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Vol. IV. — No. 97.] Saturday, September 6. 1851. 



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CONTENTS. 

 Notes : — 



Notes on Books, No. I! Gabriel Harvey, by S. \V. 



Singer ------- 



The Antiquity of Kilts, by T. Stephens . - - 



Notes on Julin, No. L, hv Kenneth 11. H. iVI^ckcnzie - 

 Minor Notes : — .\necdote of Ctirran — Difficuity of 

 getting rid of <i Name — House of Lord Edward Fitz- 

 gerald — Fairy Dances — .^sop — Nelson's Coat at 

 Trafalgar ------- 



Queries : — 



John Knox, by Daviil I.aing . . - . 



Minor Queries : — '* Fcedi ministeria, atque minis absis- 

 tite acerbis" -^ Cornisli .-Vnns and Cornish Motto — 

 Gloucester saved from the King s Mines — Mtlesiai — 

 Horology — Laurentius IMiiller — Lines on a Bed — 

 Pirog — Lists of Plants, with tlieir Provincial Names 



— Print Cleaning — Italian Writer on Political Eco- 

 nomy— Carli the Economist— Nightingale and Thorn 



Coleridge's Essays on Beauty — Henryson and Ki- 



nastou — Oldys' Account of LoiuLjn Libraries — A 

 Sword-hl ide Note — Abacot — Princesses of Wales - 



Minor Queries Ansvveued: — A Kelso Convoy — .Car- 

 dinal Wolsey — Brunswick Mu.ii — Meaning of 

 ■> Rasher " .,,.., 



Replies : — 



Pendulum Demonstration of the Earth's Kotation 

 A Saxon Bell-honse - - - - - 



The Wli.^le of Jonah, by T. J. Buckton . 

 St. Trunnian, by W. S. Heslcden - - . 



Replies to Minor Queries :— .Lord JIajor not a Privy 

 Councillor — Did liisliop fiibson write a Life of Crom- 

 well ?^ Lines on the Temple — Henrv Headlev. B. A. 



— Cycle of Calhay— Proof of Sword Blades -Was Mil- 

 ton gii Anglo-Saxon .Scholar ? — Englisli Sapi)hics — 

 The Tradescants — Monumental Inscription — Lady 

 Petre's Monument - - - - - 



Miscellaneous : — 



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

 Jlooks and Odd Volumes warned - 



Notices to Correspondents . . - . 



Adverlisem«nts . - . , . 



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NOTES ON BOOKS, 



NO. II. GABRIEL lIARVEr. 



This learned friend of Spenser and Sir Philip 

 Sidney (thoujrh better known from his quarrel 

 with Tom Nashe) was in the habit of writing 

 copious memoranda in his books, several of which 

 were in the library of Mr. Lloyd, of Wygfair. 

 Among them some miscellaneous volumes, which I 

 believe afterwanls passed into the collection of 

 Mr. llfljor, contained remarkable S[)ecimeiis of 

 his calligrai)hic skill. His name was written four 

 or five times: "Gabriel llarveius, 1579," and 

 witii variation, " Gabrielis Harveij " and " di 

 Gabriello liarvcio." The volumes contained the 



INIedea and Giocasta of Lodovico Dolce, in 

 Italian ; the Hecuba and Iphigenia of Euripides 

 in Latin, by Erasmus, the Comedies of Terence, 

 &c. ; and the first Italian and Enijlish Grammar, 

 by Henry Grantham, 1575. On the blank pages 

 and spaces what follows was inscribed : — 



" La Giocasta d' Euripide, Dolce, et Gascoigno. 

 Seneca? et Statii Thebais. Item Senecje ffidipus. 

 Quasi Synopsis Tragoediarum omnium. — NoN gioco, 

 MA Giocasta." 



" Omne <;enus script!, gravitate Tragnedia vincit." 



" Ha' ijuatuor Tragoedire, iiistar oinniuni Tragoedl- 

 aruin pro tempore : pra;sertim cum reliquarum non 

 suppetit copia. Duai Euripidis placent in primis, et 

 propter auctoris priidentissiraam veram, et propter 

 interpretis singulaiem delectum. Eadem in Sophoclis 

 Antigonem affectio, ab Episcopo Yatsoiio tralatam : 

 cum propter interpretis accuratum judicium. Qui 

 tantl fecit optimo Tragicos, ut eosdem soleret cum 

 Checo et Aschamo, omnibus aliis poetis anteferre; 

 etiam Homero et Virgilio." 



" Questa Medea di Dolce non e Medea di Seneca. 

 Ma Thieste di Dolce e Thieste medesimo di Seneca. 

 Solo coro nel fin e soptrcliievole." 



" Gascoigni Jocasta, magnifice acta solemne ritu, et 

 vere tragico apparatu. Ut etiam Vatsoni Antigone: 

 cuivfc pompae serine, et exquisita. Usque adeo quidem 

 utraque ut nihil in hoc tragico genere vel illustriu.<; vel 

 accuratius." 



" Jam floruerant prudentissimi .\ttici, Pericles, 

 Tluicydides, Sophocles : jam florent Plato, Xenophon, 

 Demosthenes, cum Euripides pangit Tragocdias. Nee 

 excellentissimorum Atticorum, ullus vel prudentior 

 Euripides, vel argutior, vel etiam elegantior. Nihil in 

 eo nugarum, nihil affeetatlonis, et tamen singula ubique 

 cultissima." 



" Erasmus talis Euripidis interpres, qualis Pindari 

 Melancthon. Foelix utriiisque ad interpretandum 

 dexteritas et flucns elocutionis facilitas. Plus in 

 Erasmo diligentire; in Melanctlione perspicuitas. 

 Quam persequubatur, Cameraiius, nee tamen asseque- 

 batur." 



" Erasmi fere judicium acre, et serium ncc dubium 

 est, quin delectum adhibuerit in sapientissimis Tra- 

 goediis eligendis ex(]uisitum." 



" Ut fere fceniinas; sic Comoedias et Tragoedias ; 

 qui unam omniinodo iiovit, oinnes novit qnoilani modo. 

 Saltern ex uii'rue, Leoncm ; ex clave, llcrciilem." 



Vol. IV.— No. 97. 



