Aug. 26. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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in my opinion Dulcinea's eyes are rather like two verdant 

 emeralds, railed in with two celestial arches, which signify 

 her eyebrows. Therefore, Sancho, you must take your 

 pearls from her eyes, and apply them to her teeth, for I 

 verily believe you mistook the one for the other." — Don 

 Quixote, Part ii. eh. xi. 



C. FOBBES. 



Temple. 



Chinese Proverbs (Vol. x., p. 46.). — Me. Mid- 

 DLETON will probably obtain the information he 

 requires from Mr. Hewitt of Fenchurch Street, 

 who, I think, exhibited them. D. 



Colonel St. Leger (Vol. ix., p. 76. ; Vol. x., 

 p. 95.). — I have to thank C. H. for his references 

 in answer to my request for information as to 

 Colonel St. Leger. A Query once inserted be- 

 comes, in my opinion, common property ; I may 

 therefore be allowed to give a few notes, which I 

 have since met with, in answer to my own 

 inquiry. John Hayes St. Leger was born July 23, 

 1756 : his genealogy will be found in Archdall's 

 Irish Peerage (vide "Doneraile "). The marriage 

 of his parents is thus recorded in the Gentleman s 

 Magazine^ vol. xxiv. p. 387. : 



" July 24, 1754. John St. Leger, Esq., married (the 

 Hon.) Miss Butler (daughter of the Governor of Limerick), 

 and niece of Lord Lanesborough ; 40,000/. fortune." 



The same periodical mentions his appointment as 

 lieut.-col. of the 1st Foot Guards, October, 1782, 

 when only twenty-six years of age ; and on the 

 Prince of Wales attaining his majority, he was 

 appointed groom of the bedchamber in his house- 

 hold. In 1790 he was returned to Parliament for 

 Okehampton, and on Feb. 25, 1795, he was ga- 

 zetted as a major-general In the army, and on the 

 marriage of the Prince of Wales he was appointed 

 Governor of Ceylon. His death is chronicled In 

 the GentlemarCs Magazine, as also In the Asiatic 

 Annual Register for 1800, which refers it to the 

 latter part of 1799. I would be glad to know 

 where he was buried, whether he was married, 

 and If the great Doncaster race derives Its name 

 from him ? In short, any information as to his 

 domestic history would be acceptable. W. P. ]M. 



Roman Roads in Great Britain (Vol. ix., 

 pp. 325.431.).— 



1. " Long's (Henry Lawes) Observations upon certain 

 Roman Roads and Towns in the South of Britain." 8vo. 

 Farnham, 1836. (Privately printed.) 



2. " Roy's Military Antiquities of the Romans in 

 Britain." 



3. " Horsley's Britannia Romana." 



4. " Professor Hussey's Account of the Roman Road 

 from Allchester to Dorchester." 8vo. Oxford. 



5. " Reliquia Romanse." (Query by Mr. P. B. Dun- 

 can, of New College, Oxford.) 



6. « Buckman's (Professor) and Newmarch's (C. H., 

 Esq.) Illustrations of Remains of Roman Art in Ciren- 

 cester, the site of ancient Corinum." 4to. 1850. 



Anok. 



Legend of a Monh (Vol. x., p. 66.). — The story 

 is related by Tursellino. A Dalmatian priest was 

 taken by the Turks, and after the usual pre- 

 liminaries, embowelled. While suffering he vowed, 

 if he lived, a pilgrimage to Loretto, and the 

 Turks, In derision, put his intestines in his hand, 

 telling him to take them there. Upon this he set 

 out, and quickly finished the journey of many 

 days, bearing all fthe way his intestines in his 

 hands, and great crowds flocking about him to 

 see. He arrived at Loretto when the church was 

 open, and entering it he held forth the entrails, 

 showed his empty thorax, told his story, confessed, 

 received the eucharlst, and died ("In Delparse 

 conspectu complexuque ut credere par est "). The 

 Intestines were hung from the celling, and when 

 they decayed their place was supplied by a model 

 In wood. This, however, was found to draw the 

 attention of the country-people from their de- 

 votions ; so Plus in. substituted a picture with a 

 brief narration, which was there when Tursellino 

 wrote, and probably is now. The above is the 

 substance of the legend. In compliance with 

 W. M. T.'s request, I send the most " authentic " 

 account I can find. There Is a want, as usual, of 

 names and dates, but the seventeenth chapter 

 contains a list of gifts made to the church of Lo- 

 retto in the time of Leo X., and the eighteenth, 

 in which the miracle Is told, begins, " eodem fere 

 tempore." The author says : 



" The miracle is so attested that it would be a sin to 

 doubt it («< nefas sit de eo dubitare). Many now alive 

 (.' 1597) bear witness that they have seen the wood 

 carving, and have heard those who lived in the neigh- 

 bourhood say that they had seen the fresh intestines." 



Tursellino dedicated his Lauretana Historia, 

 which he published In 1597 at Rome, to Cardinal 

 Aldobrandino, and the edition before me, "Ve- 

 netlls, 1715," is dedicated to D. Melchlon Naglo, 

 the Governor of the Holy House and town of 

 Loretto. H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Mi&ttTlKntaxii. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, STC. 



Although this is the dead season of the publishing 

 world, we have many announcements of great promise. 

 Messrs. Longman are preparing to publish The Baltic, its 

 Gates, Shores, and Cities, by the Rev. T. Milner ; Glean- 

 ings from Piccadilly to Pera, by Commander Oldmixon ; 

 The British Commonwealth, by Mr. H. Cox ; A Diary in 

 Turkish and Greek Waters, by the Earl of Carlisle ; Tra- 

 ditions and Superstitions of the New Zealanders, bj^ Edward 

 Sliortland; and Mr. Denistoun's Memoirs of Sir Robert 

 Strange the Engraver, and his Brother-in-Law, Andrew 

 Laurisden. 



Mr. Murray announces, in his Series of British Classics, 

 a new edition of BosweU's Life of Johnson, edited by Mr. 

 Peter Cunningham ; Addison's Works, edited by the Rev. 

 W. Elwin. The same publisher is about to produce His- 

 torical Memoirs of Canterbury ; The Landing of St. Au- 



