Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850

We are unavoidably compelled to postpone numerous NOTES, QUERIES, AND REPLIES: indeed we see no way of clearing off our accumulation of REPLIES without the publication of an extra Number, to be devoted exclusively to the numerous Answers which we now have waiting for insertion.

GUTCH'S Literary and Scientific Regsiter and Almanack, advertised in our last No., is for 1851 not 1850.

Mr. G.B. RICHARDSON would oblige us by forwarding the additional verses of "Long Lonkin" for our correspondent SELEUCUS.

A CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER will find the line,

"Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,"

in Congreve's Mourning Bride.

JANUS DOUSA. In our next No.

MEDICUS, who inquires respecting the origin of the proverbial saying, "Quem Deus vult perdere," is referred to our First Volume, pp. 347. 351. 421. and 476. The original line reads "Quem Jupiter vult," and is Barnes' translation of a fragment of Euripides.

THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. CLXXIV., is published THIS DAY.

CONTENTS:

I. TICKNOR'S HISTORY OF SPANISH LITERATURE.

II. CHURCH AND EDUCATION IN WALES.

III. FORMS OF SALUTATION.

IV. SIBERIA AND CALIFORNIA.

V. MURE ON THE LITERATURE OF GREECE.

VI. METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY.

VII. ANECDOTES OF THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT.

VIII. COCHRANES'S YOUNG ITALY.

IX. LAST DAY OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE.

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Tenth Yearly issue.

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EXAMPLES OF ANCIENT PULPITS EXISTING IN ENGLAND. Selected and drawn from Sketches and Measurements taken on the Spot, with Descriptive Letterpress. By FRANCIS T. DOLLMAN, Architect.

This Work contains thirty quarto Plates, three of which are highly finished in Colours, restored accurately from the existing indications. The Pulpits delineated are St. Westburga, Chester: SS. Peter and Paul, Shrewsbury; St. Michael, Coventry; St. Mary, Wendon; St. Mary and All Saints, Fotheringay; All Saints, North Cerney; Holy Trinity, Nallsea; St. Peter Winchcombe; St. John Baptist, Cirencester; St. Mary, Totness; St. Mary, Frampton. Holy Trinity, Old Aston; St. Benedict, Glastonbury; St. Peter, Wolverhampton: St. Andrew, Cheddar (coloured); St. Andrew, Banwell; St. George, Brakworth; Holy Trinity, Long Sutton (coloured); St. Saviour, Dartmouth (coloured); All Saints, Sudbury; All Saints, Hawstead; St. Mary de Lode, Gloucester; St. Mary, North Petherton.

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ANTIQUARIAN GLEANINGS IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND: being Examples of Antique Furniture, Plate, Church Decoration, Objects of Historical Interest, &c. Drawn and etched by W.B. SCOTT.

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THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, No CLXXXVIII., will be publishd on THURSDAY, October 10th, 1850.

I. HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

II. THE UNITED STATES.

III. BRITISH MUSEUM: CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS.

IV. MURE'S CRITICAL HISTORY OF THE LANGUAGE

AND LITERATURE OF ANTIENT GREECE.

V. COL. CHESNEY'S EXPEDITION TO THE EUPHRATES AND TIGRIS.

VI. RECENT CLASSICAL ROMANCES.

VIII. DIFFICULTIES OF REPLUBLICAN FRANCE.

IX. HORACE AND TASSO.

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It may not be out of place here to mention one fine feature in the character of "Tom Hurst;" his deep reverence for men of ability, whether in literature, science, or art. Take one instance:

Fourteen or fifteen years ago, I called one morning at his place of business (then 65. St. Paul's Church Yard, which has been subsequently absorbed into the "Religious Tract Depository"); and, as was my custom, I walked through the shop to his private room. He was "not in;" but a gentleman, who first looked at me and then at a portrait of me on the wall, accosted me by my surname as familiarly as an intimate acquaintance of twenty years would have done. He and Hurst, it appeared, had been speaking of me, suggested by the picture, before Hurst went out. The familiar stranger did not keep me long in suspense—he intimated that I had "probably heard our friend speak of Ben Haydon." Of course I had; and we soon got into an easy chat. Hurst was naturally a common subject with us. Amongst the remarks he made were the following, and in almost the words:—

"When my troubles came on, I owed Hurst a large sum of money; and the circumstances under which I became his debtor rendered this peculiarly a debt of honour. He lent it me when he could ill spare it; yet he is the only one of all my creditors who has not in one way or other persecuted me to the present hour. When he first knew of my wreck, he called upon me—not to reproach but to encourage me—and he would not leave me till he felt sure that he had changed the moody current of my thoughts. If there be any change in him since then, it is in his increased kindness of manner and his assiduity to serve me. He is now gone out to try to sell 'a bit of daub' for me."

Hurst came in, and this conversation dropped; but it had been well had Hurst been by his side on the day his last picture was opened to view at the Egyptian Hall. The catastrophe of that night might have been averted, notwithstanding Mr. Barnum and his Tom Thumb show in the adjoining room.

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The printed copy has Trinity College.