Emerson said that Goethe said that Plato said--“ CULTURE.”

VOLUME II.

CONDUCTED AND PUBLISHED BY

S. C. & L. M. GOULD,
MANCHESTER, N. H.

1885.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

PREFACE.

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To you, who are desirous of knowing why this bizarre production thrusts itself upon the public every few weeks, we reply in the words of Sir William Davenant, that

We, for their knowledge, men inspir'd adore;

Not for those truths they hide, but those they show,
And vulgar reason finds, that none knows more
Than that which he can make another know.

To you, who ask what these volumes contain, we shall simply say, as some one else has said before us:

Some odds and ends,

With homely truths, too trite to be sublime;
And many a moral scattered here and there-
Not very new, nor yet the worse for wear.

To you, who seek for information, be the same in literature or art, in philosophy or history, in science or theology, we respond: "You are welcome, thrice welcome. We will endeavor to assist you to the best of our ability. We have much to spare, and are always well supplied." As Shakespeare has it, we have been

At a great feast of languages and stolen the scraps.

And to you, who have so faithfully assisted us in our undertaking by contributing to these pages, we return our sincerest thanks. The second volume of NOTES AND QUERIES, WITH ANSWERS is now before you; we trust you are satisfied with it; but remember that it depends upon you whether the succeeding ones shall be equal to this and its predecessor, whether they shall be superior or inferior to them.

This volume reminds oneof the quaint lines of Sir John Harrington, found in his Nuga Antiquæ, as follows:

The wholesomest meats that are will breed satiety,
Except we should admit of some variety.

In music, notes must be some high, some base,
And this I say, these pages have intentment,
Still kept within the lists of good sobriety,
To work in men's ill manners good amendment,
Wherefore if any think the book unreasonable,
Their stoic minds are foes to good society,
And men of reason may think them unreasonable.

It is an act of virtue and of piety,

To warn men of their sins in any sort,