Olynthians traitors by saying, σkatos púσe kai άypoíkovs elvaι Makedóvas, kai Tv σkáv σkápηv déуovτas (Plutarch, Apophthegm., p. 178 B, Par., 1624). The proverb also occurs in Lucian (De Hist. Scribend., 41). Tzetzes (Chiliad., viii. 564-5) refers it to Aristophanes, ék Koμwdías deĝiws εἰπὼν (ὁ Φίλιππος) Αριστοφάνους οἱ Μακεδόνες, àμaðeìs, σkáþηv þaσi τyv okány. But I am not aware that any verse in the existing plays contains it. There is (Clouds, 1252-3), oук äν άπоdoinν οὐδ ̓ ὀβολὸν ἂν οὐδενί, ὅστις καλέσειε κάρδοπον Tv Kaрdóny, as Erasmus has it in his Apophthegms. MR. BATES (2nd S. x. 58) refers to a rather earlier use of it than Cranmer's in modern times, as it occurs in Rabelais (Pantagr., l. iv. c. liv.). A somewhat later use is in the preface to the Anatomy of Melancholy, where Burton says, "I call a spade a spade" (C. FORBES, 1st S. iv. 456). ED. MARSHALL.

Sandford St. Martin Manor.

Here is an instance of the use of the phrase earlier than the one quoted by MR. FREELOVE:— "When those persones that wer at Lasthenes found theimselfes greued, and toke highly or fumishly, that certain of the traine of Philippus called theim traitours, Philippus aunswered, that the Macedonians wer feloes of no fine wytte in their termes but altogether grosse, clubbishe, and rusticall, as the whiche had not the witte to cal a spade by any other name then a spade :

τὰ σῦκα σῦκα τὴν σκαφὴν σκαφὴν λέγων.

"Alluding to that the commen vsed prouerbe of the

Grekes, calling figgues, figgues: and a bote a bote. As for his mening was, that they wer traitours in very deede. And the fair flatte truthe, that the vplandishe, or homely and playn clubbes of the countree dooen vse, nameth eche thing by the right names."-Apophthegmes of Erasmus, 1542, reprint 1877, p. 189.

Boston, Lincolnshire.

R. R.

This passage will be found in Plutarch's Αποφθέγματα βασιλέων καὶ στρατηγῶν, Φιλίππου του Αλ. πατ:σκαιοὺς ἔφη φύσει καὶ ἀγροίκους εἶναι Μακεδόνας, καὶ τὴν σκάφην, σkáþýν déyovτas ("Inepti, inquit, natura et agrestes sunt Macedones, utpote qui scapham scapham vocant." Cork.

R. C.

entirely lost, I may say that we still have Gryme
(Grime), Hogg, Drake, Brennan (Brenhand?),
Laverack (Laveroks?), Hablot (Habolot?). Lave-
rack is yet found at Redcar, on the east coast of
Yorkshire, a few miles from Guisborough.
C. G. C.

ISLANDS SACKED BEFORE 1594 (6th S. ii. 369). Has not the reference to "a late sack'd island" in Shakespeare's Tarquin and Lucrece rather to do with some incident that occurred in the same cycle as the rape of Lucretia, which occurred in B.C. 510? The poet gives the tale as from a spectator's point of view, one who would have recent occurrences on his mind, and none more so than the sack and massacre of Sybaris by the Crotonians, that occurred, it is held, a short time before, if not the same year; and as the city of Sybaris, from its position between "two slow rivers," might well be deemed an "island," it gives the more likely meaning of the expression. W. PHILLIPS.

RECORDS OF DEATH AT CORFU (6th S. ii. 349). Unless the registers kept by the British chaplains during our protectorate of the Ionian Islands were sent to England at the union of the republic with the Hellenic kingdom, W. C. will probably obtain the information he desires by writing to the British Consular Chaplain at Corfu, who is, or very lately was, the Rev. J. W. C. Hughes.

NOMAD.

