498 LEAVES THEY HAVE TOUCHED. 



I have three other ITapoleonic relics in the form of vohimes from the 

 libraries of members of the Bonaparte family. 1. A quarto from the 

 library of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland, husband of Josej)hine's 

 daughter, Hortense, and father of Louis Napoleon, the Emperor of 

 the French. On its title-page there is stamped in two places a 

 shield, showing, as a cognizance, a crowned Lion rising out of the 

 sea, with the popular Dutch motto below, " Doe wel in zie nict om." 

 " Do right and look not round. ' The whole enclosed in an imperial 

 mantle, powdered with the Napoleonic bees, and surmounted by a 

 royal crown. Round the shield is the collar of an Order, sustaining 

 the badge. The connecting links of this collar are also bees. The 

 book itself in which the stamps appear is in the Italian language, 

 and treats of the Ancient Baths, and other antiquities of Civita 

 "Vecchia and its neighbourhood ; also of its climate. It is by Gsetano 

 Torraca, and was printed at Rome in 1796 by Niccolo and Marco 

 Pagliorini. It is dedicated in very abject language to " the most 

 eminent and most reverend prince, the Lord Cardinal Gio. Francesco 

 Albani, Bishop of Sabina, and Protector of the Kingdom of Poland." 

 2. Another volume from the same library, and showing the same 

 stamps. This, like the other, was printed at Rome. It treats of the vir- 

 tues of mineral waters near that city — the Acqua Santa, anciently the 

 brook Almo, and the famous fountain of Egeria. The book is in 

 Italian, but it contains many quotations in Latin. One from Abbot 

 Tommaso della Yalle, who sums up the qualities of the Acqua Santa 

 thus : " Jecur refrigerat, humectat viscera ; obstructaque aperit : 

 abstergit arenam, viscum, calculos, et hypostases cunctas : roborat 

 stomachum, Isetificat- cor : de etc. lubricat : operatur turn urina, 

 secessu, vomitu, balneo ; humores omnes peccantes et pravos expellit : 

 in nihilo gravat, si vino bibendo miscetur, salutemque totam humano 

 corpori reddit." There are two treatises on the Acqua Santa in the 

 volume, both are by Franciscan monks. The first by Padre Maestro 

 Luigi Lami, the other by Padre Maestro Gio. Battista Monetti ; the 

 latter is a " Dottore in Medicina." The orthography of the com- 

 pound term " medico-fisico" on the title-page of this volume, is an 

 instance of the strange aspect of illiterateness which the Italian 

 la Tguage in some points wears to the eye of the educated Englishman. 

 How can a scholar, we involuntarily ask, bring himself to spell 

 physico with an /.? Another instance of this occurs in Gsetano 

 Torraca's book. On its title-page, Torraca is entitled " Dottore di 

 Filosofia e Medicina." Philosophia spelt with an // This phoJnetic 



