448 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2««» S. V. 126., May 29. '58. 



A Jeroboam Hand (2°** S. v. 395.) — Loving, 

 like W. R., to preserve old sayings, I wish to re- 

 cord my own impression, that the above was ap- 

 plied in allusion to Jeroboam having obtained ten 

 of the tribes of Israel, while his rival was left with 

 only two. The saying meant that the holder of 

 an overwhelming suit at whist had more than his 

 share of good luck. F. C. H. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Mr. Peter Cunningham's edition, the Standard Edition 

 as it is destined to be, of the inimitable Letters of Horace 

 Walpole, Earl of Orford, is fast approaching comple- 

 tion. The eighth volume, which has just been issued to 

 the pubhc, comprises his Letters from Feb. 1781 to July, 

 1785, including between twenty and thirty Letters which 

 have never before been given to the world. In one of 

 these, to the Earl of Harcourt, Walpole writes upon a 

 subject which is just now exciting some interest — a por- 

 trait of Addison. The identification of Walpole's portrait 

 may settle the question of the Holland House — Fontaine, 

 Congreve, or Addison. The letters in the present volume 

 are as full of varied interest — political, social, antiquarian, 

 and artistic — as those in any of its predecessors ; and it 

 is illustrated with a characteristic portrait of the great 

 letter-writer himself; of Mrs. Horton (Anne Luttrell), 

 afterwards Duchess of Cumberland ; of Elizabeth Berke- 

 ley, Countess of Craven; of the celebrated Marquis of 

 Rockingham ; and of Walpole's cousin and correspondent, 

 Francis Seymour Conway, Earl of Hertford. 



It says much for the spirit with which the students of the 

 Sister Island have taken up the subject of their national 

 antiquities, that we should have before us the 22nd num- 

 ber, of The Ulster Journal of Archaology, a volume which 

 we can best recommend to our readers hy a list of its 

 contents. They are : — 1. The Archaeology of Irish Ten- 

 ant-Right. 2. Notes on Bawns. 3. Errors of Edmund 

 Spenser: Irish Surnames. 4. Woods and Fastnesses of 

 Ancient Ireland. 5. Ancient Seals found at Carrickfer- 

 gus. 6. Cinerary Urns discovered near Dundrum, County 

 Down. 7. Irish Bardism in 1561. 8. Ancient Iron Fet- 

 ters. 9. Opening of a Tumulus near Bella Hill, Car- 

 rickfergua. 10. Six Hundred Gaelic Proverbs collected 

 in Ulster. 11. Antiquarian Notes and Queries. The 

 Gaelic Proverbs are extremely characteristic. 



There is a romance, a charm, about the history of the 

 Stuarts, which no sense of their personal failings can 

 altogether dispel. We think, therefore, that Mr. Eohn 

 has shown great tact in adding to his Historical Library 

 a new edition of that chatty and popular book Mr. Jesse's 

 3Temoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents ; and as 

 this new edition, which is comprised in one volume, 

 claims to have the advantage of "a general Index and 

 additional Portraits," one can scarcely doubt it will be 

 welcome to many who desire to know the story of " the 

 '15 " and " the '45." 



It would be a curious speculation how many hundreds, 

 or rather we might say thousands, of Her Majesty's liege 

 subjects found their annual visits to one or other of our wa- 

 tering-places rendered doubly agreeable last j'ear by there 

 studying, or at least amusing themselves with, the Rev. J. 

 G. ^Vood's Common Objects of the Sea Shore. That gen- 

 tleman has issued a companion volume for the use of in- 

 land visitors ; and we shall certainly be much surprised if 

 liis Common Objects of the Country does not rival, if not 

 exceed, its predecessor in well-deserved popularity. There 

 are two editions of it ; the cheaper one at a shilling might, 



we are sure, be largely circulated, and with great advan- 

 tage, among tlie children of our National Schools, for no 

 study is more humanising or more elevating than that of 

 Natural History. 



Among several Tracts of small size, but of considerable 

 interest, to which we have for some time intended to call 

 the attention of our readers, we must mention first — a pri- 

 vately printed one by the Rev. Dr. Maitland, entitled Notes 

 on Strype, in which the necessity "of a new edition" with 

 the " urgently required revision and correction," is shown 

 in a way to make every reader regret Dr. Maitland's 

 announcement " that he has no idea of taking upon him- 

 self the responsibilities of an Editor." So important do 

 we consider this subject, that our first impression was to 

 request Dr. Maitland's permission to transfer his Tract 

 bodily to " N. & Q.," but we have been compelled by want 

 of space to abandon the idea. The Law of Treasure Trove. 

 How can it he best adapted to accomplish useful Results 9 

 by A. Henry Rhind, is a tract to which we would direct 

 the attention of our antiquarian friends : v/hile to those 

 of our readers who share our interest in the writings and 

 biography of Pope, we would say, secure a copy of that 

 sound Yorkshire Antiquary Mr. Robert Davies' interest- 

 ing pamphlet, entitled Pope; additional Facts concerning 

 his Maternal Aiicestry. 



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Wanted by J. S. B., Union Club, Oxford. 



Elitc is requested to give a precise refere?ice to Ovid's Fasti, as the 

 Quotation furnished bij him cannot be found in the Second Book. 



J. A. J. (Cheltenham^ should send the context. The word " vascitia- 

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 sulted. 



M. P. will find in our Ist S. iv. 37. and v. 3SI. a notice of the " Sfiseri- 

 mus " slab in Worcester Cathedral, and references to wliat has been 

 written upon the subject. 



C. A. The Oxford edition of the New Testament. 



W. D. H. (Bradford) would probably find vhat he loants in Roijefa 

 Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, published by Longman. 



E. A. P. }-^or the quotation from Montaigne, tee " N. & Q." Ist 8. iv. 

 125.211.457.; that from Homer's Iliad is from Pope's translation, book 

 ix. 7ines412, 413. 



BmsTot Athkn;«um. thr the origin of the prefix Reverend, see " N. 

 & Q." 1st S. V. 273.; vi. 55. 216. 



B. H. CowrER. The monvmental inscription at Paddington has already 

 appeared in our 1st S. v. 283.; vii. 547. 



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