and could not tell whether to lay out my money for books of pleasure, as plays, which my nature was most earnest in but at last after seeing Chaucer, Dugdale's History of Paul's, Stow's London, Gesner, History of Trent, besides Shakespeare, Jonson, and Beaumont's plays I at last chose Dr. Fuller's Worthys, the Cabbala or Collections of Letters of State, . . . and Hudibras, both parts the book now in greatest fashion for drollery, though I cannot, I confess, see enough where the wit lies." The last notice in the Diary I have quoted thus fully to show what were the books in vogue in Pepys's day, and how Hudibras showed amongst them. If, like Sam Pepys, the better classes bought books of pleasure, satires, and plays, did shopkeepers, tradesmen, and such like, buy books that cost half-a-crown upwards each? I think an inquiry into the classes of readers or buyers of books that existed from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, would be an exceedingly interesting one, and edifying in its results. But to return to Hudibras, whether it has been well illustrated or not by means of engravings (which was our starting-point), I may be permitted to repeat that I think the poem could not have been generally read, after its popularity during the Restoration had waned. Dr. Johnson says, in his memoir of Butler prefixed to Cooke's edition (alas poor Cooke!) of the Poetical Works of Samuel Butler (1803):— "The manners being founded upon opinions are temporary and local, and therefore become every day less intelligible and less striking.... What effect this poem had upon the public, whether it shamed imposture or reclaimed credulity, is not easily determined. It is certain that belief in astrology wore fast away under the rod of Hudibras, for cheats can seldom stand long against laughter." Dr. Johnson, writing of the editions of his time, says: MR. SOLLY has noticed this, and many other editions of Butler's poems in his learned letter which he honoured me by writing in answer to mine. And so I leave the matter, which, however, I think is worthy of much more attention, and possibly this "reply" may excite it. club." Perhaps they were tempted to do so because theirs would be no Dublin Castle, no makebelieve court, but one in which a real prince-the heir to the throne-would hear them address one another as "my Lord Arch-Chancellor," or " Eminent Sir Knight," &c., and they imagined that such titles would thus receive-I do not say entrap--recognition. If so, the heir to the throne has shown his good sense by not being present, I believe, at "Convents" of the order since the day he became Grand Master, nearly three years ago. The word "Convent" reminds me that I have 66 not explained its meaning to the public. As I have said, everything Masonic, or which could in any way be used in support of the opinion that the new order was a Masonic body, was removed. The "Grand Conclave" became the "Convent General"; "Encampments" became "Preceptories"; Commanders became "Preceptors." The composition of the Grand Conclave—which was in the Masonic Order of the Temple a faithful copy of that of the Grand Lodge of Freemasonswas entirely altered; and, the more closely to identify "The Order of the Temple" with State orders of knighthood, two new classes of knightthat of Grand Cross, to be bestowed upon those hood in it were instituted, that of Commander and who deserved well of the order. The insignia of the new grades are directed by the statutes of the order to be worn round the neck in the case of a commander, and from the shoulder by a broad black silk ribbon with a gold fringe in the case of a grand cross. For the latter It is, grade, too, a special star was invented. indeed, a remarkable invention; but, among all those of the different grades, perhaps that of the first and second aides-de-camp is the most so. It consists of an oval, in the middle of which are two swords crossed, and where they cross are the three feathers of the Prince of Wales issuing from a coronet, ornamented with small crosses, approach Red Cross societies. "Samuel Butler died in 1680. After his death were published three small volumes of his posthumous works: I know not by whom collected, or by what authority ascertained (foot-note, They were collected into one and published in 12mo.'), and lately two volumes more have been printed by Mr. Thyer of Manchester, indubiting in shape very nearly to the badge of the real ably genuine." Round the margin is the motto, "Ich Dien." I, for one, should like to know by whose authority this badge was made, and if it has been worn. A "Ring of Profession" is also provided for showing the red cross-which I have spoken of as being so similar to that of the real Red Cross societies-on a white ground, and it bears also the letters V. D. S. A. E. H. MALCOLM. SPURIOUS ORDERS (5th S. iii. 442, 495; iv. 34, 73, 111, 229.)