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Saturday, December 7. 1850. 



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CONTENTS. 



NOTFS • — 



Furilier Notes on the Hippopotamus - - - 



Paral'el Passages : Coleridge, Hooker, Butler, by 



J. E. B. Mayor - - - " . ^" 



Shakspeire and the old Enghsh Actors m Germany, 

 bv Albert Cohn ------ 



Ten ChiKlren at a Birth - - - " ,, m" 



Ge irge Herbert and Bemcrton Church, by H. 1 . 

 ElUicombe - " " ". _ " „." 



M'nor Notes:— Lord Mayor's Show m 1701 — bir 

 Thomas Pliillipps's MSS — Translation from' Owen, 

 &c. _ Epigram on tlie late Bull — Bailie Nicol 

 Jarvie— Hogs not Pigs— Tlie Baptized Tuik 



Pa<;e 

 457 



458 



499 

 4.i9 



4G0 



460 



QuERifsS : — 



Gray — Drvden— Plavins Cards - 



Minor Queries : — Preended Reprint nf Ancient Poetry 

 — The Jews' Spring Gardens— Cardinal Allen's Adino- 

 mtidu Vi the Nohiliiy — " Clarum et venerahi I e No- 

 men "— Whipping by Women — Lwrig — MS. History 

 ol Winchester School- — lieuedicite — The Chinch 

 History .Society — Pope G.mganelli — .Sir George 



- 462 



Downing — Solemnization of Matrimony — Passage 

 in Bish)p Butler— The Duke of Wharton's I'oetical 

 Works — Titus Oa'.es — , Translations of Erasmus' 



Colloquies and Apuleius' 'Golden .Ass, &c. 



- 463 



Replies: — 



Holme MSS._ The Cradocks . . - - 



Antiquity of Smoking - - - - - 



Antiquitas Sa;culi Juventus Mundi - . - 



Albemarle, Title of, by Lord Brayhrooke 

 Replies to Minor Queries : — Cromwell Poisoned — 

 " Never did Cardnial bring Good to Englai d "— 

 Gloves not wnrn in the Presence of Royalty — N^i^" 

 jiir.irs' Oratories in London — " Filthy Gingran " — 

 Michael Scott — The Widow of the Wood — Modnm 

 Protnissionis — End of Easter— Hirst Earl of Ros- 

 common ■— Drydi'u's " Absolom and Achitophel " — 

 _ Cabalistic Author — Bccket — Aiirostation — Kilt 

 — Bacon Family, &c. - - - ~ 



MiSCRI.I.ANEOUS : — 



Notes on Hooks, .Sales,. Catalogues, &c. - 



Books and Odd Volumes Wanted 



Notices ta Correspondents . . - 



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i'URTHER NOTF.S ON TUE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 



The following remarks are supplementary to a 

 note on the lii[)popotanius in Vol. ii , p. 35. In 

 that note the exhibition of the hippopotamus at 

 the liouian games is not traced lower than the 

 time of the Em])eror Commodus. Ilelagalnilus, 

 however, 21 8-'2'2 a.d., liad hii>i)op()tami among the 

 variou.s rare animals which he di>i)layed in ])ublic 

 as a part of his state. (Laiiiprid. c. 28 ) A hippo- 

 potamus was likewise in tiic vast collection ()f 

 animals which were i)repared for the Persian 

 triumph of Gordian III., but were exhibited at 

 the secular games celebrated by the Emperor 

 Philip in the 1000th year of Rome, 248 a.d. 



(Capitol, hi Gordian. Tert., c, 33.) In the seventh- 

 eclogue of Calpurnius, a countryman describes the 

 animals which he saw in the Roman amphitheatre, 

 among which is the hippopotamus : 



" Noil solum no!)is silvestria cernere moiistra 

 Contigit ; a?f(ii(>reo,s ego cum certantibu-; ursis 

 Spectavi vitulns, et equorum nomine dignum, 

 Sed deforme genus, quod in illo nascitur amiiL 

 Qui sata riparuin venientibiis irrigat undis." 



VII. 6-4-S. 



Calpurnius is generally referred to the time of' 

 Carus and Numerian, about 283 a. d. ; but his 

 date is not determined by any satisfactory pi-oof. 

 (See Ur. Smith's Diet, of Ancient Biog. and Myth. 

 in V.) 



There is no trace of a live hippopotamus having 

 been brought to Europe between the time specified 

 in the last of these testimonies and the middle of 

 the sixteenth century. When Belon visited Con- 

 stantinople, he saw there a living hippopotamus, 

 which had been bi\)ught from the Nile : 



" L'anirrial que j'ai veu vivant a Constantinople (he 

 says), apporte du Nil, convenoil en toutes marques 

 avec ceulx (|u'oii voit gravez en diverses medales des 

 Empereurs." — Observnlions, liv. ii. c. 3*2. fol. 103. b. 

 ed. ] 564. 



Belon returned to Paris from the Levant in the 

 year 1550. In his work on fishes, p. 17., he speaks 

 of another Frenchman, lately returned from Con- 

 stantinople, who had seen the same animal. (See 

 Schneider on A7-tedi Synonym. Pisciitm, p. 267.) 

 P. Gillius likewise, who visited Constantinople in 

 1550, saw there the same hippopotamus, as he 

 states in his description of the elephant,. Hamburg, 

 114. (Schneider, /ft. p.Slfi.) 



Your correspondent, iMk. G. S. Jackson (Vol. ii., 

 p. 277.) controverts the opinion expressed in my 

 former note, that none of the Greek writers had 

 seen a live hippopotanuis. He thinks that " Hero- 

 dotus's way of speaking would seem to show that 

 he was describing from his own observation ;" and 

 he infers that the animal was found at that time as 

 far north as the Delta, from tlie fact, mentioned 

 by Herodotus, of its being held sacred in the nome 

 of Papremis But, in the first place, it does not 

 follow that, because the hippopotamus was held 

 sacred in the Paprcmitic nome, it 'was (bund in the 



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