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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 41. 



eaticrics. 



THE "bAk" of MICHAEL ANGELO. 



In that delightful volume, In Memoriam, in 

 ■\vhicli Mr. Tenjson has so nobly and pathetically 

 enshrined the memory of his friend, Arthur Hallam, 

 ■he following passage occurs, pp. 12G, 127.: — 

 " To these conclusions, when we saw 

 The God witliin him light liis face, 

 And seem to Uft tlie form, and glow 

 In azure orbits heaveidy-wise ; 

 And over those ethereal eyes 

 TIte bar of Michael Angelo." 



To what does this allude ? In the fine profile 

 portrait by Julio Bonasoni, jNIichael Angelo ap- 

 ipears to have had a protuberant brow ; and 

 •Condivi says, in his very interesting and detailed 

 account of his person, that his forehead was square, 

 ^nd that, seen in profile (" quasi avanza il naso"), 

 it projected almost beyond the nose. It is remark- 

 .able that the same spirit pervades these verses 

 which we find in the Platonic breathings of tlie 

 JRime of the great artist ; but we are most forcibly 

 reminded of the poet of Vaucluse. The grief of 

 ■the poet for the loss of his friend has however had 

 a happier effect on his mind than the more iinpas- 

 •sioned nature of tliat of the lover of Laura pro- 

 duced: yet a kindred feeling, of spiritual commu- 

 nion with the lost one, pervades both poets ; and 

 this might have been the motto of Mr. Tenyson's 

 volume : — 



" Levommi il mio penslero in parte ov' era 

 Quello ch' io cerco, e non ritrovo in terra; 



In questa spera 



Saral ancor mcco, s' el desir non erra." 



Foscolo has remarked that " when a great poet 

 ■describes his own lieart, his picture of Love will 

 draw tears from the eyes of every sensitive mortal 

 in every age." And no one can i-ead these efl'u- 

 sions of deepfelt virtuous affection without emo- 

 tions of a happy tendency. S. W. Singer. 



ANNOTATED COPIES OF BISHOP ANDKEWES WORKS. 



Acting on a suggestion given in a previous num- 

 ter, I beg to state that I shall be much obliged by 

 the use of any annotated copies of the follow'ng 

 works of Bp. Andrewes, which I am engaged in 

 taking through the press: — Tortma Torti; Re- 

 sponsio ad Apolog. Cordius Bdlarmini ; Opuscula 

 Po.stliuma ; Two Answers to Cardinal Perron, &f-c. ; 

 Preccs Pinvata:. James Bliss. 



Ogburne St. Andrew, near Marlborough. 



iKliiior caucritS. 



Robert Innes, a Grub Street , Poet. — Is there 

 anything known respecting a strange " madcap," 

 ■one Robert Innes, who, according to a printed 



broadside now before me, was a pauper in St. 

 Peter's Hospital, 1787 ? He was in the habit of 

 penning doggrel ballads and hawking them about 

 for sale. Some of them have a degree of humour, 

 and are, to a certain extent, valuable at the pre- 

 sent time fi)r their notices of passing events. In 

 one of these now rare eifusions, he styles himself 

 "R. Innes, O.P.," and in explanation gives the 

 following lines : — 



" Some put unto their name A.M., 



And others put a D. and D., 

 If 'tis no harm to miniick them, 



I adds unto my name O. P. 



Master of Arts, sure I am not. 



No Doctor, no Divine I be; 

 But Oakum Picking is my lot, 



Of the same clay are we all three." 



Tlie " works " of this " rogue and vagabond," 

 now in my possession, were given me by the late 

 Mr. Catnach of Seven Dials. 



Edward F. Rimbault. 



The Sicilian Vespers. — In what English work 

 can a full and correct narrative of this event be 

 found? C. H. Cooper. 



Cambridge, July i?9. 1850. 



One Bell.— Can any of 3'our readers fiivour me 

 with a reference to some authority for the follow- 

 ing, which may be found in Southey's Book of the 

 Chitrch (vol.ii. p. 121.)? 



" Somerset pretended that one bell in a steeple was 

 suflRcient for summoning the people to prayer ; and the 

 country was thus in danger of losing its best music" 



What follows is so beautiful and appropriate, that 

 I may perhaps be excused for lengthening my 

 quotation : 



" — a music, hallowed l)y all circumstances, which, ac- 

 cording equally with social exultation and with solitary 

 penslveness, though it fails upon many an unheeding 

 ear, never foils to lind some hearts which it exhilarates, 

 and some which it softens." 



It is a curious fact, that in many towers there 

 may be often found a solitary black-letter Bell {\il 

 may so call it), evidently of ante-Reformation date, 

 making one of the peal. II. T. E. 



Treasure Trove. — The prejudicial effect which 

 the law of Treaszire Trove, as it now exists in this 

 country, has been found to exercise upon the pre- 

 servation of objects of archaeological interest, es- 

 pecially if such articles happen to be formed of 

 either of the precious metals, is just now exciting 

 the attention of the antiquarian world. Any notes 

 upon the state of this law upon the Continent, 

 any r6iereniL^33 to instances of valuable " finds" 

 which have been lost to archa;ologieal investiga- 

 tion through the operation of this law, or to cases 

 in which the decisions of the courts have been 

 given upon questions of this law ; in short, any hints 



