Chapter II: Part 2

_Lærig_.--Without contraverting Mr. Singer's learned and interesting paper on this word (No. 19. p. 292.), I hope I shall not be thought presumptuous in remarking that there must have been some other root in the Teutonic language for the two following nouns, leer (Dutch) and lear (Flemish), which both signify leather (lorum, Lat.), and their diminutives or derivatives leer-ig and lear-ig, both used in the sense of _tough_.

Supposing the Ang.-Sax. "lærig" to be derived from the same root, it would denote in "ofer linde lærig," the leather covering of the shields, or their capability to resist a blow.

I will thank you to correct two misprints in my last communication, p. 299.; pisan for pison, and [Greek: 'Ioannaes [o=omicron]] for [Greek: 'Ioannaes [o=omega]].

By the by, the word "pison" is oddly suggestive of a covering for the breast (_pys_, Nor. Fr.). See _Foulques Fitzwarin_, &c.

B.W.

March 16th.

_Lærig_ (No. 19. p. 292.).--The able elucidation given by Mr. Singer of the meaning of this word, renders, perhaps, any futher communication on the point unnecessary. Still I send the following notes in case they should be deemed worthy of notice.

"Ler, leer--vacuus. Berini Fabulæ, v. 1219. A.-S. ge-lær."

_Junii Etymol. Anglicanum._

"Lar, lær--vacuus."

_Schilteri Glossarium Teutonicum._

Respecting "Lind," I find in the version by Thorkelin of _De Danorum Rebus Gestis Poema Danicum Dialecto Anglo-Saxonica_ (Havniæ, 1815), that "Lind hæbbendra" is rendered "Vesilla habens;" but then, on the other hand, in Biorn Haldorsen's _Islandske Lexicon_ (Havniæ, 1814), "Lind" (v. ii. p. 33) is translated "Scutum tiligneum."

C.I.R.

_Vox et præterea nihil_ (No. 16. p. 247.).--The allusion to this proverb, quoted as if from the _Anatomy of Melancholy_, by "C.W.G." (No. 16. p. 247.), may be found in Addison's _Spectator_, No. 61, where it is as follows:--

"In short, one may say of the pun as the countryman described
his nightingale--that it is '_vox et præterea nihil_.'"

The origin of the proverb is still a desideratum.

Nathan.

_Vox et præterea nihil_ (No. 16. p 247.).--In a work entitled _Proverbiorum et Sententiarum Persicarum Centuria_, a Levino Warnero, published at Amsterdam, 1644, the XCVII. proverb, which is given in the Persian character, is thus rendered in Latin,--

"Tympanum magnum edit clangorem, sed intus vacuum est."

And the note upon it is as follows:--

"Dicitur de iis, qui pleno ore vanas suas laudes ebuccinant.
Eleganter Lacon quidam de luscinia dixit,--

[Greek: Ph_ona tu tis essi kai ouden allo,]
Vox tu quidem es et aliud nihil."

This must be the phrase quoted by Burton.

HERMES.

_Supposed Etymology of Havior_ (No. 15. p. 230., and No. 17. p. 269.).--The following etymology of "heaviers" will probably be considered as not satisfactory, but this extract will show that the term itself is in use amongst the Scotch deerstalkers in the neighbourhood of Loch Lomond.

"Ox-deer, or 'heaviers,' as the foresters call them (most
likely a corruption from the French 'hiver'), are wilder than
either hart or hind. They often take post upon a height, that
gives a look-out all round, which makes them very difficult
to stalk. Although not so good when December is past, still
they are in season all the winter; hence their French
designation."--_Colquhoun's Rocks and Rivers_, p. 137.
(London, 8vo. 1849.)

C.I.R.

_Havior_.--Without offering an opinion as to the relative probability of the etymology of this word, offered by your various correspondents (No. 17. p. 269.), I think it right that the use of the word in Scotland should not be overlooked.

