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 9* S. IV. Oct. 21,'99.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 321 LONDON, SATVBDAY, OCTOBER It, 1899. CONTENTS. —No. 95. NOTES :-Wordsworthiana, 331—Walpole aiifl his Editors, 32:!—Garriek's S tuff-box-Human Strength—Wm. Owen —Booksellers' Blunders, 321—Hebraic Enigma—Carminow —Pattens —"Humpty-dumpty"—Nicholas Grimald, 325 —Epitaph—Coal Folk-lore—Epitaph—Hylands Library, 326. QUERIES :—Latin Quotations—" Han," 327—" Haives "— Voltaire Engraving—Wm. Duff—Ladbroke : Pery : Twigg - British Suzerainty in South America—Crest on a Horn —" Misegun l>eans — Irish Parish Registers—' Les Eglises de Palestine '—" Piert"—' Geomaney,' 328 — " The Niceo- lina" —Rev. Richard Butler—"Maims justa nardus" — ' A Stately Dance '—Academic Hoods—St. Mary's, West- minster—The Cinnamon of the Ancients — Treasure of Henry VII.—The Name Swigg-Clerks of the Board of Green Cloth—" Briveting," 329. REPLIES :-Scott'sScottish Dialect- "Orsidue "—" Karoo" —Churches washed away by the Sea, 330—Cyclopaedia of British Domestic Archaeology—Dagsburg, 331—"Vole"— " Bold Infidelity, turn pale and die "-Bells in a Thunder- storm—Cromwells of Henbury, 332—" Bucks " and " Good Fellows "—" Conservative "—Portrait of Sir E. Tumour — Horse-bread—Victor Hugo, 333—Christianity in Britain - Walworth : Walbrook - "Perfidious Albion "— Magnetic Pole, 331-Sir E. Wright-" Sent to Coventry "—Orienta- tion — Bookkeeping — " Housen "—Pinaseed, 335—" Vul- gar"—Hell of the Poets—"As fu's the Baltic"—Sunken Lanes—'Burial of Sir John Moore,' 336—Madame Ristori — Cox's Museum — ' H.E.D.' — Leo of Modeua, 337 — Authorship of 'Red, White, and Blue'—"Truth is the daughter of Time "—" The island of the innocent," 338. NOTES ON BOOKS-.-Cowper's 'Hawkshcad '—Haggard's ■A Farmer's Year'—Thomas's 'Two Years in Palestine' —Terry's ' Life and Campaigns of Alexander Leslie.' Notices to Correspondents. fjtoljfS. WORDSWORTHIANA. Perhaps the following parallels or coinci- dences, which I do not remember to have seen noticed elsewhere, may have some interest for lovers and students of Words- worth. In a few cases there is an actual quotation. In my references M. means Moxon's one-volume edition of 'Wordsworth's Poetical Works,' 1847. K. stands for Prof. Knight's edition in eleven volumes, 1882- 1889. The Arabic figures that follow these letters indicate the pages. 1. 'M 160:— ' The Fountain,' M. 367 ; K. ii. 78. Words- worth says of the birds :— With Nature never do they wage A foolish strife ; they see A happy youth, and their old age Is beautiful and free. In Johnson's 'Rasselas,' chap, xxii., the Philosopher advises:— " Let them learn to be wise by easier means; let them observe the hind of the forest and the linnet of the grove ; let them consider the life of animals, whose motions are regulated by instinct; they obey their guide anil are happy. Let us therefore, at length, cease to dispute, and learn to live; and pages s,' No. 1. ' Misc. Sonnets,' No. xix., M. 206 ; K. vii. There is a pleasure in poetic pains Which only poets know. This is italicized in both M. and K., but the source is not given. It is found verbatim in Cowper's 'Timepiece.' Cf. Dryden's 'Spanish Friar,' ii. 1 :— There is a pleasure, sure, In being mad, which none but madmen know. 2. ' The Tables Turned,' M. 361 ; K. i. 239 : Books ! 'tis a dull and endless strife; Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music ! on my life There's more of wisdom in it. carry with us this simple and intelligible maxim, from Nature in deviation from happiness." that deviation fn 3. 'Ode to May,' M. 383 ; K. vii. 146:— Season of fancy and of hope, Permit not for one hour A blossom from thy crown to drop, Nor add to it a flower ! Keep, lovely May, as if by touch Of self-restraining art, This modest charm of not too much,. Part seen, imagined part! Jane Austen has a similar thought in ' Mans- field Park,' iii. ch. xv.:— "Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and planta- tions of the freshest green ; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful stale when further beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination." (In 1. 4 K. has " it to," apparently a misprint.) 4. ' Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree,' M. 15 ; K. i. 107 :— True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself. In lowliness of heart. The wording of the first and the thought of the third line remind one of two passages in Beattie and Young respectively :— True dignity is his whose tranquil mind, &c. ' Minstrel,' ii. St. 12. Revere thyself, and yet thyself despise. ' Night Thoughts,'vi. 128. 5. 'The Forsaken,' M. 79 ; K. iii. 12 :— And feeling that the hope is vain, I think that he will come again. (Italics mine.) So Coleridge in ' Youth and Age,' feeling that his lost youth is gone for ever, consoles himself by saying :— Life is but thought: so think I will That youth and I are housemates still. Hamlet says, II. ii. 251 :— "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." 6. ' Excursion,' i. 370, M. 449 ; K. v. 40 :— He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer.