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suggested to me the above question ; and I think 

 deserves the support of jour University readers. 



M. A. 



Order of Prayer ra French. — I wish to 

 know what is the history of an Order of Prayer 

 in French, and the authority by which it was is- 

 sued ; and also where any copy is now deposited. 

 It is a small square 8vo. of 50 numbered leaves, 

 and four leaves of title and preface, with two 

 leaves without numbers between pp. 42 and 43. 

 The title is, — 



" L'Ordre des Prieres et Ministere Ecclesiastique, avee 

 ]a Forme de Penitence pub. et certaines Prieres de 

 l'Eglise de Londres, et la Confession de Foy de l'Eglise 

 de Glastonbury en Somerset. Luc. 21. ' Yeillez et priez 

 en tout temps, afin que puissez eviter toutes les choses 

 qui sont a advenir, et assister devant le Filz de l'honMue.' 

 A Londres, 1552." 



On the title-page is the name of a former owner, 

 Johanes Dalaberus : who was he ? M. Thg. 



Initials of an Artist. — I have a beautiful 

 engraving of St. John Baptist in the Wilderness, 

 a sitting figure, with a lamb. It is marked " L. 

 m. f." Am I right in assigning it to Lorenzo 

 Maria Fratellini ? He is the only artist I can find 

 whose initials correspond, and I have been unable 

 to ascertain to whom that signature belongs in any 

 Encyclopaedia I have examined. P. P. 



"Emerald Isle." — When, and by whom, was 

 this epithet first applied to Ireland ? It was long 

 since applied to the isle of St. Helena. Abhba. 



[This epithet, as applied to Ireland, was first used by 

 Dr. William Drennan, author of Glendalloch and other 

 Poems, who was born in Belfast on the 23rd May, 1754, 

 and died in the same town on the 5th February, 1820. It 

 occurs in his delightful poem, entitled "Erin," com- 

 mencing: 



" When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, 

 God bless'd the preen island, He saw it was good: 

 The Fmerald of Europe, it sparkled, it shone, • 



In the ring of this world the most precious stone! 



" In her sun, in her soil, in her station, thrice blest, 

 With back turn'd to Britain, her face to the West, 

 Erin stands proudly insular, on her steep shore, 

 And strikes her high harp to the ocean's deep roar. 



" Arm of Erin ! prove strong ; but be gentle as brave, 

 And, uplifted to strike, still be ready lo save; 

 Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile 

 The cause, or the men, of the Emk;.ald Isle. 



" Their boronis heave high for the worthy and brave, 

 But no coward shall rest on that soft-swelling wave; 

 Men of Erin ! awake, and make haste to be blest 1 

 Rise, Arch of the ocean, rise. Queen of the West!" 



To the words, The Emerald Isle, Dr. Drennan has 

 added the following note : " It may appear puerile to lay 

 claim to a priority of application in the use of an epithet ; 

 but potts, like bees, have a very strong sense of property ; 

 and b^th are of that irritable kind, as to be extremely 



jealous of anyone who robs them of their hoarded sweets. 

 The sublime epithet which Milton used in his poem on 

 the Nativity, written at fifteen years of age (" his thun- 

 der-clasping hand,") would have been claimed by him as 

 his own, even after he had finished the Paradise Lost. 

 And Gray would prosecute as a literary poacher the 

 daring hand that would presume to break into his orchard, 

 and appropriate a single epithet in that line, the most 

 beautifully descriptive which ever was written : 



' The breezy call of incense-breathing morn! ' 



On such authority, a poetaster reclaims the original use 

 of an epithet — The Emerald Isle, in a party song, 

 written without the rancour of party, in the year 1795. 

 From the frequent use made of the term since that time, 

 he fondly hopes that it will gradually become associated 

 with the name of his country, as descriptive of its prime 

 natural beauty, and its inestimable value." 



William Drennan was a member of the Speculative 

 Society of Edinburgh, and Dr. Drummond furnished the 

 following biographical notice of him for The History of 

 the Society, 4to., 1845, p. 128. : " Drennan was one of the 

 first and most zealous promoters of the Society of United 

 Irishmen, and author of the well-known Test of their 

 Union. His muse also poured forth strains which ex- 

 torted for their poetry the praises even of those who dis- 

 sented from their political sentiments. The song of ' Erin 

 to her own Tune,' was, on its first publication, sung and 

 resung in every corner of the land, and it still continues 

 to enjoy the admiration of its readers. It had the glory 

 of first designating his country as The Emerald Isle — 

 an appellation which will be permanent, as it is beautiful 

 and appropriate. He wrote some hymns of such excel- 

 lence, as to cause a regret that they are not more nume- 

 rous; and in some of the lighter kinds of poetry showed 

 much of the playful wit and ingenuity of Goldsmith. 

 Though deeply engaged in the political transactions of 

 Ireland, he did not neglect the more tranquil and elegant 

 studies of polite literature. He took a prominent part in 

 the establishment of the Belfast Academical Institution, 

 and published a volume of Fugitive Pieces in 1815; and 

 in 1817, a translation of the Elecira of Sophocles." 



Dr. Drennan's epithet will probably remind some of 

 our readers of the clever lines in Tlie Rejected Addresses, 

 in imitation of Tom Moore's gallant verses: — 



" Bloom, Theatre, bloom, in the roseate blushes 

 Of beauty illumed by a love-breathing smile! 

 And flourish, ye pillars, as green as the rushes 

 That pillow the nymphs of the Emerald Isle ! 



" For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, 



Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave, 

 Whose son3, unacevstom'd to rebel commotion, 

 Tho' joyous, are sober — tho' peaceful, are brave."] 



Mose, Moselle, Muswell. — How are these 

 appai'ently cognate words derived ? Mosella, 

 says Mr. Charnock, in his useful work on Local 

 Etymology, is perhaps merely a dim. of Mosa, the 

 Latin name for the river Meuse (q. v.) 



W. J. Pinks. 



[The rivers Meuse and Moselle have been supposed to 

 derive their names from the old German Maes and Musel. 

 If this derivation be correct, it would be difficult to view 

 Mosella as the diminutive of Mosa. But if, rather, the 

 L. Mosa and Mosella are to be regarded as the earlier 

 names, the objection to the proposed etymology is so 

 much the less weighty. 



With regard to Muswell, there was formerly a chapel 

 there, which was an appendage to the nunnery of Clcrhen- 

 welt. (Lysons, i. G57.): "There was a chappie sometime 



