June 8. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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when she called out, " Ah ! come back Mr. Curry, 

 and acknowledge that you are fairly beaten." 

 " At any rate," said he, turning round, " I have 

 this consolation, you can't laugh at me in your 

 sleeve ! " Scotus. 



Sir Walter Scott and Erasmus. — Has it yet 

 been noticed that the picture of German mannei-s 

 in the middle ages given by Sir W. Scott, in his 

 Anne of Geierstein (chap, xix.), is taken (in some 

 parts almost verbally) from Erasmus' dialogue, 

 Diversoriaf Although Sir "Walter mentions Eras- 

 mus at the beginning of the cliapter, he is totally 

 silent as to any hints he may have got from him ; 

 neither do the notes to my copy of his works at all 

 allude to this circumstance. W. G. S. 



Parallel Passages. — A correspondent in Vol. i., 

 p. 330, quoted some parallels to a passage in 

 Shakspeare's Julius Casar. Will you allow me 

 to add another, I think even more striking than 

 those he cited. The full passage in Shakspeare is, 

 " There is a tide in the affairs of man, 



Which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. 

 Omitted, all the voyage of their lives 

 Is bound in shallows and in miseries." 

 In Bacon's Advancement of Learning, book 2, 

 occurs the following : — 



" In the third place, I set down reputation because 

 of the peremptory tides and currents it hath, which, 

 if they be not taken in due time are seldom recovered, 

 it being extreme hard to play an after game of repu- 

 tation." 



E. L. N. 



Gray's Ode. — In return for the information 

 about Gray's Ode, I send an entertaining and very 

 characteristic circumstance told in Mrs. Bigg's 

 (anonymous) Residence in France (edited by 

 Gifford) : — 



" She had a copy of Gray when she was arrested in 

 the Reign of Terror. The Jacobins who searched her 

 goods lighted on the line — 



' Oh, tu severi religio loci,' 

 and said, ' Apparemment ce livre est quelque chose de 

 fanatique.'" 



My informant tells me that the monk he saw 

 was the same as the one mentioned by your cor- 

 respondent, and that he had a motto from Lord 

 Bacon over his cell. C.B. 



The Grand Style. — Is it not extremely probable 

 that Bonaparte plagiarised the idea of the centuries 

 observing the French army from the pyramids 

 from these lines of Lucan ? — 



" Sipcula Ilomanos nuncjuam tacitura labore, 

 Attenfliint, ecvviiKjutt st'fjiit-iig sjn'culutiir ab omni 

 Orbe ratcm." — I'liurs. viii. 022. 



One of the recent French revolutionists (I think 

 Rollin) compared himself with the victim of Cal- 

 vary. Even this profane rant is a plagiarism. 



Gracchus Babojuf, who headed the extreme re- 

 publican party against the Directory, exclaimed, 

 on his trial, that his wife, and those of his fellow- 

 conspirators, " should accompany them even to 

 Calirn-y, because the cause of their punishment 

 should not bring them to shame." — Mignet's 

 French Revolution, chap. xii. J. F. Botes. 



Hoppesteris. — The " shippis hoppesteris," in 

 Chaucer's Knight's Tale, 2019., is explained by 

 Tyrwhitt to mean dancing, and that in the femi- 

 nine — a very odd epithet. He tells us that the 

 corresponding epithet in Boccaccio is hellatrici, 

 I have no doubt that Chaucer mistook it for balla- 

 trici. C. B. 



Sheridan's Last Residence (Vol. i., p. 484.) — I 

 wonder at any doubt about poor Sheridan's having 

 died in his own house, 17. Saville Row. His re- 

 mains, indeed, were removed (I believe for pru- 

 dential reasons which I need not specify) to Mr. 

 Peter Moore's, in Great George Street ; but he 

 was never more than a temporary, though fre- 

 quent visitor at Mr. Moore's. C. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, CATALOGUES, SALES, ETC. 



The Devices and Mottoes of the later Middle Ages 

 (Z)ie De.visen laid Motto des Spdteren JMittelalttrs, von 

 J. V. Radmcilz), just imported by Messrs. Williams and 

 Norgate, is one of those little volumes which such of 

 our readers as are inturested in the subject to which it 

 relates should make a note of They will, in addition 

 to many novel instances of Devices, INIottoes, Em- 

 blems, &c., find much curious learning upon the sub- 

 jects, and many useful bibliographical references. 



Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson will sell, on Saturday 

 next, the very beautiful collection of Oriental Manu- 

 sciipts of the late Dr. Scott ; on Monday and Tues- 

 day, bis Medical Library ; on Wednesday, his valuable 

 Collection of Music ; and on Tliursday, his Philoso- 

 phical and IMathematical Instnunents, Fire arms, and 

 other miscellaneous objects of interest. 



We have received the following catalogues : — 

 John Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue, 

 Part CXI I., No. 6. for 1850 of Old and New Books; 

 W. S. Lincoln's (Cheltenham House, Westminster 

 Road) Fifty-Seventh Catalogue of Cheap Second-band 

 Books, English and Foreign; James Sage's (4. New- 

 man's Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields) Miscellaneous List 

 of Valuable and Interesting Books ; Edward Stibbs' 

 (331. Strand) Catalogue of Miscellaneous Collection of 

 Books, comprising Voyages, Travels, Biography, His- 

 tory, Poetry, Drama, &c. 



llott'rcS ta CorrrSpaiiiiriit^. 



Index and Trri,i:-PACE to Volume the First. The 

 Index is preparing as rapii//i/ us can he, consistently with 

 fullness and acctiruci/, and xve hope to have that and the 

 Title page ready hi/ the 1 5tli of the Month. 



Covers for the First Volume are preparinfj, and will he 

 ready for Suhscrihers with the 2'itle-l'aye anil Index. 



