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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[No. 56. 



voted an admirer of Charles I., with the warmest 

 feelings of respect and admiration. 



" The death of my cousin Wandesford," said Lord 

 Strafford, " more alleets me than the prospect of my 

 own ; for in him is lost tlie richest magazine of learn- 

 ins, wisdom, and piety that these times could boast." 



^ '^ J. H. M. 



Bath. 



Steele s Burial-place (Vol. ii., pp. 375,441.).— 

 I have been able to get the following particnlars 

 respecting Steele's burial-place. Steele was buried 

 in the chancel of St. Peter's Church, Caeimarthen. 

 The entry stands thus in the Register : — 



"1729. 



" Sep. 4. S*- Richard Steel." 



There is no monument to his memory in St. 

 Peter's Church ; but in Llangunnor church, about 

 two miles from Caermarthen, there is a plain mo- 

 numental tablet with the following inscription : — 



" This stone was erected at the instance of William 

 Williams, of Ivy Tower, owner of Penddaylwn Vawr, 

 in Llangunnor ; part of the estate there once belong- 

 ing to the deservedly celebrated Sir Richard Steele, 

 knight, chief author of the essays named Tatlers, 

 Guardians, and Spectators; and he wrote The Chris- 

 tian Hero, The Englishman, and The Crisis, The 

 Conscious Lovers, and other fine plays. He represented 

 several places in Parliament ; was a staunch and able 

 patriot; finally, an incomparalde writer on morality 

 and Christianity. Hence the ensuing lines in a poem, 

 called The Head of the Rock : — 



' Behold Llangunnor, leering o'er the vale, 

 Pourtrays a scene t' adorn romantic tale; 

 But more than all the beauties of its site, 

 Its former owner gives the mind delight. 

 Is there a heart that can't affection feel 

 For lands so rich as once to boast a Steele ? 

 Who warm for freedom, and with virtue fraught, 

 His country dearly lov'd, and greatly taught ; 

 Whose morals pure, the purest style conveys, 

 T instruct his Britain to the last of days.' " 



Steele resided at White House (Ty Gwyn, as it 

 IS called in Welsh), a clean farm-house half way 

 between Caermarthen and Llangunnor church, 

 which is situate on a hill commanding extensive 

 views of one of the prettiest vales in Wales. A 

 field near the house is pointed out as the site of 

 Steele's garden, in the bower of which he is sa.d 

 to have written his " Conscious Lovers." The 

 Ivy Bush, formerly a private house, and said to be 

 the house where Steele died, is now the principal 

 inn in Caermarthen. Wm. Spurrell. 



Caermarthen. 



Cure for Warts (Vol. i., p. 482.) — In Buck- 

 inghamshire I have heard of the charming away of 

 warts by touching each wart with a separate green 

 pea. Each pea being wrapped in paper by itself, 

 and buried, the wart will vanish as the pea decays. 



J. W. H. 



Etymology of '' Parse'' (Vol. ii., p. 118.).— 

 Surely to parse is to take by itself each pa7-s, or 

 part of speech. The word does not seem to have 

 been known in 1611 when Brinsley published his 

 Posing of the Parts : or, a most plain and easie 

 Way of examining the Accidence and Gt-ammar. 

 This work appears to liave been very popular, as 

 I have by me the ticelfth edition, London, 1669. 

 In 1612, the same autlior issued his Lvdus Lite- 

 rariits : or the Grammar Schoole. Both these 

 works interest me in him. Can any of your 

 readers communicate any j)articulars of his 

 history ? J. AY. Ii. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. 



Admiration of the works of Holbein in Germany, as 

 in this country, seems to increase with increasing years. 

 Wo have received from INIessrs. Williams and Norgate 

 a copy of a new edition of his Bible Cuts lately pub- 

 lished at Leipsic, under the title Hans Hvlbein's Altes 

 Testament in fu»fzi</ II' Izschnitten getreu nach den 

 Orlginalen cojiirt. IIera>isi)er/ehen von Ilvgo Biirhner, 

 mit eincr Einleitung von D. F. Siitgniaini, to which we 

 direct the attention of our readers, no less on account 

 of the beauty and fidelity with which these admirable 

 specimens of Holbein's genius have been copied, than 

 of the interesting account of them prelixed by their 

 new editor. 



We beg to call the attention of such of our anti- 

 quaries as are interested in the history of the Orkneys 

 to a valuable contribution to our knowledge of them, 

 lately published by our accomplished friend, Professor 

 Munch, of Christiana, under the title of Si/mbola: ad 

 Ilistoriam Antiquiorem Eernm Noricegicurum, which con- 

 tains, I. A short Chronicle of Norway ; 1 1. Genealogy 

 of the Earls of Orkney ; III. Catalogue of the Kings 

 of Norway — from a MS., for the most part hitherto 

 inedited, and which appears to have been written in 

 Orkney about the middle of the fifteenth century. 



While on the subject of foreign works of interest to 

 English readers, we may mention two or three others 

 which we have been for some time intending to bring 

 under the notice of those who know how much light 

 may be thrown upon our early language and literature 

 by a study of the contemporary literature of the Low 

 Countries. The first is, Dciikvmihr A'icderdeutscher 

 Sprac/ie vnd Litiratur von Dr. Albert Hoeftr, Erstcs 

 Banclirn, which contains the highly curious Low Ger- 

 man Whitson play called Claivs Btir. The next is a 

 larger, more elaborately edited, and froin its intro- 

 duction and extensive notes and various illustrations, a 

 yet more interesting work to English philologists. It 

 is entitled Leven ran Sinte Cliriatina de Jl'oitderbare, 

 an old Dutch poem, now first edited from a IVIS. of 

 the fourteenth or fifteenth century, by Professor 

 Bormans. 



We have received the following Catalogues: — 

 Thomas Kerslake's (3. Park Street, Bristol) Books, 

 including valuable late Purchases ; John Wheldon's 



