Chapter C: Benson

Birmingham.

[Greek: Arnion] (Vol. vi., p. 509.).--Probably your correspondent is aware of the explanation given by Dr. Wordsworth in his book on the Apocalypse, but does not think it satisfactory. Still, as he does not allude to it, I venture to transcribe it:

"The Apocalypse abounds in contrasts. For example, the LAMB, who is
always called [Greek: Amnos], never [Greek: Arnion], in St. John's
_Gospel_, is called [Greek: Arnion], never [Greek: Amnos], in St.
John's _Apocalypse_, in which [Greek: Arnion] occurs twenty-nine times.
And why does [Greek: ho Amnos] here become [Greek: to Arnion]? To
_contrast_ Him more strongly with [Greek: to Thêrion], that is, to mark
the _opposition_ between the LAMB and the Beast."

To this a note is appended:

"This contrast is even more striking in the original, where it is aided
by an exact correspondence of syllables and accents. On one side are--

'[Greek: Hê pornê kai to Thêrion]:'

On the other--

'[Greek: Hê Numphê kai to Arnion].'

See Rev. xxi. 2. 9., xxii. 17."--_Is the Church of Rome Babylon?_ p.
58.: London, 1851.

A. A. D.

[Greek: Arnion] and [Greek: amnos] both denote a lamb. In John i. 29. 36., the latter is applied to Jesus by John the {25} Baptist. In Acts viii. 32., and 1 Pet. i. 19., the term is manifestly derived from Isa. liii. 7., the Septuagint translation. But, in the Revelation, the word selected by the apostle is simply to be viewed as characteristic of his style. Taken in connexion with John i. 29. 36., the difference presents one of those points which so strikingly attest the authenticity of the Scripture. If the writer had drawn upon his imagination, in all likelihood he would have used the word [Greek: arnion] in the Gospel; but he employed another, because the Baptist actually made use of a different one, _i. e._ one different from that which he was in the habit of employing.

B. H. COWPER.

_Who was the greatest General_ (Vol. vi., p. 509.).--In reply to the following Query, "Who was the greatest general, and why and wherefore did the Duke of Wellington give the palm to Hannibal?" I think the following note appended to the eloquent sermon of Dr. Croly, preached on the death of the Duke, Sept. 19th, not only shows the humility of the Duke in giving preference to Hannibal over himself, but it contains so just a comparison between the two generals, that it deserves recording in the valuable and useful pages of the "N. & Q." as well as being a perfect and true answer to C. T.:

"It has been usual," the note says, "to compare Wellington with
Hannibal. But those who make the comparison seem to forget the facts:--

"Hannibal, descending from the Alps with a disciplined force of 26,000
men, met the brave Roman Militia, commanded by brave blockheads, and
beat them accordingly. But, as soon as he was met by a man of common
sense, Fabius, he could do nothing with him; when he met a manoeuvring
officer, the Consul Nero, he was outmanoeuvred, and lost his brother
Asdrubal's army, which was equivalent to his losing Italy; and when he
met an active officer, Scipio, he was beaten on his own ground.
Finally, forced to take refuge with a foreign power, he was there a
prisoner, and there he died."

"His administrative qualities seem to have been of the humblest, or of
the most indolent, order. For fourteen years he was in possession of,
or in influence with, all the powers of southern Italy, then the
richest portion of the peninsula. Yet this possession was wrested from
him without an effort; and where he might have been a monarch, he was
only a pensioner. His _punic_ faith, his flight, his refuge, and his
death in captivity, might find a more complete resemblance in the
history of Napoleon."

The following, concluding sentence of Dr. Croly's note conveys a truer and far more just comparison with another great general:

"The life of the first Cæsar forms a much fairer comparison with that
of Wellington. Both nobly born; both forcing their way up through the
gradations of service, outstripping all their age; forming their
characters by warfare in foreign countries; always commanding small
armies, yet always invincible (Cæsar won the World at Pharsalia with
only 25,000 men): both alike courageous and clement, unfailing in
resources, and indefatigable in their objects; receiving the highest
rewards, and arising to the highest rank of their times; never beaten:
both of first-rate ability in council. The difference being in their
objects; one to serve himself, the other to serve his country; one
impelled by ambition, the other by duty; one destroying the
constitution of his country, the other sustaining it. Wellington, too,
has given the soldier and statesman his 'Commentaries,' one of the
noblest transcripts of a great administrative mind."

