Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853

and Queries, Number 186, May
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Title: Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of
Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries,
Genealogists, etc.
Author: Various
Editor: George Bell
Release Date: January 21, 2007 [EBook #20409]
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{493} NOTES AND QUERIES:
A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN,
ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, GENEALOGISTS, ETC.
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"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE.
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No. 186.] Saturday, May 21, 1853. [Price Fourpence. Stamped Edition
5d.
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CONTENTS.
NOTES:-- Page Lord Bacon's "Advancement of Learning" 493
Erection of Forts at Michnee and Pylos, by C. Forbes 495 Hoveden's
Annals: Bohn's "Antiquarian Library," by James Graves 495 FOLK
LORE:--Raven Superstition--African Folk Lore --Funeral Custom 496
Shakspeare Readings, No. VII. 496 MINOR NOTES:--Portrait of
Luther--Randle Wilbraham --Unpublished Epigram by Sir W.
Scott--Crassus' Saying 498
QUERIES:-- Bees and the Sphynx atropos, by Sydney Smirke 499
"The Craftsman's Apology," by James Crossley 499 Palissy and
Cardinal Wiseman 499 MINOR QUERIES:--Polidus--St. Paul's
Epistles to Seneca--Meaning of "folowed"--Roman Catholic
Registers--St. Alban's Day--Meigham, the London
Printer--Adamsoniana--Canker or Brier Rose-- "Short red, god
red"--Overseers of Wills--Lepel's Regiment--Vincent Family--Passage
in the First Part of Faust--Lady Anne Gray--Continental Brasses --Peter

Beaver--Cremonas--Cranmer and Calvin 499 MINOR QUERIES
WITH ANSWERS:--"A Letter to a Convocation Man"--Prester
John--Homer's Iliad in a Nut--Monogram of Parker Society--The Five
Alls-- Corvizer 502
REPLIES:-- English Comedians in Germany 503 A Gentleman
executed for whipping a Slave to Death, by Henry H. Breen 503
Longevity 504 Derivation of Canada, by Robert Wright 504
Setantiorum Portus 505 PHOTOGRAPHIC
CORRESPONDENCE:--Stereoscopic Queries --Photographic Portraits
of Criminals, &c.--Photography applied to Catalogues of
Books--Application of Photography to the Microscope 505 REPLIES
TO MINOR QUERIES:--Discovery At Nuneham Regis--Eulenspiegel,
or Howleglas--Parochial Libraries --Painter--Pepys's
"Morena"--Pylades and Corinna--Judge Smith--Grindle--Simile of the
Soul and the Magnetic Needle--English Bishops deprived by Queen
Elizabeth--Borrowed Thoughts--Dr. South v. Goldsmith, Talleyrand,
&c.--Foucault's Experiment --Passage in "Locksley Hall"--Lake of
Geneva--"Inter cuncta micans"--"Its"--Gloves at Fairs--Astronomical
Query--Tortoiseshell Tom Cat--Sizain on the Pope, the Devil, and the
Pretender --Wandering Jew--Hallett and Dr. Saxby-- "My mind to me a
kingdom is"--Claret--Suicide at Marseilles--Etymology of
Slang--Scanderbeg's Sword --Arago on the Weather--Rathe--Carr
Pedigree-- Banbury Cakes--Detached Belfry Towers, &c. 507
MISCELLANEOUS:-- Notes on Books, &c. 513 Books and Odd
Volumes wanted 514 Notices to Correspondents 514 Advertisements
514
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NOTES.
LORD BACON'S "ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING."
Considering the large number of quotations from previous writers
which occur in Lord Bacon's works, and especially in his most popular
and generally read works--his Essays and his Advancement of

Learning--it is remarkable how little his editors have done for the
illustration of his text in this respect. The French editors of Montaigne's
Essays, who is likewise a writer abounding in quotations, have
bestowed much care on this portion of their author's text. The defect in
question has, however, been to a great extent supplied in a recent
edition of the Advancement of Learning, published by Mr. Parker in
West Strand; and it is to be hoped that the beginning, so usefully made,
may be followed up by similar editions of other of Bacon's works.
The edition in question, though it traces the great majority of Bacon's
quotations, has left some gleanings to its successors; and I propose now
to call attention to a few passages of the Advancement of Learning
which, after the labours of the late editor, seem still to require further
elucidation. My references are to the pages of the new edition:--
P. 25. "Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius the Portugal
bishop to be in price."
The editor prints Orosius for Osorius, and adds this note:
"All the editions have Osorius, which, however, must be a mere
misprint. He was not a Portuguese, but a Spaniard, born at Tarragona,
nor indeed ever a bishop. He was sent by St. Augustine on a mission to
Jerusalem, and is supposed to have died in Africa in the earlier part of
the fifth century."
The text of Bacon is quite right. The allusion is not to Paulus Orosius, a
Spaniard, who flourished at the