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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[No. 85. 



first work of the kind was a view'of Edinburgh, of 

 wliioh city, I believe, he was a native.^ 



On his'death, in 1806, he was succeeded by his 

 son, Mr. Ilein-y Aston Barker, the Mr. Barker 

 referred to by A. G-. This gentleman and his 

 wife (one of the daughters of the late Admiral 

 Bligh) are both living, and reside at Bitton, a 

 village lying midway between this city and Bath. 



A Subscriber. 



Bristol, June 2, 1851. 



The Tanthony (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 229. 308.).— 

 Arun's Query is fully answered by a reference to 

 Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and Legendary Art, vol. ii. 

 p. 379., where the bell is shown to be enil)lematic 

 of the saint's power to exorcise evil spirits, and 

 reference is made to several paintings (and an en- 

 graving given of one) in which it is represented. 

 The phrase " A Tantony Pigf is also explained, 

 for which see further Hall i well's Diet, of Arch, 

 and Prov. Words, s. v. Anthony. C. P. Ph***. 



Essay on the Irony of Sophocles, ^c. (Vol. iii., 

 p. 389.). — Three Queries by' Nemo : 1. The Rev. 

 Connop Thirlwall, now Bisliop of St. David's, is the 

 author of the essay in question. 2. Cicero, Tiisc. 

 Disp., i. 15. 39.: — Errare mehereule malo cum 

 Platone .... qiiam cum istis vera sentire ; (again), 

 Cicero, ad Attic, 1. viii. ep. 7.: — Malle, quod dixe- 

 rim, me cum Pompeio vinci, quam cum istis vincere. 

 3. The remark is Aristotle's; but the same had 

 been said of Homer by Plato himself: 



" Aristot. [Eth. Nicom. 1. i. cap. 6. § 1. ed. Oxon.] is 

 reluctant to criticise Plato's doctrine of Ideas, 5ia rh 

 <(>i\ovs avSpas iirraydyeii' to eifSij : hut, lie adds, the 

 truth must nevertheless he spoken : — aix<potu yhp ivroiv 

 ^ikoiv, liatov irpoTifxav t^v a\i)Btiav. 



" Plato [cle Repub., X. cap. 1. p. 595 b.] : — *i\(a tis 

 ;ue KOI alhibs eV irai5br ex"""''' ""^p^ 'O/xiipuu airoKOjAi'ei 

 \4yiiv .... aAA' oh yap TtpS yi ttjs a,\r}0eias ti/xtjtcoj 

 avrip." 



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Achilles and the Tortoise (Vol. ii., p. 154.). — 

 S. T. Coleridge has explained this paradox in 

 llie Friend, vol. iii. p. 88. ed. 1850; a note is 

 subjoined regarding Aristotle's attempted solution, 

 with a quotation from Mr. de Quincey, in Tute's 

 Mag., Sept. 1834, p. 514. The passage in Leib- 

 nitz which 'iSiwTjjy requires, is probably " Opera, 

 i. p. 115. ed. Erdmanu." C. P. Ph***. 



Early Rain called " Pride of the l\fo?-Jiing " 

 (Vol. ii., p. 309.). — In connexion with this I would 

 quote an expression in Keble's Christia^i Year, 

 " On the Rainbow," (25th Sun. after Trin.) : 



" Pride of the dewy Morning ! 

 Tlie swain's experienced eye 

 From thee takes timely warning, 

 Nor trusts the gorgeous sky." 



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The I^ost Tribes (Vol. ii., p. 130.). — Jakltzberg 

 will find one theory on this subject in Dr. Asahel 

 Grant's book. The Nestorians ; or, the Lost Tribes, 

 published by Murray ; 12nio. C. P. Ph***. 



''Noli me Tangere" (Vol. ii., pp. 153. 253. 379.). 

 — There is an exquisite criticism upon the treat- 

 ment of this subject by various painters, accom- 

 panied by an etching from Titian, in that delightful 

 book, Mrs. Jameson's Sacred and J^egendary Art, 

 vol. i. pp. 354. 360. ; and to the list of painters 

 who have illustrated this subject, add Holbein, in 

 the Hampton Court Gallery. (See Mrs. Jameson's 

 Handbook to the Public Galleries, pp. 172. 353., 

 1845.) C.P.Ph***. 



" The Sicilian Vespers" (Vol. ii., p. 166.).— Your 

 correspondent is referred to The War of the Si- 

 cilian Vespers, by Amari, translated by the Earl of 

 Ellesmere, published verv lately by Murray. 



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Antiquity of Smoking (Vol. ii., pp. 216. 521.) — 

 C. B. says, alluding to Jarltzberg's references, 

 " there is nothing in Solinus;" I read, however, 

 in Solinus, cap. xv. (fol. 70. ed, Aid. 1518), under 

 the heading " Thraeum mores, etc." : 



" Uterque sexus epulantes focos amblunt, hcrharum 

 quas habent semine ignibus superjecto. Cujus nidore 

 pereulsi pro lajtitia habent imitari ehrietatera sensibus 

 sauciatis." 



Jarltzberg's reference to Herod, i. 36. sup- 

 plies nothing to the point : Herod, iv. 2. men- 

 tions the use of bone pipes, (pva-riTTipas hffriivovs, 

 by the Scythians, in milking; but Herodotus (iv. 

 73. 75.) describes the orgies of the Scythians, 

 who produced intoxicating fumes by strewing 

 hemp-seed upon red-hot stones, as the leaves 

 and seed of the Hasisha al fokara, or hemp-plant, 

 .are smoked in the East at the present day. (See 

 De Sacy, Chreslom. Arabe, vol. ii. p. 155.) Com- 

 y)are also Plutarch de Fluviis (de Hebro, fr. 3.), 

 who speaks of a plant resembling Origanum, from 

 which the Thracians procured a stupefying vapour, 

 by burning the stalks : 



" 'EinTiBeaiTi irvpl .... Kol t^v h,va(pipofiivqv avadv- 

 /liacnv Sex<''IJ-(foi toTs avairt'oiais, KapovvraL, koI ds Padvv 

 virvov Kara<pipovTa.i, [Opera Varia, vol. vi. p. 444. ed. 

 Tauchn.]" 



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Milton and the Calves-Head Club (Vol. iii., 

 p. 390.). — Dr. Todd, in his edition of Milton's 

 Works, in 1809, p. 158., mentions the rumour, 

 without expressing any opinion of its truth. I 

 think he omits all mention of it in his subsequent 

 edition in 1826, and therefore hope he has adopted 

 the prevailing opinion that it is a contemptible 

 liljel. In a note to the former edition is a refer- 

 ence to Kennett's Register, p. 38., and to Private 

 forms of Prayer fitted for the late sad times," ^c, 

 ]2mo., Lond., 1660, attributed to Dr. Hammond. 

 An anonymous author, quoting the verbal assur- 



