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Vol. hi— No. 86.] 



Saturday, June 21. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 



Notes : — 



Notes on Books, No. I. : Mackintosh on Ogilvic's Essay 

 on the Right of Property in Land, by S. VV. Singer - 

 Notes on Ireland, No. I. : Freedom from Serpents 

 Canons and Articles of 1.571 . - . . 



On Two Passages in Dryden, by H. H. Breen - 

 Minor Notes:— Lord Edward Fitzgerald's Mother — 

 Chaucer and Gray — Shakspeare Famdy — Epitaph 

 on Dr. Hum|)hrey Tindall — Specimens of Composi- 

 tion— Burke's '• mighty Boar of the Forest" - 



Queries : — 



Queries on Tennyson . , . . - 



Ancient Modes of hanging Bells, by Rev. A. Catty 

 Minor Queries : — English Sapphics — Equestrian Sta- 

 tues — Plays in Churches — " The Right Divine of 

 Kings to govern wrong" — Serins, where situated ? — 

 Hollander's Austerity, &c. — Brother Jonathan — 

 Authorship of the " Groves of Blarney " — Carnaby — 

 Death of Death's Painter — Bonk Plates — Querelle 

 d'Allemand — Bassenet of Ejitoii — Duniore Castle, or 

 the Petrified Fort — Charles Dodd, the Ecclesiastical 

 Historian _ Ussher's Works, by Dr. Elrington — 

 Family of Etty the Artist — St. Hibbald 

 Minor Queries Answered; — Unde derivatur " Goose- 

 berry Foul?"— Biography of Bishop Hurd— Friday, 

 why considered unlucky — The Lord Mayor a Privy 

 Councillor — Altcrius Orbis Papa— Mrs. Elstob — 

 Cardinal Bellarmin ..... 



Replies : — 



Shakspeare's Use of "Captious" and " Intenible." 



Shaksoeare's " Small Latin " . 

 Earth tlirown upin the Coffin, by Rev. A. Gatty, &c. - 

 On the Word " Prenzie " in " Measure for Measure," by 



John Taylor ------ 



Z.icharie Bovd ------ 



Replies to Minor Queries: — Death, how symbolised — 



A Keinble I'ipe — Flemish Work on the Order of St. 



Franci.scus— Meaning of Tick — Spelling of Britannia, 



&c. — Fossil Elk of Irel md — ' In Time the Bull, " S:c. 



— Baldrock — Epitaph — Prayer of Mary Queen of 

 Scot* — Aristophanes on the Modern Stage — The 

 White Rose— Mark for a Dollar — (;illingham —On 

 the Lay of tlie Last Minstrel, &c. — Lmes on Temple 



— Sewell, Meaning of — Lambert Siiiund — Teniiy- 

 •on's " In Memori.am "— The second King ol Nineveh 

 who burned his Palace— Legend in Freltenham 

 Church — Natural D.uighter of James II.— Clarkson's 

 Richmond — M.SS. of Sir Thomas Piiillipps — Mean- 

 ing of Pilcher— Antiquity of Smoking — Principle of 

 Associ.atioii — Corpse makes a Kiijht ol Way — Chloe 



— Family of Sir J Banks — Verse Lyim — Heron- 

 sewes — Theory of the Earth's Form — Mvthology of 

 tiie Stars — Topical Memory - Eisell — Four Want 

 Way — Meaning of Carfoix— A regular Mull — Wil- 

 liam 11. ne— The Kev. Mr. Gay — Lady Miry Caven- 

 dish—Hand giving the Blessing — Tlie Oldenburg 

 Horn —Covey — Davy Jones's Locker — Umbrella — 

 Nao, a Ship — Bir;h of Spenser, &c. . - . 



Mlscei.l\neou8 : — 



Notes on Books, Sates, Catalogues, &c. . - - 



Books and Odd Vtduines wanted - - . - 



NoticeH to Correspondents . - - - 



Advcrtiivmcnts ....-- 



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NOTES ON BOOKS, NO. I. 



Mackintosh on Ogilvk's Essay on the Right of Property 

 in Land. 



At the dispersion of the library of the late Sir 

 James Mackintosh, striking evidence of his exten- 

 sive reading appeared. It seems to have been his 

 custom to always read with a pencil in his hand, 

 to score the remarkable passages, and to make 

 occasional notes ; generally at the end of the book 

 he indicates the place where, and date when he 

 read it. 



One remarkable and not uninteresting example 

 occurs in the following volume in my possession : 



" An Essay on the Right of Property in Land, with 

 respect to its foundation in the Law of Nature : its 

 present establishment by the municipal laws of Europe ; 

 and the regulations by which it might be rendered 

 more beneficial to the lower ranks of Mankind." 

 London, 1782, 8vo. 



On the inside of the cover Sir James Mackin- 

 tosh has written : 



" C/apham Common, July 18, 182R —An ingenious 

 and benevolent, but injudicious book, which is a good 

 example of the difficulty of forming plans for the 

 service of mankind. To the author, an accomplished 

 recluse, a lettered enthusiast of no vulgar talent or 

 character, I owe the cultivation of a sense of the beau- 

 tiful in poetry and eloquence, for which at the distance 

 of near half a century I feel a lively gratitude. It 

 was written by William Ogilvie, Professor of Humanity 

 in King's College, Aberdeen. I even now recollect 

 passages of his Translation of the 4th Book of the 

 Eneid. — J. Mackintosh." 



I have found a corroboration of the estimate 

 above given of this person, by another of his coun- 

 trymen, James Ogilvie (who ajipears to have been 

 an itinerant teacher of oratory in America) in a 

 volume of Philosophical Essays published in Phil- 

 adelphia in 1816. Speaking of a gifted native of 

 Scotland of the name of McAUester, settled in the 

 far west, near Bard's Town, and lamenting that 

 he should choose to bury his talents in obscurity 

 and indolence, the writer says : 



<' He came nearer to the character of a scientific 

 sage than any human being the narrator has ever 



Voi;. TII.— No. 8G. 



