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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 7. 
weekly paper published in Liverpool, in May, 1823. 
It was communicated by a correspondent who had 
obtained a copy from the writer in Germany : — 
“Des Dorfes Glocke schallt den Moor entlang.” 
I must frankly avow that I have no present ob- 
ject in seeking information beyond the gratification 
of curiosity; but I would venture to throw out a 
hint that an edition of this Elegy, exhibiting all the 
known translations, arranged in double columns, 
might be made a noble monument to the memory 
of Gray. The plan would involve the necessity 
for a folio size, affording scope for pictorial illus- 
tration, on a scale capable of doing justice to “ the 
most finished poem in the English sana ee 
ON AUTHORS AND BOOKS, NO. 2. 
To revive the memory of estimable authors, or 
of estimable books, is a pursuit to which a man of 
leisure may devote himself under the certainty 
that he can neither want materials to proceed with, 
nor miss the reward of commendation. 
It is by the extensive circulation of biographical 
dictionaries, and the re-productive agency of the 
press, that the fame of authors and their works 
is chiefly perpetuated. General biographers, how- 
ever, relying too much on the intelligence and tact 
of their precursors, are frequently the dupes of 
tradition; and the press, like other descriptions of 
machinery, requires a double motive-power. 
A remedy happily presents itself. As it appears, 
a short note is sufficient to raise inquiry; and 
inquiry may lead to new facts, or advance critical 
equity. It may rescue a meritorious author from 
oblivion, and restore him to his true position on 
the roll of fame. 
It is near a century and a half since Ant. Wood 
printed a notice of the reverend Thomas Powell, 
and more than a century since the inquisitive 
Oldys devoted eighteen pages to an abstract of 
his Human industry; — yet we search in vain for 
the name of Powell in the dictionaries of Aikin, 
Watkins, Chalmers, Gortin, &c.—TIt is even omit- 
ted in the Cambrian biography of his countryman 
William Owen, F.s.A. 
An exact transcript of the title of the work, and 
of the manuscript notes which enrich my own copy 
of it, may therefore be acceptable : — 
« Humane industry: or, a history of most manual 
arts, deducing the original, progress, and improvement 
of them, Furnished with variety of instances and ex- 
amples, shewing forth the excellency of humane wit. 
[ Anonymous.] London, for Henry Herringman, 1661.” 
8°. 
[ On the title.| “ E libris rarioribus Joannis Brand, 
Coll. Line. Oxon, 1777.” 
[ On a fly-leaf.| “ This book is ascribed by Wood to 
Dr. ‘Tho®. Powell, canon of St. David’s, who was, says 
he, ‘an able philosopher, a curious critic, and well 
versed in various languages.’ See an abstract of this 
searce book in Oldys’s British librarian, p. 42.” 
-“ N.B.— The above is the hand-writing of the Rev4. 
M'. Granger, author of the Biographical history. — 
I bought it of Mt. Prince at Oxford, who purchased 
his books.” [John Brand. ] 
I have now only to consign the learned Powell 
to future biographers, and to recommend the 
volume as one which deserves a place in every 
choice collection of English books, 
Borttron Corney. 
MINOR NOTES. 
Quotations from Pope. 
D***N**R. (p. 38.), gives, as an instance of 
misquotation, a passage from Pope, as it appeared 
in the Times, and adds a correction of it. As my 
memory sugeested a version different from both 
that of the Zimes, and the correction of your cor- 
respondent, I turned to Pope (Bowles edition, 
1806), and found the passage there, precisely as it 
is given from the Times. Has your correspondent 
any authority for his reading ? No various reading 
of the lines 1s given by Bowles. ii 
While on the subject of Pope, I will make a 
note (as I have not seen it noticed by his com- 
mentators), that the well-known line, 
‘* The proper study of mankind is man,” 
Ny tees from Charron (De la Sagesse, 1. i. 
che 1) = 
“La vraye science et le vray etude de homme c’est 
l'homme.” 
F.F.B. 
[We may add, that in the Aldine edition of Pope, 
which was produced under the editorial superintend- 
ence of the Rev. A. Dyce, the lines are given as quoted 
from the Times, and without any various reading. See 
vol. ii. p. 55.] 
Angels’ Visits. 
Campbell’s famous line, 
“ Like angels visits, few and far between,” 
has been clearly shown by a correspondent in 
another paper, to be all but copied from Blair: — 
“like an ill-used ghost 
Not to return ; —-or if it did, its visits, 
Like those of angels, short and far between.” 
Blair’s Grave, 
But the same phrase, though put differently, oc- 
curs ina religious poem of Norris of Bemerton, 
who died in 1711 :— 
“ But those who soonest take their flight, 
Are the most exquisite and strong, 
Like angels visits, short and bright, 
Mortality’s too weak to bear them long.” 
WIccCAMECUS. — 
