' said the five 

 princes, 'who is able to give, and has given, an hundred 

 times as much as any of us ?' " 



Various additions appear to have been made to 

 Candide at different times, as in this translation 

 occur several passages which are not in the French 

 edition I have mentioned. This edition does not 

 contain the second part, which is introduced in 

 the translation with the following note : 



" It was thought that Dr. Kalph had no intention to 

 carry on his Treatise of Optimism any further, and there- 

 fore it was translated and published as a complete piece ; 

 but Ralph, spirited up by the little cabals of the German 

 universities, added a second part, which we have caused 

 to be translated to satisfy the impatience of the public, 

 and especially of such who are diverted with the witti- 

 cisms of Master Alibron ; who know what a Merry- An- 

 drew is, and who never read the Journal of Trevoux." 



(Query, What does the last portion of this note 

 refer to ?) 



It seems probable, from this and other addi- 

 tions in the translation (ex. gr. the scene with the 

 marquise after the theatre), that further inter- 

 polations may have been afterwards made, and 

 that the words, "Are you also a king?" &c., 

 quoted by the Quarterly reviewer, were inserted 

 in some edition subsequent to this translation, 

 though I have never seen them ; and I agree with 

 your correspondent, rather than with the reviewer, 

 tliat they are wanting in the dry smartness and 

 humour of Voltaire. The translation from which 

 I have quoted was, not improbably, made from 

 the Faris edition of 1809. W. R. M. 



In my edition of Les Romans de Voltaire., Paris, 

 de Timprimerie de Pierre Didot, An. 8, 1800, the 

 remark of Candide, eulogised by the reviewer in 

 the Quarterly, is not to be found. 



Such an observation would not have been in 

 good taste when addressed to several unfortunate 

 monarchs, whose only solace in their present 

 misfortunes was the recollection of their former 

 dignity. Anon. 



WHICH IS THE QTJEKCUS ROBUE ? 



(2"'' S. ii. 309. 358.) 



I am obliged to Mr. Frebe for his Note in an- 

 swer to my Query, but it does not give me any 

 information on the subject. Evelyn was more a 

 lover of trees than a botanist, and does not give 

 what I wish to have ; neither does Low in his ex- 

 cellent work on Landed Property, as far as my 

 memory serves me. Selby's Forest Trees I do 

 not know, and have no present means of access 

 to. And the forty references to the Gardeners 



Chronicle, extending over a period of sixteen 

 years, are equally inaccessible to me. I conclude 

 a considerable discussion has taken place on this 

 subject in its columns. If Mr. Frere will inform 

 the readers of " N. & Q." what result has been 

 arrived at, I am sure they will forgive him, even 

 if he does give them some long extracts from what 

 has already appeared in print. When the late 

 Mr. Loudon published his Arboretum, the con- 

 clusion I came to was, that, with all the pains he 

 had taken, he could not solve the question satis- 

 factorily as to which is the true Quercus robur. 

 Mr. Rivers, the intelligent nurseryman of Saw- 

 bridgeworth, Herts, gave me the following in- 

 formation some few years since : 



" The Quercus mas is the Q. sessiliflora of modern au- 

 thors. It may still be seen in the remains of a wood at 

 Norwood. It is very rare in the eastern counties. It is 

 frequently seen in Devonshire; on the banks of the Dart, 

 going from Totness to Dartmouth, it is common ; in Sus- 

 sex it is not uncommon. In the forest of Fontainbleau, 

 among the sandstone rocks, and, indeed, in all parts of the 

 forest, the oaks are Q. sessiliflora. The trees are very 

 lofty, but not umbrageous like Q. pedunculata. I faucietl 

 I saw some hybrids in the borders of the forest." 



I have two trees of the Q. sessiliflora raised 

 from seed and planted seventy or eighty years 

 since. by my grandfather, and near them is another 

 oak that seems a hybrid, also planted at the same 

 time. The foliage of the Q. sessiliflora is dark, 

 more regularly indented and more beautiful than 

 the Q. pedunculata, the common oak of Essex. 

 To ornamental planters I should recommend 

 them, but doubt their growing as freely as the 

 Q. pedunculata. I hope some of your country 

 readers will observe any fine trees, and make a 

 Note. A. Holt White. 



In my rambles through Ugbrooke Park, in the 

 parish of Chudleigh, Devon, where there are 

 great numbers of this tree, the old English oak, 

 many of them centuries old, as well as some of the 

 Quercus sessiliflora, I have this day collected 

 acorns of botli trees ; those from the Q. robur 

 have long stalks from the cup or calix, whilst the 

 others are so sessile as scarcely to show any stalk 

 at all. Some very large trees of the Q. robur are 

 growing on the vallum of an old British encamp- 

 ment in the park, which must have sprung up 

 there years after it had ceased to be the outwork 

 of the camp, the old ivy encircling some of them 

 having a circumference of thirty-six inches and 

 upwards in its stalk. The Q. robur is preferred 

 by all workers in hard wood for houses, ships, 

 waggons, machinery, &c. It is a large and hand- 

 some tree, growing fifty, and even one hundred 

 feet high, with a rough bark, widely extended 

 branches, which are nearly horizontal, and some- 

 what zigzag. The leaves are alternate and nearly 

 sessile, with a single mid-rib, and veins passing 



