Nov. 1. 1851.] 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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Wbile collecting materials for a projected critical 

 commentary on the Tiinaux of Plato, I was sur- 

 prised to find the commentary of Chalcidius 

 wholly wanting in our library at Christ Church. 

 Subsequently (when I did not want it, having se- 

 cured a better edition at the end of Fabricius-' 

 Hippolytus) I discovered a fine copy of Badius 

 Ascensius' editio princeps, bound up witli Aulus 

 Gellius and Macrobius, but utterly ignored in the 

 Christ Church catalogue. 



This instance shows the necessity of carefully 

 examining the insides of books, as well as tlie backs 

 and title-pages, during the operation of cataloguing. 

 Our public libraries are rich in instances of a 

 similar oversight, and many an important and 

 I'echerche work is unknown, or acquires a con- 

 ventional rarity, through its concealment at the 

 end of a less valuable, but more bulky, treatise. 



I have been aroused to the propriety of pub- 

 lishing this suggestion, by purchasing, "dog cheap," 

 a volume labelled Petrus Crinitus, but containing 

 Hegesippus {i. e. the pseudo-Ambrosian translation 

 from Josephus) and the Latin grammarians at the 

 end, all by the aibre-mentioned printer. 



Theodore Alois Buckley. 



Virgil and Goldsmith. — The same beautiful 

 thought is traceable in both Virgil and Goldsmith. 

 In book iii. of the Miieid, lines 495-6. we read : 

 " Vobis parta qules ; nullum maris a;quor arandum ; 

 Arva neque Ausoiiia), semper cedentia retro, 

 QuecreHcia." 



In the Traveller these lines occur : 

 " IJut me, not destined such delights to share, 

 My prime of life in wandering spent and care ; 

 Impell'd, with steps unceasing, to pursue 

 Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view ; 

 That, like the circle bounding earth and skies, 



Allures from far, yet, as I follow, flies " 



Alfred Gattt. 



Mental Almanac (Vol. iv., p. 203.). — Mem. 

 The additive number for tliis present November 

 is I. Hence ne.\t Wednesday is 4+1, that is, the 

 5th. The Sunday following is 1 + 1+7, that is, 

 the 9th. And similarly for any other day or week 

 in this month. A. E. B. 



Leeds, Nov. 1. 1851. 



Merlin and the Electric Telegraph. — The fol- 

 lowing e.Ktract from the prophecy of Merlin in 

 GeolFrey of ^lotuuouth's British History, book vii. 

 ch. 4., ryads rather curiously in these days of rail- 

 ways and of electric telegrapli communication be- 

 tween France and England : — 



" Eric shall hide liis ajjples withiTi it, and shall make 

 tubterraneiius passages. At that time sluill llie stones 

 speak, and tlie sea towards tlie Gallic coast be con- 

 tracted into a narrow space. On each hank sftull one 

 man liear another, and the soil of the isle shall be en- 

 larged. The secri-ts of the deep shall be revealed, and 

 Gaul shall tremble for fear." 



I should like to be informed if there have ever 

 been any detailed and systematic attempts made 

 at interpreting the whole of this curious prophecy 

 of Merlin's. W. Eraser. 



BISHOP BRAMHALL and MILTON. 



Perhaps I am convicting myself of the most be- 

 nighted ignorance by asking some of your learned 

 correspondents to elucidate for me a letter of 

 Bramhall's, which I extract from his works. It 

 was written to his son from Antwerp, ,and relates 

 to the early years of our great Milton at Cam- 

 bridge, dated : 



" Antwerpe, May fg, 1654. 



" That lying abusive book [viz., the Sif. Pop. Ang."] 

 was written by Milton himself, one who was sometime 

 Bishopp Chappell's pupil in Christ Church in Cam- 

 bridge, but turned away by him, as he well deserved to 

 have been, out of the University, and out of the society 

 of men. If Salmasius his friends knew as much o 

 fiim as I, they would luake him go near to hang him- 

 self. But I desire not to wound the nation through his 

 sides, yet I have written to him long since about it 

 roundly. It seems he desires not to touch upon this 

 subject." — JVorks, vol. i. p. 94, Oxford, 1842. 



That Milton was 7-usticated from Caoibridge, 

 and besides flogged by Dr. ChappeU, there seems 

 little reason to doubt, but it is equally clear that 

 the punishment was only a temporary one, as he 

 again went into residence, and took the degrees of 

 bachelor and master of arts in due course. Whence, 

 then, this sweeping accusation of the great and 

 good Bramhall's, whose character is a sufficient 

 safeguard that he at all events believed what he 

 said ? Aubrey relates the story of Milton's being 

 whipped by Dr. Chappell, and afterwaixls being 

 " transferred to the tuition of one Dr. Toveli, 

 who dyed parson of Lutterworth." * Milton himself 

 (Elegiarum Liber, Eleg. I. ad Carolum Deodatum') 

 speaks of his resident^e in London, and alludes, 

 rather gratefully, to his " exilium" from Cam- 

 bridge, which he heartily disliked. He also alludes 

 to his being flogged, as there seems a whole world 

 of meaning in Cceteraque .' 

 "Nee duri libet usque minas pcrferre raagistri, 

 Cceteraque ingenio nun subeuncla meOi 



Si sit hoc exilium patrios adiisse penates, 

 Et vacuum curis otla grata sequi, 



Non ego vel profugi nomen, sortenive recuso, 

 Latus et evilii conditione fnior." — Ver. 15. &c. 



We then get a short sketch of his employments 

 and amusements in London ; and his return to 



[* Dr. Warton has given a long note on the word 

 Coeteraqve in his edition of Milton's Poems, 1791, 

 p. 4'Jl. He suggests that probably "Dr. Toveli" 

 should read " Dr. Toveij, parson of Kegivorth, in 

 Leicestei-shire. "] 



