entirely lost, I may say that we still have Gryme- Olynthians traitors by saying, σkaιovs púσe Kai ἀγροίκους εἶναι Μακεδόνας, καὶ τὴν σκάφην σkápην λéуovтas (Plutarch, Apophthegm., p. 178 B, Par., 1624). The proverb also occurs in Lucian (De Hist. Scribend., 41). Tzetzes (Chiliad., viii. 564-5) refers it to Aristophanes, ék кwpwdías deĝios εἰπὼν (ὁ Φίλιππος) Αριστοφάνους οἱ Μακεδόνες, ISLANDS SACKED BEFORE 1594 (6th S. ii. 369). ἀμαθεῖς, σκάφην φασὶ τὴν σκάφη. But I am -Has not the reference to "a late sack'd island" not aware that any verse in the existing plays con- in Shakespeare's Tarquin and Lucrece rather to tains it. There is (Clouds, 1252-3), оvк av άπодоíny do with some incident that occurred in the same οὐδ ̓ ὀβολὸν ἂν οὐδενί, ὅστις καλέσειε κάρδοπον cycle as the rape of Lucretia, which occurred in Tv Kapoóny, as Erasmus has it in his Apoph-B.C. 510? The poet gives the tale as from a specthegms. MR. BATES (2nd S. x. 58) refers to a rather earlier use of it than Cranmer's in modern times, as it occurs in Rabelais (Pantagr., 1. iv. c. liv.). A somewhat later use is in the preface to the Anatomy of Melancholy, where Burton says, call a spade a spade" (C. FORBES, 1st S. iv. 456). ED. MARSHALL. Sandford St. Martin Manor. "I Here is an instance of the use of the phrase earlier than the one quoted by MR. FREELOVE:— "When those persones that wer at Lasthenes found theimselfes greued, and toke highly or fumishly, that certain of the traine of Philippus called theim traitours, Philippus aunswered, that the Macedonians wer feloes of no fine wytte in their termes but altogether grosse, clubbishe, and rusticall, as the whiche had not the witte to cal a spade by any other name then a spade : τὰ σῦκα σῦκα τὴν σκαφὴν σκαφὴν λέγων. "Alluding to that the commen vsed prouerbe of the tator's point of view, one who would have recent occurrences on his mind, and none more so than the sack and massacre of Sybaris by the Crotonians, that occurred, it is held, a short time. before, if not the same year; and as the city of Sybaris, from its position between "two slowrivers," might well be deemed an "island," it gives the more likely meaning of the expression. W. PHILLIPS. RECORDS OF DEATH AT CORFU (6th S. ii. 349). Unless the registers kept by the British chaplains during our protectorate of the Ionian Islands were sent to England at the union of the republic with the Hellenic kingdom, W. C. will probably obtain the information he desires by writing to the British Consular Chaplain at Corfu, who is, or very lately was, the Rev. J. W. C. Hughes. NOMAD. SHOTLEY SWORDS (6th S. ii. 433).-J. H. M. mentions sword-blades stamped with the name Grekes, calling figgues, figgues: and a bote a bote. As for his mening was, that they wer traitours in very deede. And the fair flatte truthe, that the vplandishe, or homely and playn clubbes of the countree dooen vse, nameth eche thing by the right names."-Apophthegmes of Eras-Shotley on one side, and with a bridge on the mus, 1542, reprint 1877, p. 189. Boston, Lincolnshire. R. R. This passage will be found in Plutarch's Αποφθέγματα βασιλέων καὶ στρατηγών, Φιλίππου τοῦ Αλ. πατ :-σκαιοὺς ἔφη φύσει καὶ ἀγροίκους εἶναι Μακεδόνας, καὶ τὴν σκάφην, σkáþηv déуovτas (“Inepti, inquit, natura et agrestes sunt Macedones, utpote qui scapham scapham vocant." R. C. Cork. "THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST" (6th S. ii. 344).— From Bürger's poem of Lenore : "Sie hin, sieh her! der Mond scheint hell, Stanza xvii. 115, Piccadilly. other, and asks when and by whom the swords were made. See Surtees's Hist. of Durham, vol. ii. p. 294, "Parish of Medomsley, Township of Benfieldside " : "At Shotley Bridge a colony of German sword-cutlers, who fed from their own country for the sake of religious liberty, established themselves about the reign of King William. These quiet settlers......mingled with the children of the dale and forgot the language of their forefathers. Few of the original names are now left." Surtees gives some names in a note; amongst others," Adam, son of Adam and Mary Oley, bapt. 16 April, 1692." And he adds, "This family are still at Shotley, and I believe retain the house in which their ancestor settled." R. R. DEES. Wallsend. "Each sword-blade had stamped upon it, near the hilt, the name Shotley on one side, and on the other a bridge." I suppose these marks to denote the place where the weapons had been manufactured, viz., Shotley Bridge, co. Durham. This town still has its "manufactures of cutlery." J. INGLE DRedge. A WEDDING DAY DEFERRED TO THE ANNIVERSARY OF A BIRTHDAY (6th S. ii. 389).