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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



[2o<» S. K" 106., Jan. 9. '58. 



by Wachter, from TJst-an (Gothic), to arise, is 

 the true one. The great Day-God rises in that 

 quarter of the heavens ; and with all primeval 

 nations, that fact must have preeminently dis- 

 tinguished that point of the compass. We find 

 tliis to have been the case with the Romans ; 

 Orientalis = Eastern, is plainly derived from 

 Orior = to arise. The French Orient has the 

 same derivation. The Italian, il Levante = the 

 East, is derived from Levare = to raise ; and this 

 from the Latin, Levo = to lift up. The same 

 analogy may be traced in other languages. 



Returning to our own English tongue, we find 

 two other words of similar sound and derivation. 

 Yeast is, doubtless, so called from its causing the 

 bread to " rise." Among country housewives I 

 have heard it called bj the synonymous term 

 " raising." Lastly, the great Christian festival of 

 Easter could only have been thus named in com- 

 memoration of the event that caused its institu- 

 tion — the rising of our Lord. 



Robert Townsend. 



Mild Winter of IS57. — The exceeding fineness 

 of the weather at this period is I think worth 

 noticing. No frost perceptible to ordinarily early 

 risers occurred till the 5th, and that a very slight 

 one. Even this has not been repeated up to this 

 day (Dec. 10.). Farmers say the wheat was never 

 so forward. Garden plants are in full vigour — 

 the seeds of annuals have produced fine growing 

 plants — primroses and violets are in bloom ^— and 

 a horse-martin was observed flying in a neigh- 

 bouring parish on the 4th. And this is on the 

 east coast of Norfolk. E. S. Taylor, 



Sir Charles Ventris. — An incident in the life 

 of one of the faithful adherents of that unfortunate 

 family of whom it has been said that " they knew 

 not to resign or reign " (the Stuarts), is commemo- 

 rated by the following quaintly-worded inscrip- 

 tion in an old bay-window'd parlour at Compton 

 House, Shefford, Bedfordshire, the property of Sir 

 Geo. Osborne, Bart., the oak panelling through 

 which the heavy-shotted charge of the republican 

 trooper's blunderbuss passed being carefully pro- 

 tected with glass, as a pet Gerard Dow or Mieris 

 might be in the sanctum sanctorum of a connois- 

 seur : 



" In the j-ear 1645 

 " Sir Charles Ventris, Knt. Banneret, Created by King 

 Charles for his Bravery in the Civil Wars, Was (in the 

 Night time) by Oliver's Party shot at as he was walking 

 in this room : but happily missed him." 



Anon. 



Cutting Teeth in advanced Age. — In the Con- 

 tinuation of Granger's Biographical Histoi'y of 

 England (vol. iii. p. 114.), chiefly compiled from 

 the author's own manuscript Collections, in the 

 account of the Rev. Samuel Croxall, D.D., the 

 well'known translator of JEsops Fables^ it is 

 stated that " he died of a fever occasioned by the 



pain he underwent in cutting a new set of teeth 

 at the great age of 93." Can any of your readers 

 supply a similar instance of so remarkable an 

 event of human life ? * H, E. 



^wtxitS. 



Montaigne's " essays." 



Dr. Payen, whose researches on Montaigne are 

 so justly celebrated I, is preparing for M. jannet's 

 Bibliotheque Elzecirienne an edition of the Essai/s, 

 which he aims at making as complete as possible. 

 With that view he has just issued, privately, a set 

 of Queries to be answered by any literary men 

 who may feel interested in his undertaking. I 

 have selected from Dr. Payen's list a few of the 

 chief points requiring elucidation, and commend 

 them to the kind consideration of the numerous 

 readers of " N. & Q." : 



" Appel aux irudits. — Citations, faits hisloriques, allu- 

 sions, alligations, etc. qui se trouverit dans les osuvre.s de 

 Montaigne, et dont la source rCa point et6 indique par les 

 Sditeurs." 



Quotations. — Who are the authors of the fol- 

 lowing ? 



" Instillata patris virtus tibi." (B. ii. cap. 12.) 



" Nihil itaque amplius nostrum est ; quod nostrum dico, 

 artis est." (lb.) 



"Tristemque vultus tetrici arrogantiam." (B. iii. 

 cap. 5.) 



"Nimirum propter eontinenliam incontinentia neces- 

 saria est, incendium ignibus extinguitur." (lb.) 



" Stercus cuiqne suum bene olet." (lb. cap. 8.) 



" Et sua sunt illis incommoda, parque per omnes tem- 

 pestas." (lb. cap. 9.) . 



"Majorem fideni homines adhibent in quas non intclli- 

 gunt." (lb. cap. 10.) 



" Che ricordarsi il ben doppia la noia." (B. xii. cap. 12.) 



Allusioiis. — In what passage does Plato say — 



" Qu'il faut colloquer les enfants non selonles facult^s 

 de leur pfere, mais selon les facult^s de leur ame." (B. i. 

 cap. 25.) 



[* See some remarkable instances of cutting teeth in 

 advanced age in our 1'' S, xii. 25.] 



t Payen (Dr. J. F.). Publications relatives h Mon- 

 taigne : 



1° Notice bibliographique sur 3Iontaigne. Paris, 1837, 

 in-8. 



2° Documents inedits on peu connus sur Montaigne. 

 Paris, 1847, in-8, portrait, _/ae-s!»j?7e. 



3° Nouveaux documents inedits ou peu coiuius sur Mo7i- 

 taigne. 1850,ia-8,fac-simi!e. 



4P*De Christophe Kormart et de son Analyse sur les Es- 

 sais de 3Iontaigne. Paris, 1849, in-8. 



5° Documents inedits sur Montaigne, n" 3. — E'ph^me- 

 rides, Lettres, et autres Pieces autograplies et inedites de 

 Montaigne et de sa Fille Eleonore. Paris, Jannet, 1855, 

 m-8,fac-si7nile. 



6*^ Recherches sur 3Iontaigne, documents inedits, n" 4. — 

 Examen de la Vie publique de Montaigne, par M. Griin. 

 — Lettres et Remontrances nouvelles. — Bourgeoisie ro- 

 maine. — Habitation et Tombeau a Bordeaux. — Vues, 

 Plans, Cachets, /ac-sin«7e. — R. Sebon. Paris, 1856, in-8. 



