2»4 S. IX. Feb. 11. '60.] 



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into a description of such minute details, or is it 

 possible to associate such rural scenes with the 

 solemnity due to the church, and to banish un- 

 seemly mirth from the minds of village hinds ? 



H. D'AvENEY. 



Fane's Psalms. — Can any correspondent state 

 where a copy of the following work may be con- 

 sulted or purchased : The Lady Elizabeth Fane's 

 (or Vanes) Twenty-one Psalms, and 102 Proverbs, 

 1550? It is noticed in Herbert's Ames, 760, 

 1103. H. V. 



Soiled Books. — I see you have many noted 

 book collectors amongst your contributors. Would 

 any of these gentlemen kindly communicate the 

 results of their experience as to the best mode of 

 cleaning the leaves of old books discoloured by 

 water-stains, finger-marks, and general exposure. 

 The first and last leaf of many a fine old book is 

 thus disfigured ; and some ready process for re- 

 storing their pristine whiteness would be received 

 very gratefully by other country bibliomaniacs 

 besides J. N. 



Sir Jethro Tull. — The celebrated Jethro 

 Tull, the author of The Horse-hoe Husbandry, is 

 said by Chalmers to have died at Prosperous 

 Farm in Shalborne, January 3, 1740-41, — a parish 

 partly in Wiltshire but chiefly in Berkshire ; but 

 he was not buried there, the tradition of the place 

 being that his body was carried away to avoid an 

 arrest for debt. Can any reader of your journal 

 point out the place of his interment ? Then again, 

 in the entry-book of his Inn of Court, he is de- 

 scribed (December, 1693,) as the son and heir of 

 Jethrow Tull of Howberry in the county of Ox- 

 ford ; but in the books of the parish (Crowmarsh) 

 in which the Howberry estate is situated, there is 

 not any mention of his birth. I should feel much 

 obliged if any of your numerous readers can sup- 

 ply the desired information. 



Tull married, in 1699, Susannah Smith of Bur- 

 ton Dasset in Warwickshire. 



Cothbert W. Johnson. 

 Croydon. 



Sir Samuel Moreland. — The well-known 

 engraving of Sir Samuel, by Lombart, is from a 

 painting by Sir Peter Lely. Will anyone kindly 

 inform me where the original can be seen ? 



A. G. W. 



Anglo-Saxon Poems. — In a Daily Telegraph, 

 a few days ago, I have found a very interesting 

 notice, of which I send you a cutting : — 



*' A curious discovery of great interest to the lovers of 

 Anglo-Saxon literature has just been made in the Royal 

 library at Copenhagen. Two parchment sheets of octavo 

 sizo, hitherto used as a cover to other and less valuable 

 manuscripts, were found to contain Anglo-Saxon poetry, 

 dating as far back as the end of the ninth century. The 

 content* refer to the achievements of King Diedrich, and 

 give the same version of the legend as is found in the 



German poem of Beowulf. The principal interest attach- 

 ing to the document, however, is a philological one, the 

 number of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts of that period, so 

 important for the development of the language, be'inr» 

 extremely small." fa 



Can any of the readers of " N. & Q." throw 

 light upon this ? H. C. C 



Queries trn'th KtuHBerg. 



The Sinews of War.— At most of the rifle corps 

 meetings allusion has been made to " Money, the 

 sinews of war." Can this expression be traced to its 

 source? R. F. Sketchley. 



[This maxim occurs in Boyer's Eng. and Fr. Die. as 

 far back as 1702 ; " Mony is the Nerve of War, L'ar- 

 gent est le Nerf de la Guerre; " aud again (under Sinew), 

 " Mony is the Sinews of War." The earliest use of the 

 maxim which we have met with is Italian, and occurs in 

 the writings of Francesco d'Ambra, a noble Florentine 

 who died in J 558, and was the author of three comedies not 

 published till after his death. In his comedy entitled 

 "II Furto," we find Zingano saying, "Primieramente 

 perche ilneruo delta guerra e it danaio, mi occorre ricordare, 

 che le provisioni de' danari sien gagliarde," &c. 11 Furto 

 ed. 1584, 12°. Venice, Act II., p. 12. verso. 



But though we find no earlier instance of the maxim 

 itself, there is quite enough to indicate that the lesson of 

 martial policy which it conveys had been learnt and pon- 

 dered long before. We apprehend, indeed, that for the 

 origin of the maxim we must go at least as far back as 

 the times of Philip of Macedon. When Philip inquired 

 at Delphi how he might vanquish Greece, the Pvthia, 

 according to Suidas, replied, " Fight with silver spears, 

 and thou shalt vanquish all." 



'Ap-yupe'aisA.dyxj)<n n&xov, KaXirivra /cpar>j<reis. 



There are some various readings, and Erasmus has the 

 line thus: — 



'Apyi/pe'ais AoyxaiTi fidxov, Kal navTa. n/ojims. 



Adag. Chil. 1606, col. 1335. 

 Which he renders — 



" Argenteis pugna telis, atque omnia vinces." 



Yet, between the two sayings, there is obviously a 

 shade of difference. When the Pythia admonished Philip 

 to " fight with silver weapons," she evidently meant 

 " Give largesses ; bribe : " — " videlicet innuens, ut quosdam 

 largitionibus ad proditionem sollicitaret, atqua ita consecu- 

 turum quae vellet " (Erasmus). So Suidas: alviTrofuVq, 

 Sia. TrpoSom'aj' TrepUacaOat 'EAAdSoj. But when we now speak 

 of mone}' as " the sinews of war," we refer rather to the 

 more legitimate and honourable uses of the "legal tender," 

 in providing the means of warfare, warlike stores and car- 

 riage, in paying the troops, &c. : " che le provisioni de' da- 

 nari sien gagliarde, e che i soldati sien ben pagati, accio 

 che per il padrone volentieri si sottomettono a tutti i peri- 

 coli." — D'Ambra."] 



" Delphin Editions." — What authority is 

 there for attributing the origin of this term to a 

 series of classical works said to have been pre- 

 pared for the use of the French "Dauphin"? 

 Of course every schoolboy knows the title-page 

 of his large Virgil, and other useful works of the 

 kind, so that I do not wish to appear ignorant of 

 the " In usum Serenissimi Delphini ;" but what 

 I desire to know is, whether the term "Delpbin 

 Editions" was derived from the Dauphin, for 