—My "THE FORTUNATE BLUE-COAT Boy" (6th S. ii. 514). In my day-1811-18-there was extant a novel entitled The History of George Templeman; or, the Fortunate Blue-coat Boy, a circulating library book. I do not know whether your correspondent J. H. I. alludes to that, but as no extraneous books were allowed to be read, save only such as were approved" by one or other of the Grecians, the head master having detected it in my possession, I got well horsed for such a breach of discipline, and was looked upon thereafter as the unfortunate Blue-coat boy." R. L. 66 "SO LONG "" (6th S. ii. 67, 194, 496).-This phrase is a common salutation in this colony amongst the English and Dutch, and used on a temporary separation of friends, as au revoir by the French. I remember hearing it amongst the Blue Noses of Nova Scotia and the New Brunswickers. AUGUSTUS WEISBECKER. Grahamstown, South Africa. Palestine. Church of Scotland, Dundee. It is dated from the "Sea "What steam is to machinery," &c.-Any one who has gone down the Edgware Road must have seen a large board, about half-way between the Marble Arch and cribed to Lord Macaulay. But I have not been able to Praed Street, on which this saying is painted, and asmake the reference more exact. EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. (6th S. ii. 514.) "Wohl auf Kameraden, auf's Pferd auf's Pferd," &c., is by Theodor Körner, the celebrated and deeply mourned young poet, who was killed in an engagement between Gadebusch and Schwerin in 1813, at the age of twenty three. GORILLA. From Schiller's Wallenstein's Lager. The second line, however, should run : "In 's Feld, in die Freiheit gezogen." AUGUSTA KREBS. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. By Henry Foley, S.J. Vol. VI. (Burns & Oates.) THIS volume has a special interest of its own, independently of its predecessors, for it contains the annals of the English College at Rome from 1579 to 1773, with the pilgrim-book of the ancient hospice attached to the college from 1580 to 1656, besides a mass of historical information supplemental of the previous volumes. AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (6th S. ii. 429).The Chameleon.-The author of the above was Thomas The English Hospice at Rome dates from the jubilee Atkinson, of Glasgow. It is a highly interesting kind of of 1350, when pilgrims of all nations thronged in crowds annual, in three volumes-first series, 1832; second and to visit the tombs of the Apostles. The ancient hospital, third series, 1833-beautifully got up by Longmans, and which was built and endowed in the time of the Angloillustrated with pictorial and musical engravings. The Saxon heptarchy for the entertainment of English work was reissued in 1833, under the title of " Miscellanies pilgrims travelling to Rome for purposes of devotion, in Prose and Verse, now first Collected and Enlarged"; had completely disappeared in the twelfth century, and also in three volumes, by the same publishers, of which the great hospital of Santo Spirito now stands on its only 175 copies printed, containing, as the author says. site. The English therefore were without a national "all that I care my friends should remember was mine." hospice at Rome until 1362, when John Sheppard, a merThe Athenæum, speaking highly of the third series chant of London, purchased several houses in a street near of this Glasgow annual, says, "This volume is the work the Piazza Farnese, and converted them into a hospice for of various hands. The chief writer, however, is Mr. A., the reception of English travellers under the patronage who is at the same time bookseller, bard, and orator, of the Blessed Trinity and St. Thomas. Shepherd and and thriving in all." In the preface to the third series, his wife Alice became the superintendents of the new the poor author, anticipating a fatal issue to the disease foundation, which was augmented in the reign of under which he was then suffering, thus apologizes for Richard II. by Sir John Hawkwood, the famous condoterrors:-"The volume has been hurried on that it might tiere general, and others of his companions in arms. It not be posthumous, and that he might see the Benjamin was rebuilt in 1449, when money was collected for its of his pen." Atkinson wrote and published much; and, enlargement in every parish in England, and until as a last chance for prolonging his existence, embarked