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NOTES AND QUERIES. [11 s. vn. MAY 24, 1913.

sadden shock at coming across the following on p. 145 :

"This Nimrod was the first whom, it seems, ."Satan picked out for an hero. Here he inspired him with ambitious thoughts, dreams of empire, ^ind having the government of all the rest, that is to say universal monarchy ; the very same bait with which he has played upon the frailty of princes, .and ensnared the greatest of them ever since, even from his Most August Imperial Majesty King Nimrod. the first, to his Imperial Majesty Napo- Ile in [.cj Bonaparte, and many a mighty monarch between. ' '

I have not access to the first edition of Defoe's work (7 May, 1726), but assume the aiame of Bonaparte has been inserted in tthe place of that of George I.

However much the Bonaparte family may have been in the public eye in 1837, and however apposite the alteration, there is, to my mind, no justification whatever for -taking this unwarrantable liberty with an fiuthor's work. FBANK CUBBY.

[The words for which Napoleon Bonaparte has (been substituted are " the great King George."]

LATIN LINES ON Music. At US. iii, 46 the line

Musice mentis medicina msestse was identified as coming from a Sapphic poem by Walter Haddon, every word in the iinal stanza of which begins with the letter m. The curious in such matters may care to see an even more surprising tour de force :

Epigramma de eadem [sc. Musica]. Jl/usica moestitiam, minuit modulamine, mentis :

F^iliter vires viuificatque viris. Fbertim yegetat virtutis voce vigorem :

.ff^stituit requiem : robora rapta refert. ^uauia solicitis satagans solatia subdit :

Jf/rifice mentes Musica mira mouet. /ngenium iuuat ; impellit iocunda iacentes :

.^4tis felices fertque facitque fauos. Oomminuit cordis cantu cultissima curas :

SOL veluti studiis semina suppeditat. ^Iddictos animos agitans attentat amore : LAbem languoris Iseta lepore leuat.

The above, by Johannes Linckius, a Silesian, is to be found on p. 1104 of part iii, < f ' Delitiae Poetarum Germanorum,' Frank- furt, 1612. Linckius must have felt glad when he finished it. How long did it take him, and what else had he to do ?

EDWABD BENSLY.

DlSCO VEBY OF AUSTBALIA : PRESS RE-

POBT OF 1771. During the present month (March) the Trustees of the Melbourne Public Library have acquired possession of .an interesting document, which seems to deserve mention in ' N. & Q.' It is a fragment of a number of The Bristol Journal

for 27 July, 1771, containing the news of the discovery of Australia (by Capt. Cook). Strange to say, no mention is made of Capt. Cook. The report in The Bristol Journal is as follows :

" Dr. Solander and other gentlemen, who lately sailed round the world in the Endeavour frigate, discovered a southern continent in the latitude of the Dutch Spice Islands, the inhabitants of which are hospitable, ingenious, and civil, of a copper complexion, but handsome and well made. Mr. Banks passed some months among them, and col- lected many fine and curious plants, never seen in Europe before ; and, though these people were so politely civilised, it is very extraordinary that they have no kind of worship or religion among them. Two of the natives came voluntarily with Mr. Banks to Batayia, where they were amazingly struck with the sight of coaches and horses, having never seen either horses, cows, or sheep at George's Land, though they have many hogs. They were extremely surprised also at the sight of themselves and company in a looking-glass, but both died of the flux at Batavia. From this voyage we expect many discoveries and much entertainment. They had an excellent observation of the transit of Venus, but the ingenious Mr. Green died upon his return. Upon their arrival the Admiralty seized all the officers' papers."

The document was acquired for a com- paratively trifling sum.

ALEX. LEEPEB.

Trinity College, Melbourne University.

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

HAMPSTEAD MARSHALL AND SIR BALTHAZAR GERBIER,

IN an article in Country Life, 29 March, 1913, on Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire, the writer (C. W.) says :

"Even in the building of his houses he [Lord Craven] was not unmindful of the influence of the Queen [of Bohemia]. The ' stately pile ' which he set up at Hampstead Marshall was nothing less than a modest imitation of Heidelberg. It may well have been intended as a habitation for the Queen of Bohemia, since, though it was begun early in 1662, the year of her death, it was apubtless planned on her return to England. The history of the site is ancient and honourable. Originally the property of the Mareschalls or Marshalls, Earls of Pembroke, Hampstead Marshall came into the possession of the Bigods, Earls of Norfolk, and passed, in 1306, into the hands of the King. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Sir T. Parry, Treasurer of the Queen's Household, acquired it, and there built for himself a noble mansion. From his hands it passed to those of William Craven, Lord Mayor