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can trace the deranging influence on the latter quite as 

 surely as on the former." — -Life and Correspondence, 

 2nd ed. p. 390. 



C. Mansfield Inglebt. 

 Birmingham. 



JEngUsh Bishops deprived hy Queen Elizabeth, 

 1559 (Vol. vii., p. 260.). — I have endeavoured to 

 procure some information for A. S. A. on those 

 points which Mr. Dkedge left unnoticed, but find 

 that, after his diligent search, very little indeed is 

 to be gleaned. Bishop Bayne died in January, 

 15^§ (Strype's Annals, anno 1559). Dod, in vol. i. 

 p. 507. of his Church History, mentions a letter of 

 Bishop GoldioelVs, or, as he calls him, Godwell's, 

 to Dr. Allen, dated anno 1581 : 



" This letter," he says, " seems to be written not 

 long before Bishop God well's deatii, for I meet with 

 no fartlier mention of him. Here the reader may take 

 notice of a mistake in Dr. Heylin, who tells us he died 

 prisoner in Wisbich Castle, which is to be understood 

 of Bishop Watson." 



Of Bishop Pate he says : 



" He was alive in 1 562, but how long after I do not 

 find." — Vol. i. p. 488. 



Bishop Pole, according to the same authority, 

 died a prisoner at large about the latter end of 

 May, 1568. Bishop Frampton died May 25, 1708 

 (Calamy's Own Times, vol. ii. p. 119.). I cannot 

 ascertain the day of Bishop White's death, but he 

 was buried, according to Evelyn (vol. iii. p. 364.), 

 June 5, 1698. Tybo. 



Dublin. 



Borrowed Thoughts (Vol. vii., p. 203.). — The 

 thought which Erica shows has been used by 

 Butler and Macaulay is a grain from an often- 

 pillaged granary ; a tag of yarn from a piece of 

 cloth used ever since its make for darning and 

 patching ; a drop of honey from a hive round which 

 robber- bees and predatory wasps have never ceased 

 to wander, — the Anatomy of Melancholy : 



" Though there were giants of old in physic and 

 philosophy, yet I say with Didacus Stella *, ' a dwarf 

 .standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther 

 than a giant himself.' I may likely add, alter, and see 

 farther than my predecessors ; and it is no greater pre- 

 judice for me to indite after others, than tor ^Elianus 

 Montaltus, that famous physician, to write De Morbis 

 Capitis after Jason Pratensis," &c. 



The pagination (that of Tegg's edition, 1849) 

 will not guide those who with Elia sicken at the 

 profanity of " unearthing the bones of that fan- 

 tastic old great man," and know not a "sight more 

 heartless" than the reprint of his Opus. Sigma. 



Sunderland. 



* In Luc. 10. torn. ii. : " Pigmi gigantum humeris 

 impositi plusquam ipsi gigantes vident." — Preface, p. 8. 



Dr. South V. Goldsmith, Talleyrand, ^c. (Vol. vi., 

 p. 575.; Vol. vii., p. 311.). — One authority has 

 been overlooked by Mr. Breen, which seems as 

 likely as any to have given currency to the saying, 

 viz. Dean Swift. In Gulliver's Travels (1727), 

 Voyage to the Houyhnhnms, the hero gives the 

 king some information respecting British ministers 

 of state, which I apprehend in Swift's day was no 

 exaggeration. The minister, Gulliver says, " ap- 

 plies his words to all uses except to the indication 

 of his mind." It must be confessed, however, that 

 this authority is some seven years after Dr. South. 

 C. Mansfield Inglebt. 



Birmingham. 



FoucauWs Experiment (Vol. vii., p. 330.). — 

 The reality of the rotation, and the cause assigned 

 to it by Foucault in his experiment, is now admitted 

 without question by scientific men. But in mea- 

 suring the amount of the motion of the pendulum, 

 so many disturbing causes were found to be at 

 work, that the numerical results have not been 

 obtained as yet with exactness. The best account 

 is, perhaps, the original one in the Comptes Rendus. 

 Mr. Foucault has lately invented an instrument 

 founded on a similar principle, to find the lati- 

 tude of a place. Elsno. 



Passage in " Lochsley Hall " (Vol. vi., p. 272. ; 

 Vol. vii., pp. 25. 146.). — Of these three commenta- 

 tors neither appears to me to have hit Tennyson's 

 meaning, though Cobylus has made the nearest 

 shot. 1 ought to set out by confessing that it was 

 not originally clear to myself, but that I could not 

 for a moment doubt, when the following explan- 

 ation was suggested to me by a friend. The 

 "curlews" themselves are the "dreary gleams:" 

 the words are what the Latin Grammar calls " duo 

 substantiva ejusdem rei." I take the meaning, in 

 plain prose, to be this : " The curlews are uttering 

 their peculiar cry, as they fly over Locksley Hall, 

 looking like (to me, the spectator) dreary gleams 

 crossing the moorland." 



I could supply A. A. D. with several examples 

 in English, from my commonplace-book, of the 

 " bold figure of speech not uncommon in the vivid 

 language of Greece;" and, among the rest, one 

 from Tennyson himself, to wit : 



" Now, scarce three paces measured from the mound, 

 We stumbled on a stationary voice," &c. 



But I doubt whether the poet had those passages 

 in his thought, when he penned the opening of his 

 noble poem " Locksley Hall." Of course 1 do not 

 hnow, any more than A. A. D., and the rest ; and I 

 suppose we shall none of us get any enlightenment 

 "by authority." Harry Leboy Temple. 



Lake of Geneva (Vol. \Vi., p. 406.). — The account 

 given in the Chronicle of Marius of what is called 

 " an earthquake or landslip in the valley of the 



