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to the world of literature, they, in most cases, escape detection. I need not speak of the extravagances of Vallancey, but there is actually in a translation of the Four Masters, by John O'Donovan, published so late as 1856, an attempt to identify the names of places in Ireland with the followers of one Ceasair, who came to that country forty days before the Deluge!! Nor is the derivation of Sahagum from an Irish source, as attempted at page 431 by J. L., less extraordinary. I am sure that I need scarcely say here that Sahagum, or Sahagun-for it is spelled both ways-is the name of a small village in Spain, well known as a place of eminence in the history of Spanish sword-cutlery; and it was doubtless a nursery for the more famed and more modern manufacture of Toledo, as the affix of "de Sahagum " frequently occurs to the names of Toledo sword manufacturers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While the mere word Sahagum itself, without any maker's name added to it, is well known to the collectors of early sword-blades. WILLIAM PINKERTON.

BOURBON SPRIG (3rd S. xi. 461.)-This may be the English name of the chinaware manufactured from the French model, as we have been told by F. C. H. (p. 299), but the original is well known to collectors as the Angouleme porcelain. It was manufactured at Paris by Dihl and Guerhard, in the Rue de Bondy, under the patronage of the Duc d'Angouleme. I have a tea and coffee set, with plates, sugar-basin, &c. nearly all complete. The mark is an A with a crown in red, as described by F. C. H., and some of my pieces also have the following:

"MANUFTE
Mgr LE DUC
ANGOULEME,
PARIS."

One or two of my pieces want the red mark and the china appears to be of a coarser description. It may then be of English manufacture; and I would beg F. C. H. to tell me whether the red mark was copied on the English pieces made from the cup and saucer brought to England by the Rev. T. Deterville, and append my address, hoping that he may honour me with a line on the subject. Hounslow.

WILLIAM PINKERTON.

L'HOMME FOSSILE EN EUROPE (3rd S. xi. 456, 530.)-The following passage from Mr. Beckett Denison's Astronomy without Mathematics (p. 30), shows that the cold of the glacial period was not due to the variation of the polar axis, but to the variation of eccentricity of the earth's orbit: -

"Moreover, it is calculated that the eccentricity of the earth's orbit was 057 instead of 017, about 310,000 years ago" [that is, the earth's orbit is now less elliptical and more circular];" and at the same time the northern winter was at aphelion. Therefore the sun was 97 mil

lion miles off in winter, instead of 90. And as the heat
is inversely as the square of the distance, reckoning from
absolute zero, of no sun at all, which is probably 490°
below our zero, it follows that the average winter cold of
Europe was -33°, or 72° lower than it is now. Then
ice, which the heat of summer had not time to melt, and
was the glacial period, when all Europe was covered with
which slid and scraped down our valleys like the glaciers
in the Alps, and as icebergs slide into the Arctic seas.
See Croll in The Reader, Octr. 1865, and following
months, and Tyndall On Heat, p. 79."
T. J. BUCKTON.

PALINDROMIC (OR SOTADIC) VERSE (3rd S. xi. 504.)-A correspondent, under the signature of H. K., observes that he has never yet seen any palindromic verse in any language which deserves to be called good. I think a few specimens may be found which are really good. For instance, the Greek line from the great Church of Sancta Sophia at Constantinople, which is occasionally seen in other places on baptismal fonts or holywater vessels:

Νίψον ἀνομήματα, μὴ μόναν ὕψιν.

reading both ways, without the necessity of runThe following has the advantage of every word ning one word into another to complete the sense: "Odo tenet mulum, mappam madidam tenet Anna.” ambassador to this country at the peace of 1802, A variation appeared, when M. Otto was French which is a more perfect palindrome:

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"Otto tenet mappam, madidam mappam tenet Otto." I never could find that it had any application to the ambassador; but as compositions in this style, I venture to think this and the other two good. F. C. H.

THE HINDOO TRINITY (3rd S. xii. 8.)— "The deities are only three, whose places are the earth, the intermediate region, and the heaven; namely, fire, air, and the sun. They are pronounced to be deities of the mysterious names (Bhur, bhuvah, swar) severally, and (Prajapati) the lord of creatures is the deity of them belongs to him who dwells in the supreme abode; it apcollectively. The syllable oм intends every deity; it pertains to (Brahma) the vast one; to God, to the superintending soul. Other deities belonging to those several regions are portions of the [three] gods; for they are variously named and described, on account of their different operations; but in fact there is only one deity, the Great Soul. He is called the sun, for he is the soul of all beings, and that is declared by the sage: the sun is the soul of what moves, and of that which is fixed.' Other clared by the sage."-Colebroke, On the Vedas, Asiat. deities are portions of him: and that is expressly deRes. viii. 395, &c.; compare Menu, xii. 123.

The mysterious word om is, according to the Hindoo commentators, composed of three letters, A U M, representing the three gods of the Menu the Brahmin is directed to mutter to himTrimurti or Hindoo Trinity. In the Institutes of self this holy syllable, both at the commencement and conclusion of all his lectures on the Vedas, without which nothing, it is asserted, will be long

retained. Previous to this, however, he is expected to sit on the culms of kusa grass (Poa cynosuroides) with their points towards the east, and to suppress his breath thrice. The legislator then informs us that "Brahma milked out, as it were, from the three Vedas the letter A, the letter r, and the letter м, which form by their combination the triliteral monosyllable; "adding that this syllable "is a symbol of God, the Lord of created beings" (ii. 74, 77, 84.)