Henry VIII. broke off all relations with the Roman see for the West Indies, dying on the passage out, and the Hospital of St. Thomas was regarded as an institution leaving considerable property to establish a scientific of national importance. After the change of religion in institution for young men in Glasgow. J. O. England the resources of the hospital gradually failed, and although the wardenship was accepted by Cardinal AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. ii. Pole in 1535, it continued to languish, and would have 469). "Fair are the scenes," &c. The poem inquired for by A. B. was written by the late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, minister of the died out altogether in the next generation if Pope Gregory XIII. had not refounded it in 1579 as a college for the education of fifty divinity students to be employed in the English mi-sion. The foundation was endowed with a pension of six thousand crowns a year, and was confided to the care of the Jesuits of the English province, who continued to govern it until the suppression of the Society in 1773. It was from the first a fruitful nursery of priests for the English mission, and sent forth a series of martyrs and confessors to brave the penal laws in England in defence of the Catholic faith. The seminary priests were regarded by Cecil and Walsingham as dangerous traitors, and the most unscrupulous proceedings were resorted to for their extirpation. Not only were the priests proscribed and cruelly hunted down, but Queen Elizabeth's ministers stooped to employ spies as sham students in the seminaries, who were bribed to foment dissensions and to attempt the most infamous crimes. This is no calumny of the Jesuits, for it is fully borne out by letters remaining in the State Paper Office. For example, Atkinson, an informer in the pay of the Government, deliberately writes to Cecil in 1595:-" I hoped to do some service worthy of a good reward. I could easily poison Tyrone through a poisoned Host, being in the country to which he resorts, and pretending to be a Franciscan friar under Bishop Macraith,' &c. Students applying for admission at the college were called upon to answer a long series of interrogatories respecting their families and past careers, which are in valuable for biographical and genealogical purposes. When they were admitted they took an oath on the Holy Scriptures "to be always ready at the bidding of their lawful superior to take holy orders and proceed to England for the aid of souls"; and this obligation was so faithfully observed that twenty-five of them suffered martyrdom before the end of the sixteenth century. The annual reports of the college begin from the foundation in 1579, and abound with interesting details, but from some unexplained cause they gradually fell into disuse after 1593, and ceased altogether after 1659. The English Hospice of St. Thomas was united to the English College on St. Thomas's Day, Dec. 29, 1580, by a bull of Pope Gregory XIII., with the obligation of entertaining English travellers according to the original statutes, which ordained that poor pilgrims should be received for eight days, and travellers of the higher class for three days only. The statutes only contemplated persons visiting Rome out of devotion, but the college never refused hospitality to Englishmen properly introduced. Amongst other illustrious Protestant visitors, Milton the poet was entertained there, and arrived with his servant Oct. 30, 1638, when his fellow guests were the Hon. Mr. Cary, a younger brother of Lord Falkland, Dr. Holling of Lancashire, and Mr. Fortescue. Milton is not the only English poet whose name appears in the pilgrimbook, for Richard Crashaw came to Rome in a pilgrim habit on Nov. 28, 1646, and spent fifteen days in the college. We are glad to find that this supplemental volume is not to be the last of Mr. Foley's interesting series, for he has in preparation a complete catalogue of the deceased members of the English province from the earliest times to 1879, with a catalogue of more than eight hundred aliases assumed by Jesuit fathers in times of persecution, which will form a fitting sequel to The Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. By Vernon Lee. (Satchell & Co.) On the first page of this book the author states that he is an "æsthetician." Those whose courage is proof against this portentous announcement will probably find that the "aesthetician's domain" is a new