Sept. 27. 1851.] 



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works explanatory of this language will be found. 

 To these must be added those of Dr. Thomas 

 Young and Champollian Junior. There are some 

 recent German works on the subject ; your corre- 

 spondent will, however, be very little benefited 

 after mastering all the writers, for they have 

 really but little to tell. The method to be pursued 

 with a feasible prospect of success is, to acquire 

 the Coptic-Egyptian language from the New 

 Testament and De Woide, with the special object 

 of mastering the roots, about 200 in number, 

 of that language. Xe.Kt, some knowledge of 

 the Chinese language should be obtained, so far 

 at least as is necessary to comprehend the hiero- 

 glyphic principle, whereby 214 letter-keys are 

 made to do duty ia representing 5000, or more, 

 distinct ideas. The next matter, which admits of 

 a very simple explanation, is to ascertain how the 

 Chinese dis.-<evers the idea of a character (hiero- 

 glyphic) from its sound, and makes his ideas 

 (hieroglyphic characters) stand for syllables alone, 

 by prefixing the character more (mouth) to indi- 

 cate that the characters next following are to be 

 read as sounds and not as ideas. In the Egyptian 

 hieroglyphic such characters (representing the 

 names of places and persons) are inclosed in a sort 

 of lozenge or parallelogram. Having found out 

 certain sounds in the Egyptian hieroglyphic, e. g. 

 Cle-o-pa-tra, turn to the Coptic Lexicon and as- 

 certain what idea (thing) cle represents in Coptic, 

 and so on with o, with pa, &c., and all other 

 with syllable sounds. Here Champollian Ju- 

 nior stuck fast, and little has been done since 

 his day in the way of translation ; and the reason 

 is evident — the separate characters representing 

 sounds found in these lozenges are too few in 

 number to give any hope that the Egyptian hiero- 

 glyphics will ever be rendered generally intel- 

 ligible ; their oVjject, however, has been far more 

 effectually secured by the paintings and repre- 

 sentations of objects and actions, which supply an 

 infinitely better means of knowing what was in- 

 teresting in Egypt than mere words, sounds, or 

 ideas (hieroglyphics) could convey. J. Buckton, 

 Lichfield. 



The late William Hone (Vol. iii., p. 477. ; Vol. 

 iv., i)p. 10.5, lOG.). — If E. V. will take the trouble 

 to apply to the Rev. Thomas Einney, of the Weigh 

 House Chapel, London, he will be in the way of 

 receiving the most authentic information con- 

 cerning the lia[)py conversion, and triumphant 

 deatii, of William Hone, who adorned the doc- 

 trine of God his Saviour for some years jjrevious 

 to his decease ir. communion with a congregation 

 of Protestant Dissenters. O.'t. D. 



The interesting letter of the late AVilliam Hone, 

 published in Vol. iv., pp. 105, lOG., .scarcely 

 throws any discredit upon an anecdote I often 

 have heard as to the means of his ^rst awakening 



to a better mind, somewhat as follows : — that, 

 asking a drink of milk of a little child, and ob- 

 serving a book in her hand, he inquired what it 

 was? She answered, "A Bible:" and, in replv 

 to some depreciatory remarks of his, added, '• I 

 thought everybody loved their Bible, Sir." I 

 hope that this may not^ be contradicted, but con- 

 firmed. C. W. B. 



Bensletj (Vol. iv., p. 115.). — The " Bensley 

 tragedy" was no dotibt the sudden death, in April 

 or May, 1765, by a fall from his horse, of James 

 Bensley, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn ; probably an early 

 acquaintance of Hill and Cowper. The melan- 

 choly death of another friend of theirs, poor Lloyd 

 (which Southey also calls a tragedy), had happened 

 three or four months earlier. C. 



John Lilhurne (YcA.'iv., p. 134.). — The name of 

 John Lilburne occurs in Cleveland's Poems more 

 than once, e.g. " The General Eclipse :" — 

 " Thus 'tis a general eclipse. 



And the wliole world is al-a-mort ; 

 Only the House of Commons trips 

 The stage in a Triumphant sort, 

 Kow e'en Johji Lilburn take 'em for't." 



Works, p. 57. Lond. 1687. 

 And again, " On the Inundation of the River 

 Trent," p. 294. : 

 " One herd and flock in one kind hill found mercy, 

 Like Lilburn (and his wool) in the Isle of Jersey." 



Rt. 



Warmington. 



School of the Heart (Vol. iii., p. 390. ; Vol. iv., 

 p. 141.). — Is your co.-respondent aware of Bene- 

 dict Haeften's Schola Cordis, from which Harvey's 

 School of the Heart was imitated ? It was pub- 

 lished at Antwerp in 1635. The copy I now have 

 before me is dated 1699, but I will give its full 

 title : 



" Schola Cordis, sive aversi a Deo Cordis ad eum- 

 dem reduclio, et instructio. Auctore Benedicto Haef- 

 teno. Reformat! Monast. Affligeminsis, Ordinls S. 

 Benedict!, praeposito. Antverpize, apud Henricum et 

 Cornelium Verdnrrin, mi>cxcix." 



P. S. The emblems are fifty-five in number. 



Rt. 

 Warmington. 



Sir W. Raleigh in Virginia (Vol. iv., p. 190.). 

 — That Mr. Hallam should have forgotten to 

 correct an incidental allusion is natural enough ; 

 and that Raleigh in person discovered Virginia 

 was commonly believed. Sir Walter Scott, for 

 instance, believed it, as appears by a passage at 

 the end of Kenilworth. But the very title-page of 

 Harlot's account of the discovery of Virginia 

 (whether in the English of 1588, or the Frankfort 

 ].,alin of 1590), negatives the idea of Raleigh as- 

 sisting in person. And the Biographia Brituuuica, 

 or, I believe, any similar work of authority, will 



