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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 229. 



No reference to cotemporary testimony is given 

 by these historians. 



Gait, in his Lives of the Players, Lond. 1831, 

 does not notice the story. 



Pope was at Bath on the 4th of February, 1741, 

 as appears from his letter to Warburton of that 

 date ; but as he mentions his intention to return 

 to London, he may have been there on the 14th. 

 That he was not in the pit we may be confident ; 

 that he was in the boxes is unlikely. His health 

 was declining in 1739. In his letter to Swift, 

 quoted in Croly's edition, vol. i. p. Ixxx., he says : 



" Having nothing to tell you of my poetry, I come 

 to what is now my chief care, my health and amuse- 

 ment; the first is better as to headaches, worse as to 

 weakness and nerves. The changes of weather affect 

 me much ; the mornings are my life, in the evenings I 

 am not dead indeed, but sleepy and stupid enough. I 

 love reading still better than conversation, hut my eyes 

 fail, and the hours when most people indulge in com- 

 pany, I am tired, and find the labour of the past day 

 sufficient to weigh me down ; so I hide myself in bed, 

 as a bird in the nest, much about the same time, and rise 

 and chirp in the morning." 



I hope I have said enough to stop the farther 

 growth of this story ; but before laying down my 

 pen, I wish to call attention to the practice of 

 giving anecdotes without authorities. This is en- 

 couraged by the newspapers devoting a column to 

 " varieties," which are often amusing, but oftener 

 stale. A paragraph is now commencing the round, 

 telling how a lady took a linendraper to a barber's, 

 and on pretence of his being a mad relative, had 

 his head shaved, while she absconded with his 

 goods. It is a bad version of an excellent scene 

 in Foote's Cozeners. H. B. C. 



Garrick Club. 



WORKS ON BELLS. 



I have a Note of many books on bells, which 

 may be acceptable to readers of " N. & Q." Those 

 marked *, Cancellieri, in his work, calls Protestant 

 writers on the subject. 



•Anon. Recueil curieux et edifiant sur les Cloches de 

 PEglise, avec les Ceremonies de leur Benediction. 

 Cologne, 1757. 

 Barraud (Abb.). Notice sur les Cloches. Svo., Caen, 



1844. 

 Boemeri (G. L.). Programma de Feudo Campanario. 



Gottinga?, 1755. 

 Buonmattei (Ben.). Declamazione delle Campane, 

 dopo le sue Cicalate delle tre Sirocchie. Pisa, 

 1635. 

 Campani (Gio. Ant.). Opera. The frontispiece a 



large bell. Roma, 1495. 

 Cancellieri (F. ). Descrizione della nuova Campana 



Magiore della Basilica Vaticana. Roma, 1786. 

 Cancellieri (F. ). Descrizione delle due nuove Cam- 

 pane di Campidoglio beneditte del Pio VII. Roma, 

 1806, 4 to. 



*Cave (G. G.). An Turrium et Campanarum Usus in 



Repub. Christ. Deo displiceat ? Leipsia?, 1 709, 4to. 

 Conrad ( Dietericus). De Campanis. Germanice. 

 *Eggers (Nic). Dissertatio de Campanarum Materia 



et Forma. 

 Eggers ( Nic). Dissertatio de Origine et Nomine Cam- 

 panarum. Ienae, 1 684. 

 Eschenwecker. De eo quod justum est circa Cam- 



panas. 

 Fesc (Laheranus du). Des Cloches. 12mo., Paris, 



1607-19. 

 *Goezii. Diatriba de Baptismo Campanarum. Lubecae, 



1612. 

 Grimaud (Gilb.). Liturgie Sacree, avec un Traite des 



Cloches. Lyons, 1666, 4to. Pavia, 1678, 12mo. 

 ♦Hilschen (Gio.). Dissertatio de Campanis Templo- 



rum. Leipsiae, 1690. 

 *Homberg ( Gas.). De Superstitiosis Campanarum pul- 



sibus, ad eliciendas preces, quibus placentur ful- 



mina, excogitatis. 4to., Frankfoitiae, 1577. 

 Lazzarini (Alex.). De vario Tintinnabulorum Usu 



apud veteres Hebraeos et Ethnicos. 2 vols. 8vo., 



Romae, 1822. 

 Ludovici (G. F.). De eo quod justum est circa Cam- 



panas. Hala?, 1708 et 1739. 

 Magii (Hier.). De Tintinnabulis, cum notis F. 



Swertii et Jungermanni. 12mo., Amstelodama; 



et Hanov'ue, 1608, 1664, 1689. "A learned 



work." — Parr. 

 Martene. De Ritibus Ecclesiae. 

 *Medelii (Geo.). An Campanarum Sonitus Fulmina, 



Tonitura, et Fulgura impedire possit. 4to. 1703. 

 Mitzler (B. A.). De Campanis. 

 *Nerturgii (Mar.). Campanula Penitentia?. 4to„ 



Dresden, 1644. 

 Paciaudi. Dissertazione su due Campane di Capua. 



Neapoli, 1750. 

 Pacichelli (Ab. J. B.). De Tintinnabulo Nolano Lu- 



cubratio Autumnalis. Neapoli, 1693. Dr. Parr 



calls this " a great curiosity." 

 Pagii. De Campanis Dissertatio. 

 Rocca (Ang.). De Campanis Commentarius. 4to., 



Romae, 1612. 

 *Reimanni (Geo. Chris.). De Campanis earumque 



Origine, vario Usu, Abusu, et Juiibus. 4to., Isenaci, 



1769. 

 Saponti (G. M.). Notificazione per la solennc Bene- 



dizione della nuova Campana da C°Uocarsi nella 



Metropolitana di S. Lorenzo. Geneva, 1750. 

 Seligmann (Got. Fr.). De Campana Urinatoria. 



Leipsias, 1677, 4 to. 

 *Stockflet (Ar.). Dissertatio de Campanarum Usu. 



4to., Altdorfii, 1665, 1666. 

 ♦Storius (G. M. ). De Campanis Templorum. 4to., 



Leipsia;, 1692. 

 Swertius (Fran.). 

 Thiers (G. B.). Des Cloches. 12mo., Paris, 1602, 



1619. 

 Thiers (J. B). Traite des Cloches. Paris, 1721. 

 *Walleri ( Ar.). De Campanis et praecipuis earum Usi- 



bus. 8vo., Holmiae, 1694. 

 WiUietti (Car.). Ragguaglio delle Campane di Vili- 



glia. 4to., Roma, 1601. 

 Zech (F. S.). De Campanis et Instruments Musicis. 



