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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 216. 



Spurioris Don Quixote. — What English and 

 French versions are there of the spurious con- 

 tinuation of Don Quixote by Avellaneda ? 



V. T. Sternberg. 



[A notice of the English translations is given in 

 Lowndes's Bib. Man., vol. i. p. 374., art. Cervantes. 

 Consult also Ebert's Bibl. Diet., vol. i. p. 29!>., for the 

 French translations.] 



PBONUNCIA-TION OF HEBREW NAMES AND WORDS 

 IN THE BIBLE. 



(Vol. viii., p. 469.) 



Your correspondent does not, of course, inquire 

 what is the proper Hebrew pronunciation of the 

 several letters, but rather what is the accented 

 syllable in each word. To pronounce in a manner 

 nearly approaching to the Hebrew might make 

 the congregation stare, but would appear very 

 pedantic to a learned ear. The safest mode is to 

 examine the Greek of the Septuagint, not of the 

 New Testament (if the reader does not under- 

 stand Hebrew), and observe the place of the acute 

 accent. On that place, if it be on the penultimate 

 or antepenultimate, the accent should be laid in 

 English. But if the accent be on the last syllable, 

 though it is strictly right to place it there also in 

 English, it is not worth while to do so, for fear of 

 making hearers talk about a strange sound, in- 

 stead of attending to the service. It will be safer 

 to accent the penultimate in dissyllables, and the 

 antepenultimate in trisyllables, which in the Greek 

 are acutitones ; in fact, to pronounce, as all cler- 

 gymen used to pronounce, until a pedantic and 

 ignorant practice arose of lengthening, or rather 

 accenting, every syllable in the penultimate, which 

 had or was supposed to have a long quantity in 

 Greek. Hence the comparatively new habit of 

 pronouncing 'S.aSadd, Za€ov\c!>y, ffaSax^avi, A«e\5a,uo, 

 with a strong accent on the penultima ; whereas 

 the old-fashioned way of accenting the antepenul- 

 tima makes no one stare, and is a much nearer 

 approach to the true pronunciation. There is a 

 curious inconsistency in the common way of read- 

 ing, In English, Sa^apeta and Kaurapeia. Samaria 

 is decidedly a Greek word ; but yet, in this word, 

 it is usual to accent the antepenultima. Cesarea 

 is decidedly a Latin word Grsecised, and yet it is 

 usual to read this with an accent on the ante- 

 penultima. I never observed any of those who 

 read Sabaoth, Zabulon, and sabachthani, read 

 either Samaria or Cesarea. The Greek accents 

 on Hebrew words always accord, as Hebraists 

 know, with the tonic accent in that language. 



E. C. H. 



As a contribution to the desii'able object of 

 settling the pronunciation of the words mentioned, 



the following representation of their pronunciation 

 in the originals is offered. The vowels are to be 

 read as in Italian, the tk as in English, and the 

 hh as ch in German : 



Hebrew. Saha.oih = tsi-vd-uth. 



Hebrew. [The]Moriah = {ham-lmo-ri-yah. 



Syriac. Aceldama = JiM-kal-di-md. 

 Syro-Chaldee. Eli Eli lamma sabachthani = 



e-li ell Idm-md sa-bahh-ta-ni, as in Matthew ; or 



e-lo-hi, as in Mark. 



Chaldee. Abednego = d-ved ni-go. 



The conventional pronunciation given by Walker 

 is perhaps best adapted to English ears, which 

 would be quite repulsed by an attempt to restore 

 the ancient pronunciation of such familiar words, 

 for instance, as Jacob, Isaac, Job, and Jeremiah. 



T. J. BUCKTOW. 



Licjifield. 



LORD HALIFAX AND CATHERINE BARTON. 



(Vol. viii., pp. 429. 543.) 



One has some doubt, in reading Professor De 

 Morgan's article on the above subject, what in- 

 ference is to be drawn from it. If it is to prove 

 a private marriage between Halifax and Mrs. 

 Barton, on the strength of the date on the watch 

 at the Royal Society being falsified, it is a failure. 

 I have examined that watch since Professor De 

 Morgan published his Note, and can testify most 

 decidedly that, if anything, the Inscription is older 

 than the case, nor is there a vestige of anything 

 like unfair alteration ; and any one accustomed to 

 engraving would arrive at the same conclusion. 

 The outside case is beautifully chased in Louis 

 Quatorze style : but the Inner case, on which the 

 inscription is graven, has no need of such elaborate 

 work, nor is such work ever introduced on the 

 Inside of watches ; they are Invariably smooth. 



And all that Is noticeable In the present instance 

 is, that the writing has lost the sharpness of the 

 graver by use, or returning It into its case; or 

 more probably the case has not been used at all, 

 being cumbersome and set aside as a curious work 

 of art, which indeed it is. 



The date on the watch is 1708, and Professor 

 De Morgan states that Mrs. Barton was married 

 In 1718; the watch therefore denies this; but 

 when she married Conduit ought, If possible, to 

 be found out by register, which might prove the 

 watch date untrue ; but the watch declares she 

 was Mrs. Conduit in 1708. She was then of course 

 twenty-eight years of age : thus we come to a 



