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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2nd s, No 98., Nov. 14. '57. 



TENNYSON QUERIES. 



Can any of your acuter readers help me to un- 

 derstand the following passages in Tennyson ? — 



" That carve the living hound, 

 And cram him with the fragments of the grave." 



Princess, p. 70. 

 " Tho' the rough kex break 

 The starr'd mosaic." — Ibid., p. 78. 



In "The Daisy," in Mr. Tennyson's last-pub- 

 lished volume, p. 143. : — 



" So dear a life your arms enfold, 

 Whose crying is a cry for gold." 



In No. XLV. of " In Memoriam," I do not clearly 

 understand the connexion of the 4th stanza with 

 the three preceding. 



Lastly, in No. cxxui. of the same poem, I find a 

 diflSculty in the 5th stanza : — 



" No, like a child in doubt and fear : 

 But that blind clamour made me wise." 



Is the word I have Italicised to be pronounced 

 with an emphasis or not ? Is it Sti or iKe7i^o ? And 

 is there not a contradiction between the 4th stanza 

 and the first line of the 2nd, — 



" I found him not in world or sun ! " 



G. C. L. L. 



Minav ihutviti, 



Johannes Pitseus. — 



"According to Anthony Wood the three large volumes on 

 British History compiled by the celebrated Wykehamist, 

 Johannes Pitseus, severally headed ' Sovereigns, Bishops, 

 Clergy,' were not buried with him in his grave according 

 to his will, but are still preserved amongst the muniments 

 of the collegiate foundation of Liverdun. (See Nutt's 

 Catalogue of Foreign Theological Works, 1857.) 



If the above be correct, is it not a matter worthy 

 of national attention, in order that the MS. may 

 be given to the world ? J. M. 



Painting attributed to Holbein. — I want to know, 

 if possible, the subject of an early painting attri- 

 buted to Hans Holbein. There are a father and 

 four sons all kneeling before some flames, which 

 run up all one side of the picture ; the man has 

 his hands clasped, and holds in them his cap, which 

 is jewelled. On his arm there is embroidered a 

 cross-bow (?) surmounted by a star in white. 

 Will this give us a clue as to who the gentleman 

 was ? J. C. J. 



Old Engravings. — Can you give me any infor- 

 mation as to the two following engravings: — 1. 

 Leonardo di Vinci's '* Last Supper," very neatly 

 etched, in two plates. Underneath is " P. P. Ru- 

 bens delineavit, cum privilegio," &c. Was Ru- 

 bens the engraver of these plates ? If not, who 

 was ? 2. A large folio-sized portrait of Mil- 



ton when blind dictating to one of his daughters, 

 while the other is getting down some books from 

 the shelves. Through the window, which is a 

 lattice, open, you see the tower and a church with 

 spire. This has no signature of any kind. Who 

 was the etcher ? Are either of these rare or of 

 value ? J. C. J. 



IretorHs Funeral. — I have a curious MS. in my 

 possession, written in the year 1762 by a Mrs. 

 Anne Fowkes alias Geale, who was then in the 

 eighty-second year of her age ; it purports to be 

 a journal of her life, and contains {inter alia) some 

 interesting genealogical particulars of her family. 

 Mentioning her maternal grandfather Lawrence, 

 she states : — 



" That he was of the English nation, a very worthy, 

 ingenious, good man : he was y^ author of some usefull 

 books ; one I have seen, called y« Interest of Ireland; he 

 was bred in a genteel way, and had a competent fortune ; 

 was greatly in favour with Lord Ireton, son-in-law to 

 Oliver Cromwell ; his picture was drawn attending that 

 Lord's funerall, with a black cloak on, and a pen in his 

 hand, signifying he was going to write y'^ funerral sermon ; 

 his merit raised him to be at y" head of a Regiment, and 

 Governor of y^ City of Watterford ; he was in that situa- 

 tion when y« plague was there, but by a kind providence 

 was preserv'd from y" infection, with his whole family," 

 &c. 



Is there any such picture known to exist ? or 

 does she refer to any engraving of Ireton's funeral ? 

 If so, the individual referred to might be identi- 

 fied. R. C. 



Cork. 



A Thief, when not a Thief, in Law. — 



" A fellow was recentlj' arrested in the United States 

 for passing counterfeit money, but it was proven that he 

 stole it, so he must have believed it genuine. There 

 being, therefore, no guilty knowledge, and no larcenj', the 

 man escaped, the law not considering counterfeit bills as 

 property." 



What would have been the result of a trial 

 under similar circumstances in England ? W. W. 

 Malta. 



Looking-glass of Lao. — Goldsmith, in his Citi- 

 zen of the World, Letter xlv., writes thus : — 



" Of all the wonders of the East, the most useful, and 1 

 should fancy the most pleasing, would be the looking- 

 glass of Lao, which reflects the mind as well as the body." 



Had Shakspeare ever heard of this marvellous 

 glass, and is there any allusion to it in the follow- 

 ing passage from Hamlet (Act III. Sc. 4.) ? 



" . . . . I set you up a glass. 

 Where you may see the inmost part of you." 



T. II. Plowman. 



Torquay. 



Hutchinsonianism. — Hutchinson died in 1737, 

 but his followers did not begin to make a great noise 

 in the world till about 1750. In the years follow- 

 ing this date they were so conspicuous that Lord 



