Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849 | Page 7

with," &c.
The third act of the same play commences thus:--
"The duke has lost Hippolita; each took A several land."
Mr. Dyce suspects that for "land" we should read "laund," an old form of lawn. "Land" being either wrong, or having a sense not understood now, we must fall back on the general sense of the passage. When people go a hunting, and don't keep together, it is very probable that they may take a several "direction." Now hand means "direction," as we say "to the right" or "left hand." It is not, therefore, probable, that we should read "a several hand?"
SAMUEL HICKSON
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"GOTHIC" ARCHITECTURE
It would require more space than you could allot to the subject, to explain, at much length, "the origin, as well as the date, of the introduction of the term '_Gothic_,' as applied to pointed styles of ecclesiastical architecture," required by R. Vincent, of Winchester, in your Fourth Number. There can be no doubt that the term was used at first contemptuously, and in derision, by those who were ambitious to imitate and revive the Grecian orders of architecture, after the revival of classical literature. But, without citing many authorities, such as Christopher Wren, and others, who lent their aid in depreciating the old medi?val style, which they termed Gothic, as synonymous with every thing that was barbarous and rude, it may be sufficient to refer to the celebrated Treatise of Sir Henry Wotton, entitled _The Elements of Architecture_, 4to., printed in London so early as 1624. This work was so popular, that it was translated into Latin, and annexed to the works of Vitruvius, as well as to Freart's Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern. Dufresnoy, also, who divided his time between poetry and painting, and whose work on the latter art was rendered popular in this country by Dryden's translation, uses the term "_Gothique_" in a bad sense. But it was a strange misapplication of the term to use it for the pointed style, in contradistinction to the circular, formerly called Saxon, now Norman, Romanesque, &c. These latter styles, like Lombardic, Italian, and the Byzantine, of course belong more to the Gothic period than the light and elegant structures of the pointed order which succeeded them. Felibien, the French author of the _Lives of Architects_, divides Gothic architecture into two distinct kinds--the massive and the _light_; and as the latter superseded the former, the term Gothic, which had been originally applied to both kinds, seems to have been restricted improperly to the latter only. As there is now, happily, no fear of the word being understood in a bad sense, there seems to be no longer any objection to the use of it in a good one, whatever terms may be used to discriminate all the varieties of the style observable either at home or abroad.
J.I.
Trinity College, Oxford.
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DR. BURNEY'S MUSICAL WORKS.
Mr. Editor,--On pp. 63. and 78. of your columns inquiry is made for Burney's Treatise on Music (not his _History_). Before correspondents trouble you with their wants, I think they should be certain that the books they inquire for have existence. Dr. Burney never published, or wrote, a Treatise on Music. His only works on the subject (the General History of Music excepted) are the following:--
"The Present State of Music in France and Italy. 8vo. 1771.
"The Present State of Music in Germany, the Netherlands, and United Provinces. 2 vols. 8vo. 1775.
"An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey, and the Pantheon, &c. in Commemoration of Handel. 4to. 1785.
"A Plan for the Formation of a Musical Academy, 8vo. n. d."
As your "NOTES AND QUERIES" will become a standard book of reference, strict accuracy on all points is the grand desideratum.
EDW. F. RIMBAULT.
P.S. I might, perhaps, have included in the above list the _Life of Metastasio_, which, although not generally classed among musical works, forms an admirable supplement to the General History of Music.
E.F.R.
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ANCIENT INSCRIBED DISHES.
Judging from the various notices in your Nos. 3, 5, and 6, the dishes and inscriptions mentioned therein by CLERICUS, L.S.B., &c., pp. 44. 73. 87., are likely to cause as much speculation here as they have some time experienced on the continent. They were there principally figured and discussed in the _Curiosit?ten_, a miscellaneous periodical, conducted from about 1818 to 1825, by Vulpius, brother-in-law of G?the, librarian to the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar. Herr v. Strombeck, Judge of the Supreme Court of Appeal at Wolfenbüttel, first noticed them from a specimen belonging to the church of a suppressed convent at Sterterheim near Brunswick, and they were subsequently pounced upon by Joseph v. Hammer (now v. Purgstall), the learned orientalist of Vienna, as one of the principal proofs which he adduced in his Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum in