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about 500,000 souls dwelling at the eastern end 

 . of Transylvania, and who distinguished themselves 

 during the recent war of independence in Hun- 

 gary. Captain Reid refers to a M. Berzeviczy, 

 a Szekler, who has devoted considerable time to 

 inquiries as to the early history of his race, and 

 whose theory is that they are an aboriginal peo- 

 ple, and the ancestors of the present Tartar race. 

 Has anything been published by M. Berzeviczy 

 or any other on this subject? The characteristics 

 of the Szekler features, as given by Captain Reid, 

 seem very different from those of the Tartars, 

 and differ much too from those of the aborigi- 

 nal races of Great Britain, of America, of Egypt, 

 and of other countries ; in all of which the earliest 

 races seem to have been similar, so far as may be 

 judged from the skulls and other 'remains found 

 in cists and tombs. See Wilsons Archceology, or 

 Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, a most useful and 

 ingenious work. Captain Reid asserts that the 

 Szckely are the ancient Siculi, and in this he is 

 probably correct ; but if M. Berzeviczy's theory 

 IS right, a much greater and deeper interest at- 

 taches to them. Any connexion with the abori- 

 ginal races — a race of Europe — is most interesting 

 in an ethnological and archgeological point of view, 

 and I would be very grateful for any further in- 

 formation on the subject. Y. 



" Too fair to worship,^'' SfC. — 



" Too fair to worship, too divine to love." 



Motto on Lord Ward's famous Correggio, Query, 

 who is the author ? Q-y. 



Pope's Iliad. — I have heard that Pope's trans- 

 lation of the concluding lines of the 8th Book of 

 The Iliad — 



" As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night," &c. 



has been much criticised and abused by Coleridge 

 or Wordsworth. Will any reader of " N. & Q." 

 be kind enough to tell me where any passage in 

 Coleridge or Wordsworth to that effect is to be 

 found ? Lesbt. 



Prideaux and Walpole. — On looking over the 

 Railway Anecdote Book, under the head " Wal- 

 poliana," p. 135., it states : 



"Walpole was plagued one morning with that oaf of 

 unlicked antiquity, Prideaux, and his great boy. He talked 

 through all Italy, and every thing in all Italy," &c. 



Query, Is the Prideaux here alluded to the 

 author of the Connexion between the Old and Neiv 

 Testament. If not, who was he ? I would not 

 trouble you, but have no means of consulting any 

 of Walpole's works. A Devonian. 



Doolie. — Public attention at present is fixed 

 on the East. A glossary of Hindostanie terms 

 employed in Anglo-India parlance has been pub- 

 lished. The explanations given are joot always 



correct; but let that pass. A " doolie" is'proba- 

 bly described as being a sort of palanquin for the 

 conveyance of the sick and wounded, and we 

 have lately read of military operations being de- 

 layed for want of a sufficient number of dooley 

 bearers. In the far East, we have a tale that 

 when Burke was worrying Warren Hastings, he 

 brought one invective to a climax by declaring 

 that, "After a sanguinary engagement, the said 

 Warren Hastings had actually ordered ferocious 

 Doolys to seize upon the wounded." Is this legend 

 founded on fact ? It is certainly accepted as 

 such by many Indians, though the origin I have 

 never been able to discover. Waquif Kar. 



Lieut- Colonel George Lenox Davis. — Wanted 

 for genealogical purposes the' arras, crest, &c. of 

 the late Lieut.-Col. George Lenox Davis, C. B., 

 9th regiment, sometime superintendent of the 

 Liverpool recruiting district. He died in Galway, 

 Ireland, in 1852, and a tablet to his memory was 

 erected in the cathedral of that town by his 

 brother officers, on which, however, the arms are 

 not given. As he was a K.C.B. some information 

 with respect to his arms and pedigree would be 

 easily obtainable by any of the correspondents 

 of " N. & Q." resident in London. 



Ymdeithiwe. 



Epigram quoted by Gibbon. — 



" Gibbon fait allusion, dans une note de son histoire, k 

 une ^pigramme bien connue qu'il arrange ainsi : 

 " 'Un serpent mordit Jean Freron; 

 Eh bien ! le serpent en niourut ! ' 

 "On voit qu'il ne tient pas plus h la rime que son ami, le 

 philosophe Hume." — Jugements, Maximes et Reminiscences, 

 par M. L. Mezibres, p. 333. Paris et Metz, 1857. 



Where is the original, or what is the true read- 

 ing? 



The thought is like — 



" The man recovered from his bite, 

 The dog it was that died." 



Is either a plagiarism ? M. N. S. 



Subject of Painting. — I possess a very old 

 painting, five inches by three and a half inches, on 

 copper, by Sassoferrato (Salvi), on the subject of 

 which I am rather at a loss. It represents three 

 white lilies in a triangular position. Out of the 

 upper one is a half-length figure of the Virgin, 

 with her right hand resting on a blue globe, and 

 holding a sort of bag or " reticule." On the globe, 

 and supported by the Virgin's left shoulder, is the 

 infant Christ, with a golden "glory" round his 

 head, with the left hand placing a golden crown 

 on the head of the Virgin, and with his right hand 

 placing a sceptre, with a cross on it, in her left 

 hand, which she grasps. Issuing out of the lily, 

 on the right of the above, is a half length of an 

 old and bearded monk, clothed in white, holding 

 in his right hand a white flag with a cross on the 



