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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 284. 



tion on the four sides of this picture will afford a 

 good specimen of the language and style of the 

 book. It is as follows : 



" O Maria du gottes tempel, 

 Aller tugentem war exempel, 

 Gar vil sunder waren verdorben 

 Hat test dum nit grad erworben 

 Welch mensch dich taglich eren tilt 

 Der wUrdet vor iibel wol behiit 

 Darumb ich mein gebet zu dir send 

 Maria hilff mir an meine end. Amen." 



F. C. H. 



" For Moheresoeer I turn" Sfc. (Vol. xi., p. 225.). 



— Addison's letter from Italy, vv. 9 — 1 2. 



E. C. H. 



Genealogical and Historical Society (Vol. xl., 

 p. 187.). — The idea of establishing a genealo- 

 gical society, as suggested by a correspondent in 

 your tenth volume, and about which Y. S. M. 

 makes inquiry, has been carried out ; and a So- 

 ciety for the Compilation and Illustration of 

 Family History, Lineage, and Biography has 

 been some time established. 



The council has on it several noblemen and 

 gentlemen of old family and influence ; and I beg 

 to refer Y. S. M. and other readers interested in 

 the subject to the secretary, at the Society's office, 

 No. 18. Charles Street, St. James's Square. 



G. H. S. 



St. Cuthbert (Vol. ii., p. 325. ; Vol. xi., p. 173.). 



— The Rev. James Rame, the able historian of 

 H'orth Durham, published, soon after the dis- 

 covery of 1827, a most interesting volume, Entitled 

 St. Cuthbert; in which he has drawn together 

 from the ancient records of the Cathedral of Dur- 

 ham and other sources, a very valuable mass of 

 materials respecting his life, relics, &c., illustrated 

 with engravings of the curious articles found in 

 1827. See also Hodgson's History of Northumber- 

 land, part ii. vol. ii. p. 132. W. C. Tbeveltan. 



Athenaeum. 



Grafts and the Parent Tree (Vol. vil., pp. 261. 

 365. 436. 536.). — For information on the point 

 whether grafts die with the parent tree, I refer 

 your correspondent to a work on The Vine, by a 

 Mr. Ferguson, and published at Glasgow by James 

 Hedderwick & Son. He says that the graft is 

 only a portion of the perfected production ; this 

 is one mode of reproduction, the other is from 

 male and female. " A cutting can only be a mul- 

 tiplier," he says, " and being of the same age and 

 same chemical property, must perform the same 

 functions over the same changing circle of life, 

 and die with the stalk, as if it had never been 

 separated." Now, supposing this holds good in 

 respect to apple-trees, and any good sort, the golden 

 pippin for instance, never to have been renewed 

 from seed, but continued on by cuttings, then, 

 the original dying, these multipliers would have 



died. If the original stalk be not dead, then we 

 have these apples, though I believe they are 

 scarce. Now as we really have them, the original 

 stalk may be concluded to be still in existence, if 

 Mr. Ferguson's assertion is right ; and it applies to 

 apple-trees as to vines. E. H. B. 



Demerary. 



Bolingbroke's Advice to Swft (Vol. x., p. 346. ; 

 Vol. xi., pp. 54. 74.). — I should have thought 

 that the correction suggested by me of a r instead 

 of an r, at the end of the words nourrisser, fa- 

 tiguer, and laisser, only required to be pointed out 

 to insure its immediate adoption. The rejection 

 of it, however, by Mr. Inglebt, compels me to 

 add proof to what is already self-evident. 



Instructions (ordonnances), powers of attorney, 

 and other legal documents in French, are made 

 to run in the infinitive, because the infinitive is 

 what is required ; not that the infinitive is ever 

 put for the imperative. But supposing the con- 

 trary to be the case, may I inquire of Mb. In- 

 glebt how he has come to overlook the fact, that 

 there is no such infinitive in French as nourrisser ? 

 Does he require to be reminded that the correct 

 infinitive is nourrir, and that there being no such 

 word in French as nourrisser, the expression used 

 by Bolingbroke must have been the imperative 

 nourrissez ? Another proof occurs in the con- 

 cluding part of the sentence, where the word levez, 

 being in the imperative, indicates that the writer 

 has been speaking all along in that mood. 



As regards the word souper, there is still room 

 for conjecture. In the place of that word, which 

 is obviously an error, I propose to substitute 

 sonner, Mb. Inglebt soupirer. Laissez sonner 

 vos cloches requires no explanation, while laissez 

 souper vos cloches seems unintelligible. At any 

 rate I shall be obliged to Mb. Inglebt to explain 

 what he understands by the " sighing " or 

 " breathing " of bells ; and how such an action in 

 those of the Dean of St. Patrick's could have had 

 the effect of " awaking the canons," as stated by 

 Bolingbroke. 



I am gratified by Me. Inglebt's kind appreci- 

 ation of my criticisms on French composition. 

 My sole object is the correction of errors in the 

 use of a language, with which we, as a nation, are 

 becoming more familiar every day. 



Henbt H. Bbeeit. 

 St. Lucia. 



Henry Fitzjames (Vol. xi., p. 199.).— Your cor- 

 respondent W.W. has fidlen into a singular error in 

 confounding Henry Fitzjames, the second son of 

 James II. and Arabella Churchill, and who was 

 afterwards the Grand Prior, with his elder brother 

 James Fitzjames, Duke of Berwick in England, 

 of Fitzjames in France, and of Liria in Spain. 

 Henry Fitzjames had been created by his father 

 Duke of Albemarle ; but during the exile of the 



