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Saturday, June 18. 1853. 



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CONTENTS. 



TKS: — 



On the Use of the Hour-glass in Pulpits 

 The Megatherium Americanum in the British Museum 

 Kemunerations of Authors, by Alexander Andrews 

 Coincident Legends, by Thomas Keightley 

 Sliakspeare Headings, No. VIII. . - - - 



Shiikspeare's Use of the Idiom " No had" and " No hath 

 not," by S. W. Singer, &c. - - - - 



Page 



589 

 •WO 

 691 

 .Wl 

 592 



593 



Minor Notes : — The Formation of the Woman, 



Gen. ii. 21, 22 Singular Way of showing Displeasure 



— The Maids and the Widows— Alison's " Europe " — 



" Bis dat, qui cito dat : " *' Sat cito, si sat bene '' - 693 



Queries : — 



House-marks 



594 



Minor Qoekies: — " Seductor Succo" — Ai -"a Light- 

 foot— Queries from the " Navorscher " — " Amentiura 

 hand Amantium" — " Hurrah ! " and other War-cries 

 — Kissing Hands at Court— Uniforms of the three 

 Kegi'Tents of Foot Guards, temp. Charles II — Raf- 

 faelle's Sposalizio — " To the Lords of Convention " — 

 Richard Candishe, M.P — Alphabetical Arrangement— 

 Sayinj; of Pascal — Irish Characters on the Stage — 

 Family of Miiton's Widow— Table-moving 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Form of Petition, 



&e Bibliography — Peter Francius and De Wilde — 



Work by Bishop Ken — Eugene Aram's Comparative 

 Lexicon — DrimtaidhvrickhiUichattan — Coins of 

 Europe — General Benedict Arnold - - - 



Parish Registers : Right of Search, by G. Brindley Ac- 

 worth ....... 



The Honourable Miss E. St. Leger, a Freemason, by 

 Henry H. Breen ....-- 



Weather Rules, by John Booker, &c. - . - 



Scotchmen in Poland, by Richard John King 

 Mr. Justice Newton . _ . . . 



The Marriage Ring - . . - - 



Canada, &c. ..-.--- 

 Selling a Wife, by William Bates . - - - 



Enough -.._--- 



596 



Photographic Correspondence : — Mr. Wilkinson's 

 Mode of levellina Cameras — Collodion Negative — 

 Developing Collodion Process— An iodizing Difficulty C04 



Replies to Minor Queries : — Bishop Frampton — Pa- 

 rochial Libraries — Pierrepont — Passage in Orosius 

 — Pugna Porcorum — Oaken Tombs and Effigies — 



. Bowyer Bible — Longevity — Lady Anne Gray — Sir , 

 John Fleming — Life — Family of Kelway — Sir G. 

 Browne, Bart.— Americanisms, so called— Sir Gilbert 

 Gerard, &c. 605 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. 



Books .ind Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



Advertisements 



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Vol. VII. — No. 190. 



ON THE USE OF THE HOUB-GLASS IN PULPITS. 



George Herbert says : 



" The parson exceeds not an hour in preaching, be- 

 cause aW a^'es have thought that a competency." — A 

 Priest to the Temple, p. 28. 



Ferrarius, De Eitu Condon., lib, i. c. 34., makes 

 the following statement : 



" Huic igitur certo ac communi malo (the evil of 

 too long sermons) ut medicinam facerent, Ecclesite 

 patres in concionando determinatum dicendi tempus 

 fereque unius hora spatio conclusum aut ipsi sibi prae- 

 scribebant, aut ab aliis praefinitum religiose observa- 

 bant." 



Bingham, commenting on this passage, observes : 



" Ferrarius and some others are very positive that 

 they (their sermons) were generally an hour long ; but 

 Ferrarius is at a loss to tell by what instrument they 

 measured their hour, for he will not venture to affirm 

 that they j)reached, as the old Greek and Roman 

 orators declaimed, by an hour-glass." — See Bingham, 

 vol. iv. p. 582. 



This remark of Bingham's brings me at once to 

 the subject of my present communication. Wl)at 

 evidence exists of the practice of preaching by the 

 hour-glass, thus treated as improbable, if not ri- 

 diculous, by the learned writer just quoted ? If 

 the early Fathers of the church timed their sermons 

 by any instrument of the kind, we should expect 

 their writings to contain internal evidence of the 

 fact, just as irequent allusion is made by Demos- 

 thenes and other ancient orators to the klepshydra 

 or water-clock, by which the time allotted to each 

 speaker was measured. Besides, the close prox- 

 imity of such an instrument would be a constant 

 source of metaphorical allusion on the subject of 

 time and eternity. Perhaps those of your readers 

 who are familiar with the extant sermons of the 

 Greek and Latin fathers, may be able to supply 

 some illustration on this subject. At all events 

 there appears to be indisputable evidence of the 

 use of the hour-glass in the pulpit formerly in this 

 country. 



