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. 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 Williams and Mulcahy, from the egg-market, were killed, and eight sorely beaten. The speedy arrival of the police prevented further mischief. On Tuesday the coalporters came there to assist their friends, the butchers; but, not meeting any of their opponents, they dispersed at ten o'clock." PRIDE and ingratitude of an Icelandic ghost.-Monthly Review, vol. 53, p. 593. The story is from Islands Landnamabok.1 Language. AMERICAN Indians. They have modes of speech and phrases peculiar to each age and sex.—Phil. Trans. Abr. vol. 13, p. 409. "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 MUL LER-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. of Paradise.-Monthly Review, vol. 63, p. | aside. It helps to disguise the thief; to 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 with our other rags of mortality." grave -Letters, vol. 4, p. 358. "LUCKILY, the lawyers will not part with any synonymous words; and will consequently preserve the redundancies of our language."-II. WALPOLE, vol. 4, p. 140. GRANT on the Gaelic Interjections.Monthly Review, vol. 77, p. 20. 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 prefixed to her Poems and Fancies, TERTULLIAN" speaking of such as had curled and embroidered hair, bids them consider whether they must go to heaven with such hair or no. And whereas they adorned themselves with winkles made of other women's hair, he asks them whether it may not 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. Bells. 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 font une agréable musique, les mousquets | Cators, Cinques, Bobs-royal, and Bobsun 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. could think so, if nature were tied by any law to produce children like qualified to their parents. But, although in the brute creatures she be ever thus regular, that ye shall never find a young pigeon hatched in an eagle's nest; yet in the best creature, which hath his form and her attending qualities from above, with a likeness of face and features, is commonly found an unlikeness of disposition; only the earthly part follows the seed: wisdom, valour, virtue, are of another beginning."-Sacred Classics, vol. 5, pp. 45-6. In the time of the League-" On érigea en axiome de droit public, qu'il n'y avoit plus de parenté au dixième degré, et qu' ainsi la descendance du Roi de Navarre étoit un être de raison. Les Théologiens et les Publiastes se réunirent pour démonstrer au Cardinal de Bourbon que la succession linéale en fait de parenté finissoit inclusivement à sa personne." A book was written to prove this point; and an answer was written which " prouva que la succession linéale s'étendoit à l'infini." This letter, by Pierre Belloy, is printed in the Memoires de la Ligue.-Coll, des Mem. t. 50, pp. 328-9, AMADIS, Vol. 11, p. 24. Breed of heroes improving from generation to generation. ex optimo vero sanguine optimus et purissimus spiritus."—Vol. 1, p. 451. Colombia. BAYLE, vol. 2, p. 100. On Hobbes. LICENCES for suicide. CRIMINALS, some inclosed experimentally, like toads in artificial stone, or hermetically sealed up in bottles. A LAND, not in Mesopotamia, but in Mesalethpseudea, or Mesetumopseudea. THE Alethomoian species of history. "It will become our wise senators, and we earnestly expect it, that they would consult as well the state of the natural as the politic body of this great nation."-EVELYN. Misc. p. 239. Dogs. "THE strangest thing that I have read of in this kind (portents) being certainly true, was, that the night before the battle at Moscow, all the dogs which followed the French army ran from them to the Switzers, A CONTRARY opinion,-CowPER's Odys- leaping and fawning upon them, as if they sey, vol. 1, p. 37. JARROLD'S Instinct and Reason, pp. 241. 135. BREED of Chiefs. Physical superiority secured by breed and feeding.-WILLIAMS' Missionary Enterprizes, pp. 512-3. "DOCUIT Hippocrates lib. de flatib. t. 39. Nihil inter omnia quæ in corpora sunt, ad prudentiam conferre, quam sanguinem, inprimis cum in constanti habitu persistit." SENNERTUS adds- "Nam qualis sanguis, talis spiritus; qualis spiritus, talis animus; had been bred and fed by them all their lives and in the morning following, Trivalzi and Tremouille, Generals for Louis XII., were by these Imperial Switzers utterly broken and put to ruin."—RALEIGH, b. 4, p. 153. KÆMPFER, vol. 1, p. 265. "SENSE and fidelity are wonderful recommendations; and when one meets with them, and can be confident that one is not imposed upon, I cannot think that the two additional legs are any drawback. At least I know that I have had friends who would |