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 12 S.VIII. MAT 28, 1921.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 433 'THE FABLE OF THE BEES.' Will one of your readers tell me how there came to be two editions of De Man.de ville's famous book, dated 1714 ? The two books before me, exactly the same in every other particu- lar, have the following title pages : 1. The Fable of the Bees; or Private Vices, Publick Benefits. Containing Several Discourses to demonstrate : That Human Frailties, during the degeneracy of Mankind, may be turn'd to the advantage of the Civil Society, and made to supply the Place of Moral Virtues. Lux e Tenebris'. London. Printed for "J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1714. 2. The Fable of the Bees ; or Private Vices, Publick Benefits. [Printer's Ornament.] London. Printed for J. Roberts, near the Oxford Arms in Warwick Lane, 1714. CLEMENT SHORTER. Great Missenden, Bucks. MARTIN (MARTEN). Pepys mentions in his Diary : 1663. Marten, author of ' Iter Boreale.' 1667/8. Mr. Martin, my purser, " who wrote some things." 16S7/8. My bookseller, Martin of St. Paul's Churchyard. Information wanted about the above men, their families and place of origin. Had Dean Martin (Marten) of Ely any connexion with Sussex ? A. E. MARTEN. " North Dene," Filey, Yorkshire. AUTHOR WANTED. From where comes this quotation : " If thou hast a friend go often to see him, Lest weeds and loose grass. . ." No more is known. M. GILBERT. Replies. " VENETIAN WINDOW " (12 S. viii. 347,416.) WHAT in England was commonly called a "Venetian window" consisted of three, 1 lights, the middle one arched and the outer square-headed and generally enriched with pilasters (or columns) and entablature. | Sir William Chambers gives a design by Scamozzi (1552-1616) and states : The height of the arched aperture is twice and one half its width ; those on the sides one half the width of that in the middle ; and their height is j regulated by that of the columns. Sir William did not like Venetian windows, ! and utterly condemned their repetition in I the same building. But he admitted that on some occasions they were necessary, particularly in small buildings, to light a hall, a vestibule, or such other rooms as cannot admit of two windows, and yet would not be sufficiently lit with one. But where they can be avoided it is best, for the columns which separate the large interval from those on the sides form such slender partitions that at a distance they are scarcely perceived, and the whole looks like a large irregu- lar breach made in the wall (' Civil Arch.,' ed 1825, p. 363). Batty Langley, in ' The Builder's and Workman's Treasury of Designs ' (1741), gives three plates of Venetian windows of the " Tuscan, Dorick, and lonick orders ' y (plates dated 1739), and remarks that these windows are most proper for a grand Staircase, Saloon, Library, Chancel of a Church, &c., where much light is required ; or for a Dining Room, &c., where fine views may be seen. The query refers to church windows in the seventeenth century. But I think the greater number of English examples will be found to belong to the eighteenth century. The " Venetian " form of opening was well adapted for the east window of the chancel of a Georgian church. When, as I have known it happen, the window has been re- moved to the nave, in order to make w r ay for a new east window, it looks singularly out of place. William Kent used Venetian- windows freely at Holkham, begun in 1734. F. H. CHEETHAM. Nicholson's ' Encyclopedia of Architec- ture,' 1852, describes this as a window in three separate apertures, divided by slender piers, and having the centre aperture larger than the side ones. At a guess I would take the term to apply to a classical form of window such as the old books on building, about 1700-1800, were fond of copying from Scamozzi, Vignola and the older architects. ARTHUR BOWES. EPITAPH IN LOWESTOFT CHURCHYARD (12 S. viii. 409). This is a copy, with slight alterations, of the epitaph on Benjamin Franklin, written by himself, which reads as follows : The body of | BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Printer, | Like the cover of an old book, | Its contents worn out, | And stript of its lettering and gilding, [ Lies here food for worms ; | Yet the work itself shall not be lost, | For it shall, as he believes, | Appear once more | In a new | And more beautiful edition, | Corrected and amended | By the Author. F. J. A.