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 u s. i. MAY 21, i9io.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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vol. i. p. 65, says : " The same legend, under the same name, exists in the county of Surrey, near Reigate. But in that case the devil disappears in the form of a shaggy dog, after crossing the brook with the rider. n

S. T. P.

BEETHOVEN'S " IN DIESES GRABES DUN- KELN" (11 S. i. 328, 373). This fine song was originally set to the Italian words " In questa tomba oscura," written by Giuseppe Carpani. The German text is a translation. Beethoven frequently exercised his genius n composing to Italian words.

WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS.

AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (11 S. i. 368). But Scripture saith, an ending of all fine things

must be ; So the king's ships sailed on Aves, and quite put

down were we,

is from the sixth stanza of Charles Kingsley's
 * The Last Buccaneer.' ROBERT BOWES.

13, Park Terrace, Cambridge.

[MR. W. E. A. AXON, C. C. B., and SEXEX also refer to Kingsley.]

" DIE WAHRHEIT RUHT IN GOTT n : J. v. MULLER (11 S. i. 367). I remember that I saw this sentence quoted one day by the late Whitley Stokes as being by the Swiss historian Johann von Miiller, and Whitley Stokes was the most accurate of scholars.

H. GAIDOZ. 22, Rue Servandoni, Paris (VI C ).

Although I fail to put my finger on the page, memory strongly assents to the state- ment that Heine somewhere praises this German poet as one of the newer voices of his country, of whom he augurs much. It is a pity there is no index to Heine's English translation a desideratum I trust Mr. Heinemann will soon see his way to provide for the numerous admirers of the Hebrew poet. M. L. R. BRESLAR.

If a moral conviction be acceptable, I offer mine for What it is worth, to the effect that the line, Die Wahrheit ruht in Gott: uns bleibt das For-

schen,

was written by Dr. Johannes Miiller of Schliersee, author of ' Blatter zur Pflege personlichen Lebens.' I have not been able to find the exact words, even in his fssay ' Was 1st Wahrheit ? * (vol. iii., 1900), in which one expects at every turn to light upon them ; but any one looking through the same, and other essays, &c., in the publications mentioned, will probably feel

the same conviction as I do, and may have the satisfaction, which I have missed, of finding the line quoted.

I may add that the publication referred to is a private one marked " Als Manuskript gedruckt,'* the Verlag (" der Griinen Blat- ter ") being at Leipzig ; also that in Febru- ary, 1905, an address delivered by Dr. Miiller in the Wagner- Saale at Munich caused considerable sensation, and at the time a volume of essays entitled ' Von den Quellen des Lebens ? was published by C. H. Beck, containing, amongst other of Dr. Miiller's more important essays, the one referred to above ' Was ist Wahrheit ? '

M. C. D.

J. WALTON, TOPOGRAPHICAL ARTIST (US. i. 247). In a notice of Ackermann, the originator in this country of the " Annuals " so popular some seventy or eighty years ago, Timperley ('Dictionary of Printers,' p. 933) says :

" In the summer of 1830, Mr. Ackermann trans- ferred to his three younger sons and to Mr. Walton, his principal assistant, the establishment which he had founded, and which, by the unremitting labour of forty years, he had brought to its prosperous condition ; the eldest son being already established in Regent Street."

There is every likelihood that the Mr. Walton here spoken of Was the artist referred to in MR. ROBERTS' s query. His prominent position in a flourishing business like that established by Ackermann may serve to explain why he found no time to exhibit among artists at the Royal Academy.

W. SCOTT.

BURIAL UNDER RIVERS (11 S. i. 290). From the following passage in Von Ihering's ' Evolution of the Aryan * (translated by A. Drucker, M.P., London, 1897), it would appear that among the Aryans burial, or rather sacrifice, of the aged members of the clan in rivers was the common practice in primitive times ; at least this was the case during the period of their wanderings westward and southward. Such a usage presents a strange contrast to the doctrine of ancestor-Worship, a usage that could only have arisen among a people of compara- tively settled surroundings and endowed with an imaginative temperament :

"A barbarous custom of the migratory period was involved in this putting to death the aged. We do not find it among the early Aryans, but with Slays and Teutons far into historic times. Roman tradition also speaks of it. The custom, therefore, must have been formed during the migration. To understand how it could ever have grown into a custom we must not forget that ihe position of the aged was a very miserable one