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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 178. 



Muffs worn by Gentlemen (Vol. vi., passivi.'). — 

 The Tatler, No. 155., describing a meeting with 

 his neighbour the upholsterer, says : 



" I saw he was reduced to extreme poverty by cer- 

 tain shabby superfluities in his dress ; for notwith- 

 standing that it was a very sultry day for the time of 

 year, he wore a loose great coat and a muff, with a long 

 campaign wig out of curl," &c. 



Erica. 



The Burial Service hy heart (Vol. vii., p. 13.). — 

 In the Life of the Rev. Griffith Jones, the cele- 

 brated founder of the Welsh circulating charity 

 schools, is this note : 



" Living amongst dissenters who disliked forms of 

 prayer, he committed to memory the whole of the bap- 

 tismal and burial services ; and, as his delivery was 

 very energetic, his friends frequently heard dissenters 

 admire his addresses, which they praised as being ex- 

 tempore effusions unshackled by the Prayer Book !" 



E. D. 



JBurroiv (Vol. vii., p. 205.). — Balliolensis says 

 that in North Gloucestershire " the side of a thick 

 coppice is spoken of as a very burroiv place for 

 cattle." He understands this to mean " shel- 

 tered, secure from wind;" and he asks to what 

 etymology this sense can be attributed. I suspect 

 the Anglo-Saxon bearo, a grove or copse, is the 

 word here preserved. As a wood forms a fence 

 against the wind, and is habitually so used and 

 regarded by the agricultural population, the asso- 

 ciation of ideas is suitable enough in this inter- 

 pretation. Bearo, first signifying the grove itself, 

 might easily come to mark the shelter which the 

 grove afforded. But there is also a compound of 

 this word preserved in the ancient charters, in 

 which the fitness of a place as a pasture for swine 

 is the prominent notion. Kemble, Cod. Dipl., 

 No. 288. : " Haec sunt pascua porcorum, quae 

 nostra lingua Saxonica denbera nominamus." In 

 the same sense the compound with tlie word 

 weald (=a great forest) is found: weald-Jero. 

 The wood was considered by our forefathers as 

 propitious to their swine, not only for its shelter, 

 but also for the masts it supplied ; and this may 

 have further helped to associate J)earo witli the 

 comforts of cattle. Obielensis. 



" Coming home to merHs business" (Vol. vii., 

 p. 235.). — It is hardly requisite -to state to the 

 readers of "N. & Q.," that many editions of 

 Bacon's memorable, beautiful, and didactic Essays 

 appeared in the distinguished author's lifetime, 

 obviously having experienced (proved by prefa- 

 tory epistles of different dates) the repeated re- 

 vision and emendations of the writer. The Essays 

 were clearly favourites with him, as well as with 

 the then reading public. They were first published 

 in 1597, preceded by a letter addressed "To M. 



Anthony Bacon, his deare Brother." The ninth 

 edition was issued the year before his death, which 

 took place April 9, 1626. In that edition is added 

 a dedication " To the Right Honorable my very 

 good Lo. the Duke of Buckingham, his Grace Lo. 

 High Admirall of England;" signed, " Fr. St, 

 Alban:" previous signatures being "Fran. Ba- 

 con" (1597); "Fr. Bacon" (1612) ; "Fra. Bacon" 

 (no date). In this dedication to the Duke of 

 Buckingham first appeared the passage inquired 

 about : " I doe now (he tells the Duke) publish 

 my Essayes ; which, of all my other workes, haue 

 beene most current : for that, as it seems, they 

 come home to Men^s Businesse and Bosomes." — 

 How accurate, yet modest, an appreciation of his 

 labours ! A Hermit at Hampstead. 



My copy of Lord Bacon's Essays is a 12mo. : 

 London, 1668. And in the epistle dedicatory, the 

 author himself tells the Duke of Buckingham as 

 follows : 



" I do now publish my Essays ; which, of all my other 

 works, have been most current : for that, as it seems, 

 they come home to men's business and bosomes." 



This will carry J. P. eleven years further back, at 

 all events. Rx. 



Heuristic (Vol. vii., p. 237.), as an English 

 scholar would write it, or Hevristisch, as it would 

 be written by a German, is a word not to be found 

 in the sixth edition of Kant's Ci-itik (Leipzig, 

 1818), nor in his Prolegomena (Riga, 1783).* 

 Your correspondent's copy appears to have been 

 tampered with. The title Kritik should be spelt 

 with the initial C, and reinen should not have a 

 capital letter : the Germans being very careful to 

 prefix capitals to all substantives, but never to ad- 

 jectives. Tiie above-mentioned edition of the Critik 

 was sent to me from Hamburg soon after its pub- 

 lication. It was printed by Frobels at Rudolstadt 

 in 1818 ; and is unblemished by a single erratum, 

 so far as I have been able to detect one. Allow 

 me to suggest to H. B. C. to collate the pages in 

 his edition with the sixth of 1818 ; the seventh 

 of 1828 ; and, if possible, with one published in 

 Kant's lifetime prior to 1804; and he will pro- 

 bably find, that the very favourite word of Kant, 

 empirisch, has been altered in a few instances to 

 Jievristich. Ma. Haywood is evidently inaccurate 

 in writing evristic, which is wrong in Greek as well 

 as in German and English, 



Instead of giving the pages of his copy, your 

 coiTespondent will more oblige by stating the divi- 

 sions under which this exceptional word occurs, 

 in the running title at the top of each page of his 

 copy ; together with two or three lines of the con- 

 text, which I can compare with my own copy. I 



* The former is the synthetic, the latter the analytic 

 exposition of his system of mental philosophy. 



