Chapter C: J. F

[Footnote 4: Standon, Herts, where he alighted.]

_Aërostation, Works on_ (Vol. ii., pp. 317. 380.).--If your correspondent who inquires respecting works on aërostation will look into the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ for October 15, he will find an article on that subject, detailing the various attempts made from the time of Montgolfier down to a very recent period.

A still later communication has been made to the world in the French newspaper, _La Presse_, of yesterday's date (Nov. 7th), relating, in terms of exultation, a successful experiment made in Paris by Messrs. Julien and Arnault to steer a machine _against the wind_, in which hitherto impracticable attempt they are said to have completely succeeded at repeated times, and the mechanical {470} means by which they attained their object are detailed.

J.M.

Oxford, Nov. 8.

_Kilt_ (Vol. ii., p. 62.).--Your correspondent [Sigma]. will find some information regarding the introduction of the _kilt_ into Scotland in a volume entitled _Notes to assist the Memory in various Sciences_, 2d edition, London, Murray, 1827. I quote the passage, p. 297.:

"_The Pheliebeg._ Thomas Rawlinson, an iron-smelter and an Englishman,
was the person who, about or prior to A. D. 1728, introduced the
pheliebeg, or short kilt, worn in the Highlands. This fact, very little
known, is established in a letter from Ewan Baillie, of Oberiachan,
inserted in the _Edinburgh Magazine_ for 1785, and also by the Culloden
Papers."

The writer of that work, and of that _daring_ statement, was, I have been informed, a Scottish military gentleman of the name of Hamilton. This origin of the kilt is also mentioned by Mr. Robert Chambers in his _Life of Duncan Forbes, of Culloden_. See his _Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen_.

SCOTUS SECUNDUS.

Edinburgh, Nov. 22.

_Bacon Family_ (Vol. ii., p. 247.).--The origin, of this surname is to be found, I conceive, in the word _Beacon_. The man who had the care of the _Beacon_ would be called _John_ or _Roger of the Beacon. Beacon Hill_, near Newark, is pronounced in that locality as if spelt _Bacon Hill_.

W. G. S.

_Mariner's Compass_ (Vol. ii., p. 56.).--The "fleur de lis" was made the ornament of the northern radius of the mariner's compass in compliment to Charles of Anjou (whose device it was), the reigning king of Sicily, at the time when Flavio Gioja, the Neapolitan, first employed that instrument in navigation.

O. P. Q.

_Arabic Numerals, Brugsch_ (Vol. ii., pp. 294. 424.).--_Brugsch, Numerorum apud Veteres Ægyptos demoticorum Doctrina. Ex Papyris et Inscriptionibus nunc primum illustrata_. 4to., with five plates of facsimiles, &c., is published in this country by Williams and Norgate, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, where J. W. H. may see it, or whence he may get any information he may require respecting it.

W.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC.

Mr. Bohn has just issued a new volume of his Antiquarian Library; and we shall be greatly surprised if it does not prove one of the most popular of the whole series. It is a new and greatly enlarged edition of Mr. Keightley's _Fairy Mythology illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of various Countries_, a work characterised alike by a quick perception of the beauty of the popular myths recorded in its pages, the good taste manifested in their selection, and the learning and scholarship with which Mr. Keightley has illustrated them. The lovers of folk-lore will be delighted with this new edition of a book, which such men as Goethe, Grimm, Von Hammer, Douce, and Southey have agreed in commending; and of which the appearance is particularly well timed, for a fitter book for fire-side reading, or a Christmas present, we know not than this edition of Keightley's _Fairy Mythology_, with its inimitable frontispiece by George Cruikshank, which alone is worth the price of the volume.

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THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CONTROVERSY.--At the present crisis, when the extraordinary aggression of Pope Pius IX. on the rights of the Church and Sovereign of England renders a thorough acquaintance with the Roman Catholic Controversy most essential, the Council of the PARKER SOCIETY are desirous of calling public attention to the WORKS of the REFORMERS which they have issued.

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THE GIRLHOOD OF SHAKESPEARE'S HEROINES; in a Series of Fifteen Tales, by MARY COWDEN CLARKE, Author of the "Concordance to Shakespeare."

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As is the morn dew on the myrtle leaf
To his grand sea."
_Shakespeare._

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