In Jamieson's admirable _Dictionary_, the following varieties of spelling and meaning (all evidently of the same word) occur:--

"_Aver_ or _Aiver_, a horse used for labour; commonly an old
horse; as in Burns--

"'Yet aft a ragged cowte's been kenn'd To mak a noble
_aiver_.'

"'This man wyl not obey.... Nochtheles I sall gar hym draw lik
an _avir_ in ane cart'--_Bellend. Chron._

"'_Aiver_, a he-goat after he has been gelded: till then he is
denominated a _buck_.

"_Haiver_, _haivrel_, _haverel_, a gelded goat (East Lothian,
Lanarkshire, Sotherland).

"_Hebrun_, _heburn_, are also synonymes.

"_Averie_, live-stock, as including horses, cattle, &c.

"'Calculation of what money, &c. will sustain their Majesties'
house and _averie_'--_Keith's Hist._

"'_Averia_, _averii_, 'equi, boves, jumenta, oves, ceteraque
animalia quæ agriculturæ inserviunt.'"--Ducange.

Skene traces this word to the low Latin, _averia_, "quhilk signifies ane beast." According to Spelman, the Northumbrians call a horse _aver_ or _afer_.

See much more learned disquisition on the origin of these evidently congenerous words under the term _Arage_, in Jamieson.

EMDEE.

_Mowbray Coheirs_ (No. 14. p. 213.).--Your correspondent "G." may obtain a clue to his researches on reference to the _private_ act of parliament of the 19th Henry VII., No. 7., intituled, "An Act for Confirmation of a Partition of Lands made between _William_ Marquis Barkley and Thomas Earl of Surrey."--Vide _Statutes at Large_.

W.H. LAMMIN.

_Spurious Letter of Sir R. Walpole_ (No. 19. p. 304.)--"P.C.S.S." (No. 20. p. 321.) and "LORD BRAYBROOKE" (No. 21. p. 336.) will find their opinion of the letter being spurious confirmed by the appendix to _Lord Hervey's Memoirs_, (vol. ii. p. 582.), and the editor's note, which proves the inaccuracy of the circumstances on which the inventor of the letter founded his fabrication. In addition to Lord Braybrooke's proofs that Sir Robert was not disabled by the stone, for some days previous to the 24th, from waiting on the king, let me add also, from Horace Walpole's authority, two conclusive facts; the first is, that it was not till _Sunday night_, the 31st _January_ (_a week after_ the date of the letter) that Sir Robert made up his mind to resign; and, secondly, that he had at least two personal interviews with the king on that subject.

C.

_Line quoted by De Quincey_.--"S.P.S." (No. 22. p. 351.) is informed that

"With battlements that on their restless fronts
Bore stars"...

is a passage taken from a gorgeous description of "Cloudland" by Wordsworth, which occurs near the end of the second book of the Excursion. The opium-eater gives a long extract, as "S.P.S." probably remembers.

A.G.

Ecclesfield, March 31. 1850.

_Quem Jupiter vult perdere priùs dementat_.--Malone, in a note in _Boswell's Johnson_ (p. 718., Croker's last edition), says, that a gentleman of Cambridge found this apophthegm in an edition of Euripides (not named) as a translation of an iambic.

"[Greek: On Theos Delei hapolesai, pr_ot' hapophrenoi.]"

The Latin translation the Cambridge gentleman might have found in Barnes; but where is the _Greek_, so different from that of Barnes, to be found? It is much nearer to the Latin.

C.

_Bernicia_.--In answer to the inquiry of "GOMER" (No. 21. p. 335.), "P.C.S.S." begs leave to refer him to Camden's _Britannia_ (Philemon Holland's translation, Lond. fol. 1637), where he will find, at p. 797., the following passage:--

"But these ancient names were quite worn out of use in the
English Saxon War; and all the countries lying north or the
other side of the arme of the sea called Humber, began, by
a Saxon name, to be called [Old English: Northan-Humbra-ric]
that is, the Kingdome of Northumberland; which name,
notwithstanding being now cleane gone in the rest of
the shires, remayneth still, as it were, surviving in
Northumberland onely; which, when that state of kingdome
stood, was known to be a part of the _Kingdome of Bernicia_,
which had _peculiar petty kings_, and reached from the River
Tees to Edenborough Frith."