SHOTLEY SWORDS (6th S. ii. 433).-J. H. M. mentions sword-blades stamped with the name Shotley on one side, and with a bridge on the other, and asks when and by whom the swords were made. See Surtees's Hist. of Durham, vol. ii. p. 294, " Parish of Medomsley, Township of Benfieldside " :

"At Shotley Bridge a colony of German sword-cutlers, liberty, established themselves about the reign of King who fled from their own country for the sake of religious William. These quiet settlers......mingled with the children of the dale and forgot the language of their forefathers. Few of the original names are now left."

Surtees gives some names in a note; amongst others, "Adam, son of Adam and Mary Oley, bapt. 16 April, 1692." And he adds, "This family are (6th S. ii. 344).—still at Shotley, and I believe retain the house in

"THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST "} From Bürger's poem of Lenore :—

"Sie hin, sieh her! der Mond scheint hell,
Wir und die Todten reiten schnell."
Stanza xvii.
"Graut Liebchen auch der Mond scheint hell,
Hurrah!" u. 8.W.
Stanzas xx., xxiv., and xxvii.
WILLIAM PLATT.

115, Piccadilly.
YORKSHIRE NAMES IN THE FOURTEENTH CEN-
TURY (6th S. ii. 342).—Assuming that MR. WAL-
COTT meant that the names he gave were now

which their ancestor settled."
Wallsend.

R. R. DEES.

no

"THE FORTUNATE BLUE-COAT BOY" (6th S. ii. 514). In my day-1811-18-there was extant a novel entitled The History of George Templeman; or, the Fortunate Blue-coat Boy, a circulating library book. I do not know whether your correspondent J. H. I. alludes to that, but as extraneous books were allowed to be read, save only such as were "approved" by one or other of the Grecians, the head master having detected it in my possession, I got well horsed for such a breach of discipline, and was looked upon thereafter as "the unfortunate Blue-coat boy." R. L.

"SO LONG 29 (6th S. ii. 67, 194, 496).—This phrase is a common salutation in this colony amongst the English and Dutch, and used on a temporary separation of friends, as au revoir by the French. I remember hearing it amongst the Blue Noses of Nova Scotia and the New Brunswickers. AUGUSTUS WEISBECKER.

Grahamstown, South Africa.

Church of Scotland, Dundee. It is dated from the "Sea
of Galilee, 16th July, 1839," he being then on a tour in
devoted disciple of the great Master, he died March 25,
Palestine. A man of singular purity of life, and a
1843, at the early age of twenty-nine years. His name
is stili a household word in Scotland. I will gladly for-
ward a transcript of the poem should your correspondent
desire it.
C. R. R.
(6th S. ii. 489.)

"What steam is to machinery," &c.-Any one who has gone down the Edgware Road must have seen a large board, about half way between the Marble Arch and cribed to Lord Macaulay. But I have not been able to Praed Street, on which this saying is painted, and asmake the reference more exact.

EDWARD H. MARSHALL, M.A. (6th S. ii. 514.)

"Wohl auf Kameraden, auf's Pferd auf's Pferd," &c., is by Theodor Körner, the celebrated and deeply mourned young poet, who was killed in an engagement between Gadebusch and Schwerin in 1813, at the age of twenty

three. GORILLA. From Schiller's Wallenstein's Lager. The second line, however, should run:

"In 's Feld, in die Freiheit gezogen." AUGUSTA KREBS.

Miscellaneous.

Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus.
NOTES ON BOOKS, &c.
THIS volume has a special interest of its own, indepen-
By Henry Foley, S.J. Vol. VI. (Burns & Oates.)
dently of its predecessors, for it contains the annals of
the English College at Rome from 1579 to 1773, with the
pilgrim-book of the ancient hospice attached to the col-
lege from 1580 to 1656, besides a mass of historical

AUTHORS OF BOOKS WANTED (6th S. ii. 429).-information supplemental of the previous volumes.

