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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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B. H. C with a few. The Histories of Tacitus 

 refer to them in almost every page, and book v. 

 especially contains an account of their origin, 

 institutions, chief city, and temple. Juvenal also 

 has frequent allusions to their customs and habits, 

 e.g. Sat. iii. 14., xiv. 101. &c. ; see also Horace's 

 Satires, i. iv. 143., I. v. 100., and I. ix. 70., with 

 Macleane's notes on the two latter passages ; Pliny, 

 v. xiv. 15., xni. iv. 9., xxxi. viii. 44. ; Quint., 

 in. vii. 21. j Just., xxxvi. 2. I am not aware of 

 any work which gives all the passages in classical 

 authors referring to the Jews. 



Francis J. Leachman, B.A. 



In answer to your correspondent B. II. C, I 

 beg to say that I have found out the following 

 passages in classic authors bearing on Judea and 

 the Jews, all of which I have authenticated myself, 

 except where I had not the book at hand : 

 Tacitus. Annales, ii. 85. ; xii. 23. 54. ; xv. 44. 

 Ditto. Historiae, i. 10. ; ii. 1. 4, 5. 78. 79. 81. ; v. 

 passim. 

 Horace. Satires, i. 4. 143.; i. 5. 100.; i. 9. 70. 

 Juvenal. Satires, ii. 14. ; vi. 158-160. 537-547. ; xiv. 



96-106. 

 Persius. Satires, v. 180-189. 

 Martial, iv. 4. 

 Suetonius. Tiberius,36.; Augustus,76.; Claudius,25.; 



Vespasian, 5. &c. ; Julius Ca?sar, 84. 

 Pliny, v. 14, 15, 16. &c. ; vii. 15. ; xxviii. 7. 

 Dio Cassius, lx. §6.; xxxvii. § 17. 

 Lucan, ii. 



B. II. A. 



Mawkin ( Vol. ix., p. 303.). — An attempt to 

 explain the origin of the word maukin, or malkin, 

 may be seen in the Philological Museum, vol. i. 

 p. 681. (See also Halliwell's Diet, in Malkin and 

 Maulkin.) The most probable derivation of the 

 word is, that malkin is a diminutive of mal, abbre- 

 viated from Mary, now commonly written Moll. 

 Hence, by successive changes, malkin or maukin 

 might mean a dirty wench, a figure of old rags 

 dressed up as a scarecrow, and a mop of rags 

 used for cleaning ovens. The Scotch maukin, for 

 a hare, seems to be an instance of an animal ac- 

 quiring a proper name, like renard in French, and 

 jack for pike in English. L. 



Mantelpiece (Vol. ix., p. 302.). — French., Man- 

 teau de cheminee. German, Kamin Mantel. This 

 is the moulding, or mantle, that serves to hide 

 (screen) the joint betwixt the wall and the fire- 

 stove. H. F. B. 



Mousehunt (Vol. ix., pp. 65. 135.). — A short 

 time ago. I was informed by a gamekeeper, that 

 this little animal is found in the Holt Forest. He 

 told me that there are three kinds of the weasel 

 tribe in the woods : the weasel, the stoat or stump, 

 and the mousehunt or mousehunter, which is also 

 called the thumb, from its diminutive size. It 



feeds on mice and small birds ; but my informant 

 does not think that it attacks game. 



White of Selbourne mentions that such an 

 animal was supposed to exist in his neighbour- 

 hood : 



" Some intelligent country people have a notion that 

 we have, in these parts, a species of the genus Muste- 

 linum, besides the weasel, stoat, ferret, and polecat : 

 a little reddish beast, not much bigger than a field- 

 mouse, but much longer, which they call a cane. This 

 piece of intelligence can be little depended on ; but 

 farther inquiry may be made." — Natural History of 

 Selbourne, Let. 15. 



Frederick M. Middleton. 



As I can completely join in with the praise 

 your correspondent Mr. Tennyson awards to 

 Mr. Fennell's Natural History of Quadrupeds 

 (except as regards some of its woodcuts, which I 

 understand were inserted by the publisher in spite 

 of the author's remonstrance), I feel induced to 

 protect Mr. Fennell from the hypercritical com- 

 mentary of your correspondent J. S.s. (p. 136.). 



In the passage quoted and commented on, had 

 Mr. Fennell used the word, beach, it would cer- 

 tainly have referred to the sea ; but the word 

 " shore," which he there uses, applies to rivers as 

 well as seas. Thus Spenser, speaking of the river 

 Nile, says : 



"... Beside the fruitful shore of muddy Nile, 

 Upon a sunny bank outstretched lay, 

 In monstrous length, a mighty crocodile." 



The passage, therefore, in Mr. Fennell's work 

 does not seem to me to be incorrect, as it may 

 have reference to the shore of the Tweed, Ettrick, 

 Yarrow, or some other rivers in Selkirkshire. 



May I take the present opportunity of inquiring 

 through your truly useful columns, when Mr. 

 Fennell's work on the natural history of Shak- 

 speare, advertised some few years since, is likely 

 to appear ? Archibald Frasek. 



Woodford. 



li Vanitatem observare" (Vol.ix., pp.247. 31 1.). — 

 The quotation of R. H. Gr. is no more to be found 

 in the Canons of Laodicea than in those of An- 

 cyra. Indeed the passage has more the appear- 

 ance of a recommendation, certainly excellent, 

 than of any grave decree of a council. It can 

 hardly be supposed to bear any other meaning 

 than that Christian females ought not to indulge 

 vanity, or take occasion to be vain of their works 

 in wool, spun or woven ; but to refer all their 

 talent to the Almighty, who gives to them the 

 skill and ability to work. Here is evidently an 

 allusion to the skill and wisdom given to Beseleel 

 and Ooliab : 



" Both of them hath he instructed with wisdom, to 

 do ... . tapestry and embroidery in blue and purple, 



