Huc migrant ex orbe, suumque habitantia

cœlum

Æthereos vivunt annos, mundoque fruuntur." Lib. 1, v. 756.

THE Monthly Review, August 1754, vol. 11, p. 152, praises a pamphlet called “the Scripture Account of a Future State considered." The author thinks the two most

probable conjectures are," that the region of departed spirits is either in some or other of the neighbouring stars, or else in the interior parts of this earth."

"HE offers some conjectures in regard to our entrance into the next state, which he imagines may be analogous to our entrance upon the present. As we are introduced into the present by the ministration of others, so he thinks we may be introduced into the next by ministering spirits, and that the soul may require some time before its organs are ripe for action on that new theatre; during which time the rational powers may continue suspended, as they are here in sleep; and we may remain under the nurture of guardian angels, or kindred spirits, during this stage of inaction, similar to the stage of our infancy."—Ibid. p. 152.

"THE Japanese say that the Takamanofarra, i. e. the high and subcelestial fields, are just beneath the thirty-three heavens of their gods, and there the souls of the good are admitted without delay."-KÆMPFER, vol. 1, p. 213.

"RICHARD JAGO (the poet, I suppose) published a sermon which he preached at Harbury, Warwickshire,' on occasion of a conversation said to have past between one of the inhabitants and an apparition in the churchyard of that place.' It was no part of his design either to confirm or dispute the fact of the conversation! which was confidently asserted to have happened on the night of Thursday, May 1."-Monthly Review, vol. 12, p. 516.

COWPER's notion that they revisit earth. -Correspondence, vol. 1, p. 109.

POLITENESS and obedience in the grave. -Escritores de Valencia, vol. 1, p. 48.

"ONE of the last requests of Luke Sparks the actor was, that his funeral service might be performed by the then Reverend John Horne, afterwards better or worse known by the loss of the reverend before his name,

and the addition of Tooke at the end of it." -CHURCHILL, vol. 1, p. 41, N.

WHEN the archbishop is exciting Henry V. to retain the French crown, he says, "Go, my dread lord, to your great grandsire's tomb,

From whom you claim, invoke his warlike spirit,

And your great-uncle's, Edward the Black Prince;

Who on the French ground played a tragedy,

Making defeat on the full power of France; Whiles his most mighty father on a hill Stood smiling, to behold his lion's whelp Forage in blood of French nobility."

Henry V. act i. sc. ii.

STEPHEN KELD, late wine merchant at Ipswich, who published his own Memoirs in 1760 (18. 6d.) says, "that his sister looking in her glass one day, told her maid she was a dead woman, and actually died a few hours afterward; and the appearance of her face remained in the glass till after the funeral, in defiance of all washing and endeavours to get it out."-Monthly Review, vol. 23, p. 407.

CENOTAPHS were thought to be retreats for the wandering souls of those who had no burial. Quære, for any occupant, or only for the proprietor intended? — Hook, vol. 2, p. 320.

Popish Superstition and Barbarity. From

the Dublin Warder, July 1835. "DREADFUL affray.-Two men killed and

several wounded.

"The following is from an eye-witness of what he relates: we give it in his own words :

"The Roman Catholic burial-place, Glassnevin, near this city, was the battleground where the savage rencontre took place. The Irish Papists are paganly superstitious; and their habits, manners, and customs differ from the rest of mankind. A very barbarous custom, prevailing very generally among the Milesian Irish, is often made the pretext for fighting at funerals. These believe in a fatality which (they say) is out of the power of prayer or their priests to averti. e. when two funerals at the same time approach one common graveyard for interment, the last corpse entering is doomed to draw water from a distant well in a bucket full of holes, in order to irrigate the souls placed in purgatory by Romish superstition.

"On Sunday last, about sun-down, two funerals approached the entrance-gate of this celebrated cemetery-where, as if by magic impulse, both parties made a sudden rush to gain the gate entrance-the coffinbearers came in contact, and the coffins were upset in an instant on the road. Both parties soon attacked each other, armed with bludgeons, stones, whips, &c. ; two priests who attended were much beatenthe dead bodies beaten out of the coffins ; and it was not before one party was completely beaten away that the fight ended. The defeated party was from the neighbourhood of Cole's Lane. The butchers, clieve-boys, and the butchers' assistants were, however, determined on revenge; and on Monday last these people got information that a funeral (attended by the persons who beat them the evening before) would soon arrive. As soon as it did appear, it was immediately attacked, the coffin and corpse demolished in an instant-two men, named

"I HAVE as ill an opinion," says BLOUNT, "of the French tongue as of the people, since the very language itself is a cheat, being written one way, and pronounced another."-Note to Philost. p. 76.

Dryden, vol. 4, p. 303. Limberham's Lingua Franca is almost pure Pinkertonian.

"IT is said that recent discoveries have led to the conclusion that the Bramins had in days of yore eighteen languages, each appropriated exclusively to one line of subjects, of which we have hitherto learned only one, that devoted more particularly to mythology or religion."-MOORE's Oriental Fragments, p. 435.

ELPHINSTON on Interjections.-Monthly Review, vol. 14, p. 324.

SHAW, in his Gaelic Dictionary, says, the Gaelic is the language of Japhet, spoken before the Deluge; and probably the speech

1 For account of which see the Sagabibliothek, vol. i. p. 225, of the late PETER ERASMUS MULLER-a name (like that of RASK) to which I owe so much of my northern lore, and whose kindness I can never forget.-J. W. W.

