April 28. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Mr. Blakey's list (rather than catalogue) is very 



useful in the absence of anything more extended, 



and must have taken him much time and trouble. 



With respect, however, to the fifteenth century, 



1 think it may be safely assumed that the inquirer 

 would gain more than from any professed writers 

 on the history of logic by goiug deliberately 

 through Hain's Repertorium Bibliographicurriy 



2 vols. 8vo. (Stuttgard and Tubingen, 1826). This 

 work goes up to the year 1500, and contains 16,299 

 entries in 2180 columns, giving an average of a 

 little under eight lines to each entry. The works 

 ■which Hain gives from inspection are all given in 

 lineation, as to their titles, colophons, &c. ; and it 

 thus appears that he had seen a very large num- 

 ber. 1 conclude that Mb. Ingleby has not had 

 recourse to this work : he would have found a 

 description of the (1474) edition ofPaulus Venetus 

 of which he doubts, well described with lineations. 

 Very little inspection has given me several books. 



In Kahle's Bibliotheccs PhilosophiccB S(7'uvian<B 

 ... 2 vols. 8vo., Gottingen, 1740, is found a large 

 number of references to writers on the history of 

 logic. He refers to only one case resembling what 

 we call a catalogue : 



" Logicorum specialium farraginem dedit eel. Stollius 

 hist, erud'it. torn. ii. cap. ii. § xlix. p. 463. facili, si illud 

 jam ageremus, opera aagendam supplendamque." 



I do not know this work of Stolle; but from 

 another, the Introductio in Historiam Literariam, 

 Jena, 1728, 4to., with which I am well acquainted, 

 I very much doubt whether any precise biblio- 

 graphy could be found in the Historia. Brucker 

 and Morhof are nearly useless in all that relates 

 to pure logic. In fact (I wish some one would 

 contradict it, and prove his words), the biblio- 

 graphy of philosophy in general is in a very poor 

 state, and that of logic proper in the worst state 

 of all. I once thought that nothing could be 

 lower than the state of mathematical bibliography : 

 but philosophy is as badly off, and logic worse. 



A. De Mokgan. 



*^ Dowlas, Lockram, PoUdavy" (Vol. xi., p. 266.). 

 — I have extracted the following from Halliwell's 

 Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words : 



" Dowlas, coarse linen, imported from Brittany, and 

 chiefly worn by the lower classes. 



" Lockram, a kind of cheap linen, worn chiefly by the 

 lower classes. 



'A wrought wastcote on her backe, and a lockram 

 smocke worth three pence, as well rent behind as before, 

 I warrant you.' — Maroccm Extaticus, 1595. 



" PoLLDAVY, a coarse cloth or canvass. 



'Your deligence, knaves, or I shall canvase your pole- 

 davyes; deafen not a gallant with your anon," anon, sir, 

 to make him stop his eares at an over-reckoninge.' " — 

 The Bride, 1640. 



^ , ,. 'AXievs. 



Dublin. 



Jones of Nayland (Vol. xi., p. 311.). — Your 

 correspondent J. O., in his Note on Orbis Pictura, 

 when describing its editor in 1777 as "one Wil- 

 liam Jones of Fluckley," can hardly be aware of 

 how great and honoured a champion of the faith 

 he is speaking. It was no less than Jones of 

 Nayland — "clarum et venerabile nomen genti- 

 bus " — the author of the Catholick Doctrine of the 

 Trinity. He was rector of Pluckley in Kent; 

 and, about the time of which your correspondent 

 speaks, removed to Nayland. J. O. will, I am 

 sure, pardon me for noticing his remark ; and for 

 regretting, that that honoured name should ever 

 have been cited as "one William Jones" — he 

 whose praise shall be in the Church till time shall 

 be no more ! X. X. 



Story of the Blind Man (Vol. xi., p. 126.).— This 

 is referred to in Much Ado About Nothing, Act II. 

 Sc. 1.: 



" Ho ! now you strike like the blind man : 'twas the 

 boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post." 



Microscopic Writing (Vol. xi., p. 242.). — The 

 following passage is taken from Timbss Year 

 Book of Facts for 1855, and contains an instance 

 of more minute engraving than that mentioned 

 byB. : 



" Professor Kellano has had executed in Paris some 

 extraordinary microscopic writing on a spot no larger 

 than the head of a small pin. The professor shows, by 

 means of powerful microscopes, several specimens of dis- 

 tinct and beautiful writing ; one of them containing the 

 whole of the Lord's Prayer, executed within this minute 

 compass." 



In reference to this, two remarkable facts in 

 Layard's last work on Nineveh show that the 

 national records of Assyria were written on square 

 bricks, in characters so small as to be scarcely 

 legible without a microscope ; and that, in fact, a 

 microscope was actually found in the ruins. 



C. E. A. 



A gentleman, who is a member of the Micro- 

 scopical Society, has in his possession the follow- 

 ing epigram written on a piece of glass in a space 

 not exceeding the one hundredth part of a square 

 inch ; that is, the fiftieth of an inch in length, and 

 the two hundredth of an inch in width : 



" A point within an epigram to find, 

 In vain j'ou often try ; 

 But here an epigram within a point. 

 You plainly may descry." 



He also has seen, in the possession of a gentleman 

 now residing in London, the Lord's Prayer in the 

 one hundred and fifty-sixth part of a square inch. 

 This is supposed to be the smallest in existence. 



w. s. 



Portarlington (Vol. xi., p. 267.). — The French 

 colony at Portarlington was considerably increased 



