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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 267. 



I am now desirous of knowing if a circle round 

 the moon foretells bad weather, and if the larger 

 the circle, the more stormy the weather will be. 



The Spaniards have a proverb (vide " N. & 

 Q.," Vol. viii., p. 535.) which says, " The circle of 

 the moon never filled a pond, but the circle of the 

 sun wets a shepherd." W. W. 



Malta. 



Quotations for Verification. — 



" Son of the Morning, whither art thou fled ? 

 Where hast thou hid thy many-spangled head, 

 And the majestic menace of thine eyes 

 Felt from afar ? " William Fraser, B.C.L. 



Alton, Staffordshire. 



" One poet is another's plagiarv. 

 And he a third's, till they all end in Homer." 



" Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt ! " 

 Whence do these two quotations come ? 



Harry Leroy Temple. 



• The sweet shadv side of Pall Mall." 



Whence ? 



J. P. 



" Life is a comedy to those who think : a tragedy to 

 those who feel." Whence ? J. p. 



" I lived doubtful, not dissolute ; 

 I die unresolved, not unresign'd." 



Also its Latin form ? 



W.H.E. 



" A Hebrew knelt in the dying light. 

 His eye was dim and old ; 

 The hairs on his brow were silver white. 

 And his blood was thin and cold." 



Can any reader give the correct title, and the name of the 

 publisher, of a small volume containing these lines, a 

 part of " The Dying Hebrew's Prayer? " The poem bears 

 a title something like " The Devil's Walk," and by the 

 preface is ascribed to the editor of the Court Journal. It 

 has three or four cuts ; the frontispiece is the devil in a 

 wherry on the Thames, and another cut shows him stand- 

 ing on a slab marked " Canning : " 



" The grave of him who would have made 

 The world too glad, too free." 



The book was published about 1827. I grieve at having 

 lost my copy, and my description is from memory. I 

 have been thus minute, lest my Query should be supposed 

 to refer to the shorter and better known " Devil's Walk." 



F. C. B. 

 Diss. 



The Schoolmen. — I wish to know something 

 more of the school-philosophy than is to be found 

 in encyclopaedias and histories of literature. I 

 have looked into Zabarella and Smiglecius. The 

 former is diffuse in style, and frivolous in the 

 choice of his subjects ; and the latter so obscure 

 and unconnected, that I laid them aside. The 

 logic and metaphysics, which held their ground 



from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, 

 must have produced writers who could not only 

 compile, but think. Can any of your readers 

 refer me to one such, whom he himself has read ? 

 I make this restriction, because I do not desire 

 the opinions of cotemporaries, but that of a living 

 man, who has formed it by experience, and had 

 the advantage of some modern reading. J. F. 



O. and C. Club. 



Stone Carvings from the Ancient Chapel of 

 Romsley, co. Salop. — Visiting at the farm of Mr. 

 Creswell of Romsley, my attention was directed 

 to two stone carvings of early date, and rather 

 curious type, built into the stable wall. They 

 came, I was informed, from the ruins of Romsley 

 Chapel, where they surmounted the lintel of the 

 principal doorway. 



The carvings were bas-reliefs on stones eighteen 

 inches long by ten in height, and evidently repre- 

 sented the zodiacal signs, Leo and Sagittarius : 

 the former appearing as a well- executed lion, 

 standing ; and the other as a Centaur, drawing a 

 bow. Both carvings were clear and well-defined. 



I do not find mention of them in local histories, 

 nor yet of the chapel they came from ; which on 

 visiting I found nearly level with the ground, 

 its circuit being marked more by heaps of broken 

 stones than by decided remains. The building 

 appeared to have consisted of a simple nave some 

 forty feet in length, built of roughly hewn sand- 

 stone. Numbers of fragments of encaustic tiles 

 lay scattered within its limits, the exact types of 

 those now existing in the Abbey Church of 

 Malvern. 



Two stone cofiins lay within the limits of the 

 inclosure, but were removed some few years ago ; 

 and in the course of excavating immediately be- 

 neath where it is probable the altar stood, a human 

 skeleton was exhumed, with the right leg doubled 

 under the body. 



I should be glad of any account of this chapel. 



R. C. Wakde. 

 Kidderminster. 



The Blind: Finger-reading. — Where can I 

 find the best account of the origin and progress 

 of embossed typography for the use of the blind ? 

 There are at present in use in this country no less 

 than five or six different systems for teaching the 

 unfortunate blind to read by means of raised 

 letters ; and I learn that a society is forming, or 

 has already been formed, to inflict upon the blind 

 still another system. These things are managed 

 better in other countries, where one system is 

 used, and all the blind who read at all read the 

 same language, and are enabled to communicate 

 with each other. Here five languages are used, 

 and consequently a person who learns to read 

 Moon's system, cannot of course read Lucas's or 

 Alston's. Besides, instead of six books being 