At p. 817. Camden traces the etymology of _Berwick_ from _Bernicia_.

P.C.S.S.

_Cæsar's Wife_.--If the object of "NASO'S" Query (No. 18. p. 277.) be merely to ascertain the origin of the proverb, "Cæsar's wife must be above suspicion," he will find in Suetonius (Jul. Cæs. 74.) to the following effect:--

"The name of Pompeia, the wife of Julius Cæsar,
having been mixed up with an accusation against
P. Clodius, her husband divorced her; not, as he said,
because he believed the charge against her, but because
he would have those belonging to him as free from
suspicion as from crime."

J.E.

[We have received a similar replay, with the addition of a
reference to Plutarch (Julius Cæsar, cap. 10.), from several
other kind correspondents.]

_Nomade_ (No. 21. p. 342.).--There can be no doubt at all that the word "nomades" is Greek, and means pastoral nations. It is so used in Herodotus more than once, derived from [Greek: nomos], pasture: [Greek: nem_o], to graze, is generally supposed to be the derivation of the name of Numidians.

C.B.

_Gray's Elegy_.--In reply to the Query of your correspondent "J.F.M." (No. 7. p. 101.), as well as in allusion to remarks made by others among your readers in the following numbers on the subject of Gray's _Elegy_, I beg to state that, in addition to the versions in foreign languages of this fine composition therein enumerated, there is one printed among the poem, original and translated, by C.A. Wheelwright, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge, published by Longman & Co. 1811. (2d. edition, 1812.) If I mistake not, the three beautiful stanzas, given by Mason in his notes to Gray, viz. those beginning,--

"The thoughtless world to majesty may bow,"
"Hark! how the sacred calm that breathes around,"
"Him have we seen," &c.

(the last of which is so remarkable for its Doric simplicity, as well as being essential to mark the concluding period of the contemplative man's day) have not been admitted into any edition of the _Elegy_.

With the regard to the last stanza of the epitaph, its meaning is certainly involved in some degree of obscurity, though it is, I think, hardly to be charged with irreverence, according to the opinion of your correspondent "S.W." (No. 10. p. 150.). By the words _trembling hope_, there can be no doubt, that Petrarch's similar expression, _paventosa speme_, quoted in Mason's note, was embodied by the English poet. In the omitted version, mentioned in the beginning of this notice, the epitaph is rendered into Alcaics. The concluding stanza is as follows:--

"Utra sepulti ne meritis fane,
Et parce culpas, invide, proloqui,
Spe nunc et incerto timore
Numinis in gremio quiescunt."

ARCHÆUS.

Wiesbaden, Feb. 16. 1850.

_Cromwell's Estates_ (No. 18. p. 277., and No. 21. p. 339.).--I am much obliged to "SELEUCUS" for his answer to this inquiry, as far as regards the seignory of Gower. It also throws a strong light on the remaining names; by the aid of which, looking in Gloucestershire and Monmouthshire, I have identified _Margore_ with the parish of Magor (St. Mary's), hundred of Caldecott, co. Monmouth: and guess, that for Chepstall we must read _Chepstow_, which is in the same hundred, and the population of which we know was stout in the royal cause, as tenants of the Marquis of Worcester would be.

Then I guess Woolaston may be _Woolston_ (hundred of Dewhurst), co. Gloucester; and Chaulton, one of the _Charltons_ in the same county, perhaps _Charlton Kings_, near Cheltenham; where again we read, that many of the residents were slain in the civil war, _fighting on the king's side_.

This leaves only Sydenham without something like a probable conjecture, at least: unless here, too, we may guess it was miswritten for Siddington, near Cirencester. The names, it is to be observed, are only recorded by Noble; whose inaccuracy as a transcriber has been shown abundantly by Carlyle. The record to which he refers as extant in the House of Commons papers, is not to be found, I am told.

