Sept. 18. 1852.] 



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have been added " to each letter." Wliat dates ? 

 The reader may not be aware that there were, on 

 occasions, two, and sometimes three, dates to select 

 from, — the date of the letter, the date of publica- 

 tion, and the date of republication in the Public 

 Advertiser. The fact that Sir William Draper's 

 letters were first published in the St. James's 

 Chronicle was never adverted to either in the 

 Public Advertiser, into which they were copied, or 

 in the editions of 1772 or 1812, or anywhere else, 

 so far as I know. Had any one principle been 

 consistently adhered to by Junius and " first man," 

 it might have been a curious, but a mere coinci- 

 <lence : but it was not so. Draper's first letter, 

 for instance, dated " 26 Jan^," was published in 

 the St. James's Chronicle on the 31st of January, 

 find republished in the Public Advertiser on the 

 2nd of February. The date selected by "first 

 man " was the date of the letter, 26tli Jan. So 

 it was by Junius, and it was so printed in the 

 edition of 1772. But Draper's third letter was 

 dated 23rd of February, published, I believe, in 

 the St. James's Chronicle on the 2.5th, and certainly 

 in the Public Advertiser on the 27th. Now Junius, 

 as appears by the copy still in the possession of 

 Mr. Henry Woodfall, assigned to it neither the 

 ■date of the letter, nor the date of publication in 

 the Public Advertiser, but the 25th. Wheble's 

 *' first man" did the same, and so it is printed. 

 But Woodfall, who had been charged by Junius 

 with the correction of Draper'is letters (" you must 

 correct Draper and Home yourself"), and who 

 suppressed all reference to prior publication, 

 caught his eye on this date, probably in the proof, 

 and altered it to the 27th, the date of publication 

 in his own paper. Assuming that there was no 

 connexion between " first man " and Junius, we 

 must, as it appears to me, come to the conclusion 

 that Junius, who avowedly would not, and did not, 

 read a line of Draper's letters, went out of his way 

 to get this date ; and while he was using as copy 

 Wheble's first edition, he must have gone to the 

 ♦S"^. James's Chronicle or Wheble's second edition 

 for it. The former does not seem to me probable; 

 and as to the latter, is it not more reasonable to 

 believe that had the second edition been published 

 when Junius prepared the copy of these early 

 letters — which is by no means certain- — he would 

 have used the corrected second edition, and not 

 the first with all its errors? But as to the proba- 

 bilities, I leave them in all cases to be decided on 

 by the reader, desiring only to record the facts as 

 they appear to me ; and will only further observe, 

 that though all the other reprints of these letters 

 were in 8vo,, Wheble's editions and "the authors 

 edition "were in 12mo. There is an individual 

 taste in such small matters, as all know who have 

 a love for books. 

 I shall conclude this notice next week. L. J. 



DIFFEfeENT PRODUCTIONS OF DIFFERENT 

 CARCASES, 



Several writers mention the discovery of honey 

 by Aristajus; and, amongst others, Nonnus, in the 

 fifth book of his valuable Dyorusiacks. 



It is however to Virgil that we are, I think, 

 principally indebted for the remedy prescribed by 

 tliafc "Arcadian Master" for repairing the loss of 

 bees : 

 " Sed, si quem proles subito defecerit omnis, 

 Nee, genus uiide novae sterpis revocetur, habebit ; 

 Tempus et Arcadii memoranda inventa magistri 

 Pandere, quoqiie modo ccesis jam scepe juvencis 

 Itisincerus apes tiilerit cruor." — Georc/.iv. 281., &c. 



Then follows a long account of the Egyptian 

 method of putting this remedy in practice. And 

 Virgil is, I doubt not, following in the steps of 

 some more ancient authority. 



That bees do spring from, or at least may be 

 found in, the carcase of an animal, we have the 

 history of Samson to testify (Judges xiv. 8.) ; but 

 the Greek designation, Bovtrais or Bovyevr,s, proves 

 the Virgilian account to have been commonly 

 received. Martyn, in his note to the above-cited 

 passage, produces the testimony of Varro and 

 Archelaus to a similar effect, and adds an epigram 

 or two. To the same purpose is the Greek Antho" 

 log]) in a passage from Nicander, which I find 

 quoted by Suidas under the word Boun-aty : wasps 

 were supposed to spring from horses, and bees 

 from kine : 



" I quoque, delectos mactatos obrue iauros ; 

 (Cognita res usu) de putri viscere passim 

 FlorilegEB nascuntur apes. Quae more parentura 

 Ruracolunt : operique favent ; in spemque laborant. 

 Pressus humo bellator equus crabronis origo est. 

 Concava littoreo si demas brachia cancro ; 

 Cetera supponas terras ; de parte sepulta 

 Scorpius exlbit, caudaque minabitur unca." 



Oeid. Metam. xv, 364., &c. 



I will now come upon Bishop Jeremy Taylor, 

 who is my unfailing refuge in all sublunary diffi- 

 culties. He writes thus : 



" Plutarch affirmed that of dead bulls arise bees ; 

 from the carcases of horses, hornets are produced ; but 

 the body of man brings forth serpents." — Sermon on the 

 Deceitfulness of the Heart, Part II. ad fin. 



And again he tells us, though I cannot trace his 

 allusion : 



" I have read of a fair young German gentleman^ 

 who living often refused to be pictured, but put ofT 

 the importunity of his friends' desire by giving way 

 that after a few days' burial they might send a painter 

 to his vault, and, if they saw cause for it, draw the 

 image of his death unto the life. They did so, and found 

 his face half eaten, and bis midriff and back-bone full 

 of serpents ; and so he stands pictured among his armed 

 ancestors."— iZb/y Dying, cap. i. sec. 2. 



