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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 221. 



pressed in nearly the same words which Long- 

 fellow, and before him Luisa Reichardt, have 

 used. The first line of the two respective poems 

 are certainly word for word the same, but that is 

 all ; although the tendency of both poems is the 

 same. Longfellow's poem is much superior to 

 that of L. Keichardt ; for, while the former has a 

 beautiful clothing, colouring, and harmony, the 

 latter is very crude, poor, and defective. Long- 

 fellow's long residence in Germany has indeed 

 rendered him very susceptible to the form and 

 spirit of German poetry, and hence there exist in 

 his poems frequently affinities as to general forms 

 and ideas : still, affinities arising from such causes 

 cannot justly be termed plagiarism, much less the 

 accidental choice of a very widely existent, natural 

 thought. When Byron wrote his opening line to 

 The Bride of Abydos, he did not probably think 

 of Gothe's 



" Konnst du das Land wo die Citronen bliihen ? " 



Byron was not a German scholar ; and as the 

 opening line is the only analogy between the two 

 poems, we may justly believe it natural for any 

 one who has lived in southern lands, to ask such 

 a question. The charge of plagiarism, I think, 

 ought to rest upon grounds which evince an actual 

 copying. C. B. d'O. 



Charge of Plagiarism against Paley (Vol. viii., 

 p. 589.).— As a personal friend of the gentleman 

 who, under the name of Veritas, brought, about 

 five years ago, a charge of plagiarism against 

 Paley, I feel called upon to say a few words to 

 Fiat Just. 



Truth cannot be refuted ; and F. J. may look 

 at the translation of the old Dutch book of Nieu- 

 wentyt's, which he will find in the British Mu- 

 seum library, the same place where Veritas made 

 the discovery while examining the works of some 

 continental metaphysicians : and Fiat Just, will 

 then no doubt regret having made the rash and 

 illogical observation, " that the accusation be re- 

 futed, or the culprit consigned to that contempt," 

 &c. The character of Veritas as man, moralist, 

 and scholar, does not deserve so unjust and rash 

 a remark. 



The Dutch book, as well as the translation, are 

 very scarce. Five and six copies of the latter 

 could only be found at the time of the discovery 

 in London. C. B. d'O. 



Tin (Vol. viii., p. 593.). — The suggestions of 

 your correspondent S. G. C. are ingenious re- 

 specting the etymology of Cussiteros, but a slight 

 examination will show they are erroneous. The 

 Cassi was only one of the many tribes inhabiting 

 Britain in the time of Caesar, and it is by no 

 means probable that it was able to confer its name 

 upon the entire country, to the exclusion of all 

 the rest; such as the Iceni, the Trinobanti, the 



Coritani, the Belgae, and various others too nume- 

 rous to mention. We must bear in mind that the 

 Phoenicians gave the name of Cassiterides to the 

 British Isles ; and that in naming places they in- 

 variably called them after some known or sup- 

 posed quality possessed by them, or from some 

 natural appearance which first arrested their 

 notice : and such was the case in this instance. 

 We learn that it was the common belief in ancient 

 times, that the islands to the west of Europe were 

 shrouded in almost perpetual gloom and darkness : 

 hence the British Isles were called Cassiterides, 

 from Ceas, pronounced Kass, i. e. gloom, dark- 

 ness, obscurity ; and tir, i. e. lands, plural Ceasi- 

 terides, i. e. " the islands of darkness." And the 

 tin which the Phoenicians procured from them 

 received the appropriate name of Cassiteros, i. e. 

 the metal from the islands of darkness. 



Fras. Crosslet. 



John Wangh (Vol. viii., pp. 271. 400. 525.; 

 Vol. ix., p. 20.). — The Rev. John Waugh was of 

 Broomsgrove, Worcester, and died unmarried and 

 intestate. Letters of administration of his estate 

 in the province of York were granted Oct. 28, 

 1777, to his five sisters and co-heiresses, Judith, 

 Isabella, Elizabeth, Mary, and Margaret, spinsters, 

 who all were living at Carlisle ; and were unmar- 

 ried in August, 1792. Wm, Durrant Cooper. 



Rev. Joshua Brooks (Vol. viii., p. 639.). — 

 Blackwood 'a Edinburgh Magazine for March, 1821, 

 contains a paper entitled a "Brief Sketch of the 

 Rev. Josiah Streamlet." Under this sobriquet, a 

 few incidents in the life of the Rev. Joshua 

 Brooks are related, which may interest C. (1). 



G. D. R. 



Hour-glass Stand (Vol. viii., p. 454.). — There 

 is an hour-glass stand attached to the pulpit of 

 Nassington Church, Northants. Nassington i» 

 about six miles from the town of Oundle. 



G. R. M. 



There is an hour-glass stand in Bishampton 

 Church, Worcestershire. Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 



Teeth Superstition (Vol. viii., p. 382.). •— My 

 wife, who is a Yorkshire woman, tells me that, 

 whenever she lost a tooth as a child, her nurse 

 used to exhort her to keep her tongue away from 

 the cavity, and then she would have a golden 

 tooth. She speaks of it as a superstition with 

 which she has always been familiar. Oxoniensis. 



Walthamstow. 



Dog-whipping Day in Hull (Vol. viii., p. 409.). 

 — This custom obtains, or used to do, in York on 

 St. Luke's Day, Oct. 18, which is there known by 

 the name of " Whip-dog Day." Drake considers 

 the origin of it uncertain ; and though he is of 

 opinion that it is a very old custom, he does not 



