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CONTENTS. 



Hacon's Essays, by Marliljy 

 Tlie Isllimus of Panama 



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Folk I,ore: — I>egends of the County Ciare — Moon 

 Superstitions — Warwickshire Folk Lore — Northamp- 

 tonsliire Folk Lore — Slow-worm Superstition — A 

 Devonshire Charm for the Thrush ... 1 15 



Books and Odd Volumes wanted 

 Xoticps to Correspondents 

 Advertisements 



147 



Old Jokes 



An Interpolation of the Players : Tobacco, by W. Robson 



Minor Notes: — Curious Epitaph — Enigmatical Epi- 

 taph — Books worthy to be reprinted — Napoleon's 

 Thunderstorm — Istamboul: Constantinople. 



Jur.r.iES : — 



Stnit-stowers, and Yeathers or Yadders, by C. H. 



Cooper ....... 



Minor Queuies : — Archbishop Parker's Correspon- 

 dence — Amor Nummi — The Number Nine — Position 

 of Font — Aix Ruochim or Uoinans loner — " Lessons 

 for Lent," &c. — " La Branche des rCaus Lignages " — 

 Marriage Service — " Czar " or " Tsar " — Little 

 Silver — On iEsop's (?) Fable of washing the Blacka- 

 )noor — Wedding Proverb — German Phrase — Ger- 

 man Heraldry — Leman Family — A Cob-wall — Inscrip- 

 tion near Chalcedon — Domesday Book — Dotinchem 

 — " Mirrour to all," &c — Title wanted — Portrait 

 of Charles L : Countess Du Barry ... 



Minor Queries with Answers: — "Preparation for 

 Martyrdom" — Reference wanted — Speaker of the 

 House of Commons in 1G97 .... 



Inscriptions in Books ..... 153 



The Drummer's Letter, by Henry H. Breen . . 153 



Old Fogies - - - - . - .154 



Descendants of John of Gaunt, by William Hardy • 155 



Photographic Corresfondencr : — Lining of Cameras 



— Cyanuret of Potassium — Minuteness of Detail on 

 Paper — Stereoscopic Angles — SIsson's developing 

 Solution — Multiplying Photographs — Is it dangerous 



to use tiie Ammonio-nitrate of Silver ? . . 157 



Eeplies to H'inor Queriks : — Burke's Marriage 



Stars and Flowers — Odour from the Rainbow 



Judges styled Reverend — Jacob Bobart — " Putting 

 your foot into it" —Simile of the Soul and the Mag- 

 netic Needle — The Tragedy of Polidus — Robert 



Fairlie — " Mater ait natse," &c Sir John Vanbrugh 



— -Fct3 des Chandrons — Murder of Monaldeschi — 

 Land of Green Ginger— Unneath — Snail Gardens — 

 Parvise — Humbug — Table-moving — Scotch News- 

 papers — Door. head Inscriptions — Honorary Degrees 



— •' Never ending, still beginning" ... 



Miscellaneous : 



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Vot.VIIT. — No. 198. 



bacon's ESSAYS, BY MASKEY. 



Mr. Markby has recently published bis promised 

 edition of Bacon's Essays; and he has in this, as 

 in his edition of the Advancement of Learning, 

 successfully traced most of the passages alluded to 

 by Lord Bacon. The following notes relate to a 

 few points which still deserve attention : 



Essay I. On Truth : — " The poet that beauti- 

 fied the sect that was otherwise inferior to the 

 rest."] By "beautified" is here meant "set off to 

 advantage," " embellished." 



Essay II. On Death. — 



Many of the thoughts in the Essaj/s recur in 

 the " Exempla Antithetorum," in the 6th book 

 De Augmeiitis Scientiarum.. AVith respect (o this 

 Essay, compare the article "Vita," Ko. 12., in 

 vol. viii. p. 360. ed. Montagu. 



" You shall read in some of the friars' books 

 of mortification, that a man should think with 

 himself what the pain is, if he have but his finger's 

 end pressed or tortured, and thereby imagine what 

 the pains of death are when the whole body is cor- 

 rupted and dissolved."] Query, What books are 

 here alluded to ? 



" Pompa mortis magis terret, quam mors ipsa."] 

 Mr. Markby thinks these words are an allusion 

 to Sen. Ep. xxiv. § 13. Something similar also 

 occurs in Ep. xiv. § 3. Compare Ovid, Hcroid. 

 X. 82. : " Morsque minus poenas quam mora mor- 

 tis habet." 



" Galba, with a sentence, ' Fori si ex re sit populi 

 Romani.'"] In addition to the passage of Tacitus, 

 quoted by Mr. Markby, see Sueton. Galb. c. 20. 



" Septimus Severus in despatch, ' Adeste si quid 

 mihi restat agendum.' "] No such dying words are 

 attributed to Severus, either in Dio Cassius, 

 Ixxvi. 15., the passage cited by Mr. Markby, or 

 in Spartian. Sever, c. 23. 



In the passage of Juvenal, the words are, " qui 

 spatium vita?," and not " qui finem vita;," as quoted 

 by J.ord Bacon. Length of life is meant. 



Essay III. Of Unity in Religion. — 

 " Certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons."] 

 The allusion is to Rev. iii. 14 — 16. 



