July 1. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



more pains ; and the other to praise the works of Pietro 

 Perugino," — Vicar of Wakefield, ch, xx. 



]VIalcolm Feaser. 

 Clifton. 



Hesiod and Matt. v. 43. — 



" Thv d)i\eouTa <pi\fiv, koI rep vrpofftSfri irpocreivai." 

 Hesiod, Works and Days, 355. 



May it not be this maxim of Hesiod our Saviour 

 alludes to, when he says : 



" Ye have heard that it hath been said. Thou shalt 

 love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy " (?) — 

 Matt. V. 43. 



John South Phillips. 



Bury St. Edmunds. 



Anecdote of Eldon. — The following anecdote 

 was related to me by my father, who had received 

 it from Bosanquet, the author of the Reports. 



Judge Bosanquet, when a young man, was re- 

 porting a case before Lord Eldon, and the chan- 

 cellor requested to see the report. Bosanquet 

 sent it to him with his judgment, reported exactly 

 as it had fallen from his lordship's lips ; except 

 that some of his unmanageably long sentences 

 were broken up into reasonable lengths. One 

 sentence especially, occupying three folio pages 

 and a half, was broken into a number of shorter 

 periods. His lordship's only alteration was to put 

 this wounded snake of a sentence back again, as 

 lie had originally pronounced it. And in this 

 state it may now be found in Bosanquet's Reports^ 

 filling three folio pages and a half. T. A. T. 



Florence. 



<Mtxiti. 



CLAIRVOYANCE. 



If room can be made for the following letter, 

 addressed some months ago to the editor of the 

 Christian Observer, it will explain itself; and 

 perhaps some correspondent will be able and dis- 

 posed to give me, either directly or through your 

 pages, the information which it was intended to 

 elicit : 



Gloucester, Feb. 4, 1854. 

 Sir, 



In a review relating to mesmerism, in this 

 month's Christian Observer, the writer says, with 

 reference to what is called clairvoyance, — 



" The best test of this fraud (for it is nothing better) 

 IS, that of the challenges which have been given to the 

 whole class of clairvoyants, to read the numbers upon 

 certain bank notes which have been locked up in metal 

 boxes, on the condition of receiving these notes when 

 so deciphered; and which have universally failed," — 

 P. 133. 



lam endeavouring to collect evidence on the 

 subject ; and as his language seems to Indicate an 



acquaintance with cases that have not come to my 

 knowledge, I should feel much obliged if he would 

 favour me with a list of the challenges to which he 

 refers. 



In asking this information respecting what the 

 writer speaks of as a notorious matter, I trust I 

 shall not be considered as Intruding myself on his 

 confidence, or trying to penetrate his incognito. I 

 have no wish to do either, but merely ask for re- 

 ferences to published documents, or such a state- 

 ment of names and dates as may enable me to 

 find them. 



I am, Sir, 



Yours faithfully, 



S. R. Maitland. 



Minav caunrte^. 



Pillars resting on Animals. — In churches at 

 Modena, Parma, Florence, and other towns In 

 Italy, are found pillars (generally near the en- 

 trance) resting upon lions and other animals. 

 Can any of your correspondents explain the 

 meaning of such peculiar bases to columns ? I 

 rather think there are none such In England. 



M. H. R. 



MS. Verses in Fullers " Medicina Gymnastica." 

 — In the fly-leaf of a copy of Fuller's Medicina 

 Gymnastica (a.d. 1705), which I lately purchased, 

 I found the following lines in manuscript : 



" In time of need, few friends a man shall finde ; 



But when a man is rich, then all seeme kinde." 



" Old Smug, the smith, for ale and spice 



Sold all his tooles, but kept his vice." 



" He plows in sand, and sowes against the winde, 



That hopes for constant love of womankinde." 



Are these lines known to any of your readers ? 



D. 

 Leamington. 



Charles Povey. — Can any of your correspon- 

 dents refer me to sources of information regarding 

 the above-named curious character, who died 

 about the middle of the last century, at a good 

 old age ; after projecting various schemes, and 

 writing many books upon political, commercial, 

 moral, theological, and miscellaneous subjects ? 

 I am acquainted with the slight notices of Povey 

 to be found In the Gent. Mag., Nichols, Tim- 

 perley, Cunningham, Francis, Lysons, and Park ; 

 and rather seek references to the newspapers of 

 his day, where It is likely he often figured. J. O. 



The Moon's Influence. — In the works of the old 

 authors who have written on the subject of agri- 

 culture, frequent allusion is made to the influence 

 of the moon on the growth of plants ; and the 

 farmer Is cautioned not to sow his seeds during 

 the increase of the moon. This caution however, 



