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CONTENTS. 



Page 

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Baron's Essaj-s, by Markby - - . . 



Bishop Burnet, H. Wharton, and Smith - 

 Early Philadelphia Directories .... 

 Shakspeare Correspondence .... 



Mottos of the Emperors of Germany, by Joshua G 

 Fitch ..-.-.. 



Poems by Miss Delaval - . - - . 



Minor Notes:— The Rights of Women — Green Pots 

 used for drinking from by Members of the Temple — 

 Quarles and Pascal — Offer to intending Editors — 

 Head-dress - - - - - - 171 



<Jleries : — 



Minor Qukiues :— Fox-hunting — Broderie Anglaise — 

 " Tlie Convent," an Elegy — Memorial of Newton — 

 Mammon — Derivation of'Wellesley — The Battle of 

 Cruden : a Query for Copenhagen Correspondents — 

 Ampers and — Tlie Myrtle Bee — Henry Earl of 

 Wotton — Connexion between the Celtic and Latin 

 Languages — Queen Anne's Motto — Anonymous 

 Books - - 172 



Minor Queries with Answers : — Major Andre — 

 "The Fatal Jlistake " — Anonymous Plays — High 

 Commission Court - _ - - - 174 



■Kepliks:- 



Rosicrucians ....... 175 



Searson's Poems ...... 176 



" From tlie Sublime to the Ridiculous," &c., by Henry 



H. Breen 177 



Passage in the Burial Service, by Geo. A. Treyor and 

 Jolin Booker ...... 177 



Patrick's Purgatory, by William Blood - . .178 



Lord William Russell ..... 179 



■Oaken Tombs, &c. - - . - . .179 



"" Could we with ink," &c., by the Kev. Moses Margo- 

 liouth, &c. ...... 180 



J'hotographic Correspondence :— Washing or not 

 washing Collodion Pictures after developing, previous 

 to fixing — Stereoscopic Angles — Sisson's Developing 

 Solution - - - . . . - 181 



Heplies to Minor Queries : — Robert Drury— Real 

 Signatures versus Pseudo-Names — Lines on the In. 



stitution of the Garter — " Short red, God red," &c 



Martha Blount — Longevity — Its — Oldham, Bishop 

 of Exeter — Boom — Lord North — Dutch Pottery — 

 Cranmer's Correspondences — Portable Altars— Poem 

 attributed to Shelley — Lady Percy, Wife of Hotspur 

 (Daughter of Edmund Mortimer, Earl of March) — 

 " Up, guards, and at them ! " — Pennycomequick — 

 •Captain Booth of Stockport — " Hurrah," ^c De- 

 tached Belfrv Towers —Blotting-paper — Riddles for 

 the Post-Office — Mulciber . - . - 181 



3I1SCELLANEOUS : 



Notes on Books, &c. 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 



Notices to Correspondents 



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YoL. Vlir. — No. 199. 



bacon's essays, by markby. 

 (^Continued from Vol. viii., p. 144.) 



Essay XXIX. Of the true Greatness of King- 

 doms. — 



"The speech of Themistocles."] See Plut. 

 Them. 2., Cimon, 9. 



" Negotiis pares."] An expression of Tacitus. 

 In Ann. vi. 39., he says of Poppaeus Sabinus : 

 " Maximis provinces per quatuor et viginti annos 

 impositus ; nuUam ob eximiam artem, sed quod 

 par negotiis neque supra erat." Again, in Ann. xvi. 

 18. of C. Petronius : " Pi-oconsul liithynia?, et mox 

 consul, vigentem se ac parem negotiis ostendit." 



"As Virgil saith, 'It never troubles the wolf 

 how many the sheep be.' " j Lord Bacon, as Mr, 

 Markby observes, evidently alludes to the follow- 

 ing vei-ses of Eclogue vii. : 



" Hie tantum Boreae curamus frigora, quantum 

 Aut numerum lupus, aut torrentia flumiiia ripas." 



The meaning is, however, doubtless correctly ex- 

 plained by Heyne : " Ut numerato pecori parcat." 

 " Quia solam considerat lupus prajdam," says Ser- 

 vius. The sense of the passage is, that after the 

 shepherd has " told his tale," after he has counted 

 his sheep, the wolf does not care how much he de- 

 ranges the reckoning. 



For the advice of Parmenio to attack Darius by 

 night, and the refusal of Alexander to steal the 

 victory, see Arrian, Exp. Alex. iii. 10. ; Plut. 

 Alex. 31., Curt. iv. 13. 



" Neither is money the sinews of war, as It is 

 trivially said."] " Nervi belli, pecunia infinita," 

 Cic. Phil. V. 2. Machiavel, like Bacon, questions 

 the truth of this dictum. Disc. ii. 10. 



" Solon said well to Crasus (when in ostentation 

 he showed him his gold), ' Sir, if any other come 

 that hath better iron than you, he will be master 

 of all this gold.' "] This saying is not in Herodotus, 

 or in Plutarch's Life of Solon. Query, In what 

 ancient author is it to be found ? 



"Even as you may see in coppice-woods; if 

 you leave your staddles too thick, you shall never 

 have clean underwood, but shrubs and bushes."] 

 The same illustration is used by Lord Bacon, ia 



