July 23. 1853.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



89 



first plate is the name of the engraver, " C. Boel 

 fecit." Each engraving has a motto, with verses 

 in Latin, Italian, and French. Recommendatory 

 verses, by Hugo Grotius, Daniel Heinsius, Max. 

 Vrientius, Ph. Rubentius, and Petro Benedetti, 

 are prefixed. It appears from Rose's Biographical 

 Dictionary (article "Van Veen'"), that Vcnius 

 published another illustrated work. The Seven 

 Ticin Sons of Lara. Is this work known ? 



Horace AValpole did not appreciate Venius. He 

 says: 



« The perplexed and silly emblems of Venius are 

 well known." — Anecdotes of Painting, vol. ii. p. 167. 



The Emblems of Gabriele Rollenhagius (of 

 "which I have also a copy) consist of two centuries. 

 The engravings are circular, with a motto round 

 each, and Latin verses at foot. My edition was 

 published at Utrecht, mdcxiii. 



I write rather in the hope of eliciting inform- 

 ation, than of attempting to give any, on a subject 

 which appears to me to deserve farther inquiry. 



Q.D. 



Campvei'e, Privileges of (Vol. vii., pp. 262. 440.). 

 — Will your contributors J. D. S. and J. L. oblige 

 me with references to the works in which these 

 privileges are mentioned ? 



They will find them noticed also at pages 67. 

 and 68. of the second volume of L. Guicciardini's 

 Belgium (ed. 1 646) : " Jiis Gruis lihercBr This 

 is mentioned as one of the privileges of Campvere. 

 Can any of your legal friends tell me what this is, 

 and where I may find it treated of? E. 



Slang Expressions : " Jtist the Cheese " (Vol. vii., 

 p. 617.). — This phrase is only some ten or 

 twelve years old. Its origin was this : — Some des- 

 perate witty fellows, by way of giving a comic 

 turn to the phrase " C'est une autre chose," used 

 to translate it, " That is another cheese ; " and after 

 awhile these words became " household words," 

 and when anything positive or specific was in- 

 tended to be pointed out, " That's the cheese " be- 

 came adopted, which is nearly synonymous with 

 " Just the cheese." Astolpho. 



The Honorable Miss E. St. Leger (Vol. vii., 

 p. 598.). — Perhaps your correspondent Mr. 

 Bbeen may like to be informed that the late 

 General the Honorable Arthur St. Leger related 

 to me the account of his relative having been made 

 a master mason, and that she had secreted herself 

 in an old clock-case in Doneraile House, on pur- 

 pose to learn the secrets of the lodge, but was dis- 

 covered from having coughed. The Rev. Richard 

 Arthur St. Leger, of Starcross, Devon, has an en- 

 graving of the lady, who is represented arrayed in 

 all the costume of a master mason, with the apron, 

 ring, and jewel of the order. W. Colltns. 



Harbow. 



Queries from the Navorscher (Vol. vii., p. 595.). 

 — " The Choice of Hercules," in the Tatter, was 

 written by Addison ; Swift did not contribute 

 more than one article to that publication, a treatise 

 on " Improprieties of Language." The allegory of 

 " Religion being the Foundation of Contentment" 

 in the Adventurer, was the work of Hawkesworth, 

 to whose pen most of those papers are attributable. 



" Amentium hand amantium." — The alliteration 

 of this passage in the Andria of Terence is some- 

 what difficult to preserve in English ; perhaps to 

 render it 



" An act oi frenzy rather ih&n friendship," 



would keep up the pun, though a weak translation, 

 bringing to mind the woi'ds of the song : 



" O call it by some other name, 

 Foi friendship is too cold." 



In French the expression might be turned "folle- 

 ment plutot que folatrement," although this is a 

 fault on the other side, and a stronger word than 

 the original. T. O. M. 



" Pity is akin to love " (Vol. i., p. 248.). — 

 Though a long time has elnpsed since the birth- 

 place of these words was queried, no answer has, 

 I think, appeared in your columns. Will you then 

 allow me to refer H. to Southern's Oroonoko, 

 ActlL Sc. 1.? 



" Blandford. Alas ! I pity you. 



Oroonoko, Do pity me ; 

 Pity's akin to love, and every thought 

 Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul. 

 I would be pity'd here." 



W. T. M. 

 Hong Kong. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Our library table is covered at this time with books 

 for all classes of readers. The theological student will 

 peruse with no ordinary interest the learned Disserta- 

 tion on the Origin and Cotinexion of the Gospels, with a 

 Synopsis of the Parallel Passages in the Original and 

 Authorised Version, and Critical Notes, by James Smith, 

 Esq., of Jordan Hill : and when he has mastered the 

 arguments contained in it, he may turn to the new 

 number of The Journal of Sacred Literature, in which 

 will be found a great variety of able papers. Our 

 antiquarian friends will be gratified with a volume 

 compiled in a great measure from original family 

 papers, by its author Mr. Bankes, the Member for 

 Dorsetshire; and which narrates The Story of Corfe 

 Castle, and of many who have lived there, collected from 

 Ancient Chronicles and Records ; also from the Private 

 Memoirs of a Family resident there in the Time of the 

 Civil Wars. The volume, which is with good feeling 

 inscribed by the author to his friends and neighbours. 

 Members of the Society for Mutual Improvement in 

 the borough of Corfe Castle, contains many interesting 



