Jan. 1. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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to see, for the first time, that there are here 

 shown photographs which aim at more than the 

 bare copying of any particular spot ; for many of 

 the pictures here exhibited may rank as fine works 

 of art. We feel much delicacy and hesitation 

 in mentioning any particular artist, where so many 

 are entitled to praise, especially in some parti- 

 cular departments. We could point out pictures 

 having all the minute truthfulness of nature, com- 

 bined with the beautiful effects of some of the 

 greatest painters. We must, however, direct 

 especial attention to the landscapes of Mr. Turner, 

 the views in the Pyrenees by Mr. Stewart, and 

 one splendid one of the same locality by Le Gray. 

 Mr. Buckle's views in paper also exhibit a sharp- 

 ness and detail almost equal to collodion ; as do 

 the various productions of Mr. Fenton in wax 

 paper. The effects obtained also by Mr. Owen of 

 Bristol appear to be very satisfactory : why they 

 are, with so much excellence, called experimental, 

 we cannot tell. In collodion Mr. Berger has ex- 

 hibited some effective portraits ; and we think the 

 success of Mr. De la Motte has been so great, that 

 in some of his productions little remains to be de- 

 sired. We cannot conclude this brief notice without 

 directing attention to the minuteness and pleasing 

 effect of the views in Rome by M. Eugene Con- 

 stant, which are also from collodion ; as also the 

 specimens from albumen negatives of M. Ferrier ; 

 and, lastly, to the pleasant fact that lady amateurs 

 are now practising this art, — very nice specimens 

 being here exhibited by the Ladies Nevill, whose 

 example we shall hope to see followed. 



T^t^Mti to ^t'nor <kntxizi. 



Quotation in Locke (Vol. vi., p. 386.). — The 

 words " Si non vis intelligi non debes legi " were, 

 I believe, the exclamation of &t. Jerome, as he 

 threw his copy of Persius into the fire in a fit of 

 testiness at being unable to construe some tough 

 lines of that tough author. I set down this reply 

 from memory, and am unable to give the authority 

 for it. W. Fraser. 



Pic-nic (Vol. vi., pp. 152. 518.). — The Query 

 of A. F, S. (p. 152.) as to the etymology of pic-nic 

 still remains unanswered. The Note of W. W. 

 (p. 518.) merely refers to the time (1802) when 

 pic-nic suppers first became fashionable in England. 

 Under a French form, the word appears in a speech 

 of Robespierre's, quoted in the British and Foreign 

 Eevieiv for July, 1844, p. 620. : "C'est ici qu'il doit 

 m'accuser, et non dans les piques-niques, dans les 

 societes particulieres." An earlier instance occurs 

 in one of Lord Chesterfield's letters (No. 167.), 

 dated October 1748. Jatdee. 



Discovery at Nuneham Regis (Vol. vi., pp. 386. 

 488. 558.). — Nuneham Regis was granted to John 

 Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, in the seventh 



year of King Edward VL ; but as it was forfeited 

 on his attainder, in the first year of Queen Mary, 

 and immediately granted by her to Sir Rowland 

 Hill, knight, and citizen of London, from whom 

 Sir Thomas Leigh, knight, and alderman of Lon- 

 don, almost immediately acquired it; and as he 

 exercised the right of presentation to the vicarage 

 in the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, 

 there is no probability of the body of John, Duke 

 of Northumberland, being removed from the Tower 

 of London to Newnham. 



The letters T. B. on the clothes on the body at 

 Nuneham are distinctly worked in Roman capitals, 

 like those on a common sampler. I have seen 

 them. J. S.s. 



Door-head Inscriptions (Vol. vi., p. 543.).-— 

 " Sit mihi nee glis servus nee hospes hirudo." 

 " From servant lazy as dormouse, 

 Or leeching guest, God keep my house." 



Mr. Woodward tells us that he quotes this in- 

 scription " from memory : " it is so very pertinent 

 that it seems a pity even to hint a correction, but, 

 as I read it, it seemed partly familiar to me, and 

 I find something so like the latter part of it in two 

 ancient authors, that I am tempted to inquire 

 whether he may not have omitted one letter, which 

 alters the sense as given above, and yet gives a 

 sense as good. 



Among the Symbols of Pythagoras, I read the 

 following : 



" OixcDpo(piovs xf^'So'i'as jt"? eX*'"-" 



" Domestieas hirundines ne habeto." 



To the same effect (but, strange to say, without 



any reference to Pythagoras' dictum), we find it 



in the proverbia of Polydore Virgil (a.d. 1498) : 



" Hirurado suscipienda non est." 

 and the exposition is the same in both : 



"Hirundo garrula semper, i.e. garruli fet tumigeri 

 homines recipiendi non sunt." 



I find no original for the former part of the in- 

 scription. Probably Mr. Woodward will agree 

 with me, that it is difficult to decide whether a 

 greedy or a gossipping guest would be the worst 

 household infliction ; but as a careful householder 

 might well deprecate either, as matter of curiosity 

 perhaps he would refer to the original inscription 

 again, and decide whether he has or has not omitted 

 an " n." A. B. R. 



Belmont. 



Stratford Parsonage, Wilts : 



" Parva sed apta Domino. 

 1675." 



Montacute House, Somerset : 



" Through this wide opening gate 

 None come too soon, none go too late. 

 And yours." 



