July 22. 1854.] 



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the boy under Janoo's care and various strange 

 wolves, who visited him and played with him 

 while he was with Janoo, also is a very strange 

 circumstance. 



All the stories agree in representing the chil- 

 dren carried away by the wolves as above the age 

 of infancy, and as becoming brutalised by the 

 lupine nurture ; so that when they are rescued 

 from the wolves, and restored to human associ- 

 ation, they are destitute of the leading attributes 

 of man, moral and intellectual. These stories, 

 therefore, afford no confirmation of the story of 

 Romulus and Remus, who were suckled by the 

 wolf, and who were after a few days found by the 

 shepherd Faustulus, and given to be nurtured by 

 his wife. 



In case these remarks should fall under the eyes 

 of any person who has the means of making local 

 inquiries in India respecting an alleged case of a 

 boy rescued from wolves, it may be permitted to 

 suggest that, for the purpose of ascertaining the 

 truth, it would be desirable to take the deposition 

 in writing of the person who professes to have 

 found the boy in company with the wolf, and to 

 cross-examine him closely as to the particulars. 

 It is likewise to be wished that one of the idiot 

 boys, who are reported to have been nurtured by 

 wolves, should be examined by a scientific medical 

 man, who would be able to throw light upon the 

 physiological aspect of the question. L. 



POPIANA : DUBLIN (1727) EDITION OF " THE 

 DUNCIAD." 



Has any of your correspondents ever seen an 

 edition of the Dunciad, 1727? Pope himself, in 

 his notes to the first acknowledged edition of 

 1729, says distinctly and repeatedly, that an " im- 

 perfect edition" was published in Dublin in 1727, 

 and republished in London in that year both in 

 12mo. and in 8vo. But Malone did not credit this 

 statement, and believed it to be a trick of Pope's. 

 The first edition of the Dunciad being, as he 

 thought, one with the frontispiece of an owl, and 

 this imprint : " Dublin printed, London reprinted 

 for A. Dodd, 1728." 



It is hard to conceive why Pope (fond as he no 

 doubt was of nianoeuvering) should have put for- 

 ward a wanton falsehood on a point of, as it seems, 

 no importance, and which must have been at the 

 time of public notoriety ; but I have locked for 

 tiie alleged Dublin edition in vain. C. 



:®m0r ^xiztiei, 



MS. on Church Unity, ^c — A few years since 

 I purchased a polemical treatise in MS., and should 

 be glad if any of your readers could assist me in 



determining the authorship, which, I imagine, will 

 not be a diflScult matter to do. It is apparently 

 in the handwriting of an amanuensis, but cor- 

 rected throughout by the author. Its date is, as 

 I suppose, between 1660 and 1680. Hammond 

 and Baxter are both referred to, and the subject- 

 matter is a defence of Church Unity and Dio- 

 cesan Episcopacy. The following quotation will 

 enable some of your readers to determine the 

 authorship, and inform me whether the MS., which 

 is evidently prepared for the press, has ever been 

 printed : — 



" But you'll say you have reason for what you 

 teach, viz., that it is a knowne thing that all 

 church power dootli worke only on the conscience, 

 and therefore only prevailes by procuring consent 

 and cannot compell. 



"Which position, if not rightly understood, and 

 not rightly applyed, may give countenance to any 

 kind of disobedience and rebellion. I shall refer 

 you to what I. have written on this point in my 

 Appollogy for the discipline of the antient church, 

 p. 42. The sum whereof is that conscience must 

 be grounded upon s . . . . and certain know- 

 ledge ; this is the light of the understanding which 

 must guide the will to choose," &c. W. Denton. 



Author of " Paul Jones" — 



"Paul Jones, or the Fife Coast Garland; a heroical 

 poem in four parts, in which is contained the Oyster 

 Wives of Newliaven's letter to Lord Sandwich." 

 This is the title of a very scarce poetical satire, 

 privately printed at Edinburgh in 1779, 4to., and 

 consisting of thirty-seven pages. I have endea- 

 voured to trace the name of the author, but 

 without effect ; perhaps some of your numerous 

 readers may be more successful. My copy be- 

 longed to Archibald Constable the bookseller, 

 whose collections relative to Scottish literature 

 were very valuable. J. M. 



Edinburgh. 



Lead Paint as a Protection for Timber. — Can 

 any correspondent afford some approximate idea 

 of the period at which paint first began to be ap- 

 plied to the wood-work of buildings as a protec- 

 tion from damp, weather, &c. ? I have seen doors 

 of very ancient buildings, apparently cotemporary, 

 or certainly of considerable age, in a good state of 

 preservation, with a slight fibrous incrustation 

 over the heart of oak below, but which bore no 

 evidences of having ever been in contact with a 

 paint-brush. Balliolensis. 



Mr.Ranulph Crewe's Geographical Drawings. — 

 Dr. Gower, in his Sketches of Materials for a His- 

 tory of Cheshire, 3rd edit., p. 64., in noticing the 

 accomplishments of Chief Justice Crewe's grand- 

 son, the above-named gentleman, who was bar- 

 barously assassinated at Paris in 1656, states that 

 Mr. Crewe excelled to that degree in the fine arts, 



