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Napoleon a Poet, by Henry H. Breen 301
St. Columba's Cross 302
MINOR NOTES:--The "Ball at Brussels," June, 1815: Historical Parallel of April, 1605--Drawing an Inference--Edmund Spenser--The Mint, Southwark 303
QUERIES:--
The Spectre Horsemen of Southerfell 304
MINOR QUERIES:--Passage in Bacon--Lamech killing Cain--Lord Chief Justice Popham--"Her face was like the milky way," &c.--Nelson Rings--Books wanted--Mr. Cromlin--Dr. Fletcher and Lady Baker--Jeremy Taylor and Christopher Lord Hatton--"Pylades and Corinna"-- The Left Hand: its Etymology--The Parthenon 305
REPLIES:--
Mediaeval or Middle Ages 306
Consecrators of English Bishops 306
"Grindle" 307
Mummies of Ecclesiastics, by William Bates 308
Vicars-Apostolic in England 308
Banbury Zeal, &c. 310
Irish Rhymes, by Henry H. Breen and Cuthbert Bede, B.A. 312
Count Gondomar 313
Door-head Inscriptions 314
PHOTOGRAPHIC NOTES AND QUERIES:--Photographic Gun-Cotton--Sealing-wax for Baths--Developing Chamber--The Black Tints on Photographic Positives 314
REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES:--Contested Elections--Suicide at Marseilles--Acts xv. 23.--Serpent's Tongue--Croxton or Crostin--Robert Dodsley--Lord Goring--Chaplains to Noblemen--The Duke of Wellington Mar?chal de France--Lord North--Mediaeval Parchment--"I hear a lion," &c.--Fercett--Old Satchells--Curtseys and Bows--The Rev. Joshua Marsden--Sidney as a Christian Name--The Whetstone--Surname of Allen--Belatucadrus-- Pot-guns--Graves Family--Portrait Painters--Plum Pudding--Muffs worn by Gentlemen--The Burial Service by Heart--Burrow--"Coming home to men's business"-- Heuristic--"Cob" and "Conners"--Lady High Sheriff-- Death of Nelson--Editions of the Prayer-Book prior to 1662--Passage in Juvenal--Tennyson--Capital Punishment 316
MISCELLANEOUS:--
Books and Odd Volumes wanted 322
Notices to Correspondents 322
Advertisements 322
Notes.
NAPOLEON A POET.
The writer of the notice says this "fable" was composed by Napoleon in 1782; and he thus explains the circumstances under which he obtained a knowledge of it:
"Cette fable a ?t? imprim?e dans un ouvrage dont nous ne pouvons donner le titre, parce que nous n'avons que le seul feuillet qui la contient. Nous ne savons aux soin de quel ?diteur on doit de nous l'avoir fait conna?tre. Nous lisons au recto du feuillet en question, que, 'sans lui , cette fable serait encore perdue peut-?tre parmi les accidens ignor?s de cette contr?e rocailleuse .' Cet apologue n'?tant que peu ou point connu, nous croyons faire plaisir en le reproduisant."
But whatever may be the origin of this fable, the assigning of it to Napoleon is in itself a singular circumstance. The dog C?sar, who holds the rabbit a prisoner in his "g?te," and who summons him to surrender; and the unfortunate rabbit who prefers making his escape, "en h?ros de garenne," are so obviously applicable to the personal history of Napoleon, that it is impossible to conceive how the French could represent him as the author of such a satire upon himself.
HENRY H. BREEN.
St. Lucia.
SMITH'S "DICTIONARY OF ANTIQUITIES" AND "DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY AND MYTHOLOGY."
Index.
N.B.--a, b, refer respectively to the first and second columns in the pages.
P. J. F. GANTILLON, B.A.
ST. COLUMBA'S CROSS.
In 1584 Sir John Perrot, lord-deputy of Ireland, writes to Sir Francis Walsingham, the secretary of state:
"For a token I have sent you holie Columkill's crosse, a god of great veneration with Surleboy and all Ulster; for so great was his grace, as happy he thought himself that could gett a kisse of the said crosse. I send him unto you, that when you have made some sacrifice to him, according to the disposition you beare to idolatrie, you maie if you please bestowe him upon my good Lady Walsingham, or my Lady Sidney, to weare as a jewell of weight and bignesse, and not of price and goodness, upon some solempne feaste or triumphe daie at the Courte."
Walsingham's daughter was married to the celebrated Sir Philip Sidney; and afterwards to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; and, thirdly, to Richard De Burgh, Earl of Clanricard, when she embraced the Roman Catholic religion, that of her last husband, and may perhaps have regarded St. Columba's cross with more veneration than did the rugged old Perrot.
It may be possible to trace out this ancient relique to its present repository, if it be still in existence.
Minor Notes.
W. M. R. E.
On referring to his authority for such an unapostolic mode of locomotion, we find these words:
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