Now, if it could be ascertained, either that the name in question had been Cromwell's, or even that they were a part of the Worcester estates, before the civil war, we should have the whole list cleared,--thanks to the aid so effectually given by "SELEUCUS'S" apposite explanations of one of its items.

Will your correspondents complete the illustrations thus well begun?

V.

Belgravia, March 26.

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MISCELLANIES.

_Franz von Sickingen_.--Your correspondent "S.W.S." (No. 21. p. 336.) speaks of his having had some difficulty in finding a portrait of Franz Von Sickingen; it may not therefore, by uninteresting to him to know (if not already aware of it) that upon the north side of the nave of the cathedral of Treves, is a monument of Richard Von Greifenklan, who defended Treves against the said Franz; and upon the entablature are portraits of the said archbishop on the one side, and his enemy Franz on the other. Why placed there it is difficult to conceive, unless to show that death had made the prelate and the robber equals.

W.C.

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BODY AND SOUL.

(_FROM THE LATIN OF OWEN._)

The sacred writers to express the whole,
Name but a part, and call the man a _soul_.
We frame our speech upon a different plan,
And say "some_body_," when we mean a man.
No_body_ heeds what every_body_ says,
And yet how sad the secret it betrays!

RUFUS.

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"_Laissez faire, laissez passer._"--I think your correspondent "A MAN IN A GARRET" (No. 19. p. 308.) is not warranted in stating that M. de Gournay was the author of the above axiom of political economy. Last session Lord J. Russell related an anecdote in the House of Commons which referred the phrase to an earlier date. In the _Times_ of the 2nd of April, 1849, his Lordship is reported to have said, on the preceding day, in a debate on the Rate-in-Aid Bill, that Colbert, with the intention of fostering the manufactures of France, established regulations which limited the webs woven in looms to a particular size. He also prohibited the introduction of foreign manufactures into France. The French vine-growers, finding that under this system they could no longer exchange their wine for foreign goods, began to grumble. "It was then," said his Lordship, "that Colbert, having asked a merchant what he should do, he (the merchant), with great justice and great sagacity, said, 'Laissez faire et laissez passer'--do not interfere as to the size and mode of your manufactures, do not interfere with the entrance of foreign imports, but let them compete with your own manufactures."

Colbert died twenty-nine years before M. de Gournay was born. Lord J. Russell omitted to state whether Colbert followed the merchant's advice.

C. ROSS.

_College Salting and Tucking of Freshmen_ (No. 17. p. 261., No. 19. p. 306.).--A circumstantial account of the tucking of freshmen, as practised in Exeter College, oxford, in 1636, is given in Mr. Martyn's _Life of the First Lord Shaftesbury_, vol. i. p. 42.

"On a particular day, the senior under-graduates, in the
evening, called the freshmen to the fire, and made them hold
out their chins; whilst one of the seniors, with the nail of
his thumb (which was left long for that purpose), grated off
all the skin from the lip to the chin, and then obliged him to
drink a beer-glass of water and salt."

Lord Shaftesbury was a freshman at Exeter in 1636; and the story told by his biographer is, that he organised a resistance among his fellow freshmen to the practice, and that a row took place in the college hall, which led to the interference of the master, Dr. Prideaux, and to the abolition of the practice in Exeter College. The custom is there said to have been of great antiquity in the college.

The authority cited by Mr. Martyn for the story is a Mr. Stringer, who was a confidential friend of Lord Shaftesbury's, and made collections for a Life of him; and it probably comes from Lord Shaftesbury himself.

C.

_Byron and Tacitus_.--Although Byron is, by our school rules, a forbidden author, I sometimes contrive to indulge myself in reading his works by stealth. Among the passages that have struck my (boyish) fancy is the couplet in "_The Bride of Abydos_" (line 912),--

"Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease!
He makes a solitude, and calls it--peace!"

Engaged this morning in a more legitimate study, that of Tacitus, I stumbled upon this passage in the speech of Galgacus (Ag. xxx.),--

"Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem adpellant."

