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 io* s. ii. JULY 2, low.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

Montenegro ; the King of Bavaria, and the future Queen, whom the Order of the White Rose consider our English sovereign, Mary IV.; the King and Queen of Wiirtemberg ; the King of Saxony ; and, with hardly an excep- tion, the minor German houses.

From Queen Mary have descended fourteen sovereigns of England, and two queens- consort ; six kings, two queens, and an empress of France ; six emperors of Austria, ana at least two empresses ; five kings of Prussia, two queens, three German emperors, and two empresses ; an emperor and empress of Brazil ; an empress of Mexico ; three emperors and three empresses of Russia ; three kings and four queens of Denmark ; two kings and three queens of Holland ; one king and two queens of the Belgians ; five kings and seven queens of Spain ; besides kings and consorts of Sardinia, Naples, Bavaria, Wiirtemberg, and Saxony. Could Queen Elizabeth's shade be cognizant of this record, she might even more bitterly than before feel the contrast between herself a " barren stock "and the fair and ill- fated progenitrix of the greatest sovereigns of Europe for the last three centuries. If we exclude morganatic and illegitimate descents which would swell the list to thousands the royal descendants of Mary Stuart at the present time still number something like four hundred persons. When we consider how many large families utterly disappear in a fev generations, these facts seem remark- able. HELGA.

CARDINAL BARTOLOMMEO GIUDICCIONI. Moroni, in his * Dizionario Ecclesiastico,' makes a mistake as to his cardinalitial title. He was Cardinal-deacon of the title of S. Cesareo from 28 January, 1540, to 24 Septem- ber, 1542, and Cardinal-priest of the title of S. Prisca from 24 September, 1542, to his death on 28 August, 1549. His tomb in the lorth transept of Lucca Cathedral has the utterly un-Christian motto :

Gcu'aros dQdvaros, TO. AOITTO, 6vt]rd. 7his looks like a reminiscence of the quota- tion from the TwaiKOKpaTia of Amphis preserved in Athenseus, viii. 336 c. (reading lorson's emendation in the second line) : mvc, TTCU^* OvrjTos 6 /2/os, 6'Aiyos OVTTL yfj x/ooVcs' o 6a.va.Tos 5' a#ai>aTos COTIJ/, av a7ra TIS

JOHN B. WAINEWBIUHT.

m TWEEDLE-DUM AND T\VEEDLE-DEE. Lecky

ii his ' History of England ' says that the rivalry between Handel and Bononcini civided society into factions almost like

those of the Byzantine empire ; and the con- flicting claims of the two composers were celebrated in a well-known epigram, " which has been commonly attributed to Swift, but which was in reality written by Byrom"(vol. i. p. 532). He then in a note quotes it thus :

Some say that Signer Bononcini

Compared to Handel is a ninny ;

Others aver that to him Handel

Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.

Strange that such difference should be

'Twixt tweedledum and tweedledee.

This is inaccurate. What John Byrom wrote in his * Miscellaneous Poems,' vol. i. p. 343, is as follows :

Some say, compar'd to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel 's but a Ninny ; Others aver, that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a Candle: Strange all this Difference should be, 'Twixt Tweedle-dum and T\veedle-dee !

It is certainly strange that so accurate a writer as Lecky did not verify his quotation.

HARRY B. POLAND. Inner Temple.

'THE MOST IMPUDENT MAN LIVING.' According to Lowndes, David Mallet was the writer of the pamphlet which assigned supremacy in shamelessness to Bishop War- burton. On the other hand, the production was freely attributed to Bolingbroke by his contemporaries, and it is still sometimes said to be his. In trie monograph on Pope which he contributed to " English Men of Letters," Sir Leslie Stephen, curiously enough, credits both writers with the critical assault. Speaking of Warburton, chap. vii. p. 177, he says that his multifarious reading made him conspicuous, " helped by great energy, and by a quality which gave some plausibility to the title bestowed on him by Mallet, * the most impudent man living.'" Again, on the subject of the dispute regarding the publication of 'The Patriot King,' chap. ix. p. 209, Stephen writes, ** A savage contro- versy followed, which survives only in the title of one of Bolingbroke's pamphlets, ' A Familiar Epistle to the Most Impudent Man Living,' a transparent paraphrase for War- burton." It may be, of course, that Mallet invented the descriptive nickname, and that Bolingbroke found it serviceable for his con- troversial purpose. THOMAS BAYNE.

"THE BEATIFIC VISION." (See 9 th S. ix. 509 ; x. 95, 177, 355, 436 ; xi. 236.) I believe that the true genesis of this phrase is to be found in Plato, * Phsedrus,' 250 B, where Socrates says : KuAAos 8e TOT' i]v I8e.lv Aa/x7r/)ov, ore