2'><> S. N" 116., Mar. 20. '58.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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tion of the Bible for the press. The untiring and 

 almost sleepless exertions of the Pope, while en- 

 gaged in this work, are recorded by an inscription 

 over one of the arches of the library. 



Cleeicus (D.) 



Til for !r«<(P' S. X. 524.)— In Heraditus 

 Ridens, or a Discourse hetween Jest and Earnest 

 (vol. i. p. 177.), published in a collected form 

 1713, but which appears to have come out in 

 papers weekly in 1681, is the following passage: — 



" Jest. Well ! now I think we have given The. and 

 his Vox, tint for tant, as the old woman said when she 

 discharged her lower Tire against the Thunder." 



Is this a play upon the word tantum ? " Tan- 

 tum" or "tintum pro tanlo." 



II. J. 



Sitting covered in Churches (2"^ S. v. 168.) — 

 An example of the custom of wearing the hat in 

 church is given in Additional MS. 4727. in the 

 British Museum. This little volume contains a 

 copy of prayers, in Latin, as used by Martin Lu- 

 ther, beautifully written ; and prefixed thereto is 

 a neatly executed painting, representing the great 

 Reformer in a pulpit, preaching to a crowded as- 

 sembly, greater part of which is covered. The 

 MS. was probably written in the reign of Eliza- 

 beth. Z z. 



Separation of the Sexes in Churches (2°** S. v. 

 117.) — The note of your correspondent, Enivri, 

 rather confirms my view than disproves it. The 

 body of Methodists that followed Whitfield ivere 

 High Calvinists ; the Wesleyans differed only as to 

 the doctrine of absolute Predestination, In fact, 

 the Methodists were strictly Puritan in every 

 thing relating to discipline. A friend has re- 

 minded me there was such a separation in the 

 early Christian kyavi]^ or love feast ; but these were 

 abolished by the 74th Canon of the Council in 

 Tnillo (6th of Constantinople), twelve hundred 

 years ago, in consequence of the irregularities 

 they gave occasion to ; and, strictly speaking, had 

 nothing to do with public worship. F. S. A. 



London Companies' Irish Estates (2"^ S. v. 1 70.) 

 — Anon, will find a great portion of the informa- 

 tion he requires in p. 16. of the Second [General] 

 Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire 

 into the Municipal Corporations in England and 

 Wales, folio, 1837, and in pp. 191—193. of the 

 E.ei)ort on London and Southwark, appended 

 thereto. W. II. \V. T. 



Somerset House. 



Cliarm against the Bite of a Mad Dog (2"'' S. v. 

 191.) — This charm is well known, though, like 

 most similar absurdities, it is employed in differ- 

 ent ways. One way is merely to repeat, or cause 

 the person bitten to repeat, the words : Hax, pax, 

 max, etc. Another more approved form of the 

 charm is thus prescribed : write upon bread, 



Izioni Kirioni esseza Kudir feze, etc. ; or on a bit 

 of apple, hax, pax, max Deus adimax, etc. The 

 bread or apple, so inscribed, is to be swallowed by 

 a person bitten by a mad dog. Of course these 

 words have no meaning. F. C. H. 



Inlaid Boohs (2"^ S. v. 131.)— Inlaying is ad- 

 mirably done at M. M. Holloway's, 25. Bed- 

 ford Street, Covent Garden. Joseph Rix. 



NOTES ON BOOKS AND BOOK SALES. 



We have this week to call attention to another work 

 for which the lovers of Classical Literature are indebted 

 to Mr. Churchill Babington. We cannot better describe 

 it than in the words of its ample title-page — YIIEPIAOY 

 AOrOS EniTA*I02. The Funeral Oration of Hyperides 

 over Leosthenes and his Comrades in the Lamian War ; 

 the Fragments of the Greek Text now first edited from a 

 Papyrus in the British Museum. With Notes and an Int)-o- 

 duction, and an Engraved Facsimile of the whole Papyrus ; 

 to lohich are added the Fragments of the Oration cited hy 

 Ancient Writers; by Churchill Babington, B.D., F.L.S., 

 &c. We must of course refer to the volume itself for an 

 account of the discoverj' of the manuscript, of its condi- 

 tion, orthography, and probable date. All we can do is 

 to record the fact, and, in so doing, congratulate classical 

 scholars, not only on the recovery of what is one of the 

 most celebrated, if not the most celebrated, of all the 

 oratorical etforts of Hyperides; but also that, upon its 

 being thus fortunately recovered, it should have fallen 

 into hands so well able to edit and illustrate it. 



Mr. Russell Smith has added two new volumes to his 

 Library of Old Authors. The first of these is what may 

 be called the fifth and concluding volume of his reprint 

 of Chapman's Homer, under the editorship of the Rev. 

 Richard Hooper. But it is more, as the title shows — 

 Homei-'s Batrachomyomachia ; Hymns and Epigrams ; He- 

 siod's Works and Days ; Musceus' Hero and Leander ; Ju- 

 venal's Fifth Satire; Translated by George Chapman — 

 and well indeed does Mr. Smith deserve of the admirers of 

 George Chapman for this handsome reprint of works which 

 were so difficult to be met with. The other volume for 

 which we are indebted to Mr. Russell Smith is of equal, 

 though essentially different interest. It is The Complete 

 Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto, edited by 

 William J. Turnbull, Esq. It is somewhat remarkable, 

 considering the acknowledged merits and wide-spread re- 

 putation of one whom Cowley addressed as 

 " Poet and Saint ! to thee alone are given 

 The two most sacred names of earth and heaven," 

 that a full reprint of Crashaw's works should be left to the 

 present day. They are now produced in a cheap yet hand- 

 some form, under the able editorship of one who deeply 

 sympathises with the feelings of the Poet. 



Those who know how thoroughly Mr. Edlyne Tomlins 

 is acquainted M'ith our national records will be prepared 

 to find in any Avork undertaken by him all the light 

 which those documents can throw upon his subject. The 

 reader who takes up his Yseldon, A Perambulation of 

 Islington, will find all this, and much more. For Mr. 

 Tomlins seems to have exhausted all sources of informa- 

 tion in the preparation of his valuable Monograph on the 

 History and Antiquities of Islington. Had he done less, 

 we should have been prejudiced in favour of his book from 

 the good feeling which is manifested in its dedication to 

 the memory of one who took interest in its progress. While 



