Sept. 22. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



235 



ponderous tomes I have quoted above shows how 

 these flowers — rather curious than pleasing, I 

 venture to opine — were formerly said to be pro- 

 duced : 



" Si in teneras Agrifolii arbusculas Rosae inserantur, 

 virides flores procJucere scribunt aliqui apud Camerarium. 

 Quamvis interdum anni constitutione frigidiore et humi- 

 diore, herbacei coloris Ros£e, sine calyce proveniant, cujus 

 eausam Costaeus de natur. stirp. explicat." 



I append a Query, In the review of Wiisteraann's 

 Essai/s, in the Athenaeum, July 21, 1855, p. 834., 

 mention is made of a young German who had 

 collected all that the ancients had written about 

 roses : was tlie work ever published ? 



A. Chalmtbth. 



Popular Airs (Vol. xii., p. 1 83.). — Mr. Hack- 

 woob's Note may lead to a much more interesting 

 inquiry than that to which he confines himself. 1 

 am neither a practical nor theoretical musician, but 

 a sentimental devotee to music ; and, being also 

 a sexagenarian, I have witnessed many of the 

 musical varieties which your correspondent notices, 

 and have remarked, what must have been ob- 

 served by all who have ears, the gradual change 

 that has taken place in our organ tunes. Instead 

 of those enlivening, cheerful and merry strains, or 

 those pathetic little songs, all full of beautiful 

 melody, which used to charm us as we rambled 

 along, we have now doleful, but ambitious at- 

 tempts, with scarcely a tuneful thought to relieve 

 tliem. Instead of manly and effective composi- 

 sition we have maudlin slip-slop. The power of 

 writing a melodious tune seems almost to be lost, 

 or if a happy thought occurs, it is divided and 

 subdivided, so as to make the most of it till only 

 the thinnest thread remains, and the weak refuse 

 is evaporated in the multitude of notes. 



It would be useful to trace these successive 

 changes, and, by pointing out the causes that have 

 led to them, to assist in restoring our song-writers 

 to their senses, and inspirit their imaginations to 

 the wholesome vigour of the "old and antique 

 song," so that all listeners may delightedly call 

 for " that strain again." D. S. 



Mrs. Mary Astell (Vol. xii., p. 126.) was born 

 at Newcastle-upon-Tyne about 1688, and pub- 

 lished Six Familiar Essays, on Marriage, Crosses 

 in Love, Sfc. ; Bartlemy Fair, or an Inquiry after 

 Wit, 1709; The Christian Religion as professed 

 hy a Davghter of the Church of England {?), 8vo., 

 1717, &c. She Avas buried at Chelsea, May 14, 

 1731. Dr. Smalridge speaks in very high terms 

 of her abilities. See Atterbury's Letters, and 

 Ballard's Memoirs of Learned Ladies. E. W. O. 



Camberwell. 



Delaune Family (Vol. xii., p. 166.). — A sportive 

 epitaph on Dr. William Delaune is printed in 

 Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth 



No. 308.] 



Century, 1812, 8vo., vol. i. p. 36., and a note is 

 added at vol. viii. p. 355,, which mentions The 

 Cork Screw, a poem, by N. Amhurst, being in- 

 scribed to him in the following apostrophe : 

 " And thou, who, if report say true, 

 In pocket always bear'st tliy screw, 

 Accept, Delaune, in youthful lays, 

 The homage which the poet pays." 



E. W, O. 

 Camberwell. S^a. p liQ t 



Priests Hiding-places (Vol.xi.,p. 437. ; Vol. xii., 

 pp. 14. 149.). — There is a secret chamber of 

 this kind at Nether Witton, in Northumberland, 

 the seat of Raleigh Trevelyan, Esq., inherited 

 from his maternal ancestors, the Thorntons, who 

 were Romanists. There can be no doubt that this 

 was the priest's hole ; but tradition also claims it 

 as the hiding-place of the notorious Lord Lovat, 

 whose portrait is in the house. E. H. A. 



Parham, which the Hon. Robert Curzon has 

 filled with so many beautiful works of early as 

 well as mediaeval ai't, has one of those rooms. It 

 is close by the chapel, in the roof of the house, 

 and the way down to it is through a bench stand- 

 ing out from the wall. Cephas. 



" hajxirihov Spa/uaros " (Vol, xi., p, 465. ; Vol. xii., 

 p. 18.). — For want of a more specific reference, I 

 have not been able to find this term in the Ethio- 

 pics of Heliodorus ; and Bourdelot has no note on 

 it. The Lampadium was one of the younger fe- 

 male characters in the Greek drama, according to 

 the following list of Julius Pollux, x. c. 31. 149, — 



AeKTlKTJ, 



OuAt). 



Kdprj, 



SteuSoKopjj. 



'Erepa i/zeuSoKopij. 



27rapTO;rdAios AeKTl/cij. 



IlaAAaK^. 



'EraipiKOi' Te'Aeiov. 



'Eraipi'Sioi' iipalov. 



Aiaxpvco? iraCpa. 



'Eratpa £ia|U.iTp09. 



Aa/xjrdSioj'. 



*A/3pa TrepiKovpos. 



&epnai.viSi.ov irapdij/ricTTOV. 



1. Dicax. 



2. Crispa. 



3. Virgo. 



4. Falsa virgo. 



5. Secunda falsa virgo. 



6. Spartopolia eloquens. 



7. Pellex. 



8. Scortum nobile. 



9. Scortum maturum. 



10. Deaurata meretrix. 



11. Meretrix redimita. 



12. Lampadium. 



13. Aura virginea. 



14. Famula calculatoria. 



Julius Pollux says (iv. c. 19.), iSedf TpixSov ex" 

 irXiyfxaTos ets 6|i< uTroXriyovTos [acp' ov /ce/cArjTai], she 

 was thus named from wearing her hair twisted so 

 as to end in a point, like a lamp or toi-ch. 



T. J. BUCKTON. 

 Lichfield. 



Door-head Inscriptions (Vol. xii., p. 34.). — In 

 his History of Exeter, p. 41., Dr. Oliver says that 

 Walter Bronescombe, who was consecrated Bishop 

 of Exeter, a.d. 1258, built a large house at Clyst : 

 over its time-worn gateway, which till a few years 

 ago was yet standing, might be seen this welcome : 

 " Janua patet — cor magis." 



Cephas. 



