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I should like to give it in a note to S. Patrick's Purgatory, but for its length.

December. The senate passed a decree to make the year begin in that month, because Nero was born in it!-TACITUS, book xiii.' GORDON, vol. 2, p. 516.

L'Almanac chantant de M. Nau. L'Année sacrée de Pierre-Juste Sautel, Jesuite.

La Madelaine au Désert de la SainteBeaume, en Provence, par Pierre de St. Louis. Un chef-d'œuvre etonnant de ridicule et de mauvais goût," says the A. Sabatier.

The Death of Joan of Arc must be a regular drama.

Notes for Thalaba.

POISON from a red-headed Christian.

Garcilasso, 1, 3; Nieuhoff, 97, 2. "Three ounces of a red-haired wench. Dogs roll in a putrid carcase; yet the skin of man absorbs the poison.-Garcilasso, 2, 3. Mad dogs perhaps analogous; yet red hair a beauty then.-Absalom.

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Balm. Martyrs' blood at Beder.-Carlos Magno. p. 44, 61. The balsam of Ferabraz. Sympathetic powder.-Sir K. Digby.

Fatalism. The story of Solomon. Our follies in England. The marked for death in Carlos Magno, 255. Inoculation strange, but beauty the most saleable commodity; and thus interest sets aside the creed. Nightingale. Gongora. Strada. A. Phillips. Crashaw.

Palace of Irem. Gongora. Escurial. Magical travelling. History of North Guadalupe, p. 246. The woman who told her husband the devil was coming for her. The Frenchman's scheme for getting out of the whirl of the world; rising up at Paris, and dropping down at the antipodes.

Ornaments. Incas' liberality to their subjects. Savages.-Kellet, p. 114. Jugglers. Tavernier. Query, the science-Jehan Molinet, 181. of the priests.

Northern Lights. There is a passage in Tacitus certainly descriptive of this phenomenon.-Pennant. R. B. account of prodigies. Noise of the rising sun, 3. C. 25.

Polygamy perhaps the radical evil of the east. Domestic slavery leading to the opinion that despotism was equally necessary in a state as in a family. Something like polygamy among the Jews.

Persians why better than the Turks with the same government and religion? painting allowed, and wine; more literature; courteous to Europeans, so as to be called the Frenchmen of the East.

I think there is a mistake here. The two passages in the "Annals" occur, lib. xv. c. 74, lib. xvi. 12. In the first, the words are "Mensis quoque Aprilis Neronis cognomentum acciperet." In the second," Aprilem eumdemque Neroneum."-J. W. W.

Superstition of emitted light. Vasconcellos, 211, 229. Dee lights. Corpse candles. Is Moses's forehead the fountain of this? The primary light which kindled them? The Mohammedans write often of his shining hand.

The balance of the dead.-Carlos Magno. 287.

Bird-parasol. Anchieta. The one-footed
man in the Margarita Philosophica.
Magic.-English Chaplain, 3, cap. 8.
Bird of the Brain. Seat of the Soul.
Otaheitean opinion.

A good mock-philosophic note might be made upon the changes produced in the earth by the falling in of the Dom-Daniel. The origin of the Maelstrom proved to have been this. Increase of cold' also in those regions, the rush of the waters ha

1 Lord Dreghorn, &c.

ving put out a great portion of the central fire; hence no vineyards in England as formerly. Consequences from the immense quantity of steam thus generated. Geyser.

The

Thus was the Dom-Daniel formed. explosion of the earth from the sun took place in consequence of the war in heaven. The Devil and his angels were projected with the fluid mass; but the heavier bodies in this projectile motion necessarily became outermost, and in their whirling vorticed the evil spirits into the centre. There their breath, naturally warm, and now more heated, formed the central caverns - air-bubbles in the fused earth. When they burrowed they made volcanos; the mountains in which these craters are formed being only the mole-hills which they threw up.

"And thus they spend The little wick of life's poor shallow lamp, In playing tricks with nature, giving laws To distant worlds, and trifling in their own.' COWPER.

Coffee.-Olearius.
Ablutions.

use of baths.

Parrot.-Bruce.

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The Moors prohibited the

10. Okba fulfilling the prophecy. Dampier. Curious prophecy, that worked its own accomplishment.

Henna, the Portuguese phrase for a coxcomb.

"Some Jews have a diminutive opinion of the book of Esther, because the word Jehova is not to be found in all the extent thereof."-FULLER. Triple Reconciler, 131. Solomon-whom many, says Gaffarel, very inconsiderately reckon among the damned.

Sailing carriages would be the best mode of travelling in Arabia.

In Adamson's Senegal. An account of riding ostriches.

B. Diaz, p. 4, says, that in some of his voyages they suffered so much from thirst that their lips and tongues had chaps in them with dryness.

"FUGIT Hinda speculatores canitiei meæ Cepitq; eam fastidium ab inclinatione

capitis mei.

Ita mos est Diabolis, ut fugiant

Ubi apparuerint stellæ volantes."

Yahya Ebn Said. Abul Pharajuis.

From the Koran.

"FEAR the fire, whose fewel is men and

stones prepared for the unbelievers."— Ch. 2.

"VERILY those who disbelieve our signs, we will surely cast to be broiled in hell fire. So often as their skins shall be well burned, we will give them other skins in exchange, that they may take the sharper torment."-Ch. 4.

"THERE is no kind of beast on earth, nor fowl which flieth with its wings, but the same is a people like unto you; we have not omitted any thing in the book of our decrees; then unto their Lord shall they return."-Ch. 6.

