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N'OTES AND QUERIES. 



[2"* S. No 49., Dec. 6. '56, 



points of architectural history and art admirably, 

 and on which M. Schayes' work is founded : 



" In France. 



Transition, ou Romano Ogival - - - - 1125 



Ogival Primaires, ou, h. Lancettes - - - 1250 



Ogival Secondaires, ou Rayonnant - - - 1320 



Ogival Tertiare, ou Flamboyant . . - 1400 



Renaissance ------- 1550 



Reaction in favour of Classic Architecture - 1700 



Return to Gothic Architecture - - - - 1800 



" In England, 



Transition 1150 



Early English 1200 



Decorated ------- 1320 



Florid Perpendicular ----- 1400 



Debased 1550 



Reaction in favour of Classic Art - - . 1700 



Return to Gothic Architecture - - - - 1800" 



As touching the point in question, and as well 

 worthy of study to those examining the transi- 

 tional style, I may be allowed to recommend the 

 church of S. Quentin, at Tournai, which is, I 

 should be afraid, too often passed over with only 

 a cursory glance, standing as It does eclipsed by 

 the noble Komanesque cathedral on the other side 

 the Market Place. T. H. Pattison. 



Miwat flaiti. 



Lord Palmerston and Pope. — Some half cen- 

 tury ago, an accusation was originated, in what 

 was called the Cockney School, I think, against 

 Pope, that he was an enemy to " a little learning," 

 absolutely as such : 



" A little learning is a dangerous thing. 

 Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring." 



" This," said Lord Palmerston, the other day, 

 " is a mistake, and much error has it produced." 

 This latter assertion may be true, as far as those 

 are concerned who, like his Lordship, have not 

 taken the pains to apply their learning, great or 

 little, to the right understanding of the poet's 

 meaning. 



Lord Palmerston continues, " A little know- 

 ledge Is better than none." Very true ; but he, 

 and the rest of the misinterpreters of our poet, 

 ought to have understood, that the learning of the 

 " intoxicated " aspirant to the favour of the 

 Muses (intended by Pope), and the knowledge 

 useful to the humblest member of society (in- 

 tended by his Lordship) are very different objects 

 of attainment. 



Again, what are the effects against which the 

 poet Is so earnestly warning " fearless youth " ? 

 Read the few lines that precede, and It will be 

 clearly seen that it Is against pride, and that pre- 

 sumption with which shallow draughts intoxicate 

 many a " we " of our own day. 



He has before admonished those to whom his 

 counsels are addressed, In these emphatic terms : 



" Be sure yourself and your own reach to know, 

 How far your genius, taste, and learning go." 



It was in a similar spirit of admonition that 

 Bacon tells us, " a little philosophy inclineth man's 

 mind to Atheisme ; but depth in philosophy 

 bringeth men's minds about to Religion." Q. 



Bloomsbury. 



'•'■ Lofer^'' Origin of the Word. — An American 

 whom I met in a Swiss mountain walk, some 

 five years since, claimed the word, and gave this 

 derivation: — An old Dutchman settled at New 

 York, and acquired In trade a considerable for- 

 tune. He had an only daughter, and a young 

 American fell in love with her, or her dollars, or 

 both. The old father forbid him his house, but 

 the daughter encouraged him. Whenever the 

 old merchant saw the lover about his premises, he 

 used to exclaim to his daughter, " there is that 

 'lofer' of yours, the Idle, good-for-nothing," &c. ; 

 and so an Idle man, hanging about, came to be 

 called a " lofer." A. Holt White. 



Vegetable Bread and Wine. — Last winter a 

 Mr. Wilkins delivered some lectures In London 

 upon a new mode of cultivation. With great 

 emphasis, and some broad humour, he spoke on 

 the advantages of his system. He showed that 

 by plenteous and judicious manuring, and several 

 novel arrangements, crops might be enormously 

 multiplied. But, besides this, he spoke of, and 

 exhibited, and handed round for his auditors to 

 " taste and try," a -species of bread made from man- 

 gold-wurtzel. And very nice bread It was ; light 

 and sweet, and moist, — greatly superior to rice- 

 bread, or the bread made from the "potato-flour." 

 But now Mr. Wilkins has succeeded In extracting 

 wine from the same vegetable. I have not had an 

 opportunity of tasting this ; but the Beading 

 Mercury says, that it is likely to be a very pleasant 

 drink. As yet none has been kept long enough. 

 This wine will sell at 6d. per quart. Threlkeld. 

 Cambridge. 



Old Chapel Burnt. — The destruction at once 

 of " an antique oratory," and of the evidence of a 

 Protestant miracle, is a fact which seems worthy 

 to be recorded in " N. & Q." I therefore for- 

 ward an extract from the Manchester Examiner 

 and I'imes of November 11, 1856 ; hoping that its 

 Imperfect grammar will not cause its rejection : — 



" Yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock, some work- 

 people engaged on the grounds at Smethell's Hall * (the 

 seat of Peter Ainsworth, Esq.) were alarmed by a smell 

 of burning timber; and, on going to the chapel adjoining 

 the hall, a fire was discovered to be raging within. An 

 alarm was instantly raised, and messengers despatched to 

 the works of Mr. J. H. Ainsworth, and a large number of 



* Near Bolton-le-Moors. 



