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CONTENTS. 



KOTHS : — Page 



Party-Similes of the Seventeenth Century: — No. 1. 

 " Foxes and Firebrands." No. 2. " The Trojan 



Horse" 485 



Testimonials to Donkeys, by Cuthbert Bede, B.A. - 438 

 Longevity in Cleveland, Yorkshire, by William Durrant 



Cooper -.-.--. 48S 

 Eev. Josiah PuUen - - - - - 489 



Folk Lore : — Ancient Custom in Warwickshire — 

 Nottinghamshire Customs ... - 490 



MiNon Notes : — A Centenarian Couple — " Veni, 

 vidi, vici " — Autumnal Tints — Variety is pleasing — 

 Rome and the Number Six — Zend Grammar — The 

 Uuke's First Victory — Straw Paper — American 

 Epitaph - - - - - - - 490 



QcEniEs : — 



Laurie (?) on Currency, &c. - - - - 491 



"Donatus Redivivus" ----- 492 



Minor Queries : — Henry Scobell — The Court House 



— Ash-troes attract Lightning — Symbol of Sow, &c. 



— Passage in Blackwood — : Rathband Family — 

 Encaustic Tiles from Caen — Artificial Drainage — 

 Storms at the Death of Great Men — Motto on Wyl- 

 cotes' Brass — " Trail through the leaden sky," &c. — 

 Lord Aiidley's Attendants at Poictiers — Roman 

 Catholic Bible Society - - - - - 493 



jMiNOR Queries with Answers: — "Vox Populi Vox 

 Dei" — " Lanqueltes Cronicles " — "Our English 

 Milo " — "Delights for Ladies" — Barton's Death 



— Joannes Audoenus — Hampden's Death - - 494 



" Pinece with a Slink,"by W. Pinkerton, &c. - 

 Monumental Brasses abroad, by Josiah Cato 

 Milton's" Lycidas," by C. Mansfield Ingleby 

 School Libraries, by Weld Taylor and G. Brindley 



Acworth ----.-". 

 Cawdray's " Treasurie of Similies," and Simile of 



Magnetic Needle, by Rev. E. C. Harington, &c. 

 ■" Mary, weep no more for me," by J. W. Thomas 



JPhotographic Correspondence : — Clouds in Pho- 

 tographs — Albumenized Paper — Stereoscoj>ic An- 

 gles — Photographic Copies of MSS. . - - 



JReplies to Minor Queriks: — Lord Cecil's "Memo- 

 rials" — Foreign Medical Education — Encyclopaedias 

 — Pepys's Grammar — " Antiquitas Saiculi Juventus 

 Mundi " — Napoleon's Spelling — Black as a mourning 

 Colour — Chanting of Jurors — Aldress — Huggins 

 and Muggins — Camera Lucida — " When Orpheus 

 ■went down "—The Arms of De Sissono— Oaths of 

 Pregnant Women — Lepel's Regiment — Editions of 

 the Prayer Book prior to 1GG2 — Creole— Daughter 

 pronounced " Dafter " _ Richard Geering — Island - 



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Vol. VIIL— Ko. 212. 



PARTY-SIMILES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY : 



NO. I. " FOXES AND FIREBRANDS." NO. U. " THE 

 TROJAN HORSE." 



With Englishmen, at least, the seventeenth was 

 a century pre-eminent for quaint conceits and 

 fantastic similes : the literature of that period, 

 whether devotional, poetical, or polemical*, was 

 alike infected with the universal mania for strained 

 metaphors, and men vied with each other in giving 

 extraordinary titles to books, and making the con- 



* Dr. Eachard, in his work on The Grounds and 

 Occasions of the Contempt of the Clergy and lieligion 

 inquired into, London, 1712, after ably showing up the 

 pedantry of some preachers, next attacks the " indis- 

 creet and horrid Metaphor Mongers." " Another thing 

 that brings great disrespect and mischief upon the 

 clergy ... is their packing their sermons so full of 

 similitudes" (p. 41.). Eachard has a museum of curi- 

 osities in this line. The Puritan Pulpit, however, far 

 outstrips even the incredible nonsense and irreverence 

 which he adduces. Let any one curious in such matters 

 dip into a collection of Scotch Sermons of the seven- 

 teenth century. Sir W. Scott, in some of his works, has 

 endeavoured to give a faint idea of the extraordinary 

 way in which passages of Holy Scripture were applied 

 in the same century. I have a very curious book of 

 soliloquies, which unfortunately wants the title-page. 

 From internal evidence, however, it appears to have been 

 written in Ireland in the seventeenth century : the writer 

 signs himself" P. P." The editor of this little 12mo., 

 in " An Epistle to the Reader," after reprehending 

 "the wits of our times" for "quibbling and drolling 

 upon the Bible," says immediately after: — "This 

 author's innocent abuse of Scripture is so far from coun- 

 tenancing, that it rather shames and condemns that 

 licentious and abominable practice. Nor can we admit 

 of the most useful allusions without that harmless 

 (nay lielpful and advantageous) Karaxpr}<^ts, cr abuse 

 here practised ; wherein the words are indeed used to 

 another, but yet to a Holy end and purpose, besides that 

 for which they were at first instituted and intended." 

 The most reverend of our readers must need smile, 

 were I to give a specimen of this "innocent abuse." 



"While noticing the false wit which passed current in 

 that century, we must not forget that the same age 

 produced a South and a Butler : and tliat in beauty of 

 simile, few, if any, surpass Bishop Jeremy Taylor, 



