Mar. 24. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



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Sttutes, in his reading of " N. & Q.," has missed 

 the note to which I refer. He will find it in 

 Vol. viii., p. 4. Stylites will there see rather a 

 long discussion in support of the use of the word 

 secure as a verb, in the sense to make careless. 

 The note is signed F. W. J. J. W. Farrer. 



Torquay. 



«' ConstanfinopoUtam" Sfc. (Vol. ix., p. 452.). — 

 In the communications concerning these verses, I 

 see no mention of the following work, from which 

 I make an extract : 



"Sacrum Profaniimque Phrasium Poeticarum The- 

 saurus. Opera M" Joannis Buchleri, in Wicradt Pra3- 

 fecti. Editio decima-octava, &c. Reformata poesos in- 

 stitutio ex R. P. Jacobi Pontani e societ. Jesu. Opera 

 Joannis Buchleri a Gladbach in Wicradt Prajfecti. 

 Londini, Tho. Newcomb. 1679." 



At pp. 352-3. is the following : 



" Macroculus versus dicitur, qui vocibus paucissimis, 

 nimisque longis absolvitur ; Tardigradum sunt qui vocent ; 

 " Innumerabilibus Constantinopolitani 



Conturbabantur sollicitudinibus. 

 Hart inhonorificabilitudinitatibus obstat." 



Thos. Balch. 

 Philadelphia. 



'^ Non omnia terra" 8fC. (Vol. xi., p. 146.). — 

 The passage, as quoted by P. T., is inaccurate and 

 "incomplete. It is from Petrarch, and should be : 



" Non omnia terrae 

 Obruta ; vivit amor, vivit dolor : ora negatur 

 * Regia conspicere, at flere et mcminisse relictum est." 



PetrarchcR Paemata Minora, t. ii. p. 6., 

 Mediolani, 1831. 



H. B. C. 



U. U. Club. 



Bells (Vols. vii. viii. passim). — 



" The Roman Catholic Bishop of New Jersey blessed a 

 chime of bells for the ' Church of the Most Holy Re- 

 deemer,' of New York city, so that whensoever they shall 

 sound hereafter, the power of devils, the shades of phan- 

 tasms, the attack of mobs, the striking of lightnings, the 

 shock of thunders, the ruin of tempests, and every spirit 

 of the storms might be driven back." — Freeman'' s 

 Journal. 



w.w. 



Malta. 



Coats of Arms of Prelates (Vol. xL, p. 124.). — 

 The monumental tablet to Bishop Lavington, in 

 the south aisle to the choir of Exeter Cathedral, 

 which bears an elegant but over- laudatory in- 

 scription, exhibits the following as the coat-armour 

 of the bisliop impaled with that of the see : Ar- 

 gent, a saltire gules ; on a chief of the last three 

 boars' heads couped or. J. D. S. 



New Moon (Yo\.-!L\., p. 166.). — There can be 

 no very short and easy rule for accurately finding 

 the time of new moon. Any process which pre- 

 tends to be within a couple of hours must require 



tables, and enough of astronomical capacity to 

 tmderstand such a process as that given in the 

 Book of Almanacs. The use therein made of the 

 epact, and inspection of Almanac 37, without any 

 calculation, gives the true day in about three 

 cases out of five, an error of one day in nearly all 

 the other cases, and an error of two days in about 

 one case out of a hundred and twenty. 



A. De Morgan. 



''Leigh Hunt's Journal" (Vol.xi., p. 166.).— 

 There were ninety-one numbers. Vol. i. begins 

 April 2, 1834, and ends Dec. 30. Vol. ii. begins 

 January 7, 1835, and ends Dec. 31. D, 



Hamilton Queries (Vol. vii., pp. 285. 333.). — A 

 few months after the expulsion of the Order of St. 

 John of Jerusalem from Malta in 1798, Paul, the 

 Emperor of all the Russias, became its Grand 

 Master. The imperial almanac, which appeared 

 at St. Petersburg in 1800, contained the names of 

 those noblemen and ladies who were honoured by 

 receiving dignities of different degrees of rank. 

 In a list by themselves, there were two thus 

 noticed : 



" Dames de la petite Croix. 



"La Princesse de Biron; Milady Hamilton." 

 On the same occasion, the late Emperor Ni- 

 cholas, at the age of four years, was named a 

 Grand Prior of Russia, and permitted to wear the 

 Grand Cross of the Order. W. W. 



Malta. 



Cutty Pipes (Vol. xi., p. 144.). — B. H. C.'s de- 

 rivation is far too learned. The term is Scotch, 

 cutty being a word which means little or short. 

 Thus, a little girl is called a cutty; there are cutty 

 pipes and cutty spoons; and the readers of Burns 

 need not be reminded of the scantily-draped lady 

 who is styled cutty-sark. 3. C. R. 



Progressive Geography (Vol.xi., p. 146.). — As 

 far as regards Europe, the Student of Histort 

 will find what he wants in the Atlas Historique 

 Universel, traduit de f Atlas Historique des Etats 

 Europeens de Chr. et Fr. Ki'use, et complete par 

 MM. Philippe Lebas et Felix Ansart. It is pub- 

 lished at Paris, "chez L. Hachette, rue Pierre- 

 Sarrazin, No. 12." My copy is the fourth edition, 

 and bears date 1847. 



Probably the atlas of MM. Kruse, " Professeurs 

 a Leipzig et a Dorpat," from which the above 

 work is taken, may be preferable ; but I am not 

 acquainted with it. The word " complete" would 

 seem to indicate that additions have been made 

 to it by the French translators. 



I know of no English series of maps of the same 

 description, though ten years ago I made great 

 inquiries for one. A friend of mine at that time 

 suggested to the Society for Promoting Useful 

 Knowledge, the publication of such an atlas ; and 