Does not this look very much like what we call "cabbaging?" If you think so, by adding it to the other plagiarisms of the same author, noted in some of your former numbers, you will confer a great honour on

A SCHOOLBOY.

_The Pardonere and Frere_.--If Mr. J.P. Collier would, at some leisure moment, forward, for your pages, a complete list of the variations from the original, in Smeeton's reprint of _The Pardonere and Frere_, he would confer a favour which would be duly appreciated by the possessors of that rare tract, small as their number must be; since, in my copy (once in the library of Thomas Jolley, Esq.), there is an autograph attestation by Mr. Rodd, that "there were no more than twenty copies printed."

G.A.S.

_Mistake in Gibbon_ (No. 21. p. 341.).--The passage in Gibbon has an error more interesting than the mere mistake of the author. That a senator should make a motion to be repeated and chanted by the rest, would be rather a strange thing; but the tumultuous acclamations chanted by the senators as parodies of those in praise of Commodus, which had been usual at the Theatres (Dio), were one thing; the vote or decree itself, which follows, is another.

There are many errors, no doubt, to be found in Gibbon. I will mention one which may be entertaining, though I dare say Mr. Milman has found it out. In chap. 47. (and _see_ note 26.), Gibbon was too happy to make the most of the murder of the female philosopher Hypatia, by a Christian mob at Alexandria. But the account which he gives is more shocking than the fact. He seems not to have been familiar enough with Greek to recollect that [Greek: haneilon] means _killed_. Her throat was cut with an oyster-shell, because, for a reason which he has very acutely pointed out, oyster-shells were at hand; but she was clearly not "cut in pieces," nor, "her flesh scraped off the bones," till after she was dead. Indeed, there was no scraping from the bones at all. That they used oyster-shells is a proof that the act was not premeditated. Neither did she deserve the title of modest which Gibbon gives her. Her way of rejecting suitors is disgusting enough in Suidas.

C.B.

_Public Libraries_.--In looking through the Parliamentary Report on Libraries, I missed, though they may have escaped my notice, any mention of a valuable one in _Newcastle-on-Tyne_, "Dr. Thomlinson's;" for which a handsome building was erected early last century, near St. Nicholas Church, and a Catalogue of its contents has been published. I saw also, some years ago, a library attached to _Wimborne Minster_, which appeared to contained some curious books.

The Garrison Library at _Gibraltar_ is, I believe, one of the most valuable English libraries on the continent of Europe.

W.C.T.

Edinburgh, March 30. 1850.

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NOSCE TEIPSUM,--AN EXCEPTION.

(_FROM THE CHINESE OF CONFUCIUS, OR ELSEWHERE._)

I've not said so to _you_, my friend--and I'm not going--
_You_ may find so many people better worth knowing.

RUFUS.

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We have received the following Catalogues:--Messrs. Williams and Norgate's (14. Henrietta Street) German Catalogue, Part I. comprising Theology, Ecclesiastical History, and Philosophy; John Petheram's (94. High Holborn) Catalogue, Part CX. No. 4. for 1850, of Old and New Books; John Miller's (43. Chandos Street) Catalogue, Number Four for 1850 of Books Old and New; and E. Palmer and Son's (18. Paternoster Row) Catalogue of Scarce and Curious Books.

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Just Published, 2 vols. 8vo., 20s. cloth,

THE WORKS OF VIRGIL, TRANSLATED (in blank verse). The first four Pastorals, the Georgics, and the first four Æneids, by the Rev. RANN KENNEDY. The last six Pastorals and the last eight Æneids by CHARLES RANN KENNEDY. Dedicated to H.R.H. the Prince Albert.

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Preparing for immediate Publication, in 2 vols. small 8vo.

THE FOLK-LORE of ENGLAND. By WILLIAM J. THOMAS, F.S.A., Secretary of the Camden Society, Editor of "Early Prose Romances," "Lays and Legends of all Nations," &c. One object of the present work is to furnish new contributions to the History of our National Folk-Lore; and especially some of the more striking Illustrations of the subject to be found in the Writings of Jacob Grimm and other Continental Antiquaries.

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