-I mentioned in my last note (p. 229) the prudence with which the Scotch Templars acted. Unfortunately, prudence and foresight have seldom been included among the many great and good qualities of the Irish. Thus the Irish High Knights Templars hastily joined Sir Patrick Colquhoun, forgetting that the new "order" might ultimately turn out to be a goose 66 And here I may observe that, although it is nowhere expressly stated what profession is represented by the ring, it may be concluded to be a belief in the doctrine of the Holy Trinity, alluded to in the obligations detailed in the statutes, in which is an official provision for a profession of "The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity." This would at once, and without further evidence, sever this order, in the public mind, from Masonic bodies; for it is generally understood that Masonry admits into its broad bosom all creeds, and, consequently, recognizes only one great First Cause, the Great Architect of the Universe. I will conclude by relating a very curious circumstance. On a recent occasion it was desired to attach more firmly a gentleman whose allegiance to the new order was doubtful. He was informed that His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales "had bestowed on him the cross of commander for his services." But the Temple is unlucky in its choice of subjects for experiment. The recipient of the letter, recollecting a previous use of H.R.H.'s name, was impressed with the conviction that the Prince of Wales was totally ignorant of the matter; and he replied to Sir Patrick Colquhoun by refusing the cross, observing, at the same time, that his services, with regard to the new order, had hardly been such as to admit of recognition by the order. He might fairly have added, that he had already won the Red Cross in a very different service the cause of suffering humanity. Ashford, Kent. RALPH N. JAMES. Miscellaneous. NOTES ON BOOKS, &c. An Elementary Grammar, with Full Syllabary and Progressive Reading Book, of the Assyrian Language, in the Cuneiform Type. By Rev. A. H. Sayce, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Queen's College, Oxford. (Bagster & Sons.) THE omniscient Karl Baedeker, in his well-known series of Tourists' Handbooks, alluding to some Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions at the Louvre, says that they have "hitherto defied the efforts of scholars to interpret their meaning." So stands it in the very latest edition of his Guide to Paris, which, however, was no doubt in the press before the publication of Mr. Sayce's work. It is to be hoped, for the credit of our small but devoted band of Assyriologists, that due notice will be taken of their labours in Baedeker's next Paris issue, as well as in the "British Tourist's Bible," as some have called the famous Continental Guides of Mr. Murray. If careful editing, painstaking explanation of difficulties, and a scholarly account of the relations between the Babylonian cuneiform and its Accadian phonographic predecessor, could win numbers to the study of a language associated with one of the earliest civilizations of which record remains, Mr. Sayce's book ought to produce that effect. But we do not think its author should feel that his labours have been wasted, even if he does not find the numbers of the Assyrian classes, set on foot by the Society of Biblical Archæology, increased materially by his publication. Mr. Sayce has written for the few, but the value of his labour of love is not lessened thereby; rather is it, to our thinking, increased by that fact. In a busy practical country, and in an age teeming with commercial enterprise and mechanical invention, it is a relief to step aside for a moment and lift the veil of a storied past, which once was an active present, ere the history of our own islandhome had commenced. Mr. Sayce has won for himself a name among philologists while yet young; we may, therefore, hope for further valuable treatises from his pen in that branch of philological science of which he has made a specialty, besides his present masterly analysis of Assyrian Grammar. Ye Parish of Camerwell. A Brief Account of