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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2«* S. IX. June 16. 'GO. 



to have occasionally borne somewhat of the pecu- 

 liar meaning referred to by your correspondent, 

 before they were so applied bibliographically . The 

 following examples are supplied by Pacciolati : — 



" Malthinus tunicis demissis ambulat. Est qui 

 Inguen ad obscenum subductis usque facetus." — Hot: 



" Qui, quod verbis inverecundis aurium publicarum re- 

 verentiam incestant, granditer sibi videntur facetiari." — 

 Apol. Sidon. 



But in the Canti carnascialeschi, Florence, 1559, 

 p. 462., are the following lines, referring to plays: — 



"Commedie nuoue habbiam composte in guisa, 

 Che quando recitar le sentirete, 

 Morrete della risa, 

 Tanto son belle, giocose, efacete." 



Considering that the plays in question were to be 

 performed during the carnival, and bearing in 

 mind also the loose character too generally per- 

 vading the early Italian " commedie," we may 

 conjecture that the term facete here meant some- 

 thing more than giocose which it follows, and per- 

 haps pointed to the particular signification after 

 whicli your correspondent inquires. No ladies 

 went to the plays in question : — 



"Donne, che voi non potete uenire 

 A uederci alia stanza." — Cant. earn. p. 463. 



Vedette. 



Napoleon III. (2 nd S. ix. 306.) — It was the 

 present Emperor's elder brother, Napoleon Louis, 

 who married his cousin Charlotte, daughter of 

 Joseph Buonaparte, who, after his arrival in 

 America, assumed the name of Comte de Survil- 

 liers. I gave lessons in drawing to her when in 

 Florence in 1837, where she was known and 

 spoken of Comtesse de Survilliers, as well as Prin- 

 cesse Charlotte Napoleon. She purchased one of 

 my drawings of Florence, the Ponte Sta Trinita. 



Thomas H. Cromek. 



B. Huydecoper (2 nd S. ix. 404.) — Another 

 work of Huydecoper's which may be that in- 

 quired for by F. is thus noticed in La Biographie 

 Generate, xxv. 664. : — 



" Proeve van Taal en Dichtkunst in vrymoedige Aan- 

 merkungen op Vondels vertaalde Herscheppingen van 

 Ovidius, Amsterdam, 1730, 4" ; Leyde, 1782-1784, 2 vols. 

 in 8°, avec des additions, par les soins de Lelyveld ; 

 ouvrage precieux qui contient, outre des excellentes re- 

 marques sur ies litterateurs hollondais, un tresor d'obser- 

 vations sur le genie et l'histoire de ridiome hollandais." 



The criticism of the above is sound ; the biblio- 

 graphy very imperfect. The second volume ends 

 with the commentary on the tenth book of the 

 Metamorphoses. Lelyveld died before finishing 

 the third volume, which was brought out by his 

 friend N. Hinlopen in 1788; the index, which oc- 

 cupies the fourth volume, was delayed till 1793. 

 As "in drie deelen" is on the title-page of the 

 first volume, an encyclopaedist would be excused 

 for not knowing that a fourth had been subse- 

 quently published, but he could hardly have read 



enough even of the first two to warrant such high 

 praise. Nevertheless I think it well deserved. I 

 believe that the philology is good, and know that 

 the "Essays" are very pleasant reading. 



Inquiries having appeared in " N. & Q." as to 

 the merits of the Biographie Generate, I take this 

 opportunity of saying that I find it copious and 

 very useful, and of advising a verification of the 

 references, whenever it can be made. H. B. C 



U. U. Club. 



Quakers described (2 ud S. ix. 403.) — The 

 writer quoted in the North British Review is the 

 once notorious Thomas Paine. The passage is 

 contained in an address 



" To the Representatives of the Religious Society of the 

 People called Quakers, or to so many of them as were 

 concerned in publishing a late piece, entitled ' The Ancient 

 Testimony and Principles of the People called Quakers 

 renewed, with respect to the King and Government, and 

 touching the commotions now prevailing in these and 

 other parts of America, addressed to the People in Gene- 

 ral.' " 



The Address forms part of an Appendix to a 

 pamphlet entitled Common Sense, addressed to the 

 Inhabitants of America, Philadelphia, 1776. 



The whole paragraph, of which the passage re- 

 ferred to forms the concluding words, is as fol- 

 lows : — 



"Alas! it seems by the particular tendency of some 

 part of your testimony, and other parts of your conduct, 

 as if all sin was reduced to, and comprehended in, the act 

 of bearing arms, and that by the people only. Ye appear 

 to us to have mistaken party for conscience, because the 

 general tenor of your actions wants uniformity. And it 

 is exceedingly difficult for us to give credit to many of 

 your pretended scruples, because we see them made by 

 the same men, who, in the very instant that they are ex- 

 claiming against the mammon of this world, are never- 

 theless hunting after it with a step as steady as Time,and 

 an appetite as keen as Death." 



'AAifiT. 



Dublin. 



"Ride" or "Drive" (2 nd S. ix. 326. 394.)— 

 The question is a little difficult, and only to be 

 solved by 



" Usus 



Quem penes arbitrium est et jus et norma loquendi." 

 But you can scarcely say correctly " I am going to 

 drive " unless you intend to take the reins, though 

 you may " take a drive " whoever is on the box. 

 Riding in a carriage is certainly obsolete. I once 

 met a purist, who observed that it was a delight- 

 ful swim down the Clyde in a steamboat. He was 

 not a Scotchman, but a Kentishman I believe. 

 Invehitur is perhaps the Latin word your corre- 

 spondent wants. A Frenchman "se promene a, 

 pied, a cheval, en voiture," &c. Scotch people 

 sometimes talk of getting a hurl in a coach. 



J. P. O. 



Baptismal Names (2 nd S. ix, 160.) —There is 

 a family existing in this neighbourhood, two sons of 

 whom were called Thankful and Tranquil (Joy), 



