1825.] 
ed, he withholds. He is silent, also, as 
to the circumstances of the Curate, on 
whose part equity ought no less to be 
regarded, ..Now, he also may he “a 
worthy clergyman with a large family,” 
or he may: bean individual with nothing 
to depend on. but the stipend of his 
curacy. 
Quere, Mr. Editor :—Whether Cato 
is the /ay impropriator in the present in- 
stance ? T.F. 
—=z_——— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sr: 
4 AVING remarked, in the last 
Number of your valuable Maga- 
zine, p. 59, a review of a work of mine, 
in which you condemn my use of the 
word idiotism, in the sense of idiom—I 
beg to observe, that my authority for 
using if was Johnson’s Dictionary, in 
which sentences from Dryden, Hall and 
Hale are quoted, with the word used in 
the sense in which I applied it; and 
that I preferred it to the word idiom, 
because the Greek word idiolismos (and 
not idioma) is applied to peculiar modes 
of speaking, vulgarly used in one lan- 
guage, but such as not to admit of a 
hteral translation into another. As, 
however, the word seems to be little 
known, and I have been blamed for 
having made use of it, by several other 
persons, you will oblige me if you will 
insert this letter in your next Number.— 
Your’s, &c. E. Duvarp. 
Leeds, Aug. 13, 1825. 
[We have looked into Johnson (fol. edit. 
of 1785), and we find no quotation from 
Dryden to countenance the use of the word 
-ddiotism, in this sense; and we strongly 
suspect that Dryden never has so used it. 
A quotation is indeed given (and it is only 
quotation) from Bishop Hale, in which it 
is soused. But in that sense it is now 
completely obsolete; and ought by Dr. 
Johnson to have been so described. ‘The 
second signification given, without any quo- 
tation, by the lexicographer, “ 2. Folly; 
natural imbecility of mind,” is the only 
one it now bears in discourse; and we have 
shewn our good sense in forbearing the use 
of the same word in two different senses, 
especially as; at the same time, we should 
thereby have been also using two different 
words in the same individual sense. Mr. 
Duyard is probably a foreigner; and if so, 
it May not bejamiss to inform him, that 
although (to our shame be it spoken) we 
have yet no better dictionary than Dr. 
Johnson's, there goes something more to 
making an English scholar than consulting 
Johnson’s derivations and interpretations. 
There is one good and safe rule, in these 
cases, to which foreigners and English sta- 
Improper Use of the Word “ Idiotism.”—Purser Ennis. 
135 
dents would alike be wise in steadily adher- 
ing—namely, never to use the same word in 
two different senses, if he can find another 
word by which either of those senses can be 
conveyed.— Enir. | 
—<>— 
To 44 Editor of the Monthly Magaxiné. 
IR: 
REQUEST you will correct an 
error which appears on the cover 
of the Monthly Magazine of this month. 
The remarks:on the voyage to the 
new settlements on Melville and Ba- 
thurst Islands were made by Mr. Henry 
Ennis, a purser in the Royal Navy, and 
not Lieutenant Henry Ennis; there 
being no Lieutenant of that name (I 
believe) in the service.—Your’s, &c. 
Henry Ennis, Purser. 
His Majesty’s Ship Rainbow, 
Chatham, 18th Aug. 1825. 
—<— 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
Sir: 
HAT one of the three English 
Lions was from the first a Lion, 
I think is very clear—such being the 
armorial bearing of Anjou, and conjoined 
with the other two in the time of Henry 
II. Tyro is wrong in quoting the 
Author of Waverley, who certainly pos~< 
sesses little heraldic knowledge. {J 
join with him in wishing that some per- 
son conversant with ancient lore would 
illustrate this subject in the manner he 
describes, Gwillim, Clarke, Meyrick, 
Fosbroke, Carter,* Philpot, &c. are 
clearly of opinion that all three are 
Lions. R. G 
———aa—— 
HEIGHTS OF PLACES IN THE JAVA RE- 
GENCY. MEASURED BY M.REINWARDT. 
Eng. Feet. 
HBUIECNZOTE ino ao 6» /s\0b= o acalelnt te 865 
Megamendon......... welatie.. bie 4,848 
SalakoHse . S12 opiaithouerc’ atdisteltiays slasohhga ees 
Gedeshe 68 (2 somite Listas 0, Ona 
Pontjak Karang (Tjihea)...... 2,774 
‘Patocha (Tjisondarie) ........'7,407 
Tombak Reijong (ibid) ...... 6.291 
Village of Tjiwednij (ibid.) .. .. 3,572 
North Peak of Tiloe (Banjaran) 5,425 
South ditto .. ditto (ibid.) ....6,034 
Kampong Lamadjam (ibid.) . ..3,169 
—— Malabar (ihid.) . .. ..3,363 
Mountain of ditto (ibid.) .....6,621 
Village of Banjaran (ibid.) ....2,534 
Kampong Marajon (Tjiparay). . 3,035 
———_ Nenkellon (tbid.) . ..3,742.. 
Head of the Tjitarum River 
(Manahaija) ......-++-++4,645_ 
Sumbong (tbid.) ....++-.++-+5,093 
Tjikaraha (ibid.) 1 oe 4017 
Geenong Geenter (Timanganten) 6,085 
Village of Trogong (ibid.) ....2,350 
Telaga Bodas (Wanaradja) ¥.. 25,497 
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