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i:nl ' Hydriotaphia ' (1658). He does this <>veii in the Epistle Dedicatory prefixed to tlic later work, and addressed to Thomas ie (Jros.

William Salmon has " we " and " our " in his ' Synopsis Medicinae ' (3rd ed., 1695) ; also in ' Praxis Medica ' (2nd ed., 1707). Quincy follows suit in his ' Dispensatory ' (1718). Culpeper varies from " I " to " we " in his medical books, but " I " predominates.

Hume uses " we " in his ' History of England,' as does also Smollett in his. It would seem that " we " crept in where writers were speaking, or affecting to speak, with authority. The habit of writing in magazines, &o., would foster its use. C. C. B.

Is this habit of authors not merely the use of a " pluralis modestatis " a different tiling from the " pluralis majestatis or majestaticus " applied, for instance, by a king or any superior personage speaking of himself in the plural ? H. KREBS.

FATHER JOHN OF CRONSTADT (11 S. x. 289). Some striking matters concerning him maybe found in Mr. Kothay Reynolds's ' My Russian Year,' which I referred to incorrectly as ' My Year in Russia,' 'ante, p. 288. The title of this book is, however, misleading, as Mr. Reynolds and others have moi'.- than a twelvemonth's acquaintance svith the countries on which they write.

ST. SWITHIN.

LATIN JINGLES (11 S. x. 250, 298).

Hoc retine verbum : Frangit Deus omne super- bum.

Suririgar in his edition of Bebel's ' Pro-

verbia Germanica,' Leyden, 1879, gives two

other forms of this line :

Est veruin verbum : Frangit Deus omne super- bum.


 * Loci Communes Proverbiales,' 1572, and

Gartner, ' Proverbialia Dicteria,' 1372.

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iJf-inc magna loqui : perdit Deus omne superbum. Seybold, ' Viridarium Paroemiarum,' 1677.

2. Quisquis amat ranam ranain putat esse

Dianam.

Tn the notes on Burton's ' Anatomy of M. laneholy ' at 9 S. xii. 162, it was pointed out that this line may be found in the form " Si (jiiis amat," &c., on p. 66, vol. i., of Mtillenhoff and Scherer's ' Denkmaler deutscher Poesie und Prosa aus dem viii.-xii. Jahrhundert. '

''*. Deficit ambobus qui vult servire duobus. W. lender, ' Xovus Thesaurus Adagiorum Xatinorum,' 1861, gives this line from

Michael Neander's ' Ethice Vetus et Sapiens Veterum Latinorum Sapientum,' 1590.

As S. G. remarks, it is a very difficult task to discover the authors or first appearance of such lines. EDWARD BENSLY.

HYLLARA may like to hear of Mr. Caldwell Harpur's magnificent word-for-word rendering of the penultimate line of Tennyson's ' The Voyage,'

We know the merry world is round, into Jucundum mundum no8 novimus esse rotundum.

There are some quaint Latin verses of the kind HYLLARA is looking for in John Aubrey's ' Miscellanies,' 4th ed. (1857), at PP- 6, 7. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT.

' THE DIARY OF LADY WILLOUGHBY ' (11 S. x. 241, 297). I may supplement what MR. PEET and COL. PRIDEAUX have written with regard to this interesting work by stating that a copy in my possession, bouni in dark - brown morocco and gilt - edged, bears the date of 1846, and is stated on the title-page to be " the Fourth Edition."

WILLOUGHBY MAYCOCK.

Jiofcs on

The Life of Charles, Third Earl Stanhope. Com- menced by Ghita Stanhope ; revised and com- pleted by G. P. Gooch. (Longmans & Co., 10s. net.)

THIS Life of the third Earl Stanhope should take a place among the important biographies. While the romantic life of Lady Hester Stanhope has fascinated many biographers, it was not until nearly a century after his death that the career of her distinguished father found a chronicler. For the initiation of this biography we are indebted to his great-great-granddaughter Ghita Stanhope. She brought the narrative down to the outbreak of the French Revolution, and upon her death in 1912 her parents were so fortunate as to secure the services of Mr. G. P. Gooch to revise and complete the work, a task which he has ably performed. Mr. Gooch tells us that liis direct share is the portion which describes the second half of Stanhope's life and the unhappy relations with his family.

Stanhope, hitherto vaguely known as a man of eccentric habits and impossible opinions " the Quixote of the nation," as he is described in ' The Rolliad ' is here revealed as an outstanding personality of his time, an inventive genius of the first order, and a fearless reformer who played a leading part in public life for forty yr.-u-s. He was born in London on the 3rd of August, 1753. His father, Philip Stanhope, was a con- spicuous figure in the scientific world. Charles was the second son, and on the death of his brother Philip of consumption, on July 6th, 17t>:(, became Viscount Mahon. His parents, anxious