Nov. 27. 1852.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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the Tories is thus noticed by Glanville, in one of his 

 sermons, long before the political distinction existed. 

 ' Let sucIj men quit all pretences to civility and 

 breeding : they are ruder than Toryes and wild 

 Americans.' 



" Tory hunting was almost viewed in the light of a 

 jDastime. An old rhyme, in allusion to this sport, is 

 still orally current in the south of Ireland, and a decided 

 favourite in the nursery collection : 



• Ho ! Master Teague, what is your story ? 

 I^went to the wood, and I kill'd a Tory : 

 I went to the wood, and I kill'd another, 

 Was it the same, or was it his brother ? 

 ' I hunted him in, and I hunted him out, 

 Three times through the bog, about and about ; 

 "When out of a bush I saw his head, 

 So I fired my gun and I shot him dead.'" 



w.w. 



Malta. 



The Athenian Oracle (Vol. v., p. 230.). — Your 

 correspondent N. having anticipated my Query as 

 to wlio the Athenian Society were, your full reply 

 removes all occasion of sending my Query. I have 

 seen another work by the same authors, entitled 

 The Young Student's Library, being a Review of 

 varioiut Publications on the Sciences. Can you find 

 room in " N. & Q." for the following list of some 

 of the questions discussed in the Oracle ? 

 Adam and Eve, whether they had navels ? 

 Angels, why painted in petticoats ? 

 Babel tower, what was the height of it ? 

 Brethren, two born in one, had they two souls ? 

 This must have referred to a case similar to 

 the Siamese twins, now living in North 

 Carolina, married to two sisters, and having 

 families. 

 Females, if they went a-courting, would there 

 be more marriages than now ? 



Hairs, an equal number in any two men's heads? 

 Answered in the affirmative, the number of 

 persons living at any one time greatly ex- 

 ceeding the number of hairs in any man's 

 head. 

 ISTegroes, shall they rise so at the last day ? 

 Answered in the negative, as all men will 

 then be as near perfection as possible. , 

 Peter and Paul, did they use notes ? 

 Queen of Sheba, had she a child by Solomon ? 

 Wife, whether she may beat her husband ? 

 Women, whether they have souls ? 

 Women, whether not bantered into a belief of 

 being angels? Uneda. 



Philadelphia. 



Print of the Head of Christ (Vol. vi., p. 414.).— 

 This print, better known as a Sancta Veronica, or 

 face of our Saviour, was designed and executed by 

 Claude Mellan, a celebrated French engraver of 

 the seventeenth century. He made two drawings 

 for it, one of which is in the Royal Library at 



Paris. In the_ latter part of his life, instead of 

 cross-cutting his engravings, he obtained his lights 

 and shades by increasing or diminishing the 

 breadth of single lines ; and this principle it is 

 which he has carried somewhat to an excess in 

 this engraving. 



As to the inscription, if Mb. Inglebt will refer 

 again to the print, he will find that only the first 

 line is on the handkerchief, and therefore it must 

 be read alone : 



" Formatur unicus una (linea?) " 

 The words "non alter," on the shading below 

 the handkerchief, must also be taken by themselves. 

 I need hardly add that the initial letter which 

 stands for the artist's Christian name is " C," and 

 not " O," which, however, it might easily be mis- 

 taken for. Anon. 

 Workington. 



German Superstition in Longfellow's " Golden 

 Legend" (Vol. vi., p. 288.). — This superstition 

 certainly exists in England, and within the last 

 seven years I have known five cases where it has 

 actually proved true. It has been mentioned to 

 me by a party as the result of observation rather 

 than superstitious belief. F. B. Helton. 



" Roma tibi subito" S^c. (Vol. vi., pp. 209. 352. 

 445.). — Allow me to send the following extract 

 from the Dictionnaire Litteraire, torn. ii. pp. 228, 

 229, ed. 1768 : 



" Palindrome, a kind of verse or expression which 

 is found to be always the same, whether read from left 

 to right or from right to left. We may cite for ex- 

 ample a verse attributed to the devil : 



' Signa te, signa, femere me tangis et angis. 

 Iloma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.' 



But lazy folk have refined upon him in composing 

 verses, of which the separate words, without running 

 into one another, are always the same from left to right 

 and from right to left. Of this kind is the example 

 supplied us by Camden : 



' Odo tenet mulum, madldam mappam tenet Anna 

 Anna tenet mappam madidara, mulum tenet Odo.'" 



Where in Camden is this to be found ? B. H. C . 



notes on books, etc. 



Before this paper is in the hands of our readers, the 

 vexed question respecting the subscription to the 

 Society of Antiquaries will have been decided ; and 

 nothing will remain to interfere with the resumption 

 of its ordinary business by the Society but the appoint- 

 ment of the committee which Mr. Hawkins is to move 

 for on Thursday next. There are two points essential 

 to the success of this measure which we trust Mr. 

 Hawkins will not lose sight of : first, that if his com- 