513.

"ROWLAND JONES says Babel was so called from ba-bi-el, i. e. beings calling like bas or sheep. It is likely that this language (the Celtic) as it thus defines the prediluvian as well as the postdiluvian names, and gives the etymology of language as preferable to any other, must have existed before the confusion of languages; and if all the world spake in one language, this must be it.”— Ibid. p. 513-4.

MRS. MONTAGU thought, that in another life we shall not use an inadequate interpreter of our thoughts, as language is. "Thought," she says, "is of the soul, language belongs to body; we shall leave it in the grave with our other rags of mortality." -Letters, vol. 4, p. 358.

"LUCKILY, the lawyers will not part with any synonymous words; and will consequently preserve the redundancies of our language."-H. WALPOLE, vol. 4, p. 140.

POLYNESIAN pronouns.-WILLIAMS' Missionary Enterprizes, p. 527.

"Nor only every shire hath a several language, but every family, giving marks for things according to their fancy."-DUCHESS OF NEWCASTLE. One of the Epistles pre

fixed to her Poems and Fancies.

CANADA. "Les Sauvages n'ont point en leur langue, ni bien en leurs mœurs, ce mot de peché;-j'estois donc en peine de les faire concevoir un desplaisir d'avoir offencé Dieu."-Relation. 1634. P. 29.

Wigs.

"THE invention of periwigs," says CH. BLOUNT, "is of so great use, and saves men so much trouble, that it can never be laid

be the hair of a damned person, or no. If it may be, he further demandeth, how it may beseem them to wear it which profess themselves to be the sons and daughters of God." -PERKINS, vol. 1, p. 250.

He touched also upon their value-"pour la substantifique qualité de la complexion elementaire, qui est intronifiquée en la terrestrité de leur nature quidditative, pour extraneiser les halots et les turbines dessus nos vignes."-RABELAIS, vol. i. p. 171.

CENALIS, (Bishop of Avranches afterwards), reckons bells among the signs of the true church, the Protestants in France not being allowed them, they fired a gun for a signal, upon which he says-" Les cloches sonnent, les mousquets tonnent; les cloches

un bruit horrible: les cloches ouvrent le ciel, les mousquets l'enfer les cloches dissipent le tonnerre et les nuages, les mousquets élèvent les nuages et imitent le tonnerre."-Ibid. p. 170, N.

His book was published A. D. 1557.

WHAT the bells of Varennes said concerning Panurge's marriage. Ibid. vol. 4, pp. 262-273.

IN Queen Elizabeth's journies from Hatfield to London, as soon as she drew nigh the town, Shoreditch bells, which were much esteemed for their melody, used to strike up in honour of her approach. She seldom failed to stop at a small distance from the church, and amid the prayers and acclamations of the people, would listen attentively to, and commend the bells.-HAWKINS'S H. Music, vol. 3, p. 458.

Ir is a common tradition, that the bells of King's College Chapel, Cambridge, were taken by Henry V. from some church in France, after the battle of Agincourt. They were taken down some years ago, and sold to Phelps the bell-founder in Whitechapel, who melted them down.-Ibid. vol. 4, p. 154.

IN A.D. 1684, Abraham Rudhall of Gloucester brought the art of bell-founding to great perfection. His descendants in succession have continued the business of casting bells; and by a list published by them it appears that at Lady Day 1774, the family, in peals and odd bells, had cast to the amount of 3594. The peals of St. Dunstans, St. Brides, and St. Martins, were among

them.-Ibid.

"CAMPANALOGIA, a poem in praise of ringing. By the author of The Shrubs of Parnassus. Folio, 1s. 1d.”—Monthly Review, 1761, vol. 25, p. 478.

"ONE would imagine such strange terms as Grandsire triples, Bobs, Bob-majors,

maximuses were invented by the worshipful company of Barbers, to distinguish the various orders of perukes; as the sounds seem rather consonant to them than to the musical art of bell-ringing. This, however, is certain, that they contribute nothing towards harmonizing the harsh blank verse of this laboured poem."-Ibid.

FOEDOR I. the last Russian prince of the race of Rourik, passed the eleven years of his inglorious reign in bell-ringing.-Ibid. vol. 71, p. 551. LE CLERC.

Family Pride.

DIFFERENT degrees of relationship to Adam.

THAT phrase concerning Melchisedec, which has given occasion to such fancies, simply means that his pedigree is not known. ȧyεvεαλóyηтos. "Nullis majoribus ortos." -HORACE.

FRANKLIN's progressive diminution of consanguinity.

"LES anciens Romains étoient aussi fous, qu'on l'est aujourd'hui sur le chapitre des genealogies. De combien de familles ne disoient-ils pas qu'elles descendoient, ou d'un compagnon d'Hercule, ou de quelque autre personnage des tems fabuleux."BAYLE, vol. 2, p. 274.

"GREAT families," says Sir Egerton B. in a course of generations, yet always break "though they have many obscure periods out at intervals, and show their brilliant

lights."—Autobiography, vol. 1, p. 275.

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Hereditary Qualities.

BISHOP HALL, enquiring “in what point the goodness of honour consisteth," and if it is "in high descent of blood," says-" I