world, opening out fresh scenes of varied interest. The musical and dramatic life of Italy in the eighteenth century is to most persons a blank. Yet music and the drama were then to Italy what philosophical and political thought were to France and England, and they stand out during that period as the only imperishable portion of Italian history. Mr. Lee commences with a sketch of the Arcadian Academy, that artificial society of amateur shepherds and shepherdesses whose pipes and pastora's awoke Rome from her slumber. Before the close of the century the Academy sank into decay, but the movement which it represented continued to gather strength. The national enthusiasm was first displayed in music, and the reader finds a picture of the musical world as it existed when Dr. Burney visited Italy, and is introduced to the great composers, musicians, and singers of the day. It was to satisfy this passion for music that Metastasio, whose life is perhaps the most interesting portion of the book, wrote his tragic operas. As the writer of unacted dramas and unsung songs he has been harshly judged by posterity, who have accepted his selfsatisfied account of himself" a tolerable poet among bad ones"-as a fair description of his literary merit. Lastly, we have a description of the ancient Italian comedy of the masks. The "commedia dell' arte," whose pedigree dates from prehistoric times, died away in the seventeenth century to revive during the next in the realistic comedy of Goldoni and the fairy comedy of Gozzi. Mr. Lee's mastery of his subject enables him to clothe wan spectres of the past with flesh and blood, and to impart that warmth and colour to his sketch without which pictures of Italian life are unfaithful. Deutsches Familienblatt. (Berlin, J. H. Schorer.) THIS high-class illustrated weekly magazine would be an excellent Christmas or New Year's gift from Paterfamilias to his children if he wishes to see them keeping up their German by means of a constant supply of healthy and interesting literature. The Familienblatt appears to deserve its name. The subject matter is ad rem on questions of the day; the serial stories are partly translations, partly original; and the original tales are generally out of the beaten track. Such, e. g., is " Der Steppenkönig," of which the scene is laid in the stillness of the steppes of level Hungary-a stillness that has such power to thrill the heart of the Magyar. The illustrations are excellent. AMONG foreign étrennes we would call attention to the following, as of more than ordinary interest to the lovers of art and letters : The Librairie Muquardt (Court Librarians), Rue de la Régence, Brussels, announce, under the patronage of the King of the Belgians, L'Euvre de Pierre-Paul Rubens, reproduced in heliotype after the engravings of old Flemish masters, and accompanied with explanatory letter press from the pen of M. Fétis. The subjectmatter of Rubens's illustration of Bible history renders it specially appropriate to the present season. Another Belgian publication, partaking of the character of an etrenne from the sumptuousness with which it promises to be brought out, is La Belgique Industrielle, 1830-1880, announced by the Moniteur Industriel, Boulevard Anspach, Brussels, and intended to commemorate the progress marked by the Exhibition of 1880. Another echo of the year which saw the fiftieth anniversary of Belgian independence is to be traced in Cinquante Ans de Liberté, M. Weissenbruch (Imprimeur du Roi), Rue du Poinçon, Brussels, which is announced as intended to comprise four volumes, devoted respectively to Politics, Science, Arts, and Letters. M. ROUVEYRE, the publisher of L'Intermédiaire (Rvo des Saints Pères, Paris), promises to do good service to students of foreign heraldry by reprinting the Traité du Blason of Jouffroy d'Eschavannes. The same publisher offers a valuable help to the pursuit of the closely allied science of sphragistics in the shape of Descriptions des Collections de Sceaux Matrices de M. Dongé, by P. Charvet, containing descriptions of not less than six hundred and thirty-eight seals, with notes, index of names and places, &c. Of this work, we regret to see, only a limited impression is to be struck off, thus enhancing the value of the book no doubt, but at the expense of the general public. THE Rivista Europea-Rivista Internazionale (Florence, Via del Castelaccio), with the commencement of a new volume (vol. xxii.), has commenced, apparently, a more vigorous life, under