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NOTES AND QUERIES.

[12 a. V. FEB., 1919.

Battersbee of Stratford-upon-Avon,

and wife of Douglas Wilson, Resident and Agent, who died at Badulla after three days'

illness on 24 M (?), aged 24 years. I

shall be pleased to send the name of the publisher of the photograph to any one interested. J. ARDAGH.

35 Church Avenue, Drumcondra, Dublin.

WK 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.

' N. & Q.' : ITS OFFSPRING IN OTHER COUNTRIES. Les Notes and Queries m'in- teressent infmiment, et je d6sirerais beaucoup savoir s'il existe d'autres revues cogues dans cet esprit et ayant un programme analogue. En France je connais depuis longtemps notre Intermediate des Chercheurs et des Curieux. Y a-t-il pareilles revues en Allemagne, aux Etats Unis, au Canada, en Australie, en Suisse, en Belgique, en Espagne, &c., et en general dans les pays de langues anglaise, allemande, ou espagnole ?

Si vous pouviez me renseigner a ce sujet, je vous en serais tout a fait reconnai^sant.

L. TREICH.

Haute-Loire.

[In 'N. & Q.' for Feb. 10, 1883 (6 S. vii . 105), mention was marie of French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, and American descendants of ' N. & Q.' 5 but we are not aware how many have survived the vicissitudes of the past four years.]

SAMUEL JOHNSON AND BEN JONSON. The reviewer of * Boethius,' &c., in The Times Literary Supplement of Dec. 26, 1918,

writes :

" As Johnson would say. vitality sufficient to preserve them, from putrefaction."

Carlyle (' Past and Present,' book ii. chap, ii.) says :

"A certain decree cf s ul, as Ben Jonson reminds us, is i dispensable to keep the very body from *:estructi n of the frightfulest sort : to 'save us,' says he, ' the expense of salt.' "

Will one of your readers kindly supply references to the original passages ?

J. L. Edinburgh.

MATTHEW ARNOLD AND " ANGLO-SAXON CONTAGION." Matthew Arnold began his address on Milton in St. Margaret's Church, Westminster, Feb. 13, 1888 (later printed in ' Essays in Criticism, Second Series '), with the words : " The most eloquent voice

of our century uttered, shortly before leaving: the world, a warning cry against ' the Anglo- Saxon contagion.' '

To whom does Arnold refer, and to what passage ? J. P. MALLESON.

[At 11 8. ii. 318, 376, and 438 Emerson, Victor Hugo, and Coleridge were suggested by different correspondents as answering to Matthew Arnold's description ; but no one settled the question by identifying the quotation. We hope that MB. MALLESON may be more fortunate.]

MATTHEW ARNOLD : PROVING A NEGATIVE. Dr. Saintsbury, ' Peace of the Augustans,' p. 8, says :

" It never happened none of it, as Mr- Matthew Arnold rashly observed of certain other transactions, without being able to produce the slightest evidence to prove the negative," &c. To what statement in Matthew Arnold does Prof. Saintsbury allude ? J. L.

" NUNQTJAM MINUS SOLUS QUAM CUM

SOLUS." I have always heard and read that this line owes its origin to St. Bernard of Clairvaux in the tente that the Divine onmipre.-ence precludes absolute solitude,, but De Quincey gives it another source and significance in his ' Brevia,' s.v. * The Latin Word Felix ' :

" Whe . Cicero speaks of his nunquam minus solus Quam cum solus, he is ; n^.ouncinu; what he feels to b t and knows \vill be, .-.ccepted as a very extraordinary fact. For even in rure it is evident that friends made it a duty of friendship to seek out and relieve their rusticating friends."

If from Cicero, where is this proverb (current as such) to be found ? Possibly St. Bernard adopted and adapted it from him.

J. B. McGovERN.

St. Stephen's Rectory, C.-on-M., Manchester.

[King's ' Classical and Foreign Quotations,* 3rd ed., supplies the answer : " 1836. Nunquam se plus agere quam nihil quum ageret ; nunquam minus solum esse quam quum solus esset. Cic. ' Rep.' 1. 17, 27 ... .Saying of P. Scipio Africanus,. quoted by Cato, to whom is also attributed ' Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam quum otiosub esset,' in Cic. * Off.' 3, 1, 1."]

BURIAL AT SEA : FOUR GUNS FIRED JFOR AN OFFICER. In 1638 Peter Mundy, who was then a member of Courteen's Association* was in the ship Sun sailing from Mauritius to Madagascar. On June 10,

" Mr. Thomas Woollman, our Master, Died* and was buried in a decentt Manner, with 3 vol- leies of Smalle shotte and 4 peeces off greatt ordnance, the even Number oil greatt gunnes allwaies signifying the Death off some principall Man or officer in the shippe."

Is Mundy's last assertion correct, and does, the custom still obtain ? If not, was it confined to ships of the East India Company