Part 4
For many reasons I should condemn the machine in question as inapplicable to its purposes. By analogous reasoning, it would not be wrong to call a candle a good thrusting instrument, because a machine may be made to force it through a deal plank.
The subject of testing sword blades is a very important one, although it has not received that degree of attention from those whom it more nearly concerns which it seems to demand.
The writer's experience has been only _en amateur_; but it has satisfied him how much yet remains to be effected before swords proved by a machine are to be relied upon.
E. M. M.
Thornhill Square, August 16. 1851.
_Was Milton an Anglo-Saxon Scholar?_ (Vol. iv., p. 100.).--Is it too much to suppose that the learned "Secretary for Forreigne Tongues" was acquainted with the _Paraphrasis poetica Genesios ac præcipuarum sacræ Paginæ Historiarum, abhinc Annos MLXX. Anglo-Saxonicè conscripta, et nunc primum edita a Francisco Junius_, published at Amsterdam in 1655, at least two years before he commenced his immortal poem? Hear Mr. Turner on the subject:
"Milton could not be wholly unacquainted with Junius; and if he conversed with him, Junius was very likely to have made Cædmon the topic of his discourse, and may have read enough in English to Milton, to have fastened upon his imagination, without his being a Saxon scholar."--Turner's _Anglo-Saxons_, vol. iii., p. 316.
Both Mr. Turner and Mr. Todd, however, appear to lean to the opinion that Milton was not unskilled in Saxon literature, and mention, as an argument in its favour, the frequent quotations from the _Anglo-Saxon Chronicle_ which occur in the History. It is also worthy of note that Alexander Gill, his schoolmaster, and whose friendship Milton possessed in no small degree, had pursued his researches somewhat deep into the "well of English undefiled," as appears from that extremely curious, though little known work, the _Logonomia Anglica_.
SAXONICUS.
_English Sapphics._--I admired the verses quoted by H. E. H. (Vol. iii., p. 525.) so much that I have had them printed, but unfortunately have no copy by me to send you. I quote them from memory:
PSALM CXXXVII.
_By a Schoolboy._
"Fast by thy stream, O Babylon! reclining, Woe-begone exile, to the gale of evening Only responsive, my forsaken harp I Hung on the willows.
"Gush'd the big tear-drops as my soul remember'd Zion, thy mountain-paradise, my country! When the fierce bands Assyrian who led us Captive from Salem
"Claim'd in our mournful bitterness of anguish Songs and unseason'd madrigals of joyance-- 'Sing the sweet-temper'd carols that ye wont to Warble in Zion.'
"Dumb be my tuneful eloquence, if ever Strange echoes answer to a song of Zion, Blasted this right hand, if I should forget thee, Land of my fathers!"
O. T. DOBBIN.
Hull College.
_The Tradescants_ (Vol. iii., p. 469.).--It is to be hoped that the discovery by C. C. R. of Dr. Ducarel's note may yet lead to the obtaining further information concerning the elder Tradescant. It may go for something to prove beyond doubt that he was nearly connected with the county of Kent, which has not been proved yet. Parkinson says that "he sometimes belonged to ... Salisbury.... And then unto the Right Honorable the Lord Wotton at Canterbury in Kent." See Parkinson's _Paradisus Terrestris_, p. 152. (This must be the same with DR. RIMBAULT'S Lord Weston, p. 353., which should have been "Wotton.") We may therefore, in the words of Dr. Ducarel's note, "consult (with certainty of finding information concerning the Tradescants) the registers of ----apham, Kent." I should give the preference to any place near Canterbury approaching that name.
It is worth noticing that the deed of gift of John Tradescant (2) to Elias Ashmole was dated in true astrological form, being "December 16, 1657, 5 hor. 30 minutes post merid." See Ashmole's _Diary_, p. 36.
BLOWEN.
_Monumental Inscription, English Version_ (Vol. iv., p. 88.).--I have a Note on this very epitaph, made several years since, from whence extracted I know not; but there is an English version attached, which may prove interesting to some readers, as it exactly imitates the style of the Latin:
cur- f- w- d- dis- and p- "A -sed -iend -rought -eath ease -ain." bles- fr- b- br- and ag-
E. S. TAYLOR.
_Lady Petre's Monument_ (Vol. iv., p. 22.).--Will the following passage, from Murray's _Handbook to Southern Germany_, throw any light on the meaning of the initials at the foot of Lady Petre's monument, as alluded to in your Number of July 12, 1851?
"At the extremity of the right-hand aisle of the cathedral of St. Stephen, is the marble monument of the Emperor Frederick III., ornamented with 240 figures and 40 coats of arms, carved by a sculptor of Strasburg, Nicholas Lerch. On a scroll twisted around the sceptre in the hand of the effigy, is seen Frederick's device or motto, the letters A. E. I. O. U., supposed to be the initials of the words Alles Erdreich Ist Oesterreich Unterthan; or, in Latin, Austriæ Est Imperare Orbis Universi."--Murray's _Handbook to Southern Germany_, pp. 135, 136.
C. M. G.
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