June 16. 1855.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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reader of " N. & Q." can inform me who was the 

 author of the latter ? *. 



Kichmond, Surrey. 



A Credulous Place : Witchcraft, Spiritual Rap- 

 pings, and Mormonism. — Middleton or Topsfield, 

 in Essex county, Massachusetts, appears to be the 

 grand seat of supernatural wonders. It was in 

 this neighbourhood in America thut Salem witch- 

 craft sprang up ; spiritual rappiiigs still exten- 

 sively pervade the place ; and Joseph Smith, the 

 founder of the Mormons, was born there. {Wash- 

 ington Union, March, 1855.) AV. W. 



Malta. 



Authors^ Names anagrammatised : Father Paul. 

 — We have had many anagrams brought forward 

 in the columns of " N. & Q. ; " let me ask for some 

 which have been assumed by writers as a disguise, 

 who (as the catalogue phrase of Placclus in his 

 Theatrum Pseudonymorum goes) "latent sub 

 nomine," &c. As an instance I would mention the 

 celebrated Padre Paolo Sarpi, whose History of 

 the Council of Trent appeared under the name of 

 Petrus Suavis Polanus, a Latinisation of his fic- 

 titious name, Pietro Soave Polano, the anagram of 

 Paulo Sarpio Veneto. He was baptized by the 

 name Pietro ; was it on entering the Order of the 

 Servites that he assumed that of Paolo ? Will 

 any one supply other instances of this mode of 

 disguise ? Balliolensis. 



Doors of the Theatre open at Four o' Clock. — 



" They were at the doors of the theatre before three, and 

 had the high satisfaction to stand there an hour before the 

 doors were opened, and with great difficult)', after such a 

 tedious time of waiting, got into the pit." — Dr. Dodd's 

 novel, The Sisters, vol. i. p. 241. 



Chinese taste appears, from the same work, to 

 Lave been predominant a century ago : 



"According to the present fashion [1754] and manner 

 among the trading part of this city, she furnished her 

 house with the best mahogany, and elegant silk damask, 

 and had everything in the newest, the Chinese taste." — 

 Ibid., vol. ii. p. 173. 



Y. B. N. J. 



Undesigned Coincidence: '■'•Nothing neio under 

 the sun!'' — Even the famous pun in the inimitable 

 imitation of Crabbe, in the Rejected Addresses, — 



" The youth with joy unfeign'd, 

 Eegain'd the felt and felt what he regain'd." 



had been anticipated by Thomas Heywood in a 

 song printed in Bell's Songs of the Dramatists, 

 p. 200. : 



« But of all felts that may be felt, 

 Give me your English beaver." 



Balliolexsis. 



VARIATION IN THE EDITIONS OF THE BOOK OP 

 COMMON PRATER. 



Perhaps some of your readers may be able to 

 account for one of the differences found in the 

 mod<;rn Cambridge editions, as compared with those 

 by the Oxford press and the Queen's printers. 



That to which I allude is in the Epistle on the 

 First Sunday after Easter (1 John v. 12.). In the 

 recent Cambridge editions, it is " He that hath 

 not the Son of God hath not life," while the other 

 editions omit the words " of God." * There ap- 

 pear in my great collection of Bibles three va'- 

 riations, which, for the facility of reference, I 

 number — 



1. « He that hath the Son of God hath life ; and he 

 that hath not the Son of God, hath not life." 



2. " He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath 

 not the Son, hath not life." 



3. " He that hath the Son, hath life ; and he that hath 

 not the Son of God, hath not life." 



In examining my manuscript Vulgate Latin 

 Bibles, three of them belong to Ifo. 2. Three to 

 No. 3. ; among these is a very beautiful folio, with 

 the double version of the Psalms. The ancient 

 Italic, which has the 151st Psalm by David, on 

 slaying Goliath, in addition to the version of 

 Jerome : this and three beautifully illuminated 

 MSS. fill under class 1. The early printed copies 

 of the Vulgate, from the first to 1479, belong to 

 class 3. That of Venice, 1484 ; Cologne, 1527 ; 

 and Lyons, 1529 and 1535 : to class 1. Eras- 

 mus' New Testament, Greek and Latin, 1516; 

 and his Latin editions, 1521, &c. : to No. 3. The 

 first French, 1525 ; and the first Flemish, 1526 : 

 to class 1. Luther's German, 1522 ; and Emser's 

 German, published to compete with Luther, 1528 : 

 class 3. The first Protestant French Bible by 

 Calvin and Olivetan, 1535 : class 3. 



The English translations by Tyndale, Coverdale, 

 Taverner, Cranmer, and Parker ; with all the re- 

 visions to the present authorised one ; belong to 

 class 3. The present version, 1611, with all its re- 

 prints to 1629 ; including one of 1613, bearing the 

 autograph of John Milton ; with a few copies by 

 Barker to 1641 ; and one used by Charles I., 1638 : 

 all range under class 2. The first of the present 

 version, in which these words are inserted, is the 

 revised edition published at Cambridge by Buck 

 and Daniel, 1629. Those revised by IBishops 

 Scattergood, Cambridge, 1677; Lloyd, London, 

 1701; and Blayney, Oxford, 1769; with all the 

 Commonwealth Bibles by Field; and every edi- 

 tion, from the copy given by John Bunyan to his 

 son Joseph in 1641, and that in which R. Baxter 

 records the death of his wife, printed by Hills & 



[* These various readings of 1 John v. 12. have been 

 incidentally noticed in « N. & Q.," Yol. vi., pp. 520. 617.] 



