EARLY APPRECIATION OF BURNS (6th S. v. 63, 134). It may not be without interest to note the following, which I extract from "the Caledonian Magazine; or, Aberdeen Repository, vol. i., Aberdeen; printed and sold by A. Leighton." 8vo. In the number for Friday, January 12, 1787, p. 186, this little bit of news is given :

"The Duchess of Gordon has distinguished herself by
patronizing the Ayrshire poet; and where-ever the
bonny Duchess engages her influence, it is with a zeal
and ardour that deserves, and generally commands,
success. In this instance, however, her Grace finds no
opposition, and she will have the pleasure of placing her
Poet of the Glens' in a snug independence."
The poem "To a Mountain Daisy," is printed in
the number for Feb. 23, 1787, with this note,
"Written by Burns, the famous Airshire poet."
"Despondency: an Ode.' By Robert Burns,"
is given in the number for Sept. 7, 1787, and
"The Lament. By Robert Burns. Occasioned
by the unfortunate issue of a Friend's Amour," in
the Appendix for 1787. In the number for
Oct. 5, 1787, the "Poetical Epistle to Robert
Burns, by the Author of the 'Song of Tulloch-
gorum,'" is printed. It is signed "John Skinner,"
If it
and dated 'Linshart, Sept. 25, 1787."
does not extend this note beyond a reasonable
length, I will give two stanzas of the Rev. John
Skinner's epistle:-

"Your bonny Bookie, line by line,
I've read and think it freely fine:
Indeed I dare na ca't divine,

As others might,

For that, ye ken, frae pen like mine,
Wad no be right.

But, by my sang, I dinna woner
That you 've admirers mony hunner:
Let goukit flips pretend to skunner,

And tak offence,

Ye've naething said that looks like blunner,
To fouks o' sense."

J. P. EDMOND.

64, Bonaccord Street, Aberdeen. The Derby Mercury of Jan. 10, 1787, reprints (with a laudation) Burns's verses "To a Mountain Daisy, on Turning one Down with the Plough, in April, 1786." This, I think, must take rank amongst the first newspaper notices of Scotland's ALFRED Wallis. bard.

"TAK TIME IN TIME, ERE TIME BE TINT" (6th S. iv. 469; v. 114).-The following lines on the same subject are, I think, by Tusser :

"Time is, thou hast, employ the portion small;
Time past, is gone, thou canst not it recall;
Time future is not, and may never be;
Time present is the only time for thee."
WM. FREELOVE.

Bury St. Edmunds.

RECUSANT ROLLS (6th S. iv. 513; v. 136).-In answer to MR. SAWYER, the list of Roman Catholics, &c., published in 1745, is in an octavo

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volume, printed by J. Robinson, London, and edited by James Cosin, whose father was secretary to the Commissioners for Forfeited Estates. The dedication states that

"The list, collected by authority in the year 1715, is published at this time with no other view, but to assist the magistrates, and other officers who shall happen to be entrusted with the execution of such orders of Government, for suppressing the growth, and unhappy effects W. L. KING. of the present rebellious Insurrection in the North," &c.

Watlington, Norfolk.

"MEDICUS CURAT," &c. (6th S. iv. 388, 436, 457, 477, 495; v. 35, 119).—In recording various readings of this phrase I do not think your correspondents have recollected the expression in Elsie Venner, a novel by Oliver Wendell Holmes :—

"He said the old heathen doctor, Galen, praised God self. He said they had this sentence set up in large just as if he had been a Christian or the Psalmist himletters in the great lecture-room in Paris where he attended, I dressed his wound and God healed him.' That was an old surgeon's saying."

A PROVERB (6th S. v. 7, 136).—

W. F.

"At last his Brother thought of me, and said unto him, that he would bring a man to him, that was neither little, but what was I then? An Alchymist (which he Doctor, nor Apothecary; then he began to hearken a understood as well as Waltham's Calf)."-R. Mathew's Unlearned Alchymist (1662), p. 37.

GEO. L. APPERSON.

A brief notice of the author of Contemplation may serve
as a clue to the date of its publication. Richard Gifford,
He was Rector of North
d. 1807, aged eighty-two.
Okendon, Essex, in 1772, and wrote Remarks on Kenni-
cott's Dissertation on the Tree of Life in Paradise, Con-
templation, a poem, and Outlines of an Answer to Dr.
Priestley's Disquisitions on Matter and Spirit.

WILLIAM PLATT.

I sent a query about "one Giffard" as long ago as 2nd S. i. 492 (June 21, 1856, eheu fugaces !), to which a full reply was given in 2nd S. ii. 74. We there learn that Contem

man. and died in 1807, aged eighty-two, his only child, plation was published in 1753. Mr. Gifford was a Balliol P. J. F. GANTILLON. Euphemia, dying unmarried in 1853, aged eighty-eight.

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[6th S. V. MAR. 11, '82,

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that there is no trace of a foreign idiom to be found. If, on the other hand, it has been written in our language by Signor Vignoli, it shows wonderful mastery of a foreign idiom. The subject which the essayist treats of is one of daily increasing interest. Very much of the best and most earnest thought of our day, not only among men of science strictly so called, but in the ranks of those who devote themselves to historical, political, and theological problems, is necessarily devoted to the questions with which he deals; and it is a significant fact that while a quarter of a century ago the speculations of Mr. Buckle raised an incoherent clamour which echoed and re-echoed all over Europe, men like Signor Vignoli and his friends are now met by those who differ from them not by noise and windy rhetoric, but by courteous argument. We do not profess to agree with much that we find in Signor Vignoli's pages, but, taking for granted his assumption that what is called the Darwinian theory of evolution is a proved fact of science, we do not see how to escape from some, at least, of his more important conclusions. That the more intelligent of the lower animals show, in a rudimentary manner, the faculty of myth-making we cannot doubt. A horse which has been accustomed all its life to pass stone heaps of a yellow colour will shy violently if it be ridden or driven on a road where the heaps are of iron slag, and consequently of a black-grey tint. A dog which has been used to basking by a coal fire will growl violently if it be mended with ash logs which crackle and spit. In both these cases, which we have ourselves observed, it is almost certain that the animals interpret the phenomena mythologically-that is, the black-grey slag is thought not to be a heap of road metal, but some harmful animal, and the hissing and crackling log is not looked upon as part of the fire, but as a fellow-being intent on mischief. Whether facts such as these-of which Signorgress of Civilization in Scotland. Vignoli gives some excellent examples-have any bearing on the question of the unity of race we will not discuss. If that unity be ever proven, they will, of course, form a link in the evidential chain, but at present they seem isolated facts, which are capable of explanation in an entirely different manner. Signor Vignoli sees, what many writers on mythology have not observed that what is called "animism "-which is now, as it would the settled belief of the lowest savages-presupposes a still lower state of the human intelligence, when the mind had not reached the stage of being able to classify any but the most common objects. He also points out most vigorously how much we have been indebted to the mythological way of looking at things. It has been too much the fashion to look on the mythmaking faculty in man as a disease. Signor Vignoli points out that it is a natural function, and that man would not be man, but something much lower, were he without

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