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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s. N« 82., JotY 25. '57. 



''Time and again'' (2"" S. iv. 29.) — "Time 

 and again" appears to have signified originally 

 *' mice and again," and tbence to have acquired the 

 meaning of " again and again," Grammatical or 

 ungrammatical, the phrase has some countenance 

 both in French, Latin, Scotch, and German. 



" A time," in some parts of Scotland, is the act 

 of once furrowing between two ploughings. If 

 two furrowings intervene, it is " a double time ; " 

 if four, " a double double time " (Jamieson, Sup- 

 plement) . 



In German, " once " is einmal (einmaiil, " one 

 time "). 



" A time," in the sense of " once," exactly cor- 

 responds to the French " une fois." With " time 

 and again " compare also the French phrase, " de 

 fois "k autre." 



" Fois " is a slight modification of the Latin 

 "vice." Like the Spanish "una vez" and the 

 Portuguese " huma vez," the French " une fois " 

 conies from the (not classical) Latin, "una vice." 

 Indeed, our own " once," with its various ante- 

 cedents in old English, claims the same o^in, 

 thus : — una vice, Mw(a vi)ce, once. 



Thomas Bots. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The Councils of the Church, from the Council of Jeru- 

 salem, A.D. 51., to the Council of Constantinople, A.D. 381., 

 chiefly as to their Constitution, but also as to their Object 

 and History, by the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D.D., is a fragment 

 of a large work begun in 1850 ; for the preparation of 

 which the learned author studied the Councils of 1000 

 years. Circumstances have, however, compelled Dr. Pusey 

 to publish a part of the Councils of the first most im- 

 portant period. The work was undertaken with the view 

 of showing that the only authority of the State which 

 the Church of England has ever formally recognised, had 

 been recognised in times long antecedent to the Reforma- 

 tion ; times, with whose precedent the minds for whom he 

 was writing would be satisfied ; and of exhibiting the 

 evidences furnished by the earliest period of the Church, 

 that matters of doctrine were always exclusively decided 

 or attested by those whom the Apostles left to succeed to 

 such portion of their office as uninspired men could 

 discharge — the Bishops of the Universal Church; but 

 though limited in its object, the Reverend writer ex- 

 presses his trust, that in this volume " he has given an 

 jotelligible history of the Councils of the Church down 

 to the close of the second General Council of Constan- 

 tinople, before which Arianism finally fell." 



From the publishers of the preceding volume, Messrs. 

 Parker of Oxford, we have also received Sequel to the 

 Argument against imniediaUly repealing the Laws which 

 treat the Nuptial Bond as Indissoluble, by the Rev. John 

 Keble, M.A. : The Pastor in his Closet, or a Help to the 

 Devotions of the Clergy, by the Rev. John Armstrong, D.D., 

 late Lord Bishop of Grahamstown ; Constitutional Loyalty, 

 a Sermon preached before the University of Oxford on 

 Saturday, June 20fA, 1857, being the Day on which Her 

 Majesty began Her happy Meign, by the Rev. Prummond 

 Percy Chase ; and the new part of Parker's Oxford Pocket 

 Classics, containing Xenophontis Expeditio Cyri. . 



Messrs. Routledge being desirous of producing a popular 

 Percy's Reliques in one volume, entrusted the revision and 

 editing of it to the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott ; and well 

 has he justified the selection. The mere antiquary will 

 of course not be satisfied with a Percy which has been at 

 all abridged ; but the lover of the old poetry, for the 

 poetry's sake, will be delighted with this little volume, 

 which contains not only all that is really good and beau- 

 tiful in the original work, but a graceful sketch of the 

 life of Thomas Percy, " a name musical to all lovers of 

 poetry," and an enlarged and improved Glossary. 



If Madame de Stag! was the first to tell the rest of 

 Europe that Germany had a literature, to Thomas Car- 

 lyle is mainly due the credit of telling England of what 

 that literature consisted. In the Edinburgh Review, and 

 the short-lived Foreign Review, he gave to the world the 

 first critical notices of the writings of men whose names 

 were only beginning to be heard in England"; and so told 

 of their merits and their short -comings — their originality 

 — their genius — their eccentricities, that he sent thought- 

 ful men to their works to read and judge for themselves. 

 These Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Collected and re- 

 published by Thomas Carljde, will be a welcome book to 

 many a thoughtful reader. The first volume only has 

 appeared, but how rich that first is will appear when we 

 say that it contains Carlyle's Essays on Richter, Werner, 

 Goethe, Heyne — on German Literature, German play- 

 wrights, German Romance, and Robert Bums. 



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