J. M. G.

Worcester.

_Beech-trees struck by Lightning_ (Vol. vi., p. 129.).--On Thinnigrove Common, near Nettlebed, Oxon, a beech-tree, one of three or four growing round a pit, was shattered by lightning about thirteen or fourteen years ago. A gentleman who has lived sixty years in the neighbourhood of the beech woods near Henly, tells me that he remembers three or four similar cases. Single beech-trees, which are very ornamental, generally grow very low and wide-spreading, which may be the reason why they often escape. On the other hand, in the woods where they run up close and very high, they present so many points of attraction to the electric fluid, that probably for that cause it is not often the case that one tree in particular is struck.

CORYLUS.

Portsmouth.

_Passage in Tennyson_ (Vol. vi., p. 272.).--It appears to me that Tennyson has fallen into the error of a Latin construction. I call it an error, because in that language the varied terminations of the cases and numbers make that plain which we have no means of evidencing in English. I should translate it "Numenii strepitus volantis"--"The call of the curlew dreary (drearily) gleams about the moorland, _as he flies_ o'er Locksley Hall." The summer note of the curlew is a shrill clear whistle, but in winter they sometimes indulge in a wild melancholy scream.

CORYLUS.

Portsmouth.

_Inscriptions in Churches_ (Vol. vi., p. 510.).--I differ from your reply to NORWOOD'S Query, in which you refer to the colloquy between Queen Elizabeth and Dean Nowell as the origin of these inscriptions. No doubt they were derived from the custom of our ante-Reformation ancestors, of painting figures and legends of saints upon the walls of churches; but the following instance will suffice to prove that they originated in the reign of Edward VI., and not in Queen Elizabeth's.

In the interesting paper by the Rev. E. Venables in the _Transactions of the Cambridge Camden Society_, on "The Church of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge," he gives, under the year {26} 1550, the following extracts from the churchwardens' accounts:

"For makyng of the wall where Saynt
George stood in the chyrche vj^d
It. payd for wythynge y^e chyrch xx^s iiij^d
It. payd for _wryghtynge of y^e chyrch
walls with Scriptures_ iiij^{lib} iij^s iiij^d."

Shortly after the accession of Queen Mary in 1553, the following entry occurs:

"Payd to Barnes for mendyng over the rode
and over the altar in the chapell, and _for
washing oute the Scriptures_ 4^s 4^d."

They do not appear to have been restored after this, for in the year 1840 some of the plaister between two of the windows of the south aisle peeling off, discovered traces of "wryghtynge" beneath; and I and another member of the Cambridge Camden Society spent some time in laying it bare, and after much difficulty made out that it was the Lord's Prayer in English, headed, "The Lord's Prayer, called the Paternoster," and written in the church text of the period, the whole enclosed in a sort of arabesque border; it was not merely whited over, but had evidently been partially effaced, or partly "washed oute," before being "concealed under its dreary shroud of whitewash." On examination there were traces of more of this writing between the other windows, but we had not time to make any further investigation, for the church was then being cleaned, and in a few days all that we had laid bare was again concealed under a veil of whitewash.

Thus, I think, we may assign to the reign of Edward VI., not merely the obliteration of the numerous frescoes of St. Christopher, the great dome, &c., which are now so constantly coming to light, but also the origin of "wryghtynge of y^e chyrch walls with scriptures" in their stead, some ten or twelve years _earlier_ than the remarkable colloquy between Queen Elizabeth and the worthy Dean of St. Paul's.

NORRIS DECK.

Cambridge.

_Dutensiana_ (Vol. vi., p. 376.).--Lowndes gives a list of Dutens' works, which does not include "Correspondence interceptée," of which he _was_ the author; and I have seen a presentation copy of it proving this.

W. C. TREVELYAN.

_Early Phonography_ (Vol. vi., p. 424.).--"Have the modern phonographists ever owned their debt of gratitude to their predecessors in the phonetic art?"

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_Kentish Local Names; Dray_ (Vol. vi., p. 410.).--In the low embanked land in the west of Somersetshire, between Bristol and Taunton, the word _drove_ is used in the same acceptation; and _driftway_, I think, is also a term for ancient British roads in some parts of the kingdom.

W. C. TREVELYAN.

_Monument at Modstena_ (Vol. vi., p. 388.).--This monument was first published in _Archæologia Æliana_. I believe it is an incised slab; but I have written to a friend in the north to inquire whether I am correct.

W. C. TREVELYAN.

_Book-plates_ (Vol. iii., p. 495.).--MR. PARSONS, it appears, limits his inquiries to English book-plates, about which I cannot offer any information. It is certain, however, that book-plates were used on the Continent at a very early period. I remember to have seen one, from a wood-block, which was cut by Albert Dürer for his friend Pirkheimer. As it is sixteen years since I saw it at the Imperial Library at Vienna, I cannot be expected to give a precise description; but (as far as I recollect) the wording of it was as follows: "Bilibaldi Pirckheimeri et Amicorum."

A copy which I possess of Vesalius's great anatomical work (Basil, 1555) has the book-plate of a former Duke of Mecklenburg pasted inside the cover. It is a woodcut, ten inches by six and a half, representing the ducal arms, surrounded by an ornamented border. Beneath are the date and inscription:

15 E 75
H. G. V. V. G.
VLRICH H. Z. ME-
CKELNBVRG.

I do not know what the first six letters stand for, nor is it worth inquiring. The latter part of the inscription--"Ulrich Herzog zu Mecklenburg"--identifies the former possessor of the volume.

JAYDEE.

"_World without end_" (Vol. vi., p. 434.).--Besides the places named by F. A., this phrase occurs in the authorised version of the Bible, in Is. xlv. 17., Ep. iii. 21. There is no doubt it is idiomatic, and is even now occasionally used in conversation. Our translators render at least three Hebrew words "world," and as many Greek ones. One of the latter, and two of the former, properly refer to _time_, like the Latin _ævum sæculum_; and this also {27} appears to have been the original meaning of "world," as it is one which it certainly has frequently in the Scriptures. "World without end" is the idiomatic rendering, equivalent to "in sæcula sæculorum," which is a literal following of an idiom common in both the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures, and to be found in the Chaldee of the Book of Daniel. "World without end" does not occur, so far as I am aware, in the modern European languages, which generally either follow the Latin "in sæcula sæculorum;" or the German, and say, "eternally to eternity."

B. H. COWPER.

_Gloucester Ballads_ (Vol. iv., p. 311.).--Since I inserted these ballads, I have been informed, that the one entitled a "Gloucester Ditty" was from the pen of Charles Dibdin, who, paying a visit to the "fair city," was pressed by some friends to leave them a memento of such. Of my own knowledge, I cannot vouch for the truth of this story; my informant's veracity is, however, unquestionable. I have recently obtained another copy; like the former, it is without a date, but bears the well-known imprint, "Raikes, Southgate Street."

The "Old Harry" is intended for one "Harry Hudman, King of the Island," a low district in Gloucester, a mock officer chosen by the lower orders. Harry kept the throne many years, but was at length outvoted; but resolving to retain by stratagem what he could not by free choice, invited his competitor to a glass; and while the latter was taking his draught, Harry jumped into his seat, was chaired through the island, and was thus king another year. There was a ballad relating to this worthy, commencing--

"There was a man of renown,
In Gloucester's fam'd town."

Another verse informs us that--

"Old coffins ne'er new,
And old pulpits too,
Can be bought at his shop in the island."

The "Taylor's Tale" alluded to is a ballad, written by person of that name, on the manners and customs of the island. I have not been able to obtain copies of either of these just noticed ballads; and should any correspondent of "N. & Q." possess such, they would oblige me by their insertion.

