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CONTENTS. 



Notes:— Page 



Lord Bacon's " Advancement of Learning " - - 493 



. Erection of Forts at Michneeand Pylos, by C. Forbes - 495 

 Hoveden's Annals : Bohn's " Antiquarian Library," by- 

 James Graves ------ 495 



Folk Lobe:— Raven Superstition — African Folk Lore 

 —Funeral Custom ----- 490 



Shakspeare Readings, No. Vn. - - - - 496 



Minor Notes : — Portrait of Luther — Handle Wilbraham 



— Unpublished Epigram by Sir W. Scott — Crassus' 

 Saying 498 



Queries : — 



Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke - 499 



" The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley - 499 



Palissy and Cardinal Wiseman - . - - 499 



Minor Queuies: — Polidus — St. Paul's Epistles to 

 Seneca — Meaning of " folowed " — Roman Catholic 

 Registers — St. Alban's Day— Meigham, the London 

 Printer — Adamsoniana — Canker or Brier Rose — 

 " Short red, god red " — Overseers of Wills — Lepel's 

 Regiment— Vincent Family — Passage in the First 

 Part of Faust— Lady Anne Gray —Continental Brasses 

 — Peter Beaver— Cremonas — Cranmer and Calvin - 499 



Minor Queries with Answers : — "A Letter to a Con- 

 vocation Man" — Prester John — Homer's Iliad in a 

 Nut— Monogram of Parker Society — The Five Alls— 

 Corvizer 502 



Replies: — 



English Comedians in Germany - - - - 503 



A Gentleman executed for whipping a Slave to Death, 



by Henry H. Breen - - - - . 503 



Longevity ------- 504 



Derivation of Canada, by Robert Wright - - 504 



Setantiorum Portus ----- 605 



Photographic Correspondence : — Stereoscopic Queries 



— Photographic Portraits of Criminals, &c. — Photo- 

 graphy applied to Catalogues of Books — Application 



of Photography to the Microscope - - - 505 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Discovery at Nuneham 

 Regis — Eulenspiegel, or Howleglas — Parochial Li- 

 braries — Painter— Pepys's " Morena " — Pylades and 

 Corinna — Judge Smith — Grindle-Simile of the Soul 

 and the Magnetic Needle— English Bishops deprived 

 i; by Queen Elizabeth — Borrowed Thoughts— Dr. South 



V. Goldsmith, Talleyrand, &c. — Foucault's Experi- 

 ment — Passage in " Locksley Hall " — Lake of 

 Geneva — " Inter cuncta micans" — " Its " — Gloves 

 at Fairs — Astronomical Query — Tortoiseshell Tom 

 Cat — Sizain on the Pope, the Devil, and the Pre- 

 tender — Wandering Jew— Hallett and Dr. Saxby — 

 " My mind to me a kingdom is " — Claret — Suicide at 

 Marseilles — Etymology of Slang — Scanderbeg's Sword 



— Arago on the Weather — Rathe — Carr Pedigree — 

 Banbury Cakes — Detached Belfry Towers, &c. - 607 



Miscellaneous : — 



Notes on Books, &c. ----- 513 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted - - . - 514 



Notices to Correspondents - - _ - 514 



Advertisements- ------ 514 



V0L.VII. — No. 186. 



LORD bacon's " ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING." 



Considering the large number of quotations from 

 previous writers which occur in Lord Bacon's 

 works, and especially in his most popular and 

 generally read works — his Essays and his Ad- 

 vancement of Learning — it is remarkable how 

 little his editors have done for the illustration of 

 his text in this respect. The French editors of 

 Montaigne's Essays, who is likewise a writer 

 abounding in quotations, have bestowed much 

 care on this portion of their author's text. The 

 defect in question has, however, been to a great 

 extent supplied in a recent edition of the Ad- 

 vancement of Learning, published by Mr. Parker 

 in West Strand ; and it is to be hoped that the 

 beginning, so usefully made, may be followed up 

 by similar editions of other of Bacon's works. 



The edition in question, though it traces the 

 great majority of Bacon's quotations, has left some 

 gleanings to its successors ; and I propose now to 

 call attention to a few passages of the Advance- 

 ment of Learning ■which, after the labours of the 

 late editor, seem still to require further elucid- 

 ation. My references are to the pages of the new 

 edition : — 



P. 25. " Then grew the flowing and watery vein of 

 Osorius the Portugal bishop to be in price." 



The editor prints Orosius for Osorius, and adds 

 this note : 



" All the editions have Osorius, which, however, 

 must be a mere misprint. He was not a Portuguese, 

 but a Spaniard, born at Tarragona, nor indeed ever a 

 bishop. He was sent by St. Augustine on a mission 

 to Jerusalem, and is supposed to have died in .'\frica 

 in the earlier part of the fifth century." 



The text of Bacon is quite right. The allusion is 

 not to Paulas Orosius, a Spaniard, who flourit-hed 

 at the beginning of the fifth century ; but to Jerome 

 Osorio, who was born at Lisbon in 1506, after- 

 wards became Bishop of Silves, and died in 1580. 

 His works were published at Rome in 1592, in 

 4 vols, folio. His principal work, De rehus Ema- 

 nuelis Virtute et Auspicio gestis, which first appeared 

 in 1571, was several times reprinted, and was 

 translated into French and English. 



