Nov. 25. 1854.] 



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Curiosities of Bible Literature (Vol. x., p. 306.)- 



— The general truth of the statement quoted by 

 W. W. will be found confirmed by an examination 

 of a good harmony of the New Testament (see 

 " N. & Q.," Vol. viii., p. 415.), or of the Disserta- 

 tion on the Origin and Connexion of the Gospels, by 

 James Smith, F.R.S. (1853). T. J. Buckton. 



Lichfield. 



Recent Curiosities of Literature (Vol. ix., p. 31.). 



— I have long felt some curiosity to know what 

 fault Mb. Cuthbekt Bede has detected in the 

 lines : 



" The winter storms come rushing round the wall, 

 Like him who at Jerusalem shriek'd out ' Wo ! ' " 



The author is of course alluding, not to any 

 passage in the Scriptures, but to one in Josephus' 

 Wars of the Jews, book vi. chap. v. sect. 3. The 

 story there told of Jesus the husbandman, son of 

 Ananus, who, for seven years and five months 

 before the destruction of Jerusalem, wandered 

 through the streets, shrieking out by day and 

 night — " Wo, wo to Jerusalem ! " — must be well 

 known to all your readers. His ill-boding cry 

 seems a very fair subject for poetic allusion ; and I 

 cannot see any reason why the wailing of the 

 storm should not be compared to the wailing of 

 the human voice, or vice versa, either in poetry or 

 in prose. C. Fobbes. 



Temple. 



Raphael's Cartoons (Vol. x., p. 294.). — Your 

 correspondent W. H. is slightly in error as to the 

 number of the cartoons. The original order was 

 for ten, to be worked in tapestry, to decorate the 

 lower portion of the walls of the Presbytery in 

 the SIstine Chapel. These were — 



1. Death of Ananias. 



2. Christ's Charge to Peter. 



3. Paul and Barnabas at Lystra. 



4. Elymus struck blind. 



5. The Conversion of St. Paul. [This cartoon 

 Is lost ; but the design has been engraved from 

 the tapestry.] 



6. St. Paul preaching at Athens. 



7. The Stoning of St. Stephen. [This cartoon 

 is lost; but the subject, like No. 5., has been en- 

 graved from the tapestry.] 



8. The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. 



9. Peter and John at the Beautiful Gate. 



10. Paul and Silas In Prison. [The width of 

 this cartoon was only 4^ feet. It is now lost.] 



To these was afterwards added an eleventh 

 cartoon (now I believe lost) for a tapestry to 

 adorn the altar. The subject was the coronation 

 of the Virgin, with the representation of the Holy 

 Trinity. Your correspondent will find farther 

 particulars in the second volume of Dr. Waagen's 

 Treasures of Art in Great Britain, a work which 

 I have not now at hand. W. H. G. P. 



Storm in Devon in 1638 (Vol. x., p. 128.). — 

 In Lysons' Magna Britannia, Devonshire, p. 557., 

 Is given an account of this storm ; and a curious 

 record of It In verse, written by a person present, 

 and still preserved in the parish church of Widde- 

 combe. Lysons mentions that the tract — A True 

 Relation, Sfc. — Is reprinted In the Harleian Mis- 

 cellany. W. C. TEEVEIiYASr. 



St. Barnabas as a Church Dedication (Vol. x., 

 p. 289.). — There are three ante-Reformation dedi- 

 cations to this Saint, viz. Mayland in Essex ; 

 Great Tey, Essex ; and Brampton Bryan in 

 Shropshire. In London there are three, but all 

 modern : at Kensington, Pimlico, and the district 

 of St. Luke's. I was not aware there was one at 

 Clapham, as mentioned by your correspondent 

 Mr. Acwobth. Noeeis Deck. 



Cambridge. 



" Chare'' or " Char" (Vol. Ix., p. 351.).— Dan. 

 Kjcer, low mai'shy land. The gutturals of these 

 Norse words are commonly softened In East An- 

 glia, retaining their original sound In the north. 

 Ex. carr, char ; keel, chill ; hist, chest. Apropos : 



" Some ran to cupboard, and some ran to kist, 

 But nought was away that could be mist." 



One or two who have quoted this couplet from 

 the Monastery have, with a laudable desii-e for 

 correctness, written the last word missed ; thereby 

 making nonsense of the passage, and (unless the 

 couplet be a Surtees) conferring a respectable 

 antiquity on a bit of modern slang. Mist is the 

 p.-part. of " to mist" (Dan. miste, to lose), an old 

 word still used north of the Humber. In Harold 

 the Dauntless : 



" Tlie Prior of Jorvaalx next morning hath mist, 

 His mantle," &c. 



To jniss (a mark, for instance) may no doubt 

 claim kindred with this word ; but I doubt whether 

 our grandfathers missed a friend or a spoon. And 

 " at miste livet" could scarcely be rendered " to 

 miss one's life." Has this been noticed before ? F. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Gifted with a retentive memory, which has been en- 

 riched by extensive and varied reading, a keen sense of 

 the humorous, and a happy knack of telling a storj- in 

 print, Dr. Doran was the very man to write Table Traits, 

 with Something on them ; and it is little wonder that such 

 a chatty gossiping book, which contains stories enough to 

 make the fortune of a regular diner-out, should have 

 reached a second edition. But Dr. Doran is a bold man. 

 Xot satisfied with having once risked, and happily es- 

 caped, the fate of Denon, who after his return from Egypt 

 used to be knocked up at night by demands from anxious 

 hearers that he should tell them some of his good stories, 

 Dr. Dorau has come forward a second time, and dis- 