the Parish of Camberwell, its History and Antiquities. By Wm. Harnett Blanch. (Allen.) To about five hundred pages of text are added upwards of fifty of index; the parish of Camberwell, therefore, has a measure of notice that has not fallen to the lot of many suburban districts. Mr. Blanch's zeal has been most praiseworthy. If he has omitted anything it is beyond such testing as we could apply, for his book has answered all our inquiries. Moreover, it is profusely illustrated, especially with views of quaint old houses, nooks and corners which are no longer to be found. Of these we wish he had given us more, for there is little interest aroused by the views of modern dwelling houses. The old inns, the old farm buildings, the ancient mansions, these, with the histories of the sayings and doings therein, form the amusing part of a volume which also lies in that direction. bristles with parochial statistics for those whose taste THE BENEDICTINES (260, ante.)-SENEX writes, with regard to the hemina, or measure of wine allowed to the sick monks:-"In my student days, reading Plautus, I was taught to account the hemina=three-quarters of a pint. Referring to my well-preserved lexicon of those Dictionary), I find this teaching confirmed. Hemina, days, by the Rev. Wm. Young (the editor of Ainsworth's f., half a sextary; being three-quarters of a pint.' Opening Yonge's Phraseological English-Latin Dictionary, for the Use of Eton, Winchester, Harrow, and Rugby Schools, and King's College, London, I find, Hemina, æ, f., a small measure,' which is as enlightening as the description of a missile, as big as a lump of chalk. I turn to Rich's Dictionary of Roman Antiquities (1873), where it is written, Hemina, a measure of capacity, containing half a sextarius.' I go on to for liquids and dry things containing a sixth part of the sextarius, which is explained as 'a Roman measure both congius, and the fourth part of the modius.' To congius I then address myself, and am brought up' with this delicious solution of the whole matter in dispute :Congius. A Roman liquid measure, containing six sextarii or twelve hemina. As a last resource I consult s.v. 'Modius,' of which the sextarius has been described as the fourth part, and I am made wise after this fashion:- Modius. The principal dry measure of the Romans, containing sixteen sextarii.' Thus we know not whether the heming was a pint, of a pint, or a We do know one thing from Persius (i. 130), that whatever its capacity, it was falsified. pint. 'Quod honore supinus Fregerit heminas Areti Edilis iniquas.' Probably the annoyance jury' found that the pint held less than it professed to do." "ST. ANN'S TUNE."-A singular and interesting discovery has (the Leeds Mercury says) been accidentally 1 made with respect to this well-known hymn tune, which has been treated by Bach, Macfarren, and other less noted musicians, as a fugal subject. Hitherto it has been almost invariably attributed to Dr. Croft. In the Yorkshire Exhibition, however, there may now be seen an octavo book, in which the tune is called "Leeds Tune," by Mr. Denby. This book belongs to Mr. Thomas S. Turner, Master of St. Philip's Schools, Leeds. It was "licensed Feb. 14th, 1687-8," and printed by Jno. "A STRONG MAN STRUGGLING WITH ADVERSITY," &c. WILLIAM GEORGE BLACK. author is Seneca. White, sen., of York, for Abm. Barber, Bookseller, of (5th S. i. 387.)-According to the Spectator (No. 375) the Wakefield, who also revised and corrected it. The music notes are of the old lozenge shape, with the canto fermo (or air) in the tenor. This discovery (for so we conceive it to be) is most interesting to musical people generally, and to this district in particular, as the probability is that "Mr. Denby," the composer of a hymn tune admittedly one of the finest we possess. was a West Riding if not a Leeds man. Dr. Croft was born in 1677, and was therefore only ten years old when this book was published. LESSING'S "MINNA VON BARNHELM " (5th S. iv. 260.)MR. F. NORGATE writes:-" The translation mentioned by W. Taylor as having been made by Mr. Robert (not Richard) Harvey is doubtless the one referred to by Prof. Buchheim under the title of The School for Honour; or, the Chance of War, which was published in 1799, and the title Love and Honour' an oversight on the part of Taylor. This was not the first English translation of the Minna, one having already appeared under the title of The Baroness of Bruchsal; or, the Disbanded Officer. 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