an enlarged and improved form. Among articles of general literary interest which have appeared since the change on November 1st we may name "Heine and German Thought," by Prof. Iona, of Trieste; "Bettino Ricasoli" (the Great Baron, as he was well called in his lifetime), by the sympathetic Florentine pen of A. G.; the Hungarian poet "Petöfi," by Alfredo Mazza; and an interesting account, by Signor Bertolotti, of the details, given as from an eye-witness, of Sir Walter Scott's visit in 1832 to the romantic feudal castle of Bracciano, in company with the Duke of Sermoneta, the head of the house which gave Boniface VIII. to the Roman See, and whom we saw in 1870 bringing to Florence the result of the vote which made "Roma Capitale." WHAT can possibly be added to what has already been said a hundred times over respecting the eminent merits of Whitaker's Almanac? So cosmopolitan, however, has the almanac become, owing to the information, toilsomely and carefully garnered from all quarters, which it annually affords, that we may be forgiven by the editor for suggesting that he should adopt as a motto for his next year's issue: "Quæ regio in terris nostri non plena laboris?" SIR JULIUS BENEDICT's imprimatur will be sufficient to commend to all concerned The Professional Pocket-Book; or, Daily and Hourly Engagement Diary for 1881 (Rudall, Carte & Co.). AMONG the gift-books of the season, from the specimen furnished us of its illustrations, Mr. Wise's New Forest, published by H. M. Gilbert (Southampton), would seem to be very attractive. MR. JAMES STILLIE (Hanover Street, Edinburgh) sends us specimens both of his bound and unbound catalogues. The bound volume is quite a book of reference for the library shelves. Mr. Stillie, as the last survivor, we believe, of the Ballantyne firm in the days when the author of Waverley was one of its members, has a considerable store of "Scottiana," besides many works of great interest to various classes of students, e.g., Piranesi's Lapides Capitolini, Letters to Lord Charlemont, &c., the Funeral at Rome of Maria Clementina [Sobieska], wife of James VIII. and III., and other rarities. IN these days of Hibernia excitata Irish book-catalogues are few and far between. Therefore M. W. Rooney (Wicklow Street, Dublin) deserves to attract the attention of collectors to his catalogues of works on Irish history, Cruikshankiana, &c. WE have lost within the last week one of the oldest and most esteemed correspondents of "N. & Q.," the Rev. Mackenzie Walcott, F.S A., Precentor of Chichester Cathedral. He was widely known as an archæologist and as a careful and painstaking topographer, and was particularly well acquainted with the architecture, ritual, and customs of the earlier ages of the Church in England, a subject on which his pen never tired of writing. He was only fifty-nine years of age, and till within the last few weeks he seemed to be as likely as any one to reach the allotted span of life. But in November he was attacked with an illness which nearly proved fatal at the time, and from the effects of which he never perfectly rallied. The only son of the late Admiral J. E. Walcott, some time M. P. for Christchurch, Hants, he was born in 1822, and was educated at Winchester School, under Dr. Moberley, and afterwards took his degree at Exeter College, Oxford. Whilst holding the curacy of St. Marinteresting history of that parish, which was published garet's, Westminster, he compiled a most valuable and in 1847. This he followed up by Memorials of Westminster; A Handbook of St. James's, Westminster; of the United Kingdom; History of Christ Church William of Wykeham and his Colleges; The Cathedrals Priory, Hampshire; The Interior of a Gothic Minster; A History of the Cathedrals of the Western Church; English Coast Guides; The Cathedral Cities of England and Wales, &c. He re-edited Plume's Life of Bishop Hackett, and was also an extensive contributor to the Archaeological Journal, the Gentleman's Magazine, Ecclesiastic, &c. Mr. Walcott had held the PrecentorTransactions of the Institute of British Architects, the ship at Chichester for about seventeen years; he was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, of the Society of Northern Antiquaries, of the Society of Antiquaries of Normandy, and a Corresponding Member of the Archæological Society of France. His death is regretted by a large circle of attached friends. Notices to Correspondents. 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