The Chameleon.-The author of the above was Thomas The English Hospice at Rome dates from the jubilee Atkinson, of Glasgow. It is a highly interesting kind of of 1350, when pilgrims of all nations thronged in crowds annual, in three volumes-first series, 1832; second and to visit the tombs of the Apostles. The ancient hospital, third series, 1833-beautifully got up by Longmans, and which was built and endowed in the time of the Angloillustrated with pictorial and musical engravings. The Saxon heptarchy for the entertainment of English work was reissued in 1833, under the title of " Miscellanies pilgrims travelling to Rome for purposes of devotion, in Prose and Verse, now first Collected and Enlarged"; had completely disappeared in the twelfth century, and also in three volumes, by the same publishers, of which the great hospital of Santo Spirito now stands on its only 175 copies printed, containing, as the author says. site. The English therefore were without a national "all that I care my friends should remember was mine." hospice at Rome until 1362, when John Sheppard, a merThe Athenæum, speaking highly of the third series chant of London, purchased several houses in a street near of this Glasgow annual, says, "This volume is the work the Piazza Farnese, and converted them into a hospice for of various hands. The chief writer, however, is Mr. A., the reception of English travellers under the patronage who is at the same time bookseller, bard, and orator, of the Blessed Trinity and St. Thomas. Shepherd and and thriving in all." In the preface to the third series, his wife Alice became the superintendents of the new the poor author, anticipating a fatal issue to the disease foundation, which was augmented in the reign of under which he was then suffering, thus apologizes for Richard II. by Sir John Hawkwood, the famous condot errors:-"The volume has been hurried on that it mightiere general, and others of his companions in arms. not be posthumous, and that he might see the Benjamin It was rebuilt in 1449, when money was collected for its of his pen." Atkinson wrote and published much; and, enlargement in every parish in England, and until as a last chance for prolonging his existence, embarked Henry VIII. broke off all relations with the Roman see for the West Indies, dying on the passage out, and the Hospital of St. Thomas was regarded as an institution leaving considerable property to establish a scientific of national importance. After the change of religion in institution for young men in Glasgow. J. O. England the resources of the hospital gradually failed, and although the wardenship was accepted by Cardinal AUTHORS OF QUOTATIONS WANTED (6th S. ii. Pole in 153, it continued to languish, and would have 469).

"Fair are the scenes," &c.

The poem inquired for by A. B. was written by the late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, minister of the

died out altogether in the next generation if Pope Gregory XIII. had not refounded it in 1579 as a college in the English mi-sion. The foundation was endowed for the education of fifty divinity students to be employed with a pension of six thousand crowns a year, and was

dramatic life of Italy in the eighteenth century is to most persons a blank. Yet music and the drama were then to Italy what philosophical and political thought were to France and England, and they stand out during that period as the only imperishable portion of Italian history. Mr. Lee commences with a sketch of the Arcadian Academy, that artificial society of amateur shepherds and shepherdesses whose pipes and pastora's awoke Rome from her slumber. Before the close of the century the Academy sank into decay, but the movement which it represented continued to gather strength. The national enthusiasm was first displayed in music, and the reader finds a picture of the musical world as it existed when Dr. Burney visited Italy, and is introduced to the great composers, musicians, and singers of the day. It was to satisfy this passion for music that Metastasio, whose life is perhaps the most interesting portion of the book, wrote his tragic operas. As the writer of unacted dramas and unsung songs he has been harshly judged by posterity, who have accepted his selfsatisfied account of himself-" a tolerable poet among bad ones —as a fair description of his literary merit. Lastly, we have a description of the ancient Italian comedy of the masks. The "commedia dell' arte," whose pedigree dates from prehistoric times, died away in the seventeenth century to revive during the next in the realistic comedy of Goldoni and the fairy comedy of Gozzi. Mr. Lee's mastery of his subject enables him to clothe wan spectres of the past with flesh and blood, and to impart that warmth and colour to his sketch without which pictures of Italian life are unfaithful.

confided to the care of the Jesuits of the English
province, who continued to govern it until the suppression
of the Society in 1773. It was from the first a fruitful
nursery of priests for the English mission, and sent forth
a series of martyrs and confessors to brave the penal
laws in England in defence of the Catholic faith. The
seminary priests were regarded by Cecil and Walsingham
as dangerous traitors, and the most unscrupulous pro-
ceedings were resorted to for their extirpation. Not
only were the priests proscribed and cruelly hunted down,
but Queen Elizabeth's ministers stooped to employ spies
as sham students in the seminaries, who were bribed to
foment dissensions and to attempt the most infamous
crimes. This is no calumny of the Jesuits, for it is fully
borne out by letters remaining in the State Paper Office.
For example, Atkinson, an informer in the pay of the
Government, deliberately writes to Cecil in 1595:-"I
hoped to do some service worthy of a good reward. I
could easily poison Tyrone through a poisoned Host, being
in the country to which he resorts, and pretending to be
a Franciscan friar under Bishop Macraith," &c.*
Students applying for admission at the college were
called upon to answer a long series of interrogatories
respecting their families and past careers, which are in
valuable for biographical and genealogical purposes.
When they were admitted they took an oath on the
Holy Scriptures "to be always ready at the bidding
of their lawful superior to take holy orders and proceed
to England for the aid of souls"; and this obligation
was so faithfully observed that twenty-five of them suf-
fered martyrdom before the end of the sixteenth cen-
tury. The annual reports of the college begin from the
foundation in 1579, and abound with interesting details,
but from some unexplained cause they gradually fell into
disuse after 1593, and ceased altogether after 1659. The
English Hospice of St. Thomas was united to the English
College on St. Thomas's Day, Dec. 29, 1580, by a bull of
Pope Gregory XIII., with the obligation of entertaining
English travellers according to the original statutes,
which ordained that poor pilgrims should be received for
eight days, and travellers of the higher class for three
days only. The statutes only contemplated persons
visiting Rome out of devotion, but the college never
refused hospitality to Englishmen properly introduced.
Amongst other illustrious Protestant visitors, Milton
the poet was entertained there, and arrived with his
servant Oct. 30, 1638, when his fellow guests were the
Hon. Mr. Cary, a younger brother of Lord Falkland, Dr.
Holling of Lancashire, and Mr. Fortescue. Milton is not
the only English poet whose name appears in the pilgrim-lovers of art and letters :-
book, for Richard Crashaw came to Rome in a pilgrim
habit on Nov. 28, 1646, and spent fifteen days in the
college.

We are glad to find that this supplemental volume is
not to be the last of Mr. Foley's interesting series, for be
has in preparation a complete catalogue of the deceased
members of the English province from the earliest times
to 1879, with a catalogue of more than eight hundred
aliases assumed by Jesuit fathers in times of persecu-
tion, which will form a fitting sequel to The Records of
the English Province of the Society of Jesus.
Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy. By Vernon
Lee. (Satchell & Co.)

On the first page of this book the author states that he is an "æsthetician." Those whose courage is proof against this portentous announcement will probably find that the "æsthetician's domain" is a new world, opening out fresh scenes of varied interest. The musical and

Deutsches Familienblatt. (Berlin, J. H. Schorer.) THIS high-class illustrated weekly magazine would be an excellent Christmas or New Year's gift from Pater. familias to his children if he wishes to see them keeping up their German by means of a constant supply of healthy and interesting literature. The Familienblatt appears to deserve its name. The subject matter is ad rem on questions of the day; the serial stories are partly translations, partly original; and the original tales are generally out of the beaten track. Such, e. g., is " Der Steppenkönig," of which the scene is laid in the stillness. of the steppes of level Hungary-a stillness that has such power to thrill the heart of the Magyar. The illustrations are excellent.

AMONG foreign étrennes we would call attention to the following, as of more than ordinary interest to the

The Librairie Muquardt (Court Librarians), Rue de la Régence, Brussels, announce, under the patronage of the King of the Belgians, L'Œuvre de Pierre-Paul Rubens, reproduced in heliotype after the engravings of old Flemish masters, and accompanied with explanatory letter press from the pen of M. Fétis. The subjectmatter of Rubens's illustration of Bible history renders Another it specially appropriate to the present season. Belgian publication, partaking of the character of an étrenne from the sumptuousness with which it promises to be brought out, is La Belgique Industrielle, 1830-1880, announced by the Moniteur Industriel, Boulevard Anspach, Brussels, and intended to commemorate the progress marked by the Exhibition of 1880. Another echo of the year which saw the fiftieth anniversary of Belgian independence is to be traced in Cinquante Ans de Liberté, M. Weissenbruch (Imprimeur du Roi), Rue du Poinçon, Brussels, which is announced as intended to comprise four volumes, devoted respectively to Politics, Science, Arts, and Letters.

M. ROUVEYRE, the publisher of L'Intermédiaire (Rue des Saints Pères, Paris), promises to do good service to