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the view that Longinus wrote the treatise. But it appears to have been overlooked.

My authority for the fact is as follows. In No. 633 of The Spectator (15 December, 1714), written by Zachary Pearce, we read :

"This advantage Christians have; and it was with no small pleasure I lately met with a fragment of Longinus, which is preserved, as a testimony of that critic's judgment, at the beginning of a manu- script of the New Testament in the Vatican library. After that author has numbered up the most cele- brated orators among the Grecians, he says, ' add to these Paul of Tarsus, the patron of an opinion not yet fully proved.' As a heathen he condemns the Christian religion ; and, as an impartial critic, he judges in favour of the promoter and preacher of

Is anything further known about this frag- ment ?

The chief reason for disputing Longinus' s authorship of the treatise ' On the Sublime ' is that the best manuscript authority attri- butes the work to " Dionysius or Longinus." I do not personally take the word "or" as meaning that Dionysius and Longinus were alternative authors : I think the meaning is " Dionysius, otherwise called Longinus." Compare (in Keil's c Scriptores de Orthographia,' p. 165) the title ' Ada- mantii sive Martyrii de b Muta et v Vocali,' where Adamantius and Martyrius are one and the same person.

R. JOHNSON WALKER. Little Holland House, Kensington, W.

" VlR BONUS ES DOCTTJS PRTJDENS AST

HATJD TIBI SPIRO." (See 10 S. vii. 228 ; x. 173.) With regard to this line, which is found in Coleridge's ' Biographia Lite- raria,' and for which no source is indicated in Mr. Shawcross's recent edition, it was pointed out at the latter reference that "Non tibi spiro " is placed above the picture of the pig and marjoram in Joachim Camerarius's ' Symbola et Emblemata ' (i. 93), and that the words " Haud tibi spiro," which in Coleridge's text are dis- tinguished from the rest of the line by being in italics, are shown by the context ("To such a mind I would as courteously as possible convey the hint that for him the chapter was not written") to bear the same sense as the motto in Camerarius.

Since then I have noted in Coleridge's preface to his 'Aids to Reflexion,' vol. i. p. xiii., ed. 1843, the following passage :

" It belongs to the class of didactic works. Con- sequently, those who neither wish instruction for themselves, nor assistance in instructing others, have no interest in its contents. Sis sus : sis Divus, sum caltha, et non tibi spiro."

Here the hint as to the reader's possible- inability to appreciate is conveyed more directly, if less courteously.

In this line caltha (usually interpreted as- " marigold ") appears as the plant that does not appeal to a pig. The popular belief that the pig has an antipathy to marjoram and to perfumes generally is first found in Lucretius, vi. 973,

Denique amaracinum fugitat sus et timet omne

Unguentum.

Aulus Gellius in the preface to his * Noctes Atticse ' ( 19) refers to the " vetus ada- gium " : Nil cum fidibus graculost, nihil cum amaracino sui.

It has occurred to me as possible that Coleridge might have coined for the occasion the two Latin lines that he employs.

EDWARD BENSLY.

PATIENCE AS A MAN'S NAME. " Patience " as the name of a man is exceedingly rare. I know of only two instances, viz. (1) that of Sir Patience Ward, mentioned at 11 S. iiL 497, and (2) that of my grandfather Patience- Thomas Adams, Filazer of the Court of King's Bench 1760 to 1793, who was bom 17 August, and baptized 19 September,. 1736, at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, and who- was so named after his godmother, pre- sumably a Miss Roberts. G. E. C.

EARLIEST ENGLISH RAILROAD WITH: PASSENGERS. The following from The Globe of 30 June, extracted from the same journal of 30 June, 1812, is of special in- terest to the historians of our railway system :

" Curious Machine. On Wednesday last a highly-interesting experiment was made with a machine at Leeds, under the directions of Miv John Blenkinsop, the patentee, for the purpose- of substituting the agency of steam for the use of" horses in the conveyance of coals on the iron rail- way, from the mines of J. C. Brandling, Esq., at Middleton, to Leeds. This machine is, in fact, a steam engine of four horses' power, which, with, the assistance of cranks turning a cog-wheel, and iron cogs placed at one side of the rail-way, is capable of moving, when lightly loaded, at the speed of ten miles an hour. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the machine ran from the coal- staith to the top of Hunslet Moor, where six, and afterwards eight waggons of coals, each weighing 3 tons, were hooked to the back part. With this immense Weight, to which, as it approached town,, was super-added about 50 of the spectators mounted upon the waggons, it set off on its return, to the coal-staith, and performed the journey, a distance of about a mile and a half, principally on a dead level, in 23 minutes, without the slightest accident. The experiment, which was witnessed by thousands of spectators, was crowned with. complete success ; and when it is considered that