Apkil 26. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



525 



Here Arundel's fam'd structure rear'd its frame. 

 The street alone retains the empty name ; 

 Where Titian's glowing paint the canvass warm'd, 

 And Raphael's fair design, with judgment, charm'd, 

 Now hangs the hellmans song, and pasted here 

 The colour'd prints of Oveiton appear." 



Trivia, book ii. 482. 



In the Archaic and Provincial Dictionary, the 

 duty of the Bellman in his poetic character seems 

 to be limited to blessing the sleepers. It appears 

 from the poem by Vincent Buuriie, that his Muse 

 took a much more extensive range. 



Can you inform me where I can find more 

 about the Bellman, his bell and his dog ; and, 

 especiall)', his songs ? Where can I find " The 

 Bellman's Songs?" 



Is "Bellman" a name given to dogs in modern 

 times? See Taming of the Shrew, Induction. 



F. W. T. 



[We cannot insert F. W. T.'s Query without re- 

 ferring to tlie admirable translation of Vinny Bourne's 

 Ode, which is to be found in &ur First Volume, p. 152.] 



WAS SALI-rSTITJS A XECTUEER ? — CONNEXION 

 BETWEEN S.iLLL'STIUS AND TACITUS. 



Sallustius,in his celebrated abstract of the Punic 

 records of Thempsal, makes the following remark : 



" Nam de Carthaglne silere melius puto, quam 

 parum dicere, quoniam alio properare tempus monet." — 

 J)e Bella Jtigiirthinn, c. xix. ed. Allen. 



Does not this sound as if the history has been 

 read out to an assembly ? There is strong pre- 

 sumptive evidence in favour of such a supposition, 

 in the tradition of Herodotus having read aloud 

 bis history at the Grecian Games. Besides, it was 

 a common practice of Cicero and Plinius the 

 Younger to read out their orations and treatises. 

 I cannot help thinking that the histories of Sal- 

 lustius were first delivered ns lectures, taken down 

 by reporters * employ wl by himself for the purposes 

 of preserving his words, as he had only notes before 

 him, fairly transcribed from the stenographic 

 character, and then, hut iwt till then, made a subject 

 of closet-study. This, I think, is easy of proof, 

 and instances may be adduced (the expression 1 

 have quoted is one) where the lecturer peeps out. 



The interpolated state in which this classic lins 

 come down to us is indeed sad : there is scarcely 

 a chapter throughout the Catiline and Jugurtha 

 where some transcriber has not been at work, 

 sticking in words and sometimes whole sentences, 

 which, 1 am astonished to see, have escaped the 

 notice of Cortiiis, Allen, and the older editors. 



I said above that Sallustius made his lectiu'es 

 or orations on tlie history of his country a subject 

 of closet study. He did so, and in an eminent 



* Short-hand, we know, w.-is in use al Rome. 



degree. His conciseness, clearness (when relieved 

 from the burden of interpolation), and usual im- 

 partiality, point to a careful and spiritual study of 

 Thucydides ; but he could not attain to an equal 

 degree of sweetness as the Greek historian, on 

 account of the general character of their several 

 languages dilTering. As far, however, ns Roman 

 could appro.ich to Greek, I conceive Sallustius 

 has approached to Thucvdidcs. Tacitus (whose 

 mind w.as impregnated with, and steeped in Sal- 

 lustius) rarely enounces a sentiment in his nume- 

 rous works the origin of which is not referable to 

 the latter author. It requires some careful thought 

 sometimes, before the passages can be traced ; but 

 they are traceable ; and if we had the whole works 

 of Sallustius, I doubt not but that we should be 

 able to trace them all much more easily. Perhaps 

 — I say it without' stress, mind; it is a mere sug- 

 gestion — it would be possible to restore, or ratlier 

 connect some of the historical fragments of Sal- 

 lustius by means of the Avorks of Tacitus. When 

 we find a sentiment of Sallustius half expressed in 

 the fragment, and trending towiirds the conclusion 

 arrived at by Tacitus, may we not, as we know 

 how completely the latter had imbibed the thoughts 

 of the former, reasonably suppose the remainder of 

 the passage to be parallel; and, following out the 

 idea, restore it, taking into consideration the dif- 

 ference of the mode of expression in the two 

 eras? And this may. hold good, not only between 

 Tacitus and Sallustius, but between Sallustius 

 and Thucydides. 



Such is the aspect under which I endeavour to 

 behold the classics, viz. as one great whole, having 

 here and there pieces gone or faded (lost or hope- 

 lessly corrupted), and which fit into each other, 

 showing the building which intellect erects, the 

 onlv building calculated to withstand the hand of 

 time. Thanks be to printing, to cheap literature, 

 and to English energy and investigation, antiquity 

 may again rear her head, and feel that it is com- 

 prehende<l in all its varied bearings, and lights 

 and shadows. 



To men like Kiebuhr, Groto, Layard, Prescott, 

 St. John, Wilkinson, Rawlinson, and Norris, do 

 we owe a debt of gratitude, for such patience and 

 investigation; and no one cheers them on with a 

 more sincere feeling, and thanks them for their 



past exertions, than 



Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie. 



THE OUTER TEMPLE. 



Mr. Peter Cunningliam, in his delightful Hand- 

 book of London, says, that when the New Temple 

 " passed to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, 

 the Inner and Middle Temple were leased to the 

 Students of the Common Law ; and the Outer 

 Tempek to Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exeter:" 

 and in describing Essex House, by which name it 



