2'x' S. V. 119., April 10. '68.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



307 



Horns (P* S. ii. 90.)— The notion is Turkish 

 also, witness the following : — 



" Boinuzli Divanch (the horn fool) lodged in the house 

 of a janissary [at Constantinople] .... His bosom was 

 filled with horns of goats, gazelles, and sheep. Merry 

 fellows frequently went to try him by saying, 'Ahmed, 

 show me my horn.' If they happened to be married, he 

 would answer by some anecdote of their wives, and would 

 give to some a small, to others a large horn from his col- 

 lection. If the man who asked was not married, he used 

 to answer, * Thy horn is not grown yet.'" — Travels in 

 the nth century, by Evliya Effendi. Translated by Von 

 Hammer, 4to., vol. i. part ii. p. 27, 1846. 



J. P. 



Preservation of Salmon (2"<» S. v. 191.)— If the 

 date is worth correcting, the large draughts of 

 salmon mentioned in J. B. S.'s note took place 

 May 31, 1749. 



There is a statute of James I. (Jac. I. cap. 10. 

 p. '3.) whereby the killing of salmon in forbidden 

 time is prohibited, under a penalty of 40*. for the 

 first offence, and for the third the offender was 

 to lose his life or ransom it. The forbidden time 

 was from the Feast of Assumption to that of St. 

 Andrew (Aug. 15. to Nov. 30.) ; and by another 

 statute it was enacted, that merchants selling sal- 

 mon in foreign parts should bring back its value, 

 one moiety in ready money, and one in Gascoigne 

 wine (Jac. I. cap. 132. p. 41.) 



HoUinshed, in the Scottish Chronicle, presents 

 us with the following curious information : — 



" Over against Rosse is an He named Lewis, sixtie 

 miles in length. In this He is but one fresh river, and it 

 is said that if a woman wade through the same, there 

 shall no samon be seene there for a twelve month after, 

 whereas otherwise that fish is known to abound there in 

 verie great plentie." 



R. W. Hackwood. 



Two Brothers of the same Christian Name (2"** 

 S. passim.) — The last emphatic word forbids the 

 idea that much more can be added on this subject. 

 Mr. Gorham, in his Reformation Gleanings, lately 

 published, notices that in Bishop Jewel's genea- 

 logy occur two brothers John and two sisters 

 Joan. In the "Iter of Wark," printed in the 

 Appendix to the second volume of the Pro'ceed- 

 ings of the Archceological Institute, Newcastle, 

 1852, we meet with two brothers having the name 

 John, and distinguished from each other by the 

 words senior and junior (p. xi.). It may be worth 

 noticing how frequently, when a double Christian 

 name occurs in the same family, John is chosen. 

 Why was this name so popular amongst the 

 northern nations ? . W. Denton. 



Simnel Cakes (S"* S. v. 234.) —Bury in Lan- 

 cashire is also famous for its Lenten simnels. The 

 absence of eggs in the compound is said to consti- 

 tute their fitness as a fast-day food. Tlie Bury 

 folks sent an enormous one to one of Cobden's 

 !inti-corn-law bazaars, and had the mortification 

 of seeing it described in some of the London 



papers as a cake from a place called " Bury Sim- 

 nel," in Lancashire. Simblin is the local pro- 

 nunciation, and comes nearest to Barclay's Saxon. 



P. P. 



MONTHLY FEUIIiLETON ON TEENCH BOOKS. 



The great event of the month is the publication of M. 

 Guizot's Memoirs.* It is rather singular, however, that 

 the English translation should have actually appeared 

 before the original text; and we are at a loss to under- 

 stand how the issue of the learned author's own composi- 

 tion can take place only three weeks from the date of this 

 feuilleton. The editor of King Joseph Bonaparte's Corre- 

 spondence has also affixed his name to another historical 

 work which bids fair to equal, in interest and importance, 

 the recueil just mentioned. We are alluding to the Me- 

 moirs of Prince Eugene Beauharnais, the first volume of 

 which has lately been published. f Then there is the 

 gigantic series of Napoleon premier's despatches, under- 

 taken by the command of the Imperial Government, to 

 be completed in forty-seven quarto volumes. The intro- 

 ductory instalment of that curious work is now ready ; 

 and although ftr the present the copies printed are not 

 accessible to the public in general, we cannot but record 

 here what must be certainly considered as a most valuable 

 contribution to modern historical literature. The hand- 

 some quarto, which has been got up with all the pomp 

 and circumstance of modern typography at the imprimerie 

 imperiale, includes Napoleon's correspondence during his 

 Italian campaigns.^ A cheaper edition will be soon, we 

 understand, prepared for sale. 



The increasing taste for bibliography has suggested 

 amongst our neighbours various periodicals, which all 

 command an extensive circulation, and deserve it from 

 the care, the elegance, and the cheapness, with which 

 they are edited. Besides Techener's well-known Bulletin 

 du Bibliophile, now beginning its twenty -sixth year§, we 

 must mention Aubry's Bulletin du Bouquiniste jj, and 

 Claudin's Archives du Bibliophile.'^^ These two last-named 

 periodicals are of very recent origin, Aubry's Bulletin 

 being only fifteen months, and Claudin's three months 

 old ; but like Don Rodrigue, in Corneille's play, the pub- 

 lishers can say : — ^ . 



" Je suis jeune, il est vrai, mais aux ames bien nees 

 La valeur n'attend pas le nombre des annees." 



At all events, they manage their journals con amore. 

 Besides giving priced catalogues of rare and valuable 

 books, they insert extremely interesting articles on points 

 connected with bibliography and literature; and M. 

 Claudin has introduced a new feature in the shape of fac- 

 similes of old woodcuts representing printers' marks, mar- 

 ginal ornaments, &c. The last number (April 1) of the 

 Bulletin du Botiquiniste contains a paper in which M. 



* " Memoires pour servir a I'histoire de mon temps, par 

 M. Guizot. Vol. 1. 8°. Paris. Michel L^vy." 



t " Memoires et correspondance du prince Eugene 

 Beauharnais, publies par A. Du Casse. Vol. 1. 8°. Paris, 

 Michel L^vy." 



J " Correspondance de I'empereur Napoleon l*''. Vol. I. 

 4°. Paris, Imprimerie imperiale." 



§ " Bulletin du bibliophile et du biblioth^caire. Paris, 

 Techener. 8°." Monthly. 



!)■" Bulletin du bouquiniste. Paris, Aiibry. 8°." Bi- 

 monthly. 



^ " Archives du bibliophile, on bulletin de I'amateur 

 de livres et du libraire. Paris, Claudin. 8°." Monthly. 



