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in cement. Such I believe to be the true deriva- 

 tion of maganum, and its true meaning. 



It must not, however, be concealed that there 

 is another explanation of this latter word. Maqaa 

 is in Portuguese an apple. Hence maganeta, a 

 knob, — as pommel, pommeau, from pomme. Conf. 

 in Span, mazaneta, which, according to Seoane, is 

 "an apple-shaped ornament in jewels." Taken 

 in this point of view, maganum would rather sig- 

 nify embossed work, such as would very probably 

 be found on a drinking-cup, in connexion with 

 which maganum appears in your correspondent's 

 citation. If thus derived from magaa, the word 

 would be maganum. On the whole, howevei', the 

 derivation first given seems the preferable one. 



The mediaaval practice of reproducing verna- 

 cular terms in a Latinized form, as macanum from 

 maca, a spot, and maganam from mafa, cement, 

 was quite as frequent in the Spanish Peninsula as 

 amongst ourselves. " Take a few specimens," says 

 Lafuente ; " De meas autem armas qui ad varones 

 et cavalleros pertinent, sellas de argento etfrenos, 

 et brumias, et espatas." Thomas Boys. 



Charles Wesley s Hymns. — To Uneda, who in- 

 quires (2"'^ S. iv. 268.) what has become of the 

 numerous hymns which the " sweet singer of Me- 

 thodism" left unpublished at his death, it may 

 be replied, that these, with the rest of his papers, 

 were purchased by the Conference, and a con- 

 siderable number of them were printed in the 

 Methodist Magazine a few years since. Although 

 " hymns " in the loose sense of the term, they 

 were, for the most part, paraphrases in verse of 

 various Scripture passages. D. 



Hon. and Rev. Dr. Stewart (2°<^ S. iv. 227.) — 

 Probably the Hon. and Rev. James Stewart, the 

 first Bishop of Quebec, uncle to the present Earl 

 of Galloway. He died in 1837. Klof. 



Lines attributed to Wolsey (2°'^ S. iv. 305.) — On 

 a very cursory perusal of these lines, it will ap- 

 pear evident that they are by different writers, of 

 different and distant periods. And, accordingly, 

 the fact is, that the first four lines are taken from 

 Prior's poem of Henry and Emma : substituting, 

 however, at the beginning of line four, the word 

 "wide" for "while" in the original, and thereby 

 spoiling the sense. It occurs in Emma's fourth 

 reply. 



The last nine lines are from Spencer's Faery 

 Queen, being stanza 18 of Canto v. United by 

 the four intervening lines, the whole might have 

 easily found its way into the "old note-book, 

 bearing date nearly 150 years ago," where T. R. K. 

 met with it. But, how it could have been " attri- 

 buted to Wolsey," can only be conjectured by 



supposing that it reminded some one of the Car- 

 dinal's lamentation over his fallen condition, in 

 Shakspeare's play of Henry VIII. P. H. Fishee. 



Inedited Verses by Cowper (2°'> S. iv. 4. 259.) — 

 These verses do not read like Cowper's ; but 

 neither do they seem more of a " plagiarism " from 

 the verses referred to by X. A. X. than belongs to 

 a resemblance in a general sentiment, which must 

 have occurred to many a Christian mind. X. A. X., 

 moreover, is mistaken in attributing the verses 

 beginning with " Jesus, I my cross have ta^en," 

 to James Montgomery. They appear, indeed, in 

 Montgomery's Christian Psalmist, Glasgow, 1826, 

 in one of the parts appropriated by him to the 

 "selected" pieces, and not in Part V., which com- 

 prises the " original hymns." In the index it is 

 marked G. ; and I think that in the Edinburgh 

 selection the writer's name is given at length, and 

 that it is Graham. • P. H. F. 



Stroud. 



Misprints (2°* S. iv. 47. 218.) — The following 

 are curious instances. In a copy of the Bible, 

 now before me, printed at the Cambridge Univer- 

 sity Press, in 1831, for the British and Foreign 

 Bible Society (small pica 8vo., marg. ref.), these 

 occur, besides others of a minor character : — 



Psalm cxix. 93. : " I will newer forgive thy pre- 

 cepts ; " '■'■forgive " for '■'■ forget." 



1 John iii. 11. : "That we should love another;" 

 for " one another." J. M. C. 



Acadia College, Nova Scotia, Oct. 7, 1857. 



In the Book of Common-Prayer (4to.), Cam- 

 bridge, 1826, printed by J. Smith, printer to the 

 University, in the Gospel for the Sixth Sunday 

 after Trinity, the word "brother" is printed 

 « bother." R. W. F. 



"Shankin Shon" (2°^ S. iv. 289.) — Of this sin- 

 gular painting, for the information of Humilitas, 

 I can (from memory only) inform him there is a 

 print of it on folio paper, engraved in a somewhat 

 coarse manner, and which at one time (some 

 twenty years since) used occasionally to be met 

 with in the print shops, but, to the best of my 

 recollection, there is no engraver's name, and 

 think that it was executed somewhere about 1770 

 (certainly within a very few years either way) ; 

 and that it is not unlikely to be the production of 

 the caricaturist Bunbury, whose humour lay much 

 in that direction. I should advise Hdmilitas to 

 endeavour to see a series of Bunbury's caricatures, 

 where he may probably find it. He was greatly 

 patronised by the family of Sir W. W. Wynn, and 

 several prints in connexion with the private thea- 

 tricals at Wynnstay were executed by him. Also 

 I may as well inform your correspondent, that 

 somewhere about 1740, there was a small pamphlet 

 (I am uncertain whether it was in prose or verse) 



