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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 293. 



Jupiter and Diogenes (Vol. xi., pp. 283. 334.). — 

 Jupiter. — Brydone, in his Tour through Sicily^ 

 Sfc, ascribes the politic reverence to the dethroned 

 deity to "old Huet, the greatest of all orif^inals." 

 This can scarcely mean the learned Bishop of 

 Avranches : is it the "Mr. H — t" o? Humphrey 

 Clinker, or perhaps a certain J. M. Huet, known 

 as the author of Les Lois de la Nature devoilees, 

 8vo., London, 1800? 



Diogenes. — The sarcastic saying which is sub- 

 ject of inquiry is ascribed to Socrates ; it was not, 

 however, addressed to Diogenes, but his precursor 

 Antisthenes. That the humility of the former, too, 

 was of that kind which is " aped by pride," is, per- 

 haps, the best understood point of his enigmatical 

 character. It did not impose upon Plato, whose 

 repartee is equally well-known ; Byron embodies 

 it in one of the stanzas of Don Juan : 



" Trampling on Plato's pride, with greater pride. 

 As did the Cynic on some like occasion," &c. 



Cant. xvi. st. xliii. 



The same idea is illustrated in a different way by 

 Sir Thomas Browne : 



" Diogenes I hold to be the most vainglorious man of 

 his time, and more ambitious in refusing all honours, than 

 Alexander in rejecting none." — Religio Medici. 



William Bates. 

 Birmingham. 



Fire-arms: Ariosto anticipated (Vol. xi., p. 162.). 

 — The first edition of Polydore Vergil de Rerum 

 inventoribus appeared in 4to. at Venice, 1499. 

 I copy from the Basle edition of 1575, lib. in. 

 cap xviii. : 



"Adde prseterea illud tormentum seneu, quod bom- 

 bardam uocat, omni admiratione execrationeq ; dignu, ad 

 pernicie hominu excogitatu, quod baud adduci possum, 

 ut bumanu ingeniu inuenisse credam, sed mehercule 

 potius malu quempia dsemonem mortalibus monstrasse 

 puto, ut inter se no modb armis, uerumetia fulminibus 

 (est enim, ut alio loco diximus, quasimillimu fulmini) 

 pugnarent, cuius auctor Perilli exeplo, sicut opinor, nio- 

 nitus, non temerfe nomen suum occultauit, ne in se, uti 

 merebatur, primum huiusmodi tormentu experiri coge- 

 retur." 



Is this an original idea of Polydore's ? 



Arthur Paget. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



The death of Lord Strangford, which took place on the 

 29th ultimo, is an event which ought not to pass unre- 

 corded in ^ny literary journal, certainly not in "N. & 

 Q.," of which he was one of the earliest and warmest sup- 

 porters, and to the columns of which he was a frequent 

 and most valuable contributor. The taste for literature 

 and love of scholarship which enabled him to carry oif the 

 gold medal at Trinity College, Dublin, in the year 1800, 

 and led him to undertake that translation of Camoens by 

 which, in spite of Byron's satire, he will long be remem- 

 bered, never deserted Lord Strangford. They led him to 

 take an interest in literary men and literary societies, and 



all who had the pleasure of knowing him have lost in 

 Lord Strangford a kind friend and an accomplished gen- 

 tleman. We hope that the materials which he had so 

 long been collecting with great pains for a life of his an- 

 cestor, Endymion Porter, will not be lost to the world of 

 letters. 



A summons has been issued to the members of the 

 Literary Fund, for a general meeting at Willis's Rooms on 

 Saturday the 16th, at two o'clock, to receive the report 

 from Mr. Dickens' Committee on the Charter, and Mr. 

 Serjeant Merewether's opinion. 



At length Dr. William Smith, whose services in the 

 cause of classical learning are so many and so valuable, 

 has crowned them by the publication of A Latin- Eiiglish 

 Dictionary, based upon the Works of ForcelUni and Frmnd. 

 In this one volume of most convenient form and unpa- 

 ralleled cheapness, we have the realisation of an idea 

 formed by the editor nearly twenty years ago, and for 

 which during that period he has been steadily collecting 

 his materials. The object has been to supply a dictionary 

 of all the words occurring in the existing records of the 

 language, from the earliest period to the fall of the 

 Western Empire, and to exhibit a sufficient number of 

 quotations to illustrate the meaning and explain the con- 

 struction of each word ; in short, to produce a work which 

 should occupy an intermediate space between the The- 

 saurus of Forcellini and the ordinary school dictionaries. 

 How admirably all this has been accomplished, and to 

 what good purpose Dr. Smith has availed himself of the 

 labours of the great philological scholars of the Continent, 

 a very cursory examination will suffice to show. That 

 the work is destined to take a permanent place as the 

 Latin Dictionary for everybody's use, we have not the 

 slightest doubt. 



The Arundel Society has just issued to its Members its 

 publications for the past year. These consist of no less 

 than eight more engravings on wood by Messrs. Dalziel, 

 from the drawings made by Mr. W. Oliver Williams from 

 the frescoes by Giotto, in the chapel of S. M. dell' Arena 

 at Padua. These interesting and valuable illustrations of 

 early Art are accompanied by the second portion of Mr. 

 Raskin's Notice of Giotto and his Works in Padua. We 

 are glad to see, by the Report from the Council, that the 

 affairs of the Arundel Society are in a prosperous and 

 satisfactory state. 



Books Received. — TTie Old Week's Preparation to- 

 wards a Worthy Receiving of the Holy Sacrament of the 

 Lord's Supper, after the Warning in the Church for its 

 Celebration, edited by Rev. W. Eraser, B.C.L. The great 

 and deserved popularity of this little devotional work 

 fully justifies its republication. We wisli Mr. Eraser's 

 endeavours to ascertain who was its author may still be 

 successful. 



Parish Sermons, by Rev. W. Eraser. 



Job, a Course of Lectures preached in the Parish Church 

 of St. James', Westminster, by J. E. Kerape, Rector of St. 

 .James'. We must content ourselves (with reference to 

 the rules laid down by us in such matters) in acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of these volumes. 



1. The Hippolytus Stephnnephorus of Euripides, with 

 Short English Notes for the Use of Schools. 2. C. Sallustii 

 Crispi Opera Omnia : Part I. Containing the Catiline. 

 S Ditto. : Part II. Containing the Jugurtha. These are 

 three more of Mr. Parker's admirable, "cheap, and neatly- 

 printed Oxford Pocket Classics, with short English notes. 



Life with the Zulus of Natal, South Africa, Parts I. 

 and II., by G. H. Mason. These two new Parts of 

 Longman's Traveller's Library contain a very amusing 

 narrative of a two-years' residence in the colony of Natal, 

 South Africa, and throw much light upon that interesting 

 people, the Zulu race. 



