Dec. 17. 1853.] 



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plainer conclusion that when she lived with 

 Halifax, or whatever other arrangement they 

 made, a position which is said to have occurred 

 between 1700 and the time of Halifax's death 

 in 1715, she was really Mrs. Conduit, and not 

 Catherine Barton. And thus we are brought 

 to think that if there is any private marriage in 

 the case, it is between the lady and Mr. Conduit ; 

 at all events she went back to her husband, if the 

 watch is true. 



As to an apology for Newton, I look upon it 

 in a very different light : first, I should say he had 

 no clear right to interfere in the matter, as the 

 lady was married ; and supposing he had, he could 

 have done no more than expostulate. He lived 

 in a world of his own studies, and did not choose 

 to be interrupted by quarrels and scandals. And 

 it is certainly a proper addition to say, that the 

 public morals of that age are not to be judged by 

 the present standard. All these account very 

 well for Newton's silence on the subject ; but to 

 settle the matter, some search might be made in 

 the registers of the parishes where they resided, in 

 order that the subject may be fully explained. 



Weld Taylor. 



INSCRIPTIONS IN BOOKS. 



(Vol. viii. pp. 64. 153. 472.) 



In the famous Rouen Missal, called St. Guthlac's 

 book, is the following inscription in the handwrit- 

 ing of Robert, Bishop of London, and afterwards 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, who was formerly head 

 of the monastery of Jumieges, to which the book 

 belonged, and where, in 1053, he died : 



" Quem si quis vi vel dolo seu quoquo modo Jsti 

 loco subtraxerit, animae suae propter quod feccrit de- 

 trimentum patiatur, atque de libro viventium deleatur, 

 et cum justis non scribatur." 



John Grollier had on all his books inscribed : 



" Portio mea, domine, sit in terra viventium ; " 



and underneath : 



" lo. Grollierii et Amicorum." 



Henry de Rantzan wrote a decree for his 

 library, of which here is the fulminatory clause : 

 " Libros partem ne allquam abstulerit, 

 Extraxerit, clepserit, rapserlt, 

 Concerpserit, corruperit, 



Dolo malo, 

 Illico maledictus, 

 Perpetuo execrabilis, 

 Semper detestabilis, 



Esto, maneto." 



See Dlbdin's bibliographical works. J. S. 



Norwich. 



The two following are copied from the origiTwls 

 written in the ily-leaf of Brathwayte's Panedoney 



or Health from Helicon, pub. 1621, in my posses- 

 sion : 



1. 

 " Whose book I am if you would know. 

 In letters two I will you show : 

 The first is J, llie most of might, 

 The next is M, in all men's sight ; 

 Join these two letters discreetly. 

 And you will know my name thereby. 



Jas. Morret.*^ 

 2. 



'• Philip Morrey is my name, 

 And with my pen I write the same ; 

 Tho' had such pen been somewhat better, 

 I could have mended every letter." 



Cestribnsis, 



On the fly-leaf of Theophila, or Love's Sacrifice^ 

 a divine poem by E. B., Esq., London, 1652, I find 

 the following rare morsel : 



•' Mr. James Tinker, 

 Rector of St. Andrews, Droitwich. 



" Father Tinker, when you are dead. 

 Great parts a long wir you are fled, 

 O that they wor conferred on mee, 

 Which would ad unto God's glory." 



The subject of the above laudation flourished in- 

 tbe early part of the last century. 

 In a Geneva Bible, date 1596 : 



" Thomas Haud : his booke : 

 God giue him grace theare on to looke : 

 And if my pen it had bin better, 

 I would haue mend it euery letter. 

 1693." 



R. C. Wabde. 

 Kidderminster. 



German Book Inscription. — You have not yet^ 

 I think, had a German boek-inscription : allow me 

 to send you the following out of an old Faustf 

 bought last year at Antwerp : 



" Dieses "Buch ist mir lieb, 

 Wer es stielt ist ein Dieb; 

 Mag er heissen Herr oder Knecht, 

 Hangen ist sein verdientes Recht." 



Underneath is the usual picture of the gallowa- 

 tree and its fruit. Iseldunensis.^ 



PRAYING TO THE WEST. 



(Vol. viii., p. 343. &c.) 



The setting sun and the darkness of evening has 

 been immemorially connected with death, just as 

 the rising orb and the light of morning with life. 

 In Sophocles (CEdipus Rex, 179.), Pluto is called 

 eWepos ei6s; and the "Oxford translation" has the 

 following note on the line : 



'• In Lysia's Oration against Andocides is this pas- 

 sage : To expiate this pollution (the mutilation of the 



