June 24. 1854.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



585 



of inaccuracies of language," they ai'e frequently 

 changes of meaning. 



At pp. 4. and 5., extracts from speeches by 

 Burke and North are introduced into the text. 

 In Woodfall, they are given in a note, so as not 

 to interrupt the writer's argument. 



Occasionally, a sentence is partly rewritten. I 

 take one specimen. Dr. Good says that, "But 

 for the Letters of Junius, the Commons of Eng- 

 land might still .... have been exposed to the 

 absurd and obnoxious harassment of parliament- 

 ary arrests, upon a violation of privileges unde- 

 fined and incapable of being appealed against — 

 defrauded of their, estates upon an arbitrary and 

 interested claim of the crown." In Bohn, p. 5., 

 the words are altered to " have been exposed to 

 arbitrary violations of individual liberty, under 

 undefined pretexts of parliamentary privileges, 

 against which there were (?) no appeal — defrauded 

 of their estates upon capricious and interested 

 claims of the crown." 



Dr. Good, to show that Burke could not be 

 Junius, cites several passages from his works ; and 

 then proves, by quotations from Junius, that the 

 opinions of the one were opposed to those of the 

 other. In Bohn's edition all these quotations, 

 which occupy twelve octavo pages in Woodfall, 

 are omitted as unnecessary, although the writer's 

 argument is partly founded upon them ; and yet 

 the editor has retained (evidently through care- 

 lessness), at p. 66., Dr. Good's subsequent refer- 

 ence to these very quotations, where, being about 

 to give some extracts from General Lee's letters, 

 he says : " They may be compared with those of 

 Junius, that follow the preceding extracts from 

 Mr. Burke." This reference is retained, but the 

 extracts spoken of are omitted. 



Some of Woodfall's notes are wholly left out ; 

 but I will not lengthen these remarks by specially 

 pointing them out. The new notes of Bohn's 

 editor offer much matter for animadversion, but I 

 confine myself to one point. In a note to Sir W. 

 Draper's first letter (p. 116.), we are told that 

 Sir William " married a Miss De Lancy, who died 

 in 1778, leaving him a daughter." In another 

 note relating to Sir William (p. 227.), it is stated 

 that " he married a daughter of the second son of 

 the Duke of St. Alban's. Her ladyship died in 

 1778, leaving him no issue." How are we to re- 

 concile these statements ? H. Martin. 



Halifax. 



[The work professes to be edited by Mr. Wade. 

 Mr. Wade therefore, and not Mr. Bohn, is responsible 

 for the errors pointed out by our correspondent. — Ed.] 



Elinor #ata». 



Mutilating Books — Swift, in a letter to Stella, 

 Jan. 16, 1711, says, "I went to Bateman's the 



bookseller, and laid out eight-and-forty shillings 

 for books. I bought three little volumes of Lucian 

 in French, for our Stella." This Bateman would 

 never allow any one to look into a book in his 

 shop ; and when asked the reason, he would say, 

 " I suppose you may be a physician, or an author, 

 and want some recipe or quotation ; and if you 

 buy it I will engage it to be perfect before you 

 leave me, but not after ; as I have suffered by 

 leaves being torn out, and the books returned, to 

 my very great loss and prejudice." Abhba. 



The Plymouth Calendar. — To your collection 

 of verses (Vol. vii. passim) illustrative of local 

 circumstances, incidents, &c, allow me to add the 

 following : 



" The West wind always brings wet weather, 

 The East wind wet and cold together ; 

 The South wind surely brings us rain, 

 The North wind blows it back again. 

 If the Sun in red should set, 

 The next day surely will be wet ; 

 If the Sun should set in grey, 

 The next will be a rainy day." 



Balliolensis. 



Divinity Professorships. — In the last number 

 of The Journal of Sacred Literature (April, 1 854), 

 there is a well-deserved eulogium on the biblical 

 labours of Dr. Kitto ; who, though in the enjoy- 

 ment of the title of D.D. (conferred on him some 

 years ago by a Continental University), is never- 

 theless a layman, and not, as is very commonly 

 imagined, in orders. The article, however, to 

 which I refer, contains a curious mistake. Mi- 

 chaelis is cited (p. 122.) as an instance of a layman 

 being able, on the Continent, to hold a professor- 

 ship relating to theology and biblical science, in 

 contrast to what is assumed to be the invariable 

 sytem at the English Universities. It is true, 

 indeed, that for the most part such professorships 

 are here held by clergymen ; but from several of 

 them laymen are not excluded by any law. At 

 Cambridge, the Norrisian Professor of Divinity, 

 for example, may be a layman. 



With respect to the degree of D.D., it is ob- 

 served by the writer of the article, p. 127. : 



" In Germany this degree is given to laymen, but in 

 England it is exclusively appropriated to the clergy. 

 This led to the very general impression among 

 strangers, that Dr. Kitto is a clergyman." 



Abhba. 



[We have frequently seen the celebrated Nonjuror 

 Henry Dodwell noticed as in orders, perhaps from his 

 portrait exhibiting him in gown and bands as Camden 

 Professor of History at Oxford. Miss Strickland, too, 

 in her Lives of the Queens of England, vol. vii. p. 202., 

 and vol. viii. p. 352., edit. 1853, speaks of that worthy 

 layman, Robert Nelson, both as a Doctor and a clergy- 

 man ! — Ed.] 



