Oct. 26. 1850.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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ADVICE TO THE EDITOR, AND HINTS TO HIS 

 CONTRIBUTORS. 



My signature 2. having been adopted by another 

 correspondent, 1 Lave been obliged to discontinue 

 it. 



My other signature *., which I have used since 

 your commencement, is in your last luiuiber ap- 

 plied to the contribution of another gentleman, 

 although the same number contains two articles 

 of mine with that signature. 



As this is palpably inconvenient, pray accept 

 the following 



ADVICE TO THK EDITOa. 



A contributor sending a Note or a Query, 



Considers what signature's better ; 

 And lest his full name too oft should prove weary, 



He sumetinies subscribes with a letter. 



This letter in English or Greek thus selected, 



As his personal mark he engages ; 

 From piracy, therefore, it should be protected. 



Throughout all the rest of your pages. 



By a contrary practice confusion is sown. 



And annoyance to writers of spirit, 

 Who wish not to claim any Notes but their own. 



Or of less or superior merit. 



I submit in such cases no writer would grumble. 



But give you his hearty permission. 

 When two correspondents on one mark should stumble, 



To make to the last an addition. 



You are bound to avoid ev'ry point that distre.sses. 



And prevent all collision that vexes. 

 Preserving the right of each collar of SS, 



And wardini; the blows of cross XX. 



iHiuor ^atei. 



Ttnllms Ancient Ilistori/ and History of the Arts 

 and Sciences. — It may be useful to note, for the 

 benefit of some of your student readers, that the 

 mo.st procurable editions of Rollin's Ancient His- 

 tory are deficient, inasmuch as they do not con- 

 j tain his Ilisturyof the Arts and Sciences, which is 

 ! an integral port of the work. After having pos- 

 1 sessed several editions of the work of KoUin, I 

 ' now liave got Biackie's edition of 1837, in 3 vols. 

 8vo., edited by liell; and 1 learn from its preface 

 that tiiis is the only edition published since 1740 

 containing the History of the Arts and Sciences. 



How comes it that the editions since 1740 iiave 

 been so castrated ? Iota. 



Liverpool, October 16. 1850. 



Ji'zvhid. — The name of this queen is, T think, in- 

 correctly translated in all the Bible Dictionaries 

 and Cycloptcdius that iiave come under my notice. 

 It Wius common amongst all ancient nations to trive 

 compound tv.imi's to persons, partly forme<l from the 

 names of tlicir respective divinities. This observa- 



tion applies particularly to the Assyrians, Baby- 

 lonians, and their dependencies, together with the 

 Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Egyptians, and Greeks. 

 Hence we find, both in scripture and profane 

 history, a number of names compounded of 

 Baal, such as i?«flZ-hanan, Gen. xxxvi. 38., the 

 gift, grace, mercy, or favour of Baal : the name of 

 the celebrated Carthaginian general, HanniJaZ, is 

 the same name transposed. The father of the 

 Tyrian prince, Hiram, was called Ah'ibal, my 

 father is Baal, or Baal is my father. Eshfiaa^, the 

 fire of Baal ; Jaruhbaal, let Baal contend, or de- 

 fend his cause ; ^lerxbaal, he that resists Baal, or 

 strives against the idol, were Hebrew names, ap- 

 parently imposed to ridicule those given in honor 

 of Baal. The father of Jezebel was called Eth- 

 baal, Kings xvi. 31., (classically, Ithohalus,) with 

 Baal, towards Baal, or him that rules. Lastly, 

 Hasdru6aZ signifies help or assistance of Baal. 

 "Will some of the talented contributors to "Notes 

 AND Qderies" inform me what is the composition 

 and meaning oi Jezebel, as it has hitherto baffled 

 my own individual researches ? Is it the contracted 

 feminine form of HasdruiaZ ? W. G. H. 



Clarendon, Oxford SfWwn o/ 1815.— The fol- 

 lowing curious fixct, relating to the Oxford edition 

 of Lord Clarendon's History in 1815, was com- 

 municated to me by a gentleman who was then 

 officially interested in the publication, and per- 

 sonally cognisant of the circumstances. 



In the year 1815, the University of Oxford de- 

 termined to reprint Clarendon's History of the 

 Rebellion, and to add to it that of the Irish re- 

 bellion ; but as it was suspected by one of the 

 delegates of the press, that the edition from which 

 they were printing the " Irish Rebellion " was 

 spurious, as it attributed the origin of the rebellion 

 to the Protestants instead of the Catholics ; a much 

 earlier copy was procured Irom Dublin, through 

 the chaplain of the then Lord Lieutenant, which 

 reversed the accusation which was contained in the 

 copy from which the University had been about 

 to print. J. T. A. 



September 30. 1 850. 



Macauluys Country Si/uire. — I suppose I may 

 take it for granted that all the world has long 

 since been made merry by Mr. Macaulav's de- 

 scription of " the country squire on a visit to Lon- 

 don in 1685." {History of England, vol. i. p. 369.) 



I am not aware that Steele's description of a 

 country gentleman under similar circumstances 

 has ever been referred to ; it is certainly far from 

 being as graphic as Mr. I\[acaulay's ; but the one 

 nuiy at all events serve to illustrate the other, and 

 to |)rove that Urbs had not made any very great 

 progress in urbanity between 1685 and 1712. 



" If a coimtry gentleman appears a little curious in 

 observing the edifices, signs, clocks, coaches, and dials, 



