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NOTES AND QUERIES. 
[No. 19. 
Burning the Dead. —“T.” will find some in- 
formation on this subject in Sir Thomas Browne’s 
Hydriotaphia, chap. i., which appears to favour his 
view except in the following extract :— 
“ The same practice extended also far west, and be- 
sides Heruleans, Getes, and Thracians, was in use with 
most of the Celtz, Sarmatians, Germans, Gauls, Danes, 
Swedes, Norwegians; not to omit some use thereof 
among Carthaginians, and Americans.” 
The Carthaginians most probably received the 
custom from their ancestors the Pheenicians, but 
where did the Americans get it ? 
Henry St. Cuan. 
Corpus Christi Hall, Maidstone, Feb. 8. 1850. 
Burning the Dead. — Your correspondent “ T.” 
(No. 14. p. 216.) can hardly have overlooked the 
case of Dido, in his inquiry “ whether the practice 
of burning the dead has ever been in vogue amongst 
any people, excepting inhabitants of Europe and 
Asia?” According to all classical authorities, 
Dido was founder and queen of Carthage in Africa, 
and was burned at Carthage on a funeral pile. 
If it be said that Dido's corpse underwent burn- 
ing in conformity with the custom of her native 
country Tyre, and not because it obtained in the 
land of her adoption, then the question arises, 
whether burning the dead was not one of the cus- 
toms which the Tyrian colony of Dido imported 
into Africa, and became permanently established 
at Carthage. It is very certain that the Cartha- 
ginians had human sacrifices by fire, and that they 
burned their children in the furnace to Saturn. 
A. G. 
Ecclesfield, Feb. 8. 1850. 
MISCELLANIES. 
M. de Gournay.— The author of the axioms 
Laissez faire, laissez passer, which are the sum and 
substance of the free trade principles of political 
economy, and perhaps the pithiest and completest 
exposition of the doctrine of a particular school ever 
made, was Jean Claude Marie Vincent de Gour- 
nay, who was born at St. Malo in 1712, and died 
at Paris in 1759. In early life he was engaged in 
trade, and subsequently became Honorary Coun- 
cillor of the Grand Council, and Honorary Inten- 
dant of Commerce. He translated, in 1742, Josiah 
Child’s Considerations on Commerce and on the In- 
terest on Money, and Culpepper’s treatise Against 
Usury. He also wrote a good deal on questions 
of political economy. He was, in fact, with Dr. 
Quesnay, the chief of the French economists of the 
last century ; but he was more liberal than Ques- 
nay in his doctrines ; indeed he is (far more than 
Adam Smith) the virtual founder of the modern 
school of political economy ; and yet, perhaps, of 
all the economists he is the least known ! 
The great Turgot was a friend and ardent ad- 
mirer of M. de Gournay ; and on his death wrote 
a pompous “loge on him. 
A Man w a Garret. 
Cupid Crying.— “Our readers will remember 
that some time since (anté, p. 108.) we copied into 
our columns, from the ‘ Norges anp QuERIEs,’ an 
epigram of great elegance on the subject of ‘ Cupid 
Crying ;’ the contributor of which was desirous 
of finding through that medium, especially esta- 
blished for such discoveries, the original text and 
the name of its author. Subsequently, a corre- 
spondent of our own [anteé, p. 132.] volunteered a 
translation by himself, in default of the original. 
The correspondent of the ‘ Nores anp QuERtES’ 
has now stumbled on what he sought, and is desi- 
rous that we should transmit it to the author of 
the volunteer version, with his thanks. This we 
take the present means of doing. Under the sig- 
nature of ‘ Rurus,’ he writes as follows :—‘In a 
MS. book, long missing, I find the following copy, 
with a reference to Car. Iilust. Poet. Ital. vol. i. 
229, wherein it is ascribed to Antonio Tebaldeo— 
« De Cupidine. 
Cur natum cadit Venus? Arcum perdidit. 
Nune quis habet? Tusco Flavia nata solo. 
Qui factum? Petit hee, dedit hie; nam lumine forme 
Deceptus, matri se dare crediderat.” 
Arecum 
“Since printing this communication from ‘Rurus’ 
we have received the same original (with the varia- 
tion of a single word— quid for cur in the opening 
of the epigram) from a German correspondent at — 
Augsburgh. ‘ You will find it,’ he says, ‘in the 
Anthologia Latina Burmanniana, iii. 236, or in the 
new edition of this Latin Anthology, by Henry 
Meyer, Lipsiz, 1835, tom. ii. page 139, No. 1566. 
The author of the epigram is doubtful, but the 
diction appears rather too quaint for a good an- 
cient writer. Maffei ascribes it to Brenzoni, who 
lived in the sixteenth century; others give it to 
Ant. Tebaldeo, of Ferrara.’ Our readers will per- 
ceive that the translator has taken some liberties 
with his text. ‘ Lumine forme deceptus,’ for in- 
stance, is not translated by ‘she smiled.’ But it 
may be questioned if the suggestion is not eyen 
more delicate and graceful in the translator’s ver- 
sion than in the original.” — The Atheneum. 
THE MIRROR. 
(From the Latin of Owen.) 
Bella, your image just returns your smile — 
You weep, and tears its lovely cheek bedew — 
You sleep, and its bright eyes are closed the 
while — 
You rise, the faithful mimic rises too. — 
Bella, what art such likeness could increase 
If glass could talk, or woman hold her peace ? 
Rurvs. 