"WITH him are the keys of the secret things, none knoweth them besides himself: he knoweth that which is on the dry land, and in the sea; there falleth no leaf but he knoweth it; neither is there a single grain in the dark parts of the earth, neither a green thing, nor a dry thing, but it is written in the perspicuous book."—Ch. 6.

"IT is he who hath ordained the stars for you, that ye may be directed thereby in the darkness of the land, and of the sea." Ch. 6.

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"He would not open his lip to speech, or suffer the fish of reply to swim in the sea of utterance."-BAHAR-DANUSH.

"By wheedling and coaxing, she prevailed upon him to remove the cover from the jar of secrecy, and pour the wine of his inmost thoughts into the cup of relation."-Ibid.

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"ILLIDE ignem illum nobis liquidum,
Hoc est, ignem illum aquæ similem affer."

HAFEZ.

"THIS conversation resembles the fallacious appearance of water in a desart, which ends in bitter disappointment to the stag "MEDICINAM (vinum) quæ somni origo sit, parched with thirst.”—SACONTALA.

affer."-Ibid.

"ABSALOM SO absolutely fairHe farre puff'd up, died wavering in the air,

"ERADICET te Deus, ignave miles;
Nunquam te irrigent matutinæ nubis guttæ!
Neu fundat pluviam nubes super domicilia
tribûs,

Ubi tu commoraris, neu virescant eorum
colles !

A growing gallows grasping tumid hope,
The wind was hangman, and his hairs the
rope."
LORD STIRLINE. Doomsday, 6th Hour. Induisti, o fili Bader, ignominiæ
Pallium, nec te deserent illum secuturæ
miseriæ.

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of the sun, being tinged with Hinna, seemed branches of transparent red coral."-Intro- | duction to the Bahar-Danush, or Garden of Knowledge, by EINAIUT OOLLAH. Translated by SCOTT.

"My joints and members seemed as if they would separate from each other, and the bird of life would quit the nest of my body."

"The bird of my soul became a captive in the net of her glossy ringlet."-BAHARDANUSH.

"SHE had laid aside the rings which used to grace her ankles, lest the sound of them should expose her to calamity."-Asiatic Researches.

THE grave of Francisco Jorge, the Maronite martyr, was visited by two strange birds, white, and of unusual size. They emblemed, says Vasconcellos, the purity and the indefatigable activity of his soul.

Pastoral Poetry.

PASTORAL poetry must be made interesting by story. The characters must be such as are to be found in nature; these must be sought in an age or country of simple manners.

The shepherds and shepherdesses of romance are beings that can be found nowhere. Such a work will not, therefore, be pastoral, but it will be something better. It will neither have pastoral love nor pasto

ral verses.

Are these merely metaphorical? or do they allude to the "perched birds of the brain" of the Moallakat- the Pagan Arabs' belief? was it from a wish to conciliate these Pagans, that the souls of the blessed are said to animate green birds in the groves of paradise?

Parrots are called in the Bahar-Danush "the green vested resemblers of heaven's dwellers." So again "the bird of understanding fled from the nest of my brain.

I think a good story may be made of Robin Hood-my old favourite. It must have forest scenery, forest manners, and outlaw morality. Should he be the principal character, or like the Arthur of Spenser-a kind of tutelary hero?

Some tale of feudal tyranny may be grafted on; perhaps made the principal action. A neif with an evil lord.

The age of Robin Hood is in every point favourable. The royal authority was lax enough to allow any undue power to a distant lord. The crusading spirit abroad, some little heresy also in the world; chivalry in perfection; and practical equality in Sherwood.

Perhaps the old system of wardship would be the best hinge. For the first time I wish for my law books.

But with all this, what becomes of the pastoral? Every thing, however, that is good in the pastoral may still be retained. Scenes of natural beauty, and descriptions of simple life.

The popular belief of fairies, goblins, witches, and ghosts, and the Catholic saintsystem render any machinery needless.

It is difficult to avoid a moral anachronism. We can go back to old scenery and old manners, but not to old associations. In this subject I shall not much feel this defect. There is no difficulty in thinking like Robin Hood; and persecuted affection must feel pretty much the same in all ages.

In this I can introduce the fine incident of my schoolboy tale. After long absence a young man approaches his native castle. and finds it in ruins. It is evening; and by the moonlight he sees a woman sitting on a grave. His beaver is down. She runs to him, and calls him father; for it is his sister, watching her father's grave, a maniac.

Extracts.

"ADMIR'D and lost, just welcom'd and deplor'd,

Cam'st thou, fair nymph, to wake delight and grief;

Like Lapland summers, with each beauty In the sun's palace-porch; where, when

stor'd, Transient like them, and exquisitely brief?" Mrs. West's elegy on a young lady who died soon after her marriage.

"WHOEVER casts up his eyes loseth the idea of Paradise."

In the inscription over the portal of the famous mausoleum at Com. Chardin.

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Shake one, and it awakens; then apply
Its polish'd lips to your attentive ear,
And it remembers its august abodes
And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there."1
Ibid.

"AND the long moon-beam on the hard wet sand

Lay like a jasper column half uprear'd."

Ibid.

"O QUAM Verenda micat in oculis lenitas! "NOR is there aught above like Jove himMinantur et rident simul." self, [fixt, Nor weighs against his purpose, when once Chinese ode, in Sir W. Jones's "Poescos Aught but, with supplicating knee, the

Asiatica Commentarii."

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The Silkworm.

"MILLE legunt releguntq; vias, atq; orbibus

orbes

Agglomerant, cæco donec se carcere claudant
Sponte suâ."-VIDA.

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