Chapter III: Part 3

Considering what was meant by Lady in the names of plants, we should refrain from supposing that _Neottia spiralis_ was called the Lady-traces "sensu obsc.," even if those who are more skilled in such matters than I am can detect such a sense. I cannot learn what a lady's _traces_ are; but I suspect plaitings of her hair to be meant. "Upon the spiral sort," says Gerard, "are placed certaine small white flowers, _trace_ fashion," while other sorts grow, he says, "spike fashion," or "not _trace_ fashion." Whence I infer, that in his day _trace_ conveyed the idea of spiral.

A. N.

_Specimens of Foreign English_ (Vol. iii. _passim._).--I have copied the following from the label on a bottle of _liqueur_, manufactured at Marseilles by "L. Noilly fils et C^{ie}." The English will be best understood by being placed in juxtaposition with the original French:

"Le Vermouth

est un vin blanc légèrement amer, parfumé avec des plantes aromatiques
bienfaisantes.

"Cette boisson est tonique, stimulante, fébrifuge et astringente: prise
avec de l'eau elle est apéritive et raffraichissante: elle est aussi un
puissant préservatif contre les fièvres et la dyssenterie, maladies si
fréquentes dans les pays chauds, pour lesquels elle a été
particulièrement composée."

"The Wermouth

is a brightly bitter and perfumed with aromatical and good vegetables
white wine.

"This is tonic, stimulant, febrifuge and costive drinking; mixed with
water it is aperitive, refreshing, and also a powerful preservative of
fivers and bloody-flux; those latters are very usual in warmth
countries, and of course that liquor has just been particularly made up
for that occasion."

HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia.

_Blanco White_ (Vol. vii., pp. 404. 486.).--Your correspondent H. C. K. is right in his impression that the sonnet commencing

"Mysterious Night! when our first parents knew," &c.

was written by Blanco White. See his _Life_ (3 vols., Chapman, 1845), vol. iii. p. 48.

J. K. R. W.

_Pistols_ (Vol. viii., p. 7.).--In Strype's Life of Sir Thomas Smith, _Works_, Oxon. 1821, mention is made of a statute or proclamation by the Queen in the year 1575, which refers to that of 33 Hen. VIII. c. 6., alluded to by your correspondent J. F. M., and in which the words _pistol_ and _pistolet_ are introduced:

"The Queen calling to mind how unseemly a thing it was, in so quiet and
peaceable a realm, to have men so armed; ... did charge and command all
her subjects, of what estate or degree soever they were, that in no
wise, in their journeying, going, or riding, they carried about them
privily or openly any dag, or pistol, or any other harquebuse, gun, or
such weapon for fire, under the length expressed by the statute made by
the Queen's most noble father.... [Excepting however] noblemen and such
known gentlemen, which were without spot or doubt of evil behaviour, if
they carried dags or pistolets about them in their journeys, openly, at
their saddle bows," &c.

Here the _dag_ or _pistolet_ seems to answer to our "revolvers," and the _pistol_ to our larger horse-pistol.

H. C. K.

---- Rectory, Hereford.

_Passage of Thucydides on the Greek Factions_ (Vol. viii., p. 44.).--If L., or any of your readers, will take the trouble to compare the passage quoted, and the one referred to by him, in the following translation of Smith, with Sir A. Alison's supposititious quotation[7] (Vol. vii., p. 594.), they will find that my inquiry is still unanswered. The passage quoted by L. in Greek is, according to Smith:

"Prudent consideration, to be specious cowardice; modesty, the disguise
of effeminacy; and being wise in everything, to be good for nothing."

The passage not quoted, but referred to by L., is:

"He who succeeded in a roguish scheme was wise; and he who suspected
such practices in others was still a more able genius."--Vol. i. book
iii. p. 281. 4to.: London, 1753.

In this "counterfeit presentment of two brothers," L. may discern a family likeness; but my inquiry was for the identical passage, "sword and poniard" included.

If L. desires to find Greek authority for the general sentiment only, I would refer him to passages, equally to Sir A. Alison's purpose, in _Thucydides_, iii. 83., viii. 89.; _Herodotus_, iii. 81.; Plato's _Republic_, viii. 11., and Aristotle's _Politics_, v. 6. 9. I beg to thank L. for his attempt, although unsuccessful.

T. J. BUCKTON.

Birmingham.

[Footnote 7: _Europe_, vol. ix. p. 397., 12mo.]

_The earliest Mention of the Word "Party"_ (Vol. vii., p. 247.).--In a choice volume, printed by "Ihon Day, dwelling over Aldersgate, beneath St. Martines," 1568, I find the word occurring thus:

"The _party_ must in any place see to himselfe, and seeke to wipe theyr
noses by a shorte aunswere."--_A Discovery and playne Declaration of
the Holy Inquisition of Spayne_, fol. 10.

Permit me to attach a Query to this. Am I right in considering the above-mentioned book as rare? I do so on the assumption that "Ihon Day" is _the_ Day of black-letter rarity.

R. C. WARDE.

Kidderminster.

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_Creole_ (Vol. vii., p. 381.).--It is curious to observe how differently this word is applied by different nations. The English apply it to white children born in the West Indies; the French, I believe, exclusively to the mixed races; and the Spanish and Portuguese to the blacks born in their colonies, never to whites. The latter, I think, is the true and original meaning, as its primary signification is a _home-bred_ slave (from "criar," to bring up, to nurse), as distinguished from an imported or purchased one.

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CURIOSITIES OF MODERN SHAKSPEARIAN CRITICISM. By J. O. HALLIWELL, ESQ., F.R.S.

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MORMONISM: its HISTORY, DOCTRINES, and PRACTICES. By the REV. W. SPARROW SIMPSON, B.A. (Late Scholar and Librarian of Queens' College, Cambridge; Curate of St. Mark's, Kennington.)

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SYMPATHIES of the CONTINENT, or PROPOSALS for a NEW REFORMATION. By JOHN BAPTIST VON HIRSCHER, D.D., Dean of the Metropolitan Church of Freiburg, Breisgau, and Professor of Theology in the Roman Catholic University of that City. Translated and edited with Notes and Introduction by the Rev. ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE, M.A., Rector of St. John's Church, Hartford, Connecticut, U. S.

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Corrections made to printed original.

page 131, "obscurity and uncertainty": 'uncertainly' in original.