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painter, Watts, has painted for my brother, Lord 

 Holland, a portrait of another distinguished 

 Italian, Mr. Panizzi, and pendant to the former. 

 He is represented leaning forward and writing, 

 and the likeness is very striking. C. Fox. 



Addison Road. 



Passage in Sophocles. — In Vol. viii., p. 73., ap- 

 pears an article by Mr. Bdckton, in which he 

 quotes the following conclusion of a passage in 

 Sophocles : 



""Orif (ppeya? 

 ©ehs &yei irpbj &Tav 

 Tlpdaaeiv 5' oMyoffrhv XP^vv eKrhs dras." 



This, TTfTp^ .(TTdd/x7]v apixd^iov, he translates, — 



" Whose mind the God leads to destruction ; but that 

 he (the God) practises this a short time without destroy- 

 ing such an one." 



But for the Italics it might have been an over- 

 sight : they would seem to imply he has some 

 authority for his translation. I have no edition 

 of Sophocles by me to discover, but surely no 

 critical scholar can acquiesce in it. The only 

 active sense of -irpdcrcTeiv I remember at the moment 

 is to exact. It surely should be translated, " And 

 he, lohom the God so leads to &Tr), fares a very short 

 time without it." The best translation of ^rrj is, 

 perhaps, infatuation. Moreover, how is the above 

 translation reconciled with the very superlative 

 oXiyoffTov ? M. 



Brothers of the same Name (Vol. viii., p. 338.). 

 —It is not unusual in old pedigrees to find two 

 brothers or two sisters with the same Christian 

 name ; but it is unusual to find more than two 

 living at the same time with only one Christian 

 name between them : this, however, occurs in the 

 family of Gawdy of Gawdy Hall, Norfolk. Thos. 

 Gawdy married three wives, and by each had a son 

 Thomas. The eldest was a serjeant-at-law, and 

 died in 1556. The second was a judge of the 

 Queen's Bench, and died in November, 1587 or 

 1588. The third is known as Sir Francis Gawdy, 

 Chief Justice of the Common Pleas ; but he also 

 was baptized by the name of Thomas. Lord Coke, 

 who succeeded him as Chief Justice, says (Co. Lit. 

 3. a.) : 



" If a man be baptized by the name of Thomas, and 

 after at his confirmation by the bishop he is named 

 John, he may purchase by his name of confirmation ; 

 and this was the case of Sir Francis Gawdie, late C. J. 

 of C. B., whose name of baptism was Thomas, and his 

 name of confirmation Francis; and that name of Francis, 

 by the advice of all the judges in anno 36 Henry VIII. 

 (1544-5), he did bear and after used in all his pur- 

 chases and grants." 



The opportunity afforded by the Roman Catho- 

 lic Church of thus changing the baptismal name 



may help to account for this practice, which pro- 

 bably arose from a desire to continue the particular 

 name in the family. If one of two sons with the 

 same name of baptism died in childhood, the other 

 continued the name : if both lived, one of them 

 might change his name at confirmation. There is 

 no name given at confirmation according to the 

 form of the Church of England. F. B. 



High Dutch and Low Dutch (Vol. viii., p. 413.). 

 — Considerable misapprehension appears to have 

 arisen with regard to these expressions, from the 

 fact of the German word Deutsch being some- 

 times erroneously understood to mean Dutch. 

 But German scholars very well know that in 

 Germany nothing is more common than to speak 

 of Hoch Deutsch and Nieder Deutsch (High Ger- 

 man and Low German), as applied respectively to 

 that language when grammatically spoken and 

 correctly pronounced, and to the bad grammar 

 and worse pronunciation indulged in by many of 

 tlie provincials, and also by the lower class of 

 people in some of the towns where High German 

 is supposed to prevail. Thus, for example, Dresden 

 is regarded as the head-quarters of Hoch Deutsche 

 because there the language is spoken and pro- 

 nounced with the most purity : Berlin, also, as 

 regards the well-educated classes, boasts of the 

 Hoch Deutsch; but the common people (das 

 Volk) of the Prussian capital indulge in a dialect 

 called Nieder Deutsch, and speak and pronounce 

 the language as though they were natives of some 

 remote province. Now, the instance of Berlin 

 I take to be a striking illustration of the meaning 

 of these expressions, as both examples are com- 

 prised in the case of this city. 



The German word for " German " is Deutsch ; 

 for "Dutch" the German is Holldndisch ; and I 

 presume it is from the similarity of Deutsch and 

 Dutch that this common error is so frequently 

 committed. For the future let it be remembered, 

 that Dutch is a term which has no relation what- 

 ever to German; and that "High German" is 

 that language spoken and written in its purity, 

 " Low German " all the dialects and mispronun- 

 ciations which do not come up to the standard of 

 correctness. James Spence Harry. 



8. Arthur Street. 



Translations of the Prayer Book into French 

 (Vol. vii., p. 382. ; Vol. viii., p. 343.). — Besides 

 the editions already mentioned, a 4to. one was 

 published at London in 1689, printed by R. 

 Everingham, and sold by R. Bentley and M. 

 Magnes. Prefixed to it is the placet of the king, 

 dated 6th October, 1662, with the subsequent 

 approbation of Stradling, chaplain to Gilbert 

 (Sheldon), Bishop of London, dated 6 th April, 

 1663. 



It seems (" N. & Q.," Vol. vii., p. 92.) that a 



