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 io« B. iv. OCT. 28. loos.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 341 LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBBR IS. 1905. CONTENTS.—No. 96. JIOTHS :—Coleridge Marginalia, 341—Tete-a-Tete Portraits, 342-Queeii Elizabeth's Visits to Winchester, 344—" Praty " —Hchoreus—Suicides burled In the Open Fields—" Un- answered vet," Ac.—English Poets and the Armada. 316 — Waterloo Veteran—Morgan and Polton. Bishops of Wor- cester—Terry's ' Voyage to East India.' 1865— Ball-games played on Festivals—" Spongeltls," 347. QUERIES :—Miners' Greeting —Hyde Marriages — Arch- bishop Kempe —Worple Way — Dallas - Du Bartas — St. Nicholas Shambles, 318-Halnsfnrd Hall—Prisons in Paris during the Revolution—Hair-Powdering Closets— Watson and Hodgson Families—Lord Bathurst and the Highwayman—Martin Malapert—Heraldry, 340—"Foun- tain-beads and pathless groves "—Early Lift- Custom of Thraves—"Totum aume, flult" — 'Pluhoken*—William Morris's Welsh Ancestry—' Lyrical Ballads': Motto, 350. BKPLIES :—Moon Names, 350—" Sacrse Paginie Professor" —Ephls and his Lion—Copenhagen House, 351—Whit- combe Family — Oorisande —Greyfriars Burial-Ground— Swedish Royal Family—' Byways in the Classics,' 352— Prisoner suckled by his Daughter—Authors of Quotations Wanted — Testout, 353 —American Civil War Verses — " Belapplt," 354 — Farrant's Anthem — " Pearls cannot equal the whiteness of bis teeth "-Foxes as Food for Men —" Christ's Hospital "—John Danister. Wykehamist, 355 — Bton School Lists —The Pigmies and the Cranes — Detectives In Fiction, 358—Robinson Crusoe. 1HI9—Henry Hu.lson's Descendants—Charles Churchill: T. Underwood — Ceremony at Ripon, 357 — Duchess of Cannlzaro — "Coop," to Trap—Nutting—Sanderson Dance, 358. NOTES ON BOOKS:—'New English Dictionary'—'The Origin and History of the Thoroughbred Horse'—'Acts of the Privy Council'—' Intermediate.' Rotlcei to Correspondents. gotti. COLERIDGE MARGINALIA. IN Blackwoo<?s Magazine for January, 1882, is an article dealing with marginal notes by Coleridge on certain books now in the British Museum—among them a copy of Herder's ' Kalligone.' " Unhappily," says the writer of the article in question, " Cole- ridge's notes on Herder's ' Kalligone,' which would appear to have been most entertain- ing, have had their life-thread cut short by the shears of Atropos, the bookbinder." Allusion is then made to a fragment which the shears have spared, and the writer proceeds: " A note written on a sheet of noto-paper, and bound into the volume, lias happily escaped the vandal bibliopegist." This note he then reproduces in full. To the above article my attention was dirawn shortly after I had myself had occasion to consult the annotated copy of the ' .fCalligone,' and I was surprised to find that tle description of the book given in Black- tffo&ddid not tally with my knowledge of it. On Lfnrther inquiry, however, I found that therf "s are, as a matter of fact, two volumes of tl'ie 'Kalligone' annotated by Coleridge (containing Parts I. and II., and Part III. respectively), only the first of which appears to have come under the notice of the writer in Blackwood. In this volume I found the " note written on note-paper" which he re- produces, but, strange to say, no trace of the marginal notes to which he alludes. These, apparently, or such of them as survived the shears of the bookbinder, have finally suc- cumbed to time. The marginalia in the second volume, however, though also muti- lated, are not mutilated beyond all recogni- tion ; and the matter which they contain seems to me of sufficient interest to explain, if not to justify, the following attempt to restore them. The ' Kalligone' was written mainly as a reply to Kant's 'Kritikder Urteilskraft,' and the writer's method of criticism is to set up detached statements from Kant's work and attack them in their isolation. The first of these citations to provoke a comment from Coleridge is the following: " Erhaben nennen wir das, was schlechthin gross ist'' (" We call that sublime, which is absolutely great"). Coleridge's note runs thus :— " We call an object sublime in relation to which the exercise of comparison is suspended : while on the contrary that object is most beautiful, which in its highest perfection sustains while it satisfies the comparing Power. The subjective result is when a wheel turns so smoothly and swiftly as to present a stationary image to the eye, or as a foun- tain (such as either of the two in the Colonnade of St. Peter's at Rome, ' Fons omni fonte formosior !).' It is impossible that the same object should be sublime and beautiful at the same moment to the same mind, though a beautiful object may excite and be made the symbol of an Idea that is truly Serpent in a wreath of folds bathing in the sun is beautiful to Aspasia, whose attention is confined to the visual impression, but excites an emotion of sublimity in Plato, who contemplates under that symbol the Idea of Eternity." How is the first hiatus to be restored ? The wheel and the fountain are apparently ad- vanced as instances of the beautiful, " which sustains while it satisfies the comparing Power." Else why the "Fons omni fonte formosior"? The sense, then, would seem to be that the subjective result is of the second kind when such a wheel or such a fountain is contemplated. But let us turn to the rest of the passage. The second hiatus is more easily filled up. If we place "sublime " after "truly," and "A" before "serpent," we shall have at least the gist of the missing line. Coleridge supplements the first illustration of the beautiful with a second, which is also an illustration of the sublime. When the mind rests entirely in the sensuous contem- plation of the serpent's folds, they appear as