May 5. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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which are said to be from an epistle in verse hy 

 Semlegue. They are from the cure of a parish. 



" Comme ils n'ont ni terre ni rente, 

 Et qu'ils sont tous de pauvres gens, 

 Dans un cure, chose ^tonnante, 

 Je suis triste aux enterrements." 



Two more specimens of the same author are given. 

 I have examined various dictionaries of literature 

 and biography, but cannot find even his name. 



Can any of your correspondents tell me where 

 to find the rest of the epistle, or a notice of the 

 author ? R. M. 



Michael Angela. — The true name of this " salt 

 of art," as Fuseli characterised him, was Michel 

 Agnolo Buonarotti, according to the several lives 

 of him written by Vasari, Condivi, and Bottari. 

 How, when, and where did the name o{ Agnolo 

 become converted into Angelo? In putting the 

 Query, I will hazard an opinion of the origin of 

 the change. It may, I think, be traced to his co- 

 temporary, Ariosto, who, in the second stanza of 

 the thirty-third canto oi E Orlando Furioso, de- 

 scribes the gifted man as — 



" quel ch' a par sculpe e colora 



Michel, pill che mortale. Angel divino." 



Ebic. 



Ville-Marie, Canada. 



Different Ideas of a Religion among Christians 

 and Pagans. — When was the distinction first 

 brought forward between the modern (or Chris- 

 tian) idea of a religion, and the ancient (or Pagan) 

 idea of a religion ? which is thus expressed by 

 De Quincey, in his AiUohiographic Sketches, 

 vol. ii. p. 49. : 



" What is a religion? To Christians it means, over 

 and above a mode of worship, a dogmatic (that is, a doc- 

 trinal) system : a great bodj' of doctrinal truths, moral 

 and spiritual. But to the ancients (to the Greeks and 

 Komans, for instance) it meant nothing of the kind. A 

 religion was simply a cultits, a ffprjo-Keia, a mode of ritual 

 worship, in which' there might be two differences, viz. 

 ]. As to the particular deity who furnished the motive 

 to the worship. 2. As to the ceremonial, or mode of con- 

 ducting the worship." 



BiBLIOTHECAK. ChETHAM. 



Payment to Lord Rochford. — In the pleasant 

 little Guide-look to Hampton Court, by Mr. Felix 

 Summerly, is given, apropos of Henry VIII.'s love 

 of shooting, an extract from the records of Hamp- 

 ton Court, as follows : 



" 58?. paid to my Lord of Eochford, for shooting with 

 the King's grace at Hampton Court." 



It may be obtuseness on ray part, but allow me 

 to ask what is the purport of this ? 



Pelicanus Ambricanus. 



Scott's Novels. — Sir Walter Scott twice com- 

 pares an irregular hamlet to a village, which 

 stopped suddenly when dancing to the music of 

 Orpheus. Will some one tell me where ? M— e. 



" What tho" my name he Roger f " — Can any 

 reader supply the words of the ballad referred to 

 by Sir Walter Scott in The Two Drovers ? 



" What tho' my name be Roger, 

 Who drives the plough and cart ? " 



M— E. 



Alliterative Spelling-hook. — There has been 

 published, I believe, a spelling-book, or it may be 

 an elocutionary exercise-book, containing exer- 

 cises on the letters of the alphabet, of an alliter- 

 ative character, and calculated to improve articu- 

 lation in speaking. " Peter Piper picked a peck," 

 &c., is the exercise on the letter p. Can any reader 

 refer me to the book in question, by giving title 

 and publisher's name ? Interrogator, 



Joseph Hill, Cowper's Friend.— From the great 

 respect I entertain for the memory of Joseph Hill, 

 the friend and correspondent of the poet Cowper, 

 I am anxious to obtain information on the follow- 

 ing points : Who was Joseph Hill's father ? Who 

 was his wife ? Did they leave children ? What 

 became of them ? When did he die, and where 

 was he interred ? Claud Marshall. 



Sir Simon Le Blanc. — Was any portrait of Mr. 

 Justice Le Blanc, who died April 15, 1816, ever 

 eno'raved ? Claud Marshall. 



Glatton. — What is the origin of the name of 

 the ship in H. M. navy "Glatton," now trans- 

 ferred to the "floating battery" launched this 

 week at Messrs. Green's yard, Blackwall ? Gn. 



Passage in Gay. — In Gay's Trivia, " Of walk- 

 ing in the Streets by Day," about half-way through 

 the second book, there is a passage on the nuisances 

 of the Thames Street of that day, the concluding 

 couplet of which is meant to illustrate the manners 

 of the time of Queen Anne ; but I cannot satisfy 

 myself that I rightly interpret it. The lines 



are, — 



" But how shall I 

 Pass, when in piles Cornavion cheeses lie. 

 Cheese, that the table's closing rites denies. 

 And bids me with th' unwilling chaplain rise." 



Taken literally, it would seem that the chaplain 

 and poet had to leave the table as soon as the 

 cheese appeared, and before it was partaken of. 

 I shall be glad to learn whether the etiquette of 

 the table in Queen Anne's reign required the 

 chaplain and any particular guests to retire from 

 the table on the placing of the cheese on the 

 board. Kanulphus. 



Liverpool. 



[Our first and second vols, contain several articles illus- 

 trative of Mr. Macaulay's sketch of the "Young Levite ;" 