H. G. D.

_Satirical Prints; Pope_ (Vol. vi., p. 434.).--I have never seen this print that your correspondent refers to. It will no doubt be found, however, to be a plate illustrating a _scene_ in the following tract: "_A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope, &c._: London, printed and sold by W. Lewis in Russell Street, Covent Garden, 1742," see pp. 45, 46, 47, 48, 49., where is given rather a warm description of the whole scene. Should this tract not be had by GRIFFIN, he may turn to D'Israeli's _Quarrels of Authors_, article "Pope and Cibber," note p. 193., col. 2., edit. 8vo., Moxon, 1840; where D'Israeli adds:

"This story, by our comic writer, was accompanied by a print, that was
seen by more persons, probably, than read the _Dunciad_."

S. WMSON.

_Raising the Wind_ (Vol. vi., p. 486.).--We say "the wind rises," and this is common in Virgil (see _Æneid._ iii. 130. 481.; v. 777.: _Georgics_, i. 356.; ii. 333.; and iii. 134.). The transition from rising to raising is easy; and as there is no sailing without a breeze, so there is no getting along without money: in both cases, the _wind_ is essential to progress. As to the mode of obtaining the "needful," I know not much, but probably whistling will be found as effectual in one case as in the other.

B. H. COWPER.

_Milton in Prose_ (Vol. vi., p. 340.).--I know of one performance in the French language, which answers the description of _Milton in Prose_: it is a rhapsody entitled _Le Paradis Terrestre, Poëme imité de Milton_, by Madame Dubocage: London, 1748. The French themselves had so poor an opinion of it, that one of their wits, the Abbé Yart, has ridiculed it in the following epigram:

"Sur cet écrit, charmante Dubocage,
Veux-tu savoir quel est mon sentiment?
Je compte pour _perdus_, en lisant ton ouvrage,
Le Paradis, mon temps, ta peine, et mon argent."

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.

_The Arundelian Marbles_ (Vol. iv., p. 361.).--MR. W. SIDNEY GIBSON, in his account of this celebrated collection, quotes portions of an interesting letter, from James Theobald to Lord Willoughby de Parham, but he does not say from whence he obtained it. I have now before me two copies, one in _Historical Anecdotes of the Howard Family_, a new edition, 1817, p. 101.; the other in a work entitled _Oxoniana_ (published by Richard Phillips, 4 vols. 12mo., no date), vol. iii. p. 42. Now both these copies differ from MR. GIBSON'S, and all three are at variance respecting some of those minor details which are of so much importance in inquiries of this description. Where is a _genuine_ copy of Mr. Theobald's letter to be found?

EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.

_Pambotanologia_ (Vol. vi., p. 462.).--INIVRI will find a full account of this work in Pulteney's _Historical and Biographical Sketches of the Progress of Botany in England_, vol. i. p. 181.

GEORGE MUNFORD.

East Winch.

_Can a Man baptize himself?_ (Vol. vi., pp. 36. 110.).--This question has not yet received any {28} correct answer. The following quotation from the _Summa_ of St. Thomas Aquinas will resolve it as far as your querist W. is concerned:

"Similiter autem Forma mutaretur, si diceretur 'Ego baptizo me;' et
ideo nullus potest baptizare seipsum propter quod et CHRISTUS a Joanne
voluit baptizari."--_Summa_, 3^{tia} Pars, Quæstio lxvi. Art. v. Arg.
4.

The REV. A. GATTY, while right in the negative answer which he gives to the question of W., is quite wrong in the reasons on which he founds it. "Christian fellowship" is _not_ of necessity a requisite for administering the sacrament of holy baptism. I quote again from the _Summa_ of St. Thomas:

"Ad primum ergo dicendum, quod Baptismum a schismaticis recipere non
licet, nisi in articulo necessitatis: quia melius est de hâc vitâ cum
signo CHRISTI exire, a quocumque detur, etiam si sit Judæus vel
Paganus, quam sine hoc signo, quod per Baptismum confertur."--_Summa_,
2^{nda} Pars, Quæstio xxxix. Art. iv. Arg. 1.

As our own Church apparently only recognises sacerdotal baptism in her formularies, in answering such a question as that of W. we must have recourse to the schoolmen and casuists of earlier times.

W. FRASER.

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