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ii s. VIIL JULY 19, 1913.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

47 1680.

Sir Humph(rey). I'll keep no Fool; 'tis out o Fashion for great Men to keep Fools 'tis exploded ev'n upon the Stage.

Fool. But for all that, Shakespear's Fools had more Wit than any of the Wits and Criticks now-a-days: Well, if the History of Fools were written, the whole Kingdom would not contain the Library

'Woman-Captain,' 1720 ed., vol. iii. p. 348.

1688.

Tru(man). You are so immoderately given to Musick, rnethinks it should justle Love out o your Thoughts.

Belf(ond) Jun. Oh no ! Remember Shake spear : If Musick be the Food of Love, Play on There 's nothing nourishes the soft Passion like it, it imps his Wings, and makes him fly a higher

Pitch

' Squire of Alsatia,' ed. 1720, vol. iv. p. 35.

1689.

Oldio(it). Come, my Lord Count, my Lord Bellamy, and Gentlemen, may good Digestion wait on Appetite, and Health on both : as Mack- beth says : Ah, I love those old Wits.

' Bury Fair,' 1720 ed., vol. iv. p. 160.

M. P. T.

University of Michigan.

CAPT. WILLIAM HARVEY, R.N. Mr. W. Minet of Hadham Hall has had the lettering of the inscription to Capt. William Harvey, in Little Hadham Churchyard, recut, so that it is now easy to decipher. It reads :

"In memory of Captain William Harvey, late of the R.N., who accompanyed that Illustrious Navigator, Captain James Cook, in his three voyages of Discoveries, who died July 12 th, 1807, aged 55 years. Harvey frequently observed in the course of his travels the wonderful works of the Almighty, and the words of Job truly verify ed, ' He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing' (Job 26 v. 7)."

In the original edition of ' Cook's Voyages.' published in 1784. Harvey's name does not appear in the list of officers given at the commencement of each voyage, as he was then only a midshipman. He became an officer directly after Cook's murder by the natives in 1779 at Owhyhee (Hawaii), one of the Sandwich Islands. This is fully confirmed in the following paragraph, which occurs in the edition before-named (iii. 67) : "The command of the expedition having de- volved on Captain Clerke, he removed on board the Resolution,' appointed Lieutenant Gore to be Captain of the * Discovery,' and Mr. Harvey, a midshipman, who had been with Captain Cook in his last two voyages, to the vacant lieutenancy." On his retirement from the Navy, in 1797, he bought " Halfway House," Little Had- ham, and resided there until his death.

W. B. GERISH.

MAIMONIDES AND EVOLUTION. I am in- debted to .Dr. Gaster, the Chief Rabbi of the Sephardi Congregations, for confirmation and the exact source of my discovery that Maimonides in the twelfth century had anticipated Darwin's theory of evolution. Robert Blakey (of whom I am anxious to have particulars) in his ' History of Political Literature,' vol. i. pp. 215-16, put me on the track of it. Students of Maimonides may see the whole passage in Fried lander's trans- lation of ' The Guide to the Perplexed,' book iii. cap. 32. Blakey has some fine things also on the Essenes.

M. L. R. BRESLAR. [There is a full account of Blakey in the ' D.N.B.']

BARETTI'S COPY OF HIS ' DISCOURS SUR SHAKESPEAR.' Baretti was obliged to print his ' Discours sur Shakespear et sur Monsieur de Voltaire ' as he wrote it, before the excitement aroused by Voltaire's famous letter to the French Academy had abated. Hence the French is often faulty, as its author well knew. Baretti's own copy of the book is in the Barton Collection in the Boston Public Library in America, and it is interesting to note that in this he has often altered words and sentences, correcting, as far as possible, the mistakes in the French which proved so useful a weapon in the hands of Voltaire's friends.

L. COLLTSON-MORLEY,

WE must request correspondents desiring in- crmation on family matters of only private interest x> affix their names and addresses to their queries, n order that answers may be sent to them direct.

" L'ENTENTE CORDIALE." On Saturday, June 28th, members of the Political and Economic Circle of the National Liberal Club, and their guests, the representatives of the Ligue de Libre l change of France, leaded by M. Yves Guyot, visited Cobden's grave in the churchyard of West Lavington, nd Mr. T. Fisher Unwin in The Daily Ohronicle of July 2nd states that one of the peakers made the following quotation from t letter addressed to M. Michel Chevalier by Richard Cobden, and written at Manchester n September, 1859 :

" The people of the two nations must be brought into mutual dependence by the supply of each other's wants. There is no other way of counteracting the antagonism of language and