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NOTES AND QUEKIES. 



[2"'» S. VI. 138., Aug. 21. '58. 



The late T>r. Shuttleivorth : Right and Wrong 

 (2"'' S. vi. 135.) — It so happens that one can trace 

 the history of the sentence inquired for vei'y easily. 

 Aulus Gellius (lib. xvi. cap. 1.) writes: — 



" Adolescentuli cum etiam turn in scholis essemus, 

 evBvtkriiJ.aTi.ov Loc Graicum, quod apposui, dictum esse a 

 Musonio philosopho audiebamus ; et quouiam vere atque 

 luculente dictum, verbisque est brevibus et rotundis vinc- 

 tum, perquara libeuter memineramus. *Ai/ rt irpafjjs KaKbv 



fxera. Tr6vov, 6 [xev irovo^ otpferat, to 5e KaKov fxcvei' av Tt TrotiJoT]? 

 ata';^pbj/ /xerot riSovri?, to /lev i]Sv olx^Taif to 6e aiaxpou fj.dv€tt 



Postea istam ipsam seutentiam in Catouis oratione, quam 

 dixit Numaatias apud equites, positam legimus; qute 

 ctsi laxioribus paulo longioribusque verbis comprehensa 

 est, pra3 quam illud Grascum, quod diximus ; quoniara 

 tameii prior tempore, antiquiorque est, venerabilior videri 

 debet. Verba ex oratione ha;c sunt : ' Cogitate cum ani- 

 mis vestris : si quid vos per laborem recte feoeritis, labor 

 ille a vobis cito recedet, bene factum a vobis dura vivetis 

 non abscedet; sed si qua per nequitiam nequiter feceritis, 

 voluptas cito abibit, nequiter factum illud apud vos sem- 

 per manebit.' " (Ed. Tauclim.) 



The saying is repeated by Hierocles, in his 

 commentary on the golden verses of Pythagoras 

 (p. 134., ed. Needham), with some verbal altera- 

 tions. And, as we might expect to find, so ex- 

 pressive a sentence did not escape the notice of 

 one who was so careful in observing the wisdom 

 of the ancients, and applying it to the illustration 

 of Christian truth, as Bp. Taylor. It occurs three 

 times in the Life of Christ, vol. ii. pp. 519. 540. 

 721. (Eden's edition) ; and in Sermons, vol. iv. 

 p, 29. E. M. 



Jo. Miller (2"'» S. vi. 32.) -— One of the editions 

 wanting in Mr. Gibson's list is in my possession : 

 it is the 8th, with large additions (pp. 208.) ; pre- 

 fixed is a full-length portrait of Miller as Sir 

 Joseph Wittol in the Old Batchelor. It is appa- 

 rently new, bound in clean pai'chment, and 

 clasped. A MS. note records that at Bindloy's 

 sale Messrs. Longman bought his copy of the first 

 edition for \\l. 5s. E. D. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



" Truth is strange, stranger than Fiction," was the 

 saying of Byron ; and few, we think, will read the short 

 biographical sketch prelixed to Tlte Poetical Woi-hs of 

 Alfred Johnstone Hollingsworth, with Memoirs of the 

 Writer, Edited hy Dr. George Sexton, F.R.G.S., without 

 admitting the accuracy of Byron's observation. 'I'he 

 book is altogether a great literary curiosity. There are 

 abundant traces of deep poetical feeling in HoUingsworth's 

 " Childe Erconwokl," and no less evidence of bis ac- 

 quaintance with the literature and antiquities of the 

 Germanic and Scandinavian races. One consequence of 

 this study is the Anglo-Saxon character of the language, 

 — a character calculated to repel readers \vho are only 

 familiar with what Dr. Sexton calls " the barbarous 

 jargon — serai-Latin C!«« French which prevails so ex- 

 tensively in our literature." But let such readers not be 

 discouraged. Let them master this peculiarity, and they 

 will be rewarded by the perusal of a dramatic poem — 



abounding in faults unquestionably — hut as unques- 

 tionably rich in poetic excellences. 



Although marked " printed for presentation onlj'," we 

 trust Mr. Gilbert French will excuse our calling attention 

 to his interesting essay on The Origin and Meaning of 

 the Early Interlaced Ornamentation found on the Ancient 

 Sculptured Stones of Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man. 

 The theory which Blr. French advances is an extremely 

 ingenious one. It is supported with considerable ability ; 

 and is advanced with a modesty which prepossesses us in 

 its favour. It is one which certainly deserves the serious 

 attention of avchajologists. 



We are indebted to the Rev. W. E. Heygate for a very 

 good historical tale, The Scholar and the Trooper ; or, O.v- 

 ford during the Great Rchellion. As might be expected, 

 Blr. Heygate takes a warm Oxford view of the eventful 

 period which he describes ; but the book will be found, 

 even by those who may not share that view, to furnish a 

 capital picture of the feelings of the time, and to give 

 very accurate information as to the condition of Oxford, 

 its inmates, and to the localities of the various battles 

 and skirmishes which took place in that neighbourhood 

 during the civil wars. 



Our photographic friends will, we are sure, share the 

 satisfaction with which we announce that Dr. Diamond 

 has been appointed Secretary of the Photographic Society. 

 Dr. Diamond is eminently a practical photographer; 

 some of his discoveries have been among the most useful 

 which have been produced; and they have always been 

 unreservedly communicated to his brother photographers. 

 The appointment, therefore, is one which the Doctor has 

 well earned, and the Photographic Society has done itself 

 credit by this recognition of his services to the Art. 



We are informed that the volumes of Original Papers 

 illustrative of the Life of Sir Peter Paid Ruliens both as 

 an Artist and a Diplomatist, preserved in H. 31. State 

 Paper Office, collected and edited hy W. Noel Sainshury 

 of H. M. State Paper Office, will be ready for subscribers 

 early in November. The Appendix will contain entirely 

 new facts respecting several of the most celebrated artists 

 of their day ; .also the correspondence of that great patron 

 of the arts, Thomas Earl of Arundel, and others, which 

 will, we are sure, be read with the deepest interest by all 

 who take any dehght in the History of the Fine Arts. 



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