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and experience) — the notion that they have a peculiar 

 and disagreeable smell, is, perhaps, older than he ima- 

 gined. Venantius, a bishop of Poictiers, in the sixth 

 century, who holds a place in every corpus poetarum, 

 says: 



* Abluitur Judaeus odor baptismate divo, 



Et nova progenies reddita surgit aquis, 



Vincens ambrosios suavi spiramine rores, 



Vertice perfuso, chrismatis efflat odor.' 



Venant. Poemat., lib. 4. xx. 



" ' Cosa maravigliosa,' says an Italian author, • che 

 ricevuto 11 santo Battesimo, non puzzano piu.' " 



I believe the reference " lib. 4. xx." is inaccu- 

 rate. At least I have not succeeded in finding the 

 lines. That may be an excusable mistake : not so 

 the citing " an Italian author," instead of giving 

 his name, or saying that the writer had forgotten it. 



The power of baptism over the Judceus odor is 

 spoken of familiarly in the Epistolce Ohscurorum 

 Virorum : 



" Nuper quando unus dixit mihi quod non credit, 

 quod Pfefferkorn adhuc est bonus Christianus : quia 

 dixit quod vidit eum ante unum annum, et adhuc 

 fcetebat sicut alius Juda»us, et tamen dicunt commu- 

 niter, quod quando Judaei baptizantur, non annplius 

 fcetent ; ergo credit quod Pfefferkorn habet adhuc 

 nequam post aures. Et quando Theologi credunt 

 quod est optimus Christianus, tunc erit iterum Judseus, 

 et fides non est ei danda, quia otnnes homines habent 

 malam suspicionem de Judeeis baptizatis. . . . Sed 

 respondeo vobis ad illam objectum : Vos dicitis quod 

 Pfefferkorn foctet. Posito casu, quod est verum, sicut 

 non credo, neque unquam intellexi, dico quod est alia 

 causa hujus foetoris. Quia Johannes Pfefferkorn, 

 quando fuit Judeeus, fuit macellarius, et macellarii 

 communiter etiam fcetent : tunc omnes qui audicrunt, 

 dixerunt quod est bona ratio." — Ed. Miinch: Leipzig, 

 1827, p. 209. 



A modern instance of belief in the " odor " is in, 

 but cannot decently be quoted from, The Stage, a 

 Poem, by John Brown, p. 22. : London, 1819. 



H. B. C. 

 U. U. Club. 



Philip d'Auvergne (Vol. vii., p. 236.). — This 

 cadet of a Jersey family, whose capture, when a 

 lieutenant in our royal navy, led to his being in 

 Paris as a prisoner on parole, and thereby even- 

 tually to his adoption by the last Prince of 

 Bouillon, was a person of too much notoriety to 

 make it necessai-y to tell the tale of his various 

 fortunes in your columns ; of his imprisonment in 

 the Bastile, and subsequently for a short period in 

 the Temple ; his residence at Mont Orgueil Castle 

 in Jersey, for the purpose of managing commu- 

 nications with royalists or other agents, on the 

 opposite French coast ; or the dates of his suc- 

 cessive commissions in the navy, in which he got 

 upon the list of rear-admirals in 1 805, and was a 

 vice-admiral of the blue in 1810. 



I have not access at present to any list of the 

 Lives of Public Characters, but think I can recol- 

 lect that there was an account given of him in 

 that publication ; and there can be no doubt but 

 that any necrology, of the date of his death, would 

 contain details at some length. 



I suspect there is a mistake in Brooke's Ga- 

 zetteer, as quoted by E. H. A., for I feel rather 

 confident that the reigning duke had no son living 

 when he made over the succession to one whom 

 he did not know to be a relation, though bearing 

 the family name. 



As, however, this adopted representative of the 

 Dukes De Bouillon has been mentioned, it may be 

 a fit occasion to ask if any of your Jersey readers 

 can tell what became, at his death, of a beautifully 

 preserved and illuminated French translation of the 

 Scriptures, which he showed to your correspondent 

 in 1814, as having been the gift of the Black 

 Prince's captive, King John of France, to the 

 Due De Berri, his son, from whom it had passed 

 into the possession of the Dues De Bouillon. His 

 highness (for the concession of this style was still 

 a result of his dukedom) said, that he had lent this 

 Bible for a while to the British Antiquarian So- 

 ciety, which had engraved some costumes and 

 figures from the vignettes which adorned the 

 initials of chapters. H. "W. 



Dr. Parr's A. E.A.O. (Vol. vii., p. 156.).— 

 The learned doctor indulged in boundless exult- 

 ation at the unavailing efforts of mankind to give 

 significancy to the above cabalistical combination 

 of vowels. The combination was formed in the 

 following manner: — S[A]MUEt, P[a]rr engaged 

 his friend H[e]nry H[o]mer to assist him in cor- 

 recting the press ; and so he took the " a. e." of 

 their Christian names, and the " a. o." of their 

 surnames, to form a puzzle which, like many other 

 puzzles, is scarcely worth solution. QEdipus. 



Jewish Lineaments (Vol. vi., p. 362.). — Is this 

 Query put in reference to the individual or the 

 race ? In either case the lineaments would wear 

 out. In the first, intermarriage would soon de- 

 stroy them, as I have an instance in my own 

 family, wherein the person, though only three re- 

 moves from true Jewish blood, retains only the 

 faintest trace of Jewish ancestry. In the second 

 instance, the cause of the change is more subtle. 

 The Jew, as long as he adheres to Judaism, min- 

 gles with Hebrew people, adopts their manners, 

 shares their pursuits, and imbibes their tone of 

 thought. Just as the character is reflected in the 

 countenance, so will he maintain his Jewish looks; 

 but as soon as he adopts Christian views, and 

 mingles Avith Christian people, he will lose_ those 

 peculiarities of countenance, the preservation of 

 which depended on his former career. We see 

 examples of this in those Franks who have resided 



