2«* S. IX. May 26. '60.] 



NOTES AND QUEE1ES. 



407 



If the writer of this note had turned over 

 another page of Malcolm's book, he would have 

 read that — 



" Arlington Gardens [t. e. the Mulberry Garden] com- 

 prised the ground now occupied by Arlington Street, 

 part of the Green Park, and part of St. James's Park, 

 Arlington House standing where the Queen's house now 

 does." 



The Mulberry Garden, according to Malone, 

 was the favourite resort of the immortal Dryden, 

 where he used to eat mulberry tarts with his mis- 

 tress, Mrs. Anne Reeve. 



" Nor he, whose essence, wit, and taste, approved, 

 Forget the mulberry -tarts which Dryden loved." 



Pursuits of Literature. 



Tart Hall stood opposite to the Park, on the 

 ground between Buckingham Palace and the com- 

 mencement of the houses in James Street. It 

 was built (the new" part at least) by Nicholas 

 Stone, the sculptor, in 1638, for Alathea, Countess 

 of Arundel, probably as a summer residence. 



I believe that it was named Tart Hall from its 

 proximity to the Mulberry Garden, which, as we 

 have seen, was famous for its tarts. It is so called 

 in the inventory of " household stuffs," &c. taken 

 in 1641 (Marl. MS. No. 6272) ; in Algernon Syd- 

 ney's Letters to Henry Snvile; m several docu- 

 ments in the State Paper Office, &c. 



Lord Goring had a house in the Mulberry 

 Garden in 1632; and probably Tart Hall was 

 similarly situated. Cunningham says — 



" Goring House and garden could onl} r have occupied a 

 comparatively small portion of King James's Mulberry 

 Garden, for the place of amusement of that name existed 

 many years earlier." 



The destruction of these gardens is thus noticed 

 in Dr. King's Art of Cookery, 1709 : — 



" The fate of things lies alwaj-s in the dark ; 

 What Cavalier would know St. James's Park? 

 For Locket's stands where gardens once did spring, 

 And wild ducks quack where grasshoppers did sing ; 

 A princely palace on that space does rise 

 Where Sedlc-y's noble muse found Mulberries." 



Mr. J. H. Jesse, who quotes these lines in his 

 Literary and Historical Memoirs of London (i. 

 208.), makes a strange mistake concerning them. 

 He says — 



" The 'princely palace' alluded to in Dr. King's verses 

 was doubtless Tart Hall ! '* 



It was, of course, Buckingham House, erected 

 in 1703. Edward F. Rimbault. 



ALLEGED INTERPOLATIONS IN THE 

 "TE DEUM." 



(2 nd S. viii. 352. ; ix. 31. 265. 367.) 



I cannot, agree with your various correspon- 

 dents that the three verses are " offending," 

 " inappropriate," or even " interpolated." I see 

 no reason to suppose that the Te Deitm was in- 



tended at any time to be addressed to the Second 

 Person of the Blessed Trinity exclusively. The 

 origin of this noble hymn is, and I fear ever will 

 be, utterly obscure and uncertain. Some critics 

 unhesitatingly adopt the usual tradition of its 

 having been composed by Saints Ambrose and 

 Augustin ; while others reject this, as entitled to 

 little or no credit. But this is, after all, of little 

 consequence to our argument. Let. us consider 

 the positions which A. H. W. complains have not 

 been answered. (1.) That "Te Deum laudamus" 

 signifies "We praise Thee«s God," and as such 

 is not good sense as applied either to the Father 

 or the Holy Trinity. But the words are not 

 necessarily to be so translated. They may very 

 properly be rendered, We praise Thee, God ; that 

 is, We praise Thee who art our God, and then 

 they are of course appropriate, whether addressed 

 to the Father only, or to the Blessed Trinity col- 

 lectively. (2.) "That ejecting the three offend- 

 ing versicles, the remainder becomes a hymn to 

 Christ as God.'" I cannot approve of these verses 

 being called either "offensive" or "offending." 

 Objectors might be content to consider them in- 

 terpolations ; but I cannot admit that they are 

 even such. I see nothing that requires us to 

 apply the first ten versicles to the Second Person; 

 every word of them will equally apply to God the 

 Father ; and my opinion is that they were so in- 

 tended to apply, and that the versicles — 



" Venerandum tuum verum et unicum Filium, 

 Sanctum quoque Paraclitum Spiritum," 



were designedly introduced in the original com- 

 position, to pay distinct homage to the three divine 

 Persons. The rest of the hymn is addressed to 

 our Saviour only, just as the chief part of the 

 Apostles' Creed refers to Him, of whom, in his 

 twofold nature, as God and man, we have so much 

 to predicate. I really see no reason to consider 

 the three versicles as interpolations. 



I am sorry to find your correspondent A. H.W. 

 designating the text of the three heavenly wit- 

 nesses in 1 St. John v. 7. as " the well-known 

 forgery." If he will read Cardinal Wiseman's 

 critique upon that question, I am persuaded that 

 he will find good reason to think very differently. 

 It is almost as painful to hear Mr. Thomas Boys 

 (2 nd S. ix. 31.) speak of " Bonaventura's astound- 

 ing parody," and proclaim that " the three versi- 

 cles, 11 — 13., are actually struck out, the 'Three 

 Persons of the Trinity' give place, in order that 

 the Virgin may be worshipped instead !" But, in 

 the first place, this " parody " on the Te Deum is 

 falsely ascribed to St. Bonaventure; and, secondly, 

 there is nothing astounding in it, or the least irre- 

 verence. On the contrary, it is an attempt of 

 some pious soul to imitate, not parody, the Te 

 Deum, but only so far as its language might be 

 applied to the Blessed Virgin ; and therefore the 

 three versicles being wholly inapplicable, others 