There does not appear to be any authority for
appropriating one of the three letters to Bramah,
Vishnu, or Shiva, as HITOPADESH assumes. This
Bramah must not be confounded with the one

god Brahm. His query as to the identity of Sri,
Siris, and Ceres, and of Horus and Eros, can only
be answered in the negative. (See The Hindoos,
L. E. K., i. 145.)
T. J. BUCKTON.

Streatham Place, S.

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DR. WOLCOT (3rd S. xi. 450, 526.)—In the Gentleman's Magazine for 1819, vol. i. p. 619, I find that "John Wolcot, M.D., painter and poet, the latter under the assumed name of Peter Pindar, was born near Kingsbridge, Devon, 1738, and died Jan., 1819, at Camden Town." Thus he was credited with a medical doctor's degree at the time of his decease, even though MR. MACKENZIE WALCOTT doubts his right to it. It is also within the bounds of possibility that he might have proceeded to some other degree in Divinity or Civil Law, for he was in Holy Orders, which seems to have escaped MR. WALCOTT. I meet almost daily a gentleman who knew Peter Pindar well, and only knew him by the name of Dr. Wolcot. That I should have erred in spelling the Doctor's name, I suppose with two t's instead of one, was an inadvertence.

J. B. DAVIES.

PASSAGE IN LORD BACON (3rd S. xi. 496; xii. 16.) C. A. W. is right. I ought to have given a reference to the work from which I quoted. It was from The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, including all his Occasional Works, &c., with a Commentary, Biographical and Historical, by James Spedding, i. 108-9. Of this most interesting and important work the first volume was published in 1861, and the second in 1862, bringing down the life of Lord Bacon only to the end of his fortieth year (1601); and I trust I may be allowed to express hope that the publication of the remainder will not be long deferred. Mr. Spedding is said to have devoted "the best years of an active and learned manhood to the preliminary toil" (Dixon's Personal History of Lord Bacon, p. 10), and there is little risk of error in asserting that no man living knows more of Bacon and his works; certainly no one has written his life so far with so much ability and impartiality. It is true the seven volumes of Bacon's greater works, edited by "As, however, he was aware that this irregularity Mr. Spedding and two coadjutors, are done; but could not long be tolerated, he returned to England to if the "letters, life, and occasional works obtain orders, and, if possible, the vacant living; but, left unfinished, the loss will be great to all who notwithstanding the powerful recommendations he preare interested-and who is not?-in the lesser sented to the Bishop of London, that prelate refused him ordination; and the living being soon filled up by a reworks and the later years of the illustrious philo-gular clergyman, Mr. Wolcott [sic] declined applying sopher.

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WILLIAM SHARP, SURGEON (3rd S. xi. 497.)— In Wadd's Nuga Chirurgica; or, a Biographical Miscellany, illustrative of a Collection of Professional Portraits, 1824, is the following:

"Sharpe, William. G. Dance del. 1794. W. Daniels sc. Born 1729. Died 1810. Sharpe was many years assistantsurgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and was eminent in his profession during the time he practised; but he retired upwards of twenty years before his death, and was succeeded in his residence and practice by the late Sir Charles Blicke, who was also his fortunate successor at the hospital, of which he soon became principal surgeona post he held to the last hour of his life. They were both good practical surgeons, but their literary labours consist of a small pamphlet On Paper Splints; or, a New

The Catalogue of the National Portrait Exhibition of 1867 (No. 809) informs us that Dr. Wolcot "took orders." I have before me The Works of Peter Pindar, Esq., 4 vols. 12mo, 1809, with brief memoirs of the author prefixed. It is here stated that Dr. Wolcot, when in Jamaica, endeavoured to supply the place of a deceased rector "by reading prayers and preaching."

in any other quarter for admission to the church."
What authority have the compilers of the Ca-
talogue for their statement?
E. S. D.

THE VALLEY OF MONT-CENIS (3rd S. xii. 9.)
By altering the first sud-est into sud-ouest, S. H. M.
will obtain the true reading. There is no copy
of Saussure's great work-credite posteri!—in the
British Museum, but only a short abridgement, as
if intended for a railway library. My knowledge
is derived from the maps of the Useful Knowledge
Society, which appear to have got into hands that
have a motive for suppressing them for the pur-
pose of issuing their own rubbish at a higher
price.
T. J. BUCKTON.

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A GLOSSARY; or, Collection of Words, Phrases,

Customs, Proverbs, &c. Illustrating the Works of English Authors, particularly SHAKESPEARE and his Contemporaries. By ROBERT NARES, Archdeacon of Stafford, &c. A New Edition, with considerable Additions, both of Words and Examples, by JAMES O. HALLIWELL, F.R.S. and THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A., F.S. A. &c. The Glossary of Archdeacon Nares is by far the best and most useful work we possess for explaining and illustrating the obsolete language and the customs and manners of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it is quite indispensable for the readers of the literature of the Elizabethan period. The additional words and examples are distinguished from those in the original text by a ↑ prefixed to each. The work contains between FIVE AND SIX TROUSAND additional examples, the result of original research, not merely supplementary to Nares, but to all other compilations of the kind.

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