Apeil 9, 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Epigrams (Vol. vli., pp. 175. 270.). — " Suum 

 cuique " being a principle which holds good with 

 regard to literary property as well as to property 

 of every other description, I can inform your 

 correspondent Balliolensis that the epigram on 

 Dr. Toe, which he says was " represented to have 

 proceeded from the pen of Thomas Dunbar, of 

 Brasenose," was in reality the production of my 

 respected neighbour, the Rev. William Bradford, 

 M. A., rector of Storrington, Sussex. It was 

 written by that gentleman when he was an under- 

 graduate of St. John's College, Oxford. Bal- 

 i-ioLENSis may rely upon the accuracy of this in- 

 formation, as I had it from Mr. Bradford's own 

 lips only yesterday. The correct version of the 

 epigram is that given by Sceapiana, p. 270. 



R. Blakiston. 



Ashington, Sussex. 



" God and the world" (Vol.vii., pp. 134. 297.). 

 — These lines are found, as quoted by W. H., in 

 Coleridge's Aids to Rejection, p. 87., ed. 1831. 

 Coleridge gives them as the words of a sage poet 

 of the preceding generation (meaning, I suppose, 

 the generation preceding! that of Ai*chbishop 

 Leighton, a passage from whose works he has 

 introduced as an aphorism just before). I have 

 often wondered who this poet was, and whether 

 the last line were really a quotation from Macbeth, 

 or whether Shakspeare and the unknown poet had 

 both but borrowed a popular saying. I also had 

 my suspicions that Coleridge himself might have 

 patched the verses a little ; and the communication 

 of your correspondent Rt., tracing the lines in 

 their original form to the works of Fulke Greville 

 Lord Brooke, now verifies his conjecture. It may 

 be worth while to point out another instance of 

 this kind of manufacture by the same skilful hand. 

 In the first volume of The Friend (p. 215., ed. 

 1818), Coleridge places at the head of an essay a 

 quotation of two stanzas from Daniel's Musophilus. 

 The second, which precedes in the original that 

 which Coleridge places first, is thus given by him : 



" Since writings are the veins, the arteries, 

 And undecaying life-strings of those hearts. 

 That still shall pant and still shall exercise 

 Their mightiest powers when Nature none imparts ; , 

 And the strong constitution of their praise 

 Wear out the infection of distemper d days." 



Daniel wrote as follows (vol. il. p. 373., ed. 1718) : 



" For these lines are the veins, the arteries 

 And undecaying life-strings of those hearts. 

 That still shall pant and still shall exercise 

 The motion spirit and nature both imparts. 

 And still with those alive so sympathize. 

 As notirish'd with their powers, enjoy their parts." 



C. W. G. 



SkaHng Problem (Vol. vii., p. 284.). — The 

 Query of your correspondent recalls the one 



said to have been put by King James to the mem- 

 bers of the Royal Society : " How is it," said the 

 British Solomon, " that if two buckets of water 

 be equipoised in a balance, and a couple of live 

 bream be put into one of them, the bucket con- 

 taining the fish does not overweigh the other ? " 

 After some learned reasons had been adduced 

 by certain of the philosophers, one of them said, 

 " Please your Majesty, that bucket would be hea- 

 vier by the exact weight of the fish." " Thou art 

 right," said the sapient king ; " I did not think 

 there had been so much sense among you." Now, 

 although I do not mean to say that A Skater 

 propounds for elucidation what he knows to be a 

 fallacy, yet I do assert that he is mistaken as to 

 the fact alleged. He recommends any one who is 

 "incredulous" to make the trial — in which case, 

 the experimenter would undoubtedly find himself 

 in the water ! I advise an appeal to common 

 sense and philosophy : the former will show that a 

 person in skates is not lighter than another ; the 

 latter, that ice will not fracture less readily be- 

 neath the weight of an individual raised on a pair 

 of steel edges, than one on a pair of flat soles — 

 all other circumstances being the same ; the reverse, 

 indeed, would be the fact. The true explanation 

 of the "problem" is to be found in the circum- 

 stance, that " a skater," rendered confident by the 

 ease with which he glides over ice on which he 

 could not stand, will often also "stand" securely 

 on ice which would break under the restless feet 

 of a person in his shoes only. This has always 

 appeared to be the obvious reason for the appa- 

 rent anomaly to one who is No Skatbb. 



Parochial Libraries (Vol. vi., p. 432.). — Let me 

 add to the list of parochial libraries that atWendle- 

 bury, Oxon, the gift of Robert Welborn, rector, 

 cir. 1760. It consists of about fifty volumes in 

 folio, chiefly works of the Fathers, and, if I re- 

 member rightly, Benedictine editions. It waa 

 originally placed in the north transept of the 

 church, but afterwards removed to the rectory. I 

 believe that the books were intended for the use 

 of the rector, but were to be lent to the neigh- 

 bouring clergy on a bond being given for their re- 

 storation. After many years of sad neglect, this 

 library was put into thorough order a few years 

 ago by the liberality of the Rev. Jacob Ley, 

 student of Ch. Ch. Chevebells. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Books Received. — Reynard the Fox, after the 

 German Version of Goethe, with Illustrations, by J. Wolf. 

 Part IV. carries us on to The Trial, which is very 

 ably rendered. — Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geo- 

 graphy, by various Writers, edited by W. Smith. This 

 Sixth Part, extending from Cinabi to Cyrrhestica, con- 



