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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2°^ s. V. 122., May 1. '58. 



rical students. As a specimen of what I mean, 

 I send an extract from my collections re- 

 specting Matthew Prior. See Letters in Sir H. 

 Ellis's Letters of Eminent Literary Men, pp. 213. 

 264. ; in Pope's and Swift's Works ; in Atterbury's 

 Coi-respowlence ; in Rebecca Warner's Original 

 Letters; in Cunningham's edition of Johnson's 

 Lives of the Poets ; and in the Vernon Correspon- 

 dence. A very large number are to be found in 

 the Lexington Papers. His MS. Dialogues of the 

 Dead were in the Duchess of Portsmouth's library 

 at Bulstrode (Europ. Mag., June, 1794, p. 431.; 

 of. Warton's Essay on Pope, vol. iii. p. 482. ; 

 Nichols's Collection of Poems, vol. iv. pp. viii. n., 

 46 seq., vii. 93. )• Anecdotes of him are in the 

 Europ. Mag., Jan. 1788, p. 8., and vol. xliii. p. 9. 

 seq. ; references to many notices of him are col- 

 lected in the last edition of the Alumni Westmo- 

 nasterienses, p. 192. seq. Add Calamy's Own Time, 

 ii. 313., and Prior's verses in the Cambridge Col- 

 lection on the death of Charles II. and the acces- 

 sion of James II. (signat. T 4.). In proof of his 

 readiness to serve his University and her scholars, 

 see the Preface to Needham's Hierocles and Manu- 

 scrits de la Biblioth. du Roi (Paris, 1787, vol. i. 

 p. xciii.), where we find him engaged (a.d. 1700) 

 in a negotiation for procuring Greek type from 

 the Paris press for the use of Cambridge. 



J. E. B. Matob. 

 St. John's College, Cambridge. 



Origin of the Word Pedant. — The word pe- 

 dante in Italian and pedant in French (from which 

 last the English pedant is borrowed, originally 

 signified a schoolmaster or preacher ; from which 

 sense its secondary and modern acceptation was 

 derived. Menage, in his Origini della Lingua 

 Italiana, properly rejects the etymology of Ferrari, 

 who traces the word to pedaneus, and forms it 

 from TTcus, and its derivative the verb paedare. 

 Unfortunately the Latin had no form, such as 

 pcedare, corresponding to the Greek -Railivw, and 

 therefore Menage's explanation cannot be re- 

 ceived. It is clear, however, that the word is, 

 in some way, equivalent to pcedagogus. Can any 

 of your readers show how this peculiar form origi- 

 nated ? Was it a term used at any Italian Uni- 

 versity ? L. 



Bacon's Advancement of Learning. — At p. 25. of 

 Messrs. Parkers' edition of this book, published in 

 1852, is this passage : — 



" Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Orosius 

 the Portugal bishop, to be in price." 



Whereupoti the editor makes the following 

 note : — 



♦'All the edd. have Osorius, which, however, must be a 



mere misprint. He was not a Portuguese, but a Spaniard, 

 born at Tarragona, nor indeed ever a bishop. He w^s 

 sent by St. Augustine on a mission to Jerusalem, and is 

 supposed to have died in Africa in the earlier part of the 

 fifth century." 



The editor would hardly have been guilty of 

 writing such a note if he had taken the simple 

 precaution of perusing the context. Lord Bacon 

 is speaking of those post-reformation writers who 

 paid excessive attention to style. Now Orosius 

 lived in the fifth century. 



Or if he had consulted Rose's Biographical 

 Dictionary he would have learnt that Jerome 

 Osorius was a Portuguese and a bishop — a native 

 of Lisbon and Bishop of Sylves in Algarva — and 

 that he died ih 1580. He would also have found 

 this remark : " Notwithstanding the etllogium of 

 Dupin on his style, Lord Bacon condemns the 

 ' weak and waterish vein ' of Osorio." 



Thompson Cooper. 



Cambridge. 



Horse -healing is a subject as interesting as that 

 of horse-taming, which is now a good deal occupy- 

 ing the public mind. In illustration of the former 

 subject, I may notice that in the year 1772 there 

 was a Sieur Tunnestrick at the Hague, who 

 healed instantaneously horses dangerously wounded 

 in the head. He professed to cure other animals 

 also, but my note on him only contains a reference 

 to his practice on the horse. In January, 1772, 

 in presence of the Stadtholder, and other eminent 

 persons, a large nail was driven into the head of a 

 horse ; it was then drawn out by pincers, when 

 Sieur Tunnestrick went up to the animal, in- 

 jected a fluid into the wound, and in five or six 

 minutes, the horse was as lively and well as if 

 nothing unpleasant had happened to him. Is 

 anything more known of Tunnestrick ? 



J. DORAN. 



Fly-leaf Scribbling. — In a copy of Heberden's 

 Commentaries, from the library of Sir Thomas 

 CuUum, Bart. : — 



" J)r. Heberden was of St. John's College, Cambridge, 

 and gave Lectures there on the Materia Medica about 

 the year 1745. He examined Mr. George Ashbj^ when a 

 candidate for a Fellowship in 1746 or 1747, and what may 

 seem remarkable for him, in the Hebrew Psalms, and 

 particularly asked why 15 was not expressed by the 

 ordinary letters. 



" Dr. Heberden's House in Pall Mall stands on the 

 spot where Sydenham lived, and was originally Nell 

 Gwyn's. — G. Ashby's MS. Notes, 4to." 



JoSBPtt Rix. 



St. NeotSi 



Electric Telegraph. — During Arthur Young's 

 visit to Paris in 1787, he visited M. Lomond, " a 

 very ingenious and inventive mechanic, ' who, 

 says Young, in his published Travels, 



" Haa made a remarkable discovery in electricity. Ybu 

 write two or three words on a paper; he takes it with 

 him into a room, and turns a machine inclosed